The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) The Bars and Stripes Forever/Hello Out There! or There's No Place Like Space (1959) User Reviews

As ever, the most memorable part of Episode 5 . . .

[cricket30 · 8/10 · 20 October 2023]

. . . of The Bullwinkle Show is the lead moose's recitation of a classic verse by Treasure Island's Robert Louis Stevenson: My Shadow. This is a particularly fitting poem for the show's Culture Feature, "Bullwinkle's Corner," since moose cast such large shadows. "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me," Bob begins. "And what can be the use of him is more than I can see," he continues, anticipating Literature's Pirandello Movement decades later. Bob's examination of the perennial conflict between Illusion and Reality is personified by Bullwinkle's antagonistic shadow, which punches him out several times and eventually becomes his New Reality by totally overshadowing him.

Moon Stars

[Hitchcoc · 7/10 · 4 November 2014]

Gidney and Cloyd get so much attention, they become celebrities on Earth, rubbing elbows with Marilyn, Clark, and Marlon, among others. Eventually they have had enough and decide to return to the Moon. They kidnap our heroes and try to take off. Sadly, Boris and Natasha have run off with their Petrol and they crash to the ground. Now Bullwinkle becomes even more important, as he continues to make more and more cakes. The Fairy Tale is the "Jack and the Beanstalk" story, with the erstwhile lad trying to grab all the goodies that actually belonged to his family, especially his long suffering mother. Peabody and Sherman visit Camelot where another historical figure, King Arthur, shows his weaknesses. When a dragon threatens and Peabody asks "How about your Knights?" Arthur replies, "Awful. I can't sleep at all." We'll have to see how this all works out.

This episode of The Bullwinkle Show . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 22 October 2023]

. . . is a tribute to the Warner Brothers' Loony Tunes, as evidenced by the title of Jet Fuel, Episode #9, BARS AND STRIPES FOREVER. That, of course, is the exact title of a 1939 Warner Classic Animated Short. The two moon men threaten to transport Rocky and Bullwinkle to a barren rock--the Moon--an even less hospitable setting than the setting of the picture from two decades earlier: Alcatraz Federal Prison, aka The Rock. All the prisoners in this pair of films are animals. They are threatened by armed humans. Somehow the Bullwinkle people neglect to include Chopin's Funeral March from the original on THE BARS AND STRIPES remake soundtrack, but they should have. Fred needs every royalty payment he can get.