Friday, February 10, 2017

Popeye: Spinach Fer Britain


Here is a new one for me.  Our favorite squinty-eyed, swollen-forearmed, pipe-smoking sailor becomes part of the Lend Lease program, and sails a cargo of spinach to the UK.  After dealing with a Nazi U-Boat, Popeye delivers his cargo - and the U-Boat - to No. 10 Downing Street.  I especially like the V for Victory toot (dot dot dot daaaaaaaaaaaaaaah) on his pipe at the end.  From the Internet Archive, here is the 1943 animated short, Spinach Fer Britain

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