Olive Oyl for President

Popeye and Olive are listening to various politicians busking for votes. She grows tired of same ole promises and wonders if she could be President. Popeye laughs at her and she hits him with a skillet. He gets knocked out and starts dreaming Olive laying out her platform. This seems to be progressive but somehow it comes off as sexist. It happens a lot during this era. They like to do a special episode with women as political leaders but they always look at the work from a housewife's point of view. It's a cartoon of its era.

We very seldom hear a word out of Olive, other than to admire Bluto or go along with Popeye's schemes. Lots of yelling. Here, Popeye is struck and dreams that Olive is running for President. Her feminist side takes over and most of her proposals are self serving. And that's great. We are also given a taste of the windbag politicians that usually win. Good job.

This cartoon is a great one. I never knew Mae Questal sung the song "If I Were President" This even shows the part that a beautiful 18 year old redhead woman in her green dress has a box with two silkworms forming silk stockings over her legs. I think this is the best part I have ever seen in my entire life. Now even if they remade this Popeye cartoon short, Olive Oyl would not be a skinny woman, she would be more of a voluptuous brunette woman which is more attractive. The new voice of Olive Oyl should be played by Megan Fox; Paris Hilton; Scarlet Johansson; Jessica Simpson; Mandy Moore or Britney Spears. They make great voices for Olive Oyl. Even I think Jessica Simpson; Britney Spears or Mandy Moore should sing Ìf I Were President.

Olive sings her version of "I Enjoy Being a Girl" in this fanciful, entertaining cartoon which gives us a glimpse into the way her mind works. Very well done.

. . . Popeye was all for Olive, this picture documents. What guy would not back Olive, given her promise to provide herds of scantily-clad floozies leaping over gentlemen suffering from insomnia in a new federally guaranteed shut-eye program? When this proposal was screened in 1948, the actual Real Life Rosie-the-Riveter type American women were being strongly encouraged to set their welding masks aside in order to tend the cribs of the upcoming Baby Boom Crowd. After all, the surviving male inhabitants of our U. S. Homeland were mostly back from their World War Two tours overseas, and needed to resume bringing home the bacon as heads of their happy homes. Therefore, serving as sleep aids for the victorious hero-laden masculine gender was a perfect job assignment for all those ladies who had stayed put, safely confined to the Home Front.