Swee'Pea

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Swee'Pea
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Nana Oyl (adoptive maternal grandmother)
  • Castor Oyl (adoptive maternal uncle)
  • Pipeye, Peepeye, Poopeye and Pupeye (adoptive cousins)
  • Popeye Junior
    • (adoptive brother)

    Swee'Pea (alternatively spelled Swee'pea and Sweapea on some titles and once called Sweep Pea) is a character in

    cartoon series derived from it. His name refers to the flower known as the sweet pea. Before his addition to the animated shorts, the name "Sweet Pea" was a term of affection used by main character Popeye. In the cartoon We Aim to Please, he addressed girlfriend Olive Oyl
    that way.

    Swee'Pea in his debut strip from July 24, 1933.

    As the years went on, Swee'Pea apparently aged enough to speak normally, and could throw punches if necessary; however, his appearance remained that of a crawling baby. In the strip for August 17, 1933, Popeye christens Swee'Pea as "Scooner Seawell Georgia Washenting Christiffer Columbia Daniel Boom". Although Swee'Pea remains his most common sobriquet, he is occasionally referred to as Scooner by Popeye and others in later strips. In the Sunday strips, which did not coordinate with the dailies, Swee'Pea is not introduced until 1934.

    Film

    In the animated Popeye cartoons produced by

    King Features cartoons of the early 1960s, it is implied that Swee'Pea is Popeye's nephew). From 1936–1938 Mae Questel provided the voice for Swee'Pea which was then taken over by voice actress Margie Hines from 1938 to 1943. Mae Questel was recast as Swee'Pea in the (1960s) Popeye shorts. Marilyn Schreffler replaced Mae Questel as the voice of Swee'Pea in the 1970s and 80s, Corinne Orr
    also did the role as Swee'Pea in Popeye Meets The Man Who Hated Laughter (1972). Swee'Pea was also voiced by Tabitha St. Germain in Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy (2004).

    In the feature film Popeye, Swee'Pea is found inside a basket that his mother has secretly switched with an identical one belonging to Olive Oyl; a note attached to him asks Popeye to look after Swee'Pea until his mother can return to claim him. Popeye proposes the name Swee'Pea for the child; Olive objects, saying it sounds ridiculous, and he retorts, "Well, what were you going to call him? Baby Oyl?" In the film, Swee'Pea can also foretell the future; answering questions in the affirmative by a quick rising whistle.[3] In the film he was played by Wesley Ivan Hurt.[4][5]

    In other accounts, Swee'Pea is depicted as

    babysitter after protests by parents who said the hairy monster frightened children.[citation needed
    ]

    Appearances

    Parodies

    In

    ISBN 0-7434-4478-7
    ).

    References

    1. ^ "Popeye and the Quest For the Woolly Mammoth". Behind The Voice Actors. Archived from the original on January 16, 2020. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
    2. ^ "Popeye and the Sunken Treasure". Behind The Voice Actors. Retrieved 2020-08-27.
    3. ISBN 9780786426874
      . Retrieved August 18, 2017 – via Google Books.
    4. ISBN 9781780235523
      . Retrieved August 18, 2017 – via Google Books.
    5. ISBN 9780786412143
      . Retrieved August 18, 2017 – via Google Books.
    6. ISBN 978-1-56097-368-3
      . Retrieved August 18, 2017 – via Internet Archive. Swee'Pea popeye.
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