The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Jet Jockey Rocky or The One Point Landing/Plots and Plans or Too Many Crooks (1960) User Reviews

Those of us born after 1860 . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 13 January 2024]

. . . may not recognize the device that Rocket J. Squirrel uses to determine whether Mount Flat-ten is making any nightly progress toward Washington, DC, during the Up-See-Daisy-Yum Saga, Parts 25 & 26 of The Bullwinkle Show, Season 2, Episode 13. This hand-held contraption, which looks a little like an over-sized protractor, is called a Sects Ant. Sects Ants were invented by John Had-Lee and Tom God-Free on Oct. 12, 1731. John and Tom had stumbled across an old notebook of the late Isaac Newton, and the pair discovered sketches therein for a rudimentary Sects Ant drawn by the man who invented gravity. This is an ironic touch on the part of the Bullwinkle scribes, given that Mt. Flat-Ten defies gravity.

The most tragic part of The Bullwinkle Show,

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

Season 2, Unlucky Episode #13, is titled MR. KNOW-IT-ALL: HOW TO WATER SKI, or FIVE STEPS TO EASY DROWNING. When I was younger, our family never missed the Fourth of July Hannibal Days Water Skiing Regatta down the Mississippi River. I don't often toot my own kazoo, but I was lucky enough to win the three-mile race ten years in a row. Then came the onslaught of invasive carp, which the prophetic Bullwinkle writers obviously foresaw as they worked on this episode. Things got off on the wrong foot when Leslie Anne "Blue" Carr was leading the women's division as I crossed the finish line first, for my tenth consecutive triumph. Out of nowhere, a Big Head Carp jumped out of the water in front of poor Leslie. Her noggin was nearly detached. After a week on Life Support, her family decided to pull the plug. No one dares to sponsor water skiing contests on the Mississippi or its tributaries anymore.

Jet Powered Mountain

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 25 February 2021]

Since Mount Flatten is top secret, things can't be done in daylight. Bullwinkle rigs up sort of jet engine as they drive the floating peak to Washington, D.C. But things go awry. Boris and Natasha are, as usual, behind the disruption of their plan. Peter Peachfuzz is along for the ride and when things go wrong, he is a natural candidate. In extras we have Aesop and Son and the Dog and His Shadow. A dog gets angry at his shadow and the shadow leaves. He buy a new shadow from a shady fox, but the shadow is not what he expected. Peabody goes to see Confucius. This is about as racist as it can get with the Chinese speaking in their ridiculous accents and doing demeaning things. Way past good taste.

The portion of this program labeled as . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 11 January 2024]

. . . THE DOG AND HIS SHADOW documents the little-known "shadow blister effect." This occurs when dark shadows insist upon chain-smoking, which frequently causes subcutaneous damage to the soft palate. As depicted herein, the outlines of a shadow can be found by tracing the rays of light emitted by the outermost regions of the extended source of illumination. The wider this fount of brightness, the more blurred the shadow becomes, THE DOG reveals. The more diffuse the lighting is, the softer and more indistinct the shadow outline transmutes, until it disappears completely. Shadows are very sensitive, and should always be treated with respect, THE DOG concludes. It is best to refer to them by their preferred terminology, breaking them down into the perky umbra, as well as the more devious penumbra and the always elusive ant-umbra. Otherwise, one is likely to unleash the Darkness within.