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    Popeye the Sailor

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    The character of Popeye was created in 1929 and has been around in one form or another ever since.

    popeye_44eHe first appeared on television in 1956, when old movie shorts starring the squinty-eyed sailor were shown in syndication.

    These old cartoons showed Popeye’s daily activities, which included a general routine of wooing his lady love Olive Oyl, fighting with Bluto over Olive’s affections, losing, then eating spinach halfway through the fight and subsequently knocking the daylights out of his rival.

    As an outsider to this love triangle, the hamburger-obsessed Wimpy would try, often successfully, to manipulate all three of them in order to get a free lunch.

    Each episode usually ended with Popeye singing his familiar theme song which touted the wonders of spinach.

    “I’m strong to the finish, ’cause I eats me spinach.
    I’m Popeye the Sailor Man!”

    In 1960, Popeye The Sailor was the first show to feature Popeye cartoons made just for television. These episodes were more fleshed out, featuring characters from the comic strip that hadn’t been included in the big screen segments, such as the Sea Hag, Roughhouse the cook, Prof. O.G. Watasnozzle, and George W. Geezil.

    Viewers were also treated to episodes starring the rarely seen Swee’ Pea, Poopdeck Pappy, Eugene the Jeep and Alice the Goon. For some reason, Popeye’s nemesis on this show was named Brutus – though he looked suspiciously just like Bluto.

    The oddly-proportioned seaman (can elbows that small even support forearms that big?) made his next appearance in 1978 with The All-New Popeye Hour on CBS.

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    This series was broken up into different segments: The Adventures of Popeye, Popeye’s Treasure Hunt, Popeye’s Sports Parade, and Dinky Dog. The latter segment starred a huge mutt and had little or nothing to do with Popeye or any sort of maritime activity.

    Because of the changing times, these episodes featured less fighting and more trickery on the part of Popeye’s nemesis, who was now back to being called Bluto.

    Each episode also featured a public service portion, in which the spinach-eating swabby would educate his nephews Peepeye, Pupeye, and Pipeye on topics such as home safety or sensible dieting. In one such segment, Popeye explained what a bad habit smoking was, and how he only used his pipe for “tooting” at the end of his theme song.

    In 1980, the series was shortened to a half-hour and rechristened The Popeye and Olive Comedy Show.

    Two new segments were added: Prehistoric Popeye, which showed us a Cro-Magnon version of the sailor eating Jurassic spinach, and Private Olive Oyl, which chronicled the adventures of Olive and Alice the Goon as privates in the Army.

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    CBS decided to retire the beloved boatman in 1983.

    The network brought back the mumbling marine back one more time in 1986 with Popeye and Son. Popeye and Olive had married, bought a house, and raised a nine-year-old son named Popeye Jr. – all without ageing a day.

    Bluto had, of course, married as well, and he and his wife Lizzie had produced young Tank. As you can imagine, Popeye Jr. and Tank were often at odds, which would prompt the elder Popeye to intervene and teach his son how to solve his problems without fighting. How times had changed . . .

    The many incarnations of Popeye are a tribute to the character’s universal appeal. Spawning a myriad of cartoons, a feature-length live-action film (1980) starring Robin Williams of Mork & Mindy fame, and even a fast-food chain, this one-eyed, oddly-formed, and violence-prone son of the sea endured through several generations of viewers.

    Popeye
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    Wimpy 

    Jack Mercer (1)
    Daws Butler (2)
    Allan Melvin (3)
    Olive Oyl 

    Mae Questel (1)
    Marilyn Schreffler (2)
    Sea Hag 

    Mae Questel (1)
    Marilyn Schreffler (2)
    Swee’ Pea 

    Mae Questel
    Brutus 

    Jackson Beck
    Bluto 

    Allan Melvin
    Dinky Dog 

    Frank Welker
    Uncle Dudley 

    Frank Nelson
    Sandy 

    Jackie Joseph
    Monica 

    Julie Bennett
    Sgt. Blast 

    Jo Anne Worley
    Alice the Goon 

    Marilyn Schreffler
    Col. Crumb 

    Hal Smith
    Lizzie 

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    Puggy 

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    Popeye Jr 

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    Tank 

    David Markus
    Woody 

    Penina Segall
    Dee Dee 

    Kaleena Kiff
    Eugene the Jeep 

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