You're a Sap, Mr. Jap

You're a Sap, Mr. Jap is a 1942 one-reel Popeye the Sailor animated cartoon short subject released by Paramount Pictures. It was the first cartoon short to be produced by Famous Studios. It is one of the best-known World War II propaganda cartoons. It is also one of the few Popeye cartoons not to feature Bluto, Olive Oyl, or Wimpy. A version of this cartoon was presented by Associated Artists Productions, Inc. in the 50's. Also a colored - redrawn version is available.

Plot
The cartoon, which gets its title from a novelty song written by James Cavanaugh, John Redmond and Nat Simon, finds Popeye singlehandedly defeating the crew of a Japanese battleship (in which two of their crew members posed as fishermen) in the Pacific Ocean. The cartoon was kept out of commercial release for years due to its racially offensive (although historically important) caricaturing of the Japanese and to the climactic sequence where the Japanese naval commander commits suicide by drinking gasoline and consuming lit firecrackers. However, it re-emerged in a November 2008 DVD release of Popeye cartoons produced between 1941 and 1943.