Hold the Wire (1936)

Jack Mercer: Popeye

Quotes 

• Popeye : Oh, yeah? I'm beginning to see the light.

  Popeye : [pulls lamp upward and plugs in Bluto's wire]  Must be a thousand watts in this thing.

  Popeye : I'll show him what's watt!

  [pulls switch, and a zapping arrow sizzles Bluto in the butt] 

• Bluto : [singing a parody of "A Dream Walking"]  Did ya ever see a guy falling?

  Popeye : Well, you will!

• Popeye : Hello, Olive Oyl; this is Popeye. How's about me an' you goin' places, huh, Toots?

  Olive Oyl : Hm hm hm. Well, I don't know, Popeye. You're not romantic enough.

• Popeye : Here's a little poem I wrote by Emerson: Roses is red, violets is blue / Next to spinach, I love you.

• [last lines] 

  Popeye : Romance will be brighter, if you have a fighter / Like Popeye the Sailor Man!

• Bluto : *singing to the song "Love in Bloom"*

  Popeye : [singing]  Oh, no, it isn't your turn, I'll get there.

  [both men club each other but almost lose their footing until they return to their posts] 

  Bluto : [singing]  Did you ever see a guy falling?

  Popeye : [singing]  Well, you will!

  [both men club each other again, with the same near-frightening results]