Learn Polikeness

Popeye seems to be immune to proper etiquette when Olive Oyl insists on his attending Professor Bluto's school of good manners. But when Bluto strangle Olive, a little spinach gives Popeye the ability to deal appropriately with the fellow.

It's all an excuse for the one-upmanship and eventual fist fight, instigated by Bluto and finished by the Popster, along with some nicely timed gags, and ornamented by the Fleischer's tabletop process to add a sense of three dimensions.

I could, if I wished, argue that it's another in the long series of the cartoons in which everything leads up to a fight. But I don't wish to. At this stage, it's handled with a lot of big and little jokes, and so it's cartooning at a very high level of excellence.