Make your own Popeye DVD

[Javeman]

OK, let's say you're in charge of making the very first official Popeye DVD. However, some conditions have been applied:

- Consists of two discs, one with 20 Fleischer shorts, the other with 20 Famous shorts.
- You can only use one the color two-reelers, for whatever reason. (counts as one short on disc 1)
- All secondary characters need to be featured at least once.
- You can't use more than one un-PC cartoon.
- The DVD needs to show the many faces of Popeye, that is, you need to prove he's more than a one-dimensional sailor that likes to fight.

Here's my list:

Disc 1:
- Popeye the Sailor (Animated debut)
- Blow me Down
- The Man on the Flying Trapeze (First Popeye with a song that goes with the cartoon title)
- Shiver me Timbers (First Popeye cartoon to use Willard Bowsky's surreal style of animation)
- A Dream Walking
- The Dance Contest
- Be Kind to "Aminals" (First cartoon in which Popeye shows he cares for animals)
- King of the Mardi Gras
- The Spinach Overture (First Popeye to use classical music as part of the score)
- Never Kick a Woman (First cartoon that features another character eating the spinach)
- Little Sweepea (First appearance of Sweepea)
- Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor (Popeye's first animated appearance in color, Academy Award Nominee)
- Morning, Noon and Nightclub
- Let's Celebrake (For the first time, Popeye shows that he cares for the elderly people)
- I Yam Love Sick (Apparently, first Popeye cartoon to include a fourth-wall gag)
- The Jeep (First appearance with Eugene the Jeep)
- Goonland (First appearance of Poopdeck Pappy)
- The Mighty Navy (First cartoon with Popeye in the US army)
- Pip-Eye, Pup-Eye, Poop-Eye An' Peep-Eye (First appearance of... you know)
- Many Tanks

Disc 2:
- A Hull of a Mess
- Me Musical Nephews (Quite possibly the best Popeye cartoon combining exagerated humor with music)
- Spinach Fer Britain (Popeye was important during WWII, this is, IMO, his best wartime cartoon)
- The Hungry Goat (A very unusual cartoon with lots of bizarre animation and fourth-wall gags)
- Cartoon Ain't Human (Last Popeye in Black and White)
- Her Honor The Mare (First "regular" Popeye cartoon in color)
- She-Sick Sailors (Popeye can make parodies as well)
- Tops in the Big Top (A cartoon with special opening sequence)
- Mess Production (First cartoon with the redesigned Olive Oyl)
- Service With a Guile (Quite possibly the best use of Jim Tyer's over-the-top animation)
- Popeye and the Pirates (OMG... crossdressing Popeye!)
- Wotta Knight (Popeye can be set in the ancient eras too)
- Olive Oyl for President (Fantastic cartoon with a great combination of musical score and animation)
- Lumberjack and Jill
- How Green is my Spinach
- Alpine for You (Special Closing Credits)
- Tots of Fun
- Popeye, the Ace of Space (Only Popeye cartoon made entirely in 3D)
- Private Eye Popeye (A cartoon with a lot of unusual gags quite reminicent of Tex Avery)
- Spree Lunch (The quality of the Popeye decreased during the mid-50s, this is, perhaps, the best post-54 Popeye cartoon)

[Geezil]

It's been a long day Out Here, fellow Popeye fans, and so my complete list will have to wait a bit longer. But if I can be forgiven two non-binding comments on Javeman's very well-done original:D:

1) If you can only use one non-PC cartoon and that one (if I've got this right) is "Popeye the Sailor," then there goes "Seein' Red, White & Blue," whose first half (never mind what follows) contains, IMHO, the most concentrated dose of peak-level early '40s Famous Studios gag writing you'll ever find ... and,

2) Not that I've ever been biased about this one, you understand,;) but if all secondary characters must rear their heads at least once, then what becomes of "Olive's Boithday Presink" for disc 1?

Thanks for listening to George W. as The Other Geezil