Amen. It’s beautiful.
I knew a Piano Teacher who had it played at her wedding.
Liberty Bell was my favorite Sousa March before I’d ever heard of Monty Python, whose good taste impressed me when I discovered them.
This is also not strictly true. I can’t give you a percentage breakdown, but in many entries in the series, “Sailor’s Hornpipe” was not heard at all, in any context. It was gone after the first few episodes of the Fleischer run (1933-1942), and returned for an indeterminate number of episodes during the Famous Studios era (1942-1957).
P.S. To each is own tastes, but I’m sorry that you’re immune to the charms of the Fleischer-era Popeyes, many of which are wonderful. If your judgment is based on those from roughly 1944 forward, that’s a different story.
Agreed. I love the background scenery—it’s almost always a seedy Depression town, on the wrong side of the tracks—and the snippets of dialogue, which you usually have to strain to hear, are hilarious!
All that, plus the fawning over Olive Oyl as though she were a great beauty, never fails to crack me up!
Another cliche Mexican song is “Cielito Lindo”, which people of my generation may think of as “the Frito Bandito jingle”.
The (terrific) DVD sets have excellent subtitles that include nearly all of those little verbal asides. My favorite has always been (since about 1960) Popeye reacting with “Izzat so?”
Trying on roller skates, she comments “I wear a size 3 but a 12 is so comfortable.”
I promise I’ll end the thread hijack after this, but I have to point out my all-time favorite Jack Mercer aside.
In “I Never Changes Me Altitude,” Popeye is flying an open-cockpit small plane when he’s knocked out of his seat by a swipe from Bluto’s plane.
To save himself from plummeting into space, he grabs onto the skin of the now vertical wing of the aircraft — which gradually rips down the side, exposing the framework. As he’s desperately trying to slow his fall, Popeye exclaims “This is terrible, this is terrible (i.e., tearable)!”
He manages to stop, quickly patches up the damage as he climbs back toward the cabin, while muttering, “Hmmm, need a little mucilage on the fuselage!”
My favorite was when Swee’Pea crawled off and got into a variety of life-treatening situations:
OLIVE: Oh, help, Popeye! Stop him! He’ll be killed to death!
POPEYE: Oh! I’ll save ya for him, Olive!
Thank you.
150 posts and no one (including me) mentioned the Ultimate Cliche Tune. We should all hang our heads in shame.
Maybe this one? :dubious:
Only when I watch British TV series from the '70s and '80s. I was introduced to Bulman on-line just the other day. 
In rereading this now-zombie thread, I think we missed one of my favorites:
Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-DUH-duh,
Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-duh-DUH-duh,
DA DA! Da DAH, Da DAH!
Da-da-DA-DA-DA-DA, DA DA-DA-DA, DA DA DA-DA-DA-DA, DA DA-DA-DA-DA!
Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh! Duh-duh-duh-duh-duh!
DA DA-DA-DA-DA!
DUM!
Duh-duh-DUH-duh-duh … duh-duh-duh … duh-duh-duh-duh-duh … duh-duh-DUH-duh-duh… 
Clearly, I have too much free time on my hands right now… :smack: