Wimpy is Popeye's friend. In the cartoons he mainly plays the role of the "straight man" to Popeye's outbursts and wild antics. Wimpy is very intelligent, and well educated, but very lazy. Wimpy is also something of a con artist and especially in the newspaper comics can be notoriously underhanded at times. Wimpy loves to eat hamburgers, and is usually seen with one, but is usually too cheap to pay for them.
A recurring joke is Wimpy's attempts to con other patrons into buying him his lunch. Wimpy often tries to outwit fellow patrons with his convoluted logic. His famous line, which was first introduced to the cartoons in 's We Aim to Please , is "I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today".
Wimpy had other frequently used lines in the original comic strip, usually invoked to someone or a group of people who are after him for some shenanigan he's pulled. On some occasions, Wimpy tries to placate the angry person or mob by saying "I'd like to invite you over to my house for a duck dinner. Segar and originally called Thimble Theatre.
Wimpy was one of the dominant characters in the newspaper strip, but when Popeye was adapted as an animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios, Wimpy became a minor character. Dave Fleischer said that the character in the Segar strip was "too intellectual" to be used in film cartoons. Wimpy did appear in Robert Altman's live-action musical film Popeye, played by veteran character actor Paul Dooley.
Wimpy is Popeye's friend. In the cartoons he mainly plays the role of the "straight man" to Popeye's outbursts and wild antics. Wimpy is soft-spoken, very intelligent, and well educated, but also cowardly, very lazy, overly parsimonious and an utter glutton.
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In the old Popeye cartoons, what is Wimpy's full name? William Laughlin. Nov 11, AM. Kuorosh Farrokh. Jan 23, AM. He is a soft-spoken and cowardly gentleman who will do whatever it takes to get a free hamburger, often with the promise to gladly repay the kind soul that gives him one come Tuesday, which he generally never does.
Wimpy has become a well-known and loved character in his own right, often seen as one of the most recognizable fraidy sidekicks in cartoons and whose association with hamburgers has led him to be featured in many advertisements related to the meaty patty. Wimpy was created by newspaper cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar in Wimpy is said to have been inspired by real-life Chester, Illinois local J. William Schuchert.
After his appearance in Thimble Theatre , Wimpy would return as a major supporting character in the comic book series by E. Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf , usually trying to mooch off Popeye as always. His comic book appearances would continue for decades until the title's end in As Popeye's popularity greatly grew, he would be given his own animated adaptation by Fleischer Studios. Wimpy would be a recurring yet somewhat minor character in these shorts, remaining mostly unchanged from his Thimble Theatre portrayal.
However, only a few shorts ever hinted at his hidden cleverness. Dave Fleischer even said that the character in the Segar comic strips was "too intellectual" to be used in animated cartoons, which would explain why his intellect and sharp quips were not used often, but one could still sometimes appreciate his wit in how he handled his mooching tactics.
As the character was soft-spoken and generally cowardly, he did little for their action-oriented approach, so he was largely absent from their more fight-heavy episodes. If he did, however, it would be as an announcer or spectator. Following the takeover of the Popeye animated franchise by Paramount Studios in , Famous Studios made drastic changes which abandoned many aspects of Thimble Theatre and focused greatly on plots involving Popeye, Olive and Bluto in something resembling a love triangle, without many other characters appearing and with few shorts deviating from that setup.
As such, Wimpy was largely absent, but still ended up being the only other Thimble Theatre character besides Swee'Pea and Poopdeck Pappy to appear, however, their appearances were limited to only a handful of shorts out of the that were produced, and some of his appearances were in flashbacks to earlier Fleischer productions, only three cartoons having him drawn by the Famous Studios staff. His design was also the only one that remained unchanged, although in his first appearance, his little mustache more resembled the toothbrush style.
His personality was also unchanged as his scant appearances emphasized his greed for hamburgers. Wimpy returned to regular appearances in animation in the s Popeye television series , where he was once again a prominent recurring character and Popeye's mooching friend and occasional sidekick.
Wimpy would also show more of the wit he had in Thimble Theatre , as well as his recognizable catchphrases , which were absent from past animated media.
Unlike the previous show, this series had higher-quality animation and was more akin to Segar's work and Fleischer cartoons than other Popeye animations, with Popeye regularly seen as an adventurous sailor once more - often accompanied by his pal Wimpy. Wimpy remained largely unchanged, with the only difference to past and future incarnations being that his voice, as provided by Daws Butler , was now a homage to that of the beloved golden age actor with the bright nose: W.
In , a theatrical movie called Popeye was released, featuring an original story and serving as a more faithful adaptation to Segar's Thimble Theatre. In the film, Wimpy appears as a supporting character and friend of Popeye and is played by Paul Dooley. Surprisingly, Wimpy gets along well enough with George W.
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