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The Spinach Scholar
Popeye the Sailor - S1 - E150
Olive tells Popeye that she's through with him unless he goes back to school and gets an "edumacation." Popeye enrolls in school and he is placed in the eighth grade. Popeye's many educated guesses cause him to become the laughingstock of the entire school. Each time that he attempts to answer a question in class, he's demoted. Poor Popeye can't cut it and goes through each class (from high school to kindergarten). Here, he's asked to spell "CAT." In desperation, he eats his spinach and spells it right, thus graduating from kindergarten. When Olive meets him after school, he brags that getting an education was very easy- he went through the whole school in one day.
Popeye the Sailor: Season 1 - 70 Episode s
1x100 - Popeye the Popular Mechanic
October 15, 1960
Popeye buys a do-it-yourself kit and makes a mechanical servant. It continues its mechanical duties all through the night, pouring tea on Popeye, mixing salad in his mouth and tossing other items. It lights a match, causing Popeye to awaken blowing flames. Popeye ends by putting the mechanical servant in workshop vice. Popeye then does his own house work in an uncomplaining manner.
1x101 - Popeye's Folly
October 15, 1960
Popeye tells Swee' Pea the story of building the first steamboat, "Popeye's Folly", Brutus, the captain of the windjammer challenges "Folly" to a race.
1x102 - Popeye's Used Car
October 16, 1960
Popeye arrives at Olive's house to take her for a walk. She refuses and rides off with Brutus in his new car. Popeye goes to Wimpy's used car lot, and Wimpy sells him a car.
1x103 - Spinachonara
October 16, 1960
Popeye reads Swee' Pea a Japanese fairytale. Popeye, Wimpy, Olive and Brutus are all used as characters.
1x104 - Popeye and the Polite Dragon
October 16, 1960
A dragon steps out of swee'peas storybook, he tries to be kind and helpful, but sneezes fire and the whole house goes up in flames. It ends with Popeye holding Swee' Pea in his lap in charred remains, reading fairytale book.
1x105 - Popeye and the Ugly Ducklin
October 17, 1960
Popeye shows Swee' Pea a picture of himself, Olive and Brutus when they were children, he says that he was called the Ugly Ducklin'. One day after being bullied by Brutus for being very, very ugly, popeye set sail to a small island inhabited by goons, they were friendly and fed him sea spinach. The spinach made him powerful and very close to being handsome.
1x106 - Popeye's Tea Party
October 17, 1960
Popeye is sent back in time to The Boston Tea Party. The local residents are fed up with being overtaxed, so they plot to throw the tea overboard into the sea.
1x107 - The Troll Wot Got Gruff
October 17, 1960
Once again Popeye tells Swee'pea a fairy story using his friends and family as characters. Brutus is the troll.
1x108 - Popeye the Lifeguard
October 20, 1960
Popeye's a lifeguard and all the girls on the beach are falling for him. Olive is jealous and tries to get his attention by diving off a pier and yelling help! Popeye rescues her and is very angry because she took him away from all the girls.
1x109 - Popeye in the Woods
October 20, 1960
Popeye and Wimpy camp to the woods for peace and quiet but Wimpy wants to cook hamburgers.
1x110 - After the Ball Went Over
October 20, 1960
Popeye and Brutus play ping pong, and the prize is a kiss from Olive.
1x111 - Popeye and Buddy Brutus
October 20, 1960
Brutus asks Popeye to be his skin diving buddy. Popeye agrees. Popeye finds an ancient western sea cow town. Popeye finds gold, Brutus takes half, then hits Popeye and takes Popeye's share. Wimpy is fishing and catches Brutus on his line. The episode ends with Wimpy having his picture taken with Brutus hanging beside him like a big whale.
1x112 - Popeye's Car Wash
October 21, 1960
Popeye opens a car wash. Brutus has a car wash across the street. When Olive brings a long convertible to Popeye to be washed, Brutus mixes the controls and Olive's car comes out shrunken to midget size. Olive is burned up and Brutus takes her across the street to his beautiful "Brutus Beauty Bath." Olive swoons over Brutus and he chases her. Popeye comes to the rescue and gets the worst of it. Then he eats spinach. Popeye knocks Brutus' car wash apart and it settles back to Brutus' junk yard. Brutus lands in front of Popeye's Car Wash in the form of a statue spraying water from his mouth and ears. Popeye and Olive hop in the car and drive into his car wash singing.
1x113 - Camel Aires
October 21, 1960
Popeye travels to Egypt in the hopes of recovering a rare gem and bringing it to the USA.
1x114 - Plumbers Pipe Dream
October 21, 1960
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.
1x115 - Popeye and the Herring Snatcher
October 22, 1960
Wimpy, a night watchman in a herring factory, gets a cold and asks Popeye to take over. He hears strange noises and starts investigating, many hijinx follow and Brutus turns up.
1x116 - Invisible Popeye
October 22, 1960
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.
1x117 - The Square Egg
October 22, 1960
Swee' Pea has a square egg, did he find it or did he lay it? However he got it (Porabably from Popeye's chicken ranch) it's very rare and valuable.
1x118 - Old Salt Tale
October 23, 1960
while at the beach Popeye tells Swee'Pea a tall tale that explains why the sea is salty.
1x119 - Jeep Tale
October 23, 1960
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.
1x120 - The Super Duper Market
October 23, 1960
Olive, Popeye and Wimpy are shopping at a Supermarket where Brutus is manager.
1x121 - Golden-Type Fleece
October 24, 1960
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!!!
1x122 - Popeye the White Collar Man
October 24, 1960
Olive convinces Popeye to become a white collar worker. Popeye is hired as an insurance agent. His first assignment is to sell a policy to a stunt man. Popeye follows him on all his stunts, trying to get him to listen to his pitch. Popeye is getting the worst of it. The stunt man is so happy he did not have to take the falls himself, he signs the policy. The episode ends with Popeye bandaged from head to toe being wheeled into the insurance office by Olive to tell the boss he made the sale.
1x123 - Sweapea Thru the Looking Glass
October 27, 1960
Olive Oyl asks Popeye how the mirror was broken. He tells her that Swee' Pea was wondering what was inside the mirror so he walked through it and found himself in a meadow. Swee' Pea fell into a hole and found himself in a small house. He ate some pills and grew very tall. Then he ate a different pill and returned to normal size. Outside, he found a garden where Queen Sea Hag and King Brutus were playing croquet, using Jeeps for balls and vultures for mallets. He refused to play so the Queen ordered him killed. He escaped through the mirror. To prove that Swee' Pea could not possibly have gone through the mirror, Popeye crashes into it and it breaks.
1x124 - The Black Knight
October 27, 1960
Popeye is transported back in time (AGAIN!) to the days of King Arthur and the Knights of the Roundtable. While there he is challenged to joust by 'Black Knight Brutus'.
1x125 - Jingle Jangle Jungle
October 27, 1960
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.
1x126 - The Day Silky Went Blozo
October 28, 1960
King Blozo is upset that the minster "Silky" (so called because of his silky smooth mode of speech) has all the subjects in his kingdom addled. Blozo calls upon his noble varlet, Popeye, to get rid of the beast. However, when he does, Silky sweet-talks the King into letting him be.
1x127 - Rip Van Popeye
October 28, 1960
Popeye is reading a bedtime story, Popeye imagines himself as Daniel Boone tied to the railroad tracks by Indians. He awakens when the train falls on him in an attempt to escape.
1x128 - Mississippi Sissy
October 28, 1960
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.
1x129 - Double Cross Country Feet Race
October 29, 1960
Popeye and Brutus compete in a cross-country foot race to Los Angeles and back. The winner is to receive a date with the lovely Olive Oyl. However, during the race, Brutus resorts to cheating to try to win, but Popeye sees through his tricks and wins the race and the date with Olive.
1x130 - Fashion Fotography
October 29, 1960
Olive wants to have her picture taken for a fashion magazine, Popeye and Brutus fight over who will take the pictures.
1x131 - I Yam Wot I Yamnesia
October 29, 1960
Popeye, Swee' Pea, Olive Oyl and Wimpy all switch voices. Brutus then enters and the plot becomes even more entangled.
1x132 - Paper Pasting Pandemonium
October 30, 1960
Olive wants her house re-wallpapered, Popeye and Brutus get into a dreadful mess whiel doing the job.
1x133 - Coach Popeye
October 30, 1960
Popeye tries to teach Swee' Pea about the importance of good sportsmanship.
1x134 - Popeyed Columbus
October 30, 1960
Popeye is transported back in time to the days of Christopher Columbus.
1x135 - Popeye Revere
October 31, 1960
Popeye tells Swee' Pea about his Great-Great-Great-Grand Pappy Poop Deck Revere.
1x136 - Popeye in Haweye
October 31, 1960
Olive is a tourist in Hawaii and Popeye and Brutus are tour guides.
1x137 - Forever Ambergris
October 31, 1960
Popeye is babysitting Swee' Pea, he tells the story of where Olive's perfume comes from.
1x138 - Popeye de Leon
November 3, 1960
Popeye decides to give Swee' Pea a history lesson and tell him about his grandfather Popeye De Leon.
1x139 - Popeyed Fisherman
November 3, 1960
Popeye tells Swee' Pea about a hungry fisherman who catches a cow that looks live Olive.
1x140 - Popeye in the Grand Steeple Chase
November 3, 1960
Olive wants Popeye to enter a steeplechase so he purchases a horse from Brutus.
1x141 - Uncivil War
November 4, 1960
Popeye teaches Swee' Pea about the ethics of being a good driver.
1x142 - Popeye the Piano Mover
November 4, 1960
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.
1x143 - Popeye's Testimonial Dinner
November 4, 1960
Popeye is to be honoured at a dinner for his brave deeds, Brutus tries to besmirch Popeye's outstanding record.
1x144 - Around the World in Eighty Ways
November 5, 1960
Popeye and Brutus take part in a race around the world to win a barrel full of money. Numerous mishaps follow.
1x145 - Popeye's Fixit Shop
November 5, 1960
Brutus becomes jealous when Popeye's business appears to be doing very well. When Olive needs something fixed, Brutus tries to discredit Popeye's ability to fix things.
1x146 - Bell Hop Popeye
November 5, 1960
Popeye and Brutus work as bellhops and compete for Olive.
1x147 - The Ghost Host
November 6, 1960
While out driving, Popeye and Olive must take shelter from the rain in an old house on a hill. Unbeknownst to them, it is 'the Haunted House (Strangers Welcome)', and they are mercilessly harassed by three ghosts until Popeye eats his spinach and drives them out of the house.
1x148 - Strikes, Spares, an' Spinach
November 6, 1960
Popeye takes Olive Oyl out for some bowling lessons, only to find ol' Brutus up to his mischievous shenanigans. Brutus finds out that Popeye has a date to take Olive bowling. Brutus rushes over to Olive's house to tell her that Popeye has a date with a blonde, and that he asked him to keep the date with Olive. Popeye arrives in the nick of time, and Brutus laughs it off as a gag. While Popeye is teaching Olive how to bowl, Brutus messes things up- unbeknownst to them- until Popeye catches him in the act. Popeye eats his spinach, then chases and catches Brutus. Popeye shapes Brutus into a bowling ball, which Popeye throws, knocking over a row of ashcans.
1x149 - Jeep Is Jeep
November 6, 1960
Olive asks Popeye to mind Swee'Pea while she goes to the beauty parlor. Popeye has difficulty keeping Swee'Pea amused when a package arrives for him. Opening the mysterious box, Popeye finds Eugene the Jeep, which is a birthday present. While he puts the Jeep through some magical tricks that the note explains, Swee'Pea crawls out of the house. When Popeye discovers that Swee'Pea is missing, he employs the Jeep to find him. The jeep leads him on a wild goose chase, and he saves Swee'Pea from a precarious spot. Unbeknownst to him, the Jeep takes Swee'Pea home. Olive comes back, and finding Swee'Pea alone, she blames Popeye for it when he zips back to the house.
1x150 - The Spinach Scholar
November 7, 1960
Olive tells Popeye that she's through with him unless he goes back to school and gets an "edumacation." Popeye enrolls in school and he is placed in the eighth grade. Popeye's many educated guesses cause him to become the laughingstock of the entire school. Each time that he attempts to answer a question in class, he's demoted. Poor Popeye can't cut it and goes through each class (from high school to kindergarten). Here, he's asked to spell "CAT." In desperation, he eats his spinach and spells it right, thus graduating from kindergarten. When Olive meets him after school, he brags that getting an education was very easy- he went through the whole school in one day.
1x151 - Psychiatricks
November 7, 1960
Brutus convinces Olive that Popeye must be cured of fighting over the least provocation. and he recommends a psychiatrist. When Popeye comes to visit Olive, she drags him in a confused state to the doctor to help him cope with his fighting habits. The sailor takes the talking cure to determine the root of his aggressive behavior. The psychiatrist's diagnosis is that spinach is the cause of his "fighting neurosis." But doesn't Professor Ed Shrinker look a bit like Brutus? When Popeye reluctantly throws away his can of spinach, the professor reveals himself to be Brutus, and he proceeds to beat the daylights out of Popeye. Olive feeds Popeye the spinach in the nick of time and turns the tables on Brutus. This cartoon includes flashbacks to Popeye's childhood, including a young Olive and a kid Brutus.
1x152 - Rags to Riches to Rags
November 7, 1960
Wimpy inherits a million dollars and lives it up in a grand style with an English butler. He decides to double his fortune by waging his fortune in a boxing match, betting on Kid Nitro to beat Popeye in a prize fight. To insure his investment, he manages to referee the bout. In the ring, Wimpy and his butler pull dirty tricks on Popeye to make sure that he doesn't win. When Popeye's finally knocked out, Wimpy doesn't have the heart to count his friend out in spite of his bet. Before the count of ten, he feeds Popeye his spinach, and Popeye quickly disposes of Kid Nitro and Wimpy's newly-found fortune.
1x153 - Hair Cut-Ups
November 10, 1960
Popeye takes Swee'Pea to the barber for a haircut but he's to scared and won't remove his hat. So Popeye tells him the story of Samson, the man who believed he got his strength from his long hair.
1x154 - Poppa Popeye
November 10, 1960
After losing Swee'Pea to a circus performer who passes himself off as the boy's long-lost father, Popeye goes through so much depression that he starts to act like a baby.
1x155 - Quick Change Olie
November 10, 1960
Popeye and Wimpy go back in time to the "ollie days", thanks to the Wiffle Bird.
1x156 - The Valley of the Goons
November 11, 1960
Popeye accidentally joins a tough bloodthirsty crew who are traveling to Goonland for a cargo of Goonskin.
1x157 - Me Quest for Poopdeck Pappy
November 11, 1960
Popeye discovers he's not an orphan after all. An old man who looks just like him lives on a faraway island, and now Popeye is on a quest to find him. Remake of the 1938 theatrical short "Goonland".
1x158 - Moby Hick
November 11, 1960
The Sea Hag tricks Popeye into attacking a benevolent whale.
1x159 - Mirror Magic
November 12, 1960
A fairy-tale kingdom is ruled by the land's strongest man, ruthless King Brutus, but his magic mirror informs him of a potential challenger in Popeye.
1x160 - It Only Hurts When They Laughs
November 12, 1960
Olive forces Popeye and Brutus to laugh their way to friendship.
1x161 - Wimpy the Moocher
November 12, 1960
Rough House is prepared to resist any and all of Wimpy's attempts to cheat him out of hamburgers. Wimpy's con job begins with buying a single raw oyster.
1x162 - Voo-Doo to You Too
November 13, 1960
The Sea Hag makes Olive Oyl her zombie slave and puts a voodoo spell on Popeye that keeps his arms stuck to his sides. Only Eugene the Jeep can help him now.
1x163 - Popeye Goes Sale-ing
November 13, 1960
Olive drags Popeye into a nasty department store sale.
1x164 - Popeye's Travels
November 13, 1960
Popeye's journey in this episode is based upon the Lilliputian adventure from the classic novel Gulliver's Travels.
1x165 - Incident at Missile City
November 14, 1960
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.
1x166 - Dog Catcher Popeye
November 14, 1960
On the way back to his ship, Popeye befriends a little puppy that has a can tied to his tail. The abandoned puppy insists on following the sailor despite the latter's warnings that dogs are not allowed on his ship. After many attempts, Popeye evades the canine orphan and is on his way again, when dogcatcher Brutus nabs the pup. Each time Popeye gets the dog free, Brutus captures it again. Finally, with the aid of his spinach, Popeye rescues the dog. In the end, Popeye takes the puppy with him by tying a raft (with a doghouse on it) to the back of his ship.
1x167 - What's News
November 14, 1960
Popeye and Olive travel to the small town Puddleburg where Popeye bought a newspaper company 'Puddleburg Splash'. Olive plans to teach the townspeople how to read but bullies tear down the new school. Popeye defeats the bullies and starts her classes.
1x168 - Spinach Greetings
November 15, 1960
The evil Sea Hag interrupts Popeye's family Christmas
1x169 - The Baby Contest
December 11, 1960
Wimpy is the judge in a baby contest, Popeye and Olive enter Swee'Pea while Brutus enters his own child.