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Popeye the Sailor Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
51 Episodes 1961 - 1962
Episode 1
Oil's Well That Ends Well
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Oily Brutus swindles Olive Oyl out of her game show winnings with a worthless oil well. It's up to Popeye to grease the path towards a happy ending.
Episode 2
Motor Knocks
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Popeye and Olive go out for a drive in the country, but they run out of gas. Brutus's garage is nearby, but that's no stroke of luck. Brutus cheats Popeye on the price of the gas, "accidentally" squirts him with oil and sabotages his motor. Worst of all, he flirts with Olive. Soon he's got Olive in the front seat of his tow truck, while Popeye remains in the car. But Brutus "accidentally" loses Popeye's car, thus losing Popeye, leaving him free to hit on Olive. Luckily, Popeye keeps spinach in his glove compartment.
Episode 3
Amusement Park
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Brutus kidnaps swee'pee and sells him to an amusement park freak-show.
Episode 4
Duel to the Finish
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Olive Oyl is bored with Popeye just sitting around her house playing with a yo-yo. She wants him to be romantic, but Popeye considers that to be sissy. Olive cooks up a plot to make Popeye jealous. She fries up some hamburgers and then uses an electric fan to blow the aroma over to Wimpy's house. The trick works and soon Wimpy is in her kitchen using food analogies as compliments, e.g. "Your eyes are like limpid pools of chicken fat." Popeye laughs this all off until he hears the unmistakable smack of a kiss (which Olive planted on Wimpy's nose). Popeye challenges Wimpy to a fight, but Wimpy declares that fisticuffs are beneath his dignity. Instead, he proposes an eating duel.
Episode 5
Gem Jam
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Popeye and Olive are rubber-necked tourists in India when the Sea Hag and her trusty vulture arrive in the mysterious and mystical country to commit a terrible crime. The Sea Hag disguises herself as a peddler in order to hypnotize Olive with a magical perfume. While under the Sea Hag's spell, Olive steals the sacred emerald from the crown of a jade idol. The moment she removes the jewel from the public statue and puts it in her purse, the idol strikes her with a lightning bolt, which brings her back to reality. The Sea Hag tries to steal Olive's purse, but Olive cries out for Popeye, who didn't notice until now she was gone from his side. Popeye sends the Sea Hag scurrying away, but Olive's troubles aren't over yet. Olive is cursed for having stolen the gem, which is why the Sea Hag had her do it in the first place. Now her life and Popeye's are in terrible danger.
Episode 6
The Bathing Beasts
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Olive's new car attracts the attention of Popeye and Brutus, an argument breaks out over who will sit in the front seat, to settle things Olive suggests they enter a strong-man contest and the winner sits in the front.
Episode 7
The Rain Breaker
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Popeye meets Thor The God of Thunder and must save a fair maiden trapped high in a castle.
Episode 8
Messin' Up the Mississippi
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Popeye becomes the headline attraction on a show-boat, Brutus as always, is jealous of his fame.
Episode 9
Love Birds
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
It's springtime and Olive notices her lovebird, Juliet, is very unhappy. She calls Popeye to come over and he's through her front door before she puts down the receiver. She explains that her Juliet needs a boyfriend. Popeye goes to the pet shop to buy a "romantical boy loveboid." He finds a lonely one, appropriately named Romeo, and brings him to Juliet. The two are happy for a few moments before they start quarreling. Romeo gets angry and flies away. Juliet is heartbroken. "You men are all alike!" shouts Olive at Popeye. She tells Popeye that if he doesn't bring back Romeo, she'll never speak to him again.
Episode 10
Sea Serpent
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Olive is a reporter who's so busy that she doesn't have time to be with Popeye. Her boss then tells her that there are rumored reports of a sea serpent at lochness so he sends her to check it out. Popeye tells her there's no such thing. When she arrives she meets, the man who knows about the Sea Serpent, Brutus. He charges her for every piece of info he gives her. Popeye is incredulous and finds evidence that Brutus is a fake.
Episode 11
Boardering on Trouble
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Popeye and Brutus are owners of a nightclub and restaurant, a fight breaks out between them when their guest, Miss Oyl, can't decide on spending her night at dinner or watching a show.
Episode 12
Aladdin's Lamp
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Olive Oyl buys a new lamp at an auction sale, little guessing that it's the famous Aladdin's lamp, complete with a butler-like genie. But the Sea Hag knows the truth worth of Olive's antique. The evil witch steals the lamp and takes it back to her ship where she summons the genie and orders him to make her rich. The genie does so by turning a barrel into solid gold, a rusty chain into precious stones and a rope into a string of enormous pearls. Meanwhile, Popeye climbs aboard ship determined to get Olive's antique back for her.
Episode 13
Butler Up
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
An old school friend of Olive Oyl's turns up for dinner, to impress him Olive asks Popeye to be her butler.
Episode 14
The Leprechaun
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
The Sea Hag is planning to steal a leprechaun's gold by finding a leprechaun and making him tell her where his gold is. Popeye knowing that she's up to something follows her. When he encounters her, her vulture knocks him out. A leprechaun finds him and helps him. Later the same leprechaun runs into the Sea Hag and she makes him tell her where his gold is. When the other leprechauns learn what he did they banish him. When Popeye runs into him, he tells Popeye what happened Popeye sets to get the gold back.
Episode 15
County Fair
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Popeye and Brutus are farmers who enter a county fair contest to see who's the best. But Brutus is cheating.
Episode 16
Hamburgers Aweigh
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye is shipping canned hamburgers. And when Wimpy hears of this, he offers to protect them. Popeye is hesitant to let him. But he agrees but on the condition that he let the Wiffle Bird put a spell on Wimpy making him not like hamburgers. So while they sail, the Sea Hag shows up and plots to make off with the cargo and offers Wimpy part of the hamburgers. But when he refuses she puts a spell on him making him her slave.
Episode 17
Popeye's Double Trouble
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
When the Sea Hag overhears Popeye wishing that he was lucky, she asks her vulture to get out of her pouch a coin which gives whoever has it bad luck and throws it at Popeye hoping he will be cursed. But the vulture gave Popeye her gold luck coin which grants three wishes. When Popeye uses it, Sea Hag tries to get it back before he uses the other two. Knowing that he's on his way to pick up Olive for a date, the Sea Hag gets there before Popeye does, binds and gags the slender brunette, then makes herself look like Olive. She then goes with Popeye to the dance planning to steal the coin, using violence if necessary.
Episode 18
Kiddie Kapers
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
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.
Episode 19
The Mark of Zero
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Olive Oyl's niece Diesel refuses to go to bed, which means it's up to her "Uncle" Popeye to tell her a bedtime story. He settles on "The Mark of Zero," his own version of the story of Zorro. The story is dramatized for us starring Popeye himself as the Mark of Zero, who is dressed rather like Robin Hood, and Brutus as the leader of a robber band.
Episode 20
Myskery Melody
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Poopdeck Pappy is suddenly frightened of a mysterious flute melody that wafts through the air. At first Popeye and Olive cannot hear the haunting melody, but Pappy tells them about when he was a young man, and he was attracted to a young woman, a jewel of the sea, who tried to seduce him but turned out to be Wicked Seahag in disguise. Upon discovering her true identity Pappy fled, and Seahag vowed revenge. Now she has discovered a flute melody that can hypnotize Pappy into her trap, and when Popeye and Olive finally do hear the haunting melody, Pappy becomes hypnotized drawn to the dungeon of a distant castle, where Popeye must enlist the aid of Eugene The Jeep is rescue him.
Episode 21
Scairdy Cat
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye drinks a potion which turns him into a coward, Brutus tries to take his place as Olive Oyl's date and Popeye finally manages to get hold of some spinach which gives him back his bravery.
Episode 22
Operation Ice-Tickle
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye and Brutus are fighting over Olive as the three of them take a walk through the park. Olive tells them she's sick of their childish bickering. Why don't they go out and do something important? As she says it, she happens to be standing next to a statue of Admiral Peary, who discovered the North Pole. "He only discovered it," boasts Popeye. "I'll brings it back here." Brutus denigrates the idea, but Olive says she'll go out with the first person to bring her back the North Pole. Brutus travels in a rocket ship, Popeye in a hot-air balloon. Both reach the red-and-white-striped pole, but only one brings it back.
Episode 23
The Cure
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Wimpy realizes he has a problem with hamburgers, Popeye helps him to contact Hamburger Anonymous. Meanwhile the SeaHag realizes her burger bar is missing it's best customer and takes steps to ruin Wimpy's attempts to break his addiction.
Episode 24
William Won't Tell
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
It's 1813, King Brutus and Maiden Olive Oyl become jealous when Popeye rescues The Queen and fixes her broken carriage.
Episode 25
Pop Goes the Whistle
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Swee' Pea's favorite toy has lost its whistle and Popeye runs all over town trying to find it.
Episode 26
Autographically Yours
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Brutus is jealous of Popeyes fame.
Episode 27
A Poil for Olive Oyl
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye takes Olice out to buy her a birthday present and she chooses a pearl necklace and when Popeye hears how much they are, he sets out to get pearls from the sea. He goes diving and finds the oyster beds where the pearls are. But the Sea Hag is there and she claims that the pearls belong to her.
Episode 28
My Fair Olive
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye and Olive are on a date at the local museum and see an armored knights exhibit. The curator (Brutus) and Ms. Oyl become attracted to each other, so Brutus butts in and a fight breaks out between him and the sailor over her. Olive then suggests they have a jousting tournament to settle their argument.
Episode 29
Giddy Gold
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
While going through a tunnel of love boat ride, Olive notices a lot decorative jewels and other valuables and wishes they were real. That's when the Wiffle Bird shows and says they can be by just touching his feathers and wishing it. And it happens. So she and Popeye grab buckets of the jewels and makes their way out but the Wiffle Bird shows to tell them that there are three dangerous dangers that anyone who tries to take anything will have to face. While Popeye prefers to leave everything behind Olive says they go on with them.
Episode 30
Strange Things Are Happening
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye is having a very strange day. The Sea Hag tries to kidnap him, Wimpy offers to buy him lunch, and then he sees Olive going to the movies with Brutus.
Episode 31
The Medicine Man
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye is attracting customers to his medicine show by acting as a one-man band, while Olive Oyl does the barking for him. He's selling Spinach Health Juice, which he tells his audience will bring back their "vim, vigor and vitaliky" and "prevent sunburn, windburn and moonburn." Dr. Quack, aka Brutus, paints pills from his nearby office and overhears the sales pitch. Popeye's health juice could ruin his practice. He decides to put an end to it by creating his own lookalike bottle of Spinach Health Juice, filled with Tabasco sauce, red pepper, ground horseradish, red-hot mustard and green horse liniment. He tricks Popeye into drinking it, which gives Popeye a terrible case of hiccups. Olive begs Dr. Quack to cure Popeye, but Quack is only interested in making the hiccups worse--and in getting Olive in his clutches.
Episode 32
A Mite of Trouble
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
The Sea Hag tries to steal Popeyes treasure map treasure map by dressing a dwarf up as Swee'pea.
Episode 33
Who's Kidding Zoo
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye and Brutus apply for the same part-time zoo keeper job.
Episode 34
Robot Popeye
Tue, Jan 24, 19615 mins
Brutus buys a patented Popeye robot to cause friction between Popeye and Olive.
Episode 35
Sneaking Peeking
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Swee'pea's birthday is here, with Popeye and Olive Oyl trying to stop Swee'pea from peeking into his birthday presents. Olive tells him a fable; something like Pandora's Box. Will Swee'pea learn?
Episode 36
Seer-ring Is Believer-ring
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Olive Oyl buys a ring that allows her to see the immediate future; but it really belongs to Evil Eye, a red-bearded foreign hypnotist with supernatural powers.
Episode 37
The Wiffle Bird's Revenge
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye angrily refuses the ever-mooching Wimpy yet another loan "until Tuesday" for a meal at Rough House's Diner. Wimpy, now hungry and desperate, happens across a bird that he captures and hopes to eat. It turns out to be the magical Wiffle bird, which casts a spell on him in revenge. Whenever Wimpy says the word "hamburger", he changes into a werewolf. Meanwhile at the diner, Popeye expresses regret for his stinginess, when suddenly a newscaster on TV warns the public about a werewolf running loose. Popeye soon discovers the true identity of this wolf-man and seeks out the Wiffle bird to convince her to break the spell.
Episode 38
Going Going Gone
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Wimpy tricks Brutus into buying him some hamburgers, Brutus gets angry and Wimpy decides to use vanishing cream to hide from him.
Episode 39
Popeye Thumb
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
After being teased for being too small Popeye tells Swee' Pea his version of the classic "Tom Thumb".
Episode 40
The Billionaire
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Billionaire Popeye gives a million dollars to each of his friends to see who will spend the money the wisest way. When they squander all their money and ask for more, Popeye decides to give all the rest of his money to the Poor Sailor Fund.
Episode 41
Model Muddle
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
After visiting the national art museum Popeye decides to try his hand at a bit of modern sculpture.
Episode 42
Which Is Witch
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
The Sea Hag hatches a plot to kidnap Popeye. She replaces Olive with a robot replica programmed to bring him to her Island.
Episode 43
Disguise the Limit
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye the Detective is called on to find a gorilla that has just escaped from the Zoo. He an Olive devise a plan to re-capture the gorilla which involves Popeye disguising himself as a female gorilla and luring it back into it enclosure.
Episode 44
Spoil Sport
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye has got himself a scooter, Olive Snubs him for Brutus and his fast, shiny, new, fast sports car. The ride turns out to be far too fast and dangerous for Olive and it's not long before she is in need of help from Popeye.
Episode 45
Have Time Will Travel
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye, who is presumably bored of living in the 1960, decides to build Olive a time machine, luckily the dinosaur populated prehistoric time they visit has plenty of spinach.
Episode 46
Intellectual Interlude
Tue, Jan 24, 1961
Popeye eats some "intellectual spinach" given to him by a professor at an adult education class.
Episode 47
Partial Post
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
Popeye accidentally posts Olive Oyl's birthdays cards into a recently landed spaceship, thinking it to be a postbox.
Episode 48
Weight for Me
Tue, Jan 24, 19616 mins
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.
Episode 49
Canine Caprice
Wed, Jan 24, 1962
Popeye buys Olive Oyl a talking dog, the dog, named Roger, tells Popeye that Olive Oyl has been seeing another man.
Episode 50
Roger
Mon, Jan 1, 1962
Roger, the talking dog, discovers a plot to rob a jewelry store but he is unable to get the police to understand him.
Episode 51
Tooth Be or Not Tooth Be
Mon, Jan 1, 196223 mins
This episode includes, Tooth Be or Not Tooth Be, Model Muddle, Poppa Popeye and Pest of the Pecos.