“Bear had a dream.” He wanted to be a comedian. He’d practice his jokes in front of his mirror, but stage fright always set in when he was “in front of a crowd…What is a bear’s favorite baseball team?…Why the Cubs, of course!…Do you know the proper way to hold a bat?…By its wings!”

Bear’s ready to perform, but on stage he’s so nervous he repeatedly gives the wrong punch lines for his jokes. Off he runs to “the local watering hole, orders a root beer, crumbles up his jokes, tosses them over his shoulder, and exhausted he falls asleep. Emmy the hummingbird, a real comedian, finds Bear’s jokes at the watering hole and reads them. When bear wakes up, he and Emmy come to an agreement and Emmy performs Bear’s jokes on stage.