History YMMV / Popeye

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: While the movie has major issues, many agree that Robin Williams nailed the role of Popeye, voice included. Ditto for Creator/ShellyDuvall as Olive Oyl.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: While the movie has major issues, many agree that Robin Williams nailed the role of Popeye, voice included. Ditto Shelly Duvall as Olive Oyl.

* TookTheBadFilmSeriously: While the movie has major issues, many agree that Robin Williams nailed the role of Popeye, voice included.

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* ArchivePanic: 232 theatrical cartoons, an equally large number of made-for-TV cartoons, and decades worth of newspaper comics and comic books. Good luck.

** Lifting the entire Earth, matching Atlas the titan.

** Breaking the fourth wall. Once a boy in the audience threw some spinach to him through the screen. He promptly used his strength to hit Bluto so hard the poor man was sent ''through'' the Fourth Wall and landed in the audience.

* FairForItsDay: While Poopdeck Pappy's [[HeManWomanHater grouchy misogyny towards Olive Oyl]] would never fly in a modern comic, this is mitigated by the fact that it was never portrayed in a positive light in the original Segar comics.

** Popeye's refusal to fight women, regardless of how dangerous they are, to the point where it ends up becoming a handicap for him. Back in the day there was a strong taboo against men hitting women regardless of context, meaning Popeye's unwillingness to fight a woman would be seen as one of his heroic virtues. These days, the rule has been changed from "A man should never hit a woman under any circumstance" to "A man shouldn't hit a woman, unless it's ''absolutely'' in self-defense". Meaning that to modern viewers Popeye would be justified in fighting dangerous female opponents, and his hesitation to do so would be a character flaw.

** Certain episodes just have blatantly sexist plots, like "Wimmin Hadn't Oughtta Drive", where Popeye objected to Olive driving for being a woman. At no point in the episode is there any self-awareness, calling out Popeye on his [[SuperDickery super dickery]]. [[spoiler:In fact, the episode ends with Olive crashing the car and learning the [[AnAesop valuable lesson]] that "[[TitleDrop Wimmin Hadn't]] [[EpisodeTagline Oughtta Drive]]."]]

** Popeye's refusal to fight women, regardless of how dangerous they are, to the point where it ends up becoming a handicap for him. Back in the day there was a strong taboo against men hitting women regardless of context, meaning Popeye's unwillingness to fight a woman would be seen as one of his heroic virtues. These days, the rule has been changed from "A man should never hit a woman under any circumstance" to "A man shouldn't hit a woman, unless he has a ''very'' good reason to", in this case, self-defence. Meaning that to modern viewers Popeye would be justified in fighting dangerous female opponents, and his hesitation to do so would be a character flaw.

* VindicatedByHistory: The film saw a resurgence in popularity with streaming services providing access to the film, and giving the movie a new lease on life. [[Creator/RobinWilliams Robin William's]] take on Popeye helped, with fans feeling he [[TookTheBadFilmSeriously nailed the role.]] It also helps that comic book and video game films had easily reached wide-spread acceptance at the end of TheNewTens, helping draw attention to the film.

* ValuesDissonance: Being a cartoon from the 1930's-40's, there's bound to be some cartoons that are no longer politically correct in today's world. And ''Popeye'' has more than two handfuls of these.

** Robin Williams himself. While ''Series/MorkAndMindy'' put him on the map, he wasn't yet the huge star massive smash hits of the late 1980s such as ''Film/GoodMorningVietnam'' and ''Film/DeadPoetsSociety'' turned him into, and the ''Popeye'' film remains fairly obscure.

** "Be Kind to Aminals" would have been a standard Popeye outing, if not for the bizarre, one-time recasting of Popeye with his radio voice actor, Floyd Buckley, who sounds like an even older Popeye with a bad head cold.

* ChannelHop: The cartoons were originally released by Creator/{{Paramount}}. The television rights were acquired by Associated Artists Productions in 1956, which in turn was acquired by Creator/UnitedArtists two years later. United Artists assumed full rights to the Popeye cartoons in 1967, once the theatrical rights with Paramount expired. In 1981, UA was acquired by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer, and five years later, UsefulNotes/TedTurner acquired MGM/UA, only to sell it again. Among the assets that Turner kept from his brief ownership of MGM/UA were the Popeye cartoons, which formed the basis for Creator/CartoonNetwork at the time of its launch in 1992.

** In "What -- No Spinach?" Bluto is running a diner and not being villainous about it. He only picks a fight with Popeye due to a misunderstanding Wimpy causes.

* ChannelHop: The cartoons were originally released by Creator/{{Paramount}}. The television rights were acquired by Associated Artists Productions in 1956, which in turn was acquired by Creator/UnitedArtists two years later. United Artists assumed full rights to the Popeye cartoons in 1967, once the theatrical rights with Paramount expired. In 1981, UA was acquired by Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer, and five years later, Ted Turner acquired MGM/UA, only to sell it again. Among the assets that Turner kept from his brief ownership of MGM/UA were the Popeye cartoons, which formed the basis for Creator/CartoonNetwork at the time of its launch in 1992.

* CantUnHearIt: Just ''try'' reading any of the original Segar newspaper comics without hearing the voices of Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke or Jackson Beck for their respective characters.

* DesignatedHero: In "Weight For Me", Popeye and Brutus return from a naval tour of duty to find that Olive Oil has put on a lot of weight in their absence. Popeye is openly appalled at her size and demands she loses weight immediately, even though she repeatedly tells him she doesn't want to and that she find his exercise routines exhausting. The episode presents his actions as loving but he comes off as a shallow jerk. Compare this to [[DesignatedVillain Brutus]], who is just as, [[ChubbyChaser if not more]], attracted to her fat as he was when she was skinny, spends the day trying to do romantic things for her and rightfully tells Popeye that if Olive didn't want to lose weight then he had no right to try and make her. [[JerkassHasAPoint That being said]], no one can argue that Olive might be dangerously overweight and could have health complications if Popeye haven't force her to exercise.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: Zig zagged with the cliches of Popeye and Bluto's love triangle with Olive being a plot point, as well as Popeye eating his spinach as an 11th hour power up in the animated cartoons. Many fans consider them honored series traditions that make for a variety of funny situations and exciting climatic fights (and having shorts with variations on the formula certainly helped--as well as the fact that more than half of the Fleischer era Popeyes had shorts where either Bluto, the spinach, or sometimes both, were absent), while critics, particularly fans of the Segar comics (where the spinach and Bluto barely ever appeared)[[note]]To be specific, there's 49 Fleischer cartoons where Bluto doesn't appear and 19 where spinach either isn’t used or doesn't appear at all[[/note]], deride the former as tired and formulaic, and the latter as a predictable DeusExMachina.

* HarsherInHindsight: In "How Green is My Spinach" Bluto destroys the world's spinach supply with a powerful herbicide made from DDT. What it's called in the cartoon, Drop Dead Twice, proved to be an appropriate name for the real DDT, at least with regards to birds.[[note]]In all fairness DDT was first synthesized back in the 1870s, and its environmental effects were not fully publicized until the release of ''Literature/SilentSpring''[[/note]]

** In "It's the Natural Thing to Do," Popeye, Olive and Bluto receive a telegram from their fan club to cut out the rough stuff every once in a while and act etiquette. They proceed so, only for them to go back to their fighting routine shortly later. Decades later, newer iterations of the franchise (as soon as 1978's ''The All New Popeye Hour'') were forced to remove any form of physical contact between Popeye and his enemies due to ExecutiveMeddling forbidding to show any form of realistically imitable violence.

* {{Narm}}: The live action segments in the 1935 short "The Adventures of Popeye", where a little boy wearing what looks like a blouse is picked on by a bully who calls him a "sissy', are unintentionally hilarious enough to make up for the fact that it's a ClipShow episode. Particularly hilarious is the badly-dubbed voice of the child bully, who sounds more like an adult. It becomes obvious that the Fleischers were much better at directing animation than live action.

* HarsherInHindsight: In "How Green is My Spinach" Bluto destroys the world's spinach supply with a powerful herbicide made from DDT. What it's called in the cartoon, Drop Dead Twice, proved to be an appropriate name for the real DDT, at least with regards to birds.[[note]]In all fairness DDT was first synthesized back in the 1870s[[/note]]

* HilariousInHindsight: In "It's the Natural Thing to Do", Popeye, Olive and Bluto receive a telegram from their fan club to cut out the rough stuff every once in a while and act etiquette. They proceed so, only for them to go back to their fighting routine shortly later. Decades later, newer iterations of the franchise (as soon as 1978's ''The All New Popeye Hour'') were forced to remove any form of physical contact between Popeye and his enemies due to ExecutiveMeddling forbidding to show any form of realistically imitable violence.

* HarsherInHindsight: In one cartoon Bluto destroys the world's spinach supply with an powerful herbicide made from DDT. What it's called in the cartoon, Drop Dead Twice, proved to be an appropriate name for the real DDT, at least with regards to birds.[[note]]In all fairness DDT was first synthesized back in the 1870s[[/note]]

* MostWonderfulSound: The musical sting that plays whenever Poyeye eats spinach.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: Zig zagged with the cliches of Popeye and Bluto's love triangle with Olive being a plot point, as well as Popeye eating his spinach as an 11th hour power up in the animated cartoons. Many fans consider them honored series traditions that make for a variety of funny situations and exciting climatic fights (and having shorts with variations on the formula certainly helped--as well as the fact that more than half of the Fleischer era Popeyes had shorts where either Bluto, the spinach, or sometimes both, were absent), while critics, particularly fans of the Segar comics (where the spinach and Bluto barely ever appeared)[[note]]To be specific, there's 49 Fleischer cartoons where Bluto doesn't appear and a dozen where spinach either isn’t used or doesn't appear at all[[/note]], deride the former as tired and formulaic, and the latter as a predictable DeusExMachina.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: Zig zagged with the cliches of Popeye and Bluto's love triangle with Olive being a plot point, as well as Popeye eating his spinach as an 11th hour power up in the animated cartoons. Many fans consider them honored series traditions that make for a variety of funny situations and exciting climatic fights (and having shorts with variations on the formula certainly helped--as well as the fact that more than half of the Fleischer era Popeyes had shorts where either Bluto, the spinach, or sometimes both, were absent), while critics, particularly fans of the Segar comics (where the spinach and Bluto barely ever appeared), deride the former as tired and formulaic, and the latter as a predictable DeusExMachina.

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* HilariousInHindsight: In his first adventure in the comics, after Popeye had saved everyone, Olive notes to herself that she would kiss him if he wasn't so funny looking. [[note]]At the time, Popeye was never intended to be a regular character, and Olive was dating another guy named Ham Gravy[[/note]] Of course, she eventually does later, and the rest is history.
* MorePopularSpinoff: Popeye didn't appear out of the blue in 1929, he appeared in ''Thimble Theatre'' (which dates back to 1919), and eventually superseded that strip.
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* AdaptationDisplacement: Of the comic strip, which continues to this day.

* AudienceColoringAdaptation: The animated cartoons are far more well known than the source material, in spite of being gag romps that don't have the comic's story arcs or continuity.
* SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic: The basic theme music has been the same since the 1930's, and it's never lost its awesomeness.
* BigLippedAlligatorMoment: In "Morning, Noon and Night Club," Bluto is going around punching out Popeye's face in posters of him and Olive's nightclub routine. He does yet another one after Olive turns down his date offer -- and as he walks away, a goat suddenly sticks its head out of the hole and bleats as Bluto tells it off. What a goat was doing behind that wall is never explained, and the goat never appears again in the short.
* BizarroEpisode: Several:
** The short ''It's the Natural Thing to Do'', as well as the later Famous Studios short ''The Hungry Goat'', which feels more like a Creator/TexAvery cartoon with Popeye thrown in as an afterthought.
** The short ''Wotta Nitemare'', although the bulk of that short was one big DreamSequence.
** There's also "Popeye Meets William Tell", which for no discernable reason decides to throw our hero into [[TheMiddleAges medieval Europe]] and have him encounter a William Tell who looks and acts more like a WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes character. And it only gets stranger from there.
** Similar applies to the episode "Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle", "Sinbad The Sailor" and "Ali Baba's Forty Thieves".
** "Be Kind to Aminals" would have been a standard Popeye outing, if not for the bizarre, one-time recasting of Popeye with his radio voice actor, Floyd Buckley, who sounds like an even older Popeye with a bad head cold.
* BrokenBase: Some hate the 1960s shorts for relying on limited animation and not having the charisma of the Fleischer and Famous shorts, while others like it for being more faithful to the comic strip.
** The Genndy Tartakovsky animation test for the aborted CGI movie received a positive reception from fans, but Popeye not having his pipe and tattoos really caused a stir.
** ''The All New Popeye Hour'' is perhaps the most hated incarnation due to heavy {{Bowdleri|se}}zation (see the main page for details), making Olive into a [[TheDitz complete ditz]] and lacking the wit of the classic theatrical shorts.
* CantUnHearIt: Just ''try'' reading any of the original Segar newspaper comics without hearing the voices of Jack Mercer, Mae Questel, Gus Wicke or Jackson Beck for their respective characters.
** Jack Mercer's Popeye voice holds an iconic status that most of his successors can't really match. Billy West described Popeye's voice as exceedingly difficult and damaging, which means it takes a unique voice to manage it.
* DesignatedHero: In "Weight For Me", Popeye and Brutus return from a naval tour of duty to find that Olive Oil has put on a lot of weight in their absence. Popeye is openly appalled at her size and demands she loses weight immediately, even though she repeatedly tells him she doesn't want to and that she find his exercise routines exhausting. The episode presents his actions as loving but he comes off as a shallow jerk. Compare this to [[DesignatedVillain Brutus]], who is just as, [[ChubbyChaser if not more]], attracted to her fat as he was when she was skinny, spends the day trying to do romantic things for her and rightfully tells Popeye that if Olive didn't want to lose weight then he had no right to try and make her. [[JerkassHasAPoint That being said]], no one can argue that Olive might be dangerously overweight and could have health complications if Popeye haven't force her to exercise.
** In "What -- No Spinach?" Bluto is running a diner and not being villainous about it. He only picks a fight with Popeye due to a misunderstanding Wimpy causes.
* FairForItsDay: While Poopdeck Pappy's [[HeManWomanHater grouchy misogyny towards Olive Oyl]] would never fly in a modern comic, this is mitigated by the fact that it was never portrayed in a positive light in the original Segar comics.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: Zig zagged with the cliches of Popeye and Bluto's love triangle with Olive being a plot point, as well as Popeye eating his spinach as an 11th hour power up in the animated cartoons. Many fans consider them honored series traditions that make for a variety of funny situations and exciting climatic fights (and having shorts with variations on the formula certainly helped--as well as the fact that more than half of the Fleischer era Popeyes had shorts where either Bluto, the spinach, or sometimes both, were absent), while critics, particularly fans of the Segar comics (where the spinach and Bluto barely ever appeared), deride the former as tired and formulaic, and the latter as a predictable DeusExMachina.
* GeniusBonus: From one of the later theatrical shorts, "Insect to Injury" (1956), one gag involves the termites eating Popeye's piano, revealing a harp hidden inside it. Music history fans will take note that the harp was in fact a direct precursor to the piano.

* HarsherInHindsight: In one cartoon Bluto destroys the world's spinach supply with an powerful herbicide made from DDT. What it's called in the cartoon, Drop Dead Twice, proved to be an appropriate name for the real DDT, at least with regards to birds.[[note]]In all fairness DDT was first synthesized back in the 1870s[[/note]]
* HilariousInHindsight: In "It's the Natural Thing to Do", Popeye, Olive and Bluto receive a telegram from their fan club to cut out the rough stuff every once in a while and act etiquette. They proceed so, only for them to go back to their fighting routine shortly later. Decades later, newer iterations of the franchise (as soon as 1978's ''The All New Popeye Hour'') were forced to remove any form of physical contact between Popeye and his enemies due to ExecutiveMeddling forbidding to show any form of realistically imitable violence.

* SeasonalRot: Both the Fleischer and Famous shorts were hit by this

* ValuesResonance: Popeye's love of spinach and the way it gives him super strength to beat up baddies has been used by many a parent as a way to encourage children to eat their vegetables.

* FairForItsDay: While Poopdeck Pappy's [[HeManWomanHater grouchy misogyny towards Olive Oyl]] would never fly in a modern comic, this is mitigated by the fact that itwas never portrayed in a positive light in the original Segar comics.

* HarsherInHindsight: In one cartoon Bluto destroys the world's spinach supply with an powerful herbicide made from DDT. What it's called in the cartoon, Drop Dead Twice, proved to be an appropriate name for the real DDT, at least with regards to birds.