# Helpsk Me Namesk Da Popeye Clansk **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 23, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569 "2001-07-23T23:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569/1 "2001-07-23T23:47:22Z")
Okay. In addition to Popeye and Bluto (later named Brutus, why?) there were Olive Oyl, Wimpy, Poopdeck Pappy, The Jeep, The Sea Hag, Alice The Goon (what _was_ that thing, a harbinger of _Saturday Night Live’s_ “Pat”???), and didn’t Popeye also have three nephews a la Donald Duck, or am I imagining that? If he did, then I cannot remember their names. Hence the request for help-sk! Ack, ack , ack… 🙂 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2001, 11:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569/2 "2001-07-23T23:58:08Z")
[This](http://www.math.pitt.edu/~bard/bardware/popeye/faq.html) says Popeye’s four nephews are Peepeye, Poopeye, Pipeye, Pupeye. :rolleyes: It also explains why Bluto’s name changed. ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569/3 "2001-07-24T00:08:40Z")
you forgot swee’pea ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569/4 "2001-07-24T00:47:28Z")
The strip Thimble Theater was originally about the Oyl family, and was around like 10 years before Popeye showed up! Castor Oyl, Olive’s “get rich quick” brother was the star Mom and Dad Oyl (who’s names escape me) Olive’s boyfriend…Um…Ham Gravy was Castor’s partner. Castor and Ham were going treasure hunting and needed a ship. They run into Popeye and Castor(?) asks Popeye (in his full sailor outfit) “Are you a sailor?” Popeye responds with “What d’ yas think I am? A cowboy?” and within weeks was the star of the strip. Bobby London gave Olive a sister named Sutra Oyl (late '80s/early '90s). I’ll dig up more info later. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569/5 "2001-07-24T00:51:36Z")
Oops…there was the Magical Wiffle Bird (rub it’s head for luck) and Roughhouse (the cook that Wimpy would gladly pay Tuesday for a Hamburger today) and Geezel(sp?) a tall hairy Rasputin-looking guy who hated Wimpy with a passion. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569/6 "2001-07-24T01:23:49Z")
And how could I forget Swee’ Pea??? Thanks Fen, for all the additional info! I think every local TV station had its own version of “The Popeye Club” and I never missed it once I got home from school, but somehow I missed _those_ characters. A personal “aside”: In my neighborhood when I was 12 years old, there lived a girl our whole young neighborhood called “The Sea Hag” because she was reclusive and therefore, ugly to our young minds. She was quite a bit older than us and so she was always a mystery to me, and I was therefore never really “comfortable” in joining in with this. But because I was just over from Germany myself and needed to be “accepted”, I became a part of the group. My brother told me that she recently passed away, but before she did she modelled for an Atlanta Agency and had married a very successful lawyer. Kids can be real pieces of shit. Too much Info, right? Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569/7 "2001-07-24T01:33:41Z")
I forgot to thank _Archive Guy_ who after all, answered the burning question about the nephews! Please forgive the omission! Quasi ---
**Author:** ![Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/5fc32e/32.png) [@Bad\_News\_Baboon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bad_News_Baboon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2001, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/helpsk-me-namesk-da-popeye-clansk/73569/8 "2001-07-24T01:49:55Z")
didn’t brutus/bluto also have nephews ala donald duck? this would have been in the ‘later’ episodes, I think.