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Popeye the Sailor
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Popeye the Sailor is a 1933 theatrical cartoon short produced by Fleischer Studios and distributed by Paramount. It marks the first appearance of the eponymous comic strip character in animation. It was billed as a Betty Boop cartoon, but she's clearly not the main star in it (this was to ensure many theaters already showing the Betty Boop series could pick up the cartoon, to see if audiences liked seeing Popeye in animation, to which they did, leading Popeye to get his own series).The Popeye series' formula is established right out of the starting gate with this cartoon, with Bluto kidnapping Olive Oyl and Popeye having to chase him down and beat him into submission to prevent Olive from being run over by a train. Spinach is introduced as power-up to save the day. | |
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The Freakshow | |
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The Freakshow: The fair corner where Betty Boop dances is apparently a freak circus, with several posters about such people exhibitions. Popeye "borrows" a bearded woman's beard to use as hula skirt when dancing alongside Betty. | |
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Poorly Disguised Pilot | |
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Poorly-Disguised Pilot: One wonders if including the appearance of Betty Boop was even necessary. | |
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Trainstopping | |
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Trainstopping: Popeye saves Olive by punching out the train at the last second. | |
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Power-Up Food | |
| Popeye the Sailor / int_422f23f9 | comment |
While the short introduces raw spinach as power-up, Popeye doesn't seem to really need it (he displays impressive feats of Charles Atlas Superpower throughout the short — one should note that he's already super strong in the comic strips, which carried over to here, and doesn't need spinach in them) nor does he seem to be in peril when he eats it (he looks more bored than incapacitated by Bluto when doing so). | |
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"I Can't Look!" Gesture | |
| Popeye the Sailor / int_45554ca2 | comment |
"I Can't Look!" Gesture: While dancing along with Betty Boop, Popeye playfully covers his eyes in shame for Betty's sexy moves. | |
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The Man in the Moon | |
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The Man in the Moon: Popeye sends a fair high striker's striker straight into the Moon, which happens to have a face. A black eye ensues for the Moon. | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: It was a Betty Boop short and not Popeye's own series yet. As such, plenty of features (such as Funny Animals and Deranged Animation) are straight out of earlier Golden Age Fleischer shorts. They would be phased out in later shorts. Olive's voice was not yet high-pitched. While the short introduces raw spinach as power-up, Popeye doesn't seem to really need it (he displays impressive feats of Charles Atlas Superpower throughout the short — one should note that he's already super strong in the comic strips, which carried over to here, and doesn't need spinach in them) nor does he seem to be in peril when he eats it (he looks more bored than incapacitated by Bluto when doing so). | |
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Of Corsets Funny | |
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Of Corsets Funny: Popeye is revealed to be wearing a girdle during his song. | |
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"I Am" Song | |
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"I Am" Song: The short also marks the first time "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man" was sung by the protagonist. It opens the short following a live action footage of newspapers announcing that Popeye (who was already famous in comic strip form at this point) is making it to theaters. | |
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Chained to a Railway | |
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Chained to a Railway: Bluto chains Olive to a railway (she's tied up with the train tracks in order to kill Olive in a train crash, somehow) since she keeps refusing his advances. | |
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Abhorrent Admirer | |
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Abhorrent Admirer: The first time in animation that Bluto chased after Olive Oyl without her consent. | |
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Cut a Slice, Take the Rest | |
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Cut a Slice, Take the Rest: After Bluto rings the bell at a strength tester and is offered a cigar from a cigar box, Bluto takes a cigar, then takes the filled cigar box and pockets it and puts the lone cigar in the carnival worker's mouth. | |
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Rotoscoping | |
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Rotoscoping: Used for Betty's dancing. Some of it is recycled from her 1932 short "Bamboo Isle". | |
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Track Trouble | |
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Track Trouble: Bluto ties up Olive Oyl with railroad tracks, in order to cause a train wreck that would kill her. Olive is saved, but the train still get wrecked from Popeye punching it with one blow before it can derail and hit Olive. | |
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| Popeye the Sailor / int_b8e3f20a | type |
Demoted to Extra | |
| Popeye the Sailor / int_b8e3f20a | comment |
Demoted to Extra: The short is definitely billed as a Betty Boop one, but she appears in it only for the hula dance scene. | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower | |
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Charles Atlas Superpower: Both Popeye and Bluto are incredibly strong even without spinach here. Popeye is introduced punching several big metal objects into plenty of much smaller objects, sends a high striker's striker in the Moon's face without the need of a mallet (he even reduces said mallet to dust beforehand) and pulls a whole cliff to him with a rope. Bluto has no problem using train tracks to tie up Olive, also. | |
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| Popeye the Sailor / int_eb7c34cf | type |
Crossover | |
| Popeye the Sailor / int_eb7c34cf | comment |
Crossover: Although Betty Boop doesn't do much in this one, it's effectively a crossover between a comic strip property that was unrelated to the Fleischer studios' animated star and the latter, if only for the hula dance scene. | |
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Jerkass | |
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Jerkass: Bluto's very unpleasant personality and behavior were already in full display. | |
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Funny Animal | |
| Popeye the Sailor / int_eb99df21 | comment |
It was a Betty Boop short and not Popeye's own series yet. As such, plenty of features (such as Funny Animals and Deranged Animation) are straight out of earlier Golden Age Fleischer shorts. They would be phased out in later shorts. | |
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Involuntary Dance / int_cc40b799 | |
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Sleep Deprivation / int_cc40b799 | |
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Trainstopping / int_cc40b799 |
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