POPEYE'S BACK

[Twitch]

Here you go http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=7112 there must be some of your favorites in here.

 

[jake_fink]

Beautiful. Made my day.

 

[Hondo]

Commercial ad just aired on TV, wow definitely on my Christmas list, Thanks!

 

[LizzieMaine]

My copy of this shipped yesterday, and I'm waiting eagerly for the mailman. It's been years since I saw any of these in anything but cut up choppy TV prints, and I'm extremely lookin' forward.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Thank goodness it isn't the wretched film version with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall.


I still haven't recovered from the song that Olive Oyl sings about Brutus in the movie: "And he's big ... and he's large." :eusa_doh:


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[Sefton]

I just need $64.92 which I will gladly repay on tuesday. That set looks like a thing of beauty. "Popeye the Sailor meets Sinbad the Sailor" has to be one of the best cartoons ever.

 

[Lady Day]

An episode of Popeye I saw as a kid made me want to be an animator. Ill have to check these out!


LD

 

[Doh!]

My copy of this shipped yesterday, and I'm waiting eagerly for the mailman. It's been years since I saw any of these in anything but cut up choppy TV prints, and I'm extremely lookin' forward.

Yep, mine's on the way, too!

(Sefton, Amazon had them for only about $45.00, shipped. Sales tax did not apply to California.)

 

[CharlieH.]

Dear Santa-
I've been a very good joe this year, and if you know what's good for ya, pleeease get me the Popeye DVDs. And I promise I won't ask for anything more... until the next Looney Tunes set comes out.
C.H.

In all these years, I never realised that the Popeye title had bubbles!

The Technicolor specials must look downright spectacular!

 

[Flivver]

I pre-ordered this one weeks ago. It's supposed to arrive tomorrow and I can't wait!

Popeye was *the* favorite cartoon for me and my friends back in the late 1950s.

 

[Doh!]

IT'S HERE! IT'S HERE!!

Unfortunately, I'm at work and am going out tonight so won't be able to crack it open until much later...

d'oh!
(Not just a name. An exclamation.)

 

[be_lovely]

I happen to like that movie very much!!! "You owe me an apology!!!" I think the songs are great!!! I AM WHAT I AM I AM WHAT I AM!!!!

Thank goodness it isn't the wretched film version with Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall.


I still haven't recovered from the song that Olive Oyl sings about Brutus in the movie: "And he's big ... and he's large." :eusa_doh:


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[Dagwood]

Grew up watching Popeye (and The Little Rascals) with Tom Hatton on Saturday morning. Pretty good animator who used to ask the kids to send in "squiggles" (oddly drawn lines) where he would then turn them into animation masterpieces.

 

[Doh!]

You're in luck: Hatton is on the first documentary I watched tonight.

They really cleaned up the prints nicely; this is a great set that I cannot recommend highly enough.

 

[jazzbass]

This is great. I loved the old Max Fleischer Popeye cartoons but have only seen the worn out , edited TV versions. This should be fun.




bob

 

[Twitch]

It made you wonder how sailors at sea for extended periods might find Olive Oyl attractive. Well any port in a storm!lol

 

[The Wolf]

Twitch, good point. Robert Wuhl talked about that in his stand-up. He says Bluto and Popeye have been out to sea so long they find Olive Oyl attractive, "The only woman with an adam's apple."lol
I used to love those ones on TV. The mumbling under his breath that Popeye would do or even when his mouth didn't move even though he was saying something.

Sincerely,
The Wolf

 

[LizzieMaine]

Been working my way thru these since the set arrived the other day. "A Dream Walking," the last short on Disc 1 is just about as close to absolute perfection as any cartoon I've ever seen, and it's never looked better.

Popeye fans should also look up the original E. C. Segar comic strips of 1929-38 -- one of the real high points of American cartoon storytelling, and far more complex than the animated shorts.

 

[Miss Neecerie]

Grew up watching Popeye (and The Little Rascals) with Tom Hatton on Saturday morning. Pretty good animator who used to ask the kids to send in "squiggles" (oddly drawn lines) where he would then turn them into animation masterpieces.

Get out of my childhood! Channel 5 was the backbone of kids tv on Saturdays.

Although I did use to go hide when Scooby Doo came on.....

I actually got to meet Tom Hatton once later on ....heheh

 

[Dagwood]

Get out of my childhood! Channel 5 was the backbone of kids tv on Saturdays.

Although I did use to go hide when Scooby Doo came on.....

I actually got to meet Tom Hatton once later on ....heheh

Channel 5 was kid central. If you recall, every Sunday afternoon the channel showed old movies - a constant rotation of Pippi Longstocking movies. It took me forever to understand why the words didn't match the lip movements. I always thought Pippi's dad was supposed to be Bluto. Pippi had the strength of Popeye. The movies were also hosted by Tom Hatton.

Speaking of Tom, I sent in a squiggle every few weeks. I was never picked and, thus, never received an animation masterpiece with his autograph.