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Anyone know what year or decade this was supposed to be set in?


Anybody have any idea?

Thanks!

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If it's tied to a specific time, I'd say around the Great Depression (1930s) that the original Thimble Theater strip started. However, I think it was probably meant to have a air of timelessness.

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Well, Popeye says something like "30 years an't that long" and later Pappy makes reference to the Great Depression (he was out of work and caught stealing spinach and jailed thus abandoning the infant Popey). So, that could place it in 1959 and into the 60s. However, it is timeless like the comics, cartoons, and movie because there are set pieces and costumes that come from multi-time eras.

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its not real world


~I see a little silhouette of a man, Scaramouche, Scaramouche, will you do the Fandango.

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It is CLEARLY 1920s/1930s, essentially the time period the original comic strip is set. You can tell by the clothing, sets, technology (little motorcycle the taxman rides, the ships, etc.). It's pretty clear.

1950s or 1960s? Seriously? Definitely not. When Pappy is talking about struggling before, he's not talking about the Great Depression. There were other economic hard times before that, and it just goes of the common theme of an old man talking about tough times in the old days.

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More like what planet

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It kind of looks like the 1900s to me, but it could be the 1920s (when the comic debuted)

So anywhere from the 1900s to the 1920s, let's just call it generic "early 20th century."

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