Popeye the MGTOW Man

[Can’t Stump TrumpParticipant]

I am a firm believer that Popeye is actually a red pill cartoon. At first it may not appear to be so: nearly every story features Popeye and Bluto/Brutus competing in feats of manliness to win the heart of Olive, who is nothing but a disloyal ditz.

However, I think the cartoon is actually very self aware. Fighting over a woman makes for an entertaining gag, but the number of times she dances back and forth between the men at the slightest whim is very suggestive of the true value of the “prize.”

This particular cartoon is the most red pilled of all. Olive chooses whom she will marry with a game of Eenie meenie miney moe, and originally settles on Popeye. When he, thanks to the machinations of Bluto, fails to live up to her expectations, she decides to marry Bluto instead. How does Popeye win? Usually it’s spinach, but this time, Popeye chooses to carpet bomb Bluto with red pills.

The cartoon is only 6:25, but if you just want to see the MGTOW part, it’s at 5:30.

Women are better at multitasking? Fucking up several things at once is not multitasking.

[BigDParticipant 3024]

At least she didn’t wear white.

Don't stick your dick into anyone you aren't willing to put up with for eighteen years and nine months.

[ghostParticipant]

Awesome. Thanks for posting, Stump.

[anonymousyamParticipant 4605]

I have made a posting about this specific cartoon before especially the part at the end.

Anyone got any classic mgtow cartoon shorts?

Just an east coast asshole who likes to curse, If you get offended by words like fuck, cunt, shit, piss, bitch or any racial slurs then you just scroll down.

[HitmanParticipant]

amazing how something like a cartoon,
which i would not try to find on my own
really made my evening..!
thanks!

[bladeParticipant]

Where is old bill . He knows s~~~ loads on popeye .

Popeye had kids .

THE PLANTATION HAS NOW TURNED INTO THE KILLING FIELDS . WOMAN ARE NOW ROLLING CAMBODIAN STYLE .

[AttonParticipant]

The two of them could work as one.

A MGTOW is a man who is not a woman's bitch!

[Can’t Stump TrumpParticipant]

anonymousyam wrote:

I have made a posting about this specific cartoon before especially the part at the end.

Duplicate post! Lol. To be fair, your post is dated a year ago. I guess I’m not surprised that another MGHOW out there would notice the same cartoon.

Women are better at multitasking? Fucking up several things at once is not multitasking.

[joetechParticipant]

Let’s not forget that Olive Oil had a kid, too. Remember Sweetpea? Two guys fighting over a single mom. I always wondered if the hamburger guy (what was his name?) was the dad. Sweetpea didn’t look like Popeye or Brutus. And I was a little kid when I watched this and noticed this stuff.

"Don't follow in my footsteps...I stepped in something."

[OldBillParticipant]

blade wrote:

Where is old bill . He knows s~~~ loads on popeye.

You rang?

Popeye had kids.

That depends on which Popeye you’re talking about. There are several versions with the original newspaper comic strip being one most people are entirely unfamiliar with.

The Segar strips are fantastic. Titled “Thimble Theatre” first and just “Popeye” later, they ran daily for a chunk of the 20s and 30s until Segar died. While they were running, Fleischer Studios – sort of a smaller version of Disney and Warner Brother’s famous Termite Terrace – began producing the black & white cartoons many have seen. The movie cartoons introduced the Popeye-Olive-Bluto triangle as it allowed for a quick, action driven, plot. Paramount took over Fleischer in the 40s, added color after the war, and simplified the plots to an even greater extent.

In the newspaper strips, Popeye has a child, Swee’Pea, who is an orphan he has adopted. That’s right, in the 1920s a single, pipe smoking, prize fighting, sailor man apparently could adopt no questions asked.

In the cartoons, Swee’Pea is sometimes Olive’s cousin and sometimes an adopted orphan, but never he is never Popeye’s child. Popeye may babysit from time to time, but only a woman can have custody. The cartoons also gave Popeye three and sometimes four nephews.

The Segar newspaper strips are well worth tracking down. I was fortunate that my local paper re-ran them for most of the 70s. The strip is very different from the cartoon. Popeye, while a sailor, engages in other lines of work like boxing, treasure hunting, detective work, ranching, an working for an absent minded and most likely mad scientist called Professor O. G. Watasnozzle.

The 1980 Robin Williams’ movie followed the newspaper strips and that was one reason why it did poorly at the box office. People remembered the cartoons and the movie was nothing like them.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

[Can’t Stump TrumpParticipant]

OldBill wrote:

The movie cartoons introduced the Popeye-Olive-Bluto triangle as it allowed for a quick, action driven, plot.

So was Bluto his original name in the cartoons? I’ve seen some where he’s called Brutus, but he’s Bluto in all the color ones and some of the black and white ones, so I’m not sure about the timeline. Was he a character in the comic as well?

Women are better at multitasking? Fucking up several things at once is not multitasking.

[OldBillParticipant]

Is it Brutus or Bluto? Same character, but two different names!

He was called Bluto originally in the comic strip. Paramount renamed him Brutus because they incorrectly believed, IIRC, the comic strip syndicate owned the rights to the name Bluto.

Bluto was just one of Popeye’s several antagonists and wasn’t a particularly notable one either. He was being featured in the comic’s story arc when the first cartoons were being scripted and drawn, so he was used because he’d be familiar to the target audience. Once they had his character design in hand, he was used from then on because it was easy.

In the comic, Popeye had more rivals than recurring enemies. The Sea Hag was his primary recurring enemy and she used various thugs who usually appeared in one story arc before being replaced. Bluto was a “rent-a-thug” working for the Sea Hag originally. The Sea Hag’s one recurring assistant was a pet vulture!

Popeye often befriended, “flipped”, or otherwise freed the Sea Hag’s various minions. A notable example was Alice the Goon whom the Sea Hag forced into service by kidnapping her baby.

Popeye had several rivals and usually was friends with them after a fashion. Among them was Bill Squid, another sailor, and Oxblood, a rival boxer.

The comic strip used long story arcs lasting months with plenty of callbacks. The cartoons couldn’t do that obviously, although there was some talk of serializing them like Flash Gordon and others. That meant the cartoons had to tell a complete, self contained story in 15-18 minutes and that meant the cartoon version quickly became very different from the newspaper comic strip.

Do not date. Do not impregnate. Do not co-habitate. Above all, do not marry. Reclaim and never again surrender your personal sovereignty.

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