The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) You've Got a Secret or Out of Sight - Out of Mine/Boris and the Blade or Sheik, Rattle and Roll (1960) User Reviews

This controversial picture attributes the origin . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 8/10 · 24 December 2023]

. . . of the infamous "Rock-a-bye Baby" ditty to Mother Goose during the Bullwinkle's Corner segment of The Bullwinkle Show, Season 2, Episode 6. However, this verse has a checkered past. Some Boston bimbo named F. E. Canning claimed to have written at least the American tune for the brief lullaby during the 1880's. However, Betty Kenny of Derby-Shire, England, had a prior claim to inspiring the lyrics with her yew tree house and cradle in the 1790's. Getting back to Massachusetts, cruisers who decamped from the Mayflower supposedly came up with the fateful four lines as they observed the child care practices of the native populace in the early 1600's. Finally, Egyptians contend a variant of the poem lulled their mythical King Tut to shut-eye land.

Sand Men

[Hitchcoc · 9/10 · 23 February 2021]

The Boys, along with Peter "Wrong Way" Peachfuzz, continue looking for the Upsidasium mine, left to Bullwinkle by his uncle. Of course, Boris and Natasha are after the same thing. Boris, disguised as Abou Ben Boris works to get the deed from Bullwinkle. Boris tells them he is so rich that he had the Sahara Desert brought to America (It was just delivered). In the extras, we have a new take on The Ugly Duckling, where the unattractive waterfowl tries to get into the movies but is too ugly. It, of course, doesn't go well. Peabody and Sherman go to see Ponce de Leon to assist in finding the Fountain of Youth. Unfortunately, all his men have drunk the water and have become babies. There are some pretty racist moments relating to the Seminoles.

The Sixties were a simpler time, according to my . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 26 December 2023]

. . . great grandparents. Cars still ran on gasoline, which was priced between a quarter and 35 cents per gallon. In many parts of America, service station attendants would include silver dollars from the 1800's in your change. Even a paper dollar would buy about 20 sliders at a White Castle. YOU'VE GOT A SECRET takes place in this milieu, when an obvious Balkan dude could claim to be "A-Boo Ben Boris," and not be accused of appropriating another culture. He and an equally bogus "Queen Fatima" could convince ordinary Americans that they were lost in exotic deserts such as Death Valley or the Sahara, because most of these citizens of the 1900's did not have enough quarters to travel beyond the borders of their home states. Therefore, this account bears out the stories we've heard from our ancestors.