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* ActorAllusion: The actors playing Popeye and Pappy both starred as an alien in a sitcom. Robin Williams was Mork in ''MorkAndMindy'' and Ray Walston was the Martian in ''MyFavoriteMartian''.
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* StrangeSalute: While the Sweethaven civic (?) anthem plays before the boxing match, the townspeople hold their hands over their heads.
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter - Swee'pea!
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* BabiesMakeEverythingBetter - Swee'pea! Swee'pea!
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* MadMagazine - ''Flopeye''.
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* MadMagazine Magazine/{{MAD}} - ''Flopeye''.
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* NumberOneDime: One of Bluto's motivations for villainy (other than "I'm mean, if you know what I mean") is getting his hands on Poopdeck Pappy's treasure. When the treasure is finally revealed, it turns out to be things like pictures of Popeye (Pappy's son) as an "infink", Popeye's baby rattle, his baby booties, and other sentimental memento's of Popeye's childhood.
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* NumberOneDime: One of Bluto's motivations for villainy (other than "I'm mean, if you know what I mean") is getting his hands on Poopdeck Pappy's treasure. When the treasure is finally revealed, it turns out to be things like pictures of Popeye (Pappy's son) as an "infink", Popeye's baby rattle, his baby booties, and other sentimental memento's of Popeye's childhood.
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** Eugene the Jeep was originally going to be in the film, but he was written out because the special effect would have been too expensive. Eugene was going to be a {{Living MacGuffin}} with telepathic powers. The script was rewritten so that Swee'Pea took over this role.
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** Eugene the Jeep was originally going to be in the film, but he was written out because the special effect would have been too expensive. Eugene was going to be a {{Living MacGuffin}} LivingMacGuffin with telepathic powers. The script was rewritten so that Swee'Pea took over this role.
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* CatchPhrase - "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" Even turned into a song.
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* CatchPhrase - "I "[[IAmWhatIAm I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" yam!]]" Even turned into a song.
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: Bluto in "He's Large."
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* NumberOneDime: One of Bluto's motivations for villainy (other than "I'm mean, if you know what I mean") is getting his hands on Poopdeck Pappy's treasure. When the treasure is finally revealed, it turns out to be things like pictures of Popeye (Pappy's son) as an "infink", Popeye's baby rattle, his baby booties, and other sentimental memento's of Popeye's childhood.
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* BigEater - Wimpy.
* MadMagazine - ''Flopeye''.
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** Bill Irwin's skills come in handy as he looks like he's actually getting catoonishly pummled by Bluto.
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** Bill Irwin's miming skills come in handy as he looks like he's actually getting catoonishly pummled by Bluto.
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** Bill Irwin's skills come in handy as he looks like he's actually getting catoonishly pummled by Bluto.
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* DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment: "He's Large" can be rather... awkward, due to this.
--> "He's tall... good lookin'... and he's large... he's large... ''[[RuleOfThree large]]''... tall... [[OverlyLongGag large]]..."
--> "He's tall... good lookin'... and he's large... he's large... ''[[RuleOfThree large]]''... tall... [[OverlyLongGag large]]..."
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** "You're not thinking of doing [random activity], are you? Because there's a xx cent [same random activity] tax."
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* SpeechImpediment: Another thing Popeye's got... is a [[FunetikAksent senske of humiligration.]]
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** When Rough House asks who's going pay for the burger Wimpy replies "I'm buying, he's paying." This was one of his {{Catch Phrases}}s in the original comic strip.
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** When Rough House asks who's going pay for the burger Wimpy replies "I'm buying, he's paying." This was one of his {{Catch Phrases}}s in the original comic strip.
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* DoesNotLikeSpam: [[spoiler: Popeye does not like ''spinach''. No, really! Not until the very last scene, anyway.]]
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* "First man who is dead, loses!"
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* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Poopdeck Pappy comes across as a genuine JerkAss at first, but towards the end proves to have had a heart all along.
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* HilariouslyAbusiveChildhood: It's clear from Popeye's stories from his childhood that pap was ''not'' a good father, even before he abandoned him. It's all PlayedForLaughs, since Popeye seems to either be in denial or is trying to make excuses for his father.
-->"One thing I remember about me pap was that he always used to throw me up in the air. Yeah, heh heh... but he'd never be there when I come down, you know. Heh heh heh. Boy, he had a sensek'a humor, didn't he? Yeah, that was me pap. I remember the time he gave me a electric eel as a toy. Hah hah hah -- ''eep!'' Hah, yeah, that was fun. Or, or he'd rock me cradle real, real, real hard and I'd lose me formula. And then he'd say 'One day, you'll be a sailor.' Heh heh heh, that's... that's what I yam today, yeah. Hm. Yeah. Sometimes he'd bounce me on his knee. Heh heh, most o' the time he'd miss, though, 'cos he couldn't see too well with one eye.... heh heh heh, oh, me pap, yeah..."
-->"One thing I remember about me pap was that he always used to throw me up in the air. Yeah, heh heh... but he'd never be there when I come down, you know. Heh heh heh. Boy, he had a sensek'a humor, didn't he? Yeah, that was me pap. I remember the time he gave me a electric eel as a toy. Hah hah hah -- ''eep!'' Hah, yeah, that was fun. Or, or he'd rock me cradle real, real, real hard and I'd lose me formula. And then he'd say 'One day, you'll be a sailor.' Heh heh heh, that's... that's what I yam today, yeah. Hm. Yeah. Sometimes he'd bounce me on his knee. Heh heh, most o' the time he'd miss, though, 'cos he couldn't see too well with one eye.... heh heh heh, oh, me pap, yeah..."
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* PapaWolf - Popeye to Swee'pea.
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->'''Popeye:''' What is this, a house of ill re-pukes? Ooh, who'd bring me infink to this den o' immoraliky? ''(to Olive)'' Don't touch nothin', you might get a venerable disease.\\
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'''Lady of "ill re-pukes":''' Oooh, is that a bed pole you got in your pocket, handsome?\\
'''Popeye:''' ''(muttering)''Hello. Better grid me loins up for this one.
'''Popeye:''' ''(muttering)''Hello. Better grid me loins up for this one.
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'''Lady of "ill re-pukes":''' Oooh, is that a bed pole you got in your pocket, handsome?\\
'''Popeye:''' ''(muttering)''Hello. Better grid me loins up for this one.handsome?
'''Popeye:''' ''(muttering)''Hello. Better grid me loins up for this one.
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->'''Popeye:'' What is this, a house of ill re-pukes? Ooh, who'd bring me infink to this den o' immoraliky? ''(to Olive)'' Don't touch nothin', you might get a venerable disease.\\
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** Even the reviewers who otherwise thrashed the movie loved him!
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The "house of ill re-pukes" that Wimpy takes Swee'pea to in order to bet on horses is not only a place of gambling but very clearly also a brothel. It's never directly stated, but the following dialogue as Popeye and the Oyls enter the place make very little room for doubt:
->'''Popeye:'' What is this, a house of ill re-pukes? Ooh, who'd bring me infink to this den o' immoraliky? ''(to Olive)'' Don't touch nothin', you might get a venerable disease.\\
'''Lady of "ill re-pukes":''' Oooh, is that a bed pole you got in your pocket, handsome?\\
'''Popeye:''' ''(muttering)''Hello. Better grid me loins up for this one.
->'''Popeye:'' What is this, a house of ill re-pukes? Ooh, who'd bring me infink to this den o' immoraliky? ''(to Olive)'' Don't touch nothin', you might get a venerable disease.\\
'''Lady of "ill re-pukes":''' Oooh, is that a bed pole you got in your pocket, handsome?\\
'''Popeye:''' ''(muttering)''Hello. Better grid me loins up for this one.
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* AnnoyingYoungerSibling: Castor to Olive. This is a complete turn-around from the original ''Thimble Theater'' comic, where it was ''Olive'' who was the AnnoyingYoungerSibling to ''Castor.''
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** Even the reviewers who otherwise thrashed the movie loved him!
* CatchPhrase - "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" Even turned into a song.
** Wimpy gets to say a few of his famous {{Catch Phrase}}s over the course of the movie, such as "I'm buying, he's paying" and of course the classic "I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
** Geezil never misses an opportunity to tell Wimpy that he hates him -- or tell other people that he hates Wimpy.
** Cole Oyl is very prone to tell people that they owe him an apology.
* CompositeCharacter - Swee'pea, who has taken on the "fortune-telling" traits of Eugene the Jeep (who was originally going to be in the movie but was dropped -- see the WhatCouldHaveBeen entry below).
** Even the reviewers who otherwise thrashed the movie loved him!
* CatchPhrase - "I yam what I yam and that's all what I yam!" Even turned into a song.
** Wimpy gets to say a few of his famous {{Catch Phrase}}s over the course of the movie, such as "I'm buying, he's paying" and of course the classic "I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."
** Geezil never misses an opportunity to tell Wimpy that he hates him -- or tell other people that he hates Wimpy.
** Cole Oyl is very prone to tell people that they owe him an apology.
* CompositeCharacter - Swee'pea, who has taken on the "fortune-telling" traits of Eugene the Jeep (who was originally going to be in the movie but was dropped -- see the WhatCouldHaveBeen entry below).
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas - Oxblood Oxheart very clearly loves his mother.
** The movie, in fact, has ''many'' old ''Thimble Theater'' characters in bigger or smaller roles -- most of them never made it to any of the cartoons, but they're easily recognizable to fans of the comic.
** Swee'pea's introduction in the movie is a big ShoutOut to the way he was introduced in the comic strip. [[hottip:*:In the comic, he arrives in a package addressed to Popeye, and the package makes so many strange sounds that Popeye and Wimpy think it must contain a dangerous animal and are about to kill it when they discover that the package contains a baby. In the movie, Popeye picks up a basket which he mistakes for Olive's, and Olive hears the baby's rattle and is convinced that there's a rattlesnake in the basket, and Popeye opens the basket to deal with the dangerous creature before he discovers it's a baby.]]
** Swee'pea's introduction in the movie is a big ShoutOut to the way he was introduced in the comic strip. [[hottip:*:In the comic, he arrives in a package addressed to Popeye, and the package makes so many strange sounds that Popeye and Wimpy think it must contain a dangerous animal and are about to kill it when they discover that the package contains a baby. In the movie, Popeye picks up a basket which he mistakes for Olive's, and Olive hears the baby's rattle and is convinced that there's a rattlesnake in the basket, and Popeye opens the basket to deal with the dangerous creature before he discovers it's a baby.]]
* "First man who is dead, loses!"
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** Popeye's village, for that matter, is a veritable AnachronismStew of driftwood buildings and {{Retraux}} artifacts.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: Only Bluto could be so stupid as to force Popeye to eat his spinach, and get the mega-knuckle sandwich he so deserves because of that.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Castor Oyle vs. Oxblood Oxheart ([[RedBaron "The Dirtiest Fighter Alive"]])
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* SuperMode: Popeye finally transforms into his famous Spinach Mode at the end after being force fed spinach by Bluto. However, you only get to see his enlarged tutor arms uppercutting Bluto from underwater.
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* OriginStory - Like is typical of first superheroic films, this is a tale of how Popeye gets started.
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* [[PrecisionFStrike Precision "D" Strike]]: In Bluto's "I'm Mean" song.
** [[ClusterFBomb Cluster "H.A." Bomb]] Pappy, during the rescue mission.
** [[ClusterFBomb Cluster "H.A." Bomb]] Pappy, during the rescue mission.
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** The Mediterranean village where the movie was filmed, however, [[InvertedTrope has become a giant tribute to the movie.]]
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** The Mediterranean village in Malta where the movie was filmed, however, [[InvertedTrope has become a giant tribute to the movie.]]
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* CrowningMomentOfFunny - When Popeye tries to prove to Pappy that he's his son.
-->'''Popeye:''' I'm your one and only exspring. See, we got the same bulgy arms.
-->'''Pappy:''' No resemblance.
-->'''Popeye:''' We-we got the same squinky eye.
-->'''Pappy:''' What squinky eye?
-->'''Popeye:''' That's going to be hard for you to see. Oh, we even got the same pipe, Pap.
-->'''Pappy:''' You idiot. You can't inherit a pipe!
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Early in the film we see Popeye keeps a picture frame with the words '''Me Poppa''' in place of a picture. The CMOH comes later when we see Pappy has an identical picture frame with the words '''Me Son'''.
* CultClassic - after being forgotten for a time, partly for the [[GuiltyPleasure entertainment value]]. It was quite popular on release, though.
-->'''Popeye:''' I'm your one and only exspring. See, we got the same bulgy arms.
-->'''Pappy:''' No resemblance.
-->'''Popeye:''' We-we got the same squinky eye.
-->'''Pappy:''' What squinky eye?
-->'''Popeye:''' That's going to be hard for you to see. Oh, we even got the same pipe, Pap.
-->'''Pappy:''' You idiot. You can't inherit a pipe!
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming - Early in the film we see Popeye keeps a picture frame with the words '''Me Poppa''' in place of a picture. The CMOH comes later when we see Pappy has an identical picture frame with the words '''Me Son'''.
* CultClassic - after being forgotten for a time, partly for the [[GuiltyPleasure entertainment value]]. It was quite popular on release, though.
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* EarWorm: "I Am What I Yam", anyone? Hint: It's basically [[XMeetsY Popeye meets Rap.]] Yeah.
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* LoveItOrHateIt: People still can't agree whether it's SoBadItsGood, an utter disaster of a movie, or just a GuiltyPleasure.
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* MorePopularSpinoff - The Sweethaven set used in the film later became [[{{UsefulNotes/Malta}} a popular Maltese tourist attraction]] called Popeye Village, which is still in business today.
* MostlyNarmless - Popeye's singing and dancing probably couldn't be pulled off by anyone but RobinWilliams without inducing frightening amounts of {{Narm}}.
* MostlyNarmless - Popeye's singing and dancing probably couldn't be pulled off by anyone but RobinWilliams without inducing frightening amounts of {{Narm}}.
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* TearJerker - "Swee'Pea's Lullaby".
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* UncannyValley: Needless to say, Popeye's [[FamilyGuy tumor arms]] do '''NOT''' transition well into live action.
