Popeye (film): Difference between revisions

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* [[All That Glitters]]: The treasure that everyone is hunting is actually Pappy's mementos, which is a [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming]] when he shows the items to Swee'Pea.

* [[Annoying Younger Sibling]]: Castor to Olive. This is a complete turn-around from the original ''Thimble Theater'' comic, where it was ''Olive'' who was the [[Annoying Younger Sibling]] to ''Castor.''

** Wimpy gets to say a few of his famous [[Catch Phrase]]s over the course of the movie, such as "I'm buying, he's paying" and of course the classic "I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today."

** Geezil never misses an opportunity to tell Wimpy that he hates him -- or tell other people that he hates Wimpy.

** Cole Oyl is very prone to telling people that they owe him an apology.

** "You're not thinking of doing [random activity], are you? Because there's a xx cent [same random activity] tax."

** For some unknown reason, "I'm Mean" and "Children" are missing from UK releases.

* [[Department of Redundancy Department]]: "He's Large" can be rather... awkward, due to this.

{{quote|"He's tall... good lookin'... and he's large... he's large... ''[[Rule of Three|large]]''... tall... [[Overly Long Gag|large]]..."}}

* [[Diner Brawl]]

* [[Does Not Like Spam]]: {{spoiler|Popeye does not like ''spinach''. No, really! Not until the very last scene, anyway.}}

* [[Evil Debt Collector]]

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: The "house of ill re-pukes" that Wimpy takes Swee'pea to in order to bet on horses is not only a place of gambling but very clearly also a brothel. It's never directly stated, but the following dialogue as Popeye and the Oyls enter the place make very little room for doubt:

{{quote|"One thing I remember about me pap was that he always used to throw me up in the air. Yeah, heh heh... but he'd never be there when I come down, you know. Heh heh heh. Boy, he had a sensek'a humor, didn't he? Yeah, that was me pap. I remember the time he gave me a electric eel as a toy. Hah hah hah -- ''eep!'' Hah, yeah, that was fun. Or, or he'd rock me cradle real, real, real hard and I'd lose me formula. And then he'd say 'One day, you'll be a sailor.' Heh heh heh, that's... that's what I yam today, yeah. Hm. Yeah. Sometimes he'd bounce me on his knee. Heh heh, most o' the time he'd miss, though, 'cos he couldn't see too well with one eye.... heh heh heh, oh, me pap, yeah..."}}

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold]]: Poopdeck Pappy comes across as a genuine [[Jerkass]] at first, but towards the end proves to have had a heart all along.

** The movie, in fact, has ''many'' old ''Thimble Theater'' characters in bigger or smaller roles -- most of them never made it to any of the cartoons, but they're easily recognizable to fans of the comic.

** Swee'pea's introduction in the movie is a big [[Shout-Out]] to the way he was introduced in the comic strip.<ref>In the comic, he arrives in a package addressed to Popeye, and the package makes so many strange sounds that Popeye and Wimpy think it must contain a dangerous animal and are about to kill it when they discover that the package contains a baby. In the movie, Popeye picks up a basket which he mistakes for Olive's, and Olive hears the baby's rattle and is convinced that there's a rattlesnake in the basket, and Popeye opens the basket to deal with the dangerous creature before he discovers it's a baby.</ref>

* [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown]]: Castor Oyl vs. Oxblood Oxheart ([[Sobriquet|"The Dirtiest Fighter Alive"]])

** "First man who is dead, loses!"

** More than that, "Beware of Barnacle Bill" was the name of an early Popeye cartoon, which contains a cleaned-up version of the song (and with Bluto in the role of Barnacle Bill). [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cTmhG2x58w Behold!]

* [[Precision F-Strike|Precision "D" Strike]]: In Bluto's "I'm Mean" song.

** [[Cluster F-Bomb|Cluster "H.A." Bomb]] Pappy, during the rescue mission.

* [[Retraux]]: The opening starts off with a hand drawn throwback to the original [[Max and Dave Fleischer]] ''Popeye'' cartoons made during [[The Golden Age of Animation]], the animation being outsourced to [[Hanna-Barbera]] (which was making new ''Popeye'' cartoons for TV at the time).

** The town of Sweethaven, for that matter, is a veritable [[Anachronism Stew]] of driftwood buildings and [[Retraux]] artifacts.

* [[Screw This, I'm Outta Here]]: When Popeye beats Bluto and sends an octopus flying, Bluto wisely swims as far away from him. Literally turning yellow to show how scared he is.

* [[Sound Effect Bleep]]: Pappy, during his "Children" song.

* [[Speech Impediment]]: Another thing Popeye's got... is a [[Funetik Aksent|senske of humiligration.]]

** A similar [[Visual Pun]] comes at the end of the movie when Bluto "turns yellow," i.e. he's dressed in yellow as he runs away.

* [[Super Mode]]: Popeye finally transforms into his famous Spinach Mode at the end after being force fed spinach by Bluto. However, you only get to see his enlarged arms uppercutting Bluto from underwater.

* [[Theme Music Power-Up]]: While Bluto forcefeeding Popeye spinach was what gave him his strength, Popeye didn't come back to fight until Swee'pea played the opening tune to the Theme Song on a little horn provided by Pappy.

* [[Typecasting]]: Shelley Duvall is the only actress on Earth who could nail the role of Olive Oyl.

 

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