The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Bullwinkle at the Bottom or A Mish-Mash Moose/Double Trouble or The Moose Hangs High (1960) User Reviews

In Hawaii they supposedly have something called . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 9 January 2024]

. . . "molten rock." It reputedly percolates up from the Earth to form new mountains, islands and atolls. Since it's said to be super hot, it can engulf homes, stores, schools, roads, vehicles and anything else in its path, according to the lore of the molten rock. Sounds pretty far-fetched, doesn't it? Whenever my friends and relatives travel to the 50th state, they never report seeing any molten rock. I've even given some of them coolers to bring me back samples, but no one has been able to fulfill my requests. BULLWINKLE AT THE BOTTOM of Mount Flatten seems more likely to be based upon Reality than molten rock. Up-Sod-Daisy-Yum makes more sense than molten rock, as it's already being used to fashion jet liners and moon rockets. If molten rock actually existed, Hawaii would be exporting it for home heating, as West Virginia does with coal. But no one in my neighborhood is able to keep their home fires burning with molten rock.

"Who's afraid of the Big Bad Walt . . . "

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 9 January 2024]

. . . is the theme song of the distorted THREE LITTLE PIGS churned out by the Dizzy Mega Corporation. The Fractured Fairy Tale retelling, included as part of The Bullwinkle Show, Season 2, Episode 12, is much closer to the original oral traditions concerning the trio of miserly hogs. Expressions such as "road hog," "hogging the covers" and "renting out a pig sty" are rooted in the Real Life proclivities of wealth-hoarding swine. Portland, Penelope and Alice Pig might as well be pseudonyms for Ms. McDaniel, Ms. Thomas and Ms. D'Floss Today, or Ms. Hopper, Ms. Rogers and Ms. Mamie in 1960. Henry Q. Wolf does no huffing or puffing during this corrected THREE LITTLE PIGS. His only aim is to use the resource hogs as his role models, and to become a lazy swine himself.

I'm not sure why a character in a fairy tale . . .

[cricket30 · 8/10 · 9 January 2024]

. . . would be named "Portland." Today Portland is the most populous city in the West Coast American state known as Oregon. It is also the town with the most people within the East Coast U. S. state of Maine. Which raises the question of whether the little title miss of this fractured fairy tale is named for the Portland near the Pacific Ocean, or the one that's a stone's throw from the Atlantic Coast. The western Portland is named after the eastern Portland, which itself recalls an even more eastern Isle of Portland floating off the shores of Great Britain. Strangely enough, as of this writing all three of these Portland's have eateries offering Bacon, Lettuce and Tomato sandwiches, aka BLT's, for less than $20 American.

Plummeting......Again

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 24 February 2021]

The boys find themselves heading downward once more, a boulder over their heads. Boris has sent them down a mine shaft. As the boulder comes closer, we cut to the Pentagon, where Peter "Wrong Way" Peachfuzz is the G-2 agent. In order to know what is going on, he turns on the Rocky and Bullwinkle show on his TV and sees them and the rock. But, of course, they are doing more plummeting. The Fractured Fairy Tale involves the Three Pigs. They are three unmarried female sister pigs with the last name Pigg. They inherit a fortune and each builds a mansion: one out of straw, one out of sticks, and the third, of course, out of bricks. Then, who should hear about them, but a playboy wolf who decides to marry one of them. Then the fun starts. Dudley Do Right brings up the rear. Snidely Whiplash sets up a newspaper, saying Dudley is his older brother. He thinks this will allow him to get away with murder. But Dudley has other ideas. The result is hilarious. Excellent in all three offerings.

Though Green-Leaf Whittier's most famous poem . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 6/10 · 7 January 2024]

. . . begins "Quaker Meeting has now begun: No more laughing, no more fun--no more chewing bubble gum," THE BAREFOOT BOY of Bullwinkle's Corner during Season 2, Episode 11 of The Bullwinkle Show doubtless makes the cut of Green-Leaf's Top 40 Hits. Bullwinkle delivers an abbreviated version of Whittier's poesy, since he has no incentive to pad it out; America's favorite moose is not being paid by the column/inch, as was Whittier. This means such archaic terms as "pantaloons," "jaunty," "pickerel," "flinty," "sward," "thou," "shod," and "ere" are mercifully absent from Bullwinkle's recitation. They're been given the moose-trap treatment.