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The Fistic Mystic (released November 29, 1946) is Popeye's 143rd theatrical cartoon, produced by Famous Studios. Popeye is the protagonist, Bluto is the antagonist and Olive is the deuteragonist.
Plot[]
Popeye and Olive are riding on a camel, bouncing along the way. They enter the city of Badgag. As Popeye and Olive explore Badgag and its culture, Olive spots Bluto doing magic tricks and gets smitten with him. He hypnotizes Olive like a snake charmer. First, Olive's eyes bounce. Second, Olive shakes her nose. Third, she bounces her shoulders. Next, Olive shakes her butt cheeks. Lastly, she moves her feet. Eventually, Olive comes towards Bluto, who introduces himself as the Great Bourgeois and gives Olive a fancy dress, turns Popeye into a donkey, and sits on a bed of nails. Popeye throws himself on the bed and turns it into springs. The boys next compete in snake charming, Popeye playing the Hornpipe by blowing his pipe. Bluto turns Popeye into a parrot, then locks Olive in a basket and does the sword trick; Olive escapes and gives parrot Popeye his spinach, which revives him. Bluto escapes with the rope trick and a flying carpet, but Popeye uses his pipe like a rocket to get aloft. Another battle follows, with Popeye using Bluto's own magic to turn him into a canary. Popeye and Olive then fly the carpet home, past the Statue of Liberty.
Trivia[]
- Badgag is a parody of Bagdad.
- After the short was edited for a.a.p., the original ending was lost, so in Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s Volume 2 the ending cue from Abusement Park was substituted.
- Despite Harry Foster Welch voicing Popeye in this short, Jack Mercer can be heard as him saying "Nothing like spring-training in bed condition". When Popeye jumps on the spikes, it is unknown if he also voiced him in parrot form.
External links[]
- The Fistic Mystic at the Internet Movie Database