Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy
Popeye's Voyage: The Quest for Pappy is a 2004 American-Canadian computer-animated Christmas television special produced by Mainframe Entertainment for Lions Gate Entertainment and King Features Syndicate, in association with Nuance Productions. The special, created to coincide with the 75th anniversary of the "Popeye the Sailor" comic strip character from E. C. Segar's "Thimble Theatre", first aired on Fox on December 17, 2004, and was rebroadcast on the same network on December 30, 2005. Plot. Popeye is on a quest to find his missing father Poopdeck Pappy. Popeye is dogged  by nightmares warning him that his Pappy, who abandoned him as a child, is in danger and needs him, so he bravely sets out on the open sea to find his long-lost father and reunite with him for the Christmas holidays. Accompanied by the admiring Olive Oyl, the brawny Bluto, the hungry Wimpy, and little Swee'Pea, he heads for the Sea of Mystery, which happens to be in the evil Sea Hag's domain. Strange things begin to happen along the way, as the group encounters sirens, serpents, and menacing mists. This was clearly all of the Sea Hag 's attempts to destroy Popeye for good. Production. Originally this special was going to be a Claymation feature by Will Vinton, but due to Vinton losing his studio due to financial reasons in 2002 the special was picked up by Mainframe Entertainment. Billy West described the production as "the hardest job I ever did, ever" and the voice of Popeye as "like a buzzsaw in your throat."