Popeye

Popeye is a comic strip and cartoon character, a salty sailor known for his abnormally large arms, prodigious strength, and inexplicable adoration of the skinny, often shrewish Olive Oyl. Created by Elzie Segar, Popeye debuted in Segar's strip Thimble Theater as a supporting character in 1929, but soon took over the strip. In 1932, Popeye made the transition to animation in a long-running series of Paramount cartoons, which introduced spinach as the source of the sailor's strength and emphasized the romantic rivalry between the sailor and the burly bearded Bluto. Popeye went on to star on radio, ion Robert Altman's 1980 film, and in several TV series and specials.

Connections
Several people with Muppet/Henson connections also appeared in the 1980 Popeye film.


 * Paul Dooley played Wimpy
 * Shelley Duvall played Olive Oyl
 * Dennis Franz played Spike
 * Bill Irwin played Ham Gravy
 * Van Dyke Parks played Hoagy the piano player
 * Robin Williams played Popeye

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