The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Explosive Situation or Don't Make It Worse-It's Badenov/You've Got Me in Stitches or Suture Self (1961) User Reviews

One of the best parts of these shows . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 2 March 2024]

. . . are the imaginative titles, particularly those for the chapters of the continuing saga, which bookend every half hour episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle. The procedure used up to this point in the series is to label each saga entry with TWO headlines, connected by the word "or." The main exception to this rule of foot is to present the initial offering in each story with a single heading, which serves as the official title for that new saga. RUE BRITANNIA is one of the briefer and more clever continuing story labels. The pair of headings for RUE BRITANNIA Part 5 and Part 6 are particularly pithy, especially the part after the word "or" in each case. Part 5's heading concludes with DON'T MAKE IT WORSE--IT'S BAD-ENOUGH, spelling out Boris' surname in the standard fashion which always upsets the spellchecker for this page. The final bit of Part 6's title is even better: SUTURE SELF.

Bullwinkle J. Moose decides to go King Tutting . . .

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

. . .during this eponymous episode's Mr. Know-It-All segment, HOW TO BE AN ARCHAEOLOGIST AND DIG ANCIENT HISTORY. As anyone who has followed Egyptian tourism during the past century well knows, no rational person would get closer to the Nile than the South Pole. DEATH ON THE NILE epitomizes the jinxed "Land of the Pharaohs," where buses full of foolhardy tourists tend to blow up like popcorn. Arizona has offered to host the Sphinx, "Great" Pyramids and Aswan Dam, not unlike how they've taken on London Bridge, Westminster Abbey and Big Ben for safe-keeping. But since Egyptians appear to be Hell-bent on erasing any trace of whatever heritage they may have once attained, it's best for Humanity to forget that mummies, hieroglyphics and obelisks ever existed, Bullwinkle's final predicament here suggests.

Great Plan

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 6 March 2021]

Boris hatches a great plan. It starts with Bullwinkle eating too many Macadamia nuts and ending up on an operating table. Of course, nothing every works for Boris and our friendly moose has a touch of helpfulness. So a different strategy must be employed by the villains. Aesop and Son present the tale of "The Centipede and the Snail" who try to defeat the hare in a race. Peabody goes back and visits Marconi, the inventor of the radio.

There was a theatrically released animated feature . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 2 March 2024]

. . . which came out maybe 10 or 11 years ago titled something such as TURBINE or TURBO. This particular flick had to do with racing snails. I think there were some tomatoes in it, as well. America was wondering at the time, "Where do they dredge up ideas for this sort of thing?" As it turns out, the plot for TORO is drawn from a segment of The Bullwinkle Show from the Winter of 1960-1961, called Aesop and Son: THE CENTIPEDE AND THE SNAIL. There may be a few slight, subtle cosmetic differences between TYRO and CENTIPEDE, as one would logically expect of the later film being padded out to plod along for 18 or 20 times the refreshing bevity of CENTIPEDE. But as Ginger "Snaps" Rogers always said, "When the shoes are on the other feet, stomp them all!"