Here is Greg Ehrbar's favorite
"My favorite is a personal one, not necessarily a classic, and it's on the new DVD - "We're on Our Way to Rio" I have happy childhood memories seeing it on local TV on the Popeye Playhouse show and thanks to Jerry, I even found the album with the song, "Samba Lele"
But I also really like one believe it or not from the King Features series where Olive keeps shopping and making Popeye return things. "Popeye Goes Sale-ing"
Popeye Goes Sale-ing (Not the video any of you expected huh?)
I'm only posting a clip of We're on our Way to Rio because you hopefully just watched the Popeye Blu Ray
The King Feature Syndicate Popeye cartoons, which get a bad rap from the animavens, are actually underrated, considering production constraints (you try to do full theatrical animation on a third of the budget in a quarter of the time). They actually show a wider variety of story material, and utilize Thimble Theater characters woefully underused (Wimpy, the Jeep, the Goons) or overlooked altogether (Sea Hag, King Blozo, Rough House) by the Fleischer/Famous artists.
ReplyDeleteI think in We're on our Way to Rio, Bluto was more comical than an enemy, in his rivalry with Popeye.
ReplyDeleteI agree.
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