The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) When Moose Meets Moose, or Two's a Crowd/The Midnight Chew-Chew, or This Gum for Hire (1961) User Reviews

The Greasy Valise(y)

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 9 March 2021]

Rocky and Bullwinkle trade possession over and over with Boris. The valise containing the bank money is in one and Bullwinkle's overnight bag is the other. Boris does get a moment in the sun playing a female moose from the South. The extras are an Aesop fable of the Hound and the Wolf where dentures are battled over. Peabody and Sherman extend their racism to Incas and their being conquered by Pizarro. Weak.

America's founding fathers cut their teeth . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 7/10 · 16 March 2024]

. . . on itinerant product distribution, to which this episode of the always informative Bullwinkle Show pays tribute with the MR. KNOW-IT-ALL: HOW TO SELL ENCYCLOPEDIAS, DOOR TO DOOR segment. In Real Life, Ben Franklin famously filled his Poor Richard's Almanac with his youthful experiences selling kites in suburban Philadelphia. George Washington left the Oval Office for a more lucrative position hawking dentures door to door. Later presidents joined in on this American Tradition. Millard Fillmore represented Fuller Brushes, while W. H. Taft proved successful in moving bath tubs of the claw feet type, when such devices were a novelty. Harry Truman circulated conveying the latest hats, and L. K. Ford's summer vacation college job was a last-ditch effort to preserve his namesake Edsel brand through a deep discount program briefly offered to his neighbors around Ann Arbor. He actually managed to sell two in Ypsilanti.

Someone from the American Canine Club . . .

[oscaralbert · 8/10 · 15 March 2024]

. . . should have been hired as a consultant for drawing the animated dogs appearing on The Bullwinkle Show. There frequently is a mismatch between the mutt called for in the script, and what actually appears on the screen. Take the Aesop and Son fable included within Season 2, Episode 41"s program, for instance. This segment is titled as THE HOUND AND THE WOLF. However, the only cur depicted clearly is met to resemble a sheepdog, which is the function it performs during Aesop's story. This shaggy dog certainly is NOT a hound. It's unlikely that Aesop is the cause of this confusion, as the American Canine Club did not exist when he wrote this fable.

One part of this program is highly contentious.

[cricket30 · 6/10 · 16 March 2024]

It has come to my attention that a virtual civil war has broken out concerning the animal names used in the Aesop segment of the March 26, 1961 Bullwinkle Show. During the heyday of this Ancient Greek dude, only a few animals had been discovered by Mankind. Consequently, Aesop--being a prolific tale teller--tried to construct a fable about every possible pairing of these various critters. When he'd used up all of the possibilities, he began redoing the duos, simply listing the featured animals in reverse of his original title. This, of course, has led to centuries of confusion, conflict and friction about Aesop's fiction. No one has figured out the correct title for the fable included here. Hound or sheepdog? Fox or wolf? Which is first, which last? Search me.

If there's anything worse than seeing Boris . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 20 March 2024]

. . . Bad-Enough in his outlandish and totally transparent gender-appropriate "disguises," it must be the spectacle of viewing him parading around as a would-be member of the fair sects. To make matters worse, he caps off this pathetic ruse by smearing on way too much lipstick. The topping on this cow flop cake is the self-proclaimed Public Enemy Number One's feeble attempt at a Southern accent clumsily delivered with a distaff drawl. If all of this is not enough to turn your stomach, you must be a baby fly. When it comes to MOOSE MEETS MOOSE or TWO'S A CROWD, you need to give The Bullwinkle Show due credit for managing to create something so repellent to everyone.