Hospitaliky

This short has Popeye and Bluto trying extremely hard to get admitted to a hospital. I try very hard to avoid them myself, so I fail to see the attraction. But the animation is good, the gags are funny and Popeye's mutterings and asides are a scream, as always. The funniest jokes are often those little muttered comments Jack Mercer would make. They're particularly good in this one. Well worth watching. Recommended.

When both Bluto and Popeye want to get in the hospital to be near Olive Oyl, they proceed to try to cause damage to themselves. They try to explode themselves, let trains run over them, allow the other to beat them up. Whoever thought of this plot was very, very clever.

One of my favorite Popeye shorts is from 1937. Despite my 9 out of 10 rating, I really enjoy this cartoon and consider it another favorite of mine.

In this short, oh boy! How can men be so foolish in their attempts to impress women? I mean, Popeye and Bluto go to colossal lengths to impress Olive Oyl, trying wild stunts like skydiving and crashing a scooter into a wall. Olive Oyl is working as a nurse at the hospital. Please keep in mind that professional "toons" perform these stunts, and you should not attempt them at home. Stay safe, and enjoy this cartoon!

I love how Popeye pretends to be sick with hilarious fits. I enjoy the humor and creativity in the story, especially the unexpected twist at the end with the spinach-eating scene. So overall, it is another marvelous Popeye short from 1937.

Now THIS was different: Popeye and Bluto trying to get hurt, trying to be injured badly. Huh?

Well, it's what Olive tells them after the two get into an argument in front of a hospital. "You have to be hurt badly to get into a hospital," she tells them, so both guys go off in separate directions looking for ways to get pulverized and get sent to the hospital!

The scene earlier at the hospital front doors had some good moments of humor. "My high blood pressure is low, too," is one of the good lines Popeye gets off as he and Bluto both go into dramatics pretending to be sick. The only reason they are acting like this is that Olive just walked in, and she's a nurse. They want her attention. When Popeye outdoes Bluto is the theatrics, Bluto calls him a faker and the argument escalates until Olive comes out and tells them what I mentioned in the first paragraph.

What lengths both of these guys do to get injured provides some outstanding moments and some terrific graphics (sight gags). It reminded me a bit of a Dabney Coleman movie in the '80s called "Short Time," where he tried everything to kill himself and was never, thankfully, successful.

In a shocking ending, Popeye gives Bluto the spinach, instead of eating it himself, hoping that Bluto will beat the you-know-what out of him. It's unbelievable!!

This may be the best of an excellent collection of mid-to-late 1930s Popeye cartoon, one of many included in the recent DVD package featuring his theatrical cartoons from 1933-1938. Great stuff!

Popeye and Bluto spot Olive Oyl in a nurse's uniform going into a hospital. They pretend to be sick, but apparently you need to be at death's door to get into this joint, so they try to just-shy-of-kill themselves.

Movie comedies about suicidal people were long popular, at least as far back as 1906's LE PENDU. There's a lot of ways for the boys to self-massacre, and they choose some interesting ones. However the final method, the one of that works, is unique to this cartoon series, and I should have seen it coming but did not. Kudos on that.

There are also plenty of other gags on view. Director Dave Fleischer like to pack them in.