The Best Episodes of Popeye the Sailor
Every episode of Popeye the Sailor ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Popeye the Sailor!
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.
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The best episode of "Popeye the Sailor" is "Abdominal Snowman", rated 7.4/10 from 62 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Abdominal Snowman" aired on 9/4/1960 and is rated 0.0 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Seeing Double".
7.4/10 62 votes#1 - Abdominal Snowman
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 1960-09-04
Popeye hears talk of abominable snowman sightings and so decides to take it upon himself to investigate.
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7.4/10 65 votes#2 - Seeing Double
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 1960-09-10
Popeye is jailed for committing a bank robbery which he insists he didn't commit. He must prove he didn't do it. In a seemingly unrelated subplot, two thugs build a Popeye robot to do their bidding.
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7.3/10 57 votes#3 - The Lost City of Bubble-Lon
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 1960-09-11
The Professor, Popeye and their assistant Brutus are searching for the lost city of "Bubble-On". Popeye is suspicious, he thinks Brutus is more interested in taking the cities treasure than documenting scientific discoveries.
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7.3/10 50 votes#4 - Skinned Divers
Season 1 Episode 49 - Aired 1960-09-23
Popeye and Brutus are diving for buried treasure, Brutus however has more than sunken treasure in his eyes, he spies the lovely mermaid Olive Oyl.
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7.2/10 69 votes#5 - Caveman Capers
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1960-09-03
Popeye tells Olive the story of how his ancestor Prehesterical Popeye discovered the magical powers of spinach and stopped Prehesterical Brutus.
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7.2/10 56 votes#6 - Sheepish Sheep-Herder
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1960-09-08
Popeye volunteers to stand guard to protect Poopdeck Pappy's ranch, a rustler tries to get rid of Popeye but is driven mad by his ability to reappear right after he's been lassoed, tied up and even thrown off a cliff.
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7.2/10 60 votes#7 - Interrupted Lullaby
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 1960-09-09
Brutus sinks to a new low in both greed and criminal activity by trying to abduct little Swee'pee from his family.
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7.2/10 57 votes#8 - There's No Space Like Home
Season 1 Episode 28 - Aired 1960-09-12
Brutus beats up an alien he sees walking down the street, thinking its Popeye on the way to Olive Oyl's fancy dress party. The alien retaliates by trying to blow up the earth, Popeye and Brutus team up to stop him.
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7.2/10 56 votes#9 - Potent Lotion
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 1960-09-12
Someone has sent Popeye a present, he opens it to find shaving lotion, thinking it's something Olive Oyl has bought for him he puts it on. From that moment everyone hates him.
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7.2/10 54 votes#10 - Where There's a Will
Season 1 Episode 31 - Aired 1960-09-15
Popeye is called by a lawyer who tells him that he and Brutus are the beneficiaries of someone they know. And that he'll be reading the will at noon. And if one of them is not there at noon they will forfeit the inheritance. So Brutus tries to keep Popeye from getting there at noon.
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7.2/10 55 votes#11 - Beaver or Not
Season 1 Episode 46 - Aired 1960-09-22
Popeye visits the local stream for a relaxing swim but is surprised to find a couple of dam-building beavers. A battle begins and eventually Popeye admits defeat and goes for a swim in the beaver's reservoir.
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7.2/10 52 votes#12 - Popeye's Service Station
Season 1 Episode 50 - Aired 1960-09-23
Popeye is now the manager of a service station, he provides a good service with free extras. Brutus comes along only wanting the free extras, including free access to another customer, Olive Oyl.
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7.1/10 76 votes#13 - Hoppy Jalopy
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1960-09-02
Popeye in his junk-pile jalopy competes with Brutus in his slick race car to win a cross-country race. Brutus employs a series of dirty tricks to keep ahead, while keeping Olive Oyl trapped in his trunk.
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7.1/10 63 votes#14 - Irate Pirate
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1960-09-05
Popeye and Olive are out testing Popeyes new boat on a relaxing boat ride. When out in the ocean they meet Jolly Roger the pirate. Unfortunately Roger takes a fancy to Olive. The pirate kidnaps her and sets school of sharks after Popeye.
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7.1/10 58 votes#15 - Uranium on the Cranium
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1960-09-05
Popeye and Olive set-sail to a desert island with a map citing the location of Uranium, unknown to them Brutus is already there, He plans on dressing like a gorilla and scaring them away.
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7.1/10 59 votes#16 - Track Meet Cheat
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 1960-09-09
Olive sees Brutus showing his athletic prowess at a track meet, Popeye gets jealous, runs on to the field and starts competing himself.
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7.1/10 53 votes#17 - Jeopardy Sheriff
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 1960-09-17
Poopdeck Pappy entertains Swee' Pea by telling him about his adventures in the old west. Popeye thinks he's lying and Pappy tries to prove it's true, which leads to Popeye rescuing him a lot.
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7.1/10 54 votes#18 - Goon with the Wind
Season 1 Episode 41 - Aired 1960-09-18
Olive is captured and taken to Goonland to marry the Goonking, Popeye is caged and his can of spinach is taken from him. The situation is looking grim all round.
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7.1/10 56 votes#19 - Battery Up
Season 1 Episode 47 - Aired 1960-09-22
It's a big Baseball game between Popeye's team and Brutus's team, with Wimpy as the umpire what could possibly go wrong. Olive is rooting for Popeye, at least she is at first.
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7.1/10 55 votes#20 - Kiddie Kapers
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 1961-06-03
Brutus goes to see the Sea Hag in the hopes that she will make him a youth potion to impress Olive. The potion changes his whole appearance and everything goes to plan until Olive finds out who he really is.
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7.1/10 50 votes#21 - Weight for Me
Season 2 Episode 46 - Aired 1961-09-22
Popeye and Brutus return from six months at sea to find that Olive has gotten fat. Brutus indulges Olive's lust for food, while Popeye tries to force her to exercise.
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7.0/10 72 votes#22 - Dead-Eye Popeye
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1960-09-02
Sheriff Popeye captures villain Brutus McBride and throws the scum into jail. His gang of thugs start a big shoot-out in an attempt to free their leader.
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7.0/10 67 votes#23 - College Of Hard Knocks
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 1960-09-04
Olive the college student is infatuated with Professor Brutus and contemptuous of Popeye's lack of education, leading Popeye to enroll in college himself.
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7.0/10 61 votes#24 - Foola-Foola Bird
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1960-09-05
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 a million dollar for finding it.
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7.0/10 62 votes#25 - Swee'pea Soup
Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 1960-09-11
The citizens are revolting, they want a new king, someone sweet like Swee'pea! Professor Wotasnozzle suggests making a soup out of Swee'pea is the best way to become just like him.
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