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8/10
Popeye Discovers 'Pappy'
ccthemovieman-127 July 2007
Well, this cartoon answered one question I always had: what was the story with Swee' Pea. It turns out he was an orphan. How he got the little kid, I still don't know because it's not part of this story. It just leads into it, where Popeye explains to Olive Oyl why he is on this current sailing trip to find his "pappy."

"For a long time, I always though I was an orphink just like 'Swee Pea," he says, "but one day I runs into a sailor what told me he saw a swab that looks like me, but in an old-ish way, on the island of Goona, and that's where we're sailin' for now."

It finds up a pretty entertaining cartoon as "Poopeye Pappy" tries to keep strangers off his island with various methods, such a huge gorilla and a giant octopus.

This wasn't really a funny episode but it was a "cute" one with a heartwarming ending. It's tough to make much of a story when you trim these animated Popeye short features down to a measly five minutes.
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7/10
Though it is somewhat of a cameo . . .
pixrox129 April 2023
. . . Godzilla makes a brief appearance toward the end of ME QUEST FOR MY PAPPY. When this large amphibian is cast in a Toe Ho flick, he's usually associated with radioactivity, atomic power or the electrical grid. This is because he emanates from a region obsessed with its tawdry History, and focused on reliving past slights, real or imagined. Therefore, it's a breath of fresh air when a simple can of spinach allows Pappy to dispatch the reptilian giant beyond the horizon line. Unlike their smaller counterparts, American sailors do not get into a tizzy at the first sight of scaly monsters. When the going gets rough, U. S. tars get rougher.
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8/10
Even before the U.S. Surgeon General determined that . . .
oscaralbert26 November 2019
Warning: Spoilers
. . . Big Tobacco is killing us by the millions, ME QUEST FOR POOPDECK PAPPY blows the whistle upon this reprehensible industry. After "Popeye" drags "Olive" and "Sweet Pea" to Goon Island in a desperate search for his Roots, his bellicose Pops orders a guerilla attack upon the peripatetic sailor man. Chagrined that his putative whelp dispatches said gorilla with a single punch, Dear Old Dad next sends "Charlie" to launch a sneak squid sortie against America's one-time favorite Super Hero. (Referring to this octopus as "The Blackguard of the Island," Pater Popeye is sure that tentacled Chuck will break whatever family ties exist between himself and the visitor to his out-of-the-way islet.) However, as a pipe-smoking dude, Popeye knows that the second-hand smoke from his devilish device will prove fatal to this multi-handed creature. Sure enough, all it takes is one puff to accomplish Charlie's demise. Perhaps the follow-up to this Popeye episode is entitled ME QUEST FOR CLEAN AIR AND A NEW PAIR OF LUNGS!
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