What's nice about watching these old Popeye cartoons on the new Popeye The Sailor DVD sets is that you can play them with English subtitles. So.....all those times Popeye is mumbling something to himself, you can discover what he's saying, and many times it is hilarious. That was certainly the case in this cartoon as Popeye tries everything to fix leaks in all of Olive's pipes. Things get out of hand and her house is nearly flooded.
Of course, it all starts with a tiny leak than Olive discovers one morning. She tries plugging it, but holding a finger on the leak- like the famous Dutch boy and the dike - isn't going to work here and things go from bad-to-worse. Finally, she calls a plumber. That's a good idea, but a bad choice when the plumber turns out to be Wimpy, who winds up no help at all.
It's Popeye to the rescue and how it's done is pretty funny, but the best parts are his mumbling and his voice. Kudos to Jack Mercer. His voice-work on Popeye, as fellow reviewer Robert Reynolds point out, was fantastic!