Review by boblipton

Popeye is following Olive Oyl down the street. When she turns into the entrance of the hospital annex of the Bruiser Boys Club, saying it's where she works, Popeye decides he wants to join. But the initiation is rougher than he anticipates.

There were a lot of short comedies during the silent and early sound eras in which someone wished to join a fraternity, sorority, or fraternal order, only to find an utterly bizarre initiation; it was often combined with a fright comedy theme. This one is simply brutal, as filled with cartoon violence as any.

It was the sort of cartoon that clueless moralists later decried as encouraging violence. Show Bluto attacking Popeye with a fire axe would convince small children they could do the same without any harm being done. That was a lie, of course. When my brother and I fought, it was specifically to harm each other.