Popeye - A Date To Skate - 1938

[GrandsonofSoul]

I just watched this episode this morning on Netflix and it had me tripping out.

[coventry87]

is the man renting skates jewish?

[bees32189]

I think this is the only episode where popeye forget's his spinach

[rodcube]

I love the way popeye talks to himself...while he's thinking

[Midnafan725]

@rodcube

Me too. I like his accent too.

[rodcube]

@Midnafan725 it's the best...lol

[KjinAboii]

lol "I'll take a three and a half but an eight feels so goooooood." 1:26

[tw69hands2]

@KjinAboii :

"I think I'll take 12s,' LMAO.

[gtamissions06]

:28 to :37 is funny!

[ivelios3288]

Yes we Does.

[kankanlovers3]

i love how popeye scating lol

[FshnMny]

I can't believe she wanted to do it again in one day!!!!!!!!!! :)

[Goldmax64]

I swear, sometimes i think he sounds like a scatman. Just listen to the beginning of this video! Anyways, i think give ya a 5 out of 5 comrade, because ya bring such good ol` memories back to people. Keep them up!

[TheShoeOfMattie]

something I've never understood, were these cartoons done in color and transferred in black and white, or were they painted in black and white?

[LFD254]

They were all done in B&W originally. In the 1980s, Turner bought the whole lot and shipped them off to Korea to be "colorized". Unfortunately, they cheaped out on the process, coloring only 1 frame in 12 instead of the original 1 in 24. Thats why the color ones look so jumpy.

[mdizzle999872]

Look up technicolor

[djpoohbear03]

Did anyone see Popeye trip that girl that was skating...........I saw it. LOL

[dangergErBi]

liar!

[iammrentertainment]

Olive: I'll take a 3 1/2 but an 8 feels so good

Popeye: Better get twelves

Damn olive has so big ole feet LOL

[diddymuck]

Truly thrilling animation pieced together at breakneck speed. Pace increases as the toon progresses. Note the intricate activity of all moving objects in the stop/go policeman scene. Disney and Lantz popularized anination, but Paramount was the legit creator of the animated story.

[jamierourketen]

"he was a skater boy"

[jamierourketen]

i have always wanted to know what accent popeye and olive have,is it new jersey?

[lsdmadman]

un pocito yerbito and popeye kept me (relatively) sane during a long West Roxbury Mass winter I diligently thank the great godz

[kyrieeleison31]

I love the split-second timing on the action of this one.

[143AC]

This is the last "Popeye"Fleischer Movie

cartoon to feature Ms.Questel doing "Olive's"

Voice.

Mr.Mercer is also the voice of the rink attendent.

[TheShoeOfMattie]

there's a couple more done in the early 40s.

after that it moved to Famous Studios, where the cartoons would loose lot of their fun.

[Rollman1]

Thy should bring back popeye cartoons back to the movies with live partisapation like Rocky Horror

[SimuRei]

"How do you play this game?"

"Eh, its just like 'London Bridge Falling Down'."

I doubt all the mumbled stuff they say is actually scripted, which makes this so much better then cartoons nowadays which demand lip syncing and all that rubbish.

[Marbles471]

You're right. It wasn't scripted. A few lines were, but a lot of that was just made up on the spot, which is why Popeye's mouth isn't moving half the time.

That was unusual even at the time, though. Everyone else did it the other way around---dialogue recorded first, then animation done to sync up to it.

The backwards-sound process and constant adlibbing are one of the things that give Fleischer cartoons that weird, dreamlike quality they have.

[learo05]

How do people not like the Robin Williams Popeye movie, he was spot on!

[pfive]

you know popeye was mostly about hitting people right sibila82? I love these cartoons!they have a weirder atmosphere than most other "classics"

[sibila82]

Her voice is so sweet! I feel so "sad" because the children today grow up watching cartoons with so much violence and emptiness and without this innocence! Long life to the spinach!

[dwoodard78]

Start saving your pennies for Popeye the Sailor Vol 1 is coming out on DVD @ the end of the month.

[cha5]

"She's got a hand like a foot and a half" LOL!

Well I always thought Olive had some pretty big feet.

I'l always love this toon thanks.

[WhiteCamry]

The black & white Popeyes were always the funniest -- especially those one-liners in small talk!!!

[cha5]

The cast always sounds like they really had a blast making these classics.