Olive Oyl is reading romance magazines when Popeye calls her on the phone. She argues that he is not romantic enough, so her sailor paramour starts to recite poetry to her - reading it from a book. Meanwhile, Bluto approaches Olive's house and, eavesdropping on the telephone conversation, gets an idea: he climbs the telephone pole beside the house, connecting his own phone receiver to the appropriate wire and mimicking Popeye's voice as he proceeds to insult and disrespect Olive. He even rewires the proper line at times so that his rival can hear the alarming state of the conversation. Popeye eventually runs to Olive's house, pointing to the hijacker. He climbs the pole then a brawl erupts, with the enemies balancing high atop the wires as they fight and sometimes swinging on cut lines to