I’m watching one of the old Popeye cartoons on my new set (best DVDs of the year). Two kids are watching a baseball game through a knothole. Seeing Popeye, they think he’s a guard. The subtitles translates one kids reactions as “Jesus, the watchman!”
Of course, anyone conversant with ’30s vernacular will realize instantly the kid is saying, “Cheese it, the watchman!” I mean, seriously, they think you’d have a kid blaspheme in an old theatrical cartoon? I’m not sure how that slipped by, but it’s pretty funny.
