tadpole-596-918256 Review of Window Cleaners

Window Cleaners (1940)

When Popeye and B-l-u-t-o are competing . . .

[7/10 · 11 February 2022]

. . . to wash the windows of the office building in which Olive works, neither resorts to throwing buckets of rocks through the expensive panes. However, Don Duck does exactly that during WINDOW CLEANERS, as the Dizzy gang frequently took "stipends" to encourage such American carnage from product placement people representing Big Construction, Big Car Repair, Big Medicine and so forth. Of course, such economic sabotage was a huge drag on our Homeland's economy, resulting in a Great Depression which lasted during the entire 1929-1941 heyday of Dizzy animated shorts. Once America's hero president FDR got wise to Dizzy's calumny and cracked down on such wanton destruction, the product placement payola faded away and soon after Dizzy's brief cartoon franchise withered away as well.