Nurse-Mates (1940)
10/10
Babysitting Mishaps with Popeye and Bluto
1 December 2009
Here is a favourite Popeye cartoon from 1940. I am quite terribly particular about a favourite cartoon from which year. This short has lots of "dialogue-humor," which I like in this cartoon. Dialogue-humor is what I call funny lines. And in this cartoon, it's Disney regular Pinto Colvig as Bluto's voice; I thought he was funny as the "big-lug."

In this short, Popeye and Bluto (simultaneously) ask Olive out to the movies. But first Olive has a hairdresser's appointment, so the guys will have to watch over Swee'Pea while she's out. The two compete against each other to follow Olive's schedule of taking care of Swee'Pea: bathing, dressing, and putting him down for his nap. But it was one argument after another. You know, there is a 1937 short of Popeye and Bluto arguing over Swee'Pea (on the count of Olive) that I love called "I Likes Babies and Infinks." Of course, the two were trying to make Swee'Pea laugh. That is all I have to say about this short. I don't have any particular scene I like, because I love this cartoon from beginning to end. I give a ten for animation and dialogue-humor.
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