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"Rip Van Winkle" is an 1819 short story by Creator/WashingtonIrving.

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"Rip Van Winkle" is an 1819 short story by the American author Creator/WashingtonIrving.
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* BittersweetEnding: His bitter, shrewish old wife has died, but Rip is shaken to know that a number of his old neighbors have joined to fight in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, with one of them killed in action, another joining the Army and another serving in Congress, and that the village switched allegiances from Britain's King George III to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington and the U.S.A. Still Rip is able to live comfortably with his daughter and becomes a respected elder among the younger generation.

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* BittersweetEnding: His bitter, shrewish old wife has died, but Rip is shaken to know that a number of his old neighbors have joined to fight in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, with one of them killed in action, another joining the Army and another serving in Congress, and that the village switched allegiances from Britain's King George III to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington and the U.S.A. Still Still, Rip is able to live comfortably with his daughter and becomes a respected elder among the younger generation.
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* BittersweetEnding: His bitter, shrewish old wife has died, but Rip is shaken to know that a number of his old neighbors have joined to fight in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, with one of them killed in action, another joining the Army and another serving in Congress, and that the village switched allegiances from Britain's King George III to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington and the U.S.A.

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* BittersweetEnding: His bitter, shrewish old wife has died, but Rip is shaken to know that a number of his old neighbors have joined to fight in UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution, with one of them killed in action, another joining the Army and another serving in Congress, and that the village switched allegiances from Britain's King George III to UsefulNotes/GeorgeWashington and the U.S.A. Still Rip is able to live comfortably with his daughter and becomes a respected elder among the younger generation.
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** ''The Famous Adventures of WesternAnimation/MrMagoo'' did an adaptation of this story in 1965.

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* EasilyForgiven: Rip left his children to fend for themselves, yet he's welcomed into his daughter's home and spends the rest of his life as happily lazy as ever.



* GenerationXerox: Rip Jr. is just as lazy as his father.

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* GenerationXerox: Rip Jr. is [[StrongFamilyResemblance looks and dresses exactly like his father]], and acts just as lazy as his father.him.
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** The 1941 ''{{Franchise/Popeye}}'' cartoon ''Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkl'' is a loose adaptation of the story in which Popeye tries to help out Rip, who is a [[{{Sleepwalking}} sleepwalker]] in addition to being impossible to awaken.

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** The 1941 ''{{Franchise/Popeye}}'' cartoon ''Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkl'' Winkle'' is a loose adaptation of the story in which Popeye tries to help out Rip, who is a [[{{Sleepwalking}} sleepwalker]] in addition to being impossible to awaken.
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The story is set in upstate New York (namely, the Catskill Mountains) shortly before UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. Rip Van Winkle is a genial, well-liked colonist of Dutch extraction, whose only problem is a nagging shrew of a wife. To escape said nagging wife, Rip wanders off for a walk in the woods. There he meets a strange man in strange-looking antique Dutch clothes who offers him some homemade moonshine. He has a few drinks with the strange man and his even stranger, silent companions, and eventually falls asleep. He wakes up to find that he's grown a foot-long beard, his musket has rotted away, and his dog has disappeared. Walking back into town, Rip finds many odd changes...

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The story is set in upstate New York (namely, the Catskill Mountains) shortly before UsefulNotes/TheAmericanRevolution. Rip Van Winkle is a genial, well-liked colonist of Dutch extraction, whose only problem is a nagging shrew of a wife. To escape said nagging wife, Rip wanders off for a walk in the woods. There he meets a strange man in strange-looking antique Dutch clothes who offers him some homemade moonshine. He has a few drinks with the strange man and his even stranger, silent companions, and eventually falls asleep. He wakes up to find that he's grown a foot-long beard, his musket has rotted away, and his dog has disappeared. Walking back into town, Rip finds many discovers a number of odd changes...
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** The 1941 ''{{Franchise/Popeye}}'' cartoon "Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle" is a loose adaptation of the story, where Popeye tries to help out Rip, who is a sleepwalker in addition to being impossible to awake.

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** The 1941 ''{{Franchise/Popeye}}'' cartoon "Popeye ''Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle" Winkl'' is a loose adaptation of the story, where story in which Popeye tries to help out Rip, who is a sleepwalker [[{{Sleepwalking}} sleepwalker]] in addition to being impossible to awake.awaken.
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** The ''[[{{ComicStrip/Popeye}} Popeye The Sailor]]'' cartoon ''Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle'' is a loose adaptation of the story, where Popeye tries to help out Rip, who is a sleepwalker in addition to being impossible to awake.

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** The ''[[{{ComicStrip/Popeye}} Popeye The Sailor]]'' 1941 ''{{Franchise/Popeye}}'' cartoon ''Popeye "Popeye Meets Rip Van Winkle'' Winkle" is a loose adaptation of the story, where Popeye tries to help out Rip, who is a sleepwalker in addition to being impossible to awake.

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