Latenight,
This is the only reference I could find on the Popeye episode I was thinking of:
http://honeysucklesummer.atlblogs.co...es/002216.html
Do you think you can find this one on youtube? The one where the strangely slurpy-looking natives would bow down to their king in fluid s-shaped movements... bowing once, murmuring "salami"... bowing twice, murmuring "salami"... bowing the third time, "exclaiming "boloni"