Poopdeck Pappy (1940)

Absolutely brilliant

A waste of 90 minutes of my life

It's a good bad... and worth a popcorn matinée. While it's easy to lament what could have been...

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Poopdeck Pappy (1940)*** (out of 4)Popeye tells his father that he's old and needs to slow down a bit. The old man says he's as young as his son so the two hit the town and trouble follows.POOPDECK PAPPY is a pretty good entry for the series as it features Popeye at his best and the father character is also pretty good. This year saw a couple different shorts with the father character so obviously people of that time must have enjoyed it. This one here is pretty funny as the two get into some nice fights as the old man tries to pick up some ladies. As usual the animation is nice and there's no question that it moves at a very good pace.

There a lot of life left to the old man - Popeye's 99-year-old father known in full as "Poopdeck Pappy." Anyway, dear old dad is staying with his son and Popeye wants treats him like a little kid, making sure he gets to bed on time. There's one problem: Pappy wants to go out and have a good time, not go to bed.The whole cartoon revolves around the one-joke idea of the son trying to make sure dad stays in bed. Pappy's bed is a hammock directly over Popeye'e bed. The moment Popeye turns the light off, gets into bed and says "Goodnight, Pappy," the joke re-starts because the old geezer is gone is a flash.Popeye tries everything, which is pretty funny to watch. Also entertaining is Pappy's dancing with the hot young babes at the nightclub. All in all, the gags work, Pappy is a hoot and this is one of the better cartoons of the period.

This is a funny little cartoon from the Fleischer Studios and I never knew that Popeye had a father before!! Well.......I mean, at least in his animated cartoons. This is the first cartoon that I have seen that had the Pappy character in it and he is hilarious in it. In fact, Pappy steals the cartoon from his more famous son, Popeye. Did Pappy get to be in any other cartoons?? I will have to search for them as I like him!! The cartoon is about Popeye trying to get his 99 year old father to go to bed and the old guy just ain't a-going!! Pappy out-tricks Popeye at every turn. I gotta tell ya, for a 99 year old man, Pappy sure does get around!! All the old guy wants to do is go out to a beer joint and have a dance or two with the gals. His first dance is funny, especially when he swings his partner at the end of the dance number. You gotta see it to believe it.

Before Famous Studios gradually reduced the Popeye series to a marshmallow-soft snoozer, the Fleisher brothers were still pumping adrenaline into it, and in some of the best entries, they abandoned the "Help, Popeye" rut in favor of focusing on some of the great Thimble Theater supporting characters. In this one, our hero is trying fruitlessly to keep his scrappy Pappy from going out on the town and picking fights. Solid entertainment. And we can only imagine how ornery Pappy will someday be when Popeye eventually decides to dump him in a nursing home!