Popeye The Sailor - You’re a Sap, Mr. Jap (1942)

Release Date: August 7, 1942

Credit: Film Gorillas (on Dailymotion) (source from Popeye The Sailor: 1941 - 1943 Vol. 3)

[paganjew]

This came out within months of Pearl Harbor. My father was in WWII. He enlisted in the Navy at 16, lying about his age. The rage against Japan, the grieving family members of those that were killed and the apprehension of those, whose loved one would be gone for years setvthe stage for this. The audience ate this up. I saw this cartoon on kids cartoon shows in the 1960s before I was 10, but I understood the context they were created in. WWII and the Depression were often the course of conversation in our home.
It's value, today, is as a historic piece and as animated art.

[Cross_Contam]

This is incomplete it is missing a scene before he comes out of the pipe. The Japanese character eats some firecrackers and gasoline after talking himself up to being a hero. Then the firecrackers go off and shoot him up the pipe to Popeye. There also another scene where Popeye fights some soldiers inside a turret on the ship.

[othnielrosa]

Honestly they really don’t make shows like this no more

[Pax_Veritas]

They don't make em like they used to!

[GRasputin]

The "peace treaty" offered to him = Japan's peace talks with the US while they were plotting an attack
The mallet to his head = the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Hence why they were portrayed as double-crossing villains pretending to be polite

[jimhardy]

why were we worried about hurting their feeling when they were cutting off the heads of our soldiers just to see how sharp their swords were

[collinmc]

My friends and I found this in a collection of the "banned" cartoons back in like 2001 or so. It was definitely a tough find for back then.

[Bram]

I remember this from the KaZaa days while looking for old, rare banned cartoons. This was one of them.

[reginagohagan]

YOUR SAP MR YOUTUBE YOU MAKE THE VIEWS SPANKY

[awwykane]

The toilet flushing scene reminds me of the day after Thanksgiving or Christmas

[GarrisonMorton]

1:51
"I better get these Japants off"
🤣

[WitmanClan]

Thank you my father fought in World War II the battle of Okinawa he had Popeye tattooed on his upper arm it was his nickname. 🙏💝🙏

[dandycrow]

When Imperial Japanese were members of the Nazi Axis and Hitler's allies.

[krystalshocked]

Paramount would never put their name on this now

[Voodoomaria]

The purpose of propaganda in wartime is to either galvanize the populace into unhesitating action by utterly dehumanizing "The Enemy", or boost morale of the populace by ridiculing "the enemy".
I have several cartoons made by Nazi Germany around the same time as this and were they dubbed into English there would be little separating them from the product produced by Warner brothers or any other American animation house.
The Japanese were doing it too, although their animation style is a little more distinctive, the POINT is BOTH sides used the SAME tools to achieve the same social and military goals.
Propaganda is a dirty and insidious business, and it has ALWAYS been a part of warfare.
I have always advocated study of propaganda, it's VERY useful in navigating the modern world.
"You can never REALLY know the TRUTH, until you know all the ways there are to LIE"

[James-fhwj]

This is too funny. Oh the lord forgive me 😂

[ReformedOrthodoxy-ti]

I remember seeing this in Mr. Ekerson’s class 2 years ago when we studied US History.

[Sahilprakash]

2:01 Popeye holds a Binocular and see how the Japanese Battleship is Explodes

[OlaftheGreat]

One of the uploads of this is marked as "for kids"

[PaquetasCar]

You wouldn't castigate this cartoon so much if you knew how brutal the Japanese were to allied POW's during the second world war.