Track Meet Cheat
- Studio
- Larry Harmon Studios
- Distributor
- King Features Syndicate
Synopsis
Popeye and Olive are spectators at a track meet. Olive sees Brutus showing his athletic prowess. Popeye, jealous, hops out on the field to show Olive how a real athlete works. Popeye keeps losing because Brutus cheats every time. Gags concerning actual Olympic games follow. Finally, the sailor eats some spinach burgers (which he gets from vendor Wimpy in the spectators' stand), and he demonstrates some skills of his own, tossing Brutus out of the arena! Popeye sets new Olympic records that make Brutus look like a chump.
Characters
Popeye, Brutus, Olive Oyl, Wimpy
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Paul Fennell
Producing
- Producer
- Larry Harmon
- Executive Producer
- Al Brodax
Writing
- Writer
- Charles Shows
Voices
- Voice
- Jack Mercer (Popeye, Wimpy), Jackson Beck (Brutus), Mae Questel (Olive Oyl)
Music
- Music
- Gordon Zahler
Animation
- Animator
- Tom Baron, C.L. Hartman, Z.T. Jablecki, Lou Scheimer, Ervin Kaplan, George Rowley, Jean Blanchard, Hal Sutherland, Cal Dalton, Frank Onaitis (Artists)
Editing
- Editor
- Dan Milner
Production notes
King Features had no cartoon studios, so Popeye storyboards were produced in its offices, while animation was divided between Paramount/Famous Studios, Larry Harmon Productions, Total TV Productions, Gene Deitch/Rembrandt Studios, Halas and Batchelor and Jack Kinney Productions.
Of those stations which bought the King Features Popeye cartoons in 1960, 90% renewed their contracts in 1965.
Note the change in the villain's name… from Bluto to Brutus.
Of those stations which bought the King Features Popeye cartoons in 1960, 90% renewed their contracts in 1965.
Note the change in the villain's name… from Bluto to Brutus.
