While not as good as 'The Goofy Gophers' and 'A Ham in a Role' for example, 'I Gopher You' fares strongly in the Goofy Gophers series and proves that even when a little different to before it can still be a very good cartoon indeed.
Here in 'A Bone for a Bone', the animation is great, with some luscious colours and richly detailed backgrounds and everything is very fluidly and smoothly drawn with no obviously jarring movements or frames. Carl Stalling has been consistently wonderful with his music, it is always dynamic and beautiful to listen to while also enhancing the action and colour(which is what music in cartoons should do) and his energetically vibrant and whimsical scoring for 'A Bone for a Bone' is not a disappointment whatsoever.
The dialogue is razor-sharp and witty, most of it is absolutely hilarious. The gags, in laugh-a-minute mode, are imaginative and executed very well indeed, most of the humour coming from the super polite dialogue between Mac and Tosh and their imaginative hi-jinks with the machinery. The fast pacing and fun story are further things to like One may miss the dark and sometimes brutal, but never over-the-top cartoonish or stomach-churningly sadistic slapstick and violence of their earlier outings with the intellectual and well-spoken dog, but in all fairness Mac and Tosh don't have the characters.
Mac and Tosh work are a wonderfully entertaining duo, being cute yet very funny in their over-politeness to one another, and voiced with aplomb by the always entertaining Stan Freberg and Mel Blanc.
In conclusion, very good and often great. 9/10 Bethany Cox