Popeye the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor

1933
Popeye the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor

Popeye the Sailor

7.6 | en | Animation

Popeye started out as a character in the daily comic strip "Thimble Theatre" in 1929. In the early 30s, Max and Dave Fleischer made him the star of his own cartoon.

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EP13  Fowl Play
Dec. 17,1937
Fowl Play

Popeye leaves a parrot for Olive Oyl as a gift. Bluto is overcome with jealousy and sets the bird loose to scamper up a tree outside. When Popeye catches on and orders him to rescue the bird, Bluto proceeds to try and maim the bird instead

EP12  Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves
Nov. 26,1937
Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves

While recovering from their trip to the Arabian Desert to bring Ali Baba and his band of thieves to justice, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are kidnapped as the thieves raid the town. Popeye, who was left behind in the raid, follows the thieves to stage a rescue.

EP11  Protek the Weakerist
Nov. 19,1937
Protek the Weakerist

Popeye feels humiliated when Olive Oyl makes him take her “sissy dog” for a walk, striving to avoid being seen with it. When they cross paths, Bluto sics his own "tough" dog on the other, then attacks Popeye to keep him from interfering.

EP10  The Football Toucher Downer
Oct. 15,1937
The Football Toucher Downer

When Swee’Pea refuses to eat his spinach dinner, Popeye recalls how he used to hate spinach too. He then relives his childhood memories of the day his football team was losing a game until he caved in to Olive Oyl’s pleas to eat his spinach.

EP9  I Likes Babies and Infinks
Sep. 18,1937
I Likes Babies and Infinks

Olive Oyl, unsuccessful at getting Swee’Pea to stop crying, calls for Popeye to come help her. Bluto overhears her plea and butts in. The two men go to extremes in trying to amuse Swee’Pea with various tricks, going so far as to beat on each other.

EP8  I Never Changes My Altitude
Aug. 20,1937
I Never Changes My Altitude

Popeye is distraught on learning that Olive Oyl has shut down her diner at the airfield and left him to be with an aviator. When he sees that she is being abused up in the air by the man she left him for, he rushes up in a plane himself to rescue her.

EP7  Lost and Foundry
Jul. 16,1937
Lost and Foundry

Popeye is starting his lunch break at the factory when he spots Olive Oyl out with Swee’Pea. She accepts his offer to join him, but their meal is cut short when Swee’Pea sneaks off into the factory and faces grave injury from the active machinery.

EP6  Morning, Noon and Night Club
Jun. 18,1937
Morning, Noon and Night Club

Bluto vandalizes billboards touting “Popito and Olivita’s” dance show at Wimpy’s Café. Later, while loitering outside the café, Bluto is rejected by Olivita when he asks for a date. Angry, he enters the café intent on disrupting the show.

EP5  The Twisker Pitcher
May. 21,1937
The Twisker Pitcher

After arriving on field for their baseball game, Popeye drops his can of spinach near Bluto. Bluto seizes the opportunity to eat the spinach himself and replaces it with grass before giving it back to an oblivious Popeye, thus gaining the upper hand.

EP4  Hospitaliky
Apr. 16,1937
Hospitaliky

Popeye and Bluto follow Olive Oyl to a hospital, where she works as a nurse. Desiring her attention, they fake being ill. When that ploy falls apart, they then go out in search of danger, hoping to get injured so Olive will have to tend to them.

EP3  My Artistical Temperature
Mar. 19,1937
My Artistical Temperature

Bluto (a painter), and Popeye (a sculptor) are sharing an art studio when Olive Oyl arrives requesting a likeness of herself. The two compete to see who can provide the more satisfactory product, interfering in each other’s work while doing so.

EP2  Organ Grinder's Swing
Feb. 19,1937
Organ Grinder's Swing

Wimpy is performing as an organ grinder when Bluto demands that he leave. Popeye, who was taking delight in the music, insists that he stay. The two come to blows as Bluto tries to force Wimpy to move on while Popeye steps in to defend him.

EP1  The Paneless Window Washer
Jan. 22,1937
The Paneless Window Washer

Popeye leaves a parrot for Olive Oyl as a gift. Bluto is overcome with jealousy and sets the bird loose to scamper up a tree outside. When Popeye catches on and orders him to rescue the bird, Bluto proceeds to try and maim the bird instead

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Released: 1933-07-14 | Released Producted By: Paramount , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
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Popeye started out as a character in the daily comic strip "Thimble Theatre" in 1929. In the early 30s, Max and Dave Fleischer made him the star of his own cartoon.

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A_Different_Drummer In his day Dave Fleischer was the best of the best when it came to animation. The Nicola Tesla of cartoons if you like. (No, younger readers, that does not mean he made CARS). Some of the other reviewers nailed it when they pointed out, with props to both men, that, frame by frame Fleischer was better than Disney. (Of course, a century later, more or less, we see that Disney was the better businessman, which is why your kids aren't bugging you for a vacation to FleischerLand). The animation, the cell work, was astonishing. The concepts were astonishing. The blending of music and action were astonishing. Believe it or not, late in his career Fleischer experimented with a strange kind of "3D animation" (intended of course for 2D projection on theatre screens SINCE TV HAD NOT EVEN BEEN INVENTED.) And a decade after this film, he did a Superman cartoon which, as other reviewers on IMDb have acknowledged, was decades ahead of its time, and holds up well even for viewing today. Wow. What an artist.
Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) I had always wonder when Popeye started his animated career, until I've watched this cartoon online. I found out that this short was intended as a test cartoon to see if Popeye could work as an animated character, he was originally a character from a comic strip by a guy named E.C. Segar. This short combines my two favorite Fleischer characters coming together - Betty Boop and Popeye the Sailor. Even though Betty's appearance is more of a cameo then an full-time character in the short.The one thing that bother me about is cartoon, is Olive's voice, I didn't really like it. I really prefer Mae Questel's take on Olive, but I got to bear with what they got. My favorite scene is when Betty & Popeye do the hula on stage.
Mightyzebra Usually in old cartoons in which a cartoon character as a debut do not have the character on for very long, or they do not make a big thing of the character's personality. Here, unusually, Popeye and Olive Oyl, in their first episode, seem to already be very developed characters (almost definitely because of the comics). It was my first official time to watch a Popeye cartoon. I quite enjoyed it, but Popeye and Olive Oyl are not yet my favourite cartoon characters.Things I enjoyed about this episode were the great introduction of Popeye "the sailor-man" and his gal, Olive Oyl. I also liked the quick appearance of Betty Boop, the old style of the cartoon which was around in those days (in Fleisher, Warner Brothers and Disney cartoons), the basic plot-line and the fact that spinach works quicker for Popeye than drugs do on normal people. Go spinach! :-) Basically, in "Popeye the Sailor", we are introduced to Popeye as a strong sailor, on a boat, who likes his spinach. Then we meet Olive Oyl, in a quay, waiting for her love (Popeye) to arrive off the boat. While she is waiting a number of sailors eye her (as she is attractive to them). She punches them and they move away, except for one huge sailor who is not hurt by her kicks. Just then, Popeye comes along and takes her to the funfair, where the horrible sailor follows them...I am not sure whether this was aimed for children at the time, not all cartoons were, but if it was it is not exactly suitable for kids in this day and age. This is because the horrible sailor tries to seduce Olive Oyl a little and yet does truly horrible things to her. It does not seem so bad partly because it is in a cartoon.I recommend this to people who are interested in Popeye, to people who like old cartoons and to people who like cartoons with quite a lot of singing (yes, sorry, I forgot to mention this). Enjoy "Popeye the Sailor"! :-) 7 and a half out of ten.
mozli I'll start off by saying what incredible artisans and crafts-persons Fleischer, Segar and Co. were. They achieve a type of brilliance that even Disney(during that period)doesn't quite match. Now, that said I seriously doubt I would allow children to watch it even though I did. Its just too violent and the consequences of the extreme nature of it is played for laughs. Popeye's world in the cartoon is an impoverished one and its heavily suggested that the violence is a necessary part of that environment. I see it as part of life during an economic depression. Everything is heightened, gender roles, racial stereotypes and a sense that the rug has been pulled out from under all the characters(they change jobs a lot). Spinach takes on a weird quality and I thought about street drugs being the actual little helper that Popeye may be using. PCP anyone? Sherms? Crack? Crank?