Customers Wanted

Popeye and Bluto are running competing, side-by-side penny arcades, with no customers. Wimpy wanders by and enters first one, then the other, to use the peep show machines to watch clips from old Popeye cartoons, paid for by Popeye and Bluto.

If you think the clip show was invented by television, think again. While this was not the first use of the technique by the Fleischers, it is an early one. As such, it suffers from the same flaw that they all do. Although about half of it is new material, most of the gags and fights are stuff you've seen before.

The economies in building a cartoon this way are obvious. But it certainly has a limited amount of fun.