The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Rue Britannia/Earl and Water Don't Mix or Next Time, Take the Drain (1961) User Reviews

PETER PIPER always has nipped would-be British mathematicians . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 8/10 · 23 February 2024]

. . . in the bud. During his namesake "Corner," the title character of The Bullwinkle Show explains why this is the case. If old Pete picked a peck of pickled peppers, exactly HOW MANY of those pickled peppers did the pepper picker pick? There's the rub. No True American has the least idea of what a peck is. Would it be a measure of weight, or of volume--or something else entirely? Search us. We reserve OUR pecks for cheeks, followed by hugs around necks. Furthermore, this arithmetic story problem concludes by throwing in the so-called red herring in the form of a totally irrelevant query; that is, "Where's the peck of pickled peppers PETER PIPER picked?" When you examine this portion of the equation, what does it have to do with the actual quantity of Peter's pickled peppers? Absolutely nothing. This is why not-so-Great Britain has never turned out an Einstein, or even an OPPENHEIMER.

As its title certainly implies . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 2 March 2024]

. . . RUE BRITANNIA sets out to prove that the British people are more menacing than monstrous mechanical metal-munching moon mice, more toxic than box top robbers, bigger jerks than jet fuel thieves and more lethal than a truck full of Up-See-Daisy-Gum. If Sherlock Holmes, Miss Marple and Harold Potter have taught the world anything, it's that England is jam-packed with scalawags, crooks, brutes, cons, cereal killers, gyppers, rippers, thugs, mugs, royals, foils, crooked cops, fops, drunks, skunks, pips, drips, souses, louses, rats, cravats, snakes, rakes, mallards and dullards. Bullwinkle and Rocky are plagued by ruffians of all types when they are foolhardy enough to enter the disjointed kingdom for a mere million pounds, which is probably worth less than a couple C-Notes at the current exchange rate.

The Inheritor

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 3 March 2021]

When the Earl of Crankcase dies (forgetting he doesn't have a swimming pool but diving in anyway), a new heir is sought. There are three evil nephews, but when the will is read, it turns out the money has been left to a moose with Rue Brittania written on his foot. I wonder who this could be! When R & B go to England to claim the inheritance, the nephews begin to try killing them. Now they must stay in Abominable Manor for a week. The Fractured Fairy Tale is The Magic Fish. A chimney sweep who has fallen on bad times can only afford a seven day old fish, but once he gets it the stench brings him good luck. Dudley Do-Right has to get a potion to alleviate a disease, rampant in the camp, but Snidely has other plans.