Popeye the Sailor (1999 TV sitcom)

Popeye the Sailor is a 1999 American animated sitcom created by Paramount Television Animation, with co-production from King Features Entertainment.

Premise
The new adventures of the sailor who fights his enemies at eating spinaches.

Main

 * Popeye the Sailor (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) - The main protaganist of the series. He is best known for his squinting (or entirely missing) right eye, huge forearms with two anchor tattoos, skinny upper arms, and corncob pipe. He can occasionally be seen smoking his pipe but usually he toots it like a tugboat and sometimes uses it as a weapon by blowing the smoke in his enemies faces. His strength varies among his portrayals: as per the original comics, he is super-humanly strong and can lift huge objects, while in later adaptations he is not quite as mighty until he gains a boost in strength by eating spinach. He is known to mutter when he speaks and mangle the English language (e.g, he calls elephants and infants "elephinks" and "infinks", respectively).
 * Olive Oyl (voiced by Cheryl Chase) - Popeye's girlfriend. She and Popeye have stuck through thick and thin to face many challenges and adventures together.
 * J. Wellington Wimpy (voiced by Maurice LaMarche) -  He is a hefty hamburger lover and close friend of Popeye's known for his mooching ways and a hidden level of high intelligence. He is a soft-spoken and cowardly gentleman who will do whatever it takes to get a free hamburger with the promise that he'll gladly repay the kind soul that offers one on Tuesday, which he usually never does.
 * Bluto (voiced by Jackson Beck until 2002 and Maurice LaMarche after 2005) - TBD.

Supporting

 * Shorty (voiced by Tom Kenny) - Popeye's short, bespectacled Navy fellow. An individual prone to cause mischief and annoy others, he is paired with Popeye in comic everyday situations both aboard the Navy ship and on shore leave, leaving Popeye in the role of "straight-man".

Development
In late 1997, Paramount Television Animation envisioned Popeye the Sailor as a full-fledged animated sitcom.

Diferrences
Differences in Popeye's story and characterization vary depending on the medium. Originally, Popeye got his strength from rubbing the head of the Whiffle Hen, changing to spinach by 1932. Swee'Pea is definitively Popeye's ward in the comic strips, but he is often depicted as belonging to Olive Oyl in cartoons. The cartoons also occasionally feature members of Popeye's family who have never appeared in the strip, notably his lookalike nephews Peepeye, Pupeye, Pipeye, and Poopeye.

There is no absolute sense of continuity in the stories, although certain plot and presentation elements remain mostly constant, including purposeful contradictions in Popeye's capabilities. Popeye seems bereft of manners and uneducated, yet he is often depicted as capable of coming up with solutions to problems that seem insurmountable to the police or, most importantly, the scientific community. Popeye has, alternatively, displayed Sherlock Holmes-like investigative prowess (determining, for instance, that his beloved Olive was abducted by estimating the depth of the villains' footprints in the sand), scientific ingenuity (as his construction, within a few hours, of a "spinach-drive" spacecraft), or oversimplified (yet successful) diplomatic arguments (by presenting his own existence—and superhuman strength—as the only true guarantee of world peace at diplomatic conferences). Popeye's pipe also proves to be highly versatile. Among other things, it has served as a cutting torch, jet engine, propeller, periscope, and, of course, a whistle with which he produces his trademark toot. Popeye also on occasion eats spinach through his pipe, sometimes sucking in the can itself along with the contents. He seldom appears to use it to smoke tobacco.

Popeye's exploits are also enhanced by a few recurring plot elements. One is the love triangle among Popeye, Olive, and Bluto, and the latter's endless machinations to claim Olive at Popeye's expense. Another is his near-saintly perseverance in overcoming any obstacle to please Olive, who often renounces Popeye for Bluto's dime-store advances. She is the only character that Popeye will permit to give him a thumping. Finally, Popeye usually uncovers villainous plots by accidentally sneaking up on the antagonists as they brag about or lay out their schemes.

Voice Cast

 * Maurice LaMarche - Popeye the Sailor, Wimpy, Bluto (2005-2008), Pipeye, Pupeye, Poopeye, Peepeye
 * Cheryl Chase - Olive Oyl
 * Jackson Beck - Bluto (1999-2002)
 * Tom Kenny - Shorty
 * Grey DeLisle - Swee' Pea
 * Patrick Warburton - Rough House
 * Harry Shearer - Genie (from Fleischer Popeye color two-reeler Aladdin and his Wonderful Lamp)