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J. Wellington Wimpy or Wimpy is one of the characters in the Popeye cartoons.

Wimpy was created by newspaper cartoonist Elzie Crisler Segar. He became one of the dominant characters in the newspaper strips. When "Popeye" was adapted as an animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios Wimpy was made a more minor character, as Dave Fleischer said that the character in the Segar comic strips was "too intellectual" to be used in film cartoons.

Wimpy is Popeye's friend. In the cartoons he mainly plays the role of the "straight man" to Popeye's outbursts and wild antics. Wimpy is very intelligent, and well educated, but very lazy and gluttonous. Wimpy is also somewhat of a scam artist and (especially in the newspaper cartoons) can be shockingly underhanded at times. In one strip, Wimpy conned Popeye and Olive Oyl into agreeing to an "indecent proposal", which he then reneged on.

Wimpy loves to eat hamburgers, but is usually too cheap to pay for them. A recurring joke is Wimpy's attempts to con other patrons of the diner into buying him burgers. Wimpy often tries to outwit fellow patrons with his convoluted logic. His famous line, which was first introduced to the cartoons in the 1934 cartoon, We Aim to Please, is "I'd gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today". Another of his lines from the original comic strip is one that is usually said to someone or a group of people who are after him for some shenanigan he's pulled. Wimpy tries to placate the angry person or mob by saying "I'd like to invite you over to my house for a duck dinner." The angry person or persons are usually satisfied with that line and Wimpy moves away quickly to a safe distance and yells, "You bring the ducks!"

During the Second World War the RAF Wellington bomber was nicknamed the "Wimpy".

There is a chain of Wimpy hamburger restaurants which are named after him, originally launched in the United Kingdom in 1954 by J. Lyons and Co..

The character is mentioned by Norm MacDonald in an episode of his sitcom, The Norm Show, when co-star Laurie Metcalf's character is attempting to relate a situation in the episode to a Popeye-esque conflict.

In an episode of the Seth Green sketch comedy program Robot Chicken, Wimpy is nearly talked out of suicide by an angel resembling the late Jimmy Stewart in a parody of the Stewart film It's a Wonderful Life
before both characters realize that said suicide would greatly benefit many of Popeye's main characters (i.e. Popeye and Bluto would become business partners, Olive Oyl would grow breasts, and hamburgers would be abundant).

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