Jack Mercer

Jack Mercer

Born: January 31, 1910
Died: December 7, 1984
in Worthington, Indiana, USA
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Winfield B. Mercer (January 31, 1910 – December 7, 1984), professionally known as Jack Mercer, was a prolific American voice actor, animator and writer. He is best known as the voice of cartoon characters Popeye the Sailor and Felix the Cat. The son of vaudeville and Broadway performers, he also performed on the vaudeville and legitimate stage.

Movies for Jack Mercer...

Popeye: 33 Cartoon Classics - 4 Hours
Title: Popeye: 33 Cartoon Classics - 4 Hours
Character: Popeye the Sailor
Released: July 7, 2017
Type: Movie
Enjoy 4 hours of classic Popeye the Sailor Man cartoons. Popeye is one of the most beloved cartoon characters of all time! Watch as Popeye eats his spinach and saves the day and rescues Olive Oyl and Little Swee' Pea from the likes of Bluto. The rest of the gang is all here too (including Wimpy) with cartoons from the 1930s - 1950s. Features remastered sound!
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3-D Rarities
Title: 3-D Rarities
Character: Moon People (archive footage)
Released: June 11, 2015
Type: Movie
Selections include Kelley's Plasticon Pictures, the earliest extant 3-D demonstration film from 1922 with incredible footage of Washington and New York City; New Dimensions, the first domestic full color 3-D film originally shown at the World’s Fair in 1940; Thrills for You, a promotional film for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Stardust in Your Eyes, a hilarious standup routine by Slick Slavin; trailer for The Maze, with fantastic production design by William Cameron Menzies; Doom Town, a controversial anti-atomic testing film mysteriously pulled from release; puppet cartoon The Adventures of Sam Space, presented in widescreen; I’ll Sell My Shirt, a burlesque comedy unseen in 3-D for over 60 years; Boo Moon, an excellent example of color stereoscopic animation…and more!
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Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940 - Volume Two
Title: Popeye the Sailor: 1938-1940 - Volume Two
Released: June 17, 2008
Type: Movie
Set sail for fun and excitement with Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto and the rest of the gang in this amazing collection of 31 early cartoons from the legendary Fleischer Studios, starring the world's strongest sailor man. In addition to the many entertaining demonstrations of the incredible powers of canned spinach, the set includes bonus "Popumentary" featurettes, the retrospective documentary "Out of the Inkwell: The Fleischer Story" and much more.
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Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938 - Volume One
Title: Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938 - Volume One
Released: July 31, 2007
Type: Movie
Popeye The Sailor: 1933-1938 Volume One (DVD) Spinach--YUCK! But not to the most famous, fearless comic strip sailor in the world--Popeye. Whether romancing his longtime sweetheart, Olive Oyl, rescuing defenseless infant Swee'pea, or wrestling his nasty nemesis, Bluto, Popeye summons his spinach-induced strength to save the day. With one gulp of the vitamin-rich vegetable, Popeye transforms his scrawny body into a human dynamo! For high seas hijinks or landlocked levity, turn to the hilarious animated antics of that two-fisted tar--Popeye.
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Popeye 75th Anniversary Collection
Title: Popeye 75th Anniversary Collection
Character: Popeye (Voice)
Released: April 27, 2004
Type: Movie
In honor of the squint-eyed seaman's 75th anniversary, this three DVD set is a no-frills packaging of Popeye the Sailor's color King Features cartoons of the sixties.
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Popeye
Title: Popeye
Character: Popeye - Animated Prologue (voice)
Released: December 12, 1980
Type: Movie
Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he must first contend with Olive's fiancé, Bluto.
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Title: The All-New Popeye Hour
Character: Popeye / Poopdeck Pappy
Released: September 9, 1978
Type: TV
The All-New Popeye Hour is an animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions and King Features Syndicate. Starring the popular comic strip character Popeye, the series aired from 1978 to 1983 on CBS.
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Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter
Title: Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice)
Released: October 7, 1972
Type: Movie
Popeye, Olive Oyl and all other King Features comic strip characters are invited on a cruise hosted by Professor Grimsby, a man who hates laughter
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Goodie's Good Deed
Title: Goodie's Good Deed
Character: Gremlins / Bear Kid
Released: February 9, 1964
Type: Movie
In his first outing at trying to do his first good deed as a Boy Scout, Goodie is tormented by the evil gremlins at every turn. The other gremlins hate Goodie because he won't let them have fun going bad things. When he stops two gremlins from starting a fight with two friendly neighbors, the evil sprites tie Goodie up and continue to make trouble with the neighbors. Getting some assistance from an unlikely source, Goodie foils the gremlins' scheme, and the two neighbors became pals once again.
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The Timid Knight
Title: The Timid Knight
Character: Bear/Stork
Released: January 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Casper visits King Arthur's castle and scares the knights out of their armor. He tries to help a cowardly knight get courage, thus assisting him in saving the princess from an evil dragon.
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City Snicker
Title: City Snicker
Character: Spooky/Farmer
Released: October 19, 1963
Type: Movie
Casper meets his cousin, Spooky and befriends him. That night, Spooky gets frightened by strange noises and Casper wants to protect Spooky.
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Funderful Suburbia
Title: Funderful Suburbia
Character: Hardy's Son / George / Delivery Man (voice)
Released: March 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A humorous look at the future of suburbia.
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Popcorn and Politics
Title: Popcorn and Politics
Character: Parrot / President's Assistants / Kids / Professor / Engineers
Released: February 15, 1962
Type: Movie
Specs is a little boy who dreams of being president of the United States and turning America into one gigantic amusement park for everyone. But when he considers the speeches and the work of balancing the budget, he forgets the idea, and he's happy just to be president of the little boys' ball club.
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The Lion's Busy
Title: The Lion's Busy
Character: Sir Reginald Tweedledumb IV / Lion (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Sir Reginald Tweedledum IV has to kill an animal to uphold the family tradition.
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Operation Ice-Tickle
Title: Operation Ice-Tickle
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North Pole -- which turns out to be an actual pole with red and white stripes.
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Northern Mites
Title: Northern Mites
Character: Boss
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Two mischievous penguins fool around with some Antarctic supplies.
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Weight for Me
Title: Weight for Me
Character: Popeye
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
After six months at sea, Popeye and Brutus see that Olive has become overweight after eating too much out of feeling lonely. Popeye wants to help her get thinner while Brutus says she is fine like that. The sailor's attempts to make her exercise are thwarted by his rival each time, ending with both Olive and Popeye trapped in the exercise machines the latter had bought. But eating spinach turns the tables and allows Popeye to trim down his beloved's pounds by using his forearms as a reducing machine. Brutus then decides to follow their example.
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Galaxia
Title: Galaxia
Character: Galaxia Space Man (uncredited) (voice)
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A Russian matchmaker tries to find a wife for a space alien who has landed in the neighborhood.
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Spinach Greetings
Title: Spinach Greetings
Character: Popeye
Released: November 15, 1960
Type: Movie
The evil Sea Hag interrupts Popeye's family Christmas.
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Popeye in the Grand Steeple Chase
Title: Popeye in the Grand Steeple Chase
Character: Popeye
Released: November 3, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye at the horse race track.
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Barbecue for Two
Title: Barbecue for Two
Character: Popeye
Released: November 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in.
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Planet Mouseola
Title: Planet Mouseola
Character: Cat
Released: October 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A mouse fools Scat the cat into thinking that he's from another planet.
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Plumbers Pipe Dream
Title: Plumbers Pipe Dream
Character: Popeye
Released: September 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye's bungling attempts to fix Olive's faucet lead to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City.
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Hits and Missiles
Title: Hits and Missiles
Character: Popeye
Released: September 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy take an unintended trip to the moon, which is inhabited by cheese-people and tyrannized by the Big Cheese.
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Counter Attack
Title: Counter Attack
Character: Scat the Cat
Released: August 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Scat the Cat is chasing a mouse through a novelty store.
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Title: Popeye the Sailor
Character: Popeye (voice)
Released: June 10, 1960
Type: TV
Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.
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Peck Your Own Home
Title: Peck Your Own Home
Character: Vocal Effects
Released: May 1, 1960
Type: Movie
A woodpecker keeps a man from sleeping at night in his own home.
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Trouble Date
Title: Trouble Date
Character: Jeepers / Crazy Lady / Marine Doctor
Released: March 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Creepers tries to get Jeepers to get the courage to ask for a date with a bathing beauty that Jeepers knew as a "puppy." Jeepers helps Creepers look for his old girlfriend.
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The Boss Is Always Right
Title: The Boss Is Always Right
Character: Jeepers
Released: January 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Wise guy Jeepers tries to "help" pal Creepers get a raise from his boss.
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Jeep Tale
Title: Jeep Tale
Character: Popeye
Released: January 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers. He tells a fairy tale about a mama jeep and her four children- three good girls and a mischievous boy named Jeepers. One day, they go to eat spinach in the good farmer's garden. Jeepers goes into the bad farmer's garden and eats weeds. The farmer catches Jeepers and locks him up, but mama rescues him that night. The next day, the bad farmer tries to chop down the jeep tree, but mama jeep foils him completely. Afterward, the good farmer invites them over for more spinach.
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Popeye's Pizza Palace
Title: Popeye's Pizza Palace
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice)
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye runs a pizza restaurant. Wimpy wants to pay him Tuesday for some hamburger pizzas, but Popeye says "No money, no pizzas! Cash on the line!" Wimpy would pay Brutus Tuesday if he gave him money for pizzas, but Popeye yells "No money, no pizzas!" Brutus tells Popeye to fix Wimpy some pizzas. Popeye makes a pizza making machine, and asks Brutus what kind of pizzas he wants. Brutus wants a tamale pizza, but Popeye says he never serves tamale pizzas. Brutus then rolls Popeye into some pizza dough, but Popeye eats some spinach pizza and turns Brutus into a pizza-bread man, then kicks him out. Popeye sees Wimpy eating pizza, and has him pay for it.
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Popeye and the Giant
Title: Popeye and the Giant
Character: Popeye (voice)
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye is walking across the street, while Wimpy is practicing his hamburger-mooching talk. Brutus notices him and puts growth pills on a hamburger. Wimpy then eats it, and it causes him to grow very big. Brutus takes the towering moocher to the circus, but they refuse to hire him. Wimpy seeks help from the Sea Hag, who puts him in a baby carriage. Popeye sees his friend's large size and tries to shrink him down by feeding him spinach, but it only makes him grow bigger. He gives Wimpy a hamburger, which turns him back to normal. Wimpy thanks Popeye and promises to pay him Tuesday for today's hamburger.
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Matinee Idol Popeye
Title: Matinee Idol Popeye
Character: Popeye (Voice)
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring Popeye and Olive Oyl. But Popeye may not survive the production.
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Popeye's Service Station
Title: Popeye's Service Station
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus comes along only wanting the free extras, including free access to another customer, Olive Oyl.
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Talking Horse Sense
Title: Talking Horse Sense
Character: Man (voice)
Released: September 11, 1959
Type: Movie
A man schemes to get rich with a talking horse.
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Fit to Be Toyed
Title: Fit to Be Toyed
Character: Dr. Dumbkopf / J.G.'s Father / Santa Claus / Butler / Board Member (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Jonathan P. Grisley, the president of a toy company, is sent to a psychiatrist to find out why he plays with toys. He goes back to childhood and thinks that he's got "toy phobia".
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Venus and The Master Cyclinder
Title: Venus and The Master Cyclinder
Character: Felix, Master Cylinder, Poindexter, The Professor
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
The Professor sends Poindexter to help the Master Cylinder on Venus. Felix rockets to the planet to save him.
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Felineous Assault
Title: Felineous Assault
Character: Herman
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Katnip teaches his little nephew Kitnip how to catch a mouse. Kitnip goes into Herman's mousehole and gets stuck under a pipe. Herman rescues Kitnip. Instead of being a supposed enemy, Kitnip becomes Herman's friend instead!
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Right Off the Bat
Title: Right Off the Bat
Character: Peewee
Released: November 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A baseball team in desperate need for a star player drafts a horse.
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Stork Raving Mad
Title: Stork Raving Mad
Character: Stork / Dispatcher Stork / Father
Released: October 3, 1958
Type: Movie
A far-fetched tale about a baby who doesn't want to be delivered and a stork who goes a little goofy in the process. The stork has a rush delivery, but the baby isn't ready to settle down yet.
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Title: Felix the Cat
Character: Felix / The Professor / Rock Bottom
Released: October 2, 1958
Type: TV
Felix the Cat follows the offbeat adventures of that curious feline, Felix. Although he was quickly overshadowed by Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse, America's favorite cat still remains a classic.
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Travelaffs
Title: Travelaffs
Character: Dog Porter / Mouse Porter
Released: August 29, 1958
Type: Movie
A compilation of spot gags about tourists from earlier cartoons.
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Chew Chew Baby
Title: Chew Chew Baby
Character: Chew Chew / Dentist / Fred / Emergency Vehicle Driver (voice)
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
A cannibal wreaks havoc in Cincinnati.
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From Mad to Worse
Title: From Mad to Worse
Character: Various Mice
Released: August 16, 1957
Type: Movie
The mice are having a great time playing on a train in a department store's toy department until night watchman Katnip comes along.
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Spooky Swabs
Title: Spooky Swabs
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted.
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Hooky Spooky
Title: Hooky Spooky
Character: Spooky / Kangaroo (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 13, 1957
Type: Movie
On their way to Night School, Casper the Friendly Ghost and his pal, Spooky Ghost, pass a zoo, and Spooky has a good time scaring the animals until Casper, posing as the ghost of the scared denizens of the zoo, scares Spooky.
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Spree Lunch
Title: Spree Lunch
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Popeye opens a diner; Bluto pulls one up right across the street. Wimpy comes along, and they compete for his business. The competition escalates, until finally they are throwing things at each other; Wimpy stands between them and snags a complete meal from the stream of objects passing overhead. Another spinach-free Popeye.
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Patriotic Popeye
Title: Patriotic Popeye
Character: Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Two of Popeye's nephews get caught playing with fireworks on the Fourth of July. Popeye takes them away, and they spend the rest of the picture trying to get them back (mostly by getting Popeye away from them).
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The Crystal Brawl
Title: The Crystal Brawl
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Bluto muscles out Popeye to take Olive to the fair. Popeye rushes ahead and poses as a fortune teller, luring Olive in. He shows Olive her future (actually, her past) in the crystal ball.
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Cat In The Act
Title: Cat In The Act
Character: Tour Guide
Released: February 22, 1957
Type: Movie
Unaware that Katnip is the night watchman, Herman takes his three nephews to Paramount Pictures Studios on a sightseeing trip. They sneak in and find fake alligators and a fake King Kong, but a real live Katnip. Herman promises to make Katnip a movie star if he will let them go.
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Nearlyweds
Title: Nearlyweds
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto both plan to marry Olive Oyl, but Popeye proposes first. When Olive says, "Yes!" to Popeye, Bluto sets out to make Popeye look bad, break up the wedding, and win Olive over.
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Pest Pupil
Title: Pest Pupil
Character: Tutor / Duckling (voice)
Released: January 25, 1957
Type: Movie
1957 Baby Huey is a big duck enrolled in kindergarten. Despite being big and clumsy, he attempts to fit in, causing havoc and getting expelled by the teacher. His mother then hires a private tutor, who is also tortured by Baby Huey's good intentioned efforts. The tutor winds up in the ocean but Huey saves his life from sharks and gets his diploma as a reward.
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A Haul in One
Title: A Haul in One
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are, believe it or not, pals and partners in a moving company. (Maybe it's because Popeye isn't squinting here.) Anyhow, Olive has made the mistake of hiring them. She hasn't finished packing yet, so the boys, smitten as soon as she answers the door, compete to help her. Once packed, they compete to move more impressive piles of her belongings. Popeye easily wins these contests, even though Bluto locks him in the van at one point. At the end, Bluto socks Popeye into the piano, then into a table; though he hardly seems to need it, Popeye still eats his spinach, then thrashes Bluto.
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I Don't Scare
Title: I Don't Scare
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th.
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Fright from Wrong
Title: Fright from Wrong
Character: Ghost #3 / Evil Casper (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1956
Type: Movie
The Ghostly Trio give Casper the Friendly Ghost a pill to make him as mean as they are.
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Parlez Vous Woo
Title: Parlez Vous Woo
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1956
Type: Movie
Olive is so captived by "The International", a radio personality with a French accent, that she'd rather stay home than go out on a date with Popeye. Bluto, overhearing this, comes to the door as the character.
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Line of Screammage
Title: Line of Screammage
Character: Chicken / Cheering Boy / Neighborhood Kid (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Even dead kids can be a bad influence. Take what happens to Billy for example. Casper the "friendly" ghost takes the slightly awkward little boy under his wing, and before long the two of them are cheating in a local football game.
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Insect to Injury
Title: Insect to Injury
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye has just finished his house when a band of termites attacks.
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Assault and Flattery
Title: Assault and Flattery
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1956
Type: Movie
In Judge Wimpy's courtroom, Bluto accuses Popeye of assault and battery; he claims to have been attacked by him on several occasions, without provocation. Popeye then tells his side.
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Penguin for Your Thoughts
Title: Penguin for Your Thoughts
Character: Mr. Penguin
Released: June 14, 1956
Type: Movie
After startling a stork who drops his package, Casper the Friendly Ghost delivers a baby penguin to its parents at the South Pole.
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Out to Punch
Title: Out to Punch
Character: Popeye / Boxing Announcer / Counter (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye.
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Swab the Duck
Title: Swab the Duck
Character: Ducklings
Released: May 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Baby Huey sees some little ducks playing pirate and wants to join in, but when he jumps on their raft, he sends them flying into the hungry fox's frying pan. Huey accidentally frees them when he jumps onto the fox in his enthusiasm to join them. The fox decides he'd rather pursue the gigantic Huey than the tiny ducklings, and when he overhears Huey wishing he could play pirate, the fox dresses as a pirate aboard a convenient nearby replica pirate ship.
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Popeye for President
Title: Popeye for President
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are running for President. It's election day, the vote is tied, and Olive Oyl is the only remaining voter. However, she won't vote, and the election outcome be decided, until her chores are done. Popeye and Bluto compete to complete them.
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Hill-billing and Cooing
Title: Hill-billing and Cooing
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1956
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day.
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A Job for a Gob
Title: A Job for a Gob
Character: Popeye (voice)
Released: December 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Olive's ranch needs a helper, and the boys just happen to be passing by. Bluto's convinced he's better, but Popeye wins at all of Olive's tests: riding a bronco and branding. As Popeye wins the job, Bluto starts a stampede and a fire simultaneously. With some spinach help, Popeye gets Bluto out of the way, douses the fire, and saves Olive from the stampede.
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Mousieur Herman
Title: Mousieur Herman
Character: Herman's Cousins
Released: November 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Herman and Katnip in an art school.
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Red White and Boo
Title: Red White and Boo
Character: Paul Revere / Horse / Soldiers (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1955
Type: Movie
Through the use of a Time Machine, Casper the Friendly Ghost gets transported back in time, In the stone-age, Casper frightens cave-men and women. Robert Fulton's steamboat makes a successful first trip when Casper's ghostly form frightens it into action. Casper assists Paul Revere on his famous ride when Revere's horse, frightened by Casper, ceases to balk and breaks into a gallop. George Washington, crossing the Delaware River, is sped up by Casper's appearance, and Casper becomes a hero by besting the British Redcoats.
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Mister and Mistletoe
Title: Mister and Mistletoe
Character: Popeye / Pipeye / Pupeye / Poopeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 30, 1955
Type: Movie
It's Christmas Eve. Popeye's nephews are staying over with Olive, and Popeye is there helping decorate. Bluto disguises himself as Santa and horns in on Olive.
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Rabbit Punch
Title: Rabbit Punch
Character: Moe Hare / Tommy Tortoise (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: Movie
It's the night of the Big Fight between Tommy Tortoise and Michael "Moe" Hare. Tommy takes a beating at first and "Moe" knocks him through the "screen" onto the the animator's table, where Tommy learns what strategy and weapons "Moe" will be using in the fight. Since his shell is good protection, Tommy produces two more shells and "Moe" is soon confused by having to play the old shell game. The hare then stuffs horseshoe into his gloves, but the tortoise reacts by pushing a magnet for the rabbit's throat. The rabbit is soon punching himself.
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Poop Goes the Weasel
Title: Poop Goes the Weasel
Character: Waxey Weasel / Bulldog / Cuckoo (voice)
Released: July 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A Paramount Noveltoon (production number P14-6) which finds Waxey the Weasel invading a chicken-coop where a chicken named Wishbone has just been hatched. Waxey the Weasel takes off after Wishbone but the chick manages to outwit the weasel. Wishbone pleads that he is innocent and helpless as he leads Waxey into the clutches of a sinister, weasel-hating guard dog.
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Gift of Gag
Title: Gift of Gag
Character: Popeye / Pip-eye / Pup-eye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house.
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Beaus Will Be Beaus
Title: Beaus Will Be Beaus
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting...
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Git Along Lil' Duckie
Title: Git Along Lil' Duckie
Character: Ducklings
Released: March 24, 1955
Type: Movie
The over-sized Baby Huey wants to join the little ducks in their cowboy game but they don't want him. A fox comes along and the ducklings flee and leave Huey to fight the enemy. The fox uses an exploding-cigar, a shotgun and dynamite against him but Huey is too tough and the fox winds up being the pursued.
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Penny Antics
Title: Penny Antics
Character: Popeye / Radio Announcer (voice)
Released: March 11, 1955
Type: Movie
A virtual remake of Customers Wanted, with Popeye and Bluto running competing penny arcades showing customer Wimpy clips from past shorts, though in this case, rather than each arcade owner showing clips from the same story, they show different stories.
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Cookin' with Gags
Title: Cookin' with Gags
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 13, 1955
Type: Movie
Popeye, the proprietor of a gymnasium for women, has Olive Oyl as one of his pupils. Rival Bluto disguises himself as a coy flapper and joins the class. Believing Bluto to be a woman, Popeye is very annoyed when Bluto tries to show him up.
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Gopher Spinach
Title: Gopher Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye is planting his spinach bed. Just as he finishes, the plants start disappearing. He discovers a gopher filching the baby plants and starts battling it.
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Private Eye Popeye
Title: Private Eye Popeye
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1954
Type: Movie
Private Eye Popeye gets a call from Olive Oyl to guard a precious gem. But no sooner does he get the gem than the butler takes it.
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Fright to the Finish
Title: Fright to the Finish
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 27, 1954
Type: Movie
At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto decides to take advantage of this by pretending to go home, then staging various pranks.
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Greek Mirthology
Title: Greek Mirthology
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 12, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto).
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Bride and Gloom
Title: Bride and Gloom
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye is marrying Olive tomorrow; he's ecstatic. She has a dream of the future, including twin sons who prove to be a real handful. When Popeye comes by the next morning, he gets a frosty reception.
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Candy Cabaret
Title: Candy Cabaret
Character: Hard Candy (voice)
Released: June 11, 1954
Type: Movie
Set in a nightclub in Sugarland---not the one in Texas---the bon-bons, lollipops, taffy and other sweet-and-sticky citizens perform in a musical show. The grand finale features the Sugar Lump Orchestra playing "Ain't She Sweet" while the bouncing-ball leads the theatre audience in a sing-along.
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Hep taxi
Title: Hep taxi
Character: Popeye / Old Man (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.
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Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Title: Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Character: Popeye / Bob Hope / Jerry Lewis / Audience Members (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye is being honored for his 20 years of films, in a dinner hosted by 'Bob Hope' (several other celebrities are present, like Jimmy Durante, Bing Crosby, 'Jerry Lewis' and 'Dean Martin').
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Zero the Hero
Title: Zero the Hero
Released: March 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Zero the Dog, already a failure as a bloodhound or a retriever, is just as bad as a watchdog, and is frightened when a burglar appears. Casper the Friendly Ghost, unknown to Zero, comes to his aid and frightens the burglar away. Zero thinks he did it on his own, and gains back all of his lost self-respect.
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The Seapreme Court
Title: The Seapreme Court
Character: Various Fish (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Little Audrey, while fishing, falls to the bottom of the sea, where she encounters all types of sea-life and then is arrested by the local fish-constable. She is tried by a jury of sardines who find her guilty, and she is sentenced to the 'eelectric chair." She makes an escape attempt, and wakes up to find it has all been a dream. She has a nibble on her fishing line and reels in a small fish, which she quickly returns to the water.
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Floor Flusher
Title: Floor Flusher
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto stop by to see Olive and fix her leaky faucet. Popeye does it better, and Bluto gets jealous, so he starts rerouting Olive's plumbing and causing all sorts of leaks.
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Boo Moon
Title: Boo Moon
Character: Moon People
Released: January 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Casper the Friendly Ghost comes to the aid of King Luna and his people after being attacked by invading Tree Men. On the 3D Bluray 3-D Rarities Volume 1, this appears as an extra in 3D.
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Popeye, the Ace of Space
Title: Popeye, the Ace of Space
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Popeye is abducted by Martians who conduct a series of hideous experiments on him, but thanks to his copious spinach supply (4 cans), all the experiments fail.
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Firemen's Brawl
Title: Firemen's Brawl
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house.
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Baby Wants a Battle
Title: Baby Wants a Battle
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto fight over taking Olive out; she decides they'll all stay home together. While looking over a family album, Popeye tells the story of a day-long fight he and Bluto had as infants.
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Toreadorable
Title: Toreadorable
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1953
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him.
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Invention Convention
Title: Invention Convention
Character: Giraffe
Released: June 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Singalong about wacky inventions.
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Popeye's Mirthday
Title: Popeye's Mirthday
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Olive is preparing a birthday party for Popeye. He arrives too soon, and she assigns his nephews (only three in this picture) to keep him out until she's ready. They do this in their usual creative ways.
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Frightday the 13th
Title: Frightday the 13th
Character: Ghosts / Pet Shop Man / Mr. Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1953
Type: Movie
There's good boos tonight: Frightday the 13th. All the ghosts plan on going out to scare someone... except for Casper the Friendly Ghost, who goes out and makes friends with Lucky the black cat.
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Ancient Fistory
Title: Ancient Fistory
Character: Popeye / Fairy Godfather / Announcer / Bull (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1953
Type: Movie
It's the middle ages (sort of); Popeye is working in Bluto's Beanery. Bluto is going to the ball where Princess Olive will choose her mate. Popeye's fairy godpappy appears and it's a reverse Cinderella story, with a car created from a can of spinach.
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Child Sockology
Title: Child Sockology
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Olive invites the boys over for dinner. They play briefly with Swee'pea, but when the inevitable fight starts, they ignore him and he wanders off to a construction site. The boys alternate between fighting each other and rescuing the tot, with Bluto concentrating on fighting and Popeye on saving.
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Philharmaniacs
Title: Philharmaniacs
Character: Mouse
Released: January 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Singalong about an all-animal orchestra, spoofing the musicians and various instruments of the orchestra.
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Big Bad Sindbad
Title: Big Bad Sindbad
Character: Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye is taking his nephews to the museum, and proves to them that he is the greatest sailor in the world by telling them of a time he bested Sindbad the Sailor when Sindbad tried to abduct Olive Oyl.
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Shuteye Popeye
Title: Shuteye Popeye
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 3, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back.
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Popalong Popeye
Title: Popalong Popeye
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye is hosting three of his western-obsessed nephews on his ranch. To get them to eat their spinach, he tells about how he arrived at the ranch and was humiliated by foreman Bluto until, of course, he ate his spinach.
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Clown on the Farm
Title: Clown on the Farm
Character: Ducklings (voice)
Released: August 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Baby Huey, the man-sized duckling, wants to play circus with the regular-size ducks, and they trick him into a barrel which almost goes over a cliff. It doesn't but it puts him into the hands of a hungry fox, who tries all manner of tricks to make Baby Huey palatable. They all fail and Baby Huey winds up as the circus ringmaster, putting the defeated fox through all kinds of tricks.
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Tots of Fun
Title: Tots of Fun
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye is building a house while his nephews practice their music. The kids come out to help, but only cause trouble, so Popeye sends them back to practice. He finishes his house, goes in, and it collapses. The boys decide they can help Popeye and practice at the same time, so they build a skyscraper luxury apartment building to the tune of the ever-popular Poet and Peasant Overture.
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Dizzy Dinosaurs
Title: Dizzy Dinosaurs
Character: Caveboy / Worm / Salesman / Caveman
Released: July 4, 1952
Type: Movie
The cavemen go to the Paramountain Theater.
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Friend or Phony
Title: Friend or Phony
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1952
Type: Movie
To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of "spinach moments" from a couple earlier shows.
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Swimmer Take All
Title: Swimmer Take All
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are in a swimming race across the English Channel. As usual, Bluto has a million ways to cheat, and Popeye overcomes all of them to win. Some of the bits: Popeye's suit is connected to a fish hook; the fish unravels it and Popeye knits it back together. Bluto is on a raft and blows sneezing powder at Popeye. Bluto attaches a magnet to Popeye which attracts a mine (which ends up blowing Popeye much closer to the line). Bluto dumps a load of cement on Popeye.
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Fun At The Fair
Title: Fun At The Fair
Character: Elephant Mother / Peanut Vendor / Watermelon Vendor / Mortimer
Released: May 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Singalong with spot gags about an animal fair.
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Ghost of the Town
Title: Ghost of the Town
Character: Ghosts / Taxi-Driver / Kids / Townsmen (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1952
Type: Movie
In this pun-title cartoon (from Toast of the Town) Casper, the friendly ghost, is banished from Ghost Town/Heaven/Territory, because he refuses to frighten living people.
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Lunch with a Punch
Title: Lunch with a Punch
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive take his nephews on a picnic. They don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his school days, when Bluto repeatedly got Popeye in trouble and eventually stole Olive away until Popeye had his spinach and saved her from an oncoming train. After his story, Bluto grabs Popeye and the nephews eat their spinach and save him.
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Off We Glow
Title: Off We Glow
Character: Horsefly / Flea / Dog / Moth
Released: February 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Singalong with spot gags about various insects.
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The Deep Boo Sea
Title: The Deep Boo Sea
Character: Octopus / Turtle / Billy's Brother / Whale (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Little Billy wants to play pirates with two older friends. However, the big kids won't let him play. He meets up with Casper, and the two build a raft together and sail out to to sea to search for pirate treasure... and find it.
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Popeye's Pappy
Title: Popeye's Pappy
Character: Popeye / Pappy / Popeye's Mama / Native (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Popeye meets up with his mom, who thinks that his long-lost Poopdeck Pappy is stranded on a tropical island.
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Snooze Reel
Title: Snooze Reel
Character: Jonah / Professor / Beautiful Bob
Released: January 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Screen Song with spot gags about newsreels (including Paramount's own newsreel division).
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Gag And Baggage
Title: Gag And Baggage
Character: Baggage Helpers
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Singalong with spot gags about the history of the railroad.
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Forest Fantasy
Title: Forest Fantasy
Character: Owl / Frogs
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Singalong with spot gags about forest animals.
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Casper Takes a Bow-Wow
Title: Casper Takes a Bow-Wow
Character: Ghosts / Little Boys / Pal / Dog Catcher (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Casper, the Friendly Ghost, who does not like scaring people, is hauled up before the Ghost Tribunal and is quickly convicted of Friendship-in-the-First Degree and is booted out of the local ghost community.
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Punch and Judo
Title: Punch and Judo
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye drops a TV off at the orphanage; the program that comes on is a boxing match he's supposed to be in, so he dashes off. The fight is against the champ, who is huge. Popeye gets pummelled in the first round, but his fighting spirit materializes and advises him to outwit his opponent. In the second round, he does so. The champ then uses a light socket to "burn out" Popeye so he can't outthink him, and (as with the rest of this pun-filled match) "knocks him cold", turning him into a block of ice. The orphans feed Popeye his spinach right through the TV set, and he comes back to knock the champ through the screen.
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Vegetable Vaudeville
Title: Vegetable Vaudeville
Character: Various Fruits and Vegetables
Released: November 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A singalong with spot gags about vegetables.
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Let's Stalk Spinach
Title: Let's Stalk Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews don't want to eat their spinach, so Popeye tells them about his youth, before he liked spinach. In a Jack and the beanstalk scenario, he climbs a spinach-stalk and encounters a greedy giant. He ultimately vanquishes the giant with help from spinach that he accidentally eats from a giant can, and the nephews chow down on their sandwiches.
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Casper Comes to Clown
Title: Casper Comes to Clown
Character: Ghosts / Owl / Brownie Bear / Gorilla (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Casper befriends a bear cub with a natural talent for juggling. Soon the cub is in the circus, but a gorilla proves to be much scarier than any ghost.
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Boo Scout
Title: Boo Scout
Character: Billy's Brother / Ghosts (voice)
Released: July 26, 1951
Type: Movie
Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout.
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Pilgrim Popeye
Title: Pilgrim Popeye
Character: Popeye / Nephews / Turkey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye's been feeding a turkey in his backyard; it's Thanksgiving day, and his (3) nephews are all set to turn the turkey into the main course. But Popeye can't bring himself to do the deed, so he tells them a story about the time he was a pilgrim and a turkey saved his life. Popeye is hunting the turkey, which keeps outsmarting him; he finally corners the bird, which gives him a sob story about being too scrawny to eat. Popeye gives him some spinach, but before the bird can eat it, Popeye is captured by Indians. They tie him to a stake. The turkey, watching, remembers the spinach, which turns the turkey into an eagle. He swoops down, carries off the first batch of Indians and throws them into a mountain; he turns another batch into a totem pole. Popeye finishes his story and sees the boys missing; dinner time! They prepare to serve the turkey his big plate of spinach.
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To Boo or Not to Boo
Title: To Boo or Not to Boo
Character: Little Boy / Donkey / Square Dance Caller (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Mild-and-meek Casper, the Friendly Ghost, is depressed and glum because people will have nothing to do with him despite the fact that he has read "How To Win Friends, and Influence People".
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Miners Forty Niners
Title: Miners Forty Niners
Character: Native American / Miner / Jerry Colonna
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Singalong about the discovery of gold in California.
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Alpine for You
Title: Alpine for You
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye is climbing the Alps, and Olive is being hauled up behind him on a rope, taking pictures. Mountain guide Bluto spots them through binoculars, and goes crazy over Olive. He immediately intercepts them and tries to convince them they need a professional guide. Popeye resists, so Bluto uses a number of tricks: cutting the rope, burning a bridge they are crossing, using a magnet to break Popeye's climbing pick. Olive finally has had enough, and goes off with Bluto, who promptly gets her alone in a dark cave. Her screams bring Popeye, whose battle with Bluto carves a Mount Rushmore replica in a mountain-top. Bluto knocks Popeye into a snowbank, where a Saint Bernard dog revives him with spinach (after consulting a handy Popeye comic book). Popeye bashes Bluto into a mountain, forming a Paramount logo.
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Thrill of Fair
Title: Thrill of Fair
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 19, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye, Olive, and Swee'pea take their pig, Smedley, to the fair to enter it in the livestock show. While Popeye is distracted, Swee'pea crawls off following his balloon and narrowly avoids all sorts of peril (that Popeye, close behind, manages to get caught by).
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Drippy Mississippi
Title: Drippy Mississippi
Character: Duck Hunter
Released: April 13, 1951
Type: Movie
Singalong with spot gags about the Mississippi River as it runs from Minneapolis/St. Paul through Davenport and St. Louis down to New Orleans.
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Tweet Music
Title: Tweet Music
Character: Hoot Owl / Scotch Owl / Night Owl / Duck
Released: February 9, 1951
Type: Movie
Singalong with spot gags about birds.
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Vacation with Play
Title: Vacation with Play
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1951
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are on vacation at Lake Narrowhead. Olive wants to take part in athletic activities, while Popeye just wants to rest (particularly since he had to substitute for one wheel of their sad excuse of a car). Olive goes off for athletic instruction while Popeye sleeps until he sees that the instructor is Bluto, and he's taking a personal interest in Olive.
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The Farmer and the Belle
Title: The Farmer and the Belle
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Olive Oyl's Farm is desparately in need of a farmhand. Fortunately, or unfortunately, the boys are driving by. They compete for the job. Chores: Getting water from a well, picking apples, shoeing a horse, gathering eggs. Popeye feeds a hen a little spinach, and she produces a mountain of eggs, which eventually end up all over Bluto. Bluto drops an anvil on Popeye, then goes after Olive against her wishes, chasing her into a succession of haystacks (where he finds a needle!). The chicken feeds Popeye his spinach, and he triumphs, sending Bluto into the pigpen (where the pigs won't have anything to do with him).
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Riot in Rhythm
Title: Riot in Rhythm
Character: Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews practice their music, swinging out at the end. He puts them to bed with a perfunctory story; they say their prayers, finishing by blessing "all the nice people that come to see their pictures." But they're not ready to sleep, so they sneak down to their instruments. Popeye confiscates the instruments (even the piano) so he can get some sleep. The tots quickly realize that common objects in their bedroom can be used as musical instruments and they start swinging out on everything in sight. Popeye can't catch them in the act; they are always asleep when he looks in, even through the window or floorboards. He pulls his bed outside the iris-out, but they follow and he runs down the aisle of the theatre.
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The Voice of the Turkey
Title: The Voice of the Turkey
Released: October 13, 1950
Type: Movie
A Paramount Noveltoon (production number P10-1) that has a farmer fattening up a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner, but when he starts to sharpen his axe, the turkey gets wise and manages to escape with the aid of a ghostly disguise.
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Quick on the Vigor
Title: Quick on the Vigor
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 5, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye takes Olive to the carnival; while he's busy winning candy at the "ring the bell" stand, strongman Bluto muscles in on her. There follows the inevitable contest, invevitably rigged.
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Popeye Makes a Movie
Title: Popeye Makes a Movie
Character: Popeye / Nephews / Director (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive prepare to make a movie while his nephews watch. The movie is a significant portion of Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, which makes up over 80% of this release (beginning with Popeye, Olive, and Wimpy suffering in the desert), and despite admonitions, the nephews get involved a couple times, most notably tossing Popeye his can of spinach.
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Gobs of Fun
Title: Gobs of Fun
Character: Kangaroo / Chef / Club Jonah Owner
Released: July 28, 1950
Type: Movie
The captain of a ship's crew, a mouse, goes to the bar to pick up his men. After forcing the initially reluctant sailors onboard, they set sail and hit the (literal) high seas. Spots gags abound such as a cook dumping the garbage overboard into a clam's mouth, the clam getting his revenge by climbing onboard and spraying the garbage back at the cook, and a running gag involving a bear who is splashed by his bucket of water each time he throws it overboard. Finally, we are invited to sing along to the old sea tune, "Strike Up the Band".
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Jitterbug Jive
Title: Jitterbug Jive
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Olive has invited the boys over, but finds Popeye old-fashioned compared to the zoot-suited Bluto. Popeye wants to dance a waltz, pull taffy, play pin-the-tail-on-the-donkey and croquet, and bob for apples, but Olive turns up her nose at all these as Bluto sabotages them. Finally, Bluto pours quick-drying cement in the apple water and drives off with Olive. Popeye, encased in cement, rolls downhill into a vegetable shop, right next to a bin of spinach. Good thing, because Bluto's getting fresh in a very old-fashioned way. A zoot-suited Popeye stops him, and gets the girl.
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Beach Peach
Title: Beach Peach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 12, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are having a day at the beach; the lifeguard (not drawn as Bluto, though he sounds and acts like him) sees Olive and puts the moves on.
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Gym Jam
Title: Gym Jam
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 17, 1950
Type: Movie
Popeye runs a gym; his only customer on ladies day is Olive. Bluto, seeing Olive go in, dresses in drag to get admittance. Popeye comes on to him; all the while, Bluto is beating up Popeye and pretending they are accidents, until his wig comes off.
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Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Title: Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Character: The Fox (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 3, 1950
Type: Movie
His Mama is the only one who love Baby Huey, an overgrown clumsy ugly duckling. The other Mamas and their broods shun him like the plague and make his little life miserable. But when a ferocious fox attacks the barnyard, Huey comes to the rescue of one and all. Huey is a hero basking in his new-found popularity.
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How Green Is My Spinach
Title: How Green Is My Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1950
Type: Movie
To finally defeat Popeye, Bluto sets out to destroy the spinach crop.
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The Fly's Last Flight
Title: The Fly's Last Flight
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye is settling in for a nap in his hammock, but every sound in the city is disturbing him until he moves indoors. Even there, he's plagued by houseflies. He chases them outdoors, except for one. That one ends up in a spinach can and gives Popeye a real fight.
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Strolling Thru the Park
Title: Strolling Thru the Park
Character: Bandmaster / Man (voice)
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
This Screen Song audience-participation short (Paramount production number X9-1)is an all-animated short with cartoon caricatures of many Hollywood personalities, and some weird, unpredictable animals prior to the bouncing ball's entrance to lead a sing-along of "Strolling Through the Park."
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Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Title: Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dainty new poodle Reggie, to his intense embarrassment. Bluto comes by with his bulldog, Killer, who tries to kill Reggie. The resourceful little pooch avoids Killer for a while, but is eventually caught, and when Popeye tries to help, Bluto takes him out of commission as well, until they both eat their spinach just before Bluto is ready to run them both over with a steam-roller.
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Silly Hillbilly
Title: Silly Hillbilly
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country. He gets upset as Bluto, mistaking a radiator for an accordion, cuckoo clocks for a shooting gallery, and a girdle for a hammock, does violence to his store. But Olive arrives, looking for a makeover, and that distracts Popeye a while. Bluto sees the "new" Olive and gets jealous, and the feud is on.
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Tar with a Star
Title: Tar with a Star
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cactus Corners.
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A Balmy Swami
Title: A Balmy Swami
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 21, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto. Bluto spots Olive in her luxury box and immediate makes plans. First, he humiliates Popeye with a series of magic tricks. Next, he hypnotizes Olive, but while she's walking toward Bluto in a trance, Popeye points her the other way and goes after Bluto himself. Meanwhile, Olive has walked out the stage door and onto a construction site, and the boys race to save her. Popeye's efforts are hampered by Bluto's magic, like the instant brick wall he builds. Bluto awakens her, and she attacks him and then panics. Popeye throws her a hook to save her; it does, but it crashes through a window, bringing a piano (!) out with it. The piano crashes on the building, and Olive is catapulted by the strings to a distant platform. Another race to save her. As Popeye is trapped in a plummeting elevator, he breaks out the spinach.
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Hot Air Aces
Title: Hot Air Aces
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Despite the title, the vehicles here are airplanes, not balloons. Bluto and Popeye are racing around the world; Bluto's got a sort of rocket plane, and Popeye's got a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started. He gets off to a bad start, as Bluto spins the prop, getting Popeye tangled up in it. This knocks him out; Olive puts him into his plane and gives him a push, and Popeye wakes up in the nick of time. Bluto stops off at the Eiffel Tower to woo a maiden; Popeye, with help from a lightning bolt, passes him. Bluto catches up again, and removes Popeye's engine. The plane crashes into the ocean, but fortunately, there's a case of spinach and a giant magnet nearby, so Popeye rebuilds the plane, using spinach cans to replace the missing pistons, and wins the race, as his spinach exhaust fries Bluto's plane.
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Lumberjack and Jill
Title: Lumberjack and Jill
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.
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A-Haunting We Will Go
Title: A-Haunting We Will Go
Character: Turtle / Hunter (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 4, 1949
Type: Movie
Casper the Friendly Ghost, sad that he can make no friends since everyone he meets is afraid of him, hatches an abandoned egg and becomes the emerging little duck's best friend and protector.
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Popeye's Premiere
Title: Popeye's Premiere
Character: Popeye / Aladdin (voice)
Released: March 22, 1949
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of the short it's cut from.
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Symphony in Spinach
Title: Symphony in Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
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Robin Hood-Winked
Title: Robin Hood-Winked
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 12, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub. Bluto comes to the pub to collect taxes and falls for Olive.
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Snow Place Like Home
Title: Snow Place Like Home
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 2, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits. It carries them to the North Pole. Fortunately, a penguin comes by advertising Pierre's Trading Post; unfortunately, Pierre has eyes for Olive.
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Spinach vs Hamburgers
Title: Spinach vs Hamburgers
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.
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A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Title: A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 29, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she'd like to kiss a sheik. A sheik, looking a lot like Bluto, happens to overhear this and sets up a kissing booth. He carries her away to his luxurious tent. Popeye finally finishes up and notices Olive is gone; he chases after her, but his camel suffers a blowout. Meanwhile, the sheik has been wooing Olive. Popeye arrives, and after briefly sharing the hookah with the sheik, tries to leave with Olive. The sheik will have none of it; he wraps Popeye like a mummy and fires him with a cannon into the sphinx. Fortuitously, there's a can of spinach inside, and Popeye saves the day.
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Popeye Meets Hercules
Title: Popeye Meets Hercules
Character: Popeye/Freshman/Announcer (voice)
Released: June 17, 1948
Type: Movie
The first Olympics, starring Hercules (looking, but not quite sounding, like a really pumped-up Bluto), who challenges anyone to do the same feats as him. Popeye takes that challenge, of course. First, they battle animals, with Bluto pulling the skins off two wild elephants and Popeye turning three lions into a nesting set. The discus throw doesn't go well, with Herc's disc swooping Popeye into Herc's hand. The javelin is even worse for Popeye, with Herc throwing him all the way to the moon. This gives him a chance to go after Olive in typical Bluto fashion; her cries of help reach Popeye, who prays to the Greek goddess Spinachia, who delivers a can of spinach to him.
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Pre-Hysterical Man
Title: Pre-Hysterical Man
Character: Popeye / Caveman (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are atop the highest peak in Yellowstone Park; Olive falls off into a deep hole, where a caveman and dinosaur are still living. Olive almost ends up in the dinosaur, but the caveman (longing for a woman) saves her. Olive falls for him, but Popeye, noticing Olive's absence, comes down and saves her from the caveman. They fight it out; the caveman stuffs Popeye into a not-quite-empty spinach can and feeds him to the dinosaur, but of course, Popeye breaks out and wins the day.
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Wigwam Whoopee
Title: Wigwam Whoopee
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.
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Olive Oyl for President
Title: Olive Oyl for President
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Tired of political rhetoric, Olive lays out her platform.
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Base Brawl
Title: Base Brawl
Character: (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1948
Type: Movie
At the zoo, the animals have all gone to play baseball. Animals fill the stands as they watch the antics that can only come about from exotic animals who play baseball.
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All's Fair at the Fair
Title: All's Fair at the Fair
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival, much to Popeye's chagrin. Bluto manages to make Popeye look bad several times, eventually winning a ring at the ball toss and taking her up in his balloon. Of course, he tries to get fresh with her, and Popeye comes to the rescue with the help of some fireworks. The hot air balloon gets a bit too hot, putting Olive in even more danger.
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Santa's Surprise
Title: Santa's Surprise
Character: Russian Boy / Dutch Boy / Vocal Effects - Snoring (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Seven children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve and decide to surprise him with some help around the house while he sleeps.
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Safari So Good
Title: Safari So Good
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 7, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are on an African safari, he with a rifle, she with a camera. Olive happens across a Tarzan-like man (Bluto), and she and he are immediately smitten with one another. Popeye catches wind of this and isn't about to stand for the jungle hunk muscling in on his girl. Let the fighting and one-upmanship begin.
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Wotta Knight
Title: Wotta Knight
Character: Popeye (voice)
Released: October 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair). Of course, Bluto plays dirty, squirting grease on the field in front of Popeye's horse, and using an extra-long lance. But Popeye wins anyhow, and climbs SB's tower with Bluto right behind him. They fight over her, playing tug-of-war with her pigtails.
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Naughty But Mice
Title: Naughty But Mice
Character: Mice (voice)
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Herman, the city-slicker mouse (looking like a cross between James Cagney and Lee Tracy) visits his barn-mice cousins in the country.
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Popeye and the Pirates
Title: Popeye and the Pirates
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship. They are soon captured, and Popeye has to rescue Olive from the (initially charming) pirate captain. He tries tricks, like dressing in drag, but until the spinach, no luck. Fortunately, a passing swordfish reading a Popeye comic book recognizes him and feeds him the spinach on the comic cover.
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The Royal Four-Flusher
Title: The Royal Four-Flusher
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 11, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive away, while tricking Popeye with an exploding cigar and other gimmicks.
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Madhattan Island
Title: Madhattan Island
Character: Mouse (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1947
Type: Movie
A humorous tour of Manhattan concludes with 3 bouncing-ball songs.
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I'll Be Skiing Ya
Title: I'll Be Skiing Ya
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1947
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate (but not doing a very good job); she catches the eye of skating instructor Bluto. But when Bluto takes her up a ski lift and puts the moves on, she calls for Popeye to save her, and soon, everyone is skiing down that hill.
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Spree for All
Title: Spree for All
Character: Snuffy Smith (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1946
Type: Movie
Snuffy Smith, a returning war veteran, wants peace and quiet. He settles in the mountains, only to have his peace shattered by two violently feuding families.
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Rocket to Mars
Title: Rocket to Mars
Character: Popeye (voice)
Released: August 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars. Olive escapes, but Popeye gets to Mars, where he is attacked (by a group led by Bluto) that was preparing to invade Earth. Fortunately, Popeye has a can of spinach handy, so he can save the Earth (turning most of the Martian war apparatus into amusement park rides).
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The Friendly Ghost
Title: The Friendly Ghost
Character: Ghost / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him.
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Mess Production
Title: Mess Production
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 23, 1945
Type: Movie
Olive Oyl, a regular Rosie the Riveter, receives a blow to the head from a swinging grappling hook, sending her into a sleepwalking state. Popeye and Bluto, two rival factory workers, fight each other for privilege of saving her life.
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Tops in the Big Top
Title: Tops in the Big Top
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Bluto is the ringmaster; Popeye is the star attraction. Bluto covets Popeye's assistant Olive. Popeye sticks his head in a lion's mouth, but Bluto has put a steak on Popeye's head. When he gets out of that, he does his high wire act: carrying a piano, and Olive, blindfolded. Bluto sabotages this with a banana peel and tosses Popeye to the monkey cage, while he has his way with Olive - until Popeye eats his spinach.
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Pop-Pie a la Mode
Title: Pop-Pie a la Mode
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1945
Type: Movie
Popeye, adrift at sea on a raft, eventually comes to an island which, it turns out, is inhabited by cannibals.
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She-Sick Sailors
Title: She-Sick Sailors
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 8, 1944
Type: Movie
Bluto disguises himself as Superman in order to impress the comic book hero's biggest fan, Olive Oyl. A jealous Popeye becomes a real superhero by eating his spinach.
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Moving Aweigh
Title: Moving Aweigh
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep running afoul of the officer.
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Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Title: Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Popeye takes Olive to the zoo, where she's spotted by zookeeper Bluto, who tries various stunts to impress her and/or get rid of Popeye.
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It's Nifty to Be Thrifty
Title: It's Nifty to Be Thrifty
Character: Ant / Grasshopper (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 18, 1944
Type: Movie
In an attempt to prevent his daughter from spending her money needlessly on sweets, Mr. Moppet tells Lulu the story of The Grasshopper and The Ant. Seeing how the grasshopper wasted his money, and could count on no help from the ant, Lulu promises her father that he won't waste her money any more. But the temptation of the local candy store grows too strong, and Lulu buys all of the sweets that she can get hold of in order to "save up for the winter."
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Puppet Love
Title: Puppet Love
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 11, 1944
Type: Movie
Bluto builds a Popeye puppet and manipulates it to treat Olive rudely. Then he comes in and takes Olive away. When Popeye discovers the ruse, knocks Bluto out and ties puppet strings to him.
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Spinach Packin' Popeye
Title: Spinach Packin' Popeye
Character: Popeye (voice)
Released: July 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio, rejects him as no longer strong enough for her, and is preparing to join the army (where Bluto apparently is). Popeye stops her at the door, and insists on showing her sequences from two earlier two-reelers to prove his strength, but she's unimpressed. Fortunately, this was all a dream; he awakens in the blood bank, and dashes over to see Olive, who reaffirms her love.
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The Anvil Chorus Girl
Title: The Anvil Chorus Girl
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 25, 1944
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto pass by Olive's blacksmith shop and are smitten. Olive needs help, and of course both of the boys offer, and demonstrate their prowess at blacksmithing.
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W'ere on our way to Rio
Title: W'ere on our way to Rio
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1944
Type: Movie
Actually, Popeye and Bluto are already there. They visit a nightclub, where the featured singer/dancer is, of course, Olive Oyl.
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Eggs Don't Bounce
Title: Eggs Don't Bounce
Character: Henrietta (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1944
Type: Movie
Lulu fears getting into trouble after accidentally breaking the eggs she was told to get on her way home.
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The Marry-Go-Round
Title: The Marry-Go-Round
Character: Popeye / Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye wants to propose to Olive, but can't work up the nerve. His fellow sailor, Shorty, helps him.
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Her Honor, the Mare
Title: Her Honor, the Mare
Character: Popeye (voice)
Released: November 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews happen by just as the glue factory is rejecting a sorry looking horse and decide to take it home. They want to treat it as a house pet, despite the obvious problems; Popeye says no. They try to hide it, including painting a Hitler face on its rear and calling it a painter, but keep making mistakes like feeding it horseradish (great reaction shots). Finally, they hide the horse in the closet; Popeye comes out and says that they'll have to keep it now. We see why when she's sitting at the table with her four new foals.
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Cartoons Ain't Human
Title: Cartoons Ain't Human
Character: Popeye / Nephews / Villain (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye sits down to make a cartoon. He shows the results to Olive and his nephews: it's a damsel-in-distress scenario, starring him and Olive, with live music and sound effects by Popeye.
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Wood-Peckin'
Title: Wood-Peckin'
Character: Popeye / Woodpecker / Pelican (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye needs a new mast, so he starts to cut down a tall tree - but a woodpecker living in that tree has other ideas.
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Secret Agent
Title: Secret Agent
Character: Perry White / Saboteur (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 30, 1943
Type: Movie
A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives.
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Happy Birthdaze
Title: Happy Birthdaze
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye's birthday, and Olive managed to get enough rationed sugar to bake him a cake, so she invites him over. Shorty is suicidal because he never gets any mail; Popeye invites him, too. But Shorty is also accident prone. He goes to wash his hands, and manages to flood Popeye right into the sewer.
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The Hungry Goat
Title: The Hungry Goat
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1943
Type: Movie
A goat is starving because scrap metal drives have snapped up all the cans. He finds his way onto a battleship - a giant tin can! The first sailor he sees is Popeye, who he is more than happy to turn into a goat himself.
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Ration Fer the Duration
Title: Ration Fer the Duration
Character: Popeye
Released: May 28, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye's planting a victory garden while his nephews are collecting worms for fishing. He berates them for wasting time, and tells them the story of Jack and the Beanstalk, which inspires them to plant beans. Popeye falls asleep, and dreams up a giant beanstalk. His nephews talk him into climbing to the top. Inside the giant's castle, Popee hides in the cuckoo clock and spots the giant hoarding sugar instead of gold; his hen lays tires, and his storehouses are full of other goods that were rationed in World War II. Popeye tries to walk out with a stack of tires, but the giant stops him, ultimately swatting him with a fly swatter and making him into a sandwich; the giant sprinkles Popeye with pepper, delaying the inevitable spinach briefly. Popeye defeats the giant, and gets him to sneeze all his tires into a carpet.
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A Jolly Good Furlough
Title: A Jolly Good Furlough
Character: Popeye
Released: April 23, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye is doing a great job of sinking Japanese ships (complete with toilet-flush sound effect). A carrier pigeon brings him notice that he's been granted a month furlough, which he plans to spend with Olive and his nephews. But on arrival, he's run over by Olive, who immediately leaves him alone with his nephews, who are practicing home defense.
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Jungle Drums
Title: Jungle Drums
Character: Lieutenant Fleming / Pilot #1 (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle.
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Too Weak to Work
Title: Too Weak to Work
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Bluto thinks he needs a complete rest (and a pretty nurse), at Havarest Hospital. Popeye, however, soon teaches him that honest toil is best as he puts him through a workout in the rest hospital.
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Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue
Title: Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue
Character: Popeye
Released: February 18, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye induces Bluto to join the Army. Bluto is a bit reluctant at first, but the might of Popeye's fists convinces Bluto that Uncle Sam needs fighting men.
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Spinach Fer Britain
Title: Spinach Fer Britain
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Popeye delivers his precious and needed cargo of spinach to Britain, despite the efforts of a Nazi submarine to sink his ship.
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Destruction Inc.
Title: Destruction Inc.
Character: Radio Newscaster / Louis (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!
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Me Musical Nephews
Title: Me Musical Nephews
Character: Popeye / Pip-eye / Pup-eye / Poop-eye / Peep-eye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1942
Type: Movie
Popeye's nephews have been practicing their music and are getting good, but it's bedtime. After Popeye puts them to bed, they discover that many of the things in their bedroom can also be used to make music. And they are also blessed with an uncanny ability to appear to sleep every time Popeye comes to check on them.
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Scrap the Japs
Title: Scrap the Japs
Character: Popeye (voice)
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Sailor Popeye, faced with many menial tasks, fastens a couple of mops to the prop of his plane, substitutes water for bullets in his machine gun and goes about cleaning the deck of the ship.
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Eleventh Hour
Title: Eleventh Hour
Character: Japanese Guard / Japanese Official / American Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1942
Type: Movie
Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war.
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Showdown
Title: Showdown
Character: Office Boy / Fake Superman (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume.
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A Hull of a Mess
Title: A Hull of a Mess
Character: Popeye
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto own adjacent shipyards. They are given the plans for a battleship; whichever finishes first gets the contract for the fleet. Bluto does his patriotic duty by refraining from his usual sabotage; his own incompetence provides much of the entertainment, until the end, when Popeye finishes first. Bluto, invited to help launch the ship, provides a bottle of champagne filled with nitroglycerine. Popeye's ship is destroyed, but after his spinach, he manages to turn out a ship every 5 seconds or so, launching an entire fleet for the war effort.
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Japoteurs
Title: Japoteurs
Character: Press Tour Guide (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber.
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Alona on the Sarong Seas
Title: Alona on the Sarong Seas
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1942
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are on leave in the South Seas when Princess Alona (Olive) comes surfing by in her Sarong, a bird perched on her knee. The boys are smitten, and chase after her. The bird warns our boys that any harm to the princess will result in death from the local volcano.
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Terror on the Midway
Title: Terror on the Midway
Character: Sideshow Barker (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1942
Type: Movie
When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals.
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You're a Sap, Mr. Jap
Title: You're a Sap, Mr. Jap
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 6, 1942
Type: Movie
Spinach turns Popeye into a one-man US Navy during a World War II battle against the Allies' adversaries.
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Baby Wants a Bottleship
Title: Baby Wants a Bottleship
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
Olive is going shopping and drops Swee'pea off for Popeye to watch. Popeye carves a sailboat for him, but the tyke spots Popeye's battleship, and the puny toy boat will no longer do. He climbs aboard, and there's the expected mayhem. Notable sequences include a stint on the ship's cannon's control board, with Popeye caught on the barrel, then in the gears; also, at the end, Swee'Pea hitches a ride atop a torpedo just as Olive is returning and Popeye's out cold.
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Many Tanks
Title: Many Tanks
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1942
Type: Movie
Bluto's in the Army; he tries to sneak off base, but can't. Popeye passes by, Bluto invites him in, then swaps uniforms. Popeye ends up in a tank drill.
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Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
Title: Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1942
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto agree that women are too much trouble, so they agree to swear off them, which lasts about five seconds, until Olive comes on board ship for a tour. The boys vie for her attention.
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Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
Title: Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Popeye's 4 newphews try to sneak out instead of eating their spinach, so Popeye demonstrates some of the benefits: playing piano, dancing, shadow boxing but each is met with "but we don't like spinach." Finally, Popeye spanks them, and they start eating their spinach. After which, they play the piano until it breaks then use boards from the wreckage to spank Popeye.
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The Raven
Title: The Raven
Released: April 3, 1942
Type: Movie
A vacuum cleaner selling raven pesters the inhabitant of a castle.
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Fleets of Stren'th
Title: Fleets of Stren'th
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1942
Type: Movie
When enemy planes attack the battleship he's serving on, Popeye fights back.
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Blunder Below
Title: Blunder Below
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 13, 1942
Type: Movie
Popeye's on a battleship, on which he's banished to the boiler room. A Japanese sub comes along. Can Popeye save his ship from the enemy?
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Kickin' the Conga Round
Title: Kickin' the Conga Round
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Shore leave in South America; Bluto muscles in on Popeye's girl, Olivia Oyla. Popeye muscles him out, but when they get to the conga club, he doesn't care to dance, so Bluto wins again.
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The Vacationer's Paradise
Title: The Vacationer's Paradise
Character: Men
Released: January 1, 1942
Type: Movie
An animated travelogue instructs vacationing Northerners on proper tourism etiquette when visiting Miami Beach.
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Nix on Hypnotricks
Title: Nix on Hypnotricks
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1941
Type: Movie
A hypnotist, frustrated by not having anyone to practice on, cold-calls Olive and hypnotizes her over the phone into coming to his office. Popeye rushes after her.
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Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Title: Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Character: Mr. Bumble (voice)
Released: December 9, 1941
Type: Movie
The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town.
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The Mighty Navy
Title: The Mighty Navy
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Popeye joins the US Navy and routs the enemy in a one-man battle, but not before he causes his commanding officer plenty of aggravation.
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Dumbo
Title: Dumbo
Character: Clowns (voice)
Released: October 31, 1941
Type: Movie
Dumbo is a baby elephant born with over-sized ears and a supreme lack of confidence. But thanks to his even more diminutive buddy Timothy the Mouse, the pint-sized pachyderm learns to surmount all obstacles.
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Superman
Title: Superman
Character: The Mad Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 26, 1941
Type: Movie
After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.
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I'll Never Crow Again
Title: I'll Never Crow Again
Character: Popeye / Crow (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Olive's garden is being raided by some very persistent crows; she calls Popeye for help, and it takes him the rest of the cartoon to hit on the solution.
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Vitamin Hay
Title: Vitamin Hay
Character: Hunky / Spunky (voice)
Released: August 21, 1941
Type: Movie
It's time for lunch, and Spunky (the baby donkey) is expected to feed on healthy (and awful-tasting) Vitamin Hay. He resists, and wanders out of the barn to look for more interesting things to eat.
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It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
Title: It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
Character: Mayor (voice)
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Gabby goes camping with the Mayor.
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Pest Pilot
Title: Pest Pilot
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
Popeye runs a small airport, and Pappy wants to be a pilot.
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Gabby Goes Fishing
Title: Gabby Goes Fishing
Character: Fish (voice)
Released: July 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Gabby teaches a young boy how to fish, even though the boy was doing much better without him.
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Child Psykolojiky
Title: Child Psykolojiky
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy are trying to play poker, but Swee'Pea's crying keeps interrupting them. Pappy wants to smack the tot, but Popeye persuades him to try psychology instead. Popeye tells the story of how "George Washlincoln" chopped down the cherry tree. Inspired, Swee'Pea chops a hole in the floor, then tells the truth. Popeye rushes out to buy him a reward, leaving Pappy in charge, but Pappy believes in a rather dangerous style of parenting, introducing him to William Tell (from both ends of the gun). Pappy lies about it to Popeye.
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Olive's Boithday Presink
Title: Olive's Boithday Presink
Character: Popeye / Geezil (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Popeye wants to get Olive a fur coat, but after a run-in with dishonest furrier Geezil decides the best way is to go hunting for a bear himself.
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Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
Title: Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
Character: Popeye / Rip Van Winkle / Dwarves (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Rip Van Winkle is being thrown out for nonpayment of rent (for twenty years). Popeye happens by and carts the sleeper home, but soon discovers that Rip has a sleepwalking problem that gets both of them into some trouble with some dwarves.
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Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
Title: Raggedy Ann and Raggedy Andy
Character: Paint Brush / Doctors (voice)
Released: April 10, 1941
Type: Movie
A toyshop owner tells a little girl the story behind the two dolls she's fallen in love with.
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Swing Cleaning
Title: Swing Cleaning
Character: King Little / Castle Workers (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework.
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Flies Ain't Human
Title: Flies Ain't Human
Character: Popeye / Fly (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Popeye is trying to take a nap, but he's plagued by house flies that keep landing on him. He gets rid of most of them, but one in particular seems bent on making Popeye's life miserable, particularly after Popeye makes the mistake of flicking it into a can of spinach.
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Olive's $weep$take Ticket
Title: Olive's $weep$take Ticket
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Olive gets a phone call that she has won first prize in a sweepstake. After a frantic search, she locates her ticket, only to have it blow out the window. Help, Popeye!
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Quiet! Pleeze
Title: Quiet! Pleeze
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 7, 1941
Type: Movie
Poopdeck Pappy has a hangover. He asks Popeye to help him by keeping the noise down. Among the disturbances he deals with: a crying baby across the way, a horse-drawn milk truck, a factory whistle, a radio, a traffic accident, a construction site, and a blasting site.
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Problem Pappy
Title: Problem Pappy
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Popeye's Pappy takes a flagpole sitting job atop a tall building without telling Popeye. Popeye goes to rescue him, but he doesn't want to go until an electrical storm hits.
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Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
Title: Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Olive sends Popeye a puppy, Eugene the Jeep, for his birthday, but despite Popeye's best efforts to make it sleep outside, it keeps finding its way back into the house. A rare spinach-free Popeye.
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Poopdeck Pappy
Title: Poopdeck Pappy
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Popeye's elderly father, Pappy, wants to go out at night. Popeye wants him to sleep.
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Sneak, Snoop and Snitch
Title: Sneak, Snoop and Snitch
Character: King Little / Sneak / Snoop / Snitch (voice)
Released: October 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Spies Sneak, Snoop and Snitch try to sneak up on the king while he is sleeping in order to steal some riches.
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My Pop, My Pop
Title: My Pop, My Pop
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1940
Type: Movie
Popeye's 99-year-old father won't admit he's too old to help Popeye build a ship. Popeye tells him to build one side while he builds the other; Pappy's side is a mess. He falls asleep helping hoist the mast. While Pappy sleeps, Popeye rebuilds his side and finishes the above-decks, with a little help from spinach, of course.
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Popeye Meets William Tell
Title: Popeye Meets William Tell
Character: Popeye / Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 19, 1940
Type: Movie
William Tell shoots an arrow, barely missing Popeye, then tells Popeye that he has just lost his son in an unfortunate arrow incident. Tell then defies the High Governor and is ordered to shoot an apple off his son's head; Popeye stands in for his son.
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Puttin on the Act
Title: Puttin on the Act
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 30, 1940
Type: Movie
Olive rushes over to show Popeye the headline: Vaudeville is coming back. They agree to rehearse their old act. After a brief song-and-dance intro, the act begins: Popeye demonstrating his strength while Olive displays her flexibility and balance; impersonations of Jimmy Durante, Stan Laurel and Groucho Marx; and the last act, more feats of strength and agility.
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You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
Title: You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
Released: August 23, 1940
Type: Movie
Hunky and Spunky are settling in for a nap, but a horse fly sees them and sees dinner. After battling the fly for a while, the youngster enlists dad's help. But the fly is merely stunned, and rallies a new attack, this time with friends. Father eventually kills the lot of them.
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Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
Title: Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 16, 1940
Type: Movie
Popeye has a new car; Olive wants a driving lesson. Things don't go well.
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The Fulla Bluff Man
Title: The Fulla Bluff Man
Character: Salesman / Various (voice)
Released: August 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A persistent door-to-door salesman tries to sell his wares in a gated community that doesn't allow peddlers. He makes a killing selling clubs to a bunch of battling street brawlers.
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Doing Impossikible Stunts
Title: Doing Impossikible Stunts
Character: Popeye / Director (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1940
Type: Movie
Mystery Pictures is looking for a stunt man. Swee'pea tags along with Popeye, but he sends the tot home. Popeye shows clips of his stunts to the director, who is impressed; when he goes to put on the last reel, Swee'pea, who snuck back in, hands him Lost and Foundry (1937), which features Swee'pea saving the day. The director signs Swee'pea.
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Snubbed by a Snob
Title: Snubbed by a Snob
Character: Hunky / Spunky / Stallions / Bull (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 18, 1940
Type: Movie
A young horse says hi to little donkey Spunky. But the horse's mother pulls him away, saying we don't associate with that kind. Spunky makes a few more overtures, and eventually they set off on a chase, running across a bull from time to time. The horse stops to eat a lot of apples and drink far too much water; this leaves him too bloated to move much at all. The two continue to anger the bull, which gives chase; Spunky saves the colt, and they all live in harmony.
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Fightin Pals
Title: Fightin Pals
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Dr. Bluto sails off to Darkest Africa for exploration. Popeye, who stayed behind, hears a radio report that Bluto is lost and sets sail - on a raft - in search of him.
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Nurse-Mates
Title: Nurse-Mates
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1940
Type: Movie
The boys show up simultaneously to take Olive to the movies. She needs to visit the hairdresser first, and tells the boys to take care of Swee'Pea: bath, dress him, and nap. Of course, with these two, nothing is simple.
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Wimmin is a Myskery
Title: Wimmin is a Myskery
Character: Popeye / Pepeye / Pupeye / Pipeye / Peepeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 7, 1940
Type: Movie
When Popeye tells Olive Oyl that he will propose to her the next morning, she has a dream that their four boys will run roughshod over their house.
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Onion Pacific
Title: Onion Pacific
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1940
Type: Movie
The race is on for the state railroad franchise: It's the Onion Pacific - Popeye - against the Sudden Pacific - Bluto. There's a kiss from Olive for the winner!
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A Kick in Time
Title: A Kick in Time
Character: Voices
Released: May 17, 1940
Type: Movie
Spunky is kidnapped and sold at an auction to a cruel Italian peddler. It's up to Hunky to save him.
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Me Feelins is Hurt
Title: Me Feelins is Hurt
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 12, 1940
Type: Movie
Olive sends a farewell letter to Popeye: She's over sailors; it's cowboys for her; she's gone out west, to Bar None Ranch. Popeye immediately travels there to find her - and discovers Bluto runs the place.
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Stealin Aint Honest
Title: Stealin Aint Honest
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Olive has a map that shows the location of her secret gold mine, but while she's showing it to Popeye, claim jumper Bluto photographs it and gets there first.
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Females Is Fickle
Title: Females Is Fickle
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Olive Oyl brings her new pet goldfish onto Popeye's ship, but the fish jumps out of its bowl and into the sea. Olive pressures Popeye to go after it.
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Shakespearian Spinach
Title: Shakespearian Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 19, 1940
Type: Movie
Popeye has replaced Bluto in the Spinach Theatre's production of Romeo and Juliet (Olive, of course), much to Bluto's surprise and dismay. Bluto does what he can to sabotage the production, like cranking up the snow and wind machines, and eventually coming onstage, even though Olive wants no part of him.
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Gulliver's Travels
Title: Gulliver's Travels
Character: King Little (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally-miniscule rival, Blefiscu, as well as smooth the way for the romance between the Princess and Prince of the opposing lands. In this he is alternately aided and hampered by the Lilliputian town crier and general fussbudget, Gabby. A life-threatening situation develops when the bumbling trio of Blefiscu spies, Sneak, Snoop, and Snitch, manage to steal Gulliver's pistol.
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Never Sock a Baby
Title: Never Sock a Baby
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Popeye spanks Swee'pea and sends him to bed without supper. He wrestles with his conscience over this, while Swee'pea packs a bundle and runs away from home. They apparently live in the wilderness, since Swee'pea crosses a rope bridge that collapses, narrowly misses a landslide, and is soon on a narrow mountain path. Popeye finds him and rescues him from a waterfall but his spinach can is empty. Fortunately, this was all a bad dream from Popeye's conscience.
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It's the Natural Thing to Do
Title: It's the Natural Thing to Do
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 30, 1939
Type: Movie
Popeye's fan club sends a telegram asking them to tone down the violence and act civilized. So everyone dresses up and acts formal - for a while, at least.
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Hello How Am I
Title: Hello How Am I
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Olive invites Popeye over for a hamburger dinner. His roommate Wimpy hears this and disguises himself as Popeye in order to be who enjoys the feast.
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Ghosks is the Bunk
Title: Ghosks is the Bunk
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 14, 1939
Type: Movie
Olive reads a ghost story to Popeye and Bluto. Bluto leaves and rigs a haunted house and lures them to it. But they quickly discover him and, even better, a can of invisible paint.
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Wotta Nitemare
Title: Wotta Nitemare
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1939
Type: Movie
Popeye is having a dream. In it, Bluto interupts his and Olive's flirtations with one another and keeps having the upper hand.
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Leave Well Enough Alone
Title: Leave Well Enough Alone
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Popeye, feeling sorry for the puppies in the window of Olive's pet shop, buys all the animals (mostly dogs) and sets them all free. All except for one bird, who refuses to go, singing the title song to explain why he likes it just fine in the shop. And sure enough, we see the dogs not faring particularly well, and getting rounded up by the dogcatcher and taken to the dog pound.
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Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Title: Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Olive Oyl's screenplay for an Aladdin movie comes to life and Popeye battles for control of a genie in this, the last of the three Popeye color films.
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My Friend the Monkey
Title: My Friend the Monkey
Character: Pudgy / Monkey (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
A hurdy-gurdy man goes by Betty Boop's house; she wants to buy his monkey, which causes plenty of trouble for Pudgy the Pup.
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Customers Wanted
Title: Customers Wanted
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1939
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto are running competing penny arcades, trying to bring in customer Wimpy. Of course, he would gladly pay Tuesday for a penny today. And of course, their competing arcades show clips featuring each of them, with well over half of this short thus recycled.
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Cops Is Always Right
Title: Cops Is Always Right
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Popeye is heading over to see Olive when he hits a traffic island where a cop is directing traffic; when he gets there, he manages to get more tickets for blowing his horn and parking illegally. The cop rings the bell, and Popeye manages to wreck Olive's apartment by dropping what he's doing, each time he writes a ticket.
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A Date to Skate
Title: A Date to Skate
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Popeye takes Olive roller skating in a rink. She's never skated before, so he has to teach her, and she's not a quick learner. Before long Olive ends up outside the rink, rolling wildly out of control.
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Goonland
Title: Goonland
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Popeye sails to Goon Island in search of his Pappy. He finds the place populated by the imposing, but ugly, goons, and a "no humans" sign. His imprisoned pappy at first ignores him, but when Popeye is caught by the goons and carried off, his can of spinach lands near Pappy and it works just as well on him as it does on Popeye.
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Mutiny Ain't Nice
Title: Mutiny Ain't Nice
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Popeye is leaving on his sailing ship, much to Olive's chagrin. She ends up accidentally stowing away in a trunk. Popeye discovers her, but she can't stay, because the crew will think she's a jinx. She tries to hide, but this only scares the crew more, because they think the ship's haunted. When she is revealed, the crew comes after her to throw her off, and then turns on captain Popeye.
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All's Fair at the Fair
Title: All's Fair at the Fair
Character: Elmer (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1938
Type: Movie
A couple goes to the World's Fair.
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Bulldozing the Bull
Title: Bulldozing the Bull
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1938
Type: Movie
Popeye visits the bullfight only because of lovely Senorita Olive. He finds himself accidentally in the toreador box, even though he doesn't want to fight because it's cruelty to animals. Popeye rides the bull like a bronco, then gets tossed around a bit. The bull plants Popeye in the ground and attacks; the crowd turns on Popeye. Olive comes down to help and the bull chases her. The crowd throws vegetables at Popeye, including (fortunately) spinach.
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Pudgy the Watchman
Title: Pudgy the Watchman
Character: Al E. Katt
Released: August 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Betty Boop hires a feline professional "Mouse Eradicator" to take over from Pudgy the Pup who makes friends with mice.
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The Jeep
Title: The Jeep
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1938
Type: Movie
Popeye brings his magical dog, The Jeep, over to see Olive and Swee'pea, just as the tyke has escaped from his crib. The Jeep leads Popeye on a merry chase looking for Swee'pea.
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Hunky and Spunky
Title: Hunky and Spunky
Character: Hunky / Spunky (voice)
Released: June 24, 1938
Type: Movie
A short film about a mother and her son, she teaches him life skills later on the son gets niked by a man so the young donkey can be his work slave and his mother saves him. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with the UCLA Film and Television Archive in 2013.
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Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
Title: Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Olive has a small leak in a pipe; she makes the mistake of calling Wimpy to fix it, and the even bigger mistake of asking Popeye to help her do something until Wimpy can arrive. Meanwhile, Wimpy keeps realizing he's forgotten his tools, his gloves, etc. and going back. Popeye finally eats his spinach and manages some fixes to the system.
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I Yam Love Sick
Title: I Yam Love Sick
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Olive is reading a romance novel and munching on a gift box of candy from Bluto when Popeye drops by. She's too absorbed to notice him, so he feigns illness. The doctors are at a loss for a cure.
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Hold It!
Title: Hold It!
Character: Cats (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1938
Type: Movie
When the lights of the city go dim, all of the kitties are let outdoors to prowl. Holding a meeting, they come up with a plan to rid themselves of a neighboring dog. The cats proceed to torment him, chase him with a water hose, and try feeding him.
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Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
Title: Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh is looking for a squaw. Meanwhile, Popeye and Olive are wrestling with their recalcitrant mule and Olive accidentally lands in the Indian camp. Popeye catches up to her. There's an unfair fight, and Popeye is about to be burned at the stake. He drops his spinach, but it cooks and pops into his mouth.
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The House Builder-Upper
Title: The House Builder-Upper
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1938
Type: Movie
When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build her a new house.
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The Tears of an Onion
Title: The Tears of an Onion
Character: Caterpillar / Onion (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1938
Type: Movie
It's harvesting season, so all the fruits and vegetables come out to play.
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Be Up to Date
Title: Be Up to Date
Character: Hillbillies
Released: February 25, 1938
Type: Movie
Betty Boop's Traveling Department Store comes to Hillbillyville; the mountain folks find old uses for the new gadgets.
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Learn Polikeness
Title: Learn Polikeness
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1938
Type: Movie
Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.
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Riding the Rails
Title: Riding the Rails
Character: Train Conductor
Released: January 27, 1938
Type: Movie
Betty Boop goes to work on the subway (Trample 'Em R.R. Co.); Pudgy the Pup follows her and gets more ride than he bargained for.
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Let's Celebrake
Title: Let's Celebrake
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy.
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Zula Hula
Title: Zula Hula
Character: Grampy
Released: December 23, 1937
Type: Movie
Disabled in a thunderstorm, Betty Boop and Grampy's plane lands on a tropic island where Grampy soon re-invents the comforts of home... until hostile, racially-stereotyped natives intrude.
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Fowl Play
Title: Fowl Play
Character: Popeye / Polly Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it.
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Title: Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves.
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The Foxy Hunter
Title: The Foxy Hunter
Character: Rabbit
Released: November 25, 1937
Type: Movie
Junior and Pudgy slip away from Betty Boop's care to go hunting with a pop-gun.
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Protek the Weakerist
Title: Protek the Weakerist
Character: Popeye
Released: November 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Olive asks Popeye to walk her dog Fluffy, but Popeye is embarrassed because Fluffy is as weak looking as the name implies. Sure enough, when Bluto and his bulldog come by, the dogs (and their owners) get in a fight.
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The New Deal Show
Title: The New Deal Show
Character: Rover / Chicken / Cat / Pigs (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 21, 1937
Type: Movie
Betty Boop emcees a show of pet-aid gadgets. Object: a "new deal for pets." Some ideas copied from Betty Boop's Crazy Inventions (1933).
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The Football Toucher Downer
Title: The Football Toucher Downer
Character: Popeye / Young Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Swee-Pea is reluctant to eat his spinach, so Popeye tells him about the football game when he was young (against Bluto, with Olive cheering and Wimpy keeping score) and also reluctant to eat his spinach.
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Service with a Smile
Title: Service with a Smile
Character: Grampy
Released: September 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Betty Boop is desk clerk at the Hi-De-Ho-Tel ("Food Served with Every Meal") where the guests have many legitimate complaints. Fortunately, Grampy's inventions fix everything.
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I Likes Babies and Infinks
Title: I Likes Babies and Infinks
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics.
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I Never Changes My Altitude
Title: I Never Changes My Altitude
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Popeye is sitting outside Olive's lunchroom at the airport, distraught. She's closed the business to fly away with an aviator (Bluto, of course). But it's hardly what she expected; he has her painting his plane, while it's flying; when she says she's rather go back to Popeye, he tries to throw her off the plane. Popeye sees this, and takes off in a plane, just in time to help her out. The boys get into a dogfight, and Bluto manages to demolish Popeye's plane.
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Lost and Foundry
Title: Lost and Foundry
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Popeye, an employee at Useless Machine Works, is on his lunch break when Olive stops by and Swee'Pea crawls into the factory. He narrowly misses several horrible fates while Popeye tries to save him and gets into much worse trouble.
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The Impractical Joker
Title: The Impractical Joker
Character: Cousin Irving (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical joking cousin Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?
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Morning, Noon and Night Club
Title: Morning, Noon and Night Club
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act.
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The Twisker Pitcher
Title: The Twisker Pitcher
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 20, 1937
Type: Movie
Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on.
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Pudgy Picks a Fight
Title: Pudgy Picks a Fight
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Betty Boop is so delighted with her new fox fur that Pudgy the Pup grows jealous, then thinks he's killed it...
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Chicken a la King
Title: Chicken a la King
Character: Ducky Wucky / Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A rooster sultan is bored by his harems. A duck strongly resembling Mae West entices him. Her lover arrives, and they do battle; the lovers leave, and the sultan, humiliated, turns to his harem, who beat him up.
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Hospitaliky
Title: Hospitaliky
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 15, 1937
Type: Movie
To get at nurse Olive, Popeye and Bluto fake various illnesses. Olive sees through this and tells them they need to be either very sick or hurt real bad, so they try to get hurt, but both have a sudden run of what would normally be very good luck. Out of desperation, Popeye feeds Bluto the spinach when they start fighting.
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My Artistical Temperature
Title: My Artistical Temperature
Character: Popeye
Released: March 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Popeye and Bluto share an art studio; Popeye is a sculptor, and Bluto paints. Olive drops in for a likeness, and the boys compete. When they start to fight, Olive starts to leave, but Popeye convinces her to stay when he eats his spinach and vanquishes Bluto.
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The Hot Air Salesman
Title: The Hot Air Salesman
Character: Wiffle Piffle (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A door to door salesman visits Betty Boop's home with a long line of useless household gadgets.
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Organ Grinder's Swing
Title: Organ Grinder's Swing
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are grooving to the sounds of Wimpy the organ grinder, but their neighbor Bluto wants him to move on. Popeye and Bluto settle their disagreement in their usual fashion.
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Bunny Mooning
Title: Bunny Mooning
Character: Chicken / Peacock (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1937
Type: Movie
Jack and Jill Rabbit get hitched in this classic Fleischer Studios cartoon (made a year before Bugs Bunny hit the scene).
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The Paneless Window Washer
Title: The Paneless Window Washer
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on.
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I'm in the Army Now
Title: I'm in the Army Now
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them.
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Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Title: Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Character: Professor Grampy (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 4, 1936
Type: Movie
At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received used defective toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.
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Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Title: Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1936
Type: Movie
Two sailors Sindbad and Popeye decide to test themselves in order to prove their supremacy. Popeye is then presented with a series of daunting tasks by Sindbad.
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The Spinach Roadster
Title: The Spinach Roadster
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt.
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Be Human
Title: Be Human
Character: Horse / Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson.
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Hold the Wire
Title: Hold the Wire
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Popeye is wooing Olive on the phone when Bluto comes over. He overhears, taps into the line, and impersonates Popeye. They proceed to have a high-wire fight on the telephone lines outside Olive's house.
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Play Safe
Title: Play Safe
Character: Red Train (voice) (uncredited)
Released: October 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A young boy obsessed with trains sneaks out to play with the real trains that run just a few feet from the fence around his house. When he falls off of one and is knocked unconscious, he has a dream.
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Little Swee'pea
Title: Little Swee'pea
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1936
Type: Movie
Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals.
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Never Kick a Woman
Title: Never Kick a Woman
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Popeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him.
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Happy You and Merry Me
Title: Happy You and Merry Me
Character: Myron the Kitten / Myron's Mama / Druggist (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
A stray kitten wanders into Betty Boop's house, gets sick on candy, and is cured with catnip by Betty and Pudgy the pup.
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Little Boy Blue
Title: Little Boy Blue
Character: Scarecrow (voice)
Released: July 30, 1936
Type: Movie
The Big Bad Wolf stalks Little Bo Peep and steals one of her sheep. She enlists Little Boy Blue and a dancing scarecrow to assist her and her mischievous black sheep in rescuing it. Singing, dancing, hilarity and impalement ensue.
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Let's Get Movin'
Title: Let's Get Movin'
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up.
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You're Not Built That Way
Title: You're Not Built That Way
Character: Butcher (voice) (uncredited)
Released: July 17, 1936
Type: Movie
Pudgy the pup tries to emulate a tough bulldog, but Betty Boop sings him the error of his ways.
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I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Title: I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
Popeye applies for a lifeguard job when he sees Olive in the pool, but Bluto also wants the job (and Olive). The manager, Wimpy, asks them to demonstrate their skills in a contest. Popeye does well, until Bluto demonstrates lifesaving and first aid on him.
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The Cobweb Hotel
Title: The Cobweb Hotel
Character: Spider (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A spider runs a hotel for flies where he keeps his guests captive. A pair of fly newlyweds arrive and check in. Fortunately, the husband is "flyweight champion". After a pitched battle featuring arrows (fountain pen nibs) and a machine-gun (aspirins shot from a perfume atomizer), the spider winds up in a bottle of library paste.
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What -- No Spinach?
Title: What -- No Spinach?
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 7, 1936
Type: Movie
Wimpy is working for Bluto in his diner and trying to filch all the food he can eat. Popeye comes in and orders roast duck, but Wimpy grabs the drumsticks, then coats it with pepper sauce. Popeye walks out in anger and Bluto comes after him. Wimpy takes advantage of the resulting battle to load up on hamburgers.
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Bridge Ahoy!
Title: Bridge Ahoy!
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Popeye and Olive are taking a ferry run by Bluto. When they find out the fare, they decide, with Wimpy, to build a bridge. Bluto does what he can to sabotage this plan - until spinach time, of course.
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We Did It
Title: We Did It
Character: Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 24, 1936
Type: Movie
While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the pup take the blame as usual?
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I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Title: I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way.
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Brotherly Love
Title: Brotherly Love
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Olive preaches the need for brotherly love on the radio. Popeye, hearing this, does a number of good deeds: helping two workmen raise a safe, straightening a wrecked car, and helping two boys sneak into a baseball game. But when he tries to break up a fight, it's more than he can handle alone. Olive and her followers come along and try to help, but it's too much for them, too. Of course, once Popeye has his spinach...
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A Clean Shaven Man
Title: A Clean Shaven Man
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1936
Type: Movie
That's what Olive wants. To even the score, the boys visit Wimpy's barber shop. Wimpy is out, so they shave each other; you'd think Popeye would know better than to let Bluto at him with a razor.
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Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Title: Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
Popeye is running a women's gymnasium next door to Bluto's cabaret. Seeing Popeye's greater success with women, Bluto dresses in drag and challenges Popeye to various feats of strength.
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The Spinach Overture
Title: The Spinach Overture
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 7, 1935
Type: Movie
Popeye's ensemble is rehearsing the opening of the Poet and Peasant Overture (with interpolations of the Popeye theme and "I've Been Working on the Railroad"). Maestro Bluto drops in from next door to conduct and play violin and show Popeye up. Popeye plays horribly until he unlocks the previously unexplored artistic benefits of spinach.
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Adventures of Popeye
Title: Adventures of Popeye
Character: Popeye
Released: October 24, 1935
Type: Movie
In live action, a big kid is attacking a little kid for his "Adventures of Popeye" comic book, so Popeye gives the little kid pointers, in the form of clips from four of his earlier pictures.
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King of the Mardi Gras
Title: King of the Mardi Gras
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
A Mardi Gras celebration, looking pretty much like any carnival. Bluto is a strongman, claiming to be King of the Mardi Gras, and drawing a large crowd. Popeye, nearby, claims only, "I yam what I yam," and has no crowd, but still draws Bluto's wrath.
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Judge for a Day
Title: Judge for a Day
Character: Male Voices (voice) (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Betty Boop, annoyed by 'public pests' like backslappers, gum parkers, and mud splashers, imagines what she'd do to them if she were a judge.
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Dancing on the Moon
Title: Dancing on the Moon
Character: Various (voice, uncredited)
Released: July 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery.
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No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
Title: No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
Character: Moustachioed Villain (voice)
Released: May 23, 1935
Type: Movie
Betty Boop and Freddie appear on stage in a melodrama, wherein Betty sings the title song to the villain.
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Mary's Little Lamb
Title: Mary's Little Lamb
Character: Lamb / Little Elmer (voice)
Released: May 1, 1935
Type: Movie
An animated version of the children's story.
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Poor Cinderella
Title: Poor Cinderella
Character: Various (voice) (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1934
Type: Movie
In the only Betty Boop color cartoon, Cinderella (Betty) goes to the ball thanks to her fairy godmother. Later, only her foot fits the glass slipper.
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Betty Boop's Trial
Title: Betty Boop's Trial
Character: Judge
Released: June 14, 1934
Type: Movie
A traffic cop tries to make time with Betty; she speeds to get away, is arrested, and undergoes a musical trial.
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I Like Mountain Music
Title: I Like Mountain Music
Character: Will Rogers / Various (voice) (uncredited)
Released: June 10, 1933
Type: Movie
After hours, individuals on various magazine covers in a drugstore come to life and sing, speak, or perform. Caricature celebrity depictions include George Arliss, Eddie Cantor, Sonja Henie, Benito Mussolini, Ignacy Paderewski, Edward G. Robinson, Will Rogers, and Ed Wynn. A robbery sequence features bad guys breaking into the cash register and Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson on the case. King Kong also makes an appearance. A Merrie Melody cartoon.
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Betty Boop's Penthouse
Title: Betty Boop's Penthouse
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster.
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Three's a Crowd
Title: Three's a Crowd
Character: Uncle Tom / Various (voice) (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1932
Type: Movie
An old man is reading a book by the fire. The clock strikes 8, and he heads off to bed. From his book, Alice in Wonderland, out crawls Alice, who turns the radio to the title tune. This wakes up Rip Van Winkle; Alice then rouses the Three Musketeers, who sing a bit. Next tune: Nero fiddles, Rome burns, and Cleopatra sizzles in a slinky dance. Uncle Tom sings a spiritual as Mr. Hyde sneaks up and abducts Alice. Tarzan to the rescue, along with several other characters who mount a spirited attack using such office supplies as pen points, matches, and a fountain pen. They box him up and carry him off.
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**delite**
Title: **delite**
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
31 Remastered, Uncut Classics: Well, Blow Me Down! "Oh, boy!" Popeye says when he and Olive Oyl embark on a quest for hidden gold. "We´ll be wealthy millionaires - and rich, too!" Vol. 2 of the mighty mariner´s spinach-fortified exploits offers riches aplenty: 31 original, remastered and uncut cartoons plus a sea chest of sparkling extras. Lanky goy! Olive Oyl is here, dreaming of sailing matrimonial seas with the old salt (and frenetically coping with Popeye´s nephews Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye). Bluto, in a rage of theatrical hambition, rivals Popeye for the lead in Romeo and Juliet. Wimpy navigates his way ´round a burger or two. And the young (Swee´pea) and young-at-heart (Poopdeck Pappy) are here too. Enjoy them all, you wealthy millionaires, you.