The farmer's wife bakes a gingerbread man to cure her loneliness. To her surprise, the gingerbread man comes to life and runs away from her. He taunts her and others who try to catch him as he flees, yelling "Run, run, as fast as you can! You can't catch me, I'm the gingerbread man!" Eventually, the gingerbread man comes to a pond and asks a fox for help crossing. But the fox tricks and eats the gingerbread man instead.