. . . Senility in a touching and instructive fashion. When many older individuals start reaching their late thirties, forties and beyond, their minds begin slipping. Whether you call their increasingly severe mental deficits "early onset dementia" or "losing their marbles," syndrome sufferers begin telling the same stories from long ago over and over, many of which have dubious roots--if any--in actual facts. It's as if this unfortunate crowd has been struck by cruel lightning bolts that turn them into geriatric versions of Congress Person George Sanctimonious of New York. During JEOPARDY SHERIFF Popeye's pappy is struck down by this malign malady, raving about dime Western exploits of which he read decades before and is currently appropriating as his personal history. Naturally, Popeye does not want these fabrications to muddle the mind of his young son. When Pappy tries to drag these imaginative figments into the Real World, Popeye realizes that professional help and 24/7/365 nursing supervision will be needed.
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Amusing remake of a Flesicher (1941)oldie, a three-generational setting
petersgrgm5 October 2008
Jeopardy Sheriff was a very interesting and amusing remake of one of Max Flesicher's Popeye cartoons, Child Psykolojiky(1941). The characters were the same: Popeye, Poopdeck Pappy, and Swee'pea. The subject matter was much the same, too: a dispute between Popeye and Poopdeck Pappy on child-raising. Poopdeck Pappy was bent on telling Swee'pea WHOPPERS, thinking that such would "make a man of him". Popeye and Pappy argued the point, upsetting poor Swee'pea, just as Pappy's hitting Swee'pea to quiet him (in Child Psykolojiky) was criticized by Popeye. Popeye found a better way, telling him a "fractured fairy tale", to wit, a funny version of the Three Bears story; it was about three bears (of which there were FOUR), named Moe, Sam, Lefty, and George, living in a motel. I do not remember much more about this Popeye cartoon, but DO see similarities between it and Child Psykolojiky. This one WAS a three-generational affair, on the subject of how to deal with children. The cartoon ended with Poopdeck Pappy's singing a new verse of the Popeye theme song: "It may be a whopper but I am the Popper of Popeye the Sailor Man--POOP POOP!" All in all, a very amusing Popeye.
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