Uh, unfortunately I couldn't find a Popeye Spinach ad, but you can wash down all that green stuff with a cool Dr. Pepper!
Showing posts with label Popeye. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Popeye. Show all posts
Saturday, March 26, 2022
Blow me down! It's National Spinach Day!
If any food item ever needed a PR campaign, it's spinach. Why don't we celebrate National Spinach Day by enjoying some Popeye?
Tuesday, July 24, 2018
Great Moments in 70s and 80s TV History: Popeye says no to dope!
One of the best, and by best I mean most bizarre, aspects of CBS' late 1970s Popeye revival, The All-New Popeye Hour, is the PSA segments. One of the worst, and by worst I mean most bizarre, aspects of same is the annoying group of Popeye's nephews. These features come together in this great segment from 1978. Note that the shady dealer doesn't seem to know the advice about never using your own product:
Friday, July 20, 2018
Our Popeye YouTube playlist is now live!
This week, the YouTube playlist takes us into the world of the funnies, with appearances by many of your favorite comic strip legends! Also watch out for appearances by: Loni Anderson! Robin Williams! Freddie Mercury! Plus lots of vintage ads and PSAs, and James Doohan participates in a comic-strip-illiterate round of Super Password.
Show Notes: Episode 4-11: Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter
*Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter aired as part of the ABC Saturday Superstar Movie series on October 7, 1972 at 9:30 A.M., likely up against The Houndcats and The Roman Holidays (NBC) and The New Scooby-Doo Movies (CBS).
*Popeye was created by cartoonist E.C. Segar for his comic strip Thimble Theatre in 1929 and soon took over the strip.
*He appeared in various cartoon series of the years, the best of which were the theatrical short subjects produced by Fleischer studios. The Famous Studios package (1940s and 1950s theatricals) and the King Features toons (1960-1962, made for TV) were the foundations of many of the syndicated 'toon packages that would run on local stations during the BOTNS era.
*This movie was produced by Al Broadax, who was behind many of the earlier Popeye shorts as well as The Beatles cartoons and 1960s King Features efforts like Beetle Bailey.
*Here is the lineup of comic strip stars with their year of first appearance in the funny papers:
--The Phantom (1936)
--Mandrake (with Lothar) (1934)
--Flash Gordon (1934)
--Steve Canyon (1947)
--Tim Tyler (1928)
--Prince Valiant (1937)
--Tiger (1965)
--Blondie and Dagwood (1930)
--Hi and Lois (1954)
--Little Iodine (1943 as star of her own strip)
--The Katzenjammer Kids (1897)
--Quincy (1970)
--Beetle Bailey and Sarge (1950)
--Maggie and Jiggs from Bringing Up Father (1913)
--The Little King (1930)
--Snuffy Smith (1934) and Barney Google (with Spark Plug) (1919)
--Henry (1932)
*Ed Sullivan's CBS show was canceled in 1971.
*Wimpy is indeed a restaurant chain specializing in burgers, but it is not an officially licensed one nor affiliated with the Popeye rights holders.
*There was a Star Trek comic strip from 1979 to 1983, and one of the writers was Buck Rogers alum Marty Pasko.
*Mandrake the Magician's archrival is The Cobra--no relation to Cobra Commander, who we discussed in a previous episode. The Phantom has often fought with the Singh (later renamed Sengh) Brotherhood and also the Sky Band.
*Popeye was created by cartoonist E.C. Segar for his comic strip Thimble Theatre in 1929 and soon took over the strip.
*He appeared in various cartoon series of the years, the best of which were the theatrical short subjects produced by Fleischer studios. The Famous Studios package (1940s and 1950s theatricals) and the King Features toons (1960-1962, made for TV) were the foundations of many of the syndicated 'toon packages that would run on local stations during the BOTNS era.
*This movie was produced by Al Broadax, who was behind many of the earlier Popeye shorts as well as The Beatles cartoons and 1960s King Features efforts like Beetle Bailey.
*Here is the lineup of comic strip stars with their year of first appearance in the funny papers:
--The Phantom (1936)
--Mandrake (with Lothar) (1934)
--Flash Gordon (1934)
--Steve Canyon (1947)
--Tim Tyler (1928)
--Prince Valiant (1937)
--Tiger (1965)
--Blondie and Dagwood (1930)
--Hi and Lois (1954)
--Little Iodine (1943 as star of her own strip)
--The Katzenjammer Kids (1897)
--Quincy (1970)
--Beetle Bailey and Sarge (1950)
--Maggie and Jiggs from Bringing Up Father (1913)
--The Little King (1930)
--Snuffy Smith (1934) and Barney Google (with Spark Plug) (1919)
--Henry (1932)
*Ed Sullivan's CBS show was canceled in 1971.
*Wimpy is indeed a restaurant chain specializing in burgers, but it is not an officially licensed one nor affiliated with the Popeye rights holders.
*There was a Star Trek comic strip from 1979 to 1983, and one of the writers was Buck Rogers alum Marty Pasko.
*Mandrake the Magician's archrival is The Cobra--no relation to Cobra Commander, who we discussed in a previous episode. The Phantom has often fought with the Singh (later renamed Sengh) Brotherhood and also the Sky Band.
Thursday, July 19, 2018
4-11: "Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter"
This week, we delve into the weird 1972 animated special "Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter," which takes Popeye and adds most of his King Features comic strip cohorts, including Blondie and Dagwood, Beetle Bailey, Hi and Lois, Quincy, Snuffy Smith, Flash Gordon, The Phantom, Steve Canyon, and more! Popeye does impressions, Olive flirts with Steve, a number of characters eat a lot of food, and a Dagwood sandwich saves the day! It might not get any weirder than this.
Wednesday, July 18, 2018
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