Spinach Fer Britain
Spinach Fer Britain | |
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Black and white | |
Production company | |
Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
Release date | January 22, 1943 |
Running time | 6:26 |
Language | English |
Spinach Fer Britain is a 1943
Like its predecessor, You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, Spinach Fer Britain was kept out of distribution for several decades, due to its propagandistic nature and frequent display of Nazism, until it received an official release in November 2008 in a DVD collection of Popeye cartoons produced between 1941–1943. It also had limited airings on Cartoon Network as part of The Popeye Show.[3]
Plot
The short opens with five
Meanwhile, Popeye the Sailor is heading for
But Popeye rows into a
Popeye rows the half-destroyed U-boat toward Britain. He enters a heavy fog and the U-boat ends up crashing into traffic right outside 10 Downing Street in London, where all the cans of spinach spill out of the sub to the cheers of the Londoners. Popeye exits the sub along with the battered Nazi captain, who salutes and says "Heil Hitler!" Popeye stuffs him back into the U-boat and puffs his tobacco pipe to "V for Victory" before the short ends.[4]
Availability
Due to the short's World War II ethnic stereotyping of Nazi stereotypes, the short was banned from TV, but was presented on Cartoon Network and [adult swim] as part of its anthology series The Popeye Show.
Spinach Fer Britain is available on
References
- ^ "Spinach Fer Britain". IMDb. 22 January 1943.
- ISBN 0-8160-3831-7.
- ^ "Popeye the Sailor: 1941-1943: The Complete Third Volume". Amazon.
- YouTube
- ^ "ClassicFlix - Only the Classics - ClassicFlix".
External links
- Spinach Fer Britain at IMDb
- Spinach Fer Britain at the TCM Movie Database