Anchors, The Salt Water Daffy #4

Anchors Andrews attempts to swat a pesky mosquito aboard ship, but his fumbling with an insect killer filled with shoe polish creates a mess he must hide before an inspection. With the help of some quick thinking and his crewmates, he manages to keep the inspecting officer distracted—until the mosquito strikes one final time with comedic consequences.

Anchors Andrews keeps accidentally stepping on Sleepy Smith's face every night, waking him up—so Sleepy decides to turn the tables with a surprise of his own from the sporting goods store. This 1953 military humor tale plays out the classic setup of two bunkmates locked in an escalating cycle of nighttime chaos.

When Anchors Andrews stashes a homemade cake in what he thinks is a foolproof hiding spot aboard ship, he's determined to keep it safe from his shipmates' notorious sweet tooth—but a routine gunnery practice order sends everything sideways in the most explosive way possible. This 1953 one-pager delivers the kind of slapstick chaos that made The Salt Water Daffy such a hoot, with Anchors' best-laid plans colliding hilariously with military protocol.

Anchors Andrews and a shipmate purchase a monkey named Mongo Bongo, but the quick-witted primate escapes before they can smuggle him aboard the S.S. Saratoga—only to turn up again just as stern C.P.O. Bert Tuggleburt arrives for inspection. In a scramble to hide their furry stowaway, the pair accidentally swap dufflebags with their superior officer, setting off a hilarious chain of mix-ups that neither they nor Tuggleburt see coming.

Lucy, the Admiral's daughter, decides to test her father's boasted ship security by sneaking aboard his vessel—only to climb the anchor chain of the wrong ship in the darkness. Stranded on the S.S. Torch, a decommissioned target ship headed out to sea to be sunk in a fleet exercise, Lucy must find a way to signal her father's fleet before the cannons finish what they started. It's a high-seas comedy of mistaken identity and comeuppance wrapped up in one waterlogged lesson about pride.

Anchors Andrews is determined to make rank, but his study-focused routine takes a chaotic turn when he accidentally ruins his superior Tuggleburt's trousers—and then scrambles to cover his tracks before getting caught. When a well-intentioned cleanup attempt goes hilariously wrong, Anchors finds himself in even deeper hot water, facing Navy regulations and a very angry commanding officer.