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Quiet!Pleeze had an appropriate opening, of Popeye's cantankerous father, Poopdeck Pappy, suffering from wicked hangover, to mournful strains of "How Dry I Am", popular song mourning of inebriation and feeling blah. Indeed, Pappy WAS in such bad mood that when a cat padded along, as felines do, he barked "Quit that stamping around!"(There is a silly version of "How Dry I Am", about which I do not think.) Pappy would NOT ADMIT that he had been drinking too much, said he had hangover, checking himself to mean headache. He asked son Popeye to keep things quiet so he could rest. Some of the means used in Sock-a-Bye, Baby, filmed in 1934, were repeated in this cartoon, the punching of a building under construction, causing it to collapse, as punching the radio, which knocked out the singer. (A buddy of mine and I pretended to be punched when radio listeners smashed radios.) Popeye returned to the apartment, to find Pappy, after his nap, PARTYING AGAIN! Pappy told his son that he felt like a million, just needed rest and quiet, but had NOT really learned his lesson! The cartoon ended with Popeye HIMSELF in bed, no doubt because his father's unwillingness to co-operate made him sick. Surely, This was amusing variant of Sock-a-Bye, Baby, which showed what Poopdeck Pappy was like. As sidenote, Poopdeck Pappy did not appear much after 1941; after the Fleischer brothers were bounced in 1942, and the studio became Famous Studios, Poopdeck Pappy appeared only once or twice. (Eugene the Jeep was not in the 1942-57 Famous Studios cartoons at all, and J Wellington Wimpy was in only a handful.) At all events, I loved this cartoon as much as Sock-a-Bye, Baby, even if ALL the means that Popeye used to quiet things did not appear, like the music-school episode.
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