Mama Bear's reminders about the true meaning of Thanksgiving are left in the dust as the spirit of competition takes over and Papa Bear and the cubs begin a campaign to win first prize in the Thanksgiving Pumpkin contest.
Chief Inspector Albert the duck and his three detective assistants follow a series of clues to find the batch of pumpkins stolen from the town pumpkin patch.
Rebecca Estelle, an old woman whose dislike of pumpkins stems from her childhood when her family had nothing else to eat, finds herself with a bumper crop of the hated orange squash.