Although Glee could get pretty silly--and in season five got downright awful--I loved it for the same reason I love musicals. People should just burst into song, complete with choreography and accompaniment, in real life.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
Growing up, we always ate frozen spinach. I always wanted to eat spinach out of a can, like Popeye. My mother did not like canned spinach. Now, The Boyfriend tells me that he only grew up eating canned spinach.
I rarely eat spinach now, but if I do, I prefer fresh.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
Yeah, I'm always puzzled when people say they don't like spinach, and then I remember that it's actually pretty disgusting in any form other than fresh.
The concept of spinach granting super strength came about because of an error. When calculating the energy given by consuming spinach, someone placed the decimal point in the wrong digit
When I was a kid I used to sing the Popeye song with the lyrics changed to "He eats to the finish, 'cos he fights his spinach". I thought it was so witty at the time, but I'm pretty sure no one else did.
We sang a variation as "I live in a garbage can. I love to go swimmin' to see naked women." A friend who grew up in another part of the country knew it as "I live in a frying pan. I turned on the gas and I burned off my @$$."
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
Popeye's original appearance in the Thimble Theatre comic strip came ten years after it began. Olive Oyl and her brother Castor had been the focus till then.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
Castor was used very little in animation. His most prominent appearance was as the flautist in the 1935 short "The Spinach Overture". This is also the most notable appearance of Harold Hamgravy in animation, who appears here as the trombonist. Both characters appear in the 1980 Robin Williams/Shelley Duvall film.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
The difference in tone between the animated cartoons and the comic strips is obvious. The cartoons mostly feature fairly simple plots, where the strip told complex stories that played out over months. The main villain in the cartoons is Bluto, who appeared only briefly in the early run of the strip. Popeye's main nemesis there was the Sea Hag. Popeye was also less reliant on spinach in the comics, at least until the idea became popular in the animated cartoons.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
In the cases of Gasoline Alley and For Better or for Worse, where the characters roughly aged in real time, continuity and pacing are even more important.
The only character in all of literature who has been described as "badnass" while using the phrase "vile miscreant."
Castor was used very little in animation. His most prominent appearance was as the flautist in the 1935 short "The Spinach Overture". This is also the most notable appearance of Harold Hamgravy in animation, who appears here as the trombonist. Both characters appear in the 1980 Robin Williams/Shelley Duvall film.
I believe that's actually Oscar rather than Ham Gravy on the trombone.
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