The BEST episodes of Popeye the Sailor
Every episode of Popeye the Sailor ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Popeye the Sailor!
Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye started out as a character in the daily comic strip "Thimble Theatre" in 1929. In the early 30s, Max and Dave Fleischer made him the star of his own cartoon. Bluto, Popeye's rival, will do anything it takes to get Olive Oyl, Popeye's girlfriend. Popeye is always willing to get her out of trouble.
#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.
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#2 - 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.
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#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.
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#4 - 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.
#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.
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#6 - I Yam What I Yam
Season 1933 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/29/1933
After a stormy boat ride with Olive Oyl and Wimpy, Popeye builds a log cabin near the beach where they make landfall. Later, while Popeye is out on his own hunting for dinner, a band of indians wages separate assaults on the cabin and on Popeye.
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#7 - 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.
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#8 - 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.
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#9 - Popeye the Sailor Meets Sindbad the Sailor
Season 1936 - Episode 13 - Aired 11/27/1936
When Popeye sails near his isle, Sindbad the Sailor sends a roc to kidnap Olive Oyl off the ship and wreck it. Once Popeye makes his way to shore with Wimpy, he goes on to confront Sindbad while Wimpy ventures off hoping to make a meal out of a duck.
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#10 - 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.
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#11 - 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.
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#12 - 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.
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#13 - Let's You and Him Fight
Season 1934 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/1934
Popeye and Bluto the Champ are at a camp training for a boxing match. Later, despite Olive Oyl’s pledge to never see him again if he fights, Popeye enters the ring for the bout. Meanwhile, Olive is nervously listening to the fight on the radio at home.
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#14 - 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.
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#15 - I Eats My Spinach
Season 1933 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/17/1933
Popeye escorts Olive Oyl to a rodeo, where The Great Bluto is performing. Becoming jealous over Olive’s adoration of Bluto's showmanship, Popeye enters the ring to prove he can do better.
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#16 - Sock-a-Bye, Baby
Season 1934 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/19/1934
While Popeye is out with a sleeping baby in a stroller, the infant is woken up and pitches a fit. After a struggle to put the baby back to sleep, he goes to great lengths to silence various activities nearby that risk disturbing the peace.
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#17 - 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.
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#18 - Shoein' Hosses
Season 1934 - Episode 5 - Aired 6/1/1934
Olive Oyl is running a blacksmith shop with Wimpy, but finds the job to be more than the two of them can handle. Popeye and Bluto both respond to her job advertisement and find themselves competing to see who would be the better man for it.
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#19 - 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.
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#20 - 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.
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#21 - The Spinach Overture
Season 1935 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/7/1935
Popeye is practicing conducting with his small music band while Maestro Bluto is nearby, amused by the amateur efforts. Bluto forcibly takes over from Popeye and outshines him, leading to his friends’ abandoning him for Bluto’s band.
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#22 - 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.
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#23 - Popalong Popeye
Season 1952 - Episode 6 - Aired 8/29/1952
The story begins at Popeye’s ranch, where he is trying to get his nephews to eat their spinach. When they refuse, Popeye tells them a tale of his early days in the West, how he arrived to work on a ranch and was humiliated by the foreman (Bluto). As part of the story, there’s a boxing match between Popeye and Bully Boy, a humanoid bull used by Bluto to embarrass Popeye. Popeye is defeated, trapped, but eventually uses his spinach (even through water barrels) to transform into “Pop‑A‑Long Popeye,” overcoming Bully Boy and Bluto. At the end, the nephews free a wild horse and in order to save their uncle, they finally eat their spinach.
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#24 - 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.
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#25 - I-Ski Love-Ski You-Ski
Season 1936 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/3/1936
Popeye and Bluto arrive at Olive Oyl’s cabin with offers to take her mountain climbing. Enraged that she opted to go with Popeye over him, Bluto follows the couple on their excursion, sabotaging it at every opportunity.
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