"Pinocchio" meets "The Maltese Falcon" in this bizarre tale of double and triple crossings over "The Dimpled Diana", an ebony statue with the key to a vast treasure inscribed on its base. "Simple Simon the Soup-Chips Kid", a humanized puppet with strings, is tired of performing as a marionette on a kids' TV show and aspires to become, not a "real boy", but accomplished at a worthwhile career. Bugs humors him and sets him up as a private eye with a broom closet as his office, donning a mop-wig to become his girl Friday. The gag leads to some honest-to-Bogart "Maltese Falcon-esque" intrigue.

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