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Bride and Gloom
Number 204
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Bride and Gloom is the color remake of Fleischer Studios' Wimmin Is a Myskery (1940), released by Famous Studios on July 2, 1954 as the 204th Popeye cartoon. Popeye has more of a supporting role here, while Olive Oyl is the real protagonist.

Plot[]

It is the day before Popeye and Olive's wedding, and she sees him off as it is getting late. Popeye leaves and absent-mindedly takes Olive's hat instead of his own, walking on air and kissing a police officer, leaving the latter confused. Olive flips her portrait of Popeye away from her and prepares to go to sleep. She dreams of them getting married by the judge of the peace, with the sailor groom resorting to spinach to get the courage to say 'I do'. They drive in a car with spinach cans tied. She then dreams of their honeymoon and of giving birth to Popeye's children (unlike in Wimmin Is a Myskery, only twins and first seen as babies, likely to distinguish them from the already-known Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye). Olive then dreams of the boys reaching their fourth birthday (and blowing the whole cake into her mouth, complete with the candles in her eyes) followed by much destruction around the house and abuse towards their mother. Olive sees them making trouble, such as breaking plates with piano keys, and begins chasing them. The boys try to trip their mother with a carpet, with Olive having to stretch her legs to avoid it. Olive ends up sliding on the handrail and getting stuck in a moose trophy. The boys then perform an impromptu trapeze act with their mother, which ends with Olive thrown into a garden fountain. Her attempt to discipline her children has her captured by 'Native Americans' and nearly burned to death. This causes Olive to finally wake up and violently reject the tuxedoed Popeye, who had come for his bride, by throwing a drawer down at him. Popeye declares "Confucius says, Female, she is fickle." and chuckles.

Trivia[]

  • In this version, Popeye is present in Olive's dream.
  • One of several cartoons where characters eat spinach in a dream. In this case, Popeye does.
  • Olive's bedside picture of Popeye has a backside.
  • Popeye's quadruplet sons from the original black-and-white short have names: Pip Eye, Pep Eye, Pup Eye and Peep Eye. Here, his twin sons go unnamed.

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