"Popeye the Sailor" After the Ball Went Over (TV Episode 1960) Poster

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Popeye Loses Without His Spinach
ccthemovieman-12 April 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Popeye and Brutus are playing an outdoor ping-pong match at a picnic and Olive is watching. "Ohh, I just a love a ping-pong match," she says. "Whoever wins gets a kiss from me, and an extra portion of lunch." (Note: when did Bluto become "Brutus?" Apparently when these King Syndicated Popeye cartoons began in 1960.)

The two combatants use whatever they can to beat the other guy, including eggs for ping- pong balls, Mexican jumping beans inside the ball, explosives inside the ball, etc.

Overall, not as good as the above paragraph makes it sound but still decently entertaining I do give it a point for an original ending, something that never happens in other Popeye cartoons - he loses to his rival. When Olive asks him, "Is there anything I could do for you?," Popeye replies, "Yeah, get a new script-writer, someone who will put me spinach back in the story!"
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Bland, sloppy entry from Jack Kinney
J. Spurlin4 May 2008
Olive is enjoying the game of ping pong between Popeye and Brutus. But the two romantic rivals are taking their game seriously indeed, especially since Olive has promised the winner a kiss and an extra portion of lunch. Each player plays tricks on the other. Brutus puts jumping beans in the ball. Popeye replaces the ball with an egg. And so on. But Popeye is overconfident, certain that the writer will include the spinach gimmick into the story.

The Popeye cartoons from the 1960s TV series came from five different studios, the worst and weirdest ones from Jack Kinney Productions. "After the Ball Went Over" is a typically sloppy Kinney cartoon. But instead of weird, it's just bland. Not even breaking the fourth wall can save it.
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