Handlung

Popeye's birthday, and Olive managed to get enough rationed sugar to bake him a cake, so she invites him over. Shorty is suicidal because he never gets any mail; Popeye invites him, too. But Shorty is also accident prone. He goes to wash his hands, and manages to flood Popeye right into the sewer. He assembles the ingredients, then manages to get them all over Popeye. Olive tells Popeye to wash up; Shorty runs the water, and we get another flood. Shorty decides Popeye needs to play some games, so they play baseball, golf, and hockey in Olive's living room, all ending disastrously for Popeye. Popeye manages to cut a hole in the floor; Shorty falls in, Popeye throws a rug on it, then Olive arrives carrying the cake and falls in. Soon, everyone's in the furnace in the cellar.—Jon Reeves <jreeves@imdb.com>

Popeye and his shipmates are over the moon because they've all gotten letters from their sweethearts, save for Shorty who hasn't gotten a letter and is feeling so down in the dumps that's he's near suicide. Popeye takes pity on him and invites him to Olive's house to celebrate his birthday. Unfortunately for Popeye, Shorty turns out to be a raving pest, a klutz and a nuisance when he tries to do even the most rudimentary thing. Even an attempt to do a simple thing like wash his hands ends up with Popeye washed away in a flood and crawling out of the sewer -- twice. Even his attempts to play games like baseball, golf and hockey end badly for Popeye. The mêlée ends with a large hole in the floor that Olive falls through when she emerges from the kitchen with Popeye's birthday cake. Mishaps end with Popeye and Shorty falling through the hold and ending up in the basement furnace where Shorty sings Happy Birthday in the dark, until a gunshot signifies "The Bitter End."—Jerry Roberts <bothan2001@hotmail.com>