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* I Yam What I Yam: The first solo Popeye short. Renamed "The Indian Fighter" in reissued prints. Wimpy makes his debut here.
* Blow Me Down!
* I Eats My Spinach
* Seasin's Greetinks!
* Wild Elephinks: First Bluto-less short.
== 1934 ==
* Sock-a-Bye Baby: First Popeye short with neither Olive Oyl nor Bluto. Features Popeye caring for Betty Boop's baby brother.
* Let's You and Him Fight
* The Man on the Flying Trapeze: Sole animated appearance of Olive Oyl's mother, in the opening. Bluto does not appear here, although the eponymous man on the flying trapeze is an obvious stand-in for him.
* Can You Take It?: A short that bears some similarities to ''[[Bimbo's Initiation]]''.
* Shoein' Hosses
* Strong to the Finich
* Shiver Me Timbers
* Axe Me Another
* A Dream Walking: Features the [[Bing Crosby]] song "Did You Ever See A Dream Walking?", [[Mickey Mousing|flawlessly synchronized with the animation.]]
* The Two Alarm Fire
* The Dance Contest
* We Aim To Please
* Let's Sing With Popeye: A [[Screen Song]] short featuring a sing-along version of the Popeye song. Recycles footage from the very first Popeye short.
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* Wimmin Hadn't Oughta Drive
* Puttin' On the Act
* Popeye Meets William Tell: The sole Popeye cartoon directed by [[Shamus Culhane]].
* My Pop, My Pop
* Popeye the Sailor with Poopdeck Pappy
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* [[Christmas Episode]]: "Seasin's Greetinks!"
* [[Clip Show]]: "Adventures of Popeye", "I'm In The Army Now" and "Customers Wanted"
* [[Cock Fight]]: Whenever Olive Oyl shows up, Bluto and Popeye immediately start a competition to win her affections.
* [[Commedia Dell Arte Troupe]]: The characters' roles never changed, but the shorts would shoehorn them into a wide variety of settings and personalities
* [[Comedic Hero]]
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: In the 1930s shorts, this was Popeye to a tee. It mostly came about due to his voice actor having to ad-lib many quips ''after'' the animation was done.
* [[Deranged Animation]]: "Wotta Nite-Mare", which almost feels like a throwback to the earliest Fleischer cartoons like "Swing You Sinners" in terms of content.
* [[Did You Die?]]: One old cartoon features Popeye telling his nephews about one of his adventures. At one point they ask, "Did you get killed?"
* [[Diner Brawl]]: ''We Aim To Please'' and ''What - No Spinach?''
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: "Sock-A-Bye Baby" has Popeye beating up a bunch of people because they're making noise and he's afraid they'll wake a baby he's taking care of.
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** In the comics, this verges on [[Nigh Invulnerability]] — Mafia bosses will invite Popeye to sit at the table with them in a restaurant, because he makes for such a good bulletproof shield.
** In the early Fleischer cartoons, too. He's thrown into an iron maiden ("Can You Take It?"), walks into a buzzsaw (ditto), is pounded by a pile-driver ("I Eats Me Spinach"), and is even shot in the back of the head ("Blow Me Down"), and he doesn't even flinch. And this is ''without'' spinach.
** In fact, Popeye's indestructibility was his main "superpower" in the original comic strip, and spinach had nothing to do with it. In his initial adventure he was shot several times, and survived by repeatedly rubbing the head of an African whiffle hen -- Castor had brought her along because rubbing her head brings good luck, and he was going to an island of gambling casinos. The whiffle hen is also indestructible, and although Segar never made this explicit, Popeye had apparently managed to permanently infuse himself with these qualities.
* [[Mad Libs Catchphrase|Mad Libs Theme Song]]: When singing his iconic tune at the end of an episode, Popeye frequently inserts episode-specific references in lines three and four.
* [[Magical Native American]]: If one's definition of this trope is broad enough, the indians from the very early short "I Yam What I Yam" (AKA "The Indian Fighter") feature a tribe of hostile indians who are capable of ''shapeshifting'' into nearby foliage ([[Rule of Funny|and in one's case]], [[Easter Egg|a miniature house]]) in order to sneak up on Olive and Wimpy's cabin.
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** The 1972 TV special ''[[The Man Who Hated Laughter]]'', which teamed up virtually every popular King Features Syndicate character, even those from strips of completely different genres and art styles.
** He was also part of the Imaginationland defense force on that episode of [[South Park]]. ("More spinach for Popeye!" <poof!>)
* [[Megaton Punch]]: Usually how he ends his spinach-boosted beatdown combos. Maybe the [[F-Zero|Falcon]] [[Memetic Mutation|PAWNCH]] from [[Super Smash Bros.]] was based on this ultimate finisher?
* [[Never Wake Up a Sleepwalker]]: Bluto and Popeye have to join forces to save Olive Oyl from herself in the short "A Dream Walking", especially once she wanders into a construction site.
* [[No OSHA Compliance]]: True, Popeye predates OSHA by a long shot, and started back when A-list stars in the movies still did stunts without the benefit of a [[Stunt Double]] or safety nets, but you still wouldn't want to work in, say, a factory with [[Everything Trying to Kill You]], right? Well, it's clearly nothing for the world's strongest sailor to worry about.
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* [[Retool]]: The original comic strip changed drastically after Popeye's breakout popularity, dropping many regular characters.
* [[Retraux]]: The [[Famous Studios]] short "Cartoons Ain't Human".
* [[Scenery Porn]]: Had some very elaborate architecture backgrounds, all done in perfect perspective.
* [[Sealed Good in a Can]]: Spinach grants super strength to ''any'' character who consumes it, not just Popeye.
* [[Series Continuity Error]]: In ''Baby Wants a Battle'' (1953), we see Popeye as a baby living in a contemporary town in [[The Gay Nineties]] with his formally dressed Pappy, via photographs. Even though Popeye was an orphan who was separated from his father for so many years that his own father didn't recognize him. Also, where did they get those photos in the first place?
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