History ComicStrip / Popeye

* HollywoodScribbling: In the short "Cartoons Ain't Human".

* ClipShow: The threatrical shorts "Adventures of Popeye" and "I'm In The Army Now"

** The 1972 TV special ''TheManWhoHatedLaughter'', which teamed up virtually every popular King Features Syndicate character, even those from strips of completely different genres and art styles.

* Blow Me Down!: First Popeye short to not have him eating spinach.

* FoeYay: The [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCcYyB3OSQc infamous Minute Maid television ad]]. Poor Olive.

** And, as an infamous Minute Maid commercial showed, once they've had their orange juice, they're downright [[HoYay affectionate]].

* Cartoons Ain't Human
* Her Honor the Mare

** Subverted by Popeye at the ends of "Wild Elephinks", "Shiver Me Timbers", "Brotherly Love", and "Ghosks Is The Bunk" [[JustifiedTrope though those were only accidents.]]

** Subverted by Popeye at the ends of "Wild Elephinks", "Brotherly Love", and "Ghosks Is The Bunk" [[JustifiedTrope though those were only accidents.]]

** Junior, from ''Popeye & Son'' metabolizes spinach no less than his famous father.

** Actually, the claim is that the chain is named for ''The French Connection'''s Popeye Doyle — but the sailor was used in the advertising for a while.

He has starred in an impressive 231 theatrical cartoons during TheGoldenAgeOfAnimation, lasting from [[LongRunner 1933 to 1957]], his most noteworthy short being the first of the three two-reeler, 20 minute long, full-color Technicolor specials: specifically, "PopeyeTheSailorMeetsSindbadTheSailor". This iconic short, being a precursor even to {{Disney}}'s ''[[Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White]]'', was extremely popular and was even billed along with the feature of the theater, above the main feature of the theater that played it, or ''even billed as the main feature of the theater itself.'' While it failed to win an Oscar (losing to the now obscure WaltDisney SillySymphonies short "The Country Cousin"), it is still considered to this day to be one of The50GreatestCartoons ever made, influencing even filmmakers like RayHarryhausen, especially on his film ''{{The 7th Voyage of Sinbad}}''.

** In the story's sequel, Captain Strong, his girlfriend and a glutton friend (a Wimpy lookalike) invite Clark Kent and Lois Lane to a boat trip. When a disaster forces Clark to dive and use his powers to save the day, he quickly wraps canned spinach around him and claims he got superpowers after he accidentally swallowed it, making Captain Strong believe it was the same seaweed that gave him powers in the previous story (and thus, explaining how mild-mannered Clark Kent could emulate Superman)
** Unfortunately (for Clark Kent) some weird natural disasters kept attacking their boat and Captain Strong (truly believing he had a new cache of "Alien Seaweed") insisted of dealing with them all by himself in a completely over the top fashion (like for example, rowing a boat through the air) much like in Popeye's classic shorts. Of course, Clark Kent was secretely behind of Strong's awesome feats, just to let him be the hero and thus, keeping the seaweed charade intact. The story is way, way better (and funnier)than how it sounds.

** Subverted by Popeye at the ends of "Wild Elephinks" and "Brotherly Love", [[JustifiedTrope though those were only accidents.]]

* WorldsStrongestMan: Popeye
** In one episode, Popeye dreamed he'd lost a boxing match by knockout, and that Olive Oyl dumped him because he was therefore now a "weakling." When he awoke, he ran over to Olive's house to prove himself, and lifted the ''entire house'' into the air. ''Without eating spinach first!''

** Junior, from ''PopeyeAndSon'' metabolizes spinach no less than his famous father.

** This man may be the real father of Peepeye/Pipeye/Pupeye/Poopeye (and thus Popeye's uncle). He probably was helping out the son of his lost brother Pappy.

** This "father" may be one of the real parents of Peepeye/Pipeye/Pupeye/Poopeye?

** The short ''Wotta Nitemare'' might also count, although the bulk of that short was one big DreamSequence. [[IncrediblyLamePun That, and it took place at night.]]

* CanonDiscontinuity: The Al Brodax and Hanna-Barbera TV cartoons, as well as "Popeye & Son", the latter of which actually had a DVD planned for it, but was ultimately canned.

* GrandFinale: Averted with the Popeye theatrical cartoons. The final short, ''Spooky Swabs'', was just another rather generic short and a semi-retelling of an earlier Popeye short with a similar premise. The ending, which has Popeye and Olive sailing the ship they've commandeered from the ghosts (whom they are using as makeshift sails) off into the sunset, as Popeye and Olive sing Popeye's theme one last time, is ironically rather fitting, though.

* HaveAGayOldTime: "I've never made love in Technicolor before!"