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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/itoons/?comic=931
Strip by: Hunter (Chez) Fenton
BEGINNING
A NEW STORY
CHAPTER NUMBER "ONE"
POPEYE'S ARK
A HOOMEROUS COMEDY
Popeye: Olive, I got a big idear... ya heard about Nora's Ark, ain't ya? Will, I yam goner build a ark an' go pilgriminatin' like Nora did.
Olive: Popeye, you're all balled up... Noah built an ark... but he didn't build it to search for a new country.
Popeye: {offscreen} Oh, is 'atso!?
Popeye: Ya incineratin' that I don't know me hiskory? A'course Nora went pilgriminatin'... Ev'rybody knows dat, by gummit... I'm not stupid.
Olive: Popeye, I'm very serious... Noah did not go pilgriminating!
Popeye: Yea? Then let’s let Castor handle it.
Popeye: Did Nora go pilgriminatin'?
Castor: Pilgriminatin'? Sure, she was... She was a Pilgrim.
Popeye: See... Hah!... Yer crazy!
Olive: We're talking about "Noah" who built the ark.
Castor: Noah? Oh...
Castor: You beanbrain! Her name's not "Noah"! She's "Nora"! She's a woman! Get it?
Popeye: See... Hah!... Yer crazy!
Olive: {angry} No, I am not!
Popeye: Ah, come now... Yer the one all knotted up, that's whut.
Popeye: An' besides... yer cilium is showin'.
Olive: {getting very angry by this} POPEYE! HOW DARE YOU...
Popeye: !
{A caption appears, saying "The cartoonist has elected not to show this panel due to its graphic nature."}
The author writes:
Original strips: Popeye, 1935-04-22, 1935-04-23, 1935-05-02, 1935-05-03; Garfield, 2005-04-30.