When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build a new house with disastrous results.When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build a new house with disastrous results.When Olive Oyl's house burns down, firefighters Popeye and Wimpy decide to build a new house with disastrous results.
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Jack Mercer
- Popeye
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
Mae Questel
- Olive Oyl
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Seymour Kneitel(uncredited)
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Did you know
- TriviaOlive Oyl claims she'd been cleaning her clothes with gasoline. The primary dry cleaning solvent in the early 20th century was, in fact, gasoline.
- GoofsWhen Popeye hit's Olive with the wall paper she is turning to look his way as she walks across the path of the flying wall paper. And yet when he rescues her she is facing the wall with the wall paper on her back.
- Alternate versionsThere is a redrawn colorized version from 1987 originally commissioned by Ted Turner.
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No Fisticuffs, Just House Building
This is another of those unusual Popeye cartoons in which there is no Bluto and no fisticuffs.....just a story of trying to build a house.
It begins with Popeye and Wimpy - "The Volunteer Firemen" - arriving too late to save Olive's house. All that is left is a bathtub sticking up in the air on the second story. Olive and her pets are on the front steps sobbing their eyes out. Her man, however, comes to rescue by volunteering to build her a new house. The three begin immediately. (Olive is actually helping, and so is Wimpy - in between bites on his unlimited supply of hamburgers.)
We then witness the strange way the crew goes about trying to build this house. (If only wallpapering was as easy as it is portrayed here.) It's laugh-out-loud material but it's continually humorous with a couple of twists at the end. Overall, the best parts were some of the drawings in here and the sight gags of these "house builders."
It begins with Popeye and Wimpy - "The Volunteer Firemen" - arriving too late to save Olive's house. All that is left is a bathtub sticking up in the air on the second story. Olive and her pets are on the front steps sobbing their eyes out. Her man, however, comes to rescue by volunteering to build her a new house. The three begin immediately. (Olive is actually helping, and so is Wimpy - in between bites on his unlimited supply of hamburgers.)
We then witness the strange way the crew goes about trying to build this house. (If only wallpapering was as easy as it is portrayed here.) It's laugh-out-loud material but it's continually humorous with a couple of twists at the end. Overall, the best parts were some of the drawings in here and the sight gags of these "house builders."
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- Oct 20, 2007
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- Budowniczy domu
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- Runtime6 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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By what name was The House Builder-Upper (1938) officially released in Canada in English?
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