The Square Egg

Popeye has a chicken ranch. Swee'Pea finds a square egg in the chicken house. Everyone is very excited. The Professor tells Popeye and Olive that there is nothing more rare. While some people (Brutus!) want the egg to get rich, Popeye wants to keep the egg and its mother, the Whiffle Hen, together. Brutus hears the Professor, Popeye and Olive talking, and he takes the egg. They all chase Brutus, and the egg breaks and hatches a very large bird. Brutus tries to talk him into show business, and he tells him that his name will be in lights. The Professor tells him that he owes himself to science. Swee'Pea tells him to make up his own mind. The bird says, "Mama," and Popeye says, "A boy's best friend is his mother."

Popeye, Whiffle Hen, Brutus, Olive Oyl, Swee'Pea, The Professor

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.