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I Yam What I Yam is the second Popeye theatrical cartoon short, starring Billy Costello as Popeye, Bonnie Poe as Olive Oyl and Charles Lawrence as Wimpy. [1] The source of the quote is the comic strip, Thimble Theatre by E. C. Segar , in which Popeye first appeared.
Popeye, a gruff but good-hearted sailor, arrives at the small coastal town of Sweethaven while searching for his missing father. He rents a room at the Oyl family's boarding house, where the Oyls plan to have their daughter, Olive, become engaged to Captain Bluto, a powerful, perpetually angry bully who manages the town in the name of the mysterious Commodore.
Billy Costello was the first voice of Popeye. 1 I Yam What I Yam: September 29 [3] Seymour Kneitel William Henning First entry in the Popeye the Sailor series; First screen appearance of J. Wellington Wimpy; Rarely airs on television due to the American Indian stereotypes. 2 Blow Me Down! October 27 [3] Willard Bowsky William Sturm: 3 I Eats My ...
Mercer liked to imitate voices, [2] including one close call when he mimicked the high-pitched and loud voice of the wife of one of the Fleischers after he mistakenly thought she had left the studio. When William Costello , the original cartoon voice of Popeye (1933–1935), became difficult to work with, he was dismissed.
Today, this short and the other two Popeye Color Specials, Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor and Popeye the Sailor Meets Ali Baba's Forty Thieves (all adapted from One Thousand and One Nights), are in the public domain, and are widely available on various home video and DVD collections, usually transferred from poorer quality prints.
Popeye is the spitting image of Poopdeck Pappy, though Pappy has a white beard. Pappy is far less principled than his son, stealing from Popeye's bank account and trying to sell water for $5,000 in Death Valley (to which Popeye, while pouring water for the parched traveler, tells Poopdeck, "I yam disgustipated wit' ya!"). There is no love lost ...
The title screen and first level are in the top row; level 2 and 3 are below, from the arcade version. The object of the game is for Popeye the Sailor to collect a certain number of items dropped by Olive Oyl, depending on the level—24 hearts, 16 musical notes, or 24 letters in the word "HELP"—while avoiding the Sea Hag, Brutus, and other dangers.
The nephews are unhappy with the short story but are sent to bed anyway. The nephews are not so tired and eventually start playing music with various objects (such as mattress springs, suspenders, medicine bottles, etc.), and Popeye eventually hears the racket and destroys the radio trying to find what's causing the noise.