Popeye wasn’t the only one to eat spinach in the Fleischer cartoons. Olive chowed down on it to turn beat the crap out of a woman gym rat in Never Kick A Woman (1936). Bluto had it shoved down his throat to beat up Popeye and put him in hospital with nurse Olive in Hospitaliky (1937). And Popeye fed it to a duck to turn it into a helicopter in I Never Changes My Altitude (also 1937).
The duck and Popeye reach the chortling Bluto, who has thrown Olive Oyl out of his plane. You know what’ll happen next.
Willard Bowsky and Orestes Calpini are given the animation credits.
"Spinachk" always sets my teeth on edge.
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