- A dog pilots an airplane to the South Pole where he and his mouse assistant encounter an angry walrus.
- A pilot - a white dog with one black ear - takes a trip to the South Pole, which is a physical thing with red stripes, making it resemble a barber pole. He is rude or indifferent to his assistant, a mouse who is forced to make him lunch, carry supplies in a bag several times his size and shovel snow from the top of the plane. Midair refueling is accomplished by flying elephants who pour the fuel from their trunks. Once the pair reaches the antarctic wasteland, they plow into a snow-capped mountain top and end up with a sleeping walrus on their plane. The mouse pushes off the walrus, who is still in his bed. Walrus and bed crash through the ice below, infuriating the creature. Later, the penguin Rotarians present the dog with a symbolic key, but the walrus interrupts the ceremony to take his revenge.—J. Spurlin
- There's a big parade for the brave dog who is willing to pilot his airplane to the South Pole. The white dog, who has one black ear and one white ear, walks down the street and waves to the cheering throng, as his mouse assistant carries an over-sized bag of supplies on his back. When they reach the plane, the dog climbs a ladder into the cockpit, followed by his overburdened assistant. Then they're off. The plane flaps its wings like a bird and runs down the street as if its four wheels were four feet. And finally, it's up in the air.
Meanwhile, a monkey fills elephants with fuel. The elephants, with ears big enough to act as wings and with little propellers tied to their tails, fly up to the airplane. The mouse stands on top of the airplane and uses semaphore flags to guide the elephants, who pour fuel into the plane through their trunks.
The dog pulls the mouse back into the plane and testily demands his lunch. The mouse takes a loaf of bread and some salami to make sandwiches. He uses the propeller to slice the bread, which then gets sucked into a pipe and ends up back inside the airplane, neatly stacked on a plate.
The plane encounters bad weather. An umbrella shoots up to cover the plane, but it immediately gets blown off. The plane then plows through the snowy cap of a mountain. Shocked polar bears open little doors all over the mountain and gape at what just happened. Meanwhile, the mouse shovels snow from the plane and discovers that underneath is a walrus asleep in his bed. The mouse pushes the bed off the plane. At first the walrus's blanket acts as a parachute, and the walrus (still asleep) floats to the ground. But then the blanket blows away and the walrus goes hurtling toward the earth, finally crashing through the ice into the sea. The walrus rises out of the water and shakes his fist at the plane.
The plane finally lands. The pilot is greeted by a group of penguins holding a sign that identifies them as the South Pole Rotarians. One of them holds a giant key. This penguin presents the symbolic key to the dog as various antarctic creatures cheer. The angry walrus, however, stomps over to interrupt this ceremony. Standing behind the dog and the mouse, he removes his tusks (which are attached to a dental appliance) and dangles them in front of the frightened pair. Then he makes a fist and knocks them both through the ice before diving in after them.
The pair break through another part of the ice and run away. They find the South Pole - which is a literal pole with red stripes, much like a barber pole. They climb up, but the walrus shakes it violently, hoping to knock them back to the ground. The entire area is shaking from this violent action. The commotion alerts the anthropomorphic plane to the danger. The plane drops a ladder for the pair. They grab onto the ladder, keeping hold of the pole. The plane takes them and the pole with it into the horizon. The furious walrus impotently runs after them, shaking his fist.
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