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The Worst Episodes of Popeye the Sailor

Every episode of Popeye the Sailor ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of Popeye the Sailor!

Worst episode
S2E9 Love Birds
5.674 votes
Best episode
S1E11 Abdominal Snowman
7.274 votes
Top season
Season 1
6.5avg
Binge time
18h 20m
220 episodes
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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 9 - Love Birds
    5.6/10(74 votes)

    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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  2. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 71 - Private-Eye Popeye
    5.6/10(71 votes)

    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 128 - Mississippi Sissy
    5.6/10(71 votes)

    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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  4. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 119 - Jeep Tale
    5.7/10(77 votes)

    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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  5. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 116 - Invisible Popeye
    5.8/10(68 votes)

    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 142 - Popeye the Piano Mover
    5.8/10(61 votes)

    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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  7. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 12 - Aladdin's Lamp
    5.9/10(73 votes)

    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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  8. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 125 - Jingle Jangle Jungle
    5.9/10(70 votes)

    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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  9. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 48 - Canine Caprice
    6.0/10(103 votes)

    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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  10. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 72 - Little Olive Riding Hood
    6.0/10(73 votes)

    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(73 votes)

    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 1 Episode 60 - Popeye and the Dragon
    6.0/10(65 votes)

    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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  13. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 49 - Intellectual Interlude
    6.0/10(62 votes)

    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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  14. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 83 - Weather Watchers
    6.1/10(78 votes)

    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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  15. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 42 - Insultin' the Sultan
    6.1/10(75 votes)

    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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  16. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 121 - Golden-Type Fleece
    6.1/10(72 votes)

    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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  17. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 5 - Gem Jam
    6.1/10(72 votes)

    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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  18. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 15 - County Fair
    6.1/10(67 votes)

    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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  19. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 74 - Popeye's Trojan Horse
    6.1/10(66 votes)

    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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  20. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 58 - Sea Hagracy
    6.1/10(63 votes)

    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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  21. Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episode 32 - A Mite of Trouble
    6.1/10(58 votes)

    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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  22. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 2 - Hits And Missiles
    6.2/10(137 votes)

    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:Sid Marcus, Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer

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  23. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 45 - Matinee Idol Popeye
    6.2/10(104 votes)

    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 114 - Plumbers Pipe Dream
    6.2/10(82 votes)

    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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  25. Popeye the Sailor Season 1 Episode 165 - Incident at Missile City
    6.2/10(73 votes)

    S1:E165

    Popeye and Olive are summoned to Spinachia by their old friend King Blozo who is in dire need of the sailor's might after his kingdom started being invaded by a daily barrage of non-explosive missiles.

    Director:Seymour Kneitel
    Writer:Howard A. Schneider

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Love Birds" is the worst rated episode of Popeye the Sailor. It scored 5.6/10 from 74 votes. Directed by Seymour Kneitel and written by Jack Mercer, Carl Meyer, it aired on March 31, 1961.

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