When a white dog with black spots runs away from home, he gets so dirty his family doesn't recognize him as a black dog with white spots. Harry is a white dog with black spots who loves everything . . . except baths. So one day before bath time, Harry runs away. He plays outside all day long, digging and sliding in everything from garden soil to pavement tar. By the time he returns home, Harry is so dirty he looks like a black dog with white spots....

Mouse and his downstairs neighbor, Mole, discover that when they help each other, housecleaning and other daily tasks are much easier.

When Joe messes up his room immediately after his mother has cleaned it, his method of straightening it up again does not meet with her approval.

Hopscotch the rabbit refuses to wash his ears until his older cousin comes to visit and he learns something about being grown up.

Grimelda likes pickle pie. Problem is, she can't find the pickle root to make the pickle pie! What is a very messy witch to do?

A busy backhoe loader describes all the items it hauls off a lot and all the fun it has getting dirty while doing so.

Henry McHenry is trying his best to keep clean for his class photo, but his attempts to stay spotless get his classmates messy instead.

Little Duck wants to look good for his birthday party so he observes how his barnyard buddies clean up, but what works for the other animals does not work for Little Duck, and he ends up messier than before. Little Duck celebrates his first birthday with the other animals on the farm by copying their examples, from shearing off all his feathers to taking a mudbath, before enjoying Farmer Brown's yummy frosted maple cake.

Wearing his perfectly clean suit and living in his perfectly tidy room, Edward the pig avoids getting messy until a big tub of paint falls on his head.

Lily makes a deal with the owner of a traveling pet store to take care of a messy smelly cat named Sardine in exchange for the perfect fluffy cat the next day, but she fears that other people will make fun of her in the meantime.