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* Spooky Swabs (August 9)
  
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== Why This Era Sucks ==
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== Bad Qualities ==
 
# It lacks lack the charm and creativity of the Fleischer Studios era and the earlier Famous Studios era.
  
# It lacks lack the charm and creativity of the Fleischer Studios era and the earlier Famous Studios era.
 
# There are less action sequences than in the previous eras.
  
# There are less action sequences than in the previous eras.
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# Some of the cartoons during this era don't stay that true to the original source material.
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# Some of the cartoons during this era don't stay that true to the original source material.
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# During this era, the writing of most of these cartoons become more formulaic by having the standard Popeye formula being overused more often in its plots than ever before, making many of these cartoons very predictable.
 
# Some of the characters have gotten heavily flanderized during this era:
  
# Some of the characters have gotten heavily flanderized during this era:
 
#* Popeye has gone from a tough protagonist who always saves Olive from Bluto and other antagonists into a huge butt monkey who constantly gets abused by everyone around him.
  
#* Popeye has gone from a tough protagonist who always saves Olive from Bluto and other antagonists into a huge butt monkey who constantly gets abused by everyone around him.
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# Some of the jokes aren’t really that funny.
  
# Some of the jokes aren’t really that funny.
   
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==Redeeming Qualities==
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==Good Qualities==
 
# Some characters from the original Fleischer cartoons return during this era such as Pappy, Wimpy, and Swee' Pea.
  
# Some characters from the original Fleischer cartoons return during this era such as Pappy, Wimpy, and Swee' Pea.
 
# Some good/decent cartoons like "Popeye the Ace of Space", "Swimmer Take All", "Let's Stalk Spinach", "Pilgrim Popeye", "Lunch with a Punch" and "Baby Wants a Battle".
  
# Some good/decent cartoons like "Popeye the Ace of Space", "Swimmer Take All", "Let's Stalk Spinach", "Pilgrim Popeye", "Lunch with a Punch" and "Baby Wants a Battle".

Revision as of 12:02, 18 December 2020


Popeye the Sailor (Post-1948 Famous Studios era)
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"I can't stands N'more" - Popeye


Popeye the SailorBTSW is an animated series based on the comic strip with the same name. While the Fleischer Studios cartoons as well as some of the early Famous Studios cartoons from the 1940's were well received by critics and animation fans alike, the same can’t be said about Famous Studios' later Popeye cartoons from 1949 to 1957.

Shorts

1949

  • Popeye's Premiere (March 25)
  • Lumberjack and Jill (May 27)
  • Hot Air Acres (June 24)
  • A Balmy Swami (July 22)
  • Tar with a Star (August 12)
  • Silly Hillbilly (September 9)
  • Barking Dogs Don't Fite (October 28)
  • The Fly's Last Flight (December 23)

1950

  • How Green Is My Spinach (January 27)
  • Gym Jam (March 27)
  • Beach Peach (May 12)
  • Jitterbug Jive (June 23)
  • Popeye Makes A Movie (August 11)
  • Baby Wants Spinach (September 29)
  • Quick On The Vigor (October 6)
  • Riot in Rhythm (November 10)
  • The Farmer and the Belle (December 1)

1951

  • Vacation With Play (January 19)
  • Thrill of Fair (April 20)
  • Alpine For You (May 18)
  • Double-Cross-Country Race (June 15)
  • Pilgrim Popeye (July 13)
  • Let's Stalk Spinach (October 19)
  • Punch and Judo (November 16)

1952

  • Popeye's Pappy (January 25)
  • Lunch With A Punch (March 14)
  • Swimmer Take All (May 16)
  • Friend or Phony (June 20)
  • Tots Of Fun (August 15)
  • Popalong Popeye (August 29)
  • Shuteye Popeye (October 3)
  • Big Bad Sindbad (December 12)

1953

  • Ancient Fistory (January 30)
  • Child Sockology (March 27)
  • Popeye's Mirthday (May 22)
  • Toreadorable (June 12)
  • Baby Wants A Battle (July 24)
  • Firemen's Brawl (August 21)
  • Popeye, The Ace Of Space (October 2)
  • Shaving Muggs (October 9)

1954

  • Floor Flusher (January 1)
  • Popeye's 20th Anniversary (April 2)
  • Taxi-Turvy (June 4)
  • Bride and Gloom (July 2)
  • Greek Mirthology (August 13)
  • Fright To The Finish (August 27)
  • Private Eye Popeye (November 12)
  • Gopher Spinach (December 10)

1955

  • Cookin' With Gags (January 14)
  • Nurse To Meet Ya (February 11)
  • Penny Antics (March 11)
  • Beaus Will Be Beaus (May 20)
  • Gift Of Gag (May 27)
  • Car-azy Drivers (July 22)
  • Mister and Mistletoe (September 30)
  • Cops Is Tops (November 4)
  • A Job For A Gob (December 9)

1956

  • Hill-billing and Cooing (January 13)
  • Popeye For President (March 30)
  • Out To Punch (June 8)
  • Assault and Flattery (July 6)
  • Insect To Injury (August 10)
  • Parlez Vous Woo (October 12)
  • I Don't Scare (November 16)
  • A Haul In One (December 14)

1957

  • Nearlyweds (February 8)
  • The Crystal Brawl (April 5)
  • Patriotic Popeye (May 10)
  • Spree Lunch (June 21)
  • Spooky Swabs (August 9)

Bad Qualities

  1. It lacks lack the charm and creativity of the Fleischer Studios era and the earlier Famous Studios era.
  2. There are less action sequences than in the previous eras.
  3. Some of the cartoons during this era don't stay that true to the original source material.
  4. During this era, the writing of most of these cartoons become more formulaic by having the standard Popeye formula being overused more often in its plots than ever before, making many of these cartoons very predictable.
  5. Some of the characters have gotten heavily flanderized during this era:
    • Popeye has gone from a tough protagonist who always saves Olive from Bluto and other antagonists into a huge butt monkey who constantly gets abused by everyone around him.
    • Olive has changed from a fickle, yet kind hearted girlfriend of Popeye into an idiotic hypocritical and angry jerk who usually treats Popeye poorly.
    • Bluto has gone from being Popeye's arch enemy who wants to have Olive for himself into a much bigger pervert as well as a sadistic brute who has a much bigger hatred for Popeye than before.
    • Popeye's nephews have become even more obnoxious and unlikable than they already were, especially in Bride and Gloom.
  6. The animation started to go downhill around the mid to late 50's.
  7. Some of the cartoons during this era are also clip show episodes such as "The Crystal Brawl", "Popeye's 20th Anniversary" and "Assault and Flattery".
    • Some of the cartoons also reuse footage from Fleischer Studios' earlier cartoons and have the voice actors redub over the footage of those cartoons. "Popeye Makes a Movie" reuses footage from "Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves" and "Big Bad Sindbad" reuses footage from "Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor".
  8. A majority of the cartoons in this era are color remakes of far better and funnier earlier cartoons.
    • "The Fly's Last Flight" is a color remake of "Flies Ain’t Human".
    • "Popeye's Pappy" is a color remake of "Goonland".
    • "Baby Wants Spinach" is a color remake of "With Little Swee'Pea".
    • "Riot in Rhythm" is a color remake of "Me Musical Nephews".
    • "Penny Antics" is a color remake of "Customers Wanted".
    • "Floor Flusher" is a color remake of "Plumbing Is a 'Pipe'".
  9. This era celebrates Popeye's anniversary way too late with "Popeye's 20th Anniversary", which was released in 1954 rather than 1953 when Popeye was adapted into animation in 1933.
    • Also, if they’re going to celebrate Popeye's anniversary in 1954, they should’ve called it Popeye's 25th Anniversary since Popeye was created in 1929.
  10. While the voice acting can be good at times, it can get on your nerves once in a while, such as Olive's voice and Popeye's nephews' voices.
  11. Very slow pacing and timing for the cartoons.
  12. Some of the jokes aren’t really that funny.

Good Qualities

  1. Some characters from the original Fleischer cartoons return during this era such as Pappy, Wimpy, and Swee' Pea.
  2. Some good/decent cartoons like "Popeye the Ace of Space", "Swimmer Take All", "Let's Stalk Spinach", "Pilgrim Popeye", "Lunch with a Punch" and "Baby Wants a Battle".
  3. The animation from the earlier cartoons during this era is good (or at least passable).
  4. Decent voice acting and music.
  5. Despite the drop in quality, this era is still far better than the Gene Deitch era of Tom and Jerry.

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Jah99

9 months ago
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How I would compare the Popeye eras to Ren and Stimpy's decline;

1933-1942 (Fleischer Studios era): Spumco era

1942-1948 (Early Famous Studios era): Games Animation era

1949-1957 (Later Famous Studios era): Adult Party Cartoon era
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MariaJúlia1718

9 months ago
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Speaking of Ren and Stimpy's decline, I know is impossible to add the Games Animation era here, for obviously for being well received in this recent years, but in reality it wasn't well received when it was announced in 1992, which former viewers of the show protested again this era, because of John Kricfalusi's firing by Nickelodeon, for reasons we already know, I found this information in articles about this whole situation in old magazines I found on internet, and also the Games Animation seasons are inferior to the Spümcø seasons, like Trevor said on Awful Movies, but, I know, know, we can't add the Seasons 3-5 of Ren and Stimpy (Games Animation) here
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Trevor807

9 months ago
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Plus, at least the Games era is not as bad as Adult Party Cartoon.
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MariaJúlia1718

9 months ago
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Exactly, but despite the Games Animation era had two bad episodes It's a Dog Life and Aloha Höek, at least didn't have much terrible and not well received episodes like what happened with Adult Party Cartoon years later
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PATRICKSTARSEVEN

7 months ago
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Popeye Torture Porn
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Hookuai

7 months ago
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You're active, finally, PATRICKSTARSEVEN, Bad news: CSW has been shut down due to one deranged nut job I won't tell
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