The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Battle of the Giants or It Takes Two to Tangle/Bye Bye Boris or Farewell My Ugly (1961) User Reviews

Not With a Bang, But a Whimper

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 26 February 2021]

This is the conclusion to a loooooong story. The boys finally confront Mr. Big whose stature is slightly disappointing but whose personality is not much fun. He is heartless and driven. The thing with this story is it is ultimately up in the air. We have a couple special features. The Fractured Fairy Tale is "Rumpelstiltskin Returns." The girl is given all she could want if she gave up her first born child. We soon see that she made a good bargain since she won him in a contest anyway. The conclusion is quite remarkable. Dudley Do-Right comes into inspector Fenwick's office and finds only his hat. When Snidely grabs the hat and wears it, Dudley thinks he is the Inspector. A lot of fun ensues.

It turns out that this entire saga depicts the true story . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 22 January 2024]

. . . of Top Secret American government programs that were on the verge of enabling U. S. Astronauts to explore distant galaxies when BATTLE OF THE GIANTS or IT TAKES TWO TO TANGLE and FAREWELL MY UGLY were released in 1961. The U. S. has not been nuked by any of its many Axis of Evil enemies since deploying atomic bombs in 1945 because it has been common knowledge among World Spy Agencies since the 1960's that America is the ONLY country possessing helium bombs. The metallic helium mined mostly in Texas has allowed Americans to explore more than 250 galaxies during the past half dozen decades, as well. At least 90% of so-called "UFO" sightings actually involve observations of returning U. S. star-ships experiencing cloaking device problems. The firing squad scene during FAREWELL MY UGLY likely portrays attrition among the infamous "host of others" for coming too close to the actual truth with their Rocky and Bullwinkle Show plot lines.

The consensus of literary critics is that this episode's . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 8/10 · 21 January 2024]

. . . "Bullwinkle's Corner" poem sealed the doom of America's top poet--and subject of a previous Corner--Edgar Allan Poe. After heaping profuse praise upon Hank Longfellow, Poe noticed that Hank had plagiarized his "Song of Hiawatha" from the Finnish. Coupled with the fact that Poe was in a constant state of food insecurity and that his own cousin\wife died at the hands of paupers' doctors, while Longfellow was making his mark as the wealthiest poet in world history, gaining him access to the planet's top physicians allowing Mrs. Longfellow to become the first woman ever to give birth with the help of modern pain-killers, Poe waged the infamous Longfellow War, culminating with "The Raven," whose namesake NFL Football team just advanced to the Final Four. Inspired by his "Imp of the Perverse," Poe mocked Longfellow's mysterious flag bearer running around yelling "Excelsior!" nine times by inventing a Raven sitting around muttering "Nevermore" to conclude 11 stanzas. This motivated some of Harvard Professor Longfellow's henchmen to poison the 40-year-old Poe, leaving him to die in a Baltimore gutter, a few years later. But Excelsior doodler Hank could not escape Poe's Curse of the Bells. His second wife was burned to death by a candle 12 years after Poe's flame was extinguished, causing Hank to take a sabbatical from Harvard, to have treatment for a mental breakdown in Germany. After 21 years of Earthly torment, excruciating peritonitis finally sent Hank to the sulfur pits, though plagiarism persists as high as the Presidential level at Harvard even into 2024.