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Floor Flusher
Number 201
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Floor Flusher is Popeye's 201st theatrical cartoon, released on January 1, 1954 by Famous Studios, on a double bill with the Casper cartoon Boo Moon.

Plot[]

Olive is putting cherries on her cake, while her sink is dripping. Noticing this, Olive is frustrated by the drip interrupting her finishing touch. Olive plugs it with one of her cherries, but when the sink is about to get Olive's cake wet, she protects it with two pitchers and by drinking the water. Outside, Popeye arrives bringing some flowers. Bluto is in a sewer and sees the sailor arriving. He lifts the sidewalk entrance and drops Popeye in the sewer. Popeye comes out of the sewer and he and Bluto fight over who gets to visit Olive, and they enter together only to see her overwhelmed by her water problem. After throwing Popeye out, Bluto's attempt at fixing it fails, as the cake splatters Olive. Popeye returns and fixes the sink successfully with a sprinkler. Bluto congratulates Popeye for fixing the problem and pretends to leave, only to hide in Olive's basement.

Olive plays her piano while Popeye sings a song. Down there, Bluto sabotages the pipes so that water starts gushing from the piano. The water makes Olive spin around from her seat. Bluto makes the water gush from the wall pictures and onto Olive's crotch. Olive plugs the water with her feet. The water even goes inside Olive and pops out of her ears, making Olive call for Popeye's help. Bluto then makes the water gush from the whole piano, making Popeye wet. At one point, Popeye's pipe is filled with water. Olive lands on her rug, and Bluto attempts to shoot water from the rug. Olive yells at Popeye because the rug is about to burst, while the latter is trying to hold the water with his hands. Popeye comes to Olive's aid by putting nails in his mouth and spitting them out. He finally catches Bluto, only to be knocked unconscious into a radiator, already underwater in the rapidly inundating house.

Meanwhile, a "boat" chase takes place between Bluto and Olive in her flooded first floor. Two goldfish are able to leave their bowl thanks to the flood and feed the sailor his spinach. He turns into a torpedo and punches Bluto out cold, and lets him go down the drain out the street unconscious. As Popeye sings in celebration, he is unable to properly finish his song, his pipe being full of water.

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Trivia[]

  • This is one of ten Popeye cartoons that could be viewed in the first-person shooter video game The Darkness.
  • Olive does not call for professional assistance, such as Wimpy in the like-themed Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'.

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