A 1945 fever dream where marriage is literal hell — and the tree did nothing wrong.
Lulu is angry when she sees her boyfriend Fatso out with another girl. To make it up to Lulu, Fatso promises to marry Lulu when they grow up. However, while carving a love message into a tall tree, Fatso falls out of it and onto a small sapling. He passes out, and dreams of a hellish married life with Lulu, her dog, and their large family of Lulu look-alike daughters.
Director
Seymour Kneitel
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Marjorie Henderson Buell's beloved comic strip, this Paramount short captures wartime anxieties about domesticity and returning soldiers' feared entrapment.
Seymour Kneitel directed over 120 Popeye and Little Lulu shorts; this fever-dream structure became a recurring device in his work.
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