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Throughout the years, Popeye has been accompanied by his eternal sweetheart Olive Oyl, his father Poopdeck Pappy and his adopted "boy-kid" Swee'Pea.
The Origins And Evolution Of Popeye (VIDEO) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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GQ columnist, Terrence Rafferty said, "When I look at women in the movies now, I often feel as if I were gazing not at real people but cartoon characters -- Olive Oyl, Popeye in drag and Jessica Rabbit."
Critley Lynn King: Body Image: Questions, Issues and Answers Critley Lynn King 2010
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She looked like Olive Oyl, the beanpole love interest of Popeye.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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She looked like Olive Oyl, the beanpole love interest of Popeye.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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She looked like Olive Oyl, the beanpole love interest of Popeye.
Spellbound Karen Palmer 2010
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I watched most of Volume 1 1933-1937 of the Fleischer bros Popeye cartoons on Sunday, and Jules Feiffer, commentattatering, said he believed Olive Oyl was based on Zasu Pitts.
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As for Olive Oyl, I do not have the words to describe how much I loathe that awful woman.
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He's like Olive Oyl in those old Popeye cartoons: MoveOn. org tugging on one arm and Sharpton and Wright pulling on the other, while Hillary and the Republicans bop him on the head and knee him in the groin.
Obama On Wright: "I Might Not Know Him As Well As I Thought" 2009
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Even if you waddle in with a butt the size of our national debt, you will emerge looking like Olive Oyl after a fast.
Tallulah Morehead: The Survivor Tocantins Diet: Cut Out Candy 2009
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Yeah, Skankalie, you were just pretending to suck, to slip and fall, splayed out, your cup flying (one time requiring a multi-contestant search to find out to where the cup had flown), like Olive Oyl taking frantic, flying spills in Max Fliescher's early Popeye cartoons.
Tallulah Morehead: Big Brother 11: Hairy Potter & the Order of the Doofus. 2009
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