Popeye Cartoon: Olive Oyl for President

[joenewbie316]

Shemale president... am I the only one who heard him say that?

[michaela234]

"Because they're too busy running for husbands"

ahahaa that would NEVER be allowed these days

[MissPonderosa]

@michaela234 LOL I laughed here too!

[sausagesnail]

HOLY FUCK OLIVE OYL

[dreamboynyc2]

That's the kind of woman I like, who keeps a long handle cast iron skillet in her back pocket to bop people on the head who talk crazy to her.

[MsPandaRosa]

That two-headed guy would fit right in in Washington! At least you KNOW he/they would be on both sides of an issue.

[rohanclassic]

my friend laughs like popeye...

aagagagagagagagagagag!!! :D

[MiaCatalan0]

Olive sounds like Mandy from Totally Spies LOL!

[BB120776]

In times of crisis, placing the burden of recovery squarely on the shoulders of those hardest hit by said crisis while making sure those who can easiest afford to sacrifice while living not only comfortably, but opulently need not lift a finger, even though some of them are directly responsible for said crisis in the FIRST place.

Some call it madness.

Some call it malice.

We call it "The American Way"!

[BitterFlower216]

Ice cream would only cost a cent? Every woman gets silkworms in a box?? Married men are tax-exempt??? Wowww!

But I'd settle for affordable health care and equal pay. I guess nothing rhymes with those two haha

[MsPandaRosa]

@BitterFlower216 Hmm,,, If I were President, If I were President, I'd show that working women can, Do just as much as any man, Their wages would match right down to the ceeent, If I were President! If I were President, i I were President, I'd see all doctors were employed. In spreading health to girls and boys, Preserving health is money best well speeeent! If I were President!

[BitterFlower216]

@MsPandaRosa .....I stand corrected lol. And it fits perfectly! You're awesome!!!

[MsPandaRosa]

@BitterFlower216

Thankx!

[lichtbroeder]

This is amazing! I haven't seen this since I was a little kid, and I actually remember a lot of the lyrics!

[Sharptooth100]

I love that beautiful redhead young woman in her bedroom with the silkworms box. She must be 18 or 19 years old.

[Vladislak]

My biggest complaint with this episode is that it gives kids the impression that the president is God.

[mrsbena]

i been singing this song 4 yrs

[erwinthehamsandwich]

Olive Oyl is a tyrant!

[satan666746]

1:22 you better watch your mouth popeye

you be knocked out by your own girl olive oyl XD

[54markl]

Yay Olive! I'd vote for her over Sarah Palin any old time! "We accept it, we reject it!" I remember that from when I was eight years old, never forgot it!

[QuietStormMan]

LOL....I wish there was such thing as the "Secretary of Love". More love and less hate in war torn countries.

[xxashyy]

LMAO! Olive smacked the hell out of Popeye with that frying pan at 1:22

[nycdweller]

Brings back great childhood memories - thank you for posting!!

[zendaddy621]

So this is where Sarah Palin got all her unrealistic ideas...

[wurltee31]

Apartments would be up for rent, againnnnn! If I were pres-i-dentttt! lol

[akwaqs]

Anyone notice the cameo appearance by Little Audrey?

[zendaddy621]

@akwaqs Makes sense, since both were voiced by the late Mae Questel...

[RJRanke]

I wonder if Sarah Palin ever saw this?Maybe she sang this song when younger.Maybe she still is singing this song!!!

[kayfowler1]

who is under the bed?

[boso5608]

lol at photorealistic guy @ 3:22

[lovegirl12245]

wow long song

[diyajones]

@lovegirl12245 i agree lol

[bonniepink19]

1:50 - I wish my legs are that sexy!

[bonniepink19]

Thank you for sharing! I love it the first time I saw it ages ago! This is my favorite, the music and the works!

[joshjhutton]

Olive for Presidink.

[srw6666]

notice how the dems all accept olive's proposals, and the GOP rejects them. it looks like a balanced house until the secretary of love hits them with arrows, then it looks like the dems outnumber the GOP 2-1. hollywood in '48 :-)

[johnnieRad]

A Semi-Remake Of Betty Boop For President

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

'the peoples cherse, what could be worse"???

[Peekaboo1961]

My favorite cartoon Popeye

[Sharptooth100]

Maybe they should recreate Olive Oly to be a more attractive voluptuous brunette like the redhead woman wearing the green dress. Her black skirt should be six inches above her knees.

[ColumbiaPicturesFan]

Is this episode on DVD and if so, which one?

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

Secretary of Love's thoughts-"Screw this. I need the big guns."

[johnnieRad]

In Cinecolor

[Sunnyyyyification]

does anybody have theclip where popey teaches olive oil to drive a car....lmao...i really want it....

[bluecatky]

Cameo appearance by Little Audrey at 2:44.

[videosauce]

Where's Cupid with a machine-bow when you need 'im? The hell with partisanship! :D

[frtw4428]

Thanks to dowdy057 for ID'ing the other "cabinet members" at 6:10. Has anyone been able to confirm the guy between Bob Hope and Ray MIlland? Is it Robert Cummings? Also, who's the guy under the bed at 3:23?

[Astraldragon1]

@ 2:43 that's Little Audrey!!

[Familygirl17]

@Astraldragon1

Yes, but her first REAL theatrical appearance was in "Butterscotch and Soda"

[fromthesidelines]

As Famous Studios was winding down production on "Little Lulu", they'd already introduced her "replacement", "Little Audrey" in the 'Noveltoon' "Santa's Surpris,e", two months before. Now, they were sneaking "test footage" of her in this January 1948 release, before she was officially introduced in "Butterscotch and Soda" that July.

[tritonrocks]

This cartoon is 61 years old and it's amazing how it's as relevant today as back then. Donkeys and Elephants (Dems and Repubs) fighting it out blindly without regard for the constituents. Some s__t never changes. Congress was as f__ked up back then as it is today. Well, it's really f__ked up today with the Democrat liberal socialist s__t they're trying to push on us.

[OldsVistaCruiser]

If you want to go there, tritonrocks, the "elephants" are taking Nancy Reagan's advice too seriously - "just say no".

They're the ones in Congress to this day saying "We reject it!" to everything that comes onto the floor.

I had to pay my doctor $30 just to get copies of some medical records to take to my company's doctor so I could get a medical card required by the U.S. Department of Transportation for operating a commercial motor vehicle.

What's wrong with this picture??

[tritonrocks]

Actually, BOTH sides suck. I wrote that to be a smart ass. I hate our Congress. It's ineffective, it's self-serving, and it's all about power. My view is to vote them all out and start over, and keep voting them out until they get the message. I think we'll see the first signs of that this November.

[NewAndImprovedToons]

The music on the end logo would be used as the ending theme on a.a.p. prints of the color cartoons

The same for the opening music, but it was on other cartoons besides this

[NewAndImprovedToons]

To be precise, the opening music was used between "Her Honor the Mare" and "Wigwam Whoopee". Beginning with "Pre-Hysterical Man", the opening bar of "The Sailor's Hornpipe" was shortened, but until late 1951, the rest of the opening theme was the same as the previous. I'm not sure which cartoon was the first with the final theme, this time completely re-recorded.

[FortegoLite]

2:47 Little Audrey!!

[NewAndImprovedToons]

this was her only appearance in a cartoon which did not end up under Republic or Classic Media, since Time Warner owns the Popeye cartoons

[dowdy057]

At 6:10- The one on the far left is Alan Ladd, on the far right is Ray Milland,amd the one next to him could be Robert Cummings,but I might be wrong on that one.

[KDevine53]

hey i know bing croaby and bob hoe but who were those other 3 guys

[odieplo]

this is so0 boring her running for president lol

[elfishimp]

So that's all we need to elect a female president? Blunt force trauma to the head..?

[PandaMishima]

Why not? Sometimes it really is that simple. Of course the "blow" is nearly always nonphysical, but when the impact comes, you KNOW it makes sense.

[ddpl365]

Olive rocked that pants suit....

[odieplo]

olvie is so aguly

[mzbobbi]

that secretary of love really kicks butt don't he...

[sidrad]

The Hillary Clinton cartoon.

[apparationsofmelody]

Gee wiz, Big Pauley! While you may like to say our taxes will be less while the rich pay more, then explain to me why the rich guy who owns a business has to lay me off from my job! Looks like trickle up poverty to me, man. In the mean time I don't think Olive would stand for such nonsense either.

[Sharptooth100]

I love that Popeye cartoon. It even has that sexy redhead young woman in her short skirt dress with the box that has 2 silkworms creating stockings on her legs. But it went below the knee instead of covering the entire bare legs.

[UrskogTrolle]

she's got my vote! but that thing about 98% tax 4 bachelors...

[CartoonCookie93]

the most standard versions of the Famous popeye themes if you've seen hundreds of AAP.

[JMFabianoRPL]

Funny, the one I hear more often is like what would be used as the basis for the KFS opening.

[PandaMishima]

Interesting how it's the Donkeys who initially accept President Oyl!

[mzbobbi]

lol this is true

[bigpopparamma]

2:43: Little Audrey makes a cameo.

[OldsVistaCruiser]

Speaking of "lampposts like you've never seen", the street lights in Hershey, PA are shaped like Hershey Kisses!

They alternate between silver housings with a "Hershey" banner that look like wrapped Kisses and brown housings that look like opened Kisses.

[locksmithite]

obama's version if i were president, if i were president i'd sink this country far in debt and tax you higher yep you bet and if you do not like it go get bent. if i were president if i were president. if i were president rush limbaugh would be off the air while the leftist views are everywhere and the fox news station would be up for rent if i were president.

[PandaMishima]

Well, I'll support Obama, whatever I think of his politics, out of respect. What I don't like I'd oppose legally, and what more need be said. Olive's got a lot spunk!

[BigPauley]

Funny how taxes are going DOWN on most of the country, but the GOP is STILL spreading the lie that Obma is RAISING taxes. If you aren't making $250K+ a year, you are paying LESS taxes. And trust, one day Rush will go too far (just like Howard Stern and Don Imus) and he WILL be off the air, if only for a short time... Please stop drinking the GOP kool-aid and think for yourself.

[JMFabianoRPL]

Someone needs to write a Bush version...

[PandaMishima]

Good point, but then, I'm the only Repub I know who will respect Obama as our President. And last I saw, it's still legal to disagree with things the President says. As for protesting, I do remember my Civics 101. C'est la guerre.

[odieplo]

that is write obama is the president not her

[PandaMishima]

Something tells me Obama and Olive would get along just fine.

[thepts]

women in politics.. lol! that would be the day!

[PandaMishima]

Hey come on out from under your rock, THE DAY has arrived! :)

[Kartoonkid95]

The end title music to this short is the one heard at the end of A.A.P. prints of the other color Popeye cartoons.

[fromthesidelines]

Nope, this was first released in January 1948, "ChuChu'. And note the "cameo" appearance, at 2:43-2:50, of Paramount's upcoming "Noveltoon" star Little Audrey (her first appearance was in "Santa's Surprise" in December '47)- she "replaced" "Little Lulu" on the Famous Studios production schedule{Mae Questel also provided HER voice, too!}.

[scales78]

nice Audrey cameo. that's like the second good cameo i've seen in the Popeye cartoons other than Betty Boop's in the first episode

[bjc12566]

thanks for posting this

[AshburnStadium]

I have several verses of my own: If I were president...if I were president There would be no prayer in school And marijuana would be cool And a pack of joints for only four bucks and twenty cents If I were President! If I were president, if I were president All the little tiny brats Would grow up to be Democrats And the whole Republican party can get bent If I were President!

[UrskogTrolle]

lol. u got my vote! unless olive runs at the same time!

[merloon]

This was something of a remake of an earlier Betty Boop from the early 30s. Different songs, but the "we accept it! we reject it!" bit was lifted directly.

[dreamboynyc2]

I would have voted for Olive over Hillary anyday.

[ChuChu353]

if I'm not mistaken, this cartoon was done for the 1952 election which was actually won by Eisenhower

[AshburnStadium]

The copyright date on this cartoon is 1948 (MCMXLVIII), which would have placed it right in the thick of the Harry S Truman/Thomas E. Dewey race.

[ChuChu353]

You're right! My bad LOL

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

1:23, One way to get someone to stop laughing. And damn effective, too.

[memorylane4me]

I still remembered, "I'd pick up feminine morale and get a man for every gal" so funny, thanks for sharing it!!

[zenzmurfy]

hahah!!! "We reject it! We accept it!" Same old elephants and donkeys all these years later!

[polybi5]

@zenzmurfy Yup...60 years later.....they're STILL the party of NO!

Now back to the cartoons!

[hangeygirl]

better than today's cartoons. still good. the oldies r always better.

[kilkolio]

@hangeygirl

alright granny

[RayLRiv]

I read somewhere that the same lady (Mae Questel) who did the voice for Betty Boop (the cartoon from the 1930s) did Olive Oyl's voice too.

Younger viewers may remember the National Lampoon "Christmas Vacation" movie - Chevy Chase ushers into his living room Grandma (just before the cat is electocuted biting the Christmas lights on the Xmas tree) - that's Mae Questel.

[ChuChu353]

You're right, the voice of Olive Oyl for generations was Mae Questel - Aunt Bethany. "Christmas Vacation" was one of her last film roles.

[WhiteCamry]

This is one of the rare Popeye cartoons where he didn't resort to spinach.

[groovylou]

peppe,

i have been looking for this cartoon for years. where has it been and where did you find it?

thanks.

[PeppeRaskell1]

I recorded it off the Boomerang channel with my DVD recorder/VCR.

[groovylou]

cool,

i do not get the boomerang channel. as stupid as it may sound, i have emailed cartoon network and various cartoon sites looking for this particular one for a cpl years now with no luck.

thanks

frank

[rockygirl6]

we dont need youre comments...

[otzi08]

I loved your response to Tylovesagirl..ahah.

[TyLovesAGirl]

Olive is the last person I'd vote for.

She's the definition of a dumb, well you know...

[2005dave]

The end tag on this cartoon was used for all those AAP reissues of the color shorts from 1943-1955.

[intothewoodsluver]

Hey Little Audrey's in there!

-Henry

[NinjaGhostScorpion]

Popeye changed his views in a hurry.

[CDCB]

One of the few Famous Studios Popeyes that I personally like.

[Gernot2003]

Thanks for this video! I think I can guarantee that it's gonna get a LOT of showings! I'm gonna post it on my MySpace bulletins, along with Popeye For President, in a couple of weeks!

You posted this cartoon JUST in the nick of time! :)

[Geekside]

Hey, I was looking for this a week ago.. Thank you for the post!

[Pipe61]

"Sold to America" - that's what Bill should have done for Hillary!

[Gernot2003]

Yeah, instead we got Bush saying "Sold the REST of the world!"

[Gernot2003]

I mean, "Sold TO the REST of the world!" LOL :)

[AshburnStadium]

"Sold to America" is a takeoff of the American Tobacco Company's old Lucky Strike commercial where a tobacco auctioneer finishes up bidding saying "Sold to the American!"

[hermionehp14]

She has the most annoying voice!!! ^_^ LOL!!!