| The Marry-Go-Round | |
| Number 124 | |
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The Marry-Go-Round is Popeye's 124th theatrical short, produced by Famous Studios and released on December 31, 1943.
Plot[]
Popeye and Shorty are at their ship, looking at their pictures. He has pictures of Olive, while Shorty has pictures of Dorothy Lamour. Among his many Olive Oyl pictures onboard his bunk, Popeye is trying to gather up the courage to propose to Olive. While Shorty is doing his chores, he sees Popeye needs help with his proposal to Olive. After the sailors are ordered to disembark for shore leave, he and Shorty rehearse the wedding, at the latter's insistence. Shorty then helps Popeye reach the door of Olive's Boarding House. At the house, Olive is exhaustedly doing all the chores and the cooking. While Olive is hanging the laundrey with the pins in her mouth, Popeye rings the doorbell. Olive answers the door and Popeye tries to put the ring on her finger, but the sailor's bashfulness ends with the wedding ring caught on Olive's nose and Miss Oyl believes he is playing pranks on her. Popeye enters the house but becomes trapped among Olive's endless boarding house chores, most often into a washing machine, mistaking him for a piece of laundrey. Shorty helps him recover each time, but Olive only grows annoyed at the would-be-groom's clumsy antics. Popeye enters the window and catches the dishes, after Olive accidentally drops them. When Popeye catches 1 dish left, all of the other dishes break. Olive gets frustrated at him and when Popeye gives the dish to her, she bonks him on the head with it. Afterwards, Olive makes Popeye put the dishes back together. Shorty decides to give a demonstration on how to woo a lady, which he performs with great efficacy on Olive. Olive is impressed with Shorty's affections and gets smitten with him. She and Shorty then kiss, nose to nose. Electrified by this, the infatuated Miss Oyl quickly changes into a provocative outfit and an attractive appearance. Shorty finishes his demonstration with Popeye unaware that he's gone. When Olive wants another kiss from Shorty, the latter regrets being romantically involved with Olive and begins chasing after Shorty, while Popeye also tries to get his hands on his "traitorous" companion. Shorty hides in a lamp. Olive takes the shade off of the lamp and finds him. Shorty tries to not move, only for Olive to grab him while still hanging on the lamp. When Olive kisses him while still hanging on the lamp, she gets electricuted out of happiness with her nose thumping. Olive attempts to kiss Shorty on the chair, however Shorty reatreats. Popeye attempts to bonk Shorty with a baseball bat unaware that he's gone as well. When Olive kisses Popeye, she gets angry at him and takes the bat from him and bonk him on the head. After he catches him, angry at Olive's flirtiness and her violence towards him during the chase, Popeye imitates Shorty to lure her inside the curtain and puts her into the washing machine and leaves, dumping her in the process. Back in their bunk, Popeye has Shorty tied up and has forcibly switched his own Olive photos with Shorty's pictures of Dorothy Lamour.
Trivia[]
- This is Olive's first appearance in a standard color cartoon, and she wears her usual red. She would however wear other colors in some cartoons.
- Final time Margie Hines voiced Olive, and the only time she voiced her in a standard color cartoon, as Mae Questel returned for the remainder of the series, starting with The Anvil Chorus Girl.
- Olive's outfit and attractive appearance when she is smitten with Shorty resembles her Senorita Olive look from Bulldozing the Bull.
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External links[]
- The Marry-Go-Round at the Internet Movie Database