Post by Sparkina on Sept 27, 2012 15:28:53 GMT -5
I wish Famous Studios had made:
a cartoon where Pretty Olive goes on a Dating Game type show and has to choose a beau from a bevy of gents -- Popeye, a sinfully handsome Bluto, The Sheik, (from A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing), Mr. Lifeguard (assuming that Mr. Lifeguard wasn't just a playing-a-role Bluto with a shave and his hair lightened), Pierre the Trader, and Handsome Count Noah.
A cartoon where Popeye, Handsome Bluto, Mr. Lifeguard, The Sheik, Pierre The Trader and Handsome Count Noah enter a bodybuilding contest where the prize is a date with the lovely Ms. Oyl.
A role-reversal cartoon where Popeye and Pretty Olive go to a rodeo where a large yet well-contoured, lovely and charming cowgirl (quite unlike the ungainly, plain-faced and pushy backwoodswoman in Hillbillin' and Cooin') tries to lasso The Sailorman's heart right under Olive's nose with her back turned.
A cartoon where Pretty Olive wishes she could live in the days of the Roman Empire and be romanced by a Roman Emperor, and The Sailorman scoffs -- but then they go to a science museum, enter a time machine, and travel back in time to the Roman Empire where attractive, singing, violin-playing Emperor Marcus Blutonius (Handsome Bluto playing a role, complete with clean-shaven face, devastating muscles, beautiful baritone singing voice, and teensy toga) desires the raven-haired cutie for his consort. The squinting sailor is cheesed off and tries to vanquish the swarthy sovereign before he can muscle in on his "goil."
Alas, a fan can only fantasize because nothing like this would be made today. Cartoon studios are, after all, only companies, and in the times we're living in now, these studios -- oops, I mean, companies -- can unfortunately turn a better profit with characters and settings that look like they have been drawn by "infinks" and with equally infantile jokes about burps and boogers. (it's really kind of sad, isn't it?)
Also, there's a whole generation out there that has never seen a Popeye cartoon and when they hear the name Popeye, think of the fast-food company.
Oh, well. I suppose that's what fanfiction is for.
a cartoon where Pretty Olive goes on a Dating Game type show and has to choose a beau from a bevy of gents -- Popeye, a sinfully handsome Bluto, The Sheik, (from A Wolf in Sheik's Clothing), Mr. Lifeguard (assuming that Mr. Lifeguard wasn't just a playing-a-role Bluto with a shave and his hair lightened), Pierre the Trader, and Handsome Count Noah.
A cartoon where Popeye, Handsome Bluto, Mr. Lifeguard, The Sheik, Pierre The Trader and Handsome Count Noah enter a bodybuilding contest where the prize is a date with the lovely Ms. Oyl.
A role-reversal cartoon where Popeye and Pretty Olive go to a rodeo where a large yet well-contoured, lovely and charming cowgirl (quite unlike the ungainly, plain-faced and pushy backwoodswoman in Hillbillin' and Cooin') tries to lasso The Sailorman's heart right under Olive's nose with her back turned.
A cartoon where Pretty Olive wishes she could live in the days of the Roman Empire and be romanced by a Roman Emperor, and The Sailorman scoffs -- but then they go to a science museum, enter a time machine, and travel back in time to the Roman Empire where attractive, singing, violin-playing Emperor Marcus Blutonius (Handsome Bluto playing a role, complete with clean-shaven face, devastating muscles, beautiful baritone singing voice, and teensy toga) desires the raven-haired cutie for his consort. The squinting sailor is cheesed off and tries to vanquish the swarthy sovereign before he can muscle in on his "goil."
Alas, a fan can only fantasize because nothing like this would be made today. Cartoon studios are, after all, only companies, and in the times we're living in now, these studios -- oops, I mean, companies -- can unfortunately turn a better profit with characters and settings that look like they have been drawn by "infinks" and with equally infantile jokes about burps and boogers. (it's really kind of sad, isn't it?)
Also, there's a whole generation out there that has never seen a Popeye cartoon and when they hear the name Popeye, think of the fast-food company.
Oh, well. I suppose that's what fanfiction is for.