The All-New Popeye Hour Season 2, Episode 36: Popeye's Perilous Pursuit of a Pearl

Queen of the Load

Popeye, Olive and Bluto are all truckers out on the road cross-country in their own little convoy (with CB radios and everything). Popeye and Olive Oyl are partners driving the same truck. Bluto thinks that he would do much better with his trucking business if he had Olive as a partner, so he tries to talk her into it. When she refuses, Bluto makes all kinds of difficulties for her while she's on the road, but Popeye comes to her rescue and saves the day.

60 min

Love on the Rocks

Olive doesn't think that Popeye is romantic enough, so Popeye decides to build a monument dedicated to the both of them: he carves their pictures on a mountain. The ever-troublemaking Bluto also wants to impress Olive, and he starts to interfere with Popeye's work. He decides to carve his picture over Popeye's, and the battle is on. Popeye gets so mad that he throws Bluto into a pool. Before you know it, the whole mountain is gone. Olive then decides it doesn't matter if the world doesn't know that Popeye cares for her as long as she does.

60 min

Popeye the Lone Legionnaire

Popeye is the last legionnaire manning the last outpost in the Sahara. Bluto is a desert pirate bent on taking the fort from Popeye. Olive Oyl is, of course, the damsel in distress. Bluto captures the fort, raising the Jolly Roger flag. He captures Olive. Popeye comes to her rescue, and they both work to defeat Bluto. Popeye and Olive live happily ever after at the outpost.

60 min

Roller Rink-a-Dink

Olive goes roller skating and takes Popeye along with her. While Popeye is trying to skate, Bluto tries to move in and take Olive away from Popeye.

60 min

Old McPopeye Had a Farm

Popeye's Uncle Angus McPopeye has asked for his help because Farmer Bluto is stealing everything from his farm.

60 min

Chips Off The Old Ice Block

Popeye and Bluto get into an argument over who will teach Swee'Pea to skate. Bluto makes Swee'Pea try a barrel-jumping trick, and Popeye must save him from going over the edge of a cliff. Thanks to Popeye and his spinach, Swee'Pea is saved.

60 min

Polly Wants Some Spinach

While Olive is spring cleaning one day, her parrot Polly accidentally escapes. Olive immediately calls for Popeye to help her. Of course, he's followed by Bluto, who also wants to help. Popeye and Bluto pursue the bird as well as each other, and when Popeye finally manages to get rid of Bluto and catch the bird, he discovers that it's the wrong parrot. Polly had returned home by herself.

60 min

Popeye's High School Daze

Olive and Popeye are looking at some pictures from their yearbook. Popeye starts to reminisce about some episodes between Bluto and himself, only to realize that Olive has fallen asleep.

60 min

Mule-itary Detail

Driving in the country, Popeye and Olive find a stray army mule.

60 min

Building Blockheads

Construction workers Popeye and Olive are building what they hope will be the world's tallest building.

60 min

Olive's Bugged House Blues

Olive has a brand new home, so Popeye and Bluto bring housewarming presents.

60 min

Boo-Who

Popeye and Olive are exploring a deserted island when a storm comes up at night.

60 min

The Game

After a short stint at sea, Popeye and Olive get blown ashore by a storm.

60 min

Popeye The Robot

It's National Popeye Day, but Bluto plans to ruin the day by letting loose a robot Popeye!

60 min

Wotsa Matterhorn

Popeye and Bluto enter a race to see who will be the first to climb the Matterhorn and blow the legendary "Matterhorn Flueglehorn."

60 min

Pedal-Powered-Popeye

Olive has entered the Cross-Country Bike Race and invites Popeye to join in, which he does. However, Bluto also has plans to enter.

60 min

Popeye's Aqua Circus

Popeye and Olive are putting on an "aqua-circus" featuring trained seals and dolphins and other sea creatures. However, Bluto is jealous and wants to take over.

60 min

Take It or Lump It

Popeye and Olive are contestants on the popular game show "Take It Or Lump It." Bluto disposes of the MC and takes his place.

60 min

Popeye's Poodle Problem

Olive has just acquired a new French poodle called Frenchy. She asks Popeye to take him to the dog show for her.

60 min

Westward Ho! Ho!

Popeye tells his nephews a wild and fanciful story about how he dug the Grand Canyon single-handedly.

60 min

Bad Day at the Bakery

Olive opens up a bakery on a street filled with potholes. Popeye and Bluto volunteer to help out, but they don't get much done because of their fighting.

60 min

Popeye the Painter

Popeye and Bluto are hired to do some building painting by a toy company who tells them that whoever finishes their designated job first wins a big contract.

60 min

Bully Dozer

Olive portrays a beautiful princess who lies fast asleep because of a witch's curse.

60 min

Swee'Pea Plagues A Parade

Swee'Pea is entered in a parade as a "strong man." However, he causes havoc and worry for Popeye and Olive when he wanders off to chase a balloon.

60 min

Paddle Wheel Popeye

Popeye and Bluto are in a boat race to New Orleans on the Mississippi River.

60 min

Merry Madness at the Mardi Gras

Popeye and Olive try to decide what costumes to wear for the Mardi Gras.

60 min

Popeye of Sherwood Forest

Bluto is the evil Sheriff of Rottenham who collects heavy taxes from the poor peasants of Sherwood Forest.

60 min

Bad Company

Popeye's nephews, Pipeye, Pupeye and Poopeye, decide to go to the Annual Sailors' Picnic with "Uncle Bluto" instead of Uncle Popeye and Auntie Olive.

60 min

Top Kick in Boot Camp

Private Olive Oyl enters boot camp, and the Captain assigns Sergeant Bluto and Corporal Popeye to conduct her physical training courses.

60 min

Peask & Quiet

Popeye's mischievous nephews are getting on his nerves, so Olive suggests that he take Eugene the Jeep with him to the mountains and stay at her uncle's little cabin for some peace and quiet.

60 min

A Goon Gone Gooney

Popeye, Olive Oyl and Bluto are out for a sail when they are caught in a giant tidal wave and wash up on Goon Island.

60 min

Spa-ing Partners

Olive has opened a health spa, and both Popeye and Bluto are applying for the job of exercise instructor.

60 min

Abject Flying Object

Popeye and Olive befriend a little alien who's landed his spaceship in Olive's back yard. Bluto arrives on the scene and tries to capture the little spaceman so that he can take him on talk shows and become rich and famous as his agent. This time, however, the little spaceman eats some spinach, wallops Bluto and leaves for his planet, promising Popeye and Olive a return visit.

60 min

Ships That Pass in the Fright

Once again, Popeye and Olive find themselves shipwrecked on a deserted island. When Bluto shows up to save them, trouble begins for Popeye.

60 min

Popeye's Self Defense

At Olive's insistence, Popeye decides to take an exercise class at a new gym so that he can be strong without spinach, only to discover that Bluto just happens to be the instructor.

60 min

Olive Goes Dallas

While attending a Dallas football game, Olive finds out about a contest to become a member of the Dallas Cheerleaders.

60 min

Pappy Falls in Love

While aboard a cruise ship, Pappy tries his best to woo a "young" lady with whom he has fallen in love.

60 min

Popeye of the Jungle

Popeye tells Swee'Pea a bedtime story about his heroic great-great-uncle, Popeye of the Jungle.

60 min

Alpine For You

Popeye, Olive and Bluto live in the Alps. Olive even tries to yodel, much to Popeye and Bluto's chagrin.

60 min

Tour Each His Own

Popeye and Bluto are each in the "tour guide business" and not doing very well.

60 min

The Umpire Strikes Back

At the bottom of the ninth, the home team (consisting of Popeye, Olive and Swee'Pea) is down 49-0 against Bluto's team.

60 min

Free Hauling Brawl

The Eight Ball Trucking Company has a job open for a driver - and it goes to the winner of a cross-country truck race between Popeye and Bluto.

60 min

W.O.I.L.

Olive and Popeye are running radio station W.O.I.L. (Olive is the DJ and Popeye is the helicopter traffic reporter), and Bluto is running their rival station.

60 min

Tough Sledding

Granny Oyl's winter ski resort is in trouble, and she may have to go out of business, while rival Bluto's resort is doing very well.

60 min

Unidentified Fighting Object

Popeye and Olive are having a backyard cookout. Popeye's nephews are playing basketball, and their ball goes over the fence into Bluto's yard.

I Wouldn't Take That Mare To The Fair On A Dare

Popeye and the gang are at a county fair. Olive and Bluto have their horses entered in the "strong horse" contest, with Wimpy as judge. Swee'Pea wants to enter his horse, an old mare, also, but nobody takes him seriously. In order for the horses to win, the horse has to drag a sledge of rocks weighing 50,000 tons. The contest begins. The cheater Bluto, up to his old tricks, puts a picture of Mare-A-lin, the "Filly Fatale," in his horse's blinders. Bluto's horse takes off like a bird in flight, and Wimpy never gets to say "go." Bluto's horse is disqualified. It's now Olive's turn, and Bluto gets jealous and plays a dirty trick on Olive, and her horse is disqualified. Olive, with nowhere to turn, tells Popeye to do something. Popeye decides to enter Swee'Pea horse.

60 min

The Great Speckled Whale

Sailing on the "S.S. Popeye," Popeye and Olive are out to photograph "The Great Speckled Whale."

60 min

Popierre the Musketeer

While Popierre the Musketeer collects weapons because of a new law, Olivella, the Queen's handmaid, comes along with a jeweled crown to be given to the King.