Volunteer firefighters Popeye and Wimpy arrive just in time to see the charred remains of Olive Oyl's house, which burned down after she used "only a gallon of gasoline" to clean her dress. Gotta hand it to those Fleischers -- they really work to keep our attention.
Popeye vows that since he missed the "housewarming," he and Wimpy will help Olive re-build, giving new meaning to the phrase "flip this house." (Example: When Wimpy is carrying a load of wood that is too wide to fit through the door, rather than entering the door sideways, he finds it easier to saw off the offending parts of the wall.)
Lots of spot gags about house-building lead to the eventual collapse of the new house. Popeye downs the spinach and re-re-builds the house in less time than the opening credits took, but still it collapses again. Guess that spinach needs to be recalled!
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© 2007, Steve Bailey.
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