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. . . a leafy green vegetable to protect your kith and kin. When a stranger comes to your door demanding one of your children, most people adopt a "Shoot now, ask questions later" attitude. However, the wimpy POPPA POPEYE's first response to such outrages usually involves some milquetoast gesture, such as crying in his root beer. Setting sassafras aside, film historians always say that Popeye was the world's first Super Hero in the early 1930s, inspiring the creators of Superman. Though this subsequent "Man of Steel" may have been drawn younger and more comely than Popeye, he shared the peripatetic sailor's fatal flaw: no guns. Just imagine the damage "Clark Kent" could inflict IF he always had his trusty military-style assault rifle dangling at his side! There would be little if any need for phone booths and flying around in capes IF Mr. Kent were always packing heat! Similarly, kidnappers would think twice about filching a toddler from POPPA POPEYE if they knew the tar carried a gat at all times. Why not watch POPPA POPEYE to see for yourself the need to support your local chapter of BANGS (Broke Americans Need Gun Stamps)?

While playing with Swee Pea as a man claiming to be the baby's birth father as shows a birth certificate. Popeye has no other choice but to give him up.

But the "father" is a con man and a circus performer who kidnaps him in order to perform in the circus making the baby a cash cow. It makes the poor baby very upset and longing for Popeye.

Speaking of which Popeye is very miserable without his son and that he goes nuts and acts childlike. Only Olive Oyl and a doctor can find out and when they find out why he is acting like that, it is going to be the return over in the baby to cure him.

Swee Pea realizing that his "birth father" is not whom he is, runs away and when he and Popeye are reunited, our beloved sailor is cured and so is Olive seeing Popeye back to normal.

But the con man that is not about to give up so easily and bribes him with toys but Swee Pea will not go with him and the sees right through it. The con man gives up and leaves.

Popeye wins without his usual spinach but Swee Pea is stuck to the ground his baby clothes are that is. Olive notices but Popeye admits that he wouldn't allow the con man to get away and plus both miss each other.