"Popeye"
Operation Ice-Tickle (1961)

Director:

Seymour Kneitel

Writer:

Joseph Gottlieb (story)

TV Series:

"Popeye" (1960)

Original Air Date:

1961 (Season 2, Episode 21)

Genre:

Animation

Plot:

Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North Pole -- which turns out to be an actual pole with red and white stripes. |

Plot Keywords:

Statue | Visual Pun | Handshake | Body Frozen Under Ice | Hot Air Balloon

Cast

(in alphabetical order)

Jackson Beck	...	Brutus / Admiral Peary (voice) (uncredited)
Jack Mercer	...	Popeye (voice) (uncredited)
Mae Questel	...	Olive Oyl (voice) (uncredited)

Quotes:

[first lines]
Popeye: Hiya, Olive. How's about goin' for a little stroll in the park?

Staying Upbeat

Popeye and Brutus are exchanging insults and Olive gets tired of listening to it. She asks them to stop arguing and do something worthwhile. "Why don't you make your stamp on eternity?"

"Give us a for-instance," asks Bluto.

Olive is leaning on a statue of Admiral Perry, discoverer of the North Pole. "Why don't you guys discover something like he did?" she replies. Popeye promises not only to discover something "but bring it back here!"

Olive says she'll go out with the "first guy who brings me the North Pole." The two boobs (they must be, to compete for her) go racing off. Brutus builds a rocket; Popeye, an air balloon. You know who wins.

I liked Popeye's attitude in here. No matter how bad things got, he just kept sining to himself and feeling optimistic. His scat-music singing was the best part of the cartoon!