A Gumby episode in which the zookeeper tells Gumby the lion has died. Soon afer, Gumby purchases from a puffy WC Fields-ish salesman at a petshop a strange bee whoe instinct it is to build ccrates around animals. With Pokey, his trusty steed, Gumby goes to Africa to capture a new lion for the zoo. The stange bee, in its zeal, builds crates around not just a lion, but also a rhinoceros, a gorilla, and Gumby, whom Pokey rescues from his crate with the aid of a hammer. Gumby brings all of the animals back to the zoo. At Gumby’s recognition ceremony, the bee somehow escapes from its cage and quickly builds crates around everyone — Gumby, Pokey, the zookeeper, and all the audience members. Thus, the status of ANIMAL is conferred upon human beings, as well as to creatures of indefinable material such as Gumby.