While cartoonist E.C. Segar's Popeye commits superhuman feats, thanks to his performance-enhancing spinach, fellow "Thimble Theater" character J. Wellington Wimpy often steals the show by bumming ...
Remember when Popeye was funny? I don't. Yet, for my grandparents' generation, it took little more than Popeye thwarting Bluto as he made the moves on Olive Oyl to get their funnybones tickled.