April 5, 2009 Popeye Cartoon; retrieved July 14, 2009. Olive Oyl is Popeye's girlfriend, Olive was something of a coy flapper whose extremely thin build lent itself well to the fashions of the time; her long black hair was usually rolled in a neat bun, like her mother's. Its style was influenced by the 1930s Fleischer cartoons, and featured Swee'Pea, Wimpy, Bluto (who is Popeye's friend in this version), Olive Oyl, Poopdeck Pappy and the Sea Hag as its characters. Blackbeard, Bill, "The First (arf, arf!) In the films and later television cartoons, Olive Oyl is usually Popeye's girlfriend, although she could be extremely fickle, depending on who could woo her the best or had the flashier possessions, and she was prone to become angry with Popeye over seemingly minor issues.

Olive cares deeply about Popeye, and despite their rough start, she eventually grew to love him dearly.

Over the years, however, she has often displayed a fickle attitude towards the sailor. In the strip, as written by Segar, Olive was something of a coy flapper whose extremely thin build lent itself well to the fashions of the time; her long black hair was usually rolled in a neat bun, like her mother's. The first cartoon in the series was released in 1933, and Popeye cartoons, released by Paramount Pictures, remained a staple of Paramount's release schedule for nearly 25 years. The rest were produced by Joe Musial and Bud Sagendorf: Wiggle Line Movie (Sept 11 - Nov 13, 1938), Wimpy's Zoo's Who (Nov 20, 1938 - Dec 1, 1940), Play-Store (Dec 8, 1940 - July 18, 1943), Popeye's Army and Navy (July 25-Sept 12, 1943), Pinup Jeep (Sept 19, 1943 - April 2, 1944), and Me Life by Popeye (April 9, 1944-?).[40].

The comic book brought together a large portion of the casts of both the comic strip and the animated shorts, and Popeye and Olive Oyl were finally wed after decades of courtship. [29][30][31][32] The character first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929, and Popeye became the strip's title in later years. Segar, Popeye's creator, celebrated with a Google doodle", "The 7 Most Disastrous Typos Of All Time", "Paradox of Hoaxes: How Errors Persist, Even When Corrected", "Popeye the Sailor: The 1940s Vol. [115], The 1988 Walt Disney/Touchstone Pictures film Who Framed Roger Rabbit featured many classic cartoon characters, and the absence of Popeye was noted by some critics. Once again, reference to spinach was conspicuously absent. In January 2019, in celebration of its 90 years of character, King Feature Syndicate launched the webcomic Popeye's Cartoon Club. In 1989, a special series of short Popeye comic books were included in specially marked boxes of Instant Quaker Oatmeal, and Popeye also appeared in three TV commercials for Quaker Oatmeal,[51] which featured a parrot delivering the tag line "Popeye wants a Quaker!" A poll of adult comic strip readers in the April 1937 issue of Fortune magazine voted Popeye their second-favorite comic strip (after Little Orphan Annie). In late 1943, the Popeye series began to be produced in Technicolor, beginning with Her Honor the Mare. She was the more-or-less fiancée of Harold Hamgravy, a "lounge lizard" or slacker type who did as little work as possible and was always borrowing money. Lubry Kent's gift to Castor and Olive, a lucky Whiffle Hen, led them into the adventure where they met Popeye. Comics historian Brian Walker stated: "Segar offered up a masterful blend of comedy, fantasy, satire and suspense in Thimble Theater Starring Popeye".[32]. However, at times she can be quite bossy and possessive, always wanting to make Popeye do what she wants, but the quick witted sailor usually manages to find a way to avoid his lover's wrath.

[37] Swee'Pea is Popeye's ward in the comic strips, but he is often depicted as belonging to Olive Oyl in cartoons. [123][124][125] (In fact, the error was not a slipped decimal point, but a measurement error.

In 1986, Popeye and Bluto appeared on 3 foreign adverts out of Atlantic Ultramo motor oil, with 2 adverts featuring Olive. Its style was influenced by the 1930s Fleischer cartoons, and featured Swee'Pea, Wimpy, Bluto (who is Popeye's friend in this version), Olive Oyl, Poopdeck Pappy and the Sea Hag as its characters. Charles M. Schulz said, "I think Popeye was a perfect comic strip, consistent in drawing and humor". [90] In January 2016, it was announced that T.J. Fixman would write the film. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories. Over the years, Popeye has also appeared in comic books, television cartoons, video games, hundreds of advertisements,[31] peripheral products ranging from spinach to candy cigarettes, and the 1980 live-action film directed by Robert Altman and starring Robin Williams as Popeye.

For more than 20 years, Stephen DeStefano has been the artist drawing Popeye for King Features licensing.[78]. These cartoon shorts are now owned by Turner Entertainment and distributed by its sister company Warner Bros.[34]. [116], The Popeye was a popular dance in the dance craze era of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

[55] From February through April 2020, Cartoon Club ran an additional five comics by Milholland.[56][57][58][59][60]. As helpless as she might seem towards more fearsome foes, she is still a tomboyish scrapper who will not back down against ordinary opponents (whether they be armed or unarmed) and will do her best to help others, and when even those who've come to her rescue are incapacitated, she will do whatever it takes to free herself and fight, even willing to sock the likes of the Sea Hag for Popeye's sake when she knows that his chivalrous nature will not allow him to hurt women (no matter how homely and witch-like they are). Originally, Popeye got "luck" from rubbing the head of the Whiffle Hen; by 1932, he was instead getting "strength" from eating spinach. In Myron Waldman's official artworks both Olive and Betty are shown to be quite good friends even when Popeye is flirting with Betty. Eugene the Jeep was introduced in the comic strip on March 13, 1936. In, Seth MacFarlane's Cavalcade of Cartoon Comedy, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor, You May Now Kiss the...Uh...Guy Who Receives, Saturday Morning: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, Campbell's Chunky Prime Rib and Vegetables, The Popeye Valentine Special: Sweethearts at Sea, Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves, "Who Is Harry Welch – and Was He Ever The Voice of Popeye? In the story, a scientist misplaced a decimal point in an 1870 measurement of spinach's iron content, leading to an iron value ten times higher than it should have been. Like the earlier theatrical cartoon series, it would use many elements that were already well known, mostly the basic storyline of Popeye trying to keep his sweetheart Olive safe from the hands of other male suitors while using spinach to remain fit and healthy. 1", Official Popeye & Friends Character Trail site, Popeye: The Home of Popeye the Sailor Man, The Popeye Valentine's Day Special - Sweethearts at Sea, Uncle Remus and His Tales of Br'er Rabbit, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Popeye&oldid=984613141, Comics characters with superhuman strength, Television series by Warner Bros. Television, Fictional characters based on real people, Fictional United States Coast Guard personnel, Articles with dead external links from March 2018, Articles with permanently dead external links, Articles with dead external links from January 2018, Articles using infoboxes for fictional elements with invalid color combination, Articles with unsourced statements from January 2020, Articles with unsourced statements from December 2018, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, New strips on Sundays, reprints Monday through Saturday, July 30, 1994 (date of last first-run daily strip, Sunday strips continue), A typical Popeye style rescue was spoofed in. In the Famous Studios cartoons, Olive was portrayed as more of a sassy, vain, shallow and completely helpless woman, with her zany attitude, silly personality and her wacky side. Castor Oyl continued to come up with get-rich-quick schemes and enlisted Popeye in his misadventures. At the same time, she would demonstrate more empowerment, as she would often put up more of a fight towards her abductor(s) (but with little success) or other female characters trying to woo Popeye. Most of these items are rare and sought by collectors, but some merchandise is still produced. September 10, 1935 through March 28, 1936 on the NBC Red Network (87 episodes), initially sponsored by Wheatena, a whole-wheat breakfast cereal, which routinely replaced the spinach references. The strip continues to appear in first-run installments in its Sunday edition, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. Initial strips presented Olive as being less than impressed with Popeye, but she eventually left Hamgravy to become Popeye's girlfriend and Hamgravy left the strip as a regular. She constantly gets kidnapped by Bluto (aka Brutus), who is Popeye's archrival for her affections; when she gets angry with Popeye for whatever goes wrong, it's usually as a result of Bluto's trickery, but Popeye always rescues her and wins back her affection in the process. In May 1942, Paramount Pictures assumed ownership of Fleischer Studios, fired the Fleischers and began reorganizing the studio, which they renamed Famous Studios. This incarnation, however, is found by some to be more unlikeable due to her vain and fickle tendencies.

Tom Sims, the son of a Coosa River channel-boat captain, continued writing Thimble Theatre strips and established the Popeye the Sailorman spin-off. When she recovered, she continued to pretend to have the disorder to win him back. Of the three series, only 20 of the 204 episodes are known to be preserved. In 1973, Cary Bates created Captain Strong, a takeoff of Popeye, for DC Comics,[113] as a way of having two cultural icons – Superman and (a proxy of) Popeye – meet.

[118], Initially Popeye's chief superhuman characteristic was his indestructibility, rather than super strength, which was attributed to his having rubbed the head of Bernice the Whiffle Hen numerous times after being shot. December 28, 2008 Popeye Cartoon; retrieved July 14, 2009. In addition, the strip featured the Sea Hag, a terrible pirate, as well as the last witch on Earth — her even more terrible sister excepted; Alice the Goon, a monstrous creature who entered the strip as the Sea Hag's henchwoman and continued as Swee'Pea's babysitter; and Toar, a caveman.