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This time around, the fellow finds a flea who sings, not as hysterically lampooning as the frog did, but a bit more sincere, opera, the flavor of the day and so on.

He loses the flea at one time on a dog, then finds it again on a bum's coat.

The music deal is made, and our man goes to a local bar to celebrate.

"Where did a bum like you get money?" the bartender asks.

"Right here! See this flea!" and the bartender responds in kind by swatting the pestilence, causing our man to go pasty white, as we learned from the start, he has been for 13 years.

Cartoon ends with no joke, only the bartender saying he will feed the shellshocked fellow as he feels obliged to do.

Just watched this Paramount Modern Madcap cartoon on YouTube. The story here is similar to Chuck Jones' One Froggy Evening except the creature singing is a flea, there's dialogue as opposed to pantomime, and the people Finnegan goes to actually sees the fly warbling. So Finnegan should be getting in the riches but 13 years later, he's in a standing coma at a bar where the bartender tells why to a fellow customer...I'll stop there and just say that nothing funny happens until the cause of Finnegan's coma are shown. This is, however, a well told story with interesting limited animation shown throughout. The bartender telling the tale is Jackson "Bluto" Beck. And among the songs sung by the flea is the Fleischer/Famous standard "It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day" which was co-written by the music director of this short-Winston Sharples. So with all that said, Finnegan's Flea comes highly recommend.