An inept seal cub can't do anything right in this puzzling little cartoon directed by Arthur Davis for Charles Mintz' factory.
This sort of "ugly ducking" cartoon, in which a youngster is totally inept at whatever it is his species is supposed to do was a staple of the cartoons in the 1930s. Usually, as per the eponymous story, he grows up into a swan and grown more beautiful than imagined, lords it over the ducks; or, more commonly, a la Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, turns out to be a Useful Idiot who saves all the obnoxious people from their well deserved destruction.
In this case, no such thing clearly happens. The seal remains utterly inept as a seal, but he fails so utterly that the very fish he tries to eat are amused by him..... and he becomes a clown. A trifle bizarre.
Some of the gags are very funny, so that's worth something.