Popeye cartoons

[Pug Lover]

Does anyone remember the Paramount Television cartoons of Popeye?Popeye wore a white sailor suit,and looked nothing like his trademark appearance of a red collared black sailor suit.His famous arch rival was named Brutus not Bluto.Sweepee could talk.The Sea Hag was quite common in this series too.Only her flesh was green like a witch.In the later Hanna Barbera cartoons of Popeye,called The All New Popeye Hour,she was a flesh colour.Olive Oyl,Sweepee and The Sea Hag were voiced by Mae Questel,who famously supplied the voice of Betty Boop.These cartoons were seen on TV all the time during my childhood days of the 1970s.They were even part of a Saturday morning show of the late 70s called The Porky Pig & Popeye Hour. I even recall how in one cartoon,Popeye had eaten his can of spinach,and punched out two of the villians he and Olive Oyl were dealing with at the time.Normally Popeye could outdo anybody once he eats his spinach.However,the third villain,who was bigger than Popeye,and looked somewhat simular to Willie The Giant of the Disney cartoon Mickey & The Beanstalk,though not nearly as gigantic,managed to send Popeye flying out the window with one solid punch.And This was after Popeye had eaten his spinach.I suppose whoever made that particular cartoon made some kind of error.One scene my mother still laughs about,was when in another cartoon,Popeye had punched Brutus out,Brutus cried'I want my dolly'. Ever since the 1970s,these cartoons seem totally forgotten.I,ve never seen them on TV since the 70s.I never thought I would ever see them again,until in recent time,I discovered a bunch of them on VHS,in a local rental video store.

[tanquant]

Yes I remember those Popeye cartoons. They were funny to me also.Sometimes on the cartoon network on Sunday nights at 8 or 8:30 they show some of those old cartoons. Some are in black and white I cannot for the life of me remember what the show is called.If it comes on this sunday I will post the name of it but I'm not sure that it will being that they are showing xmas specials.

[Mikado]

Hmmmm this post was 2 years ago, but, what the heck..... The reason Popeye wore a white suit in the TV version was that he'd been redisigned as a navy man during WW2 for the animated toons, and since this outfit was easier to draw, the postwar cartoons kept the white uni! Bluto/Brutus: This came about as a mistake on the part of King Features syndicate who thought Bluto was property of the Fleisher studios ( Who made the first Popeye cartoons in the 30s& 40s ) , thus they created Brutus to avoid a copywrite problem, ironically, Segar ( Popeye's orig creator ) had created Bluto as a "one shot" character for a south seas adventure in the comics, which Fleisher then used in animation. Had King Features just done their homework, they'd have known they ALREADY owned Bluto , and Brutus was unecessary!