The WORST episodes of Popeye the Sailor (1960)

Every episode of Popeye the Sailor (1960) ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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.

Last Updated: 6/12/2025Network: SyndicationStatus: Ended
Spinachonara
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#1 - Spinachonara

Season 1 - Episode 105 - Aired 10/16/1960

Popeye reads Swee' Pea a Japanese fairy tale. Popeye, Wimpy, Olive and Brutus all appear as characters.

Popeye's Folly
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#2 - Popeye's Folly

Season 1 - Episode 103 - Aired 10/15/1960

Popeye tells Swee'Pea the story of building the first steamboat, Popeye's Folly. Brutus, the captain of the Windjammer, challenges the Folly to a race.

Coach Popeye
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#3 - Coach Popeye

Season 1 - Episode 136 - Aired 10/30/1960

Popeye is busy reading the newspaper, but his peace is disrupted by a baseball and several arrows. He sees Swee'Pea and Deezil Oyl trying to play sports. Popeye teaches them how to play sports, but Brutus believes he can be a better teacher.

The Spinach Scholar
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#4 - The Spinach Scholar

Season 1 - Episode 152 - Aired 11/7/1960

Olive insists that the illiterate, uneducated Popeye enroll in grammar school.

Psychiatricks
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#5 - Psychiatricks

Season 1 - Episode 153 - Aired 11/7/1960

Brutus tricks Popeye into a psychology session.

Poppa Popeye
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#6 - Poppa Popeye

Season 1 - Episode 154 - Aired 11/10/1960

After losing Swee'Pea to a circus performer who passes himself off as the boy's long-lost father, Popeye goes through so much depression that he starts to act like a baby.

Model Muddle
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#7 - Model Muddle

Season 2 - Episode 41 - Aired 9/18/1961

Olive decides that Popeye needs some culture, so she takes him to the art museum. There, he pokes fun at the sculpture and accidentally breaks a piece. Eventually, he develops a taste for modern art and decides to try his hand at acting as a sculptor for Olive Oyl's affection... with disastrous results. Brutus gets sore and tries to sabotage the sailor. He wants to play rough with the paint.

Partial Post
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#8 - Partial Post

Season 2 - Episode 48 - Aired 1/22/1962

An spaceship lands on Earth carrying an alien disguised as a mailbox! Popeye is about to go out to mail Olive a birthday card when he hears a radio announcement that a flying saucer has been sighted over the city. Popeye continues with his task to mail the card, but he does not realize that the mailbox he has just posted Olive's card in is really the flying saucer. The extraterrestrial then tries to kidnap Popeye and Olive Oyl!

Tooth Be or Not Tooth Be
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#9 - Tooth Be or Not Tooth Be

Season 2 - Episode 53 - Aired 4/23/1963

Swee'Pea is cutting his first tooth and Poopdeck Pappy is babysitting him for Popeye. Pappy decides to give Swee'Pea a lesson in dental hygiene and tells him a story of what happened to him when he entered a "teeth" contest. Pappy talks about the Sea Hag and her nefarious plans for his teeth.

Popeye's Service Station
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#10 - Popeye's Service Station

Season 1 - Episode 54 - Aired 9/23/1960

Popeye runs a gas station featuring free services. Customers want these free services, including Brutus, who sees Olive and tries to get a date with her. Popeye rescues Olive from Brutus.

Popeye's Pizza Palace
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#11 - Popeye's Pizza Palace

Season 1 - Episode 70 - Aired 9/29/1960

Things aren't going to plan at Popeye's pizza Palace, Wimpy as usual is trying to get a free lunch while Brutus constantly asks for pizza topping which are not on the menu.

Madam Salami
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#12 - Madam Salami

Season 1 - Episode 73 - Aired 9/30/1960

Brutus disguises himself as the title character, a fortune teller.

Popeye's Museum Piece
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#13 - Popeye's Museum Piece

Season 1 - Episode 84 - Aired 10/7/1960

Popeye, custodian of a museum, must deal with artifact damage and art theft.

Golf Brawl
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#14 - Golf Brawl

Season 1 - Episode 85 - Aired 10/7/1960

Popeye, Brutus, Olive and Wimpy find themselves in a comedy-of-errors golf tournament.

Pest of the Pecos
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#15 - Pest of the Pecos

Season 1 - Episode 90 - Aired 10/8/1960

Popeye, sheriff of the Old West town Gravestone Flats, has all he can handle after Brutus arrives.

Quick Change Olie
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#16 - Quick Change Olie

Season 1 - Episode 142 - Aired 11/10/1960

Popeye and Wimpy go back in time to the "ollie days", thanks to the Wiffle Bird.

Operation Ice-Tickle
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#17 - Operation Ice-Tickle

Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/5/1961

Olive tells Popeye and Brutus she'll go out with the first one who brings her back the North Pole -- which turns out to be an actual pole with red and white stripes.

There's No Space Like Home
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#18 - There's No Space Like Home

Season 1 - Episode 30 - Aired 9/12/1960

Brutus exploits a costume party in an attempt to win Olive.

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Battery Up
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#19 - Battery Up

Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 9/22/1960

It is a big baseball game between Popeye's team and Brutus' team. With Wimpy as the umpire, what could possibly go wrong? Olive is rooting for Popeye, at least at first.

Jeep Jeep
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#20 - Jeep Jeep

Season 1 - Episode 81 - Aired 10/6/1960

Swee'Pea befriends a mystical creature called Jeep who can answer any question. Popeye's arch enemies -- Brutus and Sea Hag -- steal the Jeep and let him disclose the gold site. However, Jeep tricks them by drawing a map which causes Brutus and the Hag to dig right into jail.

Hill-Billy-Dilly
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#21 - Hill-Billy-Dilly

Season 1 - Episode 58 - Aired 9/24/1960

Popeye and Olive blunder into a hillbilly feud.

Popeye in the Woods
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#22 - Popeye in the Woods

Season 1 - Episode 111 - Aired 10/20/1960

Popeye and Wimpy camp in the woods for some peace and quiet. When Wimpy wants to cook some hamburgers, he starts making fire.

Strikes, Spares an' Spinach
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#23 - Strikes, Spares an' Spinach

Season 1 - Episode 148 - Aired 11/6/1960

Popeye tries to teach Olive how to bowl, but his attempts are sabotaged by Brutus.

Hamburgers Aweigh
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#24 - Hamburgers Aweigh

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 5/10/1961

The Sea Hag hypnotises Wimpy into hijacking Popeye's ship.

A Poil for Olive Oyl
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#25 - A Poil for Olive Oyl

Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 9/11/1961

Popeye takes Olice out to buy her a birthday present and she chooses a pearl necklace and when Popeye hears how much they are, he sets out to get pearls from the sea. He goes diving and finds the oyster beds where the pearls are. But the Sea Hag is there and she claims that the pearls belong to her.