House Tricks?
- IMDb link: 0150977
- IMDb rating: 6.5 (159 votes)
- Genres: Comedy, Animation, Family, Short
- Director: Seymour Kneitel, Graham Place
- Cast: Mae Questel, Floyd Buckley, Jackson Beck, Harry Welch and others
- Release date: 15 Mar 1946
- Release year: 1946
- Runtime: 7 minutes
- Country: United States
- Keywords: popeye the sailor character, olive oyl character, bluto character, building, bathtub, building falls but bathtub remains, punctuation in title, question mark in title, pun in title, construction site
Plot:
Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house. Of course, "cooperation" isn't in their vocabulary. Bluto does an extremely sloppy job on his half, and also takes every opportunity to either sabotage Popeye or trick him into doing more work. Meanwhile, Popeye's making enough of his own mistakes, many of which seem to involve wedging Olive into small bent pipes. Eventually, Popeye has his spinach and finishes the house, but the house collapses as they are celebrating with a kiss.