Fleas A Crowd

Popeye has a trained "Wonder Fleas" stage act. Olive is watching the show with Brutus and raving about it, so Brutus decides to do all that he can to sabotage Popeye's flea act. He sends a dog on stage who takes off with the fleas. Popeye chases the dog, who's eventually caught by the dogcatcher. Popeye pretends to be a dog and gets himself picked up by the dogcatcher. He manages to get his fleas back. However, when he gets back to the theater, he finds that all the commotion has worn out the fleas, and that they're too tired to perform. He feeds them a miniature can of spinach, and they're better than ever before.

Popeye, Brutus, Olive Oyl, Fleas, Dog

King Features had no cartoon studios, so Popeye storyboards were produced in its offices, while animation was divided between Paramount/Famous Studios, Larry Harmon Productions, Total TV Productions, Gene Deitch/Rembrandt Studios, Halas and Batchelor and Jack Kinney Productions.

Of those stations which bought the King Features Popeye cartoons in 1960, 90% renewed their contracts in 1965.

Note the change in the villain's name… from Bluto to Brutus.

Popeye feeds his spinach to the fleas.