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and Thanksgiving today
something delightful for the day
ladies and gentlemen
please put your hands up for
J. Wellington Wimpy,
generally referred to as Wimpy
Wimpy was one of the dominant characters
in the newspaper strip
but when Popeye was adapted as an animated cartoon series
by Fleischer Studios,
Wimpy became a more minor character;
Dave Fleischer said that the character
in the Segar strip was "too intellectual"
to be used in film cartoons.
%5B3%5D.jpg "aww.. Popeye & Olive and Wimpy too")
Wimpy is Popeye's friend.
playing the role of the "straight man"
to Popeye's outbursts and wild antics.
Wimpy is soft-spoken, very intelligent,
and well educated,
but also cowardly, very lazy,
overly parsimonious (frugal)
and utterly gluttonous.
He is also something of a scam artist and,
especially in the newspaper strip,
can be notoriously underhanded at times.
Wimpy loves to eat hamburgers,
and is usually seen carrying or eating one or more at a time –
e.g. in Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
he is seen grinding meat
or eating burgers almost the entire time –
however, he is usually too cheap
to pay for them himself.
A recurring joke involves Wimpy's
attempts to con other patrons of the diner
into buying his meal for him.
His best-known catchphrase started in 1931 as
"Cook me up a hamburger. I'll pay you Thursday."
In 1932, this then became the famous
"I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today".
This phrase is now commonly used to
illustrate fiscal irresponsibility
and still appears in modern comedies such as
The Drew Carey Show and The Office.
Wimpy had other frequently used lines
in the original comic strip.
On some occasions,
Wimpy tries to placate someone by saying
"I'd like to invite you over to my house for a duck dinner."
He then moves away quickly
to a safe distance and yells,
"You bring the ducks!"
Another such line was,
"Jones is my name...I'm one of the Jones boys" —
an attempt to defuse a hostile situation
with a mistaken identity.
To deflect an enemy's wrath,
he would sometimes indicate a third party
and say "Let's you and him fight",
starting a brawl from which he quickly withdrew
During World War II,
"Wimpy", in reference to the character,
was the nickname given to the Vickers Wellington bomber
Wimpy is also the inspiration and name
of a large chain of UK hamburger restaurants
which was founded in 1954
and has maintained operations overseas since 1967.
Wimpy made a cameo appearance
(as an in-gag to both his facial features;
in the context of beef related heart disease
and affinity for hamburgers)
in the Family Guy episode "McStroke"
Wimpy has appeared in two episodes of
the Adult Swim animated series Robot Chicken
and not forgetting
Carl’s Jr. burger ad featuring Wimpy
Wimpy with his
poetic hamburgers
from <What – No Spinach> 1933
(biodata adapted from Wiki)