Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter
Popeye Meets the Man Who Hated Laughter, also known as The Man Who Hated Laughter, is a 1972 American animated onehour television movie that was part of The ABC Saturday Superstar Movie. This film is notable for uniting the characters from almost every newspaper comic strip then owned by King Features Syndicate in one story.
Popeye is given a job as captain of the Professors yacht, the SS Hilarious, and all the characters from the humorous comic strips are informed that they have won a free ocean voyage upon this boat. Once out at sea, the boat is pulled to a remote island by the Professors tractor beam, and in the chaos Popeyes stash of spinach is lost at sea thus, he and all the passengers are prisoners of the Professor.Being a huge fan of the Sunday funnies, the President of the United States takes action by calling together the heroes of the adventure comics to rescue the prisoners. Unfortunately, the rescue attempts go wrong, and the adventure characters also end up as prisoners. ........
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