Ever tried explaining to your landlord that you napped through TWO DECADES? Rip Van Winkle said 'hold my spinach.'
Rip Van Winkle is being thrown out for nonpayment of rent (for twenty years). Popeye happens by and carts the sleeper home, but soon discovers that Rip has a sleepwalking problem that gets both of them into some trouble with some dwarves.
Acting
Jack Mercer voices literally everyone and somehow makes it coherent
Writing
Six minutes of escalating sleepwalker panic—tightest pacing of 1941
Director
Dave Fleischer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Jack Mercer ad-libbed most Popeye mutterings; here he's also Rip AND the dwarves, making this a one-man audio circus.
This short dropped months before Pearl Harbor, capturing that final moment when American cartoons could just be weird without war propaganda.
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