Popeye the sailor man - Popeyes 20th Anniversary

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Popeye's 20th Anniversary
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Popeye's 20th Anniversary is Popeye's 202nd cartoon, released by Famous Studios in 1954. The "20th anniversary" does not take into account Popeye's first appearance in the comics in 1929, but only his 1933 film debut a little over twenty years before.
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A Testimonial Dinner is served to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Popeye in the movies. Popeye the Sailor is a fictional muscular American cartoon character created by Elzie Crisler Segar. The character first appeared in the daily King Features comic strip Thimble Theatre on January 17, 1929, and Popeye became the strip's title in later years. The character has also appeared in theatrical and television animated cartoons.

Segar's Thimble Theatre strip was in its 10th year when Popeye made his debut, but the one-eyed sailor quickly became the main focus of the strip, and Thimble Theatre became one of King Features' most popular properties during the 1930s. After Segar died in 1938, Thimble Theatre was continued by several writers and artists, most notably Segar's assistant Bud Sagendorf. The strip continues to appear in first-run installments in its Sunday edition, written and drawn by Hy Eisman. The daily strips are reprints of old Sagendorf stories.

Olive Oyl and Bluto are in attendance, along with several film actors such as Jimmy Durante, Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin, among others. Popeye produces a film projector and shows them the cartoons Tops in the Big Top and Rodeo Romeo. Humiliated by the movie clips, Bluto traps Popeye's head into the same "spinach trophy" the guests had presented him with, but it is in fact filled with spinach, which allows Popeye to strike back and defeat Bluto. All attendees join in singing "I'm Popeye the Sailor Man".