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  Popeye the Sailor Man - Uncyclopedia, the content-free encyclopedia
Popeye the Sailor Man (born July 4th, 1257, in Bristol, Massachusetts) was a cartoon character made during the Great Shit Epidemic to get people through some rough times.
However, it is an established fact nowadays that while being raped by his stepfather, a sailor and fisher who wanted Popeye to inherit the family business, Popeye found Colonel Sanders as his personal lord and savior, and was reformed to a born-again christian at the age of six.
Popeye's doctor was also able to attribute Popeye's muffled, "mumbling" speech to several strokes that he must have suffered throughout the course of his life and commented that he was lucky to be walking and talking at all.
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 Popeye - Friends of Cannabis - Celebrity Stoners
Indeed, sailors were among the first to introduce marijuana to American culture, bringing the herb back with them from their voyages overseas.
Popeye discovers that the mine manager is feeding his men berries from a bush whose roots are soaked in a nasty drug.
Popeye falls under the influence of the laced berries and becomes surly and mean, striking out at his friends and allies.
www.friendsofcannabis.com /friends/popeye.htm   (546 words)

  
 Popeye: Popeye The Sailor
Popeye is a 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman, based on the comic strip and cartoon character Popeye the Sailor.
The sailor had one eye, smoked a corncob pipe, had overly thick forearms, muttered constantly to himself, had no teeth, was inarticulate and often subject to fits of frustration, even though he was driven by a heart of gold and unwavering morality.
Popeye is a sailor from the aspect a funny.
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 Popeye the Sailor @ Toonarific Cartoons
Popeye was created in 1929, and has been around in one form or another ever since.
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.
Popeye and Olive had gotten married, bought a house, and raised a nine-year old son named Popeye Jr., all without aging a day.
www.toonarific.com /show.php?show_id=2883   (622 words)

  
 Popeye From Strip To Screen
Popeye the Sailor, one of the most enduring characters in animation history, began not in motion pictures but in E.C. "Elzie" Segar's "Thimble Theater" comic strip.
After a prologue in which newspapers herald the sailor's film debut, and Popeye sings "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man," the film featured what was to be the standard "Popeye" series plot, re-enacted with variations by the Fleischers for the next decade.
Popeye defeats Bluto, and, through the magical powers of spinach, is able to stop the train and save Olive Oyl.
www.awn.com /mag/issue2.4/awm2.4pages/2.4langerpopeye.html   (1550 words)

  
 Popeye
Popeye comic books were also produced from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Popeye the Sailor Man is celebrating his 75th anniversary with a new animated adventure.
Popeye Canned Spinach is a great source of vitamin C and beta carotene—both potent antioxidants that can fight cancer and boost immunity.
www.popeyespinach.com /facts.htm   (326 words)

  
 Don Markstein's Toonopedia: Popeye the Sailor
Are you a sailor?" Castor called to a one-eyed man wearing a nautical outfit, with an anchor tattooed on his arm.
Popeye made his first animated appearance in Betty Boop Meets Popeye the Sailor (1933), one of several cartoons in which the popular Fleischer cartoon star met various comic strip characters, in hopes that some might prove popular enough to merit cartoon series of their own.
In 1980, Popeye was made into a live-action feature film, starring Robin Williams as Popeye, Shelly Duval as Olive Oyl, Paul Smith as Bluto, and Ray Walston as Popeye's father, Poopdeck Pappy.
www.toonopedia.com /popeye.htm   (671 words)

  
 POPEYE History
Popeye is an underdog with a long fuse and a keen sense of fair play.
Popeye quickly eclipsed older characters to become the star of the strip.
Popeye made the jump to the silver screen in a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon entitled, "Popeye the Sailor" from the Fleischer Studios.
www.geocities.com /~shovalfilm/popeye-history.htm   (364 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938, Vol. 1: DVD: Popeye the Sailor   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-28)
In 1933, the original Popeye voice was done by William Costello.
Forget Poopdeck Pappy or Popeye's nephews (those these will eventually surface in the Fleischer versions); this is the REAL POPEYE in all his elastic, mumbling glory.
This is clearly the set that Popeye enthusiasts have been waiting for.
www.amazon.com /Popeye-Sailor-1933-1938-Vol-1/dp/B000P296AS   (1758 words)

  
 Popeye the Sailor Biography from Who2.com
Popeye the Sailor has been well-known to comic strip fans since his first appearance in the newspaper strip Thimble Theater in 1929.
(Popeye's creator, Elzie Segar, died in 1938.) Popeye was played by Robin Williams in the 1980 feature film Popeye, which co-starred Shelley Duvall as Olive Oyl and was directed by Robert Altman.
The Popeye's Fried Chicken restaurant chain is named not for Popeye the Sailor, but rather (according to the fast-food company) for the Popeye Doyle character played by Gene Hackman in The French Connection...
www.who2.com /popeye.html   (245 words)

  
 Popeye the sailor man turns 75
Popeye celebrates his 75th birthday this year, animated evidence that a steady diet of leafy green vegetables and pipe smoking can guarantee you Hulk Hogan forearms as a septuagenarian.
Popeye was launched in 1929, debuting in a minor role in the comic strip "Thimble Theater." The sailor was an immediate hit with readers, and artist E.C. Segar converted him into the star of the strip within two years.
New Popeye cartoons debuted in the 1970s, although that incarnation was more politically correct: He didn't smoke a pipe, and was far less likely to pound Bluto into a pulp.
www.chinadaily.com.cn /english/doc/2004-11/15/content_391496.htm   (532 words)

  
 ClassicGaming.com - Game of the Week
Popeye is an important piece of video game history because it was the first cartoon ever to be turned into a video game.
Popeye loses a life when hit by an enemy (Bluto, Sea Hag's bottles, or the vulture) or when he doesn't get one of Olive's items in time.
Popeye's only weapon are his fists, which he can use to punch out the vulture or to smash the bottles.
www.classicgaming.com /rotw/popeye.shtml   (490 words)

  
 Popeye the Sailor Man - Family Guy Wiki - a Wikia wiki
Popeye the Sailor Man is a comic strip character, later featured in popular animated cartoons and movies appearing first in January 1929.
Popeye has only appeared once so far in a cutaway after Peter remarks "You are as clueless as Popeye." In the cutaway Popeye is at the hospital that the Griffins go to, talking to Dr.
Hartman informs Popeye that the lumps on his forearms were "really giant tumors", and that he "must have realized that it is not the normal way that human arms look".
familyguy.wikia.com /wiki/Popeye_the_Sailor_Man   (325 words)

  
 Popeye the Sailorman. Roadside America
Popeye was ripped from his stone pedestal and landed on his face.
Chester's Popeye was dedicated in 1977 to honor the spinach-eater's creator, Elzie Segar, who was born in Chester in 1894.
Popeye's swollen forearms were Segar's waggish slap at the rigid "life drawing" classes he endured in his art school days.
www.roadsideamerica.com /set/popeye.html   (444 words)

  
 Popeye the Sailor - DVD Movie Central
Popeye the Sailor Volume 1 takes us back to the very first screen appearance of the rough and tough spinach eating sailor.
Yes, Popeye was not exactly politically correct in his heyday, and modern audiences might be a little taken aback by the crude depictions of Indians, Mexicans, and African Americans.
As our favorite sailor progressed into the World War II years, the representations of the Japanese were also less than kind, but that’s a story for a future date.
www.dvdmoviecentral.com /ReviewsText/popeye_the_sailor.htm   (1154 words)

  
 TV ACRES: Statues & Fountains - Popeye the Sailor
Inscribed on its base was Popeye's favorite saying "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. I am what I am and that's all that I am." The other statue of Popeye is located in Chester, Illinois overlooking the Mississippi River in Segar Memorial Park.
In 1932, Max Fleischer procured the rights from King Features to produce a series of Popeye Cartoons, which appeared on film in the Betty Boop cartoon entitled "Popeye the Sailor" (1933).
Popeye's creator died in 1938 at the age of forty-four from complications from a spleen ailment but his nautical hero remained to entertain generations to come.
www.tvacres.com /statues_popeye.htm   (272 words)

  
 Popeye The Sailor TV Show
Popeye made his film debut in Popeye the Sailor, a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon (Betty only makes a brief appearance as she reinacts her hula-hula dance seen in Betty Boop's Bamboo Isle at the local carnival).
The Popeye series continued production, although a marked change was seen in the Florida-produced shorts: they were brighter and less detailed in their artwork, with attempts to bring the character animation closer to a Disney style.
When he was unavailable to record his dialogue, Mae Questel stood in as the voice of Popeye, in addition to her role as Olive Oyl.
www.retrojunk.com /details_tvshows/1910-popeye-the-sailor   (833 words)

  
 Popeye, the Sailor Man is a native Texan.
Popeye, the Sailor Man is a native Texan.
Within eight years of his appearance in the newspapers, Popeye was immortalized in a small town only 50 miles from the Mexican border, Crystal City.
Standing on a four-foot base, a six-foot concrete statue of the sailor was dedicated in Crystal city on March 26, 1937.
www.texasescapes.com /MikeCoxTexasTales/146PopeyeComesToTexas.htm   (548 words)

  
 YouTube - Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor pt. 1
Popeye attempts to rescue her while J. Wellington Wimpy follows a duck around with a meat-grinder.
After Popeye disposes of Rokh and Sindbad's two-headed, Yiddish-accented giant, Boola, it's a battle to the "finich" between the two legendary sailors.
POPEYE the SAILOR in "Your a Sap Mr.
www.youtube.com /watch?v=MnO4EhusWuQ   (410 words)

  
 CNN.com - Popeye the Sailor turns 75 - Jan. 16, 2004
Before Popeye the Sailor, Olive Oyl and Wimpy were the stars of a beloved comic strip, they walked the streets of this little town where their creator grew up.
Popeye's real-life alter ego, according to locals, was Frank Fiegel, a one-eyed, pipe-smoking man with a penchant for fistfights.
Popeye made his debut in the funny pages 75 years ago, walking onto Elzie Segar's "Thimble Theatre" comic strip on January 17, 1929.
www.cnn.com /2004/US/Midwest/01/16/popeye.s.hometown.ap   (698 words)

  
 Video 1933-Betty Boop - Popeye The Sailor - 1933, betty, boop, popeye, boob - Dailymotion Share Your Videos
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These cartoons proved to be among the most popular of the 1930s, and Popeye at one time rivaled Mickey Mouse for popularity among audiences.
Popeye made his film debut in Popeye the Sailor, a 1933 Betty Boop cartoon (Betty only makes a brief appearance).
www.dailymotion.com /video/xyf3r_1933betty-boop-popeye-the-sailor   (180 words)

  
 Animated Views » Popeye: A Sailor’s Story
Popeye’s look evolved greatly over the years, but many aspects of his character were evident from the first week of his life, especially his brusque nature.
Aside from his toughness, the early Popeye was known for his uneasy relationship with Olive, which led to romance when she kissed him in August 1929 (although she said it wan an accident at the time).
Popeye’s star status was proven with the arrival of scads of merchandise, mentions of Popeye by radio comedians, and loads of fan mail for the sailor.
animated-views.com /2007/popeye-a-sailors-story   (3238 words)

  
 Popeye the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor: His Many Voices: In the classic Popeye cartoons that ran from 1933 to 1957 (Max Fleischer Studios and later Famous Studios), there was more than one voice actor for Popeye.
Popeye's voice is definitely a lot meaner in these early Popeye cartoons than it would be with later voice actors.
She was Popeye in 1945's "Shape Ahoy" and I'm sure she did Popeye in a few others.
www.polarblairsden.com /cartoonspopeye.html   (363 words)

  
 Popeye the Sailor: 1933-1938
Even though he is a murderer of the modern English tongue, Popeye speaks, without any problems, the transnational language of selfless bravery, relentless belief in oneself, and uncompromising adherence to one's own set of moral/ethic codes.
The main documentary on Popeye, I Yam What I Yam: The Story of Popeye the Sailor, chronicles the evolution of the series from it's inception up to the present.
It's clear from watching this that the animation and characterization of Popeye cartoons during the Fleishman period were a remarkable achievement that have not been topped by any subsequent versions of this character..
www.dvdbeaver.com /film2/DVDReviews32/popeye_the_sailor.htm   (655 words)

  
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Popeye made his first public appearance Jan. 17, 1929, in Elzie Segar's then 10-year-old comic strip, "Thimble Theatre," which originally revolved around Olive Oyl's family.
In fact, Popeye was the first character to invade, in an important way, the toy and novelty field.
Popeye continues to be one of the most widely recognized and beloved characters in the world.
www.kingfeatures.com /features/comics/popeye/aboutMaina.php   (645 words)

  
 Popeye the Sailor Biography (Cartoon Character/Animated Character) — FactMonster.com
Popeye the Sailor has been well-known to comic strip fans since his first appearance in the newspaper strip
Popeye loved a good brawl, and would eat a can of spinach to give himself enough strength to secure victory.
The Popeye's Fried Chicken restaurant chain is named not for Popeye the Sailor, but rather (according to the fast-food company) for the Popeye Doyle character played by Gene Hackman in
www.factmonster.com /biography/var/popeye.html   (277 words)

  
 Armchair Arcade: Article / Head-to-Head with Popeye the Sailor
Popeye the Sailor is an internationally renowned superstar, and it’s no surprise that he earned a video game in his honor.
Popeye’s punches are hard to time because his fist does not extend outward when he punches like it does in the other games.
Since the NES Popeye was one of the earliest NES titles made, it didn't benefit from the advances of the newer technology like the MMC chips or the experience gained by programmers who eventually learned how to maximize it's full potential.
www.armchairarcade.com /aamain/content.php?article.57   (2513 words)

  
 Popeye the Sailor Man Cartoon: 70th Birthday!
The fact that the fl and white "Popeye" series continues to be aired on television, with a huge following, is a testament to the work of the Fleischer Studios.
The Fleischer Popeyes were one of the most faithful adaptations of characters being transferred to animation from the comic strip.
In 1936, Popeye would star in the first of three two-reel color animated cartoons, "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor." This cartoon, featuring dazzling three dimensional backgrounds, was often billed along with the theatre's main attraction.
emol.org /film/archives/popeye   (647 words)

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