Tennessee Tuxedo "Mad Movie Makers"

The series centers on Tennessee Tuxedo, a penguin, and his friend Chumley, a walrus. They live in the Megapolis Zoo along with friends Yakkety Yak and Baldy the Eagle.[8] Four episodes featured Howler, a dog that Tennessee got from his Uncle Admiration.

Tennessee and Chumley deal with several recurring antagonists. Most often seen is the ill-tempered zoo director, Stanley Livingston. Others are Rocky Maninoff, a gangster who often orders them to do his will at the point of a machine gun, and Tennessee's rival, Jerboa Jump, a kangaroo rat. All three have sidekicks: Stanley Livingston has his assistant, Flunky; Rocky Maninoff has a dim-witted guy called Pretzel, and Jerboa Jump has a henchman named Tiger Tornado, a boxing tiger.

Tennessee and Chumley regularly escape from the zoo, only to find trouble outside. Whenever Tennessee proposes a hare-brained scheme, Chumley is skeptical. Typically, Tennessee assures the dim-witted Chumley that his superior intelligence will carry the day, often with his catch phrase, "Tennessee Tuxedo will not fail!" (though he more often than not does) Chumley then responds with his own phrase, "Duh, okay Tennessee!"

When faced with more trouble than they can bear, the pair turns to their friend Phineas J. Whoopee, the “Man with All the Answers". The latter knows about everything, and he often lectures the pair on diverse topics, from the physics behind the hot air balloon to how musicians become popular. His lectures are illustrated and animated on his Three-Dimensional Blackboard, which he pulls from an avalanche of junk that falls out of his overstuffed hallway closet when he opens the door. At the end of a Mr. Whoopee lecture, Tennessee praises his mentor with the line, “Phineas J. Whoopee, you’re the greatest!” Tennessee and Chumley occasionally must consult Mr. Whoopee again when they fail their first attempt to solve any problem. Mr. Whoopee snorts: "But I've tried to warn you...". In a couple of episodes, Whoopee makes the pair to promise him not to fool around with electricity and television, explaining the dangers involved in those fields.

In the series, Tennessee and Chumley have to overcome a personal problem that children can relate to, such as Chumley's requiring treatment for a toothache but fearing the dentist.

The pair attempt to use their newly gained knowledge to get out of the mischief they created, but they frequently end up in more trouble with zoo director Stanley Livingston, who punishes them in different ways, from police arrest to scrubbing pots and pans in the cafeteria for six months. Episodes sometimes end with Stanley chasing Tennessee and Chumley around the zoo. Although there are some cases where the duos never caused trouble at all, such as when they had stop Tiger Tornado from bullying the zoo animals and succeed, another case would be when they trained for the Zoo Olympic Games without any damage or trouble at all and won.