Learn Polikeness

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Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.Olive takes Popeye to Professor Bluteau to learn some manners.

Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Dave Tendlar
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7.1/10

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Directors
- Dave Fleischer
- Dave Tendlar
Stars

See production info at IMDbPro

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Jack Mercer

Popeye
(voice)
(uncredited)

Mae Questel

Olive Oyl
(voice)
(uncredited)

Gus Wicke

Professor Bluteau
(voice)
(uncredited)

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Trivia
Despite the elegant surroundings of his Art Deco penthouse, Bluteau is initially shown as his usual uncouth self as he reads a pulp Cops and Robbers novel.

Goofs
When the bell rings in the professor's office, he says, "Maybe it's a couple of cash customers." However, he never mentions the cost of the lesson Olive requests for Popeye.

Quotes
Professor Bluteau: [answering the door and seeing Popeye and Olive Oyl, he speaks French] Ahhh - entrez!
Popeye: Entrée? I already et, young fella.

Alternate versions
Also available in a computer-colorized version.

Connections
Featured in The Popeye Show: We Aim to Please/Learn Polikeness/Shape Ahoy (2002)

Soundtracks
Cocktails for Two
(uncredited)
Written by Arthur Johnston and Sam Coslow

Learn Polikeness (1938)

*** (out of 4)

Olive Oyl wants Popeye to be a proper gentleman so she makes him go to Bluteau's Etiquette School where things start off bad and continue to a fight.

This here is another nice entry into the long-running Popeye series and while this one here doesn't quite reach the "classic" statue it's at least entertaining enough. Once again we're treated to some wonderful animation and so many great details that aren't normally in these animated films. There are some funny moments scattered throughout but the majority of the laughs happen as we see the rather sloppy Popeye trying to be a gentleman and obviously it just doesn't work. The muttering Popeye does is quite funny throughout.