New Department Time

[papajoemambo]

"Saturday Morning Cartoons" Dept.:

Popeye Meets "Sindbad" The Sailor

Part 1

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Part 2 (I love the business with Wimpy and that duck)

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The First Count Chocula / Frankenberry Commercial

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The Mighty Thor - Enter Hercules

Part 1 - Stan Lee Intro (Careful - volume is high. Cartoon starts after about two-and-a-half minutes of Stan-erisms)

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Part

Comments

[anonymous]

Hey Pappy! Nice way to start a Saturday!! Where's my dedication on this post? Hey for some more great Popeye cartoons and a buncha Betty Boops too check out:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=popeye%20AND%20mediatype%3Amovies

I totally recommend "It's the Natural Thing To Do" Where Popeye, Olive and Bluto try to make it through the cartoon without fighting at the mail in request of a viewer.

Great cartoons. Love that two headed simpleton.

[papajoemambo]

I'm assumin' this is Matty. Everybody say "hi" to Matty.

This isn't specificly dedicated to you because it's goin out to all of yas. I hope to find a Lidsville episode to run with some cartoons next week.

[kahoki]

Popeye cartoons packed quite an adult range of plot features, something I always appreciated growing up. It looks like there will be an official release of the back catalog this July, something to look forward toot-toot!

[papajoemambo]

Absolutely - that Popeye set's hitting stores July 31st and they say that the remastering - especially of cartoons like this one and ALI BABA - is fit to make you weep.

I can't wait.

It's a VERY good time to be a mediahound.

[papajoemambo]

That'd be cool. I was a Popeye fan from this day, back in 1970, when my parent's hit a flea market and bought me discontinued record albums of the original Neal Hefti BATMAN soundtrack and a great POPEYE album. The people putting together the POPEYE album wanted the original cartoon cast to do the voices of the characters but they got Mae Questel (who was OLIVE OIL and BETTY BOOP in the Fleisher cartoons) to do the voice for WIMPY because Jack Mercer (the guy who was Popeye) was getting old and didn't want to have to switch from the Popeye rasp to Wimpy in scenes where he was talking to him alone! I have to burn that sucker to MP3 - it was really a formative influence on me.

[lostjane]

i was never allowed to have that cereal, were you??

Nope - not me either

[papajoemambo]

We were SPECIAL K, RAISIN BRAN and RICE KRISPIES all the way. The best I could wrangle from my Mom when I was little was SHREDDIES because they weren't just sugar (which meant she could eat them - Mom was always careful with her weight, and she was too frugal to buy anything that she herself wouldn't want a bite of sometime) - and because they had all of the Disney movie tie-in toys. I was an ENORMOUS Disney fan up to about the age of 8 or so (when superheroes moved into my imagination and stayed). Mom would also buy GOLDEN HONEYS for me - remember the Winnie The Pooh cereal? Might be before your time.

Things like this:

Re: Nope - not me either

[lostjane]

i do remember those caddies. i don't remember golden honeys. my mom gave us rice crispies and life cereal, but a lot of time it was oatmeal. good times.

i like your namor icon.

Re: Nope - not me either

[papajoemambo]

I made the Namor myslef - every now and then I see a panel in a comic and it screams "Animate me you IDIOT!"

[papajoemambo]

All of the stuff from the MARVEL SUPERHEROES show was done in that ghetto-ass style. The bad news is it's cheap as Hell, the good news is all that beautiful Kirby and Colan and Heck (when he was good) artwork is there to be looked at again.

All the voice talent for that show (and the Spider-Man one, which is a lot more famous) came from Toronto.