I only remember her being Popeye's bitch lol.

Popeye rules, but *ban for spamming!

Thanks for handling that for me in my absence. Brutus orbiting the Earth was a stretch I thought.

Brutus vs Bluto history.

https://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1548/is-popeyes-nemesis-named-bluto-or-brutus/

Is the name of the town of Seahaven a reference to the Sweethaven from Popeye the movie:

Sweet Sweethaven
God must love us
We the people
Love Sweethaven
Hurray hurray Sweethaven
Flags are wavin'
Swept people from the sea
Safe from democracy
Sweeter than a melon tree
Put here for you and me
Sweethaven
Sweet Sweethaven
God must love us
We the people
Of Sweethaven
God must have landed here
Why else would he strand us here
Where the air is nice and clear
Sweethaven even sounds so near
To Heaven
God will always bless Sweethaven
God will always bless Sweethaven
God will always bless Sweethaven

I don't remember any holograms since I was a callow ant back then. I do remember that outdoor mascot robot, rollercoasters, Popeye arcade game, etc. Is there a video of this hologram somewhere?

Well according to the clip of Stallone's arm wrestling show, apparently drinking automobile oil before a match does NOT make you stronger or better at it (much like Popeye and a can of spinach). BUT, it does seem to show that it has the ability to induce a superpower allowing a seemingly normal person to become schizophrenic...

BTW, I said superpower rather than mental illness, because from the schizophrenic individual's perspective he is surely battling Hell's most dangerous beasts, demons, and devils. Merely with the power of his arm wrestling techniques backed up by the miniature fission based nuclear reactor in his gut. It also leaves him in a perpetual manic state, where much like the Lego Movie, "Everything Is Awesome"...

I imagine that he may upgrade to a mixture of anti-freeze and power steering fluids; absolutely logical.

/insanity
//off-topic

That's definitely a big factor and maybe the only one in his mind, having the time to rest your muscles and work some of that lactic acid out.

I still think the other thing can also be a big factor. It's not for learning strategy, but it's a big motivator to know how quickly you must go in order to win a million dollars. No matter how fast you think your fastest is, when you have that huge carrot dangling out in front of you, it gives you a good kick in the ass and you're able to push yourself to go even faster than your fastest.

Similar to the mother lifting a car to get her baby out from under it.

Rather than "I hope my fastest is fast enough," you are forced to push yourself to "I am going to beat Popeye's time!"

How about those forearms, man. Sick impressive.

I finally just finished watching the 3 hour finale on my DVR (kept trying to avoid this spoiler post) and was thoroughly happy with the results.

I'm way on board with your sentiments, but must add my 2 cents.

First, I think it's important to realize it's not the way ANW runs the show that causes the competitors to behave the way they do; it's the American competitors themselves who share that undesirable selfish, braggadocious attitude/philosophy. Even when you watch the Japanese Sasuke competitions, when there's an American competing surrounded by Japanese competitors inside Japan, you still feel that same air of arrogance.

I've been watching the Sasuke for many years and started watching ANW before it was ANW (even in the first "seasons" on Attack of the Show where the competitors had bounce on a trampoline and swing on some monkey bars to earn their way to Japan). The American attitude always been something that bothers me and takes a huge chunk out of my interest.

I always find it disconcerting the way they don't explain any details, such as why Geoff got to climb first (which is why he gets to claim he's the first person to ever reach the top).

The other thing I've been crying "foul" on is that they seemed to lighten it up on the obstacles. This year there were 38 people to go to round 2. That's ridiculous. But what's worse is that round 2 had way too long a time limit. Normally competitors who succeed on stage 2 have about a second left when they hit the button, but many of those who went through to stage 3 had around 30 seconds on the clock.

I had to rewind a couple of times, but I confirmed Isaac said "share the moment" not the money.

My wife and I were both displeased that Geoff announced he gets to say he's the first to beat stage 4. That's such a poor attitude, and I liked Popeye a lot more until then. And regardless how they decided who got to go first, I think they both have to be considered as equally the first to finish stage 4. (Side note: I was really bummed they didn't use the loud "bang! bang!" sounds to start stage 4 like they do in Japan.)

I myself don't have a problem with the very redesigned courses each season.

The USA versus the World bullshit is some serious bullshit that's hard to swallow. Not only is the whole "our country is better than you" concept horrible, but the actual competition is shit. It's not the same beating the course one rested person at a time. But also last year the Europeans brought in a rock climber who knew nothing about Ninja Warrior and just sent him in fully rested to do the arm-centric work.

Boy, we could get together and write a dissertation on this subject.

the Popeyes commercial was unexpected and cool

Chris - assaults somebody for no reason in a situation he's not even involved in
Wimpy - rather than helping someone and taking a stand against an arrogant dick, took the easy way out and refused to get involved
Brutus - showed questionable morals by offering a ride for sex, but Olive was free to refuse the deal so it's not comparable to sexual assault
Popeye - Reacted predictably

Don't know where to put Olive on this list. It depends on her own views about sex outside a committed relationship and any understanding she had with Popeye.

Brutus
Wimpy
Olive
Chris
Popeye

Brutus- Because he's extorting sex from Olive, effectively raping her.
Wimpy- Because he knows what Brutus has planned, and can stop it but does nothing.
Olive- She should have trust that Popeye (a sailor man) can get a boat to come to her. She betrays him by not trusting him.
Chris- Jumps to violence rather than trying to solve the problem peacefully.
Popeye- He should have gone to see Olive before she sold herself, or broken off the relationship before it got to that point.

Popeye
Olive
Brutus
Wimpy
Chris

Popeye's the sole reason these shenanigans even got started. Everyone else is a victim of their own weakness, exposed by Popeye's cavalier existence. Olive Oil is co-dependent and is #2 because she posed the question to the rest of them. They were just minding their own business until she came along (thanks to Popeye). Brutus, an opportunist, took advantage of Olive Oil for selfish, but natural reasons. However he nearly trades spaces with Popeye for #1 for inexplicably wanting to bone Olive. Wimpy's sort of a puss, let's be real. Inaction is the same as action, but at least he didn't get all Brutus with Olive, and only offer conditional help in the form of really garbage sex. Chris, although being named Chris (bad outside this context), beat up Popeye, who's the worst on this list, so Chris is #5 in this scenario.

Chris
Wimpy
Brutus
Olive Oyl
Popeye

is the correct order, given various reasonable assumptions about some murky variables. Chris attacks someone for no reason. Wimpy refuses to help under any circumstances. Brutus offers to help only under what we assume are unreasonable terms. Olive Oyl barely does anything wrong, but she does effectively reward Brutus' presumably unethical behaviour. Popeye does nothing wrong at all; he just chooses not to be in a relationship, which is his right, however stupid his reason.

How is the fact that this is Lord-motherfucking-British asking the question not remarked upon?