Barney Bear goes duck hunting. The government rulebook has three rules: no shooting before dawn; you can't shoot a sleeping duck; and any duck in the air may be shot. As soon as the sun rises, all the ducks disappear, save one who remains stubbornly asleep.
It's a typically good episode in the Barney Bear series, thanks to a fine series of gags by Heck Allen and co-writer Jack Cosgrove, and Dick Lundy's rapid-fire series of gags on a theme.
Barney was one of the last creations of Rudy Ising for MGM's cartoon division, and was one of the studio's longer-lasting cartoon characters. Although never the top drawer stuff by Tex Avery, or the immensely popular Tom & Jerry cartoons from Hanna & Barbera, it provided solid laughs for more than a decade.