Jack Mercer
Birthday: Born in 1910-01-31 in Worthington, Indiana, USA
Deathday: 1984-12-07
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
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Popeye the Sailor
Character: Popeye (voice)
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....
The All-New Popeye Hour
Character: Popeye / Poopdeck Pappy
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....
Felix the Cat
Character: Felix / The Professor / Rock Bottom
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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Alpine for You
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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...
Big Bad Sindbad
Character: Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Punch and Judo
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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 ...
The Farmer and the Belle
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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 Po...
Popeye, the Ace of Space
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Olive Oyl for President
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Tired of political rhetoric, Olive lays out her platform....
Swimmer Take All
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Firemen's Brawl
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are manning a fire station when the alarm comes in: it's Olive's house....
Wigwam Whoopee
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock....
Play Safe
Character: Red Train (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Dizzy Dinosaurs
Character: Caveboy / Worm / Salesman / Caveman
The cavemen go to the Paramountain Theater....
Mr. Bug Goes to Town
Character: Mr. Bumble (voice)
The happy tranquility of Bugville is shattered when the populace learns that a colossal skyscraper is to be built over their tiny town....
Strolling Thru the Park
Character: Bandmaster / Man (voice)
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."...
Tweet Music
Character: Hoot Owl / Scotch Owl / Night Owl / Duck
Singalong with spot gags about birds....
Miners Forty Niners
Character: Native American / Miner / Jerry Colonna
Singalong about the discovery of gold in California....
Stork Raving Mad
Character: Stork / Dispatcher Stork / Father
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....
Child Sockology
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Beaus Will Be Beaus
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto both show up to take Olive to the beach. Olive agrees, but only on the condition they promise to stop fighting......
Tots of Fun
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Quick on the Vigor
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popalong Popeye
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Friend or Phony
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
To convince Popeye to throw away his spinach, Bluto fakes his death, after showing clips of "spinach moments" from a couple earlier shows....
How Green Is My Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
To finally defeat Popeye, Bluto sets out to destroy the spinach crop....
Vacation with Play
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Snow Place Like Home
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Lunch with a Punch
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Let's Stalk Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Thrill of Fair
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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)....
Popeye Makes a Movie
Character: Popeye / Nephews / Director (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye's Pappy
Character: Popeye / Pappy / Popeye's Mama / Native (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye meets up with his mom, who thinks that his long-lost Poopdeck Pappy is stranded on a tropical island....
Gym Jam
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Jitterbug Jive
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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 i...
Barking Dogs Don't Fite
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Beach Peach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye and the Giant
Character: Popeye (voice)
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 hamburge...
Popeye's Pizza Palace
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice)
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 dou...
Mess Production
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Barbecue for Two
Character: Popeye
Popeye wants to have a barbecue for two -- namely him and Olive. But Brutus, Wimpy and Swee' Pea all try to muscle in....
Flies Ain't Human
Character: Popeye / Fly (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye Presents Eugene, the Jeep
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Impractical Joker
Character: Cousin Irving (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop's baking is interrupted by her obnoxious practical joking cousin Irving. Can Grampy out-joke the joker?...
Nurse-Mates
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Marry-Go-Round
Character: Popeye / Shorty (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye wants to propose to Olive, but can't work up the nerve. His fellow sailor, Shorty, helps him....
Superman
Character: The Mad Scientist (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Tops in the Big Top
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Quack-a Doodle-Doo
Character: The Fox (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Spinach Packin' Popeye
Character: Popeye (voice)
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....
I Don't Scare
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Bluto sabotages Popeye's date with the superstitious Olive Oyl on Friday the 13th....
Terror on the Midway
Character: Sideshow Barker (voice) (uncredited)
When things go wrong at the circus, it's up to Superman to stop the escaped animals....
Be Human
Character: Horse / Pig (voice) (uncredited)
Betty Boop is incensed at her farmer neighbor's cruelty to his animals. Grampy knows how to teach him a lesson....
Showdown
Character: Office Boy / Fake Superman (voice) (uncredited)
Superman's reputation is tarnished when a crook begins committing crimes in a Superman costume....
Destruction Inc.
Character: Radio Newscaster / Louis (voice) (uncredited)
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!...
Eleventh Hour
Character: Japanese Guard / Japanese Official / American Reporter (voice) (uncredited)
Using Clark Kent as a cover, Superman travels to Japan as a saboteur during the war....
Jungle Drums
Character: Lieutenant Fleming / Pilot #1 (voice) (uncredited)
Superman discovers a secret Nazi base in the jungle....
I Like Mountain Music
Character: Will Rogers / Various (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Secret Agent
Character: Perry White / Saboteur (voice) (uncredited)
A double agent trying to deliver information to Washington, D.C. is chased by Nazi operatives....
Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice)
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...
A-Haunting We Will Go
Character: Turtle / Hunter (voice) (uncredited)
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....
A Kick in Time
Character: Voices
Spunky is kidnapped and sold at an auction to a cruel Italian peddler. It's up to Hunky to save him....
Assault and Flattery
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
A Haul in One
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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, t...
The Paneless Window Washer
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Floor Flusher
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
You're Not Built That Way
Character: Butcher (voice) (uncredited)
Pudgy the pup tries to emulate a tough bulldog, but Betty Boop sings him the error of his ways....
Pudgy Picks a Fight
Character:
Betty Boop is so delighted with her new fox fur that Pudgy the Pup grows jealous, then thinks he's killed it......
The Foxy Hunter
Character: Rabbit
Junior and Pudgy slip away from Betty Boop's care to go hunting with a pop-gun....
Cookin' with Gags
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Insect to Injury
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye has just finished his house when a band of termites attacks....
Patriotic Popeye
Character: Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
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)....
Spree Lunch
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
A Job for a Gob
Character: Popeye (voice)
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....
Dumbo
Character: Clowns (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Penny Antics
Character: Popeye / Radio Announcer (voice)
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....
All's Fair at the Fair
Character: Elmer (voice) (uncredited)
A couple goes to the World's Fair....
Clown on the Farm
Character: Ducklings (voice)
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....
No! No! A Thousand Times No!!
Character: Moustachioed Villain (voice)
Betty Boop and Freddie appear on stage in a melodrama, wherein Betty sings the title song to the villain....
Private Eye Popeye
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye's Service Station
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Deep Boo Sea
Character: Octopus / Turtle / Billy's Brother / Whale (uncredited)
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....
To Boo or Not to Boo
Character: Little Boy / Donkey / Square Dance Caller (voice) (uncredited)
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"....
Ghost of the Town
Character: Ghosts / Taxi-Driver / Kids / Townsmen (uncredited)
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....
Frightday the 13th
Character: Ghosts / Pet Shop Man / Mr. Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Gulliver's Travels
Character: King Little (voice) (uncredited)
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....
I Yam Love Sick
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Jeep
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
What -- No Spinach?
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Bridge Ahoy!
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
A Clean Shaven Man
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Brotherly Love
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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......
I Wanna Be a Life Guard
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Seapreme Court
Character: Various Fish (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Let's Get Movin'
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Pest Pupil
Character: Tutor / Duckling (voice)
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....
Never Kick a Woman
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye teaches Olive the art of self-defense, which comes in handy when a woman boxer flirts with him....
Hold the Wire
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Little Swee'pea
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Swee'pea to the zoo and spends most of his time rescuing the tot from the various animals....
The Spinach Roadster
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye drives up to take Olive for a ride, but Bluto in his much fancier car does what he can to spoil their jaunt....
I'm in the Army Now
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Spinach vs Hamburgers
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day....
Baby Wants a Battle
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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...
Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an' Peep-eye
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Anvil Chorus Girl
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Silly Hillbilly
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Betty Boop's Penthouse
Character:
While Bimbo and Koko admire Betty, their experiment becomes a monster....
Organ Grinder's Swing
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Nix on Hypnotricks
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Moving Aweigh
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Shorty help Olive move. Unfortunately, they start by running into a police car, and keep running afoul of the officer....
Pop-Pie a la Mode
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, adrift at sea on a raft, eventually comes to an island which, it turns out, is inhabited by cannibals....
Swab the Duck
Character: Ducklings
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....
Git Along Lil' Duckie
Character: Ducklings
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....
Problem Pappy
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Bulldozing the Bull
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Base Brawl
Character: (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye's Mirthday
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye's 20th Anniversary
Character: Popeye / Bob Hope / Jerry Lewis / Audience Members (uncredited)
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')....
Taxi-Turvy
Character: Popeye / Old Man (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular....
Toreadorable
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive are at a bullfight selling snacks. When toreador Bluto throws the bull, Olive falls for him....
Operation Ice-Tickle
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Boo Moon
Character: Moon People
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....
3-D Rarities
Character: Moon People (archive footage)
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 controvers...
Mister and Mistletoe
Character: Popeye / Pipeye / Pupeye / Poopeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Betty Boop's Trial
Character: Judge
A traffic cop tries to make time with Betty; she speeds to get away, is arrested, and undergoes a musical trial....
Chicken a la King
Character: Ducky Wucky / Chickens (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Vim, Vigor and Vitaliky
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
King of the Mardi Gras
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Spinach Overture
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Adventures of Popeye
Character: Popeye (voice)
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....
Service with a Smile
Character: Grampy
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....
My Artistical Temperature
Character: Popeye
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....
The Twisker Pitcher
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Baseball: Bluto's Bears vs. Popeye's Pirates, and both Bluto and Popeye have girlfriends cheering them on....
Shuteye Popeye
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back....
Quiet! Pleeze
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Hospitaliky
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Mutiny Ain't Nice
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Nearlyweds
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Riot in Rhythm
Character: Popeye / Popeye's Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
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...
Spooky Swabs
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Olive board a run-down ship, which turns out to be haunted....
Hill-billing and Cooing
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Red White and Boo
Character: Paul Revere / Horse / Soldiers (voice) (uncredited)
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 be...
Pudgy the Watchman
Character: Al E. Katt
Betty Boop hires a feline professional "Mouse Eradicator" to take over from Pudgy the Pup who makes friends with mice....
The New Deal Show
Character: Rover / Chicken / Cat / Pigs (voice) (uncredited)
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)....
Ghosks Is the Bunk
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue
Character: Popeye
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....
A Jolly Good Furlough
Character: Popeye
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....
Alona on the Sarong Seas
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Olive's $weep$take Ticket
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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!...
On with the New
Character: Telegram Guy (voice) (uncredited)
Overworked as cook and dishwasher at a busy diner, Betty Boop calls it quits and accepts a job as nursery attendant at Bundle From Heaven Nursery....
Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle
Character: Popeye / Rip Van Winkle / Dwarves (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Pest Pilot
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye runs a small airport, and Pappy wants to be a pilot....
Ancient Fistory
Character: Popeye / Fairy Godfather / Announcer / Bull (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Poopdeck Pappy
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's elderly father, Pappy, wants to go out at night. Popeye wants him to sleep....
Females Is Fickle
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
W'ere on our way to Rio
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Actually, Popeye and Bluto are already there. They visit a nightclub, where the featured singer/dancer is, of course, Olive Oyl....
Three's a Crowd
Character: Uncle Tom / Various (voice) (uncredited)
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 ...
Baby Wants a Bottleship
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Snubbed by a Snob
Character: Hunky / Spunky / Stallions / Bull (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Riding the Rails
Character: Train Conductor
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....
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye the Sailor, accompanied by Olive Oyl and Wimpy, is dispatched to stop the dreaded bandit Abu Hassan and his force of forty thieves....
Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Gabby Goes Fishing
Character: Fish (voice)
Gabby teaches a young boy how to fish, even though the boy was doing much better without him....
Swing Cleaning
Character: King Little / Castle Workers (voice) (uncredited)
Gabby is a servant in a castle and is required to do a little housework....
The Friendly Ghost
Character: Ghost / Rooster (voice) (uncredited)
Casper struggles to find friends who won't run away scared when they meet him....
It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day
Character: Mayor (voice)
Gabby goes camping with the Mayor....
Stealin Aint Honest
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Poor Cinderella
Character: Various (voice) (uncredited)
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....
I Likes Babies and Infinks
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Swee'pea is crying, so Olive calls on Popeye to cheer the baby up. Popeye and Bluto compete by doing various silly antics....
Leave Well Enough Alone
Character: Popeye / Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye, feeling sorry for the puppies in the window of Olive Oyl's pet shop, buys all the animals (mostly dogs) and sets them free. A parrot declines to go, singing the title song to explain why it likes it just fine in the shop. Meanwhile, the freed dogs are not faring well....
Ants in the Plants
Character: Ants (voice)
A classic about an anteater who makes life rough for a colony of ants. In the ant community, the queen spreads warnings of their greatest enemy, the Anteater. "He's a menace, he's a brute, he will scoop you with his snoot." Their motto is "make him yell uncle," which they do when the anteater invades them....
Boos in the Nite
Character: Ghosts
It's Halloween Eve and the Ghost are all preparing for their night out of scares, which turns into a sing-a-long of "Pack Up Your Troubles"....
Dutch Treat
Character: Scared Lion / Scared Fisherman (voice) (uncredited)
Casper, the always friendly and friend-seeking ghost, is in Holland where little Hans is a willing playmate as he does his chores....
Popeye's Travels
Character: Popeye
Popeye's journey in this short is based upon the Lilliputian adventure from the classic novel Gulliver's Travels....
Tiger Burger
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Wimpy are in India where the natives are terrified of a man-eating tiger....
The Fresh Vegetable Mystery
Character: Irish Potato Cop / Snoring Onions (voice) (uncredited)
Crime strikes the vegetable world when Mrs. Mama Carrot awakens and finds her children have been carrot-napped. She summons the Irish-Potato Police and they are soon on the trail of the culprit. But the various suspects they round up, and grill, aren't the criminals. They finally track down the guilty parties, who turn out to be a gang of mice in disguise. Thrown into a third-degree mousetrap, the mice soon confess. Bleeding Heart Warning: This cartoon contains racial stereotypes (an Irish potat...
Casper Takes a Bow-Wow
Character: Ghosts / Little Boys / Pal / Dog Catcher (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Fiddle-Faddle
Character: Professor Schmaltz (voice) (uncredited)
Professor Schmaltz sets out to prove his theory about music's soothing abilities throughout Africa....
Spooking About Africa
Character: Peacock / Monkeys (voice)
Casper is in an African jungle. He frightens a zebra at a watering hole. Wheezy the elephant has a terrible sneezing problem; he sneezes all the feathers off a peacock and a group of monkeys out of their perches. Casper decides to help, and in the process dislodges the feather that was making the elephant sneeze. But then a fire breaks out, and the elephant is unable to sneeze on command....
I Never Changes My Altitude
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Let's Celebrake
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto pick up Olive to celebrate New Year's Eve with them. Popeye brings along her granny out of sympathy....
Learn Polikeness
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners....
Customers Wanted
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Fowl Play
Character: Popeye / Polly Parrot (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye gives Olive a parrot that he's trained. Bluto sets the bird free and then tries to kill it....
Me Feelins is Hurt
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Never Sock a Baby
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Wood-Peckin'
Character: Popeye / Woodpecker / Pelican (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye needs a new mast, so he starts to cut down a tall tree - but a woodpecker living in that tree has other ideas....
The Hungry Goat
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Ration Fer the Duration
Character: Popeye
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 ratio...
Me Musical Nephews
Character: Popeye / Pip-eye / Pup-eye / Poop-eye / Peep-eye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Happy Birthdaze
Character: Popeye / Olive's Neighbor (voice) (uncredited)
It's Popeye's birthday, and Olive Oyl invites him over and bakes him a cake. Popeye invites depressed shipmate Shorty to join them....
Cartoons Ain't Human
Character: Popeye / Nephews / Villain (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Football Toucher Downer
Character: Popeye / Young Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Zula Hula
Character: Grampy
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....
Shakespearian Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Saved by the Bell
Character: Mice (voice) (uncredited)
Herman the mouse installs a bell on a cat to help his mice friends....
Spinach Fer Britain
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye delivers his precious and needed cargo of spinach to Britain, despite the efforts of a Nazi submarine to sink his ship....
Be Up to Date
Character: Hillbillies
Betty Boop's Traveling Department Store comes to Hillbillyville; the mountain folks find old uses for the new gadgets....
It's the Natural Thing to Do
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
You're a Sap, Mr. Jap
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Spinach turns Popeye into a one-man US Navy during a World War II battle against the Allies' adversaries....
Goonland
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Cops Is Always Right
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Protek the Weakerist
Character: Popeye
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....
Onion Pacific
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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!...
Scrap the Japs
Character: Popeye (voice)
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....
Fightin Pals
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
A Hull of a Mess
Character: Popeye
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 s...
Child Psykolojiky
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
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 en...
Bopin' Hood
Character: Bopin' Hood 'The Cat' / King / Guards (uncredited)
A trumpet-playing cat and his jazz band invade Ye Olde Squaresville, a kingdom that has outlawed all but the squarest music....
Crazytown
Character: House Builder (voice) (uncredited)
The story of a town where everything is topsy-turvy....
Fright to the Finish
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
All's Fair at the Fair
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
My Friend the Monkey
Character: Pudgy / Monkey (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Fleets of Stren'th
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
When enemy planes attack the battleship he's serving on, Popeye fights back....
The Mighty Navy
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Too Weak to Work
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Hold It!
Character: Cats (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Bride and Gloom
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Pilgrim Popeye
Character: Popeye / Nephews / Turkey (voice) (uncredited)
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 ca...
Out to Punch
Character: Popeye / Boxing Announcer / Counter (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye Meets Hercules
Character: Popeye/Freshman/Announcer (voice)
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. Thi...
Gopher Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye for President
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
She-Sick Sailors
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Parlez Vous Woo
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye takes Olive mountain climbing. Bluto sets various traps for them along the way....
Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Greek Mirthology
Character: Popeye / Nephews (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach, so he tells them about how Hercules (Popeye) defeated a bully (Bluto)....
Christmas Comes But Once a Year
Character: Professor Grampy (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Hooky Spooky
Character: Spooky / Kangaroo (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Puppet Love
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Penguin for Your Thoughts
Character: Mr. Penguin
After startling a stork who drops his package, Casper the Friendly Ghost delivers a baby penguin to its parents at the South Pole....
Boo Scout
Character: Billy's Brother / Ghosts (voice)
Casper the Friendly Ghost befriends a Boy Scout....
The Cobweb Hotel
Character: Spider (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Her Honor, the Mare
Character: Popeye (voice)
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 sittin...
The House Builder-Upper
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build her a new house....
Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye
Character: Popeye - Animated Prologue (voice)
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....
A Date to Skate
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Santa's Surprise
Character: Russian Boy / Dutch Boy / Vocal Effects - Snoring (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Gift of Gag
Character: Popeye / Pip-eye / Pup-eye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye's nephews try to sneak a birthday present for their Uncle Popeye into his house....
Wotta Nitemare
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye is having a dream. In it, Bluto interupts his and Olive's flirtations with one another and keeps having the upper hand....
Hello How Am I
Character: Popeye / Wimpy (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Casper Comes to Clown
Character: Ghosts / Owl / Brownie Bear / Gorilla (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Wimmin is a Myskery
Character: Popeye / Pepeye / Pupeye / Pipeye / Peepeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Doing Impossikible Stunts
Character: Popeye / Director (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Bunny Mooning
Character: Chicken / Peacock (voice) (uncredited)
Jack and Jill Rabbit get hitched in this classic Fleischer Studios cartoon (made a year before Bugs Bunny hit the scene)....
Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye has a new car; Olive wants a driving lesson. Things don't go well....
Puttin on the Act
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye Meets William Tell
Character: Popeye / Announcer (voice) (uncredited)
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....
My Pop, My Pop
Character: Popeye / Pappy (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Line of Screammage
Character: Chicken / Cheering Boy / Neighborhood Kid (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Japoteurs
Character: Press Tour Guide (voice) (uncredited)
Superman vs. Japanese spies hijacking a new super-bomber....
Dancing on the Moon
Character: Various (voice, uncredited)
Honeymooning couples of various animal species take a rocket ship excursion to the moon. Spectacular lunar scenery....
You Can't Shoe a Horse Fly
Character:
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....
Olive's Boithday Presink
Character: Popeye / Geezil (voice) (uncredited)
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....
I'll Never Crow Again
Character: Popeye / Crow (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Kickin' the Conga Round
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Blunder Below
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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?...
Vitamin Hay
Character: Hunky / Spunky (voice)
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....
Little Boy Blue
Character: Scarecrow (voice)
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....
Mary's Little Lamb
Character: Lamb / Little Elmer (voice)
An animated version of the children's story....
Hunky and Spunky
Character: Hunky / Spunky (voice)
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....
The Crystal Brawl
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Olive Oyl and Water Don't Mix
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Fit to Be Toyed
Character: Dr. Dumbkopf / J.G.'s Father / Santa Claus / Butler / Board Member (voice) (uncredited)
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"....
Many Tanks
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
A Balmy Swami
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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...
Robin Hood-Winked
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
The Fly's Last Flight
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Pre-Hysterical Man
Character: Popeye / Caveman (voice) (uncredited)
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....
I'll Be Skiing Ya
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Symphony in Spinach
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job....
Lumberjack and Jill
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl....
Hot Air Aces
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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 lightni...
Tar with a Star
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Gunfights are diminishing the population (1864- for the time being) in the tough Western town of Cactus Corners....
Lost and Foundry
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Morning, Noon and Night Club
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
'Popito' and 'Olivita' are a dance team, performing at Wimpy's Cafe. Bluto is jealous, and heckles and otherwise disrupts the act....
The Royal Four-Flusher
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye and the Pirates
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Wotta Knight
Character: Popeye (voice)
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....
Rocket to Mars
Character: Popeye (voice)
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)....
Safari So Good
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Popeye's Premiere
Character: Popeye / Aladdin (voice)
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....
The Vacationers' Paradise
Character: Men
An animated travelogue instructs vacationing Northerners on proper tourism etiquette when visiting Miami Beach....
Pitchin' Woo at the Zoo
Character: Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
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....
Happy You and Merry Me
Character: Myron the Kitten / Myron's Mama / Druggist (voice) (uncredited)
A stray kitten wanders into Betty Boop's house, gets sick on candy, and is cured with catnip by Betty and Pudgy the pup....
Popeye in the Grand Steeple Chase
Character: Popeye
Popeye at the horse race track....
Spinach Greetings
Character: Popeye
The evil Sea Hag interrupts Popeye's family Christmas....
The Fulla Bluff Man
Character: Salesman / Various (voice)
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....
Matinee Idol Popeye
Character: Popeye (Voice)
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....
Weight for Me
Character: Popeye
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 mac...
The Hot Air Salesman
Character: Wiffle Piffle (voice) (uncredited)
A door to door salesman visits Betty Boop's home with a long line of useless household gadgets....
Hits and Missiles
Character: Popeye
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy take an unintended trip to the moon, which is inhabited by cheese-people and tyrannized by the Big Cheese....
Jeep Tale
Character: Popeye
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. Afterwar...
Plumbers Pipe Dream
Character: Popeye
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....
Judge for a Day
Character: Male Voices (voice) (uncredited)
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....
We Did It
Character: Kitten (voice) (uncredited)
While Betty Boop is away, the kittens get into mischief. Will Pudgy the pup take the blame as usual?...
There's Good Boos To-Night
Character: Ghosts / Calf / Ferdie Fox (voice) (uncredited)
Casper makes friends with a fox cub. But the new friendship is threatened when a fox hunter and his two hounds come on the scene....
Seeing Double
Character: Popeye(voice)
Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot, two thugs build a Popeye robot to do their bidding....
Spooking of Ghosts
Character: Walter Wowie / Ghost (voice) (uncredited)
A ghost is hired by a real-estate agent on the behalf of a Scots-client to haunt the tight-wad's mansion while he is away so he won't have to pay for a caretaker. A weary hobo, who doesn't believe in ghost, tries to move in the invitingly-empty domicile...and rues the day....
Sir Irving and Jeames
Character: Jeames (voice) (uncredited)
About a rich dog and his poor servant....