Popeye - Series 1 Ep. 7 - Cookin' With Gags

Oliver Oyl at her worst

06 December 2008

I found this Popeye episode to be the one that showed Olive Oyl at her worst as the fickle woman she is. She roared with laughter at all the April Fool Jokes being pulled on Popeye by Bluto, but, when she's the recipient (Bluto makes it look like Popeye's joke, not his), she's enraged at our hero. She, of course, takes off with Bluto. Personally, I'd have let her have the oaf, and be done with her. Popeye certainly deserved better. At the end, after Popeye April Fool's Bluto with a rubber sea monster, she's finds it terribly funny, and is laughing her head off at Bluto now. In other episodes, Bluto has managed to make Popeye out to be a fool in front of Olive, and then walked off with her. And Popeye, really a bigger fool, chases after her, shows up Bluto (like here), and she switches back to him. "Love is blind", they say, and in Popeye's case, it Blind and stupid!

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