Popeye - Customers Wanted (1939)

[wildwildwest1414]

they remade this episode in the 50's.

[universoeterno1]

Thank you for posting this Popeye is one of my favorites. Thank you

[fromthesidelines]

The machines Bluto watches the "cheater footage" in are supposed to be "Mutoscopes", which were a staple of penny arcades from the mid-1890's through the early 1950's. They featured scenes of sporting events [golfer Bobby Jones in action], silent film excerpts [Chaplin, "Felix the Cat", et. al.], and some racy "adult" scenes. However, REAL Mutoscopes were silent (no sound when viewing "flip card" movies), and usually lasted less than a minute [depending on how fast you turned the crank].

[oldbob1951]

The first Bluto, Gus Wickie, had just the right voice for the part (he could bluster and be angry with the best of them!), and was almost as good with the muttered asides as Jack Mercer was. When Jackson Beck took over Bluto in 1944, he brought back a lot of that old Bluto spirit with more of an intellegence and craftiness to the part.

[abobjenkins]

did anybody say 8? not me brother... ha ha ha ha

[spear401]

i love this one!

[kurojin97]

lol @ the end.....i bet 10 cents a hundred years ago was euivalent to about, say....5 bucks....(just a guess...i could be completely wrong) ^_^

[rustown1]

thanks for posting...they would be banned today because of the violence and smoking...my favorite cartoons from my youth in the dark age...by the way, I grew up and never beat anybody up or smoked a pipe :)

[Lars99]

I love penny arcades. Even interactive arcades. : )

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

i think they have this at disneyland

[Lars99]

@TEMPmichaelhansen Yeah! I heard they have that too!

[guitarhero5able]

1:09

Bluto:You get six pennies for a nickel here.

1:13

Popeye:You get seven pennies for a nickel here.

1:17

Wimpy:Did anybody say eight?

[EvilSlyGuy]

"...not me brother..."

[MINILOCO999]

I loved these ones best.

[wraigosa]

And Gus Wickie dead in 1938 and Pinto "Goofy" Colvig was stood whit the voice of Bluto

[Ironwox]

did anyone notice all the voices in this episode are different from the original

[2005dave]

No, Jack Mercer is still doing Popeye. Bluto had been in the process of being recast after the passing of Gus Wickie.

This was one of the very first Popeye cartoons from the Fleischer's new studio in Miami.

[rumble54daddyo]

This is what was known as a "cheater" -- building a toon out of footage from previous toons. Everybody did it, and the Fleischers maybe more than most -- but they were clever about it, and their stuff was always good. Unlike, say, TerryToons, whose stuff was rarely good to begin with.

[MakenWaves]

they did seem to pull if off pretty well with this one, I just watched the colorized version of this cartoon, this version is better in my opinion.

[meheuck]

What's especially amusing is that when Famous Studios started making Popeye cartoons in color, not only did they remake many of the B&W stories, they remade this premise as PENNY ANTICS, again complete with clips from the other color toons (mostly the extended color adventures made before the Fleischers sold the studio).  So they made a cheater of a cheater!

[Wilmar550]

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pilón quédese con popeye

[SCross440]

This one is one of many classics.

[default99telecom]

Is their a can of spinach in the house???