The BEST episodes of Popeye the Sailor

#1 - You're a Sap, Mr. Jap

Season 1942 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/7/1942

While out on patrol, Popeye encounters a pair of Japanese fishermen. Expecting a battle, Popeye starts to confront the two, but stops when they offer a peace gesture. He is warmed by the offer and accepts it, but finds they are just toying with him.

#2 - Kickin' the Conga Round

Season 1942 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/17/1942

Intent on stealing Popeye's girlfriend, Olivia Oyla, Bluto beats Popeye off ship for shore leave and reaches her first. After Popeye arrives to claim his date, Bluto follows them to a café and offers to dance with the señorita when Popeye won’t.

#3 - A Dream Walking

Season 1934 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/26/1934

Olive Oyl goes sleepwalking one night and marches on to certain doom across rooftops and through the skeleton of a building under construction. Popeye and Bluto rush to her aid while trying to cut each other out of being the hero.

#4 - Popeye the Sailor

Season 1933 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/14/1933

While on shore leave, Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a carnival, where he is challenged by Bluto in various games. Later, while Popeye is dancing on stage with Betty Boop, Bluto seizes the opportunity to kidnap Olive, forcing Popeye to come to her rescue.

#5 - The Dance Contest

Season 1934 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/23/1934

Popeye and Olive Oyl compete as a couple in a dance contest, but find themselves fumbling on the floor. Bluto steps in and pushes Popeye out to show off his superior dance skills. Dejected, Popeye consoles himself by dining on a bowl of spinach.

#6 - Out to Punch

Season 1956 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/8/1956

Popeye's training for his boxing match with Bluto by jumping rope with a massive chain. Bluto, who's lazy about everything except sabotage, decides he needs to stop Popeye.

#7 - I Never Changes My Altitude

Season 1937 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/20/1937

Popeye is distraught on learning that Olive Oyl has shut down her diner at the airfield and left him to be with an aviator. When he sees that she is being abused up in the air by the man she left him for, he rushes up in a plane himself to rescue her.

#8 - Popalong Popeye

Season 1952 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/29/1952

#9 - Blow Me Down!

Season 1933 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/27/1933

Popeye visits Olive Oyl, who is working as a dancer in a cantina in Mexico. Bluto the Bandit shows up and scares off everyone except Popeye. After failing to beat him in various challenges, Bluto sets his gang on Popeye while he goes after Olive.

#10 - The Two-Alarm Fire

Season 1934 - Episode 10 - Aired 10/26/1934

Popeye and Bluto are in rival companies of a volunteer fire department. When Olive Oyl’s house catches fire, they both respond and try to outdo and even interfere with each other in their attempts to rescue Olive and save her house.

#11 - Beware of Barnacle Bill

Season 1935 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/25/1935

When Popeye calls on Olive Oyl intending to propose marriage, she reveals that she has fallen for another sailor, Barnacle Bill. Popeye expresses his utmost contempt for Barnacle Bill and fights him for Olive's affections when he arrives for her.

#12 - Little Swee'Pea

Season 1936 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/25/1936

Too busy too go with Popeye to the zoo, she instead gets him to take Swee’Pea. While there, Swee’Pea sneaks off and faces danger as he enters various animal pens and cages, forcing Popeye to come to the rescue.

#13 - Abusement Park

Season 1947 - Episode 1 - Aired 4/25/1947

#14 - Riot in Rhythm

Season 1950 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/10/1950

#15 - Bride and Gloom

Season 1954 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/2/1954

Popeye and Olive Oyl are going to get married, until Olive gets cold feet.

#16 - Gopher Spinach

Season 1954 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/10/1954

A gopher tries to steal Popeye's spinach plants.

#17 - Spree Lunch

Season 1957 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/21/1957

Popeye opens a diner. Bluto opens a diner across the street and they compete for Wimpy's business.

#18 - Seasin's Greetinks!

Season 1933 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/17/1933

Popeye brings ice skates for Olive Oyl as a Christmas present and takes her to a frozen lake for lessons, but Bluto interferes as he tries to win her affections. When she rejects him, he sets her adrift on a block of ice, then takes on Popeye.

#19 - The Man on the Flying Trapeze

Season 1934 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/16/1934

Popeye sails into town to call on Olive Oyl, only to find that she has fallen for a trapeze artist and is off performing with him. After brooding over the betrayal, he breaks in to see the act but intervenes when he sees her being treated brutally.

#20 - Wild Elephinks

Season 1933 - Episode 6 - Aired 12/29/1933

Popeye navigates rough seas on a raft with Olive Oyl before making landfall near a jungle. They are quickly confronted by a variety of wild jungle animals that Popeye must fend off to protect himself and Olive.

#21 - Shiver Me Timbers!

Season 1934 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/27/1934

Popeye, Wimpy, and Olive Oyl are stranded on a beach, where they encounter a ghost ship. While investigating it, the group has various strange encounters on the ship before they are attacked and subsequently tortured by the ship’s inhabitants.

#22 - Axe Me Another

Season 1934 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/30/1934

After rescuing her from drowning in the river, Olive Oyl tells Popeye that Pierre Bluto, a champion lumberjack, threw her in the river because he didn’t like her spinach dinner. Popeye then confronts him, leading to a competition over lumberjack skills.

#23 - Protek the Weakerist

Season 1937 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/19/1937

Popeye feels humiliated when Olive Oyl makes him take her “sissy dog” for a walk, striving to avoid being seen with it. When they cross paths, Bluto sics his own "tough" dog on the other, then attacks Popeye to keep him from interfering.

#24 - Ghosks is the Bunk

Season 1939 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/14/1939

While listening to Olive Oyl read a scary story, Popeye becomes spooked and hides under the couch, much to her and Bluto’s amusement. Bluto is then inspired to play a prank on the two by making a nearby house appear to be haunted.

#25 - The Anvil Chorus Girl

Season 1944 - Episode 2 - Aired 5/26/1944

Popeye and Bluto are fawning over Olive Oyl as she struggles to run a blacksmith shop on her own. When she pines for a strong man to help her out, the two men go to great lengths to try to prove which of them is stronger and more skilled for the job.