following the takeover of the popeye animated franchise by paramount studios in 1942, the popeye cartoons were now handled by famous studios, which made drastic changes which abandoned almost all traces of "thimble theatre" and focused largely on plots involving popeye, olive, bluto in something resembling a love triangle, without many other characters appearing and with very few shorts deviating from that setup, which involved olive falling for bluto and popeye beating him after eating spinach in an oft-repeated formula. also of note are famous studios' remakes of fleischer cartoons (such as "goonland", itself a loose "thimble theatre" adaptation), heavily changed by famous to remove all traces of segar creations outside of popeye, bluto and olive, i.e. "popeye's pappy" replacing "goonland"'s goons with what might be considered racial caricatures of africans led by a bluto-like cannibal, with the only thing in common between the two versions being the rescue of pappy - who would go on to make only two more appearances after this (one of which contradicted the established fact that he left his son shortly after his birth). supporting characters who were notable friends of popeye and even had several appearances in fleischer cartoons, such as wimpy, pappy and swee'pea, were featured less than a handful of times: wimpy only appeared in three shorts (aside from flashback-oriented stories) and others such as eugene the jeep never appeared at all. popeye's role as an adventuring sailor was also reduced to a point where he was barely ever seen at sea or in the navy other than in a few shorts mostly from the war period, as the majority of stories preferred to avoid doing more adventurous and fantastical stories and focus on popeye's everyday life, his vacation hijinks or the "love triangle" setup.