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.

Last Updated: 9/29/2024Network: Cartoon NetworkStatus: Ended
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#1 - Hag Way Robbery

Season 1960 - Episode 26 - Aired 1/26/1960

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1 votes

#2 - Bullfighter Bully

Season 1960 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/8/1960

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You're a Sap, Mr. Jap
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9.48
31 votes

#3 - 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 votes

#4 - Barbecue For Two

Season 1960 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/2/1960

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Popeye the Sailor
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7.83
18 votes

#5 - 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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A Dream Walking
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7.71
7 votes

#6 - 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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7.67
3 votes

#7 - Plumbers Pipe Dream

Season 1960 - Episode 114 - Aired 5/5/1960

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7.50
2 votes

#8 - Mueller’s Mad Monster

Season 1960 - Episode 6 - Aired 1/6/1960

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Blow Me Down!
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7.44
18 votes

#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.

Directors: Dave Fleischer
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The Dance Contest
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7.40
5 votes

#10 - 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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Kickin' the Conga Round
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7.33
3 votes

#11 - 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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Seasin's Greetinks!
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7.25
12 votes

#12 - 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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I Never Changes My Altitude
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7.25
4 votes

#13 - 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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The Man on the Flying Trapeze
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7.20
10 votes

#14 - 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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Wild Elephinks
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7.18
11 votes

#15 - 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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The Two-Alarm Fire
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7.14
7 votes

#16 - 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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I Yam What I Yam
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7.14
22 votes

#17 - 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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Let's You and Him Fight
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7.08
12 votes

#18 - 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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7.00
4 votes

#19 - Hits And Missiles

Season 1960 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/1/1960

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7.00
2 votes

#20 - What’s News

Season 1960 - Episode 167 - Aired 9/30/1960

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2 votes

#21 - Incident At Missile City

Season 1960 - Episode 165 - Aired 9/16/1960

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7.00
2 votes

#22 - Hamburger Fishing

Season 1960 - Episode 99 - Aired 4/20/1960

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7.00
2 votes

#23 - Popeye And The Spinach Stalk

Season 1960 - Episode 88 - Aired 4/9/1960

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2 votes

#24 - Popeye And The Giant

Season 1960 - Episode 83 - Aired 4/4/1960

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2 votes

#25 - Wimpy’s Lunch Wagon

Season 1960 - Episode 81 - Aired 4/2/1960

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