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The Worst Episodes of Popeye the Sailor

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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

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 128 - Mississippi Sissy
    5.6/10(70 votes)

    #1 - Mississippi Sissy

    S1:E128

    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.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writers:Jack Kinney, Ed Nofziger

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  2. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 71 - Private-Eye Popeye
    5.7/10(70 votes)

    #2 - Private-Eye Popeye

    S1:E71

    Popeye, Olive and The Jeep are hired to search for someone smuggling diamonds by boat. Discriminating based on previous offenses Popeye suspects Brutus and his pickle importing scheme are a cover.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Raymond Jacobs

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  3. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 119 - Jeep Tale
    5.7/10(76 votes)

    #3 - Jeep Tale

    S1:E119

    Popeye is telling Swee'Pea a fairytale about a mama jeep and her four children -- three good girls and a mischievous boy named Jeepers. One day they go to eat spinach in the good farmer's garden. Jeepers goes into the bad farmer's garden and eats weeds. The farmer catches Jeepers and locks him up, but mama rescues him that night. The next day, the bad farmer tries to chop down the jeep tree, but mama jeep foils him completely. Afterward, the good farmer invites them over for more spinach.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Ed Nofziger

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  4. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 9 - Love Birds
    5.7/10(73 votes)

    #4 - Love Birds

    S2:E9

    Popeye buys Olive's lovebird a boyfriend. The two lovebirds, named Romeo and Juliet, quarrel and Romeo flies away. Olive demands that Popeye bring him back.

    Director:Seymour Kneitel
    Writers:Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer

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  5. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 116 - Invisible Popeye
    5.8/10(67 votes)

    #5 - Invisible Popeye

    S1:E116

    Olive accidentally switches on the Professor's time machine, which takes her to a bizarre Mars-like planet. Popeye takes invisibility pills and goes to rescue her.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Dennis Fraser

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  6. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 125 - Jingle Jangle Jungle
    5.9/10(69 votes)

    #6 - Jingle Jangle Jungle

    S1:E125

    Popeye, Olive and Brutus go on a safari in Africa hunting the big game, while In the jungle, Popeye and Brutus compete to get Olive a tiger skin.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Ed Nofziger

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  7. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 142 - Popeye the Piano Mover
    5.9/10(60 votes)

    #7 - Popeye the Piano Mover

    S1:E142

    Popeye and Brutus are piano movers; Olive Oyl is the owner of a piano that needs moving; and Wimpy is a traffic cop who takes chase when Popeye and the runaway piano tear down the street.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Harvey Toombs

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  8. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 12 - Aladdin's Lamp
    5.9/10(72 votes)

    #8 - Aladdin's Lamp

    S2:E12

    Popeye chases down the Sea Hag in order to take back the magic lamp she stole from Olive.

    Director:Seymour Kneitel
    Writers:Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer

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  9. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 60 - Popeye and the Dragon
    6.0/10(64 votes)

    #9 - Popeye and the Dragon

    S1:E60

    Popeye buys a suit of armor, hires a horse and goes off to save Princess Olive from a dragon.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Raymond Jacobs

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  10. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 72 - Little Olive Riding Hood
    6.0/10(72 votes)

    #10 - Little Olive Riding Hood

    S1:E72

    Little Olive Riding Hood is delivering hamburgers to her sick friend, Mr. Wimpy. The Sea Hag wants those hamburgers for herself.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Ed Nofziger

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  11. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 99 - Hamburger Fishing
    6.0/10(72 votes)

    #11 - Hamburger Fishing

    S1:E99

    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 use the wishes to make gold.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Ed Nofziger

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  12. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 48 - Canine Caprice
    6.0/10(102 votes)

    #12 - Canine Caprice

    S2:E48

    Popeye buys Olive Oyl a talking dog, the dog, named Roger, tells Popeye that Olive Oyl has been seeing another man.

    Director:Gene Deitch
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 42 - Insultin' the Sultan
    6.1/10(74 votes)

    #13 - Insultin' the Sultan

    S1:E42

    Popeye and Olive break up after a bitter argument. In a rage, Popeye joins the Foreign Legion. Meanwhile, a sultan decides Olive will be his 75th wife.

    Director:Gene Deitch
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 58 - Sea Hagracy
    6.1/10(62 votes)

    #14 - Sea Hagracy

    S1:E58

    The Sea Hag tries to tempt Popeye and Wimpy into a life of piracy.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Ken Hultgren

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  15. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 74 - Popeye's Trojan Horse
    6.1/10(65 votes)

    #15 - Popeye's Trojan Horse

    S1:E74

    A sawfish, a Trojan horse, two princes and a damsel in distress figure in Popeye's storybook tale to a skeptical Swee'Pea.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Ed Nofziger

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  16. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 83 - Weather Watchers
    6.1/10(77 votes)

    #16 - Weather Watchers

    S1:E83

    Brutus is after Popeye's job as a weather forecaster.Through sly tricks, Brutus gets Popeye's weather predictions fouled up.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Raymond Jacobs

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  17. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 121 - Golden-Type Fleece
    6.1/10(71 votes)

    #17 - Golden-Type Fleece

    S1:E121

    Popeye goes back in time to ancient Greece. The king, mistaking him for Hercules sends him to capture the Golden Fleece. Zeus isn't happy about this and send out wave after wave of thunderbolt rain!!!

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Ed Nofziger

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  18. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 5 - Gem Jam
    6.1/10(71 votes)

    #18 - Gem Jam

    S2:E5

    In India, the Sea Hag hypnotizes Olive into stealing the sacred emerald from the crown of a jade idol, which puts a curse on the unwitting thief.

    Director:Seymour Kneitel
    Writer:Isadore Klein

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  19. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 15 - County Fair
    6.1/10(66 votes)

    #19 - County Fair

    S2:E15

    Popeye and Brutus are farmers who enter a county fair contest to see who's the best.

    Director:Seymour Kneitel
    Writers:Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer

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  20. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 32 - A Mite of Trouble
    6.1/10(57 votes)

    #20 - A Mite of Trouble

    S2:E32

    The Sea Hag tries to steal Popeyes treasure map treasure map by dressing a dwarf up as Swee'pea.

    Director:Seymour Kneitel
    Writers:Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer

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  21. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 49 - Intellectual Interlude
    6.1/10(61 votes)

    #21 - Intellectual Interlude

    S2:E49

    Popeye eats some "intellectual spinach" given to him by a professor at an adult education class.

    Director:Gene Deitch
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 2 - Hits And Missiles
    6.2/10(136 votes)

    #22 - Hits And Missiles

    S1:E2

    Popeye, Olive and Wimpy end up on the moon with little cheese men. They meet some moon men who introduce the trio to their leader, "Big Cheese." Popeye asks for help in getting back to Earth, but the leader is an evil man and tries to imprison Popeye and his friends. However, the moon men have taken a liking to Popeye and don't like the way that their leader has treated him, so they help him escape by overthrowing "Big Cheese."

    Director:Seymour Kneitel
    Writers:Jack Mercer, Sid Marcus, Carl Meyer

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  23. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 45 - Matinee Idol Popeye
    6.2/10(103 votes)

    #23 - Matinee Idol Popeye

    S1:E45

    Brutus is an egotistical French director making a film about Antony and Cleopatra, starring Popeye and Olive Oyl. But Popeye may not survive the production.

    Director:Gene Deitch
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 73 - Popeye's Hypnotic Glance
    6.2/10(64 votes)

    #24 - Popeye's Hypnotic Glance

    S1:E73

    Brutus hypnotizes Olive into falling in love with him. Then he hypnotizes Alice the Goon into falling in love with Popeye.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Ed Nofziger

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  25. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 114 - Plumbers Pipe Dream
    6.2/10(81 votes)

    #25 - Plumbers Pipe Dream

    S1:E114

    Popeye's attempts to fix Olive's leaking pipework leads to an escalating series of disasters that culminate in flooding all of New York City.

    Director:Jack Kinney
    Writer:Raymond Jacobs

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Mississippi Sissy" is the worst rated episode of "Popeye the Sailor". It scored 5.6/10 based on 70 votes. Directed by Jack Kinney and written by Jack Kinney, Ed Nofziger, it aired on 10/28/1960. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Private-Eye Popeye".