1970s-Era Popeye the Sailor Is Here to Give You Career Advice

Unlike actors and Ashton Kutcher, cartoon characters can’t decide what products or ideologies they endorse in their off-time. Snoopy has no say in whether he sells MetLife. The Ninja Turtles most definitely get high—they are pizza-eating sword collectors named after artists—but they have to warn kids off drugs anyway. And Popeye, the cursing, brawling sailor man, had to learn a whole new vocabulary in the 1970s, to teach kids about their career options in a series of educational comic books. Source: 1970s-Era Popeye the Sailor Is Here to Give You Career Advice

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