The Bathing Beasts
- Studio
- Paramount Cartoon Studios
- Distributor
- King Features Syndicate
Synopsis
Brutus and Popeye compete in a Mr. America contest to see who gets to ride in the front seat with Olive Oyl in her new car. The competition includes singing, acting, strength and a bathing suit contest! When the boys are ready to ride with Olive, they find out that this is going to be her first time ever driving a car!
Characters
Popeye, Brutus, Olive Oyl, Wimpy
Credits
Directing
- Director
- Seymour Kneitel
Producing
- Producer
- Al Brodax (Executive Producer)
Writing
- Writer
- Irving Dressler
Voices
- Voice
- Jack Mercer (Popeye, Wimpy), Jackson Beck (Brutus), Mae Questel (Olive Oyl)
Music
- Music
- Winston Sharples
Animation
- Animator
- Martin Taras, Dick Hall (as Dick Marion), Jim Logan
Crew
- Scenics
- Robert Owen
Production notes
Popeye's song at the end of the cartoon is the familiar tune and has the following lyrics:
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.
"I'd rather be alive
than with a woman learning to drive.
Says Popeye the sailor man."
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.
