The Lone Chipmunks

In this spoof of popular cowboy series The Lone Ranger, the villainous Pete robs a western bank and makes his getaway, and decides to hide his loot in a tree inhabited by two chipmunks, the chattering-and-clattering Chip 'n' Dale. They resent the intrusion but really begin to give Pete a hard time when they discover a reward of $10,000 posted for his capture. The cavalry eventually arrives but Chip 'n' Dale have the situation well in hand.

The episode begins with Black Pete entering an Old West town guns blazing. He then robs the town bank and escapes on his horse. The scene then shows Chip and Dale preparing for winter and stashing their acorns in their tree whilst singing "Home on the Range". A wanted poster of Pete with a reward of $10,000 is placed on the hole where Chip goes with some acorns. He then accidentally puts his face in the poster which makes Dale think his friend has turned to crime, but is excited about the money and attempts to turn Chip over to the police, only to see the actual poster.

Pete shows up at his hiding spot and stashes the money in a chest he hid in a tree. The tree the chest is in is also the home of Chip and Dale with their stash of acorns. Pete then makes breakfast while singing "Home on the Range". Seeing the wanted outlaw, they make many attempts to capture him. They try to pull him off with a rock on a rope. Chip is held by Pete which he thinks is a salt shaker. Chip is suddenly pulled away and the rock tumbling sounds scares Pete, who hides behind another rock and begins firing wildly at nothing.

He brushes it off, then Chip and Dale load a tobacco bag with gunpowder from some of Pete's bullets and turn it into a cigarette. When he hears it crackling, he throws it away. It lands behind the chipmunks and explodes. Pete again panics and fires blindly. He then becomes frantic and decides to move on. He grabs his chest, only to find it full of acorns. He finds his money on the ground in a path, and gathers it while ironically falling into a pit trap, only to find the chipmunks and begins to shoot at them. They retreat to their tree, and then attempt to take one of the guns away from Pete.

Chip pulls out the gun but falls due to the weight of the gun. It suddenly begins to fire off out of control. Pete retaliates pulling out his gun, but instead pulls out Dale who was stuck in the holster to which Dale acts like a gun. Chip then points the gun at Pete to which he surrenders. Chip then ironically twirls the gun too fast to which he twirls with it. The gun then goes off again which shoots off his hat and grazes some hair off his head. Pete then tries to sweet-talk his way out which Chip denies, He spins the chamber of the gun which falls out of the gun disarming it.

Dale grabs one of the spurs on Pete's boots and using the spike to trigger the bullets on Pete's belt. They then tickle him, and Dale rides the spur down Pete's back which hurts him to the point of charging after him. Chip grabs the frying pan with the eggs and bacon and puts it in the path of Pete which he hits it and is left dazed and then covered in maple syrup and the money he stole. Pete is then captured by the cavalry and Chip and Dale ride away on their horse, closing the short.

• Billy Bletcher as Black Pete
• Jimmy MacDonald as Chip
• Dessie Flynn as Dale
• Pinto Colvig (Additional Voices)
• Clarence Nash (Additional Voices)

• The animation of Pete robbing the bank and shooting up the town is reused from the 1952 cartoon "Two-Gun Goofy".
• The gag with Pete mistaking Dale for his gun was reused in the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers pilot, "To the Rescue".
• The gag with Chip and Dale entering Pete to tickle him was reused in the Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers episode, "Throw Mummy from the Train".

• The Lone Chipmunks at IMDb
• The Lone Chipmunks at The Internet Animation Database
• The Lone Chipmunks at the British Film Institute
• The Lone Chipmunks on Filmaffinity