The BEST episodes of Popeye the Sailor (1960)
Every episode of Popeye the Sailor (1960) ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Popeye the Sailor (1960)!
Follows the adventures of the famed spinach-eating sailor man. Popeye is one of the most popular cartoon characters of all time. This spunky but loveable spinach-eating sailor continues to delight young and old with his comic adventures, and the entire gang is around to provide plenty of rousing fun and action: Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, Wimpy and Bluto.
#2 - Blinkin Beacon
Season 1960 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/13/1960
The Sea Hag has kidnapped Swee'Pea and sent her vultures after Popeye.
#3 - Azteck Wreck
Season 1960 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/13/1960
Olive, Popeye and Eugene are at the Aztec ruins in Mexico. They discover that the Jeep can read the carvings, which gets them started on a quest for Aztec treasure. Brutus, their Mexican guide, seizes the Jeep to find the treasure for himself.
#4 - Ski-Jump Chump
Season 1960 - Episode 21 - Aired 9/4/1960
In an ice cold winter, Popeye upsets a large hibernating bear while trying to impress Olive with his moves on the ski-jumps.
#5 - Irate Pirate
Season 1960 - Episode 25 - Aired 9/5/1960
Popeye and Olive are out testing Popeye's new boat on a relaxing boat ride. While out in the ocean, they meet Jolly Roger the pirate. Unfortunately, Roger takes a liking to Olive. The pirate kidnaps her and sends a school of sharks after Popeye.
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#6 - Foola-Foola Bird
Season 1960 - Episode 29 - Aired 9/5/1960
Popeye and Olive are searching the jungle for the rare Foola-Foola bird. Following close behind is Brutus, also hunting the bird as there is a reward of one million dollars for finding it.
#7 - Interrupted Lullaby
Season 1960 - Episode 27 - Aired 9/9/1960
Brutus learns from a newspaper headline that Swee'Pea has inherited 1 million dollars. Brutus devises a plot to kidnap the baby, but must get past Popeye, who has been left to babysit while Olive shops.
#8 - Goon with the Wind
Season 1960 - Episode 28 - Aired 9/18/1960
Popeye and Olive enjoy a quiet stroll on the boat, arriving in Goon Island with the whole group of Goons.
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#9 - Popeye and the Dragon
Season 1960 - Episode 23 - Aired 9/26/1960
Olive is carried off by a dragon in a Middle Ages-Time Machine gimmick . . . Sir Popeye buys a suit of armor and goes to her rescue. He wins a zany battle with a dragon.
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#10 - After the Ball Went Over
Season 1960 - Episode 20 - Aired 9/20/1960
Popeye and Brutus play ping pong, and the prize is a kiss from Olive.
#11 - Sweapea Thru the Looking Glass
Season 1960 - Episode 30 - Aired 10/27/1960
Olive Oyl asks Popeye how the mirror was broken. He tells her that Swee'Pea was wondering what was inside the mirror, so the baby, along with Eugene the Jeep, followed the cuckoo bird's advice and walked through it.
#12 - Mississippi Sissy
Season 1960 - Episode 24 - Aired 9/28/1960
On a Mississippi riverboat, the villainous Jean Baptiste le Brute chases Olive, demanding a mysterious letter. Olive gives it to Popeye so that the brutish le Brute can't get it.
#13 - Muskels Shmuskels
Season 1960 - Episode 26 - Aired 9/1/1960
Popeye and Olive watch Brutus the strongman performing at the carnival. The two men quickly become rivals for Olive. But she makes Popeye promise not to fight.
#14 - Childhood Daze
Season 1960 - Episode 33 - Aired 9/8/1960
Popeye has to protect Olive from Brutus, while he is changed into a baby.
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#15 - Skyscraper Capers
Season 1960 - Episode 31 - Aired 10/1/1960
Brutus hires Popeye to build on his site. It soon comes to blows as both of them fight. Throughout the punches, Wimpy eats dinner, and Popeye comes out the winner.
#16 - Hamburger Fishing
Season 1960 - Episode 32 - Aired 9/5/1960
Wimpy catches a cow, who is really an enchanted princess. She grants him three wishes for letting her go, but the Sea Hag demands he uses the wishes to make gold.
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#17 - Westward Ho-Ho
Season 1961 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/6/1960
A family album tale told to Swee'Pea by Popeye about Great-Grandpappy Poopdeck Popeye who signed up to captain a "prairie schooner," only to discover it was a wagon train.
#18 - Messin' Up the Mississippi
Season 1961 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1961
Olive is the captain of a Mississippi showboat with Popeye as the main act. Brutus is the stagehand who is jealous of Popeye's fame. Brutus plots to jinx the show and embarrass Popeye.
#19 - Hits and Missiles
Season 1960 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/1/1960
Popeye, Olive and Wimpy take an unintended trip to the moon, which is inhabited by cheese-people and tyrannized by the Big Cheese.
#20 - From Way Out
Season 1960 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/10/1960
Popeye, Olive, and the Professor deal with a Martian delinquent.
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#21 - Baby Phase
Season 1960 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/18/1960
After punishing Swee'Pea for juggling, Popeye dreams that the boy ran away to join the circus.
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#22 - Popeye's Pep-Up Emporium
Season 1960 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/24/1960
Popeye is owner and instructor of a gym (a la Vic Tanny). The setup includes a TV commercial with Olive, Wimpy and later Brutus as clients.
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#23 - Weather Watchers
Season 1960 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/8/1960
Brutus and Popeye are rival weather forecasters and Olive runs their station.
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#24 - Plumbers Pipe Dream
Season 1960 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/2/1960
Olive's leaky faucet is driving her crazy, but calling a plumber doesn't occur to her until Swee'pea suggests it. Unfortunately, she calls Popeye the plumber. His bungling attempts to fix her faucet lead to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City.
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#25 - Jeep Tale
Season 1960 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/6/1960
Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of how Eugene the Jeep got his special powers.
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