Popeye - Nearlyweds | Classic Popeye the Sailor Cartoon (Full Episode in English)

Описание: Popeye - Nearlyweds | Classic Popeye the Sailor Cartoon (Full Episode in English)
Witness a compilation of `classic cartoon` moments featuring an array of `slapstick` antics and `visual gags`. This `funny cartoon` showcases bizarre interactions, including a man's unusual chair maneuver and other characters' silly responses. Enjoy this short `comedy` filled with exaggerated expressions and surprising situations.
“Nearlyweds” is a 1957 color Popeye the Sailor cartoon and the last Popeye short released under the Famous Studios name. In this romantic comedy, Popeye finally works up the courage to propose to Olive Oyl. Kneeling on the floor with flowers in hand, he asks her to marry him—just as Bluto barges in with his own bouquet and a competing proposal. Rather than automatically siding with Bluto, Olive decides to let fate choose and plays “Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe” with her nose, landing on Popeye as the lucky groom. Bluto pretends to take the loss gracefully, but secretly vows to wreck the wedding.

Popeye happily promises to return at 3:00 p.m. for the ceremony and heads home literally walking on air. While he sings and prepares a warm bath, Bluto sneaks in and begins a sabotage campaign. He pours cement mix into Popeye’s tub so the water hardens around him, only for Popeye to power out after finding spinach in his bathroom cabinet. Undeterred, Bluto continues: he drives nails into Popeye’s dress shoes, resets the clock to make him late, glues his chair so he gets stuck, ties the legs of his tuxedo pants, and rigs an electric razor from the outside so that, when Popeye tries to shave, the shock shreds his entire wedding suit.

Mocking Popeye as a “groom dressed like a goon,” Bluto leaves him with nothing to wear. With the clock striking three, Popeye has no choice but to throw on a barrel and race to Olive’s house. Olive, wearing a traditional white wedding gown and a veil cut from her own window curtain, opens the door, sees Popeye in the barrel and is furious that he would arrive in such ridiculous attire. She dumps him on the spot and slams the door, only to welcome Bluto a moment later and agree to marry him instead.

Heartbroken but suspicious, Popeye realizes that Bluto’s dirty tricks turned Olive against him. He rushes to the Justice of the Peace chapel, where Olive and Bluto are about to be married. When the magistrate begins listing all the responsibilities, sacrifices and burdens of married life, Bluto panics, decides bachelorhood sounds much safer, and bolts out of the building. Olive storms after him, shouting for him to come back. Only then does the audience see that the “Justice of the Peace” is actually Popeye in disguise, chuckling at his clever plan. He hasn’t used spinach to punch his rival this time—he’s outsmarted Bluto and dodged an unfair defeat by turning the wedding vows into the ultimate bluff.

Main credits & key data

Original title: Nearlyweds

Series: Popeye the Sailor

Release date: February 8, 1957

Country: United States

Runtime: approx. 6 minutes

Format: Color theatrical short

Studio: Famous Studios (last Popeye cartoon under this banner)

Distributor: Paramount Pictures

Principal crew

Director: Seymour Kneitel

Story: Isadore “I. ” Klein

Animation: Tom Johnson, Frank Endres

Scenics / Backgrounds: John Zago

Music: Winston Sharples

Voice cast (uncredited on screen, commonly cited)

Jack Mercer – Popeye

Mae Questel – Olive Oyl

Jackson Beck – Bluto and additional voices

Genre & themes
Romantic triangle; wedding-day sabotage; slapstick cruelty vs. comic justice; Popeye outsmarting Bluto; final Famous Studios-era Popeye short with a strong marriage theme.