Shape Ahoy

When Popeye and Bluto rise out of the water, each thinking they are holding Olive, but actually are in each others' arms, there is a single frame gag. There is a look of horror, a mad dash AWAY from each other, but a single frame where they head back to each other looking like they are in love....very funny.

Popeye and Bluto have spent 3 years on an island to get away from women -- and here comes the lovely Miss Olive Oyl. The gents scramble to spruce up themselves and their living quarters only to find her enthralled by a THIRD gent -- an animated Frank Sinatra! Funny and charming, but I have to take off one spinach can (making it a four-canner)for negative images and stereotypes of male behavior The guys are looking to get away from women. Kind of a variation on all the old-ball-and-chain jokes. Many men want to be partnered and enjoy the company, presence, and closeness of their partners. Bachelor slovenliness. The mound of dirty dishes stacked up to the sky. Kind of perpetuating the stereotype that men need female partners in order to live in an orderly atmosphere, that men alone are messy. Maybe some unpartnered gents are messy, but some are quite tidy. The macho front the gents put up at first, like when they say to Olive "get your own food." They actually do gather fruit for the pretty dark-haired maiden, but their show of blowhard machismo is kind of off-putting. Women like to feel cared for! Also, the writers should have had Miss Oyl react to the guys' rudeness Still, charming and entertaining, and rates 4 spinach cans

How perfect! Popeye and Bluto at peace on a tropical isle, designated as AN MAN'S PLACE! Their the best of buddies! But that obviously changes when Olive Oyl washes ashore on a raft! THEN THE FIGHT BEGINS! That is until FRANK SINATRA rescues Olive Oyl! Now that's what I call "GOING FIRST CLASS!" CLASSIC!