The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Follow the Swallow or The Inside Story/Playtime for Rollo or Rest in Pieces (1961) User Reviews

Whale of a Tale

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 12 March 2021]

Through Peter's incompetence, the gang ends up inside Maybe Dick. It turns out the erstwhile cetacean is actually a big hollow ship. It is being commandeered by Boris Badenov. He has an ape working for him and he has been pirating all sorts of vessels. Rocky and Bullwinkle end up in an overconfident state, but there's at least one episode left. For extras, we have the tale of "Slow White and Nose Red." There are lots of "slow" jokes. Dudley Do-Right once again carries on against Snidely Whiplash. He ends up in Toronto and then ultimately the RCMP camp.

IF Moby D. is the so-called "Great American Novel" . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 20 May 2024]

. . . then it's reimagining as Rocky and Bullwinkle's Maybe D. Must be considered as the great American cartoon. It's always fun to examine such an obvious proposition. Who can forget the immortal first line of Herm Melville's weighty tome, "Call me Fish Tail." But when the narrator kicks off the initial segment of the Wailing Whale saga with the words "For many years Maybe has been a shadowy terror for all sea-faring men," which is merely the final clause of his opening statement, viewers know that they're blessed with a writer capable of composing complicate adult sentences longer than a mere three words. This variegated verbosity continues throughout FOLLOW THE SWALLOW or THE INSIDE STORY / PLAYTIME FOR ROLLO or REST IN PIECES.

Perhaps the most depressing segment of this entry . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 6/10 · 8 April 2024]

. . . in The Bullwinkle Show universe is called MR. KNOW IT ALL: HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND BE INFLUENTIAL WITH PEOPLE. When Grandpa was toiling in sales during the 1900's, he was ordered to attend out-of-state sessions of the Dale Carnegie course which this program segment clearly is intended to spoof. However, Bullwinkle never has to march up the hill with the Duke of York and his 10,000 men. Furthermore, the beleaguered moose is not tasked with any memory builders, nor is he brainwashed to reply "Terrific!!" when anyone inquires how he's doing at a particular moment. Grand Pop described these tortuous exercises in Group Therapy as AA meetings, minus the coffee and donuts.