All my life I've always said, "Take your time, but hurry up." I never knew where I picked it up until recently re-watching this cartoon. Popeye says it to Olive while waiting for her to get ready. Thanks, Popeye!
10 Reviews
Memorable Phrase
jokeable-5580015 March 2021
See A Pin And Pick It Up....
StrictlyConfidential11 September 2020
Yep. And, once again - In "I Don't Scare" that old, familiar "love-triangle" business between Popeye, Olive, and Bluto is in constant play here where Bluto will, of course, stoop to anything just to get Olive away from Popeye.
You know, in all of the Popeye cartoons that I've seen over the years I just can't ever understand what the heck 2 decent looking guys (like Popeye & Bluto) ever saw in Olive Oyl (who was as far from being an attractive woman as you could ever possibly imagine).
Anyway - - For the most part - I thought that "I Don't Scare" was a fairly entertaining cartoon short from yesteryear.
You know, in all of the Popeye cartoons that I've seen over the years I just can't ever understand what the heck 2 decent looking guys (like Popeye & Bluto) ever saw in Olive Oyl (who was as far from being an attractive woman as you could ever possibly imagine).
Anyway - - For the most part - I thought that "I Don't Scare" was a fairly entertaining cartoon short from yesteryear.
high maintenance Olive
SnoopyStyle30 August 2021
Popeye beats Bluto to asking Olive Oyl out on a date. It's Thursday the 12th. Bluto intends to sabotage their date. He rips out the page from the calendar and turns it to Friday the 13th. Being superstitious, Olive is reluctant to go out. Popeye can't convince her otherwise and Bluto continues to sabotage him. Eventually, Bluto shows Olive that it really is the 12th and takes her out on a date himself. Popeye decides to fight back.
This is a high maintenance Olive and I don't mind that. There is a difference between high maintenance and simply being the worst. The difference being her level of love towards Popeye. Does she even care about him? High maintenance can be funny if she loves him. The lack of love is a big gigantic problem and that's why she's the worst sometimes. This is the good side of that line.
This is a high maintenance Olive and I don't mind that. There is a difference between high maintenance and simply being the worst. The difference being her level of love towards Popeye. Does she even care about him? High maintenance can be funny if she loves him. The lack of love is a big gigantic problem and that's why she's the worst sometimes. This is the good side of that line.
Olive the Superstitious
Hitchcoc27 January 2021
Believe it or not, Popeye and Bluto are both trying to get Olive. How novel! Popeye has the date but Bluto moves in. It turns out that Olive his highly superstitious. As Popeye tries to show her how silly this is, he makes all her fears seem real. Of course, his giant adversary is behind everything. Not too bad.
At the end of this picture, Popeye and Olive . . .
pixrox110 March 2023
Warning: Spoilers
. . . are briefly separated by a utility pole while strolling along a sidewalk, and Popeye inexplicably blurts out "bread and butter." Does this make any sense to you? It turns out that back in the 1900's, a century with few survivors Today, this comment was voiced by the sort of superstitious weaklings prevalent back then to supposedly avert the bad luck otherwise facing lovers who allow something to come between themselves. Tellingly, Olive does NOT echo Popeye's observation, assuring that another bitter quarrel between the ill-suited pair is imminent. The whole intellectual framework behind this craven lingo derives from the difficulty of separating butter from bread once the former is spread. The gonzo remark "salt and pepper" has a similar connotation.
No spinach, but superstitions
Horst_In_Translation21 May 2016
Warning: Spoilers
"I Don't Scare" is another Popeye cartoon by Famous Studios. This one here runs for 6 minutes and it has its 60th anniversary this year. If you take a look at the people who directed and wrote this one and also at the voice actors, you will find a handful of very famous names and truly prolific people from back in the day. Sadly, their talent has not worked out well here. The story was pretty uninspired and basically just a collection of everything that you can be scared of and that can go wrong on a Friday 13th if you are superstitious and it wasn't funny at all. The voice acting did not impress me too much here either. Then again, I am not the greatest Popeye fan and if you like him more than I do, then you will maybe also appreciate this Technicolor cartoon. I give it a thumbs down though. Not recommended.
Triskadekaphobia
boblipton29 January 2023
Popeye beats out Bluto for a date with Olive Oyl, so Bluto changes the calendar from Thursday the 12th to Friday the 13th. Superstitious Olive won't go out, so Popeye tries to convince her not to be superstitious. Bluto interferes.
The usual good gags of this Famous Studios cartoon war not only with the inevitable Popeye-vs-Bluto plot -- and raises the question of why Olive is such an in-demand girl, which doesn't speak well to her character -- but the simplified artwork that the shrinking budgets of the late Popeye cartoons demanded. It's particularly evident in the simplified background work.
The usual good gags of this Famous Studios cartoon war not only with the inevitable Popeye-vs-Bluto plot -- and raises the question of why Olive is such an in-demand girl, which doesn't speak well to her character -- but the simplified artwork that the shrinking budgets of the late Popeye cartoons demanded. It's particularly evident in the simplified background work.
Playing On Olive's 'Stupid-Stiltions'
ccthemovieman-110 April 2007
Bluto and Popeye are both sailors in this animated short. Both are also vying for the public telephone booth to call Olive for a date. Each gets battered by the other in the contest to make the call, with Popeye winning.
Popeye enters with, "Hi ya, Olive. Here is your little 'ole lover beau!" Bluto is at the window, eavesdropping. Olive picks up a pin on the floor and says something about "good luck for the day," and Bluto thinks to himself, "So Olive is superstitious." He cooks up a plan, starting with ripping the calendar next to the window, changing the date from "Thursday the 12th" to "Friday the 13th." Olive sees that and changes her mind. "I'm not going out today," she says. Popeye answers, "There's nothing to them stupid-stitions. I'll show ya."
Bluto makes sure that is NOT the case.....and Olive, not Popeye, takes some bruisings. Then, the two-time Olive goes out with Bluto when the latter has booted Popeye out and shown her what the real date is.
The ending is smart, with Popeye taking those superstitions and using them against his rival in the last minute or so.
By the way, check out the decor in Olive's house. This is really wild - modern '50s, I guess.
Popeye enters with, "Hi ya, Olive. Here is your little 'ole lover beau!" Bluto is at the window, eavesdropping. Olive picks up a pin on the floor and says something about "good luck for the day," and Bluto thinks to himself, "So Olive is superstitious." He cooks up a plan, starting with ripping the calendar next to the window, changing the date from "Thursday the 12th" to "Friday the 13th." Olive sees that and changes her mind. "I'm not going out today," she says. Popeye answers, "There's nothing to them stupid-stitions. I'll show ya."
Bluto makes sure that is NOT the case.....and Olive, not Popeye, takes some bruisings. Then, the two-time Olive goes out with Bluto when the latter has booted Popeye out and shown her what the real date is.
The ending is smart, with Popeye taking those superstitions and using them against his rival in the last minute or so.
By the way, check out the decor in Olive's house. This is really wild - modern '50s, I guess.
Superstitious dating
TheLittleSongbird22 September 2018
Really like to love a good deal of Popeye cartoons and like the character of Popeye. Love Bluto more and his chemistry with Popeye has always driven their cartoons. Will admit though to preferring the Popeye cartoons from the Dave Fleischer era, the cartoons tend to be funnier and there is more originality and more risk taking in some of them.
'I Don't Scare' is another late Popeye cartoon and made in Famous Studios' roughest and most variable period where budgets were much smaller in particularly the animation and deadlines and time constraints were shorter and tighter. All things considered, while there are infinitely better Popeye cartoons (especially during the Fleischer era) and there are signs of what made this period an inferior one for Famous Studios, 'I Don't Scare' is not a bad late Popeye cartoon at all, actually really very enjoyable and one of the better cartoons in Famous Studios' late output.
As to be expected, the story is standard and formulaic, all it is basically is Popeye and Bluto battling for Olive Oyl's affections with not as much variety as many other Popeye cartoons, while not being as repetitive as feared.
'I Don't Scare' is never particularly hilarious and it is agreed that the action is not enough.
What is fantastic about 'I Don't Scare' is the music score, the best thing for me. It's beautifully orchestrated, rhythmically it's full of energy and there is so much character and atmosphere, it's also brilliant at adding to the action and enhancing it. The animation is also surprisingly good for late Famous Studios, colourful, nicely detailed and fluid. The gags are amusing for late Famous Studios/Popeye, the interplay between the characters is lively and witty if in need of more variety at times and the pace is never dull.
The three main characters do a great job carrying the cartoon, Bluto being the funniest and most interesting. Olive Oyl is a good charming character where you can totally see what Popeye sees in her, but it's the entertaining interplay between Popeye and Bluto that really sparkles. Jack Mercer, Mae Questel and Jackson Beck give great vocal characterisations, Beck in particular and Mercer and Questel are the voice actors that spring to mind generally for me for Popeye and Olive's voices.
Concluding, very enjoyable. 8/10 Bethany Cox
'I Don't Scare' is another late Popeye cartoon and made in Famous Studios' roughest and most variable period where budgets were much smaller in particularly the animation and deadlines and time constraints were shorter and tighter. All things considered, while there are infinitely better Popeye cartoons (especially during the Fleischer era) and there are signs of what made this period an inferior one for Famous Studios, 'I Don't Scare' is not a bad late Popeye cartoon at all, actually really very enjoyable and one of the better cartoons in Famous Studios' late output.
As to be expected, the story is standard and formulaic, all it is basically is Popeye and Bluto battling for Olive Oyl's affections with not as much variety as many other Popeye cartoons, while not being as repetitive as feared.
'I Don't Scare' is never particularly hilarious and it is agreed that the action is not enough.
What is fantastic about 'I Don't Scare' is the music score, the best thing for me. It's beautifully orchestrated, rhythmically it's full of energy and there is so much character and atmosphere, it's also brilliant at adding to the action and enhancing it. The animation is also surprisingly good for late Famous Studios, colourful, nicely detailed and fluid. The gags are amusing for late Famous Studios/Popeye, the interplay between the characters is lively and witty if in need of more variety at times and the pace is never dull.
The three main characters do a great job carrying the cartoon, Bluto being the funniest and most interesting. Olive Oyl is a good charming character where you can totally see what Popeye sees in her, but it's the entertaining interplay between Popeye and Bluto that really sparkles. Jack Mercer, Mae Questel and Jackson Beck give great vocal characterisations, Beck in particular and Mercer and Questel are the voice actors that spring to mind generally for me for Popeye and Olive's voices.
Concluding, very enjoyable. 8/10 Bethany Cox
Friday the 13th
Michael_Elliott31 March 2016
I Don't Scare (1956)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Popeye and Olive Oyl are going out on a date but Bluto convinces her it's Friday the 13th and she's afraid of bad luck. After some chaos Olive ends up going on a date with Bluto, which isn't going to sit well with Popeye.
This Popeye short certainly isn't an awful film but at the same time it doesn't reach a very good level so it's really somewhat of a letdown. The best thing going for the film is its animation, which is of high quality. As far as the story goes, it's got a somewhat clever idea but there's really nothing overly fun done with it. The entire issue with broken mirrors and standing under ladders leads to some minor site gags but they're just not all that funny and the action level is rather low for a Popeye short.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Popeye and Olive Oyl are going out on a date but Bluto convinces her it's Friday the 13th and she's afraid of bad luck. After some chaos Olive ends up going on a date with Bluto, which isn't going to sit well with Popeye.
This Popeye short certainly isn't an awful film but at the same time it doesn't reach a very good level so it's really somewhat of a letdown. The best thing going for the film is its animation, which is of high quality. As far as the story goes, it's got a somewhat clever idea but there's really nothing overly fun done with it. The entire issue with broken mirrors and standing under ladders leads to some minor site gags but they're just not all that funny and the action level is rather low for a Popeye short.
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