“I Likes Babies and Infinks” from 1937 is a perfect Popeye cartoon. The premise is that Olive Oyl can’t get Sweetpea to stop crying. There are clever ideas presented with outstanding character animation. Once Popeye and Bluto progress from competing to fighting, the violence quicky escalates until a neat solution to the problem is reached.
There are two things that are unique, at least in my memory, about this cartoon. First, Popeye, Olive Oyl, and Bluto are established as living above one another in the same apartment building. Second, Popeye doesn’t resort to spinach to wrap things up.