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  • Broken Base: Fans of the Fleischer Popeye cartoons tend to hate the 1960 shorts for their weak animation quality. Yet they also have a lot of fans; as these shorts ran in syndication throughout the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, these were the first Popeye cartoons introducing the character to children.
  • Designated Hero: Popeye in "Weight for Me", thanks to the Values Dissonance inherent in him wanting Olive Oyl (who's gone chubby thanks to eating a lot while he and Brutus were gone) to exercise her way back to her old self despite her protests.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight: "The Super Duper Market" has Brutus as the manager of a giant supermarket; it is so huge that one customer has been searching for the exit for fifteen years! This was back in the 60s when such a concept was considered ludicrous. Nowadays, one can find giant stores in the USA such as Walmart Supercenters and warehouse stores such as BJ's Wholesale, Sam's Club, Costco and so on.
  • Retroactive Recognition: The Larry Harmon shorts have Lou Scheimer listed in the credits before he founded Filmation, alongside Hal Sutherland (director of various series at Filmation) and Ervin L. Kaplan (director of color at Filmation).

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