You're a Sap, Mr. Jap

The short opens with the song "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap", which the short is named after. Popeye is seen riding a boat and looking through binoculars and he spots an Imperial Japanese boat. Popeye throws his boat's anchor and pulls his boat towards the Japanese boat. The anchor lands on the Japanese boat right next to a Japanese man who is fishing. Another Japanese man comes out from inside the boat, and they present Popeye with a peace treaty. As Popeye turns around and signs the treaty, the Japanese men hit Popeye with a giant hammer. Popeye turns around and resumes signing, and one of the Japanese men sticks a firecracker in a hole at the bottom of Popeye's shoe. The Japanese man proceeds to blow on the dynamite and it explodes, and then he jumps on Popeye's foot. They then give Popeye a bouquet with a lobster hiding inside, and it pinches Popeye and breaks his pipe. Popeye then walks up to one of the Japanese men and holds the bouquet on his head, and the lobster cuts his hair and punches his face. The Japanese man then plays a trumpet before running inside the boat, which then causes the rest of the Japanese boat to rise of the water. Popeye's boat gets blasted by a cannon from the Japanese boat, and Popeye hangs on his boat's mast. Two Japanese men cut the mast and Popeye falls into the water. Popeye then eats spinach and says "V is for victory, we will stop them" while his arm turns into a giant letter V. He blows through a tube on his boat which causes it to rise back to the surface. He gets the two Japanese men and pulls their arms together, which causes them to spin around and fall into the water. Popeye then swims to the Japanese boat and gets the anchor, then bends it to use to pull out the cannons. Popeye then runs to the other side of the ship and finds a group of Japanese men hiding inside the remains of a cannon, so he kicks them into the water. The Japanese boat then begins to fall apart. Popeye listens to a Japanese general speaking under the boat, who attempts to commit suicide by drinking gasoline and eating firecrackers. As the bullets explode inside his body, the Japanese man comes out of the boat next to Popeye. Popeye looks inside his mouth and finds that he has gasoline in his stomach, so he throws him back under the ship and jumps back on his boat. He then looks through his binoculars and watches the Japanese boat explode and sink.

You're a Sap, Mr. Jap is one of the few Popeye the Sailor cartoons not to feature Bluto, Olive Oyl, or Wimpy. A version of this cartoon was presented by Associated Artists Productions, Inc. in the 1950s. The film title gets its name from a novelty song written by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon.

The film was unavailable for commercial release for years due to its racially offensive caricaturing of the Japanese.[2][3][4]

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• You're a Sap, Mr. Jap at IMDb