. . . judging by their inherent value displayed during WIMPY THE MOOCHER. Title character "Wimpy" manages to barter just one of a "fistful" of the round gems for a platter of 30 hamburgers during the course of this brief cartoon. Wimpy had garnered his lucrative cache from the pawnbroker "Geezil" in exchange for one thin dime earlier that morning. Given America's prevalence of burger joints, it seems likely that Wimpy will be able to finagle at least 1,200 burgers for his ten-cent investment. At his rate, his ultimate per burger cost will amount to one red cent for every 120 sliders. Of course, this is congruent with the ACTUAL worth of the world's diamond supply. More than a century ago a cabal of South African racketeers bribed the planet's financial institutions to go along with the fiction that plentiful diamonds deserve to be valued above an equal weight of pearls, or fragments of broken glass. Now the entire southern portion of their lower hemisphere continent is honeycombed with vast underground warehouses, stock-piling at least a billion-year supply of "sparklers" which SHOULD be selling for a dime a fistful!
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This picture deals with a notorious hamburger swindler . . .
pixrox129 April 2023
. . . out to sell 30 burgers for a thousand bucks. That amounts to an exorbitant charge of $33.34 per sandwich, or $343.45 in Today's money, as adjusted for inflation. Strangely enough, this Ham Burglar is NOT named Ray Crock. However, Rough House's first initial is R, raising the probability that the filmmakers had Crock on their mind as they fashioned WELLINGTON THE MOOCHER. Even White Castle will sell you a "Crave Case" of 30 sliders for far less than a hundred bucks, let alone a grand. But by making money hand over wrist through selling billions and billions of sawdust and cardboard confections, it's likely Crock can afford to deck out his mini mints with ACTUAL Gold Arches.
Score One For The Moocher, But Not The Cartoon
ccthemovieman-121 July 2007
I like the title of the diner that Popeye and Olive are eating in today: The Rough House Restaurant. "Rough House" is the name of the owner and the man who serves them." Oysters are their specialty. There's a sign on the wall that says "Ham and Eggs: 40 cents."
"Rough House" (the same voice as Brutus, by the way) is not in a good mood. He's tired of their friend Wimpy not paying his bills and pulling stunts all the time. He says that won't happen again. Wimpy, the famous hamburger-loving moocher, is at the door and overhears this, so he has to come up with a new plan.
His plan turns out to be a good one, a lot better than this cartoon which is incredibly weak. Here's a rare Popeye cartoon that I doubt would appeal to adults or kids. It just isn't funny, and it over before you know it.
"Rough House" (the same voice as Brutus, by the way) is not in a good mood. He's tired of their friend Wimpy not paying his bills and pulling stunts all the time. He says that won't happen again. Wimpy, the famous hamburger-loving moocher, is at the door and overhears this, so he has to come up with a new plan.
His plan turns out to be a good one, a lot better than this cartoon which is incredibly weak. Here's a rare Popeye cartoon that I doubt would appeal to adults or kids. It just isn't funny, and it over before you know it.
Popeye and Olive are merely along for the ride in this undistinguished, but not especially bad, story of Wimpy versus Rough House
J. Spurlin5 May 2008
Popeye and Olive go to Rough House's diner for the specialty of the day: oysters on the half shell. Geezil, who owns the hock shop, is already there slurping his soup and keeping to himself. Wimpy drops in soon after, but Rough House is determined to resist any and all of his attempts to mooch off him or gyp him out of hamburgers. Rough House is overconfident. Wimpy's con job begins with him buying a single raw oyster.
W.C. Fields's dictum that you can't cheat an honest man applies to this story. But I'm never on Wimpy's side when he tries to pull a fast one. I'd just as soon have every cartoon end with him getting a boot in the ass. Popeye and Olive are merely along for the ride in this undistinguished, but not especially bad, entry in the Popeye series.
W.C. Fields's dictum that you can't cheat an honest man applies to this story. But I'm never on Wimpy's side when he tries to pull a fast one. I'd just as soon have every cartoon end with him getting a boot in the ass. Popeye and Olive are merely along for the ride in this undistinguished, but not especially bad, entry in the Popeye series.
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