While on shore leave, Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a carnival, where he is challenged by Bluto in various games. Later, while Popeye is dancing on stage with Betty Boop, Bluto seizes the opportunity to kidnap Olive, forcing Popeye to come to her rescue.
After a stormy boat ride with Olive Oyl and Wimpy, Popeye builds a log cabin near the beach where they make landfall. Later, while Popeye is out on his own hunting for dinner, a band of indians wages separate assaults on the cabin and on Popeye.
Popeye visits Olive Oyl, who is working as a dancer in a cantina in Mexico. Bluto the Bandit shows up and scares off everyone except Popeye. After failing to beat him in various challenges, Bluto sets his gang on Popeye while he goes after Olive.
Popeye escorts Olive Oyl to a rodeo, where The Great Bluto is performing. Becoming jealous over Olive’s adoration of Bluto's showmanship, Popeye enters the ring to prove he can do better.
Popeye brings ice skates for Olive Oyl as a Christmas present and takes her to a frozen lake for lessons, but Bluto interferes as he tries to win her affections. When she rejects him, he sets her adrift on a block of ice, then takes on Popeye.
Popeye navigates rough seas on a raft with Olive Oyl before making landfall near a jungle. They are quickly confronted by a variety of wild jungle animals that Popeye must fend off to protect himself and Olive.
While Popeye is out with a sleeping baby in a stroller, the infant is woken up and pitches a fit. After a struggle to put the baby back to sleep, he goes to great lengths to silence various activities nearby that risk disturbing the peace.
Popeye and Bluto the Champ are at a camp training for a boxing match. Later, despite Olive Oyl’s pledge to never see him again if he fights, Popeye enters the ring for the bout. Meanwhile, Olive is nervously listening to the fight on the radio at home.
Popeye sails into town to call on Olive Oyl, only to find that she has fallen for a trapeze artist and is off performing with him. After brooding over the betrayal, he breaks in to see the act but intervenes when he sees her being treated brutally.
After escorting Olive Oyl to her job at the Bruiser Club’s hospital, Popeye looks into joining the club himself. Bluto, the club’s president, scoffs at his desire to join, then challenges him to prove how tough he is.
Olive Oyl is running a blacksmith shop with Wimpy, but finds the job to be more than the two of them can handle. Popeye and Bluto both respond to her job advertisement and find themselves competing to see who would be the better man for it.
After the children at Olive Oyl’s Health Farm for Children reject her dinner of spinach, Popeye demonstates to them how it is good for the body. The children then endanger themselves when they feed it to a pair of sickly bulls, who then turn on them.
Popeye, Wimpy, and Olive Oyl are stranded on a beach, where they encounter a ghost ship. While investigating it, the group has various strange encounters on the ship before they are attacked and subsequently tortured by the ship’s inhabitants.
After rescuing her from drowning in the river, Olive Oyl tells Popeye that Pierre Bluto, a champion lumberjack, threw her in the river because he didn’t like her spinach dinner. Popeye then confronts him, leading to a competition over lumberjack skills.
Olive Oyl goes sleepwalking one night and marches on to certain doom across rooftops and through the skeleton of a building under construction. Popeye and Bluto rush to her aid while trying to cut each other out of being the hero.
Popeye and Bluto are in rival companies of a volunteer fire department. When Olive Oyl’s house catches fire, they both respond and try to outdo and even interfere with each other in their attempts to rescue Olive and save her house.
Popeye and Olive Oyl compete as a couple in a dance contest, but find themselves fumbling on the floor. Bluto steps in and pushes Popeye out to show off his superior dance skills. Dejected, Popeye consoles himself by dining on a bowl of spinach.
Popeye and Olive Oyl open a diner and have Wimpy as their first customer, who cons them into deferring his bill. Bluto enters the diner next, makes a scene with his demands, and orders a large meal. A fight ensues after he refuses to pay the bill.
When Popeye calls on Olive Oyl intending to propose marriage, she reveals that she has fallen for another sailor, Barnacle Bill. Popeye expresses his utmost contempt for Barnacle Bill and fights him for Olive's affections when he arrives for her.
Popeye and Olive Oyl are out feeding birds in the park when they witness Bluto mistreating the horse pulling his produce cart. The couple intervenes to set a better example, but Bluto gets even angrier and takes it out on the horse.
Popeye and Bluto unexpectedly come face to face as they are calling on Olive Oyl. Olive tries to have them sit with her peacefully, but orders one out after they trade blows. To decide who stays, they perform various tricks to see who she most favors.
Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a hypnotist's show. When Popeye’s whistle-blowing interrupts his act, the performer hypnotizes Olive and forces her act like a chicken. Enraged over the mockery made of Olive, Popeye jumps on stage to defend her honor.
While escorting a prisoner, Wimpy is distracted by a display of hamburgers. The prisoner escapes and ventures into Popeye’s pawn shop. He attempts to con Popeye into buying his own knives, but Popeye rejects the low quality goods, leading to a fight.
After failing miserably at cooking a meal, Popeye decides that he needs to get a wife. He marches off to a matrimonial agency, where he finds himself interested in the same woman as Bluto. The two come to blows as they vie for the right to marry her.
Popeye invites Bluto to assist him on a deep sea dive for treasure, promising a 50/50 split. Instead, Bluto steals the map and races off to the dive site. Popeye arrives behind him and the two fight underwater while searching for the sunken treasure.
Popeye is attending a football game with Olive Oyl, but feels betrayed after she flirts with Bluto and goes on field to root for his team. In retaliation, Popeye joins the opposing team but soon finds they are outmatched by Bluto and his team.
During a Mardi Gras festival, Popeye and Bluto have competing performances on neighboring stages and vie for the attention of the crowd. The duo involve Olive Oyl in their acts before taking the rivalry to a roller coaster where they duke it out.
After a young boy gets bullied around, Popeye comes to life out of a comic book the boy had bought beforehand. Popeye shows him how he handled tough guys in a number of his earlier films, convincing the boy to eat his spinach to be strong like Popeye.
Popeye is practicing conducting with his small music band while Maestro Bluto is nearby, amused by the amateur efforts. Bluto forcibly takes over from Popeye and outshines him, leading to his friends’ abandoning him for Bluto’s band.
While on her way to Popeye’s gym for women, Olive Oyl spurns Bluto's offer to join him for a night on the town. Stinging from the rejection, Bluto sneaks into the gym disguised as a woman, intending to make Popeye look weak compared to “herself”.
Olive Oyl's singing about wanting a clean shaven man prompts Popeye and Bluto to rush off to Wimpy’s barber shop to correct their disheveled appearances. With Wimpy out of the shop, the pair agree to “fix each other up”.
After listening to Olive Oyl sing about “brotherly love” over the radio, Popeye is inspired to go out and share some love with the strangers he meets. But when he tries to intervene in large street brawl, he finds himself preaching to deaf ears.
Popeye and Bluto arrive at Olive Oyl’s cabin with offers to take her mountain climbing. Enraged that she opted to go with Popeye over him, Bluto follows the couple on their excursion, sabotaging it at every opportunity.
After objecting to Bluto’s abusive behavior and high rates for his river ferry service, Popeye vows to build a toll-free bridge. With the help of Wimpy and Olive Oyl, the construction is making progress until Bluto comes along to disrupt their work.
While working in Bluto’s restaurant, Wimpy is thwarted in his attempts to sneak a sampling of Popeye’s order of roast duck. Desperate for a snack, he resorts to sabotaging Popeye’s meal. Popeye refuses to pay, leading to a confrontation with Bluto.
Popeye and Bluto apply for a job as a lifeguard at the swimming pool. To decide who gets the job, Wimpy asks them to demonstrate their skills. The duo comply and show off for Olive Oyl and the other ladies present, trading blows in the process.
Olive Oyl rejects Popeye’s offer to help her move, believing he’s not strong enough for the task. Bluto, the moving man she hired, shows up and Olive fawns over him. Offended, Popeye accepts Bluto’s challenge to prove he’s equally strong and capable.
Olive Oyl is pushed by Popeye into taking a class for self defense. When the instructor starts to flirt with Popeye, her jealousy compels her to take a greater interest in the training, but finds herself being mocked by her new rival.
Too busy too go with Popeye to the zoo, she instead gets him to take Swee’Pea. While there, Swee’Pea sneaks off and faces danger as he enters various animal pens and cages, forcing Popeye to come to the rescue.
Olive Oyl rejects Popeye's call for a date, saying he’s not romantic enough. He tries to convince her differently by reciting poetry. Bluto overhears their conversation and decides to tap the line, interjecting ruder comments while posing as Popeye.
Rejecting Bluto’s offer to take her out in his much sportier car, Olive Oyl goes for a ride with Popeye in his jalopy. Bluto speeds ahead of the couple and attempts to sabotage their drive, but finds himself outwitted each time.
When Popeye sails near his isle, Sindbad the Sailor sends a roc to kidnap Olive Oyl off the ship and wreck it. Once Popeye makes his way to shore with Wimpy, he goes on to confront Sindbad while Wimpy ventures off hoping to make a meal out of a duck.
When Olive Oyl expresses admiration for military men, Popeye and Bluto rush into a recruitment center to sign up. Told there’s only room for one, they try to prove who is the better candidate by showing off their feats in clips from their prior movies
Wimpy is performing as an organ grinder when Bluto demands that he leave. Popeye, who was taking delight in the music, insists that he stay. The two come to blows as Bluto tries to force Wimpy to move on while Popeye steps in to defend him.
Bluto (a painter), and Popeye (a sculptor) are sharing an art studio when Olive Oyl arrives requesting a likeness of herself. The two compete to see who can provide the more satisfactory product, interfering in each other’s work while doing so.
Popeye and Bluto follow Olive Oyl to a hospital, where she works as a nurse. Desiring her attention, they fake being ill. When that ploy falls apart, they then go out in search of danger, hoping to get injured so Olive will have to tend to them.
After arriving on field for their baseball game, Popeye drops his can of spinach near Bluto. Bluto seizes the opportunity to eat the spinach himself and replaces it with grass before giving it back to an oblivious Popeye, thus gaining the upper hand.
Bluto vandalizes billboards touting “Popito and Olivita’s” dance show at Wimpy’s Café. Later, while loitering outside the café, Bluto is rejected by Olivita when he asks for a date. Angry, he enters the café intent on disrupting the show.
Popeye is starting his lunch break at the factory when he spots Olive Oyl out with Swee’Pea. She accepts his offer to join him, but their meal is cut short when Swee’Pea sneaks off into the factory and faces grave injury from the active machinery.
Popeye is distraught on learning that Olive Oyl has shut down her diner at the airfield and left him to be with an aviator. When he sees that she is being abused up in the air by the man she left him for, he rushes up in a plane himself to rescue her.
Olive Oyl, unsuccessful at getting Swee’Pea to stop crying, calls for Popeye to come help her. Bluto overhears her plea and butts in. The two men go to extremes in trying to amuse Swee’Pea with various tricks, going so far as to beat on each other.
When Swee’Pea refuses to eat his spinach dinner, Popeye recalls how he used to hate spinach too. He then relives his childhood memories of the day his football team was losing a game until he caved in to Olive Oyl’s pleas to eat his spinach.
Popeye feels humiliated when Olive Oyl makes him take her “sissy dog” for a walk, striving to avoid being seen with it. When they cross paths, Bluto sics his own "tough" dog on the other, then attacks Popeye to keep him from interfering.
While recovering from their trip to the Arabian Desert to bring Ali Baba and his band of thieves to justice, Olive Oyl and Wimpy are kidnapped as the thieves raid the town. Popeye, who was left behind in the raid, follows the thieves to stage a rescue.
Popeye leaves a parrot for Olive Oyl as a gift. Bluto is overcome with jealousy and sets the bird loose to scamper up a tree outside. When Popeye catches on and orders him to rescue the bird, Bluto proceeds to try and maim the bird instead
On New Year’s Eve, Popeye and Bluto arrive to take Olive Oyl out to celebrate. When Popeye realizes that her grandma would be left home alone, he takes pity on her and insists that she join them for the festivities.
Olive Oyl drags a reluctant Popeye into Professor Bluteau’s School of Etiquette, hoping that he can be taught to become a gentleman. After Popeye fails in his lessons, the professor attempts to woo Olive, leading to a scuffle between the men.
When Popeye and Wimpy, both volunteer firemen, arrive too late to save Olive Oyl’s house from a fire, Popeye promises they will rebuild her home. The two make good on the promise, but make many bumbling mistakes during the construction.
Determined to make her his squaw, the chief of an indian tribe showers gifts on Olive Oyl when she happens into his camp. Swooning over the attention, she refuses to leave when Popeye comes for her, leading to a confrontation with the chief.
Olive Oyl, pre-occupied with a book of love stories, pays little attention to Popeye when he calls on her before revealing that she has a new boyfriend. Dejected, Popeye feigns being ill in an attempt to regain her affections.
When Wimpy the plumber fails to arrive in a timely manner to fix Olive Oyl’s leaking pipe, Popeye arrives and attempts to fix it himself. The problems escalate as one repair leads to more leaks elsewhere.
Referring to him as a “magical dog”, Popeye brings Eugene the Jeep to Olive Oyl’s apartment so he can play with Swee’Pea. When they find Swee’Pea has escaped from his crib and gone missing, they set out to find him.
Enamoured with the señorita, Popeye follows Olive Oyl into a bull fighting stadium. While in the midst of trying to gain her affections, he finds himself shuffled into the ring, where he strives to avoid fighting the bull.
After Popeye discovers Olive Oyl aboard ship as an accidental stowaway, he attempts to keep her presence secret from his crew, who consider women to be bad luck on a ship. When they discover her out on the deck, mutiny ensues.
Popeye arrives on Goon Island, where he believes his long lost Pappy can be found. While roaming through their village in disguise, Popeye finds his Pappy is being held prisoner by the natives, but has no desire to leave.
Popeye takes Olive Oyl to a roller rink for skating lessons. During the course of her lessons, she panics and finds herself outside and facing several deadly obstacles as she skates out of control.
After an officer cites Popeye for hitting him with his car, Popeye reaches Olive Oyl's home and is dragged into helping her clean. The chores are continually interrupted as the same officer continues to cite him for various other violations while there.
As operators of competing penny arcades, Popeye and Bluto are hawking their services to the passing crowd when Wimpy happens along. The two then compete for his patronage by showing off clips from their past films to him.
While employed as a writer for the Surprise Pictures Corporation, Olive Oyl is working on a movie script in which she envisions Popeye in the title role in the classic story of Aladdin and his magic lamp, and herself as the heroine.
While out for a stroll, Popeye pauses by Olive Oyl’s Pet Shop. Taking pity on the caged animals, he buys them all and sets them free. Chaos ensues out in the streets as a parrot who stayed behind convinces him of the error in his good intentions.
Popeye has restless dreams one night, in which he finds himself competing with the devilish Bluto for the affections of the angelic Olive Oyl.
While listening to Olive Oyl read a scary story, Popeye becomes spooked and hides under the couch, much to her and Bluto’s amusement. Bluto is then inspired to play a prank on the two by making a nearby house appear to be haunted.
After overhearing Olive Oyl invite Popeye over for a hamburger dinner, Wimpy sneaks out and heads over himself, disguised as Popeye. Confusion ensues as the two argue over who is the real Popeye, with Olive believing in the impostor.
After receiving a telegram from the Popeye Fan Club begging them to tone down the violence, Olive Oyl convinces Popeye and Bluto to start acting like gentlemen. Later, the men call on her and try to act civilized, but feel awkward in doing so.
After spanking him for being bad, Popeye sends a crying Swee’Pea off to bed without supper. As Popeye wrestles with his conscience over the spanking, Swee’Pea runs away, facing danger as he travels.
When Bluto arrives at the theater to perform in the role of Romeo for the evening’s play, he learns that he has been unceremoniously replaced by Popeye. Enraged, Bluto breaks into the theater to disrupt the performance and retake the leading role.
While Olive Oyl is showing off her trained goldfish to Popeye, the fish accidentally slips off into the ocean. Worried that her fish may drown, Olive goads Popeye into jumping in to rescue her pet, which in turn leads Popeye off on a wild chase.
Olive Oyl is showing Popeye a map to her secret goldmine when they catch Bluto spying on them. Bluto photographs the map and races off to the mine with the intent of claiming it for himself. Popeye and Olive arrive right behind him to defend her claim.
After Olive Oyl abandons him for a cowboy, Popeye heads out west to prove to her he can “punch cows” just as well as they can. When he reaches the ranch and asks for a job, Bluto attempts to embarrass him by having him try to ride his best horse.
Competing for a franchise to operate the state’s railroad, Popeye prepares for a race to earn it but is sabotaged by his competitor, Bluto. Once underway, he has to rescue Olive Oyl, who was accidentally swept up into Bluto’s locomotive and put to work.
After Popeye proposes marriage, Olive Oyl sends him away so she can have time to consider it. When she goes to sleep that night, she dreams of what her life would be like with a home of four children by him.
When Popeye and Bluto call on Olive Oyl, each hoping to take her out, Olive recruits the men to watch Sweet Pea for her while she first heads to the beauty parlor. After she leaves, the two argue over the right way to bathe and clothe the baby.
Popeye sees off his pal Dr. Bluto as he leaves on an expedition to Africa. As the months pass, Popeye is longing for his friend to return when he learns that Bluto has gone missing. Popeye then rushes off to Africa to search for and rescue his pal.
Hoping to land a job as a stunt man, Popeye heads off to the studio of Mystery Pictures, toting along film reels demonstrating his stunt performances in past movies. Sweet Pea tags along hoping to be a stuntman too, but Popeye tells him to go back home.
Popeye visits Olive Oyl to show off his new sports car and takes her for a ride. When Olive Oyl begs Popeye to give her driving lessons, he hesitates to do so, fearing she will damage his new car, but relents when she threatens to walk back home.
Excited at the news that vaudeville is making a comeback, Olive Oyl convinces Popeye to resurrect their old act. After Popeye retrieves their dusty costumes and props from storage, they practice their routines with a little help from Sweet Pea.
William Tell runs afoul of the governor and is required to prove his identity by shooting an apple off his son's head. Popeye, despite learning earlier from William that his last attempt at that proved fatal to his son, steps in to help him out.
While Popeye is building a ship, his Pappy comes along offering to help out. Popeye initially rejects his offer, believing he is too old for the job, but relents and lets him build the opposite side of the boat so they can see who does the better job.
Popeye tries to get his Pappy to go to bed, but the older man would rather go out. Popeye, believing he needs his rest, tries to force him to stay in, but finds himself constantly intervening as Pappy sneaks out and gets himself into trouble.
Olive Oyl sends Eugene the Jeep to Popeye as a birthday present. Following Olive's advice, Popeye makes him a bed to sleep in outside. Preferring the comfort of Popeye’s own bed, Eugene continually outwits Popeye in his efforts to keep him outdoors.
After discovering that Pappy has taken a job performing tricks on top of a flag pole, Popeye fears for his safety and insists he return home with him. Pappy is determined to stay and thwarts Popeye's attempts to force the matter.
When Popeye checks on Pappy, he finds the older man in bed with a headache and a fever. Believing he needs rest and quiet, Popeye goes to great lengths to silence any noises that risk disturbing Pappy’s sleep.
Popeye calls on Olive Oyl and finds her frantically searching for a sweepstakes ticket to claim first prize in a contest. After they locate it, the ticket blows out the window, leading Popeye to risk life and limb as he tries to retrieve it for Olive.
Popeye is trying to take a nap but is briefly disturbed by a group of flies. After shooing them out the window, one other fly who was left behind goes out of its way to pester Popeye, supercharging its shenanigans with spinach.
After stumbling across the slumbering Rip Van Winkle as he is being evicted from his home, Popeye brings the man home with him so he can have a bed to sleep in. When Rip goes sleepwalking, Popeye chases after him and winds up scuffling with some gnomes.
Popeye is looking to buy a bearskin coat as a birthday present for Olive Oyl, but a furrier tries to scam him. He then decides instead to hunt down a bear to make the coat himself, but guilt overcomes him when he finally corners one.
When Pappy starts to silence Sweet Pea’s crying by slapping him, Popeye intervenes and shows him some lessons in a book on child psychology. When Popeye steps out, Pappy tries to make a “he-man” out of Sweet Pea by testing his nerves.
Popeye rejects Pappy's plea for a job as a pilot at his airport, saying he’s too old to be a pilot, even if he knew how to fly. Stinging from the rejection, Pappy spots an unattended plane and makes off with it, causing havoc around the world.
When Olive Oyl discovers that a flock of crows is eating up the vegetables in her garden, she calls Popeye to get rid of them. The crows prove to be craftier than he anticipated as his various attempts to run them off fall flat.
Having enlisted in the US Navy, Popeye is aboard a training ship when the captain demands he demonstrate what he knows about a ship. More accustomed to “ships with sails”, Popeye fumbles about as he tries to operate the modern ship’s mechanisms.
Needing a human subject to practice on, a hypnotist randomly picks Olive Oyl’s name out of a phone book, hypnotizes her over a phone call, and commands her to come to him. When Popeye catches on to what happened, he chases after her to save her.
Intent on stealing Popeye's girlfriend, Olivia Oyla, Bluto beats Popeye off ship for shore leave and reaches her first. After Popeye arrives to claim his date, Bluto follows them to a café and offers to dance with the señorita when Popeye won’t.
Popeye finds the modern weapons of the battleship to be more complex than he can handle and fumbles his turn at target practice. He is then sent to shovel coal in the boiler room, but when an enemy submarine is spotted, he responds to the battle call.
Believing that he lacks discipline, the battleship captain is putting Popeye through a set of drills when an enemy plane attacks the ship. Popeye is sent after the plane in a patrol boat and finds its carrier, from which more planes are launching.
While Popeye is getting spinach for his nephews' lunch, the boys try to sneak out but he manages to herd them back to the table. When they express how they dislike spinach, Popeye is dismayed and sets to convince them of its benefits for the body.
Popeye and Bluto have sworn off women, considering them to be nothing but trouble, when Olive Oyl shows up at their ship for a tour. Forgetting their vows, the two men fight over who gets to show her around, with Olive caught in the middle.
In order to sneak off the army base, Bluto ambushes Popeye, swaps his army uniform for Popeye’s navy uniform, then leaves base uncontested. Popeye then finds himself doing tank drills in Bluto’s place, unfamiliar with how they operate.
Unimpressed with Popeye's gift of a toy sailboat, Sweet Pea is instead enamoured with the battleship that Popeye is stationed on. When Olive Oyl leaves him in Popeye’s care to go shopping, Sweet Pea sneaks out of his carriage to explore the battleship.
While out on patrol, Popeye encounters a pair of Japanese fishermen. Expecting a battle, Popeye starts to confront the two, but stops when they offer a peace gesture. He is warmed by the offer and accepts it, but finds they are just toying with him.
While their battleship is moored off the tropical Isle of Woo Woo, Popeye and Bluto spot Princess Alona in the surf nearby. Popeye and Bluto follow the dream girl to shore and pursue her through the jungle, each hoping to gain her affections.
Popeye and Bluto are competing for a contract to build a fleet of ships, with the winner being who can deliver the first ship. The two men set to constructing their ships, with Bluto interfering with Popeye’s efforts in the hopes of gaining the edge.
Popeye is performing maintenance duties on an aircraft carrier when a camouflaged enemy plane attacks the ship. Popeye goes after him, eventually finding himself aboard a Japanese repair ship, taking on them and a Japanese battleship nearby.
Exhausted and in need of rest, Popeye interrupts his nephews’ music practice so they can get ready for sleep. The boys are still restless after Popeye puts them to bed, so they begin an impromptu practice session with makeshift instruments.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Good buddies Popeye and Bluto head to Rio to catch a show at a nightclub. When Olive Oyl takes the stage to sing and dance, the boys are instantly smitten and their friendship forgotten as they compete for her attention.
Popeye and Bluto are fawning over Olive Oyl as she struggles to run a blacksmith shop on her own. When she pines for a strong man to help her out, the two men go to great lengths to try to prove which of them is stronger and more skilled for the job.
After donating blood, Popeye loses a boxing match that evening to Bluto. Believing he's become too weak for her tastes, Olive Oyl tells Popeye that she's leaving him. In a desperate bid to prove how strong he is, Popeye recaps the feats of strength he exhibited in his past movies.
Bluto makes a life-like marionette that looks just like Popeye as part of a ploy to sour Olive's affections for him. The ruse is working when Popeye finally catches on and turns the tables on Bluto.
Popeye and Olive are enjoying a day at the zoo when the zookeeper, Bluto, spots Olive and is immediately smitten. He follows the couple through the park, determined to demonstrate to Olive that his mastery over the zoo creatures makes him the better man.
When Bluto overhears Olive Oyl telling Popeye that only the comic book character Superman can make her heart "jitterbug", he comes up with a scheme to pose as the superhero as a way to win her affections.
It's moving day for Olive, with Popeye and Shorty arriving with a truck to lend a hand. Their arrival earns the ire of a policeman as their clumsiness leads to numerous accidents and general chaos.
Popeye has been long adrift in the ocean on a raft when he finally spots land. Once ashore, he finds an inn where he seeks a room and a meal to recover from his ordeal. What Popeye doesn't realize is that the manager is a cannibal who intends to "serve" Popeye up as a meal instead.
Popeye is the star of the circus, performing various acts as a lion tamer and acrobat, with Olive Oyl assisting him. As the ringmaster, Bluto has eyes for Olive and sabotages Popeye's acts in an effort to make him look bad to Olive and the audience.
Popeye and Bluto have retired to a deserted island to get away from women interfering in their lives. After three years, their friendship is stronger than ever, but when Olive Oyl arrives by raft one day after being lost at sea, the men quickly abandon their friendship as they pursue her affections.
Popeye and Bluto fall for nurse Olive and follow her back to the hospital. When she kicks them out, they scheme to injure themselves so that they would have to be admitted as patients and they could then have her attention.
Popeye and Bluto spot Olive Oyl arriving for her shift at the factory and subsequently debate over who has dibs on asking her out on a date. As the day goes on, Olive gets into trouble, forcing the men to come to her aid with Bluto interfering in Popeye's efforts.
Olive is building a house when the boys happen by. They show off a bit to convince her to let them build her house for her. She decides to split the job in half by splitting the blueprints in half and having each build one side of the house.
Olive runs a service station. The admiral pulls in and asks Olive to put some air in his tire, as he heads off to a cigar store. Meanwhile, the boys stop by on a 24-hour leave, and start to be "helpful" - which of course means that the tire, then the entire car, are in serious trouble.
At the Polar Bar & Grill in the Klondike, Popeye and Olive Oyl are the sole proprietors. Dangerous Dan McBluto, the owner of a fur farm, walks in and kidnaps Olive.
Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it.
Popeye and Olive are touring a museum when they accidentally launch a rocketship to Mars.
Popeye and Olive are at the rodeo, starring Badlands Bluto. Olive is impressed by Bluto's stunts, many of them designed to make Popeye look bad. Dynamite, the bronco that's never been ridden busts out and Popeye, seeing his chance, downs some spinach and manages an impressive series of tricks, culminating in firing a bullet at Bluto and lassoing it just in time. Bluto's had enough, and he substitutes loco weed for Popeye's spinach, then challenges him to throw the bull. Popeye's fried brain sees the bull as a beautiful woman; he tries to dance with it. The bull throws Popeye against the box where Bluto is now sitting and throws the remaining loco weed into Bluto's open mouth; he sees Olive as a bull and grabs her. He tries to brand her; her cries of help arouse Popeye, who pulls out a fresh can of spinach and goes to work.
Popeye and Olive enter the city of Badgag and spot Bluto doing magic tricks.
Bluto is Robinson Crusoe; Popeye and Olive approach his island on a raft.
Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park/carnival.
Popeye and Olive are on a winter vacation in Lake Plastered, NY. Popeye is teaching Olive to ice skate.
Popeye is taking Olive on a boat ride when she spots a pirate ship.
Popeye and Olive are feeding squirrels in the park when the rich and elegant Count Marvo (Bluto), the magician (and practical joker), rides up on his horse and steals Olive away.
Popeye and Bluto are knights, jousting for the honor of Sleeping Beauty (Olive, with long blonde hair).
Popeye and Olive are on a safari, he with a gun and she with a camera.
Bluto, the daring hot air balloon rider, catches the eye of Olive at a carnival.
Tired of political rhetoric, Olive lays out her platform.
Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat.
Popeye and Olive are atop the highest peak in Yellowstone Park; Olive falls off into a deep hole, where a caveman and dinosaur are still living.
The first Olympics, starring Hercules (looking, but not quite sounding, like a really pumped-up Bluto), who challenges anyone to do the same feats as him. Popeye takes that challenge, of course. First, they battle animals, with Bluto pulling the skins off two wild elephants and Popeye turning three lions into a nesting set. The discus throw doesn't go well, with Herc's disc swooping Popeye into Herc's hand. The javelin is even worse for Popeye, with Herc throwing him all the way to the moon. This gives him a chance to go after Olive in typical Bluto fashion; her cries of help reach Popeye, who prays to the Greek goddess Spinachia, who delivers a can of spinach to him.
Popeye and Olive are riding a camel in Arabia. They stop to fill the camel with water and freshen up a bit; Olive muses aloud that she'd like to kiss a sheik.
Popeye's nephews would rather have hamburgers than spinach, so Popeye recounts some of his past exploits where spinach saved the day.
Popeye and Olive are relaxing in the water off Miami when a hurricane hits.
Popeye is Robin Hood; he's got a sidekick, Little John. Bluto is the tax collector, and Olive is the owner/barmaid at the local pub.
Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.
Popeye and Olive are at the premiere of Popeye's new movie. He gets a little too wrapped up in the movie, interacting with it at various points, and even handing the screen version of himself a can of spinach. The movie itself is the story of Aladdin, minus the songs and about half the footage of Aladdin and His Wonderful Lamp (1939), the short it's cut from.
Popeye and Bluto are lumberjacks who compete for the affections of their new cook, Olive Oyl.
Popeye and Bluto are airplane pilots racing around the world. Bluto has a rocket-type plane and Popeye has a sad old prop model that has to be hand-started.
Popeye and Olive are taking in a variety show. Popeye enjoys the juggling seal very much, but he's followed by magician/hypnotist Bluto.
Popeye becomes a sheriff of a lawless Western town.
Popeye's traveling department store comes to hillbilly country.
Having to walk Olive's dainty French Poodle, Frenchy, both human and dog are bullied by Bluto and his vicious bulldog.
Popeye is settling in for a nap in his hammock, but every sound in the city is disturbing him until he moves indoors. Even there, he's plagued by houseflies.
