The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) The Ground Floor or That's Me All Over!/Fools Afloat or All the Drips at Sea (1960) User Reviews

The most valuable part of this TV picture . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 7/10 · 4 December 2023]

. . . is called MR. KNOW IT ALL: MAGIC MADE EASY THE HARD WAY. Bullwinkle the Moose claims that he will demonstrate the six basic magic tricks, but only attempts to do a trio of failed efforts. In other words, the antlered fraud proves right off the bat that magic destroys the ability to do basic arithmetic. Ever wonder why there's no Geometry Class offered at Hog Warts? Now you know. In the next grisly scene, the would-be trickster literally saws a man in half, as if he were a Saudi dissident. Finally, Bullwinkle is forced to use his pet cow for the human pin cushion demo, after his Rodent buddy Rocky refuses to be punctured. This botched dissection also falls flat. To summarize: Don't let Pen and Teller unleash any tigers in your vicinity.

Out of the Frying Pan

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 25 February 2016]

A great many funny lines accompany this episode. The boys are floating down a river, heading for the open sea. Meanwhile, Boris and Natasha are trying to evade the police. Sitting in the elevator in which they are floating, the coast guard mistakes them for an enemy submarine (Bullwinkle looks like a conning tower). They are fired upon, first with artillery and then with depth charges. This episode has the classic exchange between R & B where Rocky tries to get their minds off the fact that they are going to crash. Bullwinkle plays along by saying, "It looks like an early fall." This is the first of a series of these comments.

In the other features, we start with the Fractured "Pinocchio." As with "Sleeping Beauty" in the last episode, Gepetto decides to exploit the puppet as soon as he gets life, offering him to a producer, but offering him the caveat "Stay Wood!" In the Peabody offering, the Wayback takes them to meet P. T. Barnum who is about to lose his circus to a couple of opportunistic trapeze artists named Hide and Sick. If they can successfully pull off a strike, they will get the deed to the circus.

Most Americans have never seen a so-called . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 5 December 2023]

. . . "draw bridge" such as the one pictured in THE GROUND FLOOR or THAT'S ME ALL OVER, and have to accept the existence of such things totally on faith. However, as our U. S. Homeland devolves into an increasingly agnostic mindset, this may be asking too much of the average taxpayer. It's said that whenever the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers comes to a stream, creek or river, some sergeant barks out "Draw bridge!" and a corporal has to immediately scribble down an outlandish structure supposedly capable of conveying vehicles over said rivulet of water, akin to THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER K-WHY. It's surprising, therefore, that GROUND FLOOR did not win five or ten Oscars.