Syag- I didn’t say you had to be old to remember Popeye, just that the particular episode was from that far back.
I just checked it, l’toieles horabim 🙂 – it is Adar after all. It was in 1939. You can find the episode on one of the internets. It is called Alladin and his Wonderful Lamp.
Ursula – I agree with you completely – it’s funny on many levels. But it happens to be that you and I are both right in this case. The Popeye episode was making a (not PC) joke on “Salaam, Salaam”, so that explains why it belongs in the Purim story. I did not realize this until just now.
Maybe you didn’t realize, but I was making a joke about Ursa Minor, but never mind :).