Can someone please help me solve this mystery, please? Olive Oyl used to say “Oh Popeye,” to the main man, and he must have said something in reply to that famous line. Does anyone know what he might have replied? It’s driving me nuts!:smack: :smack:
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bibliophage
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Sometimes he would launch into his theme song, but mostly he would just give that dirty little chuckle, knowing he would be rewarded later that night.
“Hag-ag-ag-ag-ag-ag-ag-ag!”
(that’s about as close a transliteration as I can manage)
I don’t understand what you’re talking about. He didn’t have any stock response as far as I can remember. He would give his famous laugh or say something related to the situation. I’m disregarding the cartoons produced in 1960 or later because they’re so inferior IMHO they don’t merit acknowlegdement.
Do you have a specific cartoon in mind?
That’s a pretty darn good transliteration of his laugh, and you may have found the answer. There is no specific cartoon that I can remember; I only remember Olive would become enthralled with the man, and she expressed her admiration by saying, “Oh Popeye” with a very specific inflection. I think the laugh may be the way he responded when she did her thing. Thanks.
Wasn’t it a great series of adventures that Popeye shared with us, though? What a guy! Oh Popeye!
“Well, blow me down!”
Yep. Another possibility. Maybe he replied with many things. I wish we could access those old Popeye cartoons today on the tube.
The Popeye Show on Cartoon Network. Episodes feature three restored cartoons, as well as Popeye history and information on the creators. Sunday nights at 7:30 pm.
Downloadable Fleischer cartoons here.
“Oh professer I just LOVES your beard” Olive was a tramp
Ha Ha to Mark. You’re too funny, but I remember her singing “I love a clean-shaven man” when Bluto would make advances towards her. She was just a little flirty.
Papiermache Prince: Thank you for that information. I have to go there and take a look. Thanks a lot.
wouln’t he always sing his song?
“im strong to the finich…
cos i eats me spinach…”
That could very well be. I think he probably answered her in many ways, and I’m probably just thinking there is one stock answer to Olive’s swooning over Popeye. I suspect he probably just laughed at her most of the time, often because he was so pleased that he was able to impress her so much. Don’t you?
In the same vein as your answer, I read on the above-mentioned Popeye page that consumption of spinach rose some 33% after the original Popeye cartoons made their appearance!
“Oh, Aahliv Oyl! Where’s my sweet p’tooonyuh ?”
“I yam what I yam and that’s all what I yam!”
Unfortunately, some of the Popeye cartoons on Cartoon Network aren’t merely “restored”, they’re colorized.
Believe me, nothing is weirder than seeing early 1930s animation in color.
“At’s all I can stands, I can’t stands no more!”
Popeye was my hero as a kid. I have a “Strength Through Spinach” belt buckle, somewhere.
Find that belt buckle. It’s probably worth a fortune unless you only 16 or something now!
Yeah, Popeye. You tell 'um. (That’s what I say to my puppy when he starts biting at my feet or hands, just before I close the door to shut him away for a little while.)
Are you sure? Some Fleischer cartoons were not really colorized, but were actually re-animated, apparenntly by someone in Asia. The results are bizarre. I know that one Betty Boop cartoon was done by sonmeone unfamiliar with American culture, because a Jack -o -Lantern showed up green in the color version. (Some of these were solfd on videotape in the past twenty years. The label says “Electronically colored”, but they ain’t.)
By “re-animated”, do you mean each cell was drawn again from scratch? Or what?
IIRC, there were several theatrical releases from the 1930’s such as “Popeye meets Ali baba and the Forty Thieves” that were originally in color. Color technology being a bit rough at the time, the results were a bit surreal.
(Also, IIRC, “Popeye meets Ali baba and the Forty Thieves” takes us at some point to the desert berg of “Badgag”. Ya gotta wonder how Popeye would’ve dealt with Saddam.)
Cal, I’d also like to know what ‘re-animated’ means…