Popeye - Series 1 Ep. 8 - Customers Wanted

Wimpy comes out tops

06 December 2008

Popeye and Bluto both run penny arcades and are side-by-side vying for customers. Neither is doing much business. Wimpy walks in and the competition is on to see who gets his business. Bluto wins out and winds up showing the cheap Wimpy a "moving picture" (flipping pages quickly through a machine) in which Bluto impresses Olive Oyl with this strength as a furniture mover. Popeye literally pulls the rug underneath Wimpy and gets him into his arcade and treats him a movie in which the story continues, expect Popeye, of course, is the impressive one.

The same thing happens again with competing baseball-hero movies and finally the two just slug it out....and Wimpy winds up making a profit over it.

Nothing super, but not bad and a clever ending, which refers back to the opening of the cartoon.

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