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Nearlyweds is Popeye's 226th theatrical short, released on February 8, 1957, and the last one from Famous Studios before the studio's transition to Paramount Cartoon Studios.
Plot[]
Popeye proposes to Olive, then Bluto enters her house to give her some flowers. With Olive about to take Popeye, Bluto interupts and also proposes to her. Seeing the two do this, instead of favoring Bluto as in other cartoons, Olive decides to choose. Olive plays Eeny-Meeny-Miny-Moe with her nose and picks Popeye. When the sailor gets chosen, he is overjoyed, and Bluto pretends to accept Popeye's marrying Olive. After the big man departs, Popeye promises Olive to arrive at 3:00 pm and takes his leave, walking on-air. Popeye washes up, scatting the wedding song along the way. Bluto puts concrete mix in Popeye's bath, but Popeye manages to eat some spinach in his bathroom cabinet to free himself from the bathwater concrete. As Popeye prepares to put on his wedding outfit, he accidentally rips one of his socks. Bluto now has the chance to sabotage Popeye's wedding, which includes putting nails in Popeye's shoes, changing the time of Popeye's clock, putting glue on his chair, tying his pant legs and placing a shaving brush in the mirror so the sailor's reflection appears to have a heavy beard shadow, in addition to rigging up Popeye's electric razor to make him shred his wedding tuxedo. Bluto mocks Popeye's state, which makes Popeye realize Bluto has tricked him, and is about to punch him when he sees the clock strike three. Popeye has no choice but to wear a barrel to his wedding.
At Olive's house, she has just put on her dress and cuts her window curtain to use it as her veil. Olive answers the door and sees Popeye in his barrel. She gets angry at him for showing up naked and immediately dumps him, slamming the door at him. Bluto mockingly congratulates Popeye and puts ash in his mouth. Olive answers the door again, this time it is Bluto. Bluto asks her if she changed her mind, which she promptly does. This makes Popeye realize that her making a new choice was also part of Bluto's scheme, and prepares to do something about it. Later, Bluto and Olive enter the Justice of the Peace. When Bluto hears the magistrate list all the obligations and sacrifices that married life will entail, he decides he is happy with his bachelorhood and races away. The broken-hearted brunette beauty calls the big fellow a coward and tries to get him to come back, and we see that the Justice of the Peace is Popeye in disguise, laughing at his clever trick.
Trivia[]
- This is one of ten Popeye cartoons that could be viewed in the first-person shooter video game The Darkness.
- Final Paramount cartoon released under Famous Studios.
- Last short with a marriage theme.
- The cartoon is similar to For Better or Worser, but with several differences. In the end, it is Bluto who runs away from Olive instead of Popeye.
- Popeye saying to Olive that she has been his girlfriend for a long, long time is a reference to their extensive comics and animation history.
- Final cartoon in which Olive is smitten with Bluto.
- Final cartoon in which Olive gets angry at Popeye. In this case, she quickly dumps Popeye in favor of Bluto.
- Only cartoon in which Olive wears a traditional wedding dress.
- The way Popeye kisses Olive is similar to what he did to the policeman from Bride and Gloom.
- This cartoon shows Popeye having spinach in his bathroom cabinet. It is unusual for food to be found in such places, as it is normally kept in refrigerators and pantries.
Goofs[]
- When Popeye's wedding suit is ruined, the remains of his pants change from black to white and vice versa.
External links[]
- Nearlyweds at the Internet Movie Database