Spare Dat Tree

It's Popeye the Ranger Man in a classic brawl with Brutus, who's trying to cut down two 5,000-year-old trees. Popeye's protecting a huge tree marked "Monument Fer Duh People." Brutus, the woodsman, tries to cut it down. He starts digging, but Popeye moves the tree to a safer place. Brutus uses dynamite and blows the tree into a million boards. Popeye puts it back together, eats his spinach, and knocks Brutus to the Capitol Building with a note pinned on his shirt: "Dis Brutus is Chopping a Monument Tree, Lock Him Up." Popeye takes a large hypodermic marked "spinach juice" and injects it in the tree. The tree wakes up, and everyone cheers, "Hooray for Popeye the Ranger."

Popeye, Brutus, Swee'Pea, King Tree, Queen Tree, Head Forest Ranger

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.