Gatoraid

## Premise

A gargantuan gator picks a fight with Gus, for

## Synopsis

The tale begins with Kissyfur kicking, punching, and jumping and making martial arts yells, which gets His father’s attention. Kissyfur tells Gus that’s He’s practicing karate, and punches the door, which falls on the ground. Kissyfur decides to show off his techniques to the Swamp Cubs, as Gus places the door back into position. Kissyfur shows off his karate skills and chops a tree with a big hole, which falls. As he continues to display them, Kissyfur accidentally spooks Lennie into falling in a pond, as the cubs laugh.

At the gator’s house, Jolene combs her wig with a fish skeleton, while Floyd fishes for food, capturing something and it’s a giant gator. Floyd nervously releases it, as the gator approaches from behind and decides to claim Floyd and Jolene’s house as his own. J despite Jolene’s protest. Nearby, as Toot is interested in learning karate from Kissyfur, He spots the gators (with Floyd holding a suitcase.) Kissyfur then decides to put his Karate skills to the test against the gators. The gators, goes to eat Kissyfur and Toot, but they run away when when They see the giant gator behind the cubs. The giant gator threatens Kissyfur, knowing that a big bear is leader of the swamp, the bear cub tells giant gator not to hurt His dad, as the gator says that He’ll see him.

Back at the gator’s house, as the giant gator is relaxing, He is asked by Floyd and Jolene to work for him. At the giant tree stump, after Kissyfur and Toot informed Gus of the gator, the latter rallies the citizens of the swamp, to face against this new threat together, but after realizing that the gator is taller than even the stump, most of the denizens run offscreen, Leaving only Emmy Lou, Shelby, Kissyfur, and Gus to face the gator. (After Mr. Beaver takes Toot off-screen.)

In another part of the swamp, the giant gator (whose name is Big Louie) with Floyd and Jolene as his henchmen approach Gus, as most of the denizens hide in the bushes. (Except Emmy Lou, Shelby, and Kissyfur) Big Louie orders Gus to leave the swamp, who refuses to budge. Kissyfur charges in to attack Big Louie, but his punch is bounced and is bounced against his dad. after seeing this, as Gus has Kissyfur hide with the others, Emmy Lou rallies the other animals to help Gus. As Big Louie is about to clobber Gus, the animals led by Emmy Lou, is ready to face Big Louie, who uses a giant tree root to mow down the animals, but Gus uses his legs to roll the root and toss it back at the gator, striking his head, as the root split in half. As Big Louie was about to charge at Gus, he gives to order for Emmy Lou, Lennie, Kissyfur and Stuckey to jump on the upper side of a lever, allowing Gus to jump after smacking a pie at Big Louie’s face. Jolene points at Gus who is near another tree with a rope attached to his stomach. As Big Louie charges again, Gus becomes nervous as Mr. Pig, Mr. Rabbit, Duane, Mr. Beaver, and Toot (with Shelby’s urging) have difficulty lifting Gus, but they fall off the branch, allowing Gus to get out of harm’s way and Louie to impact the tree nosefirst, causing it to fall. Louie’s head, now with a bruised nose, stuck to a remain of the downed tree, fall backwards as Shelby’s megaphone falls on his head. The citizens laugh at Louie who looks like a clown, including Floyd and Jolene! Louie leaves angrily, as Floyd and Jolene still laugh, but slowly stop with the Animals corner them, knowing Big Louie is gone, the gators leave in a panic, as Gus thanked the others for their help, as Kissyfur apologized that His karate didn’t work against the big gator. But, to Kissyfur and Gus’ surprise, Toot displays his karate skills on a tree, chewing the bottom part and the rest falls on the ground, with Toot bowing to the viewer, as the cartoon ends.

## Trivia

* During the pan between the gators and the bushes, Lennie is wrongly colored in Charles’ colors.