The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Bullwinkle's Rise or This Goon for Hire/Boris Bites Back or A Rebel without a Pause (1960) User Reviews

Oh, My. A Falling Rock

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 24 February 2021]

Boris and Natasha have failed again. Fearless Leader calls them and tells them that "Mr. Big" is coming to take over. Boris decides to double cross the ultimate boss. Boris keeps reading a book that has instructions for mayhem, but it always turn on him. The Fractured Fairy Tale is "The Goose and the Golden Egg." An idiot king is about to cook a local goose, when the goose produces a golden egg (a regular one, painted). This leads to assaults on the castle to get the misguided poultry. Peabody goes back to the 1700's to meet Paul Rever on the eve of his famous ride. All there are to ride are pigs.

Barney Debris of Liverpool invented the classic . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 8/10 · 5 January 2024]

. . . barber's pole at the center of discussion during The Bullwinkle Show, Season 2, Episode 11, amid the Council of Tours in 1163. Because the Mr. Know-It-All segment dealing with barber poles lasts only 91 seconds, Rocky and Bullwinkle only have time to mention two of the three colors that Barney swirled around his original spinning staff. Rocky leaves out the most relevant color for contemporary viewers, which is blue. In 1163, the white stripe symbolized the fact that barbers were available for tooth extractions, and the red stripe meant that they'd be happy to cover customers' torsos with leeches to siphon out bad blood. Finally, the all-important blue stripe meant that a barber could cut a customer's hair if he was not busy removing teeth and positioning bloodsuckers.

This is one of the more theological episodes . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 7 January 2024]

. . . of The Bullwinkle Show. During Parts 21 and 22 of the Up-Saw-Daisy-Yum Saga from the Season 2, Episode 11 offering, known as BULLWINKLE'S RISE or THIS GOON FOR HIGHER/BORIS BITES BACK or REBEL WITHOUT A PAUSE, the character with the large antlers says he always expected to go to Heaven--but not so soon. People talk about the Hereafter for their dogs from time to time. Elvis croons about Dog Heaven during "Old Shepard." I don't recall the King ever mentioning a Paradise for the meowing crowd. Which raises the question of whether there can also be separate Heavens for frogs, snakes, lizards, mosquitoes and Elephantine Political Party punks? Or, to use Bullwinkle's phrase, do these just wind up as so much "moose butter"?

This particular silly goose got mislaid as a . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 5 January 2024]

. . . "Fractured Fairy Tale," even though it is Number 87 on the Perry Index for Aesop's Fables. Perhaps The Bullwinkle Show producers thought that Eddie Horton would do a better job of narrating the yarn about the 14 Carat fowl than Chuck Rug-Gulls. Keep in mind that while Caxton has a goose in the lead here, Townsend swears that the golden bird actually is a hen. Animation historians contend that what's sauce for the goose is filling for the Fig Newton. In the Far East, geese and chickens yield to a swan with golden feathers, which donates one annually to a poor family who lack a chimney in which to welcome Santa Claus. As it's said, "Different yolks for divergent folks."