Friend or Phony

Popeye follows along behind the Mayflower in his own rowboat. He washes up on Plymouth Rock.

The theatrical run of Popeye the Sailor from 1933 to 1957 represents one of the most enduring and influential eras in American animation history. Spanning 231 shorts, this golden age of Popeye evolved across two distinct production studios: the boundary-pushing, gritty Fleischer Studios (1933–1942) and the more formulaic, brightly colored Famous Studios (1942–1957). Together, they transformed E.C. Segar’s comic strip character into a global cinematic icon, establishing formulas and animation techniques that altered the medium forever.

Singer Olive Oyl needs an accompanist, and both Popeye and Bluto apply for the job.

Tired of political rhetoric, Olive lays out her platform.

Popeye and Bluto are on leave in the South Seas when Princess Alona (Olive) comes surfing by in her Sarong, a bird perched on her knee. The boys are smitten, and chase after her. The bird warns our boys that any harm to the princess will result in death from the local volcano.

Olive has a map to a sunken treasure, but Bluto stowed away and is determined to beat Popeye to it.

Popeye and Olive are driving through hillbilly country; a very large woman hillbilly is in search of a man, and grabs Popeye. And when Popeye's spinach falls, it's up to Olive to save the day.

Actually, Popeye and Bluto are already there. They visit a nightclub, where the featured singer/dancer is, of course, Olive Oyl.

Robbers target a special train carrying a billion dollars worth of gold, and the only one who can stop them is Superman!

Popeye donates blood, then dashes off to a boxing match with Bluto. He loses. Olive, who heard this on the radio, rejects him as no longer strong enough for her, and is preparing to join the army (where Bluto apparently is). Popeye stops her at the door, and insists on showing her sequences from two earlier two-reelers to prove his strength, but she's unimpressed. Fortunately, this was all a dream; he awakens in the blood bank, and dashes over to see Olive, who reaffirms her love.

Superman battles a criminal mastermind and his robot army.

After The Daily Planet receives a letter from a mad scientist threatening to wreak destruction with his Electrothanasia Ray, Lois Lane heads out in the hopes of getting more information for a news story.

At Halloween, Olive Oyl is reading ghost stories to Popeye and Bluto. Popeye scoffs. Bluto decides to take advantage of this by pretending to go home, then staging various pranks.

Popeye and Bluto are taxi drivers; they are, of course, competing for fares - and Olive, in particular.

Superman has to thwart wartime saboteurs tampering with things at the Metropolis Munitions Plant...who have captured Lois Lane and loaded her into a torpedo!

Popeye and Bluto battle over Olive in an amusement park.