"You nasty man!" is a reference to an Alice Faye song, which came out in 1934, the same year as this cartoon.
"El Ropo" was a slang term for a cheap or particularly smelly cigar.
This is the first Popeye short film where his theme begins playing as he eats spinach.
The door mat outside the Bruiser Boys Club has a big "X" through the word "Welcome".
Olive works as some type of nurse at the Bruiser Boys Club adjacent medical clinic.