Meanwhile, back to Mississippi Paddle Wheel Daze, Katz has learned a new shuffle – “Three Card Flopsie”… It’s similar to “Three Card Montie,” except there’s less chance involved…
Don’t play games of “chance” with street hustlers – an important lesson to learn but the tuition is usually somewhat expensive. Willie Claude was Katz’s uncle!?! Small galaxy eh? Maybe he’s speaking in a spiritual sense. And as long as we’re name dropping I see Bluto… or was that Brutus? is taking a turn as a river tug crewman and Walter’s rodentia is at the wheel. Wonder if he still whistles while he works…
I think that “Uncle” is but a bit of hyperbole, as a generation of hustlers were possibly inspired by William Dukenfield… (However, though he often played a con man, I’ve not come across any info indicating that he might have been one in real life)…
“Rodentia,” WHO?? Oh, you mean Micky… I realize that the tug pix is a bit small, (if it were larger you might be able to read that the tug’s name is the “Hagfish”)… In any case, that’s the Sea Hag at the wheel of the Tugboat – And it’s Bluto! there is no “Brutus” in Segar, Fleischer or Famous Studios’ Popeye cartoons and newspaper strips! Incidentally, as a pointless bit of trivia, this Tug pix was borrowed from the unpublished pencils of Army Surplus #6…
Actually the tug helmsman was so small I was taking a guess based on what looked like two round ears sticking up. As for the other guy I always think of him as Bluto. Another trivia bit; which came first? Popeye’s Bluto or Mickey’s Peg-leg Pete? I always thought that they were very similar characters.
(Peg-Leg Pete ’25, Bluto ’32)
Seems like in the old Mouse cartoons, Pete was a fairly one dimensional character – while Bluto (in the Fleischer or Famous Studios cartoons) had a more developed and interesting personality… Of course he was inconstant as there was no continuity between the cartoons… I often enjoy Bluto best in the cartoons where he and Popeye start out as pals, or at least know one another, like in “Dream Walking” or “W’ere on Our Way to Rio”… Or in “The Paneless Window Washer” where Bluto not only creates the problem but unnecessarily escalates it out of petty avarice, to his undoing… Its interesting that, In the first two, two-reeler Popeye cartoons, “Sindbad the Sailor” and “Ali Baba,” Bluto (Voiced by Gus Wickie) even gets the best songs…
See more detail about name changes. back and forth again, between Bluto and Brutus in a Wikipedia article about “Bluto”. I do remember the about 2 year period on the TV cartoon when “Brutus” was used. One comic had Bluto and Brutus as nearly identical brothers, with Brutus more portly and Bluto more muscular.
But just happened to think, how far can they run on a boat? Maybe they instructed Bubba beforehand to trail the steamboat and pick them up… although considering Bubba’s limitations, they’d have to make it very clear… otherwise Bubba might take the saucer to Steamboat Springs, leaving them stranded…
Meanwhile, back to Mississippi Paddle Wheel Daze, Katz has learned a new shuffle – “Three Card Flopsie”… It’s similar to “Three Card Montie,” except there’s less chance involved…
Don’t play games of “chance” with street hustlers – an important lesson to learn but the tuition is usually somewhat expensive. Willie Claude was Katz’s uncle!?! Small galaxy eh? Maybe he’s speaking in a spiritual sense. And as long as we’re name dropping I see Bluto… or was that Brutus? is taking a turn as a river tug crewman and Walter’s rodentia is at the wheel. Wonder if he still whistles while he works…
I think that “Uncle” is but a bit of hyperbole, as a generation of hustlers were possibly inspired by William Dukenfield… (However, though he often played a con man, I’ve not come across any info indicating that he might have been one in real life)…
“Rodentia,” WHO?? Oh, you mean Micky… I realize that the tug pix is a bit small, (if it were larger you might be able to read that the tug’s name is the “Hagfish”)… In any case, that’s the Sea Hag at the wheel of the Tugboat – And it’s Bluto! there is no “Brutus” in Segar, Fleischer or Famous Studios’ Popeye cartoons and newspaper strips! Incidentally, as a pointless bit of trivia, this Tug pix was borrowed from the unpublished pencils of Army Surplus #6…
Actually the tug helmsman was so small I was taking a guess based on what looked like two round ears sticking up. As for the other guy I always think of him as Bluto. Another trivia bit; which came first? Popeye’s Bluto or Mickey’s Peg-leg Pete? I always thought that they were very similar characters.
(Peg-Leg Pete ’25, Bluto ’32)
Seems like in the old Mouse cartoons, Pete was a fairly one dimensional character – while Bluto (in the Fleischer or Famous Studios cartoons) had a more developed and interesting personality… Of course he was inconstant as there was no continuity between the cartoons… I often enjoy Bluto best in the cartoons where he and Popeye start out as pals, or at least know one another, like in “Dream Walking” or “W’ere on Our Way to Rio”… Or in “The Paneless Window Washer” where Bluto not only creates the problem but unnecessarily escalates it out of petty avarice, to his undoing… Its interesting that, In the first two, two-reeler Popeye cartoons, “Sindbad the Sailor” and “Ali Baba,” Bluto (Voiced by Gus Wickie) even gets the best songs…
See more detail about name changes. back and forth again, between Bluto and Brutus in a Wikipedia article about “Bluto”. I do remember the about 2 year period on the TV cartoon when “Brutus” was used. One comic had Bluto and Brutus as nearly identical brothers, with Brutus more portly and Bluto more muscular.
Bluto in towboat, Bunz in bloomers… verily a compendium of comedic chaos…
But just happened to think, how far can they run on a boat? Maybe they instructed Bubba beforehand to trail the steamboat and pick them up… although considering Bubba’s limitations, they’d have to make it very clear… otherwise Bubba might take the saucer to Steamboat Springs, leaving them stranded…
I dunno… Maybe they’ll just circle the deck – ’round an’ ’round… that MAGA Pinhead doesn’t look to be very fast on his feet…
Nor quick in the wits…
Hagfish… yeah, perfect name…