. . . from 2020's Breaking News headlines, as the titular erstwhile Naval Freedom Fighter arrives at "King Blozo's" Palace in "Spinachia" and asks the monarch--who had sent out an S.O.S. for help--"What seems to be the problem?" Popeye and his Main Squeeze "Olive" have remained totally blind to the existential threats whizzing past their ears during their trek to Blozo's Beleaguered Realm. It's akin to one of Today's deplorable Pachyderm Party treasonous Fellow Traveler Quisling Core Supporters shrugging its shoulders in feigned ignorance and responding with a "What lies?" when questioned about the 16,000-plus documented false witness slanders spewed by the crime lord leading the rump cushion mob since its Oval Office installation by the Red Commie Russian KGB. "Spinachia is being invaded--there are missiles flying all over the place!" an incredulous Blozo informs the oblivious Popeye. INCIDENT AT MISSILE CITY concludes with Popeye aiding and abetting the amoral title town ruffians to regroup for their inevitable next assault upon their peaceful neighbors.
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Here's a few tips about how NOT to waste your breath . . .
tadpole-596-91825623 January 2020
Warning: Spoilers
. . . in sweating over carefully crafting painstaking reviews about controversial films such as INCIDENT AT MISSILE CITY. Some ill-informed users of the internets may wonder exactly what could make this particular episode (number 165, to be exact) of a 1960 animated television series so problematic to address. In truth, there was not much in the way of existential difficulties in the first decade of this century. However, at some point in the past ten years Evil Bots began sweeping across the Cyberspace landscape, dragging their ignorant scorched earth policies wherever they went. Oozing into various nooks and crannies of The Cloud like a science fiction movie BLOB, these senseless bots began obliterating the labors of biological human beings who actually have brains in their heads. At the rate these automatons are currently gobbling up cyber real estate like some crazed version of Pac-Man, certainly Humanity already is verging upon THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL. If YOU happen to be a person sporting a biological brain, your old school way of thinking will soon be attacked by these TERMINATOR variations. For instance, if you try to review INCIDENT AT MISSILE CITY and follow the Common Sense actual Human practice of referring to the rightful king and his city by name, the nefarious bots will vaporize your comment because these Common Nouns are NOT included in its pea-brain vocabulary (which is why they are underlined in red as soon as you try to type them!). Shame, shame, shame on the enablers of robotic tyranny!
When the people of Today . . .
pixrox15 May 2023
. . . run across INCIDENT AT MISSILE CITY three score and three years following its initial release, many if not most will be put in mind of Russian President Foot PUT-IN Mouth's absurd, implausible, crazy, irrational, demented claim that a couple tiny drones picked up at the Moscow Radio Shack just before it was relegated to the infamous Dust Bin of History almost assassinated President Vladimir T Bozo. The misidentified flying object supposedly honing in upon the crazed Russian dictator looks suspiciously identical to the warhead chasing Olive Oil across Missile City. Wouldn't it be peachy keen if each of Red Square's war criminals had their own personal ICBM locked on their tail?
The Spinachia Missile Crisis
ccthemovieman-14 May 2007
Popeye and Olive receive a a telegram that reads, "Trouble. Come quick. King Blozo," so the two of them head off in Popeye's jalopy to see King Blozo. On the ways, missiles fly back and forth over their car. They see a sign that says, "Spinachia: two miles." When they arrive, the king says, "You didn't notice?" Popeye and Olive must be pretty blind because missiles are flying everywhere. "We're being invaded," says the king. In no time, Olive is doing her customary, "help, Popeye, help" yelling, as a missile is right behind her, poking her in the butt!
She escapes that and they call for a taxi. A "taxi missile" comes by and they hop on it, soon spotting a sign that reads, "Enterting Missile City - Reduce Speed To 2,000 Miles Per Hour." The king is perplexed. "I've never heard of Missile City. It must be one of these new developments."
They see a whole city made of missiles, all different colors and made to look something like houses. It's actually kind of cool. After yelling, "Where is everyone?" we meet "The Mad Leader Of Missile City." He seems like a nice guy.
It gets pretty juvenile at that point. Many of these early 1960s King Features Popeye cartoons, sadly, seem to be geared for very small kids and they don't quite have the humor and edge the older ones did, ones that adults could get a lot of laughs out of as well as the kids.
Anyway, our three main characters get a tour of Missile City which includes a beauty contest (won by Miss ICBM), and their launching pads. It's there that the host discovers that King Blozo is one of his guests and he is waging war against his country to get his Spinach. Missile City is low on iron, so they need the spinach. The rest of the story is Popeye his girl and the king out of jail and saving Spinachia from attack. As I said, this is very juvenile, but it isn't boring. It may be the biggest plug I've ever seen for spinach. I wonder if kids actually asked their moms for it, after watching one of these cartoons. I know I never did.
She escapes that and they call for a taxi. A "taxi missile" comes by and they hop on it, soon spotting a sign that reads, "Enterting Missile City - Reduce Speed To 2,000 Miles Per Hour." The king is perplexed. "I've never heard of Missile City. It must be one of these new developments."
They see a whole city made of missiles, all different colors and made to look something like houses. It's actually kind of cool. After yelling, "Where is everyone?" we meet "The Mad Leader Of Missile City." He seems like a nice guy.
It gets pretty juvenile at that point. Many of these early 1960s King Features Popeye cartoons, sadly, seem to be geared for very small kids and they don't quite have the humor and edge the older ones did, ones that adults could get a lot of laughs out of as well as the kids.
Anyway, our three main characters get a tour of Missile City which includes a beauty contest (won by Miss ICBM), and their launching pads. It's there that the host discovers that King Blozo is one of his guests and he is waging war against his country to get his Spinach. Missile City is low on iron, so they need the spinach. The rest of the story is Popeye his girl and the king out of jail and saving Spinachia from attack. As I said, this is very juvenile, but it isn't boring. It may be the biggest plug I've ever seen for spinach. I wonder if kids actually asked their moms for it, after watching one of these cartoons. I know I never did.
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