What the hell happened to Popeye?

[idunnosomename]

He lived in a frying pan at my school

[Cuellar]

He has been #cancelled for sex pestery

[dissolute ocelot]

"Popeye the Sailor is a fictional muscular American cartoon character"

There's allegedly a daily Popeye cartoon on Comics Kingdom drawn by the creator of terrible webcomic Something Positive, but it's paywalled.

[imitationleather]

"Popeye the Sailor is a fictional muscular American cartoon character"

Remember when they did the British remake and called it Purple Aki?

[idunnosomename]

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man
I'm a fictional muscular American cartoon character

[petril]

at my school he had no Calor Gas, so his heating and cooking were supplied in an uncommon rectal/donkey based system, from what I remember

[Jockice]

Last I heard he'd opened a chain of chicken shops in America.

Popeyes is a takeaway in Sheffield city centre. A regular just before going home from the pub haunt of mine in my late teens and 20s. Merdocs' burgers were better though.

[MojoJojo]

It was all downhill after he was a window cleaner in Brookside/

[Jockice]

I think he's a victim of the smoking ban.

[non capisco]

How come his nephews look more like him than his son, that's what I wants to knowsk.

[FredNurke]

They're papal nephews. (See also: Donald Duck.)

'His' son is probably Bluto's.

[Mobbd]

In our primary school of the early '90s, Popeye "likes to go swimmin' to kiss all the wimmin'."

More amazingly than kids making stuff up in a playground proto-rap battle, is how there was a Popeye song in an actual poetry anthology in our school library. Usborn's My Very First Poetry Book, I think. It went:

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man,
I live in a garbage can
I eat all the lizards and spit out their gizzards,
I'm Popeye the Sailor Man. (*toot-toot!*)

I might have added my own (*toot-toot!*) there.

It's obviously not as good as the rude ones from the playground but it's weird to think that this was IN PRINT. Reputable, approved, actual print.

If memory serves, the 'poem' was accompanied by a fairly monstrous unlicensed picture of Popeye himself with the lizards and the garbage can and everything. It wasn't quite the stuff of Tijuana Bibles but it was... a bit odd. Someone get googling/scanning plz.

[Gregory Torso]

He lived in a frying pan at my school

At my school, he was an eskimo for some reason and was living in a ball of snow (not an igloo, just a big ball of snow) and had also taken to sticking his penis out of his trousers whenever it was chilly (not to see if it was chilly, just whenever it was cold enough to expose himself, the sick bastard).

[Gregory Torso]

What about that burger-eating cunt? What was his name, The Gimp or something.



edit: it was Wimpy, like the restaurant. Is that where they got their name?

edit 2: Yes. I suppose I could just look these things up instead of wasting computer ink.

[Gregory Torso]

So there's Wimpy the restaurant, Popeyes the restaurant, Olive Garden, any restaurants named after Bluto?

[Gregory Torso]

Hamburger name-stealing CUNTS

[Lisa Jesusandmarychain]

It was all downhill after he was a window cleaner in Brookside/

That was Sinbad, mate.

[ollyboro]

Russell Hunter played a snivelling grass called Popeye in The Sweeney episode "I Want The Man". Roy Kinnear was also in it. You can't say fairer than that.

[idunnosomename]

Sindbad the Sailor is the best Fleischer two-reeler. Well actually Ali Baba is my favourite for the gags.

"must be thieves around here!"

[Twonty Gostelow]

French Connection used to sell a Popeye doily.

[Replies From View]

I used to think Bluto was called 'Pluto' for many years.
I'm sure I wasn't the only one.
As you can imagine, I was quite confused to learn he had been reclassified as a dwarf planet.

Alternative sources had Bluto down as "Brutus".

[DrGreggles]

He lived in a frying pan at my school

OF COURSE HE DID!
All these other people are talking nonsense.

[Dex Sawash]

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man,
I lives in a garbage can
I eats all the worms
and spits out the germs

Masterpiece of unintentional euphemism that I only just realized there

[QDRPHNC]

Got into the pro fisting circuit.

[Voltan (Man of Steel)]

As a long-serving sailor he'll have been involved in more than his fair share of "golden rivet" initiation pranks against new recruits. "Go on, son. Stick your head out the porthole and see if you can find it." Disgusting.

[Hand Solo]

I'm Popeye and I'm here to fuck.

[JesusAndYourBush]

Not to mention sleeping with his granny and tickling her fanny.

That's the version I knew, except in ours he lived in an "old tin can" not a caravan. and instead of tickled it was "twiddled".

[Virgo76]

Alternative sources had Bluto down as "Brutus".

You too?
Yes, it was changed to Brutus for a short while in the 1960s due to a copyright mix-up, then changed back again.
It really was a very eventful decade.

[Pingers]

Popeye was shit. In the days of three TV channels it was in the "I'll watch it if there's nothing else on" bracket along with Blue Peter and Mark Curry's Mullet Mayhem Marauders.

In real life, Popeye would be a roidal simpleton with spinach between his teeth, breath like a bus driver's ballbag and an overall smell of fox piss and child sperm, and Olive Oyl made Shelley Duvall look like Chuck Norris

[SavageHedgehog]

That's like one of those I love the 100 greatest whatever talking head comments, like "bears don't wear hats and ties, what were they thinking?!?"