I just watched a few Popeye cartoons, and I just don't get it.

Miss Oyl is gangly, awkward, has hideous black hair pulled back in an unappealing bun, is possessed of an annoyingly grating voice, and has nothing remotely curvaceous about her figure.

So why are Popeye and Bluto always fighting for her attentions? Is she the last woman on earth. Is she filthy rich? Or are both men gay, and they want Olive merely to get at her hunky loose-moraled brother Crisco Oyl?