As autumn draws to a close, Barney Bear prepares for his long winter's sleep, but his surroundings keep him up until spring.
Barney's going fishing, but just as he's getting ready to hook a whole school of trout, a rather playful duck keeps getting in his way.
Barney Bear goes off prospecting for gold with a little donkey who eventually eats the dynamite and blows everything up.
In a humorous report, "Strife" magazine follows a bear who gets drafted and goes through the rigors of Army basic training. Barney is dreaming about being in the military, but a knock at the door makes him realize that it's not a dream.
Barney is an Army Air Corps mechanic. He takes a little one-seater plane out for a spin. Bigger planes and a pelican harass him and his plane. They finally crash, and end up as roommates in the infirmary.
Barney can't cut down any wood to build himself a nice, cozy place to live, while the beavers have no problems at all in chopping down and constructing a complete town for themselves. Barney, who believes that he can outfox them, steals all their wood, but the beavers get their revenge in a nighttime raid to get their wood back.
Barney sets off in search of honey, but his various gadgets don't always work out the way that they should.
Barney unsuccessfully attempts to keep a mole out of his victory garden.
Barney Bear returns to the wild on a camping trip. Relishing a quiet night's sleep under the stars, our trooper has forgotten about the animals that live by night. He sets up camp in the middle of the forest, where all creatures great and small come to give him a hard time and deny him sleep. The climax is a horrendous thunder and lightning storm as rain floods the campsite. A nightmare it's not, merely an evening full of laughs.
A lone squirrel makes his way into Barney Bear's log cabin in the forest. Barney tries to get rid of the squirrel, who wants his walnuts.
Barney is the local air raid warden and is awakened by an owl who sounds like the warning signal. Now on patrol, he has trouble with a firefly who won't turn off his light!
Barney Bear is in a log cabin getting ready to hibernate for the winter, when his nephew shows up on an unscheduled visit and wants him to play with him. The only problem is that his nephew is from the North Pole and is used to being up during the winter months. In spite of it all, Barney tries to entertain him by taking him ice fishing with very hilarious results.
Barney Bear is out in the woods picking berries for a tasty snack when he comes across a little skunk who wants his berries. Fearful of the skunk's scent, he tries to avoid it, but when he arrives back home, the hungry, odoriferous little skunk enters his home shortly after he does. When Barney discovers the skunk, he demands that it leave his house. When the skunk refuses, Barney gives chase, during the course of which he falls into a well and the skunk rescues him. Even after the rescue, the poor, put-upon bear is still angry and is about to clobber the pest with a shovel, but he just can't bring himself to do it. So instead, he dons a gas mask and invites the skunk back into his house.
Barney Bear gets a package from Mexico, which contains a pesky little jumping bean (complete with sombrero).
Barney's hunting (and skiing) up north when he spots a snowshoe rabbit (difficult, since it all but disappears against the snow). He goes after it, but the rabbit is, of course, smarter than Barney. A snowball fight between the two turns into a tennis match.
Barney has a dive mask and swim fins to help with his pursuit of fish. First, though, he needs to get the anchor set, despite an overly helpful little seal. The seal acts like an inept hunting dog, leading Barney to a cave with an angry lobster, then an unfortunate encounter with a shark.
Hunter Barney tries to procure a duck for dinner, but all that this duck wants to do is sleep. Barney sees a big sign saying "Always read your rule book before shooting." There are millions of ducks on the lake. Then the sun rises, and they dissappear. Barney finds one sleeping duck who sleepwalks to Barney's pocket and shows him the rule about not shooting a sleeping duck. So Barney tries every way to wake up this duck. No good. The rules say that any duck may be shot while in the air, so he throws it up and tries to aim, but the duck falls before he can. Barney finally corners the duck, who whips out the rule book, showing him that you can't shoot after sunset. The sun slams below the horizon, and a million ducks return.
Barney attempts to help a beaver dam a nearby river, but the beaver doesn't want his help.
Barney Bear goes on a picnic, though the area he picked is inhabited by an untamed, mooching member of his same species.
Barney is plagued by crows. Joe Scarecrow comes along and, using a wind-up puppet, gets the crows to follow it out in a conga line. He then tells Barney everything is under control only to remove his scarecrow costume when Barney leaves, revealing two more crows. The crows get the best of Barney, eventually turning his field into popped corn.
Barney Bear inherits a treasure map disclosing a fabulous pirate hoard in his own backyard. But a gopher who uses the treasure as its bed gets in the way of his digging. The sleepy, frazzled gopher isn't ready to give it up without a fight.
Barney tries to show a neighbor how to discipline his bratty son, using child psychology, with disastrous results.
An eccentric millionaire has put up a large prize for the capture of the world's smallest horse (about the size of a mouse), and has sent Barney to do the job. Barney tries his trained horsefly with no luck, then tries to do the job himself, then dresses his mule up as a female pony. Barney learns that the world's smallest horse has quite a kick!
Barney wants possum for dinner and has gone out into the woods to get one. It is not as easy to catch a possum as Barney thought, even though he uses a number of "clever" tricks. In the end he gets his possum for dinner.
Barney Bear gets ready to hole up for the winter. He cuts down a tree that turns out to be the home of an active squirrel. Having unwittingly destroyed his treehouse, Barney invites the squirrel to move into his den. What a mistake. No more winter sleep while the squirrel is there!
Bird season starts and of course Barney wants to go hunting. He realizes that he will need a bird dog and rushes to the pet store and buys one. This bird dog, however, is a member of a bird lover's club.
