Editing J. Wellington Wimpy (section)

==Character==
Wimpy is Popeye's friend, and he plays the role of a self-centered foil to Popeye. Wimpy is a soft-spoken romantic, intelligent and educated, a lazy coward, a miser, and a glutton.  He is a scam artist, and frequently bereft of either cash or lodging (due to both his lethargy and voracious appetite), but frequently feigns high social status (sporadically, and possibly inaccurately, referring to himself as a former college alumnus).  Besides mooching hamburgers, he also picks up discarded cigars.  Popeye often tries to reform Wimpy's character, but Wimpy never reforms.

[[File:Wimpy1931.jpg|thumb|Wimpy's first appearance from the May 3rd 1931 strip of Thimble Theatre, copyright not renewed.]]

[[Hamburger]]s are Wimpy's all-time favorite food, and he is usually seen carrying or eating one or more at a time – e.g., in ''[[Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor]]'' he is seen grinding meat or eating burgers almost the entire time – however, he is usually too cheap or bankrupt to pay for them himself. A recurring joke involves Wimpy's attempts to [[confidence trick|con]] other patrons of the [[diner]] owned by [[Popeye#Thimble Theatre/Popeye characters|Rough House]] into buying his meal for him. His best-known [[catchphrase]] started in 1931 as, "Cook me up a hamburger. I'll pay you Tuesday." In March 1932, this then became the famous "I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today".<ref>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w5-GR-qtgXsC&pg=PA677 |title=The Yale book of quotations |author=Fred R. Shapiro|year=2006 |publisher=Yale University Press |isbn=0300107986 }}</ref> Rough House explains why Wimpy is able to get away with this tactic in one strip, stating that "He never comes around on Tuesday". Rough House once suffered a mental breakdown from Wimpy's shenanigans, and demanded that Wimpy be kept out of his hospital room. Wimpy disobeyed this command, resulting in a rare altercation with Popeye. The phrase was also slightly altered in the 1957 animated short "Spree Lunch" to "I'll have a hamburger, for which I will gladly pay you Tuesday." This phrase is now commonly used to illustrate financial irresponsibility<ref>{{citation |author=Tim Weiner |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/08/15/weekinreview/the-nation-hunting-for-that-elusive-surplus.html  |title=The Nation; Hunting for That Elusive Surplus |work=The New York Times |date=August 15, 1999}}</ref><ref>{{citation|author=Bill Singer |url=https://www.forbes.com/2009/11/02/regulation-finra-sec-intelligent-investing-mary-schapiro.html |title=Intelligent Investing: Regulating Wall Street By J. Wellington Wimpy |work=Forbes |date=November 2, 2009 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20120731161115/http://www.forbes.com/2009/11/02/regulation-finra-sec-intelligent-investing-mary-schapiro.html |archive-date=July 31, 2012 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{citation |author=Robert Trigaux |url=http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/economicdevelopment/floridas-economic-failings-land-it-on-worst-10-list/1051105 |title=Florida's economic failings land it on worst 10 list |publisher=St. Petersburg Times |date=November 12, 2009 |access-date=November 20, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091115153827/http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/economicdevelopment/floridas-economic-failings-land-it-on-worst-10-list/1051105 |archive-date=November 15, 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and still appears in modern comedies such as ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' and ''[[The Office (US TV series)|The Office]]''. The initial part of the phrase was the title of Episode 6 of the fourth season of ''[[Cheers]]'' "I'll Gladly Pay You Tuesday."

In [[Robert Altman]]'s 1980 live-action [[musical film]] ''[[Popeye (film)|Popeye]]'', where Wimpy was played by veteran character actor [[Paul Dooley]], one of [[Harry Nilsson]]'s original songs, "Everything Is Food", featured Dooley singing the catch-phrase, as he took a hamburger, as "I would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." The response from the chorus, as they reclaimed the same hamburger from him, uneaten, was "He would gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today." Later in the film, a sign in a restaurant reads "Positively NO CREDIT. Especially you, Wimpy!"

Wimpy had other frequently used lines in the original comic strip. On the occasion of another character (typically Popeye or Rough-House) successfully paying for his meal, Wimpy tends to lavish romanticized appraisals upon them, frequently exclaiming "thank you too much" and, to Popeye, lauding him as a "friend" and the "gem of the ocean". In more disadvantageous circumstances, Wimpy tries to placate someone by saying, "I'd like to invite you over to my house for a [[duck (food)|duck]] dinner." He then moves away quickly to a safe distance and yells, "You bring the ducks!" Another such line was, "Jones is my name...I'm one of the Jones boys" – an attempt to defuse a hostile situation with a [[mistaken identity]]. To deflect an enemy's wrath, he would sometimes indicate a third party and say, "Let's you and him fight", starting a brawl from which he quickly withdrew. He also said "Shake hands, my friend...I want to start my wristwatch" on occasion, once more a reference to his lazy behavior. Wimpy is especially fond of duck hunting, and goes hunting with Popeye on numerous occasions, but usually gains his ducks in dishonest ways as well.