The object of Ruby's desire?...a rare diamond necklace that has been placed on auction. She enlists the help of techie expert Q-Bytes and petty thieves Joe Stone and Juan to snatch the jewels. However things don't quite go as planned.

Ray does not know what he is doing at a party full of strangers.

A repressed father. A buried secret. A chaotic family dinner. As tensions rise, Catholic guilt warps reality—and his hidden desires erupt into something surreal.

Ben has been training hard for a year in order to participate in an important competition.

While Death walks the earth collecting souls, her granddaughter Winona can't be bothered carrying on the family business.

A greedy man tries to get rid of his mother by putting her in an old folks home until he discovers she has a fortune in stock certificates.

Farina plans a going-away party for Stymie as authorities prepare to place him in an orphanage.

The kids' adopted grandma decides to sell her store, but can't decide whom to sell it to. The kids try to help her out.

Delivery boy Mickey encounters Minnie washing clothes and singing. He stops for a quick song and dance with her. Meanwhile, Pluto gets tangled up in tar. Mickey sends a beehive flying; it lands on his mule, who kicks Mickey's instrument-filled wagon into the air. He plays a march or two on the piano with Minnie, with many animals playing along.

Mickey and others are firemen; they slide down an ostrich's neck when the alarm sounds. A squealing cat whose tail Mickey pulls acts as the siren. The nearest hydrant isn't working too well, so Horace Horsecollar takes drinks from a pond and uses that water to put out the fire. Minnie is trapped on an upper floor; Mickey climbs the neighboring building fire escape and uses a clothesline to cross to Minnie's building.

Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Their instruments are destroyed in an argument with a woman, but their luck seems to turn when Stan finds a wallet.

Migrating swallows are making their annual spring return to San Juan Capistrano, and a hungry cat awaits them.