Mysto, who seems to be a rather second rate magician mutt, crashes backstage at a classical concert featuring the great tenor Poochini, and tries to convince him to put his magic act on the bill (though why on earth he would ever have thought this was appropriate is anyone's guess.) He has a magic wand which is quite impressive in its ability to make flowerpots and rabbits appear, but nevertheless Mysto ends up in the alley with a bootmark on his bum.

At this point he seems to realise the real potential of the wand, and determines to get his revenge by sneaking in, payalysing the conductor with the wand, and then using it as a baton to conduct the orchestra, meanwhile causing a frenetic series of ridiculous transformations to occur while Poochini is trying to sing. Not only will rabbits pop into existence all over him, but he will suddenly find himself wearing hillbilly clothes and singing 'Clementine', or doing a hula. Save to say his performance is effectively ruined, before he gets control of the wand himself.

Like quite a few Tex Avery cartoons, particularly his one-shots, this isn't huge in the plot department. To be fair, neither were most of Warners, but whereas Warner used a scenario for a series of gags which generally relied on your familiarity with the characters, Avery's MGM cartoons often pile up crazy ideas and gags without a huge amount of respect for realism.

When I say that not a lot of trouble has been taken with the plot or background, you only have to ask yourself why someone who possessed a magic wand, which could instantly change matter into any form, levitate or paralyse people.... basically do anything... why this person would be trying to eke out a living as a magician when he could probably take over the planet.

Anyway, that doesn't matter. Avery may not have the finesse of Chuck Jones or most of the Warner directors, but he makes up for it in wildness, risk-taking and bent ideas ( I watched a cartoon of his tonight which featured a chicken which had been cross-bred with a slot machine, and another chicken that had been crossed with a centipede, in order to get more drumsticks)

This short features the rather famous 'hair in the gate' gag, and honestly, this is such a doozy, an all-time classic, and easily earns a half star by itself. The first time I saw this, I was a bit disappointed, because I thought it was supposed to have been remastered. The hair very realistically hangs around the bottom corner of the screen, slides upwards, looks like it's going to go out of frame, but then falls back down to bottom, at which point Poochini notices it and takes a second out of his chaotic routine to pick it up and remove it. It had me fooled. Great stuff.

Overall, a very funny, and quite ridiculous cartoon.