Popeye

When I was 3 years old my favorite cartoons were the old black and white Popeye ones. They showed them every morning on WPIX ch. 11. There is something about the Popeye cartoons made by the Fleischer bros. studio in the 1930s, an energy, a rough and tumble , held together with baling wire kind of energy that is very appealing. As I grew up I moved on to Loony Toons and Bugs Bunny. As time went on the old black and white cartoons stopped being shown and were replaced by the later color ones (not as good imho, less energy, less funny too generally.) But the original ones still have a special hold on me that others do not.

Here is a nice example, I'm In The Army Now, a sort of clip show cartoon. Not only does it show off some really weird wonderful early Popeye moments but Gus Wickie (Bluto) and Jack Mercer (Popeye) recorded/improvised new dialog for clips where they had not originally done the voices. Great stuff.