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Cartoon Culture: Popeye Soap

May 1, 2008 12:05 am

In North America, more kids think of Popeye as a Fried Chicken resturant chain. In Chile, Popeye represents a bar of soap. Brew reader Diego Cumplido sent this in. “I remember doing little sculptures in school made of Popeye’s Soap when I was a kid. It reads “since 1949″ and “the power of cleaning”.

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6 comments posted in Cartoon Culture

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05/1/08 12:23am	Bill Field says:
	So we can find this next to the Olive Oyl of Olay? Popeye has one of the longest lists of licensed products worldwide for a cartoon character- Nothink to be embarrasked about, AT ALLSK!
05/1/08 9:38am	Kevin Wollenweber says:
	You know, I find it embarrassingly disturbing that we find more ways to manufacture images of classic cartoon characters onto every other product BUT completist and expansive video collections!! At least in this case, perhaps, the Fleischer Estate is making good money AND this particular character IS seeing his cartoons as restored as humanly possible and reissued!
05/1/08 11:18am	Lyndon Baines Moskowitz says:
	Don’t know if the Fleischer estate sees a dime from any of this, but King Features Syndicate probably does.
05/1/08 11:56am	Charlie says:
	There’s PLENTY of examples where I live. It’s mostly ‘Road Runner’ (or could be ‘Lil’ Beeper’) mascoting for speedy services or anything Acme. Just a few days ago, I saw a truck with ‘Tom’ but, that was in my work parking lot…and unfortunately, I was working.
05/1/08 3:41pm	Chris Sobieniak says:
	Being reminded of the Korean snack bag I showed here a couple years back. Didn’t think Popeye was so squeaky clean fun! :-)
05/7/08 10:04am	diego cumplido says:
	Great. I’m so proud!.

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