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I'll Never Crow Again is the ninety-ninth Fleischer Studios Popeye cartoon, released on September 19, 1941.
Plot[]
Olive is happily cleaning her dishes, singing "It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day" along the way. Suddenly, a pack of crows begin stealing her vegetables from her garden. Olive calls Popeye for help while the sailor is clipping his toenails and he answers the phone. Olive demands he scare the crows away from her garden, and Popeye comes to her house in a jiffy. She shoves him into her garden, making Popeye wonder what has gotten into her. Popeye tries making a funny face to scare them, only for the crows to make funny faces at him. He then uses some sticks to make them go away, and is quick to tell Olive he has succeeded, but the crows are still there, so Olive has Popeye make a scarecrow that will do the trick. One bird is not afraid of the scarecrow and takes its clothes off, making a Groucho Marx impersonation. Popeye approaches the crow, but it blows smoke at Popeye, making Olive laugh at him. Since the scarecrow failed, Popeye becomes a scarecrow himself. The crow is impressed that Popeye makes a good scarecrow, but then covers his head with his hat. Two crows use Popeye's arms as a seesaw to play on, and throw tomatoes at him. The crows mock Popeye, causing the latter to use a gun on them. Popeye tries to shoot the crows, but instead shoots Olive's greenhouse, which she finds hilarious even though her greenhouse is ruined. The sailor has finally had enough of their shenanigans and of Olive's rude behavior, so he gives Olive her comeuppance by turning her into a scarecrow and, surprisingly, the crows get scared and fly away.
Trivia[]
- Olive is more of an antagonist than the crows in this cartoon, as she demands Popeye scare the birds, and keeps laughing at him instead of feeling sorry for his misfortunes. In the end, he turns her into a scarecrow in retaliation. Popeye does not often get angry at her like that.
- When Olive is cleaning the dishes, she sings "It's a Hap-Hap-Happy Day". This is a reference to Paramount's first animated feature, Gulliver's Travels, also produced by Fleischer Studios.
- The usual instrumental fanfare for his spinach-eating power boost is used here to underscore Popeye grabbing his shotgun instead.
External links[]
- I'll Never Crow Again at the Internet Movie Database