To clean her apartment floor, Olive Oyl spreads soapy water across her floor, attaches towels to her feet, and skates across the floor to soak up the water. (Is this really the same woman who can barely stay upright five cartoons later, in A Date to Skate?)
Then a pipe on the side of the wall springs a leak. Olive plugs the leak while she calls a plumber -- ever-helpful Wimpy, who offers the query, "Why didn't you call yesterday? I was in that part of the neighborhood." Wimpy does his usual un-speedy work in getting to Olive's place, leaving enough time for Popeye to pop in.
Between the two of them, Popeye and Olive turn a single leak into multiple geysers. The house nearly floods before Popeye pulls out his "plumber's helper" -- the spinach can.
As with most of the great Fleischer cartoons, a breezily simple plot is propped up by delightfully elaborate gags. A simple pleasure to watch.
My rating:
© 2007, Steve Bailey.
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