Never Kick A Woman

Saw a remake a few times, must have been done in the late 40's or 50's. Popeye was wearing a white sailor suit and the boxing instructor had a longer hair style much like Veronica Lake or Lauren Bacall, olive and the instructor got into a boxing ring where the woman beats olive into different hairdos. Then she jumps out of the ring and start hugging and giving popeye kisses, that's when olive crawls out of the ring to snach the spinach out of popeyes pocket and gives the instructor a beating. It was shown on the cartoon network in the 90's. Does anyone remember seeing it.

The blonde boxer dominates most of this cartoon,she is definitely Mae West:very sexy with lots of great lines;"take it easy skinny you'll last longer" and "how about it big boy,not bad eh". Her showoff boxing routine is very polished.She polishes Olive off as easily as she steals Popeye. Her boxing match with Olive is detailed including hairdo changing punches and uppercuts that lift Olives heels. After she knocks Olive out, she turns to Popeye-he is smitten.The rest of the cartoon is predictable. Olive finds the spinach and prevails over the blonde and Popeye as well. This is groundbreaking for the era. It is said censors canned future appearances by the blonde.She was too sexy.

Several things to commend this one in the series - the catchy song, Olive's battle with the sexy blonde boxing instructor and Popeye's unexpected attraction to another woman. There was a rumor that the blonde was slated to reappear in more cartoons but the censors nixed the idea. Anyone know anything about that?

Too bad for the spinach in this case. I could have watched Mae work over Olive all day. She was sexy for a cartoon character. Too bad they did not bring her back for other cartoons. That would have been great if mae took the spinach away from Olive, but that would have been the end of her.

Never Kick A Woman is one of the very best early Popeye cartoons. It is somewhat more realistic than most in that it has as others have noted and mentioned, a genuinely sexy female character in the female gym owner. This is more reminiscent of some of the early (and sexier) Betty Boop cartoons. Unlike sweet, demure and innocent Betty, this woman is very Mae West-like (including her voice and her mannerisms). Poor hapless, stringbean Olive Oyl couldn't compete with her to save her life, until she eats Popeye's spinach, then watch out!!

One of the best Fleischer Popeyes, I only wish that Olive didn't beat on Popeye near the finish...after all, how many times did she flirt over Bluto (or someone else) only to yell for "help".

I have to agree with Ray Pointer, that as cartoons go, this was very suggestive for Popeye to say,” I'm practically there!", after the female boxer said, "Why don't ya come up and see me.” That had to be the only time that Popeye ever had eyes for anyone else but Olive. It also shows that Olive did care for Popeye. (Maybe that was why Popeye kept going back to Olive after she kept jilting him. Maybe he knew she was just trying to get his goat, possibly she even learned her lesson when she wanted to marry Barnacle Bill.) After Olive ate the spinach, I liked the way she turned into a hissing cat, and that was when you knew there was going to be a real donnybrook.

All I can add is that this one probably has one of the most suggestive remarks made by Popeye. As the female boxer is curling Popeye's forelocks (all three), she says, "Why don't ya come up and see me," to which Popeye replies, "I'm practically there!"

Just when things look dismal for Olive, she finds the spinach, and that's all she wrote. The story could have been more aptly named "Fight Like A Woman" but that's history. The story begins with Popeye coaxing Olive to take boxing lessons from an attractive female boxer. Little does Olive know is that the boxer rather give Popeye some lessons in love, which gets Olive all hot under the collar. "He's going my way!" Is the girl's challenge to Olive, and the fight is on. Olive is down and out, but when the spinach is found, Olive puts an end to the boxing girl's chances with Popeye with a decisive TKO. One could feel two ways about the outcome, joy for Olive's triumph, or sorrow that the boxing girl's good looks and chances at Popeye were ruined by the gangly, knock kneed Olive. All in all, the cartoon spear headed Olive to thwart other women's chances with Popeye, like tossing a hillbilly girl to the moon in "Hillbilly and Crooning" to punching a blonde siren in "Giddy Gold." But, yeah! Why doesn't Olive have a regular female rival that tries to steal Popeye from her???

MAE WEST couln't have done it better herself! Poor Olive Oyl! Every attempt to hit that punching bag is sidesplitting! I definitely laugh and cry at this one! A definite early classic!

This is the single best cartoon ever made. It is very erotic and agree with the review by execboxer that boys all over the world were having wet dreams when Olive boxed the "Mae West" type female boxer. If you haven't seen it, you must. If you have some of these statements would apply: Brazin' hussy bangs the wig off squawking sissy. Cats hiss in female leather match. Hair do honey gets a fashion change by high heeled hissy. Gym witch takes on sissy sticks. Feline fashion tangles in boxing ring at local gym. Vixen vow to win one man. Cactus kitty gets shredded by voluptuous vixen. Scratchy cactus cake gets powdered puff by sweet talkin' girly curls. Sour puss gets rapid hair do changes by leather glove of muscle maiden in a short skirt. Short skirt fluzy flaunts gorgeous gams at local gym where high heeled boots and boxing gloves allow her to deflate leather bags. Squeaky weakling ponders boyfriend's challenge to hit the bag. Cornered cat hisses challenge to lovely legs. Tattered knee knocked skinny gets spinach boost to battle big legs. Teathered gym queen has hair do change by crossed kitty. Hussy hips sway in local gym. Screaming wench cat drops over and over as fascinatin' fluzy takes leather to her. Huss Fest- two female cats scratch over same man-skinny wins. Oily doily quips repeatedly as luscious lulu lifts her heels. Hussy gym doll packs a punch and a skirt. Fascinatin' fluzy pounds the pony tail of sissy tins. Can anyone add more?

It's nice to see something different. Seeing Olive and Popeye switch roles in this cartoon is delightful. We can see how Popeye is placed in the middle of two women (just like Olive is placed in between two men). The fighting between Olive and 'Mae' is funny because we all know what it looks like when real women fight. Olive and Mae trade blows as opposed to the hair tugging and scratching we're all used to. This is one of two cartoons where Olive Oyl has to save the day, and I think it's a delight to Popeye fans everywhere to see a brief, welcome change. Great toon.

This is one of the most erotic and gender bending toons ever created, Popeye does virtually no boxing in it. Rather, Olive Oyl and Mae West go at it in boxing gloves and beat each other up until Olive steals some of Popeye's spinach! Boys all over the world were having wet dreams after viewing Olive punch Mae out, fighting over Popeye! This toon took big risks and played it all out very well, since 1936 was not a very liberal era. Plus having women actually BOX was very bold and groundbreaking. Only around 1999 did real women finally get sanctioned to really join boxing rings. The characters and artwork are fantastic! Overall I rate this toon a total knockout effort!