Wimpy, a night watchman in a herring cannery, gets a cold and asks Popeye to take over. The sailor hears strange noises and starts investigating. Many hijinx follow as Brutus turns up.
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.
Olive entices Wimpy to her kitchen with the smell of hamburgers in order to make Popeye jealous. The male rivalry leads to an eating contest.
Popeye buys Olive's lovebird a boyfriend. The two lovebirds, named Romeo and Juliet, quarrel and Romeo flies away. Olive demands that Popeye bring him back.
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.
Popeye chases down the Sea Hag in order to take back the magic lamp she stole from Olive.
Olive's old friend Brutus comes over for a reunion dinner, and she wants Popeye to be their butler.
Popeye and Brutus are farmers who enter a county fair contest to see who's the best. But Brutus is cheating.
A potion created by the Sea Hag turns Brutus into an attractive young man, and he uses it to impress and woo Olive. After Popeye sees through Brutus' attractiveness, he uses the same potion, but it turns him into a baby.
Brutus creates a perfume that turns Popeye into a frightened, defenseless weakling.
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.
Swee' Pea's favorite toy has lost its whistle and Popeye runs all over town trying to find it.
Popeye and Brutus compete in a medieval joust to win Olive's affection.
Olive makes Popeye her assistant at a zoo, and Brutus tries to mess up Popeye's work.
Brutus builds a robot double of Popeye in order to ruin his relationship with Olive.
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.
The magical Wiffle bird casts a spell over Wimpy that changes him into a werewolf whenever he says the word "hamburger".
Wimpy uses vanishing cream to escape Brutus.
A parody of Tom Thumb.
Take-off on the television series The Millionaire.
The Sea Hag has a late plan. She makes a robot double of Olive to attack Popeye.
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.