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Released on March 8, 1940, Females Is Fickle is Popeye's 77th cartoon, from Fleischer Studios.
Plot[]
Popeye is on a ship, doing some chores in his own, unusual way. Then Olive comes along to show him her trained pet goldfish. Unfortunately, Olive's goldfish jumps out of its bowl and into the sea from the ship. Olive is worried that her goldfish is drowning, despite the fact that fish live in the water, so she tries to rescue it with lifesavers, to no avail. Popeye insists Olive let her goldfish jump back into her bowl, however, Olive refuses and forces Popeye to go swimming after it. Following a lengthy underwater chase, both the goldfish and Popeye are swallowed up by a giant jellyfish. Inside it, Popeye devours his spinach as the jellyfish chases the fleeing goldfish, and the beast is soon turned into jelly. Popeye returns Olive's pet after similarly dealing with other marine beasts but, seeing how sad the little fish is, Olive releases it back into the ocean. Outraged about how his pursuit turned out to be for nothing, Popeye then decides to give Olive her comeuppance in form of tying her up by wrapping her in ropes and tossing her over the side of the ship (but with a lifesaver on) into the water. After being tossed in a water tied up and making a huge splash, Olive starts struggling to keep herself afloat and distressingly pleads for Popeye to take the ropes off her, but Popeye completely ignores Olive's pleas to rescue her from drowning as he already returned to do his chores and sing happily.
Trivia[]
- The cartoon is similar to Dizzy Divers, in which Popeye dives into the ocean, but instead of Olive letting him wear his scuba suit before diving, she forces Popeye to do so with his clothes, and does not help him.
- Females Is Fickle is the third cartoon in which Olive gets tied up. First one is Popeye the Sailor, where she is tied up by Bluto, who uses train tracks as "ropes". Second one is Axe Me Another, in which Bluto ties her up with his whip, on a boat. Fourth one is She-Sick Sailors where Bluto (passing himself as Superman) ties up Olive on railroad tracks with ropes.
External links[]
- Females Is Fickle at the Internet Movie Database