A Date to Skate
About A Date to Skate
Popeye walks Olive Oyl past a roller rink whose signs read "Good Skates 50 cents, Cheap Skates 25 cents." She says she cannot skate. He rents skates and holds her until he lets go. She shoots out of the rink, swings on a lamppost, hits a trolley, and grabs the ladder of a fire truck. Popeye has forgotten his spinach. A man in a window throws him a can. He catches her at the bottom of a hill. She wants to skate again.
Cast & crew
More about A Date to Skate
Dave Fleischer directed. Max Fleischer produced. Paramount released it on 18 November 1938. Jack Mercer voices Popeye. Mae Questel voices Olive. Wikipedia times a copy at 7 minutes 16 seconds. It is the last cartoon the Fleischers made at their New York studio, and the last Fleischer short with Questel as Olive.
Themes
Making
The short closed the Fleischers' New York production. The studio's next Popeye cartoons were made after the move.
Preservation
A print is on Wikimedia Commons.
Notes
- Popeye asks the audience for spinach, and a figure inside the cartoon throws the can.
- Olive's last line is sung to the Popeye theme: "My heart's palpitatin' whenever I'm skatin' with Popeye the Sailor Man!
Scenes
- Olive leaves the rink and hangs onto a fire truck.
- A can of spinach comes out of a window because Popeye left his at home.
- He catches her after the hill, and she asks to do it again.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (A Date To Skate (1938).webm)
Quotes
I must be getting old.
Now don't tell me I left it at home!
My heart's palpitatin' whenever I'm skatin' with Popeye the Sailor Man!
