The House Builder-Upper (1938)
When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build a new house with disastrous results. |
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Jack Mercer | ... |
Popeye
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Mae Questel | ... |
Olive Oyl
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Storyline
Olive's house burned down; Popeye and Wimpy arrive too late to save it, but they agree to rebuild it. They nearly complete it, in their somewhat unorthodox way, when it collapses. Popeye has his spinach and rebuilds the whole thing, even better, in 5 seconds flat. But when Olive walks in, it collapses again. Written by Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>
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18 March 1938 (USA) See more »Company Credits
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This is another of those unusual Popeye cartoons in which there is no Bluto and no fisticuffs.....just a story of trying to build a house.
It begins with Popeye and Wimpy - "The Volunteer Firemen" - arriving too late to save Olive's house. All that is left is a bathtub sticking up in the air on the second story. Olive and her pets are on the front steps sobbing their eyes out. Her man, however, comes to rescue by volunteering to build her a new house. The three begin immediately. (Olive is actually helping, and so is Wimpy - in between bites on his unlimited supply of hamburgers.)
We then witness the strange way the crew goes about trying to build this house. (If only wallpapering was as easy as it is portrayed here.) It's laugh-out-loud material but it's continually humorous with a couple of twists at the end. Overall, the best parts were some of the drawings in here and the sight gags of these "house builders."