Her Honor the Mare is a 1943 Popeye the Sailor cartoon.
Summary[]
Having fallen asleep while reading Woo Woo!! Magazine, Popeye dreams of a glamour girl that turns out to be a horse in 4F. Popeye's four nephews find a glue factory reject horse and take her home as a pet.
Plot[]
A frail horse is even rejected by the glue factory, but is found by Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye, who become interested in it. As they wonder if the animal can do tricks, it tries imitating a dog. They bring it home where they ask Popeye if they can keep it in the house, but the sailor is not amused by the horse's doglike attitude and takes it outside. The boys get an I-D-E-A in unison: they disguise the animal's behind as a painter's face to allow them to haul it up to the second floor. Inside, they bathe and feed the animal while keeping it hidden from Popeye. Yet giving the horse horseradish to eat sends it into a frenzy and it is soon discovered by Popeye. The sailor then makes several futile attempts to get the boys' pet out, but desists when it is revealed that the mare was in fact in the family way and now she and her young must be kept home.
Voices[]
- Jack Mercer - Popeye, Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye, Pupeye
Notes[]
- First regular Popeye the Sailor series entry in Technicolor.
- First Popeye cartoon to use the "spinning star" intro, which would be the intro until the end of the series. The spinning star would later be used for the 1943–1948 Little Lulu and 1948–1955 Little Audrey cartoons.
- This is the first of four cartoons where Popeye's sailor outfit is blue.
- This marks the only appearance of Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye in an early color Popeye cartoon due to the following shorts following mainly focusing on the Olive Oyl-Bluto-Popeye dynamic, until 1948's Spinach vs Hamburgers.