Did Olive Oyl ever eat the spinach and save the day?
In Fleischer’s Never Kick A Woman, a pretty Mae West-type gym instructor makes a play for a smitten Popeye and in Hill-Billing And Cooing, a large, ugly mountain woman (built like Bluto) wants to make an unwilling Popeye her husband. So Olive had to chow down on the green veggie. Olive also ate the spinach and saved the day in the Famous Studios cartoon, Fireman’s Brawl. And, in the KFS cartoons, she would sometimes eat spinach to thrash the Sea Hag because Popeye couldn’t hit a woman.
