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Popeye, formerly Thimble Theatre, is a newspaper comic strip, first created by E.C. Segar in 1919. In 1929 it spawned a break-out character, the superstrong sailor Popeye which was adapted into a popular animated film serial by Max and Dave Fleischer in 1933. The franchise has spawned hundreds of comic strips, animated cartoons and a few TV adaptations and feature films.

References to Popeye in The Simpsons

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
5	096	"Deep Space Homer"	When Homer experiences excessive G-force during a space test his face morphs into that of Popeye, whereupon he also starts to slur in a manner comparable to Popeye's speech.
11	228	"Brother's Little Helper"	Bart's final song is a parody of Popeye's theme song.
13	278	"Jaws Wired Shut"	When Homer saves Marge near the end all the events are a parody of a typical Popeye animated cartoon. Homer starts speaking in Popeye's near indecipherable speech with bad grammar, drinks beer rather than spinach and Marge's arms flay in a similar loose manner as Olive Oyl.
13	282	"The Old Man and the Key"	The theme song from Popeye can be heard.
14	300	"The Strong Arms of the Ma"	When Marge first takes steroids the theme song of Popeye can be heard.
20	438	"Father Knows Worst"	Homer eats mayonnaise in the manner like Popeye eats his spinach.
21	518	"A Test Before Trying"	Bart has a nightmare in which he sees what would happen if the school would close down: it becomes a spinach farm, where Popeye works on the land.
28	608	"The Great Phatsby: Part One"	Two of the imaginary friends invited to Mr. Burns' party are referred to as "Mr. and Mrs. Popeye T. Sailorman" .

References to Popeye in The Simpsons books.

In Book – Comic Book Guy's Book of Pop Culture Comic Book Guy mentions Wimpy's quote, "Let's you and him fight" in Comic Book Guy's list of the "Greatest Quotes of All Time".

External links

Popeye at Wikipedia