Talk:J. Wellington Wimpy
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[edit] Fictional character
I don't think it's accurate to say that Wimpy the cartoon character in Popeye owns a hamburger chain. He is just a cartoon character, right? The chain was named after him.
- Completely correct. -- Infrogmation 15:44, 25 Aug 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Image
Couldn't we find a better uncopyvio picture than a Tijuana bible? 惑乱 分からん 00:36, 4 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Good Eats
Wimpy was also referenced on Good Eats. SargeAbernathy 07:15, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Implausible material
In one strip, Wimpy conned Popeye and Olive Oyl into agreeing to an "indecent proposal", which he then reneged on. In a notoriously shocking Sunday strip, Wimpy tries to sell a cow to Popeye to raise money for hamburgers, but Popeye angrily refuses. Wimpy then asks if he can borrow some kitchen implements. The final, wide panel shows Popeye coming across Wimpy sitting beside a meat grinder, hundreds of burgers and a barbecue grill.
The first sentence makes it sound like Wimpy offered Popeye $1 million if he could sleep with Olive Oyl (à la the movie Indecent Proposal), and if that's not what the strip was about then the sentence is too vague to be meaningful. I doubt this happened in the Popeye comic strip since Bobby London was fired as the cartoonist for doing a sequence with references to abortion the year before the movie Indecent Proposal was released. The latter two sentences are described as "notoriously shocking" ... to whom? People who don't know what animal hamburgers come from? I'm removing these sentences until they are verified and properly cited. --Metropolitan90 04:30, 15 July 2006 (UTC)
