History Trivia / Popeye

** As of 2020, all of the Fleischer Popeye cartoons and the Famous Popeye cartoons up to 1949 are available on DVD and/or Blu-Ray from Warner Bros., which wound up with the rights following their merger with Turner (and most also on HBO Max, save the ones that wouldn't get replayed on TV because of concerns of old racially stereotype caricatures) Warner Bros. has plans to restore and release the color 1950's Famous shorts (via Warner Archive) to complete Popeye's theatrical filmography. So far, they've completed a few short restorations. Unfortunately, these restorations are only available on the Boomerang streaming service (for the time being). None of the Famous Studio 1950-1957 short restorations have been mirrored anywhere online due to copyright, so if you aren't subscribed to the Boomerang streaming service, and you want to watch these 1950-1957 shorts in non-pixellated quality (and without TV watermarks), you're SOL.

* BadExportForYou: Both Paramount and Disney had their part in financing the Robert Altman movie. Due to this, Paramount got the rights to distribute all copies of the movie in Region 1, whereas Disney has the rights to distribute the movie most everywhere else in the world. As a result, if you want to see the full, uncut version of the movie, you’ll need to seek out a Paramount Region 1 release. Disney’s British and European release versions run approximately fourteen minutes shorter than the uncut American version. These edits in the movie almost completely eliminate Ray Walston's Pappy from the story, and render at least one of the movie’s subplots to be ''incomprehensible''.

** As of 2020, all of the Fleischer Popeye cartoons and the Famous Popeye cartoons up to 1949 are available on DVD and/or Blu-Ray from Warner Bros., which wound up with the rights following their merger with Turner (and most also on HBO Max, save the ones that wouldn't get replayed on TV because of concerns of old racially stereotype caricatures) Warner Bros. has plans to restore and release the color 1950's Famous shorts (via Warner Archive) to complete Popeye's theatrical filmography. So far, they’ve completed a few short restorations. Unfortunately, these restorations are only available on the Boomerang streaming service (for the time being). None of the Famous Studio 1950-1957 short restorations have been mirrored anywhere online due to copyright, so if you aren’t subscribed to the Boomerang streaming service, and you want to watch these 1950-1957 shorts in passable quality and without TV watermarks, you’re SOL.

** As of 2020, all of the Fleischer Popeye cartoons and the Famous Popeye cartoons up to 1949 are available on DVD and/or Blu-Ray from Warner Bros., which wound up with the rights following their merger with Turner (and most also on HBO Max, save the ones that wouldn't get replayed on TV because of concerns of old racially stereotype caricatures) Warner Bros. has plans to restore and release the color 1950's Famous shorts through the Warner Archive to complete Popeye's theatrical filmography, but has temporarily put them on hold in order to restore the WesternAnimation/TexAveryMGMCartoons. Likewise, some of the 1960s made-for-TV Popeye cartoons are on DVD, but not all of them, though all can be found on the official franchise Website/YouTube channel, being the rights to those are held by Popeye franchise owner King Features. The later Hanna-Barbera produced series are also on the channel.

** At one point in the 1940s, Mercer, was drafted. What did Paramount do? Have Olive's voice actor, Mae Questel, do a nearly flawless [[CrossDressingVoices impersonation of Popeye]]!

** At one point in the 1940s, Popeye's actor, Jack Mercer, was drafted. What did Paramount do? Have Olive's voice actor, Mae Questel, do a nearly flawless [[CrossDressingVoices impersonation of Popeye]]!
*** Mercer also often voiced Wimpy.

* CharacterOutlivesActor: Most of the franchise's voice actors from the late 1920s-1960s such as Creator/JackMercer [[note]]Popeye's voice actor[[/note]], Mae Questel [[note]]Olive Oyl's VA[[/note]], William Costello [[note]]the first voice actor to voice Popeye[[/note]], Pinto Colvig[[note]]Colvig is the voice of Bluto; it's worth mentioning that he's Goofy's voice actor [[/note]], and William Pennel [[note]] Also the VA of Bluto [[/note]] have all passed away. Of course, they do [[TheOtherDarrin get new voice actors]] from time to time, especially in recent years, at some point Tom Kenny and Billy West did the voice of Popeye.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://popeye.fandom.com/wiki/Popeye_the_Sailorpedia Popeye the Sailorpedia]].

** The same can be said even earlier at one point for Jack Mercer voicing Bluto.

** Nintendo's ''[[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Super Mario]]'' franchise, probably the most significant in video game history, was essentially made with original characters because the company lost the rights to make Popeye arcade games and had to retool what they already had into ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong''... Ironically, Nintendo ''did'' produce a ''Popeye'' video game a year later, which was a moderate success.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/ShelleyDuvall was Creator/RobertAltman's only choice to play Olive Oyl.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://popeye.wikia.com/wiki/Popeye_the_Sailorpedia The Popeye Wiki]].

* FranchiseKiller: The 1980 film has been accused of being this, though there were a few more animated shows/specials (such as the short-lived ''Popeye and Son'' Saturday morning cartoon in 1987) and video games afterward, and the original shorts were rerun on TV well into TheNineties, and beyond.

* CharacterOutlivesActor: Most of the franchise's voice actors from the late 1920s-1960s such as Jack Mercer [[note]]Popeye's voice actor[[/note]], Mae Questel [[note]]Olive Oyl's VA[[/note]], William Costello [[note]]the first voice actor to voice Popeye[[/note]], Pinto Colvig[[note]]Colvig is the voice of Bluto; it's worth mentioning that he's Goofy's voice actor [[/note]], and William Pennel [[note]] Also the VA of Bluto [[/note]] have all passed away. Of course, they do [[TheOtherDarrin get new voice actors]] from time to time, especially in recent years, at some point Tom Kenny and Billy West did the voice of Popeye.

* SerendipityWritesThePlot: King Features Syndicate charged Paramount a fee for the use of each individual ''Thimble Theater'' character. This is why both the Fleischer and Famous Studios cartoons made limited use of the comic's supporting cast and focused mainly on Popeye, Olive and Bluto. Ever cost-conscious, Famous would go as far as to use [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute Bluto lookalikes]] in some cartoons to avoid paying King Features to use the actual Bluto.