The Football Toucher Downer - Popeye E52 (1937) an account of Popeye's youth that, as with other like-themed cartoons, ignores the comics' mythology as it shows him already knowing Olive Oyl, Bluto and Wimpy as a child. Popeye is unsuccessful in trying to feed Swee'Pea his spinach lunch. After a demonstration of the vegetable's benefits fails, he tells his adopted son a story about how he was a weak boy until, during a football game on a field, he first ate the vegetable. As the flashback begins