Movies and TvShows featuring "one-upsmanship" theme.

In this animated short film, a hungry alley cat tries to catch a clever canary. The chase takes an unexpected turn when the canary accidentally consumes a growth serum, causing him to grow to an enormous size. The cat, now at a disadvantage, must find a way to outsmart the giant bird before he destroys everything in his path.

Bluto dirties all of an office building's windows himself, to drum up business for his window cleaning service. When he gets to Olive's stenographer office, about ten floors up, she says no: Popeye's going to wash her windows. And the battle with Popeye is on.

In 'Show Biz Bugs', Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck compete for the spotlight in a theater, resorting to one-upmanship and tricks in order to outdo each other. The rivalry escalates to explosive proportions with nitroglycerin and other dangerous stunts, ultimately leading to unexpected consequences.

Big Top Bunny is a Merrie Melodies short film featuring Bugs Bunny and a circus bear. The rabbit and bear engage in a series of humorous and competitive acts, including trapeze stunts, cannon shots, and high-diving. The film showcases their one-upmanship and comedic rivalry, with surreal and comedic elements added to the mix.

Olive tells Popeye and Bluto that she loves a man in a uniform, so they try to sign up at the recruiting station - that can only take one of them.

Olive is moving out of her apartment; she's hired Bluto to move her things, but Popeye comes over to visit and won't be shown up.

Koko the Clown's little brother comes to visit and wreaks havoc in Max Fleischer's studio.

The boys arrive at Olive's house at the same time, but at different doors. They both come in, and whenever Olive isn't looking, they start fighting. She catches them, and tells them one will have to leave. Bluto tells Popey that whoever does the best trick can stay. As a result, they find ever more creative ways to abuse each other, much to Olive's merriment. Eventually, though, they start destroying her house, and Olive throws them both out, for a little while, anyhow.

Just before Italy's capitulation in 1943, an eminent lawyer is being forcefully taken to the fort by Italian authorities along with his fourteen year old son, in order to reconstruct the judicial process for thirty nameless people that never actually took place.