The Fleisher brothers (Dave Fleischer and Lou Fleischer) used Bluto in this short as the operator of a diner who is annoyed by Wimpy's hamburger mooching. This is loosely taken from E.C. Segar's Thimble Theatre comic where a recurring character named Rough House, a hard working chef who owns and operates the Rough House Cafe, is often seen serving meals to Popeye and his friends and trying to avoid the mooching ways of the hamburger loving Wimpy. Bluto is used in this cartoon to give Popeye someone to fight since Rough House is an ally to Popeye.
One of a number of Popeye shorts that were sent to Asia in the 1980s to undergo a redraw and colorization process.
As Wimpy walks out, arms loaded with food, he appears to have a whole, uncooked goose draped over his left arm.
The combination for Bluto's refrigerator safe, which is entered via a telephone dial, is 8538. However, the next two times he opens the safe, he "dials" only three numbers.
Hamburgers had become hugely popular in the Depression era and were standard fare at diners across America. The postwar drive in restaurant fad would continue their popularity, leading to the first fast food burger joints.
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