Popeye Song

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man I'm Popeye the Sailor Man I'm strong to the finich Cause I eats me spinach I'm Popeye the Sailor Man

I'm one tough gazookus Which hates all palookas Wot ain't on the up and square I biffs 'em and buffs 'em An' always outroughs 'em An' none of 'em gets nowhere

If anyone dasses to risk me fisk It's "boff" and its "wham", un'erstand So, keep good behavior That's your one life saver With Popeye the Sailor Man

I'm Popeye the Sailor Man I'm Popeye the Sailor Man I'm strong to the finich Cause I eats me spinach I'm Popeye the Sailor Man

Popeye and Olive Oyl

Popeye and Olive Oyl

Many would argue that Popeye and Olive Oyl are two of the least likely people to be together. Popeye was "uncouth, tattooed, a food faddist given to unpredictable outbursts of violence. Olive Oyl was a flat-chested flirt with a dowdy sense of style and involved in a long-term relationship. Olive Oyl was supposed to be twenty-nine years old, be five foot ten inches, and weigh ninety-six pounds. Her shoe size was designed as an unusual and probably no-existent 14-AAAAAA. Although these two were an odd couple, they have been together for sixty-seven years

There are several issues in Popeye and Olive Oyl's relationship that need reconciling. Despite Olive's obvious attraction to Popeye, she continues to lead Bluto along, and Popeye refuses to "make a decent woman of Olive, whose biological clock must sound like Big Ben." The creator of Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois, Mort Walker offered an answer to the puzzling relationship of the two characters. "A one-eyed sailor with inverted arms, and she's the shape of a toothpick. I guess they were meant for each other," he said.

Popeye and Olive Oyl

Popeye and Olive Oyl

Popeye and Olive have had their ups and downs since their relationship bloomed. Under Olive's influence, Popeye has cleaned himself up a little bit. Hy Eisman, Popeye's drawer since 1994, explains, "In the early days, there was a lot of physical abuse, because in those days you could do that in a comic strip." Now, however, with the modern domestic abuse problems, Popeye would never and could never hit Olive. Respect plays a more active role in their relationship, and Olive has a beneficial effect on Popeye's life. This portrays the idea that even a "spinach-eating bilge rat can evolve. All he needs is a good woman."

'Scooby-Doo' Myths and Facts

Scooby Doo

Rumors and myths abound regarding Scooby-Doo and his friends. Some of these have been presented in books as unequivocal facts, but the truth is, they fall more into the realm of urban legend.

Myth No. 1: The name "Scooby-Doo" was inspired by Frank Sinatra's recording of "Strangers in the Night" ("...dooby, dooby doo..."), which CBS exec Fred Silverman heard while traveling on an airplane.
Verdict: Probable. Silverman swears this is true, and the story has been told so often, it just might be.

Disguise is a major tool in Scooby-Doo's crime-solving arsenal.
Myth No. 2: The show's core characters represent the typical students from five Boston-area colleges: Preppy Fred represents Amherst College; rich kid Daphne, Mt. Holyoke; brainy Velma, Smith College; hippie Shaggy, Hampshire College; and "party animal" Scooby, University of Massachusetts.
Verdict: False. "While I hate to affect the regional pride of these Bostonians, I have to say that there is no truth to it," said Iwao Takamoto, who designed the characters. What the proud people of Beantown seem to recognize is a deliberate plan to give each kid a kind of archetypal universality.

Myth No. 3: The granddaddy of all Scooby-Doo rumors is that Shaggy and Scooby represent stoners, which is why they constantly have the munchies while driving around in a flower-power van. According to the rumor, this was a deliberate in-joke by the animators that flew over the heads of the network brass.
Verdict: False. Widespread, but still false. Dozens of arguments could be offered as to why no self-respecting middle-aged Hanna-Barbera artist or writer in 1969 would even think of jeopardizing the success of the show with such a joke, but the easiest refutation is to go to the source. "It's not true," Takamoto said. "The creative team never brought that into play in our thinking about this show. It wasn't until much later that this sort of rumor began to surface." Besides, Takamoto added, one of the key creative players in the development of Scooby-Doo was a network executive, which means that Silverman would have had to have been in on the joke himself or uncharacteristically unaware.

Ultimately, the fact that so many people develop legends around these drawn characters, even to the point of wanting to identify with them, is a testament to the degree to which Scooby, Shaggy, and the the rest of the gang have been taken to heart by viewers over the years.