Video ID not provided: Please check your shortcode.{"id":380,"date":"2011-05-11T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T04:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/?p=380"},"modified":"2011-05-10T01:05:36","modified_gmt":"2011-05-10T05:05:36","slug":"nix-on-hypnotricks-popeye-the-sailor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypnosisinmedia.com\/blog\/380\/nix-on-hypnotricks-popeye-the-sailor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Nix on Hypnotricks\u2019 \u2014 Popeye the Sailor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Descrip\u00adtion:<\/em> Sin\u00adis\u00adter hyp\u00adno\u00adtist Pro\u00adfes\u00adsor I. Stare (Hyp\u00adno\u00adtist<\/strong> \u201c10\u00a2 a Trance\u201d) is prac\u00adtic\u00ading his hyp\u00adno\u00adtism on a gold\u00adfish but the gold\u00adfish isn\u2019t coop\u00ader\u00adat\u00ading. Instead, he fumes, he wants a human sub\u00adject. Going to the phone book, he picks a name at ran\u00addom and dials Olive Oyl<\/a>, whom he entrances with a ges\u00adture (and light\u00ading bolts com\u00ading out of his fin\u00adgers through the tele\u00adphone toward Olive) and gives her a sim\u00adple com\u00admand: \u201cCome to me!\u201d<\/em> Entranced, Olive march\u00ades out, arms out\u00adstretched like a sleep\u00adwalk\u00ader, and nar\u00adrow\u00adly avoids any num\u00adber of dan\u00adgers on the way and has to be con\u00adtin\u00adu\u00adous\u00adly res\u00adcued by Pop\u00adeye<\/a><\/b>. Final\u00adly frus\u00adtrat\u00aded with all of the obsta\u00adcles he faced, Pop\u00adeye pulls out his can of spinach and trans\u00adforms into Super-Pop\u00adeye (com\u00adplete with \u201cS\u201d from the spinach can on his chest) and puts an end to the sin\u00adis\u00adter hyp\u00adno\u00adtist\u2019s plot, but at the expense of Olive\u2019s anger: once she is awak\u00adened from her trance, she has no mem\u00ado\u00adry of what hap\u00adpened, know\u00ading only that Pop\u00adeye slapped her. The beat\u00ading he takes from an indig\u00adnant Olive is worse than any\u00adthing he ever takes from his old ene\u00admy Blu\u00adto, espe\u00adcial\u00adly because he refus\u00ades to defend himself.<\/p>\n

His\u00adto\u00adry:<\/em> \u2018Nix on Hyp\u00adnotricks\u2019<\/em> was the 101st<\/sup> Pop\u00adeye car\u00adtoon released by Fleis\u00adch\u00ader Stu\u00addios. It came at a time of grow\u00ading dis\u00adsent between the Fleis\u00adch\u00ader broth\u00aders and the Fleis\u00adch\u00ader Stu\u00addios was bought by Para\u00admount Stu\u00addios. All of the Fleis\u00adch\u00ader Pop\u00adeye<\/i> car\u00adtoons have been released through Warn\u00ader Home Video<\/a>\u2019s Pop\u00adeye the Sailor<\/a><\/i> DVD box set series: this episode can be found on Pop\u00adeye the Sailor: 1941\u20131943, Vol\u00adume 3<\/a><\/i>.<\/p>\n

Com\u00admen\u00adtary:<\/em> This car\u00adtoon was one of my very first exam\u00adples of hyp\u00adno\u00adsis in the media that I can remem\u00adber. The image of Olive, entranced and sleep\u00adwalk\u00ading, stayed with me for decades and I only recent\u00adly dis\u00adcov\u00adered a copy on YouTube. It is a very stereo\u00adtyp\u00adi\u00adcal view of hyp\u00adno\u00adsis, not sur\u00adpris\u00ading giv\u00aden that it was released in 1941. You have the stereo\u00adtyp\u00adi\u00adcal swa\u00admi (tur\u00adban, mus\u00adtache and pointy beard) using hyp\u00adnot\u00adic ges\u00adtures and light\u00adning bolts from his hands that hyp\u00adno\u00adtize, the blank stare of his hyp\u00adno\u00adtized vic\u00adtim who pro\u00adceeds to walk in the hyp\u00adno\u00adtized \/ sleep\u00adwalk\u00ader pose with her arms firm\u00adly out\u00adstretched before her: all it needs is a few \u201cYes, master\u201cs thrown in to have the com\u00adplete set.<\/p>\n

Triv\u00adia:<\/em><\/p>\n