The cartoon opens with a
live action sequence of
Cab Calloway and his orchestra performing an instrumental rendition of "
St. James Infirmary".
Betty Boop is scolded by her strict German immigrant parents for not eating her
hasenpfeffer dish. While her father's head turns into a
phonograph as a result of his blabbering, a flower tries to convince Betty to eat her dinner, only to die after eating a bite. Betty then storms out sobbing (while her mother changes
cylinders on Papa's phonograph head) and sings the
Harry Von Tilzer song "They Always Pick on Me" as she heads to her bedroom and decides to run away from home. Betty then writes a farewell note to her parents while the song "
Mean to Me" plays in the background (
Koko the Clown makes a brief cameo popping out of an inkwell, in a nod to the old
Out of the Inkwell cartoons) and phones her boyfriend
Bimbo, who joins her. Walking through the countryside as night falls, they both come across some specters and venture in a cavern out of fright. Inside, they find a
walrus-like apparition (voiced by and
rotoscoped to Calloway), who sings "
Minnie the Moocher" with some haunted spirits. Betty and Bimbo both change their minds about running away and rush back home with the ghouls in hot pursuit as "
Tiger Rag" plays in the background. Betty makes it safely back to her home and hides under the blankets of her bed. As she shakes in terror, the note she earlier wrote to her parents tears, leaving "Home Sweet Home" on it. The film ends with Calloway and his band performing the instrumental "Vine Street Blues". ==Cast==