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Little Swee'Pea is Popeye's 38th theatrical cartoon, released on September 25, 1936 by Fleischer Studios.
Plot[]
Popeye goes to visit Olive Oyl to give her some flowers. Popeye twists Olive's doorbell and she answers the door. The sailor accidentally twists Olive's nose and asks her if she would like to go to the zoo with him. Olive says she cannot because she is too busy house cleaning. Suddenly, her baby Swee'Pea crawls out. Popeye volunteers to babysit Swee'Pea and take him to the zoo, and Olive tells Popeye not to scare Swee'Pea while there. Popeye and the baby depart, and Olive smells the flowers, preferring them over her own plant. At the zoo, the baby escapes from his carriage and enters an elephant's cage, then a crocodile's and finally a hippopotamus'. He plays with the elephant, avoids being almost eaten by the crocodile and tickles the hippopotamus in the mouth. While he is unharmed by the animals, Popeye, following him, is beaten and bitten by them until he gets out his spinach can, defeating the hippopotamus and getting a leopard-riding Swee'Pea back home. Swee'Pea is then scared by Popeye's toy monkey and begins to cry, prompting Olive to hit the sailor with a broom. Olive takes Swee'Pea back inside to calm him down. Popeye sings to the audience that he will not be having babies.
Color remake[]
Little Swee'Pea was remade by Famous Studios in 1950 as Baby Wants Spinach.
Trivia[]
- First animated appearance of Swee'Pea. In these cartoons, he appears to be Olive's son.
- This was the second Popeye cartoon to enter the public domain, the first being Let's Sing with Popeye.
- In some public domain releases, the short is in sepia.
- The redrawn version has a rare colorized anchor shown at the end.
- Some public domain releases take out the a.a.p. logo and restore the anchor at the end.
External links[]
- Little Swee'Pea at the Internet Movie Database