The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Boris Makes His Move or The Mice Man Cometh/Big Cheese Boris or I'd Rather Be Rat (1961) User Reviews

This episode features the first great American poem . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 8/10 · 29 January 2024]

. . . HICKORY TRICKERY DOCK, recited during Bullwinkle's Corner. Written by Benjamin "Ben" Franklin under the pseudonym "Richard Saunders," and first published in his Poor Richard's Almanac on July 2, 1732. Ben proved to be the most prolific of our Founding Fathers, siring more kids than the four dudes on Mount Rushmore combined. The Franklin household had to home-school most of the tykes running about underfoot, prompting their penny-wise-pound-foolish papa to compose loads of nursery rhymes, aphorisms, lullabies and figures of speech. It was always a challenge for him to scrape up enough dough to feed so many hungry urchins. Soon the U. S. treasurer felt sorry for him, which is why his C-Note bill is worth more than the Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Jackson and Grant bills added together. This is what comes of mice running up clocks.

Caramels Are A Mouse's Worst Friend

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 27 February 2021]

The episode is a series of encounters between R & B and the giant, metal munching mice. At one point one of the most formidable runs out of steam because he is not wound tightly enough. Another gets his tail caught in a trap. Still, Boris, the Big Cheese, continues. In other features we have Jack and the Beanstalk. Jack is a baseball player, a centerfielder, who grows beanstalks, allowing him to climb up to the sky to catch flies. Peabody visits the beginning of the Pony Express which has a heavy problem.

Baseball pictures always tug at your heartstrings . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 30 January 2024]

. . . so the JACK IN THE BEANSTALK segment of this Bullwinkle Show episode is unlikely to leave a dry eye during most watch parties. The title character plays professional ball for a Boston squad which hasn't won in a decade. All of that changes when--thanks to a pocketful of magic legumes--Jack is able to become an instant two-way star, just like Babe Ruth and Show-Hay Oh-tan-knee, as the anachronistic spellchecker insists on putting it. Getting back to Jack, he is NOT an untouchable hurler. However, by playing center field with a pocket full of fact-acting seeds, he's able to rocket into the sky 25 or 30 times each game to catch most of his mistakes. Jack's squad soon goes on a winning streak, renames itself the "Boston Beans" and enters the bottom of the ninth inning of the pennant tie-breaker game knotted with the New York Giants. However, the home team loads the bases against Jack. Expecting another blast, Jack tosses one of his patented gopher balls and rushes backwards to bury a handful of beans in center field. Tragically, the batter bunts as the unfortunate Jack soars "several miles" skywards. The Beans lose the pennant, and Jack succumbs to oxygen deprivation and exposure.

Episode Seven of the Monstrous Mechanical . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 31 January 2024]

Metal-Munching Moon Mice Mystery provides some tips for the so-called "Red States" infesting America in this Our Modern 21st Century. Now that the Supreme Kangaroo Court has been packed with "Original-Lists," it's a voracious Race to the Bottom as renegade locales such as Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Florida and Ohio plot to outdo each other in fashioning novel means of cruel and unusual punishment never before seen on Planet Earth to exterminate often randomly-chosen poor people who cannot afford to cheat pricey defense lawyers out of their legal fees as billionaires are always doing. Nitrogen gas doubtless is a tortuous way to go, but it sounds pretty expensive and exceeds the attention span of the average Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Wisconsin, Georgia, Carolina's, Dakota's, Kansas, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia's, New Hampshire, Indiana, Montana, Missouri, Maine, Nebraska, Iowa and Alaska resident. That's where Rocky and Bullwinkle come in. They're affixed for a double offing in an over-sized mousetrap. This plight of the poor in the U. S. swampland echoes that famous observation from the Cowardly Lion in the Wicked Witch of the West's castle corridor toward the conclusion of THE WIZARD OF OZ: "Trapped like rats!"