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Her Honor the Mare is Popeye's first standard cartoon to be produced in color and the 123rd in the overall series, released on November 26, 1943 by Famous Studios. While Fleischer Studios produced three color Popeye films in the 1930s, those were double-length Color Specials as opposed to standard cartoons.
Plot[]
A frail horse is even rejected by the glue factory, but is found by Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye, who become interested in it. As they wonder if the animal can do tricks, it tries imitating a dog. They bring it home where they ask Popeye if they can keep it in the house, but the sailor is not amused by the horse's doglike attitude and takes it outside. The boys get an I-D-E-A in unison: they disguise the animal's behind as a painter's face to allow them to haul it up to the second floor. Inside, they bathe and feed the animal while keeping it hidden from Popeye. Yet giving the horse horseradish to eat sends it into a frenzy and it is soon discovered by Popeye. The sailor then makes several futile attempts to get the boys' pet out, but desists when it is revealed that the mare was in fact in the family way and now she and her young must be kept home.
Trivia[]
- This is the first standard Popeye cartoon in color.
- This marks the only appearance of Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye in an early color Popeye cartoon due to the following shorts following mainly focusing on the Olive Oyl-Bluto-Popeye dynamic, until 1948's Spinach vs Hamburgers.
- First Paramount cartoon to use the 1943 Paramount Cartoons logo.
- The first cartoon to not have clouds on the Paramount Cartoons logo. This would continue for several years, until Pre-Hysterical Man.
- First Popeye cartoon to use its own variant of the Paramount Cartoons logo. The Popeye variant consists of a spinning star with Popeye's head inside, tooting his pipe. The spinning star would later be used for the 1943-1948 Little Lulu and 1948-1955 Little Audrey variants of the Paramount Cartoons logo.
- Popeye wears a blue version of his Navy uniform in this short, the first of a few times when it is not white.
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External links[]
- Her Honor the Mare at the Internet Movie Database