The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Underwater Eyeball or The Deep Blue See/Underwater Moose or The Aqua-lunk (1961) User Reviews

Life on the Bottom

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 10 March 2021]

As the boys and Captain Peachfuzz commandeer their boat in search of Maybe Dick, they spot on eye on a long tube, staring at them. Also, another tube blows water onto the deck, threatening to sink the boat. Bullwinkle tries to help but is pulled down. When Rocky tries to save him, he can't get back up. It looks really bad. Additional features are first of all the tale of the "Little Princess," where a beloved little girl grows to an enormous size, bankrupting the kingdom with food and other frills. We see the beginnings of Dudley Do-Right who leaves his mother to go to a movie and ends up hundreds of miles away at the RCMP camp, joining the Mounties. He goes in search of Snidely Whiplash who is damming up the waterways, preventing logging, Canada's second leading industry. But Snidely and his horse bumble their way to a solution.

Telethons usually involve murky accounting practices . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 7/10 · 2 April 2024]

. . . and the fund-raiser under way amid Bullwinkle's Corner: FAN CLUB #6 proves to be no exception to this exercise in lower math. The first problem here is that none of the characters state explicitly for what allegedly worthy cause clams are being raised. Secondly, only a single dame--Natasha--is on hand to man the phone bank. Thirdly, all of the incoming calls involve Chinese take-out orders and sports betting then illegal. Finally, the telethon participants are caught on-camera discussing the overhead costs of the supposedly philanthropic event itself, right down to the dime that Boris Bad-Enough has "borrowed" from an imaginary kitty to pay for his parking!

If I'm not mistaken, there's a 1939 version of . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 4 April 2024]

. . . this Bullwinkle Show's "Fractured Fairy Tale" starring Shirley Temple. Fortunately, Bullwinkle's remake of THE LITTLE PRINCESS is a lot funnier than Shirley's foray, even though this briefer iteration packs in a lot more tears per minute than the earlier sob-fest feature film managed to manifest. The 1939 take on this story added a lot of plot padding to the essential tale, much of it totally extraneous and a huge strain on basic common sense. What kind of dad would turn into a poster boy for amnesia, with someone like Shirley back home depending upon him? However, the later diminutive Royal and her father face real problems of their own, that dwarf Ms. Temple's adventures with an ash can. If you want to save yourself an hour or two, THIS take on THE LITTLE PRINCESS should be your obvious choice.

People who have read the book upon which . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 16 May 2024]

. . . the "Wailing Whale" Bullwinkle Show story arc is based will be wondering why the iconic opening line of this nautical yarn, "Call me Fish-Mail," has yet to be said during the first quartet of entries in this mini-series. Sadly, the same oversight continues during Part Five and Six of this saga, aka UNDERWATER EYEBALL or THE DEEP BLUE SEA / UNDERWATER MOOSE or THE AQUA-LUNK. Once considered to be the "Great American Novel," Herman Melville's Moby tome existed for decades as a seldom-opened doorstop for dorm rooms across America, as the vast majority of literature professors placing it in their curriculum had not even read it themselves--unless you count the Illustrated Classics comic book version.