Polchinski's Paradox
| S - | Ep - | 1990// |
| - min | ||
A billiard ball can be thrown into a wormhole in such a way that it would emerge in the past and knock its incoming past self away from the wormhole entrance, creating a variant of the grandfather paradox.
Ponds Theater
A Christmas Carol
| S 1 | Ep 11 | 1953/12/24 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | USA | |
An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve.
Ponds Theater
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
| S 1 | Ep 39 | 1954/07/08 |
| TV Series Episode | 60 min | |
| DRA | USA | |
A singing mechanic from 1912 finds himself in Arthurian Britain.
The Ponzo Illusion
| S - | Ep - | |
| - min | ||
a geometrical-optical illusion that was first demonstrated by the Italian psychologist Mario Ponzo (1882_1960) in 1911. He suggested that the human mind judges an object's size based on its background. In the Ponzo illusion (1911) two identical lines across a pair of converging lines, similar to railway tracks, are drawn. The upper line looks longer because we interpret the converging sides according to linear perspective as parallel lines receding into the distance. In this context, we interpret the upper line as though it were farther away, so we see it as longer _ a farther object would have to be longer than a nearer one for both to produce retinal images of the same size.
"Poor Little Warrior!"
| S - | Ep - | 1958/04/ |
| Short Story | - min | |
Pop Quiz Paradox
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| - min | ||
Popeye the Sailor
Popeye Meets Hercules
| S - | Ep - | 1948/06/18 |
| Film Short | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
The first Olympics, starring Hercules (looking, but not quite sounding, like a really pumped-up Bluto), who challenges anyone to do the same feats as him. Popeye takes that challenge, of course. First, they battle animals, with Bluto pulling the skins off two wild elephants and Popeye turning three lions into a nesting set. The discus throw doesn't go well, with Herc's disc swooping Popeye into Herc's hand. The javelin is even worse for Popeye, with Herc throwing him all the way to the moon. This gives him a chance to go after Olive in typical Bluto fashion; her cries of help reach Popeye, who prays to the Greek goddess Spinachia, who delivers a can of spinach to him. (time marches back to show history)
Popeye the Sailor
Popeye's Tea Party
| S 1 | Ep 106 | 1960/10/17 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
Professor O.G. WottaSnozzle sends Popeye back to the days of the Boston Tea Party (he must have sent Olive, Wimpy and Swee'pea back through time as well, because they're all in this cartoon). The local residents are fed up with being overtaxed, so they plot to throw the tea overboard into the sea.
Popeye the Sailor
Camel Aires
| S 1 | Ep 113 | 1960/10/21 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
Popeye is reading a newspaper that reads, "Rare Stone Discovered in Egypt, Reward Offered by Museum If It Can Be Brought Back to States." Popeye goes to the Professor, and his time machine sends him to Egypt. Popeye gets a tired camel, and Brutus comes along on a fast- moving, conceited-type camel. Brutus' camel suddenly comes to a stop, and the two camels start flirting with each other. Popeye and Brutus arrive at a pyramid and see a huge statue with a ruby red stone in one eye. Olive is the Egyptian princess with the stone, and Alice The Goon is her slave girl. Alice becomes infatuated with Popeye, and she'll help him secure the stone if he'll help the princess and her escape. Brutus bribes the guards, and they lead him to the Princess, who has the stone. Brutus captures Olive, and the guards take Popeye. Brutus tries to escape without paying the guards. But the guards leave Popeye, and they go after Brutus. Alice brings spinach to Popeye. The three then escape and catch Brutus. The episode closes with Popeye riding Brutus like a camel. Wimpy is featured as Olive's temple guard.
Popeye the Sailor
Invisible Popeye
| S 1 | Ep 116 | 1960/10/22 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
Olive accidentally switches on the Professor's time machine, which takes her to a bizarre planet. Popeye takes invisibility pills and goes to rescue her. Olive Oyl is kidnapped by space aliens! Popeye and The Professor use their wits (and invisibility pills) to attempt a daring rescue! Olive is dusting a time machine which starts growling and sucks her inside. The machine spins out a message to The Professor- WE HAVE AN EARTH SPECIMEN FROM YOUR PLANET AND SHE WILL BE PUT ON EXHIBITION. The Professor calls Popeye. Popeye blows his top, eats spinach, and asks the Professor to put him on a Mars beam. Pan to the top of a dome that seals a Martian city within. Popeye tries to get in everywhere, but in vain. The Professor calls him back and tells him that his last chance is his invisible pills. Popeye sees a hunter go in the dome by giving the magic knock. Invisible Popeye does the same and is admitted. The Martians are mystified. Olive is on view inside a transparent dome. A moat surrounds the enclosure. Popeye dives in the moat, and we see splashes as he moves to the dome. Popeye throws an iron ball at the guard, who thinks that his companion guard threw it. The guard walks over to the other guard and hits him. While the fight is on, Popeye frees Olive. The cartoon closes with Olive dusting a chemistry tube. She sneezes and inhales an invisible pill. Popeye asks, "Where's Olive?" A voice says, "Here I am, Popeye." Popeye shrugs.
Popeye the Sailor
The Black Knight
| S 1 | Ep 124 | 1960/10/27 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
The Professor sends Popeye back to the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. While there, Popeye meets up with King Wimpy The Arthur, Queen Olive Guenevere, Ethel Merlyn (played by the Sea Hag!), and the Black Knight (Brutus)! As expected, Popeye is challenged to joust by the Black Knight. With the help of spinach, Popeye defeats the Black Knight and is about to be knighted by King Wimpy when he's brought back to the present.
Popeye the Sailor
Popeyed Columbus
| S 1 | Ep 134 | 1961/10/30 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
The Professor uses his time machine to take Popeye back to August 3, 1492, where Popeye becomes Christopher Columbus. Brutus is featured as the captain of the Nina, and Olive Oyl plays Queen Isabella (actually, "Queen Olivola")! While in the process of drinking toasts to the crew, Queen Olivola and the success of the mission before he sets sail across the Atlantic, Popeye gets a terrible case of hiccups. Nothing that anyone tries works. While Popeye is preoccupied with trying to cure his hiccups, Brutus tries to lead the crew in a mutiny against the voyage. Wimpy is also featured in the 1492 sequences.
Popeye the Sailor
Jeep Is Jeep
| S 1 | Ep 149 | |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
Swee'pea makes a new friend, Eugene the magic future predicting Jeep. Brutus realizes that the Jeep can answer questions about the future and plots with the Sea Hag to Jeepnapp him.
Popeye the Sailor
Quick Change Olie
| S 1 | Ep 155 | 1960/11/10 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
The Wiffle Hen has magical powers in its tail to grant any wish to anyone rubbing its tail feathers- like a wish to be back in Ye Good Old Days. Popeye and Wimpy touch the Wiffle Bird's feathers and are transported back to the Middle Ages. There, they encounter Brutus, who plays a bad wizard. Popeye and Wimpy find themselves in a king's palace that is besieged by Olaf, the cruel magician. Everyone is afraid to fight Olaf. The reward is the King's daughter in marriage. Popeye offers to fight, while Wimpy goes out to find a huge feast. Olaf is a funny little guy until the fight starts, then he magically changes into all sorts of fighting animals and finally, into a fierce giant, which is his true shape. Wimpy weaves in and out of the combat chasing food. Popeye is in trouble until he eats spinach. Then he's victorious. He gets his hero's reward, the King's daughter, who turns out to be the ugliest woman in the world. Just as the daughter is ready to embrace Popeye, Wimpy catches a chicken that turns out to be a Wiffle Hen. A quick rub on the hen's feathers, a quick wish, and they're both happily back in modern times.
Popeye the Sailor
Crystal Ball Brawl
| S 1 | Ep 20 | 1960/09/09 |
| TV Series Episode | 6 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
Wimpy has acquired the SeaHags crystal ball, he is using it to bet on sporting events. Brutus realizes this and steal the crystal ball. Popeye gets suspicious, so sets a trap to get the ball back. (device to foresee future (1957)
Popeye the Sailor
Astro-Nut
| S 1 | Ep 30 | 1960/09/12 |
| TV Series Episode | 6 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
Popeye is undergoing a series of government tests, one of which involves using spinach to travel in a rocket at the speed of light. Popeye volunteers to undergo an eight-day series of tests for the government while living in a space capsule. His endurance is tested when he discovers that in his absence, Brutus plans to wine and dine Olive for eight days! Finding out that Brutus is going to try to take Olive away from him while he's gone, Popeye is imprisoned in the test rocket and unable to stop Brutus. Popeye's increasingly heated anger causes his canned spinach to explode. He uses tons of spinach to take off, sending the rocket zooming into space faster than the speed of light. This causes Popeye to move eight days forward in space time in a matter of one hour Earth time. When he returns with the tests completed, Brutus finds that he has spent only minutes with Olive. Popeye returns before he left so that he can get Olive back. (time dilation)
Popeye the Sailor
Time Marches Backwards
| S 1 | Ep 54 | 1960/09/24 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
Popeye goes back to the caveman days in The Professor's time machine. When he gets there he finds Caveman Wimpy trying to catch a cow and Olive in need of saving from Caveman Brutus.
Popeye the Sailor
Out Of This World
| S 1 | Ep 66 | 1960/09/30 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | USA | |
Popeye uses The Professors time machine to take Olive, Swee' Pea and himself on a trip to the moon. When there they find it's just like earth. (to the future)
Popeye the Sailor
Have Time Will Travel
| S 2 | Ep 45 | 1961/09/19 |
| TV Series Episode | 30 min TV-G | |
| COM FAM | ||
Popeye, who is presumably bored of living in the 1960s, decides to build Olive a time machine, luckily the dinosaur populated prehistoric time they visit has plenty of spinach.
Popotan
12 Episodes
| S - | Ep - | 2003/07/17 |
| TV Series | 296 min | |
| DRA FAN | Japan | |
Three sisters are bound to a mysterious house capable of teleporting through time and space. In their travels through twentieth century Japan with their robotic maid, they encounter the harsh realities of separation and loneliness as they are torn from the friends they unsuccessfully try to avoid making.