The BEST episodes of Popeye the Sailor season 1943
Every episode of Popeye the Sailor season 1943, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Popeye the Sailor season 1943!
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 - Ration fer the Duration
Season 1943 - Episode 5 - Aired 5/28/1943
While planting a victory garden, Popeye catches his nephews trying to sneak off to go fishing instead. After convincing them to help by telling them the tale of Jack and the Beanstalk, he takes a nap and dreams of himself in the role of Jack.
#2 - Happy Birthdaze
Season 1943 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/16/1943
Popeye heads out to visit Olive Oyl, who wants to bake him a birthday cake. He brings along his lonely shipmate, Shorty, but comes to regret it as the overly exuberant sailor ruins Popeye's day while trying to help Olive.
#3 - Too Weak to Work
Season 1943 - Episode 3 - Aired 3/19/1943
Bluto fakes being sick to get out of helping Popeye with maintenance on the ship’s lifeboats, and is rushed off to the hospital. When Popeye comes to visit and catches on to the scam, he poses as a nurse to teach Bluto a lesson.
#4 - A Jolly Good Furlough
Season 1943 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/23/1943
Popeye heads home on furlough, anxious to see his nephews. When he reaches home, he falls for a trap the boys set as part of their home defense training. When they realize they nabbed their uncle, they proceed to show off their other preparations.
#5 - Wood-Peckin'
Season 1943 - Episode 8 - Aired 8/6/1943
Popeye needs to make a mast to finish building his new boat, and heads off to his property to chop down a tree. He picks one that is inhabited by a woodpecker, who in turn is determined to stop Popeye from taking his home away.
#6 - Cartoons Ain't Human
Season 1943 - Episode 9 - Aired 9/3/1943
Popeye wants to try his hand at animation and sets to making a home movie. After completing his amateur cartoon, he has Olive Oyl and his nephews over to watch the movie, which features himself as the hero who must rescue Olive from a villain.
#7 - The Marry-Go-Round
Season 1943 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/31/1943
Shorty drags a bashful Popeye over to Olive Oyl's boarding house, encouraging him to propose marriage. But with Olive's hands full doing chores, she has no time to entertain Popeye as he struggles to tell her how he feels.
#8 - Spinach fer Britain
Season 1943 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/22/1943
While crossing the Atlantic Ocean to deliver a cargo of spinach to Britain, Popeye stumbles into a German submarine, which proceeds to destroy his ship. Popeye salvages the rations and continues on in a rowboat, but is hounded still by the Germans.
#9 - The Hungry Goat
Season 1943 - Episode 6 - Aired 6/25/1943
Hungry for a meal, a goat is roaming about town when it comes across the battleship that Popeye is serving on. Seeing the ship as a tasty tin meal, the goat is determined to have a feast, but must outwit Popeye to do so.
#10 - Her Honor the Mare
Season 1943 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/26/1943
Smitten by a frail horse that was rejected by a glue factory, Popeye's nephews bring the mare back home in the hopes of keeping her as a household pet. Though Popeye is firmly against any idea of having a horse in the house, the boys conspire to make the mare a part of the family anyway.
#11 - Seein' Red, White 'n' Blue
Season 1943 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/19/1943
After receiving a draft notice, Bluto arrives at the office of the draft board feigning illness in the hopes of dodging his service. Popeye, who is manning the office, calls Bluto’s bluff, leading Bluto to run off to try and injure himself.