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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Popeye accidentally joins a tough bloodthirsty crew who are traveling to Goonland for a cargo of Goonskin.

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".

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.

Olive forces Popeye and Brutus to laugh their way to friendship.

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.

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.

Olive drags Popeye into a nasty department store sale.

Popeye's journey in this episode is based upon the Lilliputian adventure from the classic novel Gulliver's Travels.

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.

The evil Sea Hag interrupts Popeye's family Christmas

Brutus kidnaps swee'pee and sells him to an amusement park freak-show.

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 attracted to a young woman, a jewel of the sea, who tried to seduce him but turned out to be Wicked Seahag in disguise.

Brutus buys a Popeye robot to cause friction between Popeye and Olive.

Popeye tells Swee' Pea the story of "Popeye Thumb".