Popeye the Sailor: After the Ball Went Over (1960)
Season 1, Episode 110
8/10
Popeye Loses Without His Spinach
2 April 2007
Warning: Spoilers
Popeye and Brutus are playing an outdoor ping-pong match at a picnic and Olive is watching. "Ohh, I just a love a ping-pong match," she says. "Whoever wins gets a kiss from me, and an extra portion of lunch." (Note: when did Bluto become "Brutus?" Apparently when these King Syndicated Popeye cartoons began in 1960.)

The two combatants use whatever they can to beat the other guy, including eggs for ping- pong balls, Mexican jumping beans inside the ball, explosives inside the ball, etc.

Overall, not as good as the above paragraph makes it sound but still decently entertaining I do give it a point for an original ending, something that never happens in other Popeye cartoons - he loses to his rival. When Olive asks him, "Is there anything I could do for you?," Popeye replies, "Yeah, get a new script-writer, someone who will put me spinach back in the story!"
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