"The Women's Brotherly Love Society" is a new one on me, but that's what we see here. The group is holding a "mass meeting" at "Patterson Square Garden." You can guess who's the president - yup, "Miss Olive Oyl," as she is introduced. In the middle of the boxing ring inside stands Olive singing into a microphone. Boy, this looks and sounds like the opening of a Betty Boop cartoon, especially since the singer is Mae Questel, who did both voices.
The lyrics to the song she is singing is typical upbeat-1930s stuff, designed to lift the spirits of American during the Depression years (which were about over, thankfully). Here's one verse: "Make every Tom, Dick and Otto, obey our golden motto, 'cause what we need is brotherly love!"
Popeye is listening to her sing on the radio and takes the words to heart, going out and helping everyone he can, thanks to some superhuman strength, even without the spinach.
His attitude is sorely tested when he gets involved in a big gang-fight rumble in the streets. The same applies for Olive who, ah, let's say, doesn't practice what she preaches. So much for "sisterly" love, too!
Notes: 1 - There is no Bluto in here. The gangs are the "bad guys." 2 - You want to know just how sick and ignorant these modern-day "entertainment" people are? In the subtitles in one scene, two kids are trying to see a baseball game through a knothole. Popeye comes by and they yell "cheese it," a popular expression of the day. The subtitles read "Jesus!" As you know, that would never happen in a Popeye cartoon nor would it be allowed but - wink - the guys at Warner Brothers probably thought this would be cool to put in the subtitles. This is not the first example of this in subtitles, even in cartoons. This is modern-day Warner Brothers, for you, politically-correct in every way but still religiously bigoted and just plain ignorant.
The lyrics to the song she is singing is typical upbeat-1930s stuff, designed to lift the spirits of American during the Depression years (which were about over, thankfully). Here's one verse: "Make every Tom, Dick and Otto, obey our golden motto, 'cause what we need is brotherly love!"
Popeye is listening to her sing on the radio and takes the words to heart, going out and helping everyone he can, thanks to some superhuman strength, even without the spinach.
His attitude is sorely tested when he gets involved in a big gang-fight rumble in the streets. The same applies for Olive who, ah, let's say, doesn't practice what she preaches. So much for "sisterly" love, too!
Notes: 1 - There is no Bluto in here. The gangs are the "bad guys." 2 - You want to know just how sick and ignorant these modern-day "entertainment" people are? In the subtitles in one scene, two kids are trying to see a baseball game through a knothole. Popeye comes by and they yell "cheese it," a popular expression of the day. The subtitles read "Jesus!" As you know, that would never happen in a Popeye cartoon nor would it be allowed but - wink - the guys at Warner Brothers probably thought this would be cool to put in the subtitles. This is not the first example of this in subtitles, even in cartoons. This is modern-day Warner Brothers, for you, politically-correct in every way but still religiously bigoted and just plain ignorant.
