About the only gag in the Popeye cartoon
Let’s Celebrake (1938) is a visual/verbal pun on a neon billboard involving Father Time and the Baby New Year. I guess it’s lost of those who have never seen a wringer washing machine.
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It’s a change from Popeye and Bluto beating the crap out of each other.
Seymour Kneitel and William Henning get the screen credits for animation.
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