Spinach Fer Britain is a 1943 anti-Nazi propaganda cartoon, produced by Famous Studios and distributed by Paramount Pictures.
The film centers around Popeye the Sailor trying to deliver a shipment of spinach to 10 Downing Street in London, while fighting off Nazi Kriegsmarine soldiers pursuing him in a U-boat.
[2] Like its predecessor, You're a Sap, Mr. Jap, Spinach Fer Britain was kept out of distribution for several decades, due to its propagandistic nature and frequent display of Nazism, until it received an official release in November 2008 in a DVD collection of Popeye cartoons produced between 1941–1943.
One-by-one, four Nazi soldiers emerge from the ruined sub as Popeye delivers them each a single uppercut, causing them to fly up, still saluting, into the minefield to their deaths.
Popeye stuffs him back into the U-boat before popping back out and puffing his tobacco pipe to "V for Victory.”[4] Due to the short's World War II ethnic stereotyping of Nazi stereotypes, the short was banned from TV, but was presented on Cartoon Network and [adult swim] as part of its anthology series The Popeye Show.