Director: Dave Fleischer
Release Date: June 7, 1940
Stars: Popeye, Olive Oyl, Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye
Rating: ★★★½
Review:
‘Wimmen is a Myskery’ opens with Popeye proposing to Olive.
Olive tells our favorite sailor that she’ll answer him next morning. That night Olive dreams of her married life. Popeye is nowhere to be seen, but she sure has a hard time with their childeren: Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye, who after taking spinach give her a good spanking.
‘Wimmen is a Myskery’ is one of those cartoons in which cartoon characters dream of marriage, with unfavorable results. In this respect, Olive follows Mickey Mouse in ‘Mickey’s Nightmare‘ (1932), and Porky Pig in ‘Porky’s Romance‘ (1937). Like Mickey Olive’s main fear is numerous disobedient children, and indeed, Popeye’s offspring have none of his gentle character. No wonder Olive turns Popeye down in the morning….
Nevertheless, Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye would materialize in the real world as Popeye’s nephews in ‘Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye an’ Peep-eye’ (1942), just like the little mice from ‘Mickey’s Nightmare’ had done in ‘Giantland‘ (1933). Obviously, Pip-eye, Pup-eye, Poop-eye and Peep-eye have more in common with Donald’s nephews Huey, Dewey and Louie, introduced in ‘Donald’s Nephews‘ (1938), and no doubt are inspired by them.
Watch ‘Wimmen is a Myskery’ yourself and tell me what you think:
‘Wimmen is a Myskery’ is available on the DVD set ‘Popeye the Sailor Volume Two’
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July 10, 2018 at 03:06
Hans Christian Brando
Although by then they were reduced to twins. As Popeye’s alleged nephews (given Poopdeck Pappy’s amorality, it’s not impossible Popeye would have had an unknown sibling, but I understand animation historians have decided that they were Popeye and Olive’s actual illegitimate offspring; given the Production Code, if that had come out at the time, no amount of spinach would have saved Popeye’s film career) the quadruplets had become triplets by 1953. And then there were two.
June 23, 2018 at 20:04
Jonathan Wilson (@Jonatha42420322)
You missed an important(?) detail, Grob. Cartoon was remade a decade later in Famous Studios’ ‘Bride and Gloom’ (1954).
June 23, 2018 at 20:30
Gijs Grob
Indeed! I didn’t know that. Thanks for the welcome information!