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• And the Fandom Rejoiced: Regarding the KFS shorts, the presence of more Thimble Theatre characters may offset the poor animation and timing.
• Awesome Music: After 90 years, the theme music still hasn't gotten old!
• Foe Yay: The infamous Minute Maid television ad. Poor Olive.
• Harsher in Hindsight: In one cartoon (that will likely never be shown again) Popeye has a water pistol that he plans to give to Swee Pea that looks like a real gun (even he says so) and threatens Bluto with it as a joke. (Modern viewers probably know how unfunny such a joke is nowadays.) Even worse, two scenes later, Olive threatens Bluto with a real gun when he tries to hit on her, and a prophetic demonstration of why Popeye's joke wasn't funny, Bluto thinks she's pulling the same joke he did. She isn't. Fortunately for him in this case, Cartoon Physics still apply.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: Near the end of "Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp", the Big Bad gets turned into a fish by the lamp and shouts, "Help! I'm a Fish!"
• Moral Event Horizon: Possibly the worst thing Bluto has ever done was in "How Green Is My Spinach" where he creates a chemical weapon that wipes out all the spinach in the world; Popeye only survives when he gets help From Beyond the Fourth Wall. Clearly, intentionally trying to cause the extinction of a species of plant to get revenge on your foe requires a special sort of pettiness.
• Seasonal Rot: By the mid-1940s, the Famous Studios Popeye shorts became increasingly formulaic and stale, and the timing and animation took a hit in quality.
• Ugly Cute: Popeye as an infant, of which we get a glimpse in Goonland.
• Unfortunate Implications: Much like other famous cartoon characters who were around during World War II, Popeye appeared in a few propaganda pieces, including one of the most notorious, "You're a Sap, Mr. Jap". For obvious reasons, this will likely never be publicly shown again.
  • "Spinach fer Britain" (a short where Popeye fights the crew of a German U-boat) is similar, but still seen occasionally on Cartoon Networks Adult Swim.
• Values Dissonance: The short "I Yam What I Yam" portrays Native Americans in a very racist light. Popeye and Bluto are also frequently quite sexist in their treatment of Olive Oyl, who usually doesn't seem to mind.
• Willfully Weak: One theory suggests that Popeye doesn't even need spinach to use his full power, and only acts like he needs it to mess with people.