On a particularly fearful day Figaro confronts what seems like an endless array of terrors.
Determined to solve this once and for all, a quivering Figaro twitches his way into town where local doctor Dotty hypnotizes him in order to cure his fears. Surprisingly it works.
Figaro is a new man! Figaro's fearlessness allows him to create a 'bucket list' of all the frighteningly dangerous activities he would like to do. Rivet is terrified when he sees the last item on the bucket list – an interplanetary voyage.
To protect his master, Rivet hatches a plan to get Figaro's old fears back.

When Figaro wakes up with an old man's cough and a sore back, he becomes terrified that he's aged rapidly.
Figaro decides to fight it and act young. As this fails hilariously, our fearful hero instantly turns into a wrinkly old man.
Only When Dotty falls in love with him at the bus stop he snaps out of it, leaving her behind wrinkled and broken hearted.