I was always amazed how Robin Williams was able to stay perfectly in character to the point of having his eye closed consistently through the movie, and yet most of the other actors in live action cartoon remakes can't even bother to look like the characters they represent, let alone act and sound like them. I'm lookin' at you, Mathew Broderick as Inspector Gadget.
Popeye, which though underappreciated managed to perfectly craft a cartoon world in live action, or Inspector Gadget which was a contractual obligation farted out by someone who had no love or respect or even bothered to watch an episode of the original? Popeye was a love letter, Gadget was junk mail. Even Speed Racer, which has many, MANY flaws managed to be made by people who loved the original.
And people like the Zach Snyder DC movies. Doesn't make them good. The Gadget movie was an insult to fans of the original cartoon, and it was made way too early to be considered a nostalgic cashgrab. It was made because Disney and DIC had a partnership at the time, but all it amounted to was a home video deal, the right to broadcast the Sabrina cartoon series on ABC, this stupid movie, the second slightly better but still off movie, and NOT distributing the new Gadget and the Gadgetinis cartoon in the US. THis movie is my personal Dragonball Evolution. A contractual obligation that was made at the last minute before the deal expired by someone who didn't care about the source material who THOUGHT they were clever by tossing lame tropes into a movie while disregarding the tropes of the original project. Only Dragonball at LEAST had 2 bootlegged movies made by someone who actually watched an episode. Besides, live action versions of cartoon shows, even when done right, are all titanic box office bombs. Just because there was a money making, competent Flintstones movie that one time, doesn't mean that everyone and their mother had to buy up all the cartoon show rights. And at least with The Flintstones, there was care and effort put into it.
The little mumbles have always been my favorite Popeye quirk. I like to imagine they’re his inner thoughts since his mouth doesn’t always move when he does it.
Breaking boundries and opening doors to many more voice actors. Like Bob's burgers having 2 men voice female leads on the show. Voice acting is amazing!
In case everyone is wondering how to do Popeye's voice, you have to learn a technique called Throat Singing. Everyone that uses that method sounds like Popeye, if you look it up. If you look up women doing it, they also sound like him, which is why woman was able to do his voice as well. Pretty interesting.
While the Segar Popeye is far and away better than any animated version, Fleisher studios deserves tons of credit for having given the character a voice that is so distinctive it is impossible to read the collections of the strip without mentally inserting Popeye's animated voice into the dialogue. On a side note, Fleisher studio deserves credit for giving Superman flight, another distinguishing characteristic that is impossible to picture the character not having. Fleisher studios actually added to the licensed properties they adapted.
Odd,I heard both the alcoholism being a factor in William Costello's firing and I also heard he had a massive ego that made him unbearable to be around. I mostly heard the story about his ego being what lead to him being fired.
Another great video-! Side note, Jack Mercer also provided the voice of Popeye in the Robert Altman movie. The opening is a take on the old Fleischer cartoons, with an animated Popeye on board a ship saying "Hey w'as this? One of Bluto's tricks? I'm in the wrong movie!"
Since Paramount Pictures was essentially a Theatrical rights for Popeye at that time in 1980 by the hands of Paramount Pictures archives, while Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer through United Artists and Associated Artists Productions remains the TV rights for Popeye cartoons since it was supposed to be released the Popeye cartoons on VHS, but despite of cease and decist order from King Features, the VHS of Popeye cartoons released by MGM Home Entertainment was cancelled. But thankfully, Warner Bros. Discovery through Turner Entertainment now currently owns the rights for classic Popeye cartoons originated from Paramount Pictures itself as well as Hanna-Barbera-produced Popeye TV series such as All New Popeye Hour and Popeye and Son. Coincidentally and ironically, both WB and Paramount Pictures are cross-licensed each other's logos due to involvement for John Wayne movies originally released by Warner Bros., Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971 film), Friday the 13th series, among others.
OK, be prepared, this is a long one. While I think the voice is often a huge factor in the success of certain cartoon characters, if only one voice actor really deserves credit for establishing a character's personality, it's Jack Mercer. Mercer's experiences as a writer really helped him with his improvisational skills. His witty comments are sometimes the best parts of the old Fleischer cartoons. Costello didn't have the same ad libbing skills that Mercer had (or Questel when she was voicing Olive Oyl). The voice itself is fine, maybe a bit deep, but not to a ridiculous extreme, and he does get some credit for being the original. Of the radio voices, Poppen was a bit better and actually sounded fairly close to Costello. Buckley is way too deep. The 1945-1947 voices are where it gets really complicated. IMDb lists Welch for all of them except for Shape Ahoy and Mess Production, but a really close examination shows that Welch is only the voice in some of them. Based off of Welch's existing album for Golden Records, it sounds like he's voicing him at 7:29, 7:33 (although most of that cartoon is actually Mercer), 7:58, and possibly 7:47. Of the replacement voices during that period, I think he actually sounds the closest to Mercer. The voice in Shape Ahoy (possibly Questel slowed down) is a bit deep, but not to an extreme point. The other voices have the same problem as Buckley in sounding too deep (the voice at 7:44 might even be Buckley. There's an interview with Michael Barrier in Mercer's official biography in which Mercer claimed Buckley was one of his replacements during this period). Sadly, lack of official information in books as to which voice was which makes it hard to confirm the voices during this period. OK, now that that's over, let's move on to the post-Mercer replacements: Bergman and the voice in the Cocoa Puffs commercial sound the closest to Mercer. I can hear bits of West's and Kenny's other voices in their portrayals, but they still get the voice down for most of it. LaMarche also is a bit inconsistent but usually tends to sound right. Williams was good, but I'm not including him in my ranking since his was a live-action performance. My final ranking: 1. Jack Mercer 2. Jeff Bergman 3. Cocoa Puffs Commercial (Possibly Jim Cummings) 4. Billy West 5. Tom Kenny 6. William Costello 7. Harry Welch 8. Maurice LaMarche 9. Mae Questel(?) 10. Detmar Poppen 11. Scott Innes 12. Unknown mid-1940s voices 13. Floyd Buckley EDIT: Welch's album was made for Peter Pan Records, not Golden. My mistake.
Plus, I think according to some sources, while I'm not sure if this is true or not, but from what I heard, Jackson Beck (the main voice actor of Bluto from the mid-40s to the the 60s (yes I'm counting Brutus from the 60s Popeye TV series in this) voiced Popeye in House Tricks? and Peep in the Deep
AzUrArInG I don’t remember where it was, but I remember reading a source that suggested Buckley was the voice in House Tricks, and there was at least one part that I thought kind of sounded like him (when Popeye yells, “Hey, stupid! That’s my steam pipe!”). I think in some of these cartoons, they might have even had multiple voice actors. In Rodeo Romeo, it sounds like three different voices. The ending sounds like Welch, some parts might be archival recordings of Mercer, and then in that scene at 7:44 of this video, there’s a weird voice that sounds nothing like Popeye (again, possibly Buckley).
The ones that are truly tough to the finish in my opinion are Jack, William, Billy, Tom and Jim (if that is him in fact), and Mae was surprisingly good too!
When I was six I got a Popeye record for Christmas and the names given for the voices were Jack Mercer and Mae Questal. Now I know Jack Mercer voiced Popeye up till the early Hanna-Barbera days until his death in 1985.
Fun facts: Jack Mercer will provide the voice of Popeye at the opening animated sequence of Popeye 1980 feature produced by Paramount Pictures (the same company who also produced the original Popeye cartoons from 1933-1957) and Walt Disney Pictures (the company who also produced Aladdin where Robin Williams also voiced as Genie) starring late Robin Williams since making Mercer's final film role before his death in 1984.
These Popeye ones were well worth the wait! I would've liked to seen a clip of Mercer doing the mumbling voice c. 1937 or so when he used a lighter, more sing-songy version of it. The witticisms were even funnier done in that voice, actually.
I'm fascinated by Mae Questel's rendition. The nasality is definitely hers, and I can imagine her doing the raucous register, but I want to say that the performance was slightly slowed down to get down to Popeye's pitch (kinda like Tweety Bird was sped up from a male voice).
Questel did claim that there was some engineering work done on her voice performance for Popeye. If you look up Questel on TH-cam, there’s at least one video of her doing her rendition of the Popeye voice.
Fun facts: Rocket to Mars (1946) is the only Popeye cartoon when Jack Mercer returns to voice as Popeye but he did in 3/4th and Harry Foster Welch voiced as Popeye in the final scene.
Jack Mercer has to be my favorite. It cracks me up everytime Popeye will say something in his gravely voice, and then change his voice when hes thinking or talking to himself LOL!!! Mae Questel once said in an interview that alot of ad libbing went into these and was so much fun to do.
Whoever gets casted in the Genndy Tartakovsky Popeye film hopefully will able to fill Jack Mercer's shoes. He really made the character what he is. The post-Mercer VA's seem to mostly nail the gruffness or the vocals, but not quite both. Mae Questel actually did a great job, I had no idea she ever voiced him, and I likely wouldn't ever have guessed if I wasn't told.
My Personal Ranking 1. William Costello 2. Jack Mercer 3. Jim Cummings 4. Detmar Poppen 5. Jeff Bergman 6. Billy West 7. Scott Innes 8. Robin Williams 9. Tom Kenny 10. Mae Questel 11. Harry Welch 12. Maurice LaMarche 13. Floyd Buckley
So Popeye eats healthy, loves animals, respects family and friends and is hardworking even in a father role, yet I feel like if the Popeye movie had released there would be articles about "toxic masculinity" or whatever because he doesn't take sh*t from Bluto.
The ironic thing would be that in the past he's voiced by a woman; which adds their weird area of women voicing toxic masculinity. Would be funny to see how they tackle that!
The "loves animals" part has not been consistent throughout his history. Yes, someone would definitely complain because they always complain about everything.
Jack Mercer appeared on I've got a secret in the mid 60s. Several on the panel guessed Mercer was Popeye's voice because Mercer made several remarks revealing a knowledge of animation. (The show is viewable on TH-cam.)
Yeah, although I'd put tom as third as his voice is slightly higher than the others. But compared to the other actors before him there's literally nobody better than those 3. (except jim cummings)
I actually thought Jim Cummings (if that was actually him) in the Coco Puffs commercial sounded the most Mercerian. I thought Billy West was the most difficult of the modern voices to listen to.
Costello was the originator. T'was his concept on how Popeye should sound. However, Mercer took it and ran with it. Mercer had more energy, and more "verskatility" !!!
Hoping that WarnerMedia will restore the remaining 50s Popeye cartoons in 4K scans HD restoration with the original Paramount Pictures titles and original end music cue as well since they already restored the 40s colored Popeye Cartoons.
6:47 Let me just say that hearing one of your childhood heroes chanting "Hail Hitler" can hurt you on a level that very little people truly understand.
Cool. Jack Mercer was my favorite voice actor for Popeye. I laughed though when Popeye said "She ain't no woman. She's just Olive." And the live action movie couldn't have been that bad. It actually looked quite intrested. But I still hope Sony makes that Popeye movie from 2014. Please.
Jack Mercer I felt like was not only a worthy replacement for William Castello, but I felt like he gave Popeye's voice more personality. So yeah, Mercer took what Castello did to Popeye's voice, but took it to a new level by providing more personality than Castello. Mae Questell, as cool of a voice actress she was, she still had big shoes to fill. But I give her credit for providing versitility. Billy West, while he's no Jack Mercer, he comes close to filling Jack Mercer's shoes. Same with Tom Kenny. But I like Billy more than Tom though.
The only ones who didn't really work well as Popeye were: Detmar Poppen, Floyd Buckley, Harry Welch (actually kinda mixed on him; sometimes he voices Popeye good, sometimes he doesn't), and Scott Innes. The rest provided good voices for the character.
They were chronological by year, but not exactly by release order. Many of them would have been recorded out of order anyway. He was VERY inconsistent with his portrayal.
Although Harry Welch is listed on IMDb for most of those cartoons, most of the voices during that period were actually several different actors. Of them, Welch actually sounds the closest to Mercer (which admittedly is not saying much).
Did Dave Coulier ever officially voice Popeye? He used to do an impression of the character on Full House but did he ever voice a cartoon or commercial?
I was always amazed how Robin Williams was able to stay perfectly in character to the point of having his eye closed consistently through the movie, and yet most of the other actors in live action cartoon remakes can't even bother to look like the characters they represent, let alone act and sound like them. I'm lookin' at you, Mathew Broderick as Inspector Gadget.
HEY ME AND OTHER PEOBLE LOVED THAT MOVIE AS A KID
Popeye, which though underappreciated managed to perfectly craft a cartoon world in live action, or Inspector Gadget which was a contractual obligation farted out by someone who had no love or respect or even bothered to watch an episode of the original? Popeye was a love letter, Gadget was junk mail. Even Speed Racer, which has many, MANY flaws managed to be made by people who loved the original.
@@mightyfilm Hey Hey Hey watch The langue pal some of liked it stubid harsh hater
And people like the Zach Snyder DC movies. Doesn't make them good. The Gadget movie was an insult to fans of the original cartoon, and it was made way too early to be considered a nostalgic cashgrab. It was made because Disney and DIC had a partnership at the time, but all it amounted to was a home video deal, the right to broadcast the Sabrina cartoon series on ABC, this stupid movie, the second slightly better but still off movie, and NOT distributing the new Gadget and the Gadgetinis cartoon in the US. THis movie is my personal Dragonball Evolution. A contractual obligation that was made at the last minute before the deal expired by someone who didn't care about the source material who THOUGHT they were clever by tossing lame tropes into a movie while disregarding the tropes of the original project. Only Dragonball at LEAST had 2 bootlegged movies made by someone who actually watched an episode. Besides, live action versions of cartoon shows, even when done right, are all titanic box office bombs. Just because there was a money making, competent Flintstones movie that one time, doesn't mean that everyone and their mother had to buy up all the cartoon show rights. And at least with The Flintstones, there was care and effort put into it.
@@mightyfilm stop hating stuff other peoble acselly like
The little mumbles have always been my favorite Popeye quirk. I like to imagine they’re his inner thoughts since his mouth doesn’t always move when he does it.
Mine too! 😂
Then he often exclaims, "WHOAAOWWW!"
Oh, and he also does a sort of scat-singing as he walks along, skiddle-y-boppin' and skeetin'-scattin'.
Wait, what? A woman voicing Popeye?! She is amazing!
Breaking boundries and opening doors to many more voice actors.
Like Bob's burgers having 2 men voice female leads on the show. Voice acting is amazing!
She truly is talented for being able to voice Popeye
She looks like Betty Boop.
@@icecreamhero2375 ) she is.
That's really amazing that a woman voiced gravelly Popeye when her natural voice is high pitched!
Jack Mercer was the true Popeye.
Nostalgia
You are certainly correct, my good sir.
Chunky Soup commercial pretty good👏
Yeah
William Castello and Jack Mercer both sound like the popeye voice I know
Jack Mercer's Popeye just sounds natural to me.
Mae Questel really did an awesome job!
Agreed
I wished she continued voicing Popeye while Jack was away.
@@stephenholloway6893 Yeah and Candy Candido would have been awesome too! Look under his version of the Popeye theme, It's pretty cool.
I’ve been trying to find the examples of when the Olive Oil’s actress voiced Popeye ever since learning that bit of trivia.
It should (1933-2021)
3:55
4:00"
4:15
4:46
In case everyone is wondering how to do Popeye's voice, you have to learn a technique called Throat Singing. Everyone that uses that method sounds like Popeye, if you look it up. If you look up women doing it, they also sound like him, which is why woman was able to do his voice as well. Pretty interesting.
6:11 "Well, that's the funniest duck I've ever tried to eat."😅
HOW DOES THAT FEMALE DO IT?!?!? #GirlPower Also Tom Kenny reminds me of Spongebob imitating Mr Krabs
Me too
Or did a bit of Jack Mercer voice impression.
Jim Cummings, Scott Innes, and Tom Kenny are all legendary voice actors in their own right, and they all do a great job!!
Tom kenny sucks to Popeye, I need Eric Bauza to voice Popeye
@@ScroogeKamaziMD Good Idea
R.I.P.
Jack Mercer, William Costelo and Robin Williams
While the Segar Popeye is far and away better than any animated version, Fleisher studios deserves tons of credit for having given the character a voice that is so distinctive it is impossible to read the collections of the strip without mentally inserting Popeye's animated voice into the dialogue. On a side note, Fleisher studio deserves credit for giving Superman flight, another distinguishing characteristic that is impossible to picture the character not having. Fleisher studios actually added to the licensed properties they adapted.
Okay?
Odd,I heard both the alcoholism being a factor in William Costello's firing and I also heard he had a massive ego that made him unbearable to be around. I mostly heard the story about his ego being what lead to him being fired.
I always thought Jack Mercer mumbling and talking fast was funny
Another great video-!
Side note, Jack Mercer also provided the voice of Popeye in the Robert Altman movie. The opening is a take on the old Fleischer cartoons, with an animated Popeye on board a ship saying "Hey w'as this? One of Bluto's tricks? I'm in the wrong movie!"
Since Paramount Pictures was essentially a Theatrical rights for Popeye at that time in 1980 by the hands of Paramount Pictures archives, while Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer through United Artists and Associated Artists Productions remains the TV rights for Popeye cartoons since it was supposed to be released the Popeye cartoons on VHS, but despite of cease and decist order from King Features, the VHS of Popeye cartoons released by MGM Home Entertainment was cancelled. But thankfully, Warner Bros. Discovery through Turner Entertainment now currently owns the rights for classic Popeye cartoons originated from Paramount Pictures itself as well as Hanna-Barbera-produced Popeye TV series such as All New Popeye Hour and Popeye and Son. Coincidentally and ironically, both WB and Paramount Pictures are cross-licensed each other's logos due to involvement for John Wayne movies originally released by Warner Bros., Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971 film), Friday the 13th series, among others.
OK, be prepared, this is a long one.
While I think the voice is often a huge factor in the success of certain cartoon characters, if only one voice actor really deserves credit for establishing a character's personality, it's Jack Mercer. Mercer's experiences as a writer really helped him with his improvisational skills. His witty comments are sometimes the best parts of the old Fleischer cartoons.
Costello didn't have the same ad libbing skills that Mercer had (or Questel when she was voicing Olive Oyl). The voice itself is fine, maybe a bit deep, but not to a ridiculous extreme, and he does get some credit for being the original.
Of the radio voices, Poppen was a bit better and actually sounded fairly close to Costello. Buckley is way too deep.
The 1945-1947 voices are where it gets really complicated. IMDb lists Welch for all of them except for Shape Ahoy and Mess Production, but a really close examination shows that Welch is only the voice in some of them. Based off of Welch's existing album for Golden Records, it sounds like he's voicing him at 7:29, 7:33 (although most of that cartoon is actually Mercer), 7:58, and possibly 7:47. Of the replacement voices during that period, I think he actually sounds the closest to Mercer. The voice in Shape Ahoy (possibly Questel slowed down) is a bit deep, but not to an extreme point. The other voices have the same problem as Buckley in sounding too deep (the voice at 7:44 might even be Buckley. There's an interview with Michael Barrier in Mercer's official biography in which Mercer claimed Buckley was one of his replacements during this period). Sadly, lack of official information in books as to which voice was which makes it hard to confirm the voices during this period.
OK, now that that's over, let's move on to the post-Mercer replacements: Bergman and the voice in the Cocoa Puffs commercial sound the closest to Mercer. I can hear bits of West's and Kenny's other voices in their portrayals, but they still get the voice down for most of it. LaMarche also is a bit inconsistent but usually tends to sound right. Williams was good, but I'm not including him in my ranking since his was a live-action performance.
My final ranking:
1. Jack Mercer
2. Jeff Bergman
3. Cocoa Puffs Commercial (Possibly Jim Cummings)
4. Billy West
5. Tom Kenny
6. William Costello
7. Harry Welch
8. Maurice LaMarche
9. Mae Questel(?)
10. Detmar Poppen
11. Scott Innes
12. Unknown mid-1940s voices
13. Floyd Buckley
EDIT: Welch's album was made for Peter Pan Records, not Golden. My mistake.
the problem with LaMarche's Popeye was his version of the Popeye laugh
Plus, I think according to some sources, while I'm not sure if this is true or not, but from what I heard, Jackson Beck (the main voice actor of Bluto from the mid-40s to the the 60s (yes I'm counting Brutus from the 60s Popeye TV series in this) voiced Popeye in House Tricks? and Peep in the Deep
AzUrArInG I don’t remember where it was, but I remember reading a source that suggested Buckley was the voice in House Tricks, and there was at least one part that I thought kind of sounded like him (when Popeye yells, “Hey, stupid! That’s my steam pipe!”). I think in some of these cartoons, they might have even had multiple voice actors. In Rodeo Romeo, it sounds like three different voices. The ending sounds like Welch, some parts might be archival recordings of Mercer, and then in that scene at 7:44 of this video, there’s a weird voice that sounds nothing like Popeye (again, possibly Buckley).
I refuse to believe Mae Questel voiced Popeye, she also voice Olive Oil and Betty Boop two? Damn, she’s talented
I feel like Floyd Buckley wasn't even trying.
Yeah, Me too
So do I and my dad
I agree
True
Even the woman voice actor sounds more accurate
Me: Mom can we have some Popeye?
Mom: No, we have Popeye at home!
Popeye at home: 4:33
Ain't that the truth
Lol
5:57 I love his mumbles here, they're so amusing and charming :)
The ones that are truly tough to the finish in my opinion are Jack, William, Billy, Tom and Jim (if that is him in fact), and Mae was surprisingly good too!
When I was six I got a Popeye record for Christmas and the names given for the voices were Jack Mercer and Mae Questal. Now I know Jack Mercer voiced Popeye up till the early Hanna-Barbera days until his death in 1985.
It's actually 1984
Mae Questel was crazy talented to pull off that voice.
Fun facts: Jack Mercer will provide the voice of Popeye at the opening animated sequence of Popeye 1980 feature produced by Paramount Pictures (the same company who also produced the original Popeye cartoons from 1933-1957) and Walt Disney Pictures (the company who also produced Aladdin where Robin Williams also voiced as Genie) starring late Robin Williams since making Mercer's final film role before his death in 1984.
Jack Mercer will always be the definitive Popeye. He didn't originate the role but he perfected it.
The exact same with Mel Blanc as Porky Pig.
Detmar’s As Popeye and singing that music of the lyrics Creeps me out when it’s on a loud radio
Dang! Mae Questel did an amazing job with Popeye!
12:51
Tom Kenny, SpongeBob SquarePants' voice actor who voiced Popeye alongside Grey DeLisle-Griffin as Olive Oyl.
Imagine if Eric Bauza will voice Popeye in the comeback of the Popeye movie or a reboot series by a Kids next door director
Jack Mercer: the best voice of Popeye ever!
And even he also doing ad-libs in Popeye Cartoons.
Jack Mercer all the way. He's the Popeye I think of when I think of the character.
These Popeye ones were well worth the wait! I would've liked to seen a clip of Mercer doing the mumbling voice c. 1937 or so when he used a lighter, more sing-songy version of it. The witticisms were even funnier done in that voice, actually.
Thanks for the voice evolution!
I'm fascinated by Mae Questel's rendition. The nasality is definitely hers, and I can imagine her doing the raucous register, but I want to say that the performance was slightly slowed down to get down to Popeye's pitch (kinda like Tweety Bird was sped up from a male voice).
Questel did claim that there was some engineering work done on her voice performance for Popeye. If you look up Questel on TH-cam, there’s at least one video of her doing her rendition of the Popeye voice.
Thanks for pointing it out, found the interview. She also seemed like a genuinely lovable person, a rarity these days.
I agree, she always did come across as being very nice in her interviews.
@@BeastOfSoda She truly was.
I have a suggestion. Can you do evolution videos of bluto and olive oyl as well? I really love your videos and it would be cool to see ones of them.
Jack Mercer honestly did the best Popeye voice. His Popeye voice got deeper and gruffer starting with the late 1940s.
Fun facts: Rocket to Mars (1946) is the only Popeye cartoon when Jack Mercer returns to voice as Popeye but he did in 3/4th and Harry Foster Welch voiced as Popeye in the final scene.
Jack Mercer has to be my favorite. It cracks me up everytime Popeye will say something in his gravely voice, and then change his voice when hes thinking or talking to himself LOL!!! Mae Questel once said in an interview that alot of ad libbing went into these and was so much fun to do.
5:43 I love the way Popeye says, “Oh, yeah?”
Whoever gets casted in the Genndy Tartakovsky Popeye film hopefully will able to fill Jack Mercer's shoes. He really made the character what he is.
The post-Mercer VA's seem to mostly nail the gruffness or the vocals, but not quite both.
Mae Questel actually did a great job, I had no idea she ever voiced him, and I likely wouldn't ever have guessed if I wasn't told.
Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy introduced me to the character
What the hell was Floyd Buckley doing
I'm just as confused as you
I think he thought he was voicing Bluto and not Popeye. Or maybe he was just really drunk or something when they recorded?
I have no idea
He was trying to hard 🤣🤣🤣
Floyd would had been an better Bluto then Popeye.
Me: mom can we have popeye
Mom: no we have popeye at home . The popeye at home 6:16
Mae Questel did an excellent job voicing Popeye the sailor.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩❤❤❤❤❤❤❤👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
My Personal Ranking
1. William Costello
2. Jack Mercer
3. Jim Cummings
4. Detmar Poppen
5. Jeff Bergman
6. Billy West
7. Scott Innes
8. Robin Williams
9. Tom Kenny
10. Mae Questel
11. Harry Welch
12. Maurice LaMarche
13. Floyd Buckley
So Popeye eats healthy, loves animals, respects family and friends and is hardworking even in a father role, yet I feel like if the Popeye movie had released there would be articles about "toxic masculinity" or whatever because he doesn't take sh*t from Bluto.
The ironic thing would be that in the past he's voiced by a woman; which adds their weird area of women voicing toxic masculinity.
Would be funny to see how they tackle that!
ok boomer
Yeah, no there wouldn't.
The "loves animals" part has not been consistent throughout his history.
Yes, someone would definitely complain because they always complain about everything.
Jack Mercer truly made the character special with his added mumblings
Ironically, Floyd sounded more like Bluto to me than Popeye. That can't be a good sign.
Uh oh
I don't know what they were thinking when they hired that guy. The Olive Oyl actress did a better job than he did.
10:55
For some reason Popeye sounds like Grunkle Stan here and that amuses me. XD
Who thinks we need more Popeye in this generation?
Only if they do it right.
Jack Mercer appeared on I've got a secret in the mid 60s. Several on the panel guessed Mercer was Popeye's voice because Mercer made several remarks revealing a knowledge of animation. (The show is viewable on TH-cam.)
I think that was To Tell The Truth.
It's amazing to me that David Coulier has never once officially been the voice of Popeye.
Thank Darkseid, we were saved from that evil
I love these type of videos
Guess you could say Mae Questel was... 😎...flirting with herself.
ROGER DALTREY NO JUTSU!!!
Great Video! You should do Sylvester the Cat and Tweaty Bird next
He already did that video
Well. No one can beat Jack Mercer as Popeye. He is the Best, But Billy West and Tom Kenny are close second
Yeah, although I'd put tom as third as his voice is slightly higher than the others. But compared to the other actors before him there's literally nobody better than those 3. (except jim cummings)
I actually thought Jim Cummings (if that was actually him) in the Coco Puffs commercial sounded the most Mercerian. I thought Billy West was the most difficult of the modern voices to listen to.
The last part was so funny lol 😂
9:29 I remember that on Cartoon Network as a kid.
Costello was the originator. T'was his concept on how Popeye should sound. However, Mercer took it and ran with it. Mercer had more energy, and more "verskatility" !!!
Jack's voice has changed since the early 80s
2:48-2:53 Popeye laughed.
Could you please have a video of The voices evolution of Strawberry Shortcake
No, sorry - a little bit outside my demographic.
4:43-5:15 I’m Popeye the sailor man!
6:52 Well blow me down.
i didn't know he can laugh like mr. krabs
*mr. krabs can laugh like popeye
Sounds like Poppen was a combination of Mercer and Costello's take on Popeye's voice.
6:35 The best one yet but ever could been
Question: are you going to make Cartoon Evolution The Simpsons?
@ShadowKid 727 Well, I'm hoping he'll talk about more than just that like replacing ink-and-paint to digital.
7:20 - 7:24 His eyes went from black dot to average cartoon eye _instantly_.
I just noticed that
Hoping that WarnerMedia will restore the remaining 50s Popeye cartoons in 4K scans HD restoration with the original Paramount Pictures titles and original end music cue as well since they already restored the 40s colored Popeye Cartoons.
Well, I don't think it's happening...... because of the copyrighted animation
But we'll see
6:42 8:24
The Accent of Hov and Bugs Bunny.
Tom Kenny?!
That's the same voice actor who voiced Spongebob Squarepants!
Do the care Bears next
6:56 POPEYE WAS VOICED BY A GIRL?!?!
Yes Because is Shape ahoy
3:57
Yes, at the time, Jack Mercer was in the military.
That is freaking crazy but cool at the same time
Floyd Buckley sounds like your drunk uncle who thinks he can do a good Popeye voice.
Nobody can voice Popeye than the late Mercer!
31 January, 1910 - 7 December, 1984
27339 (3 × 13 × 701) days, stomach cancer related problems
6:47 Let me just say that hearing one of your childhood heroes chanting "Hail Hitler" can hurt you on a level that very little people truly understand.
6:57 wait a female voice actress as Popeye 🤯
The one & only Mae Questel.🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Did you hear Matt Hurwitz as Popeye yet? He did it for Project Runway Allstars and I think World of Warships as of late.
RW:Jack Mercer ,best Popeye voice always cracked me up.😁😂
3:02 “anyone who doesn’t like spinach is my emeny”
I have two Cartoon Evolution Suggestions.
Rocky and Bullwinkle & Yogi Bear
1.Billy West
2.Jack Mercer
3.Jeff Bergman
4.Jim Cummings
5.Tom Kenny
6.William Costello
7.Maurice LaMarche
8.Scott Innes
9.Mae Questel
10.Harry Welch
11.Detmar Poppen
12.Floyd Buckley
13.Robin Williams
Awesome!
Cool. Jack Mercer was my favorite voice actor for Popeye. I laughed though when Popeye said "She ain't no woman. She's just Olive." And the live action movie couldn't have been that bad. It actually looked quite intrested. But I still hope Sony makes that Popeye movie from 2014. Please.
The live action one has its moments, worth watching once for sure
My top three Popeye voices are Jack Mercer, Jeff Bergman, and Billy West. Maurice LaMarche gets an honorable mention.
Jack Marcers era was the best
My mom and dad wont shut up about Popeye and here I am.
A wise decision for them not to stop talking about him.
Jack Mercer I felt like was not only a worthy replacement for William Castello, but I felt like he gave Popeye's voice more personality. So yeah, Mercer took what Castello did to Popeye's voice, but took it to a new level by providing more personality than Castello.
Mae Questell, as cool of a voice actress she was, she still had big shoes to fill. But I give her credit for providing versitility.
Billy West, while he's no Jack Mercer, he comes close to filling Jack Mercer's shoes. Same with Tom Kenny. But I like Billy more than Tom though.
2:39-2:48 I’m Popeye the sailor man.
The only ones who didn't really work well as Popeye were: Detmar Poppen, Floyd Buckley, Harry Welch (actually kinda mixed on him; sometimes he voices Popeye good, sometimes he doesn't), and Scott Innes. The rest provided good voices for the character.
*Scott Innes
Popeye has taken a new form now: Slopeye
RIP robin william
4:33-4:36 Okay!
I don’t know if the clips were chronological
But Harry Welch felt really inconsistent
They were chronological by year, but not exactly by release order. Many of them would have been recorded out of order anyway.
He was VERY inconsistent with his portrayal.
Although Harry Welch is listed on IMDb for most of those cartoons, most of the voices during that period were actually several different actors. Of them, Welch actually sounds the closest to Mercer (which admittedly is not saying much).
Robin Williams Voice Popeye The Sailor Man
Popeye from the 30s is much much better then Popeye from 50s and 80s in all directions better animation, better sound, better story, better characters
11:43 Was that Jim Cummings or Lennie Weinrib?
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Did Dave Coulier ever officially voice Popeye? He used to do an impression of the character on Full House but did he ever voice a cartoon or commercial?
He voiced him in Robot Chicken, but that was technically 'unofficial'
Hey, Dan Lee Down Under, did you know that Tom Kenny is the original voice actor for Spongebob Squarepants?
Very well aware. And it’s Dave 😬
And the current