The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) The Squirrel Next Door or High Neighbor/The Spell Binders or Hex Marks the Spot (1961) User Reviews

On the Way to Mr. Big

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 25 February 2021]

Boris, Natasha, and Mr. Big continue to make problems for Moose and Squirrel. The military doesn't do much to help. The chain of command seems a bit confused. So it's up to our guys to run down Boris. They trap him but he is about as oily as one can be. The episode ends with a final encounter. Should be interesting. The extras include Aesop's story of The Cat and the Fifteen Mice where a vicious cat can't leave a group of enterprising rodents alone. It all moves to a lighthouse. Peabody and his boy encounter Balboa as he searches for the Pacific Ocean, mistaking puddles and other features for the great body of water.

Has anyone else noticed the discrepancy . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 20 January 2024]

. . . between the close of The Bullwinkle Show's Truckers in the Sky episode and its follow-up, the Squirrel Next Door? The culmination of Truckers pictures America's favorite rodent being designated an honorary rocket nose cone by Gen. Broad-Beam, and getting launched by his sidekick Bullwinkle toward the ten fly-away skunk farm trucks simply lying flat on the otherwise-empty surface upon which a missile's nose cone would otherwise rest. However, as Boris maneuvers Rocky off-course toward Washington, DC, the flying acorn-hoarder suddenly appears in a jet plane-like cockpit, complete with oodles of knobs, dials and other control gizmos. Is this a simple continuity error, or part of the plot?

It's highly unlikely that anyone born after 1950 . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 7/10 · 19 January 2024]

. . . will be able to understand the title of one of this Bullwinkle Show's segments, HOW TO OWN A HI-FI. Fortunately, I have access to one of the few remaining survivors from the first half of the Twentieth Century, allowing me to provide first-hand accounts of America's Pioneer Days of Yesteryear. The old-time scientists of Bell Laboratories began tinkering with sound reproduction, recordings and amplification during the Early 1930's. Rex Charles Allen (aka, R. C. A.) Victor toiled endless hours in search of elusive High-Fidelity soundtracks for the movie theaters dotting our U. S. Homeland. In the process, Mr. Victor invented "Tweeters" and "Woofers," as noted here by Mr. Know-It-All. My Living History consultant confirms that this proved more important to the American Way than indoor plumbing or electric light bulbs. "It's hard to imagine anyone hearing of Elvis, The Beatles or Metallica if High Fidelity did not exist," she says.

This is the show causing all of the controversy . . .

[cricket30 · 6/10 · 20 January 2024]

. . . making it difficult if not impossible to talk about it on the internet. Certain Big Money interests have secret Red Flags embedded within the censor bots for sites like this, which means that as of the 2020's, if you incorporate one of these forbidden "trip-wire" terms, your American Free Speech Rights will be muzzled, stymied, squelched, stifled, censored, silenced and totally suppressed as if you are a Soviet saying something negative about Putt-Putt. Among the many squeamish Big Money underwriters of these pernicious Thought Police is Big Oh-Eye-Ell. Their tyrannical anti-criticism bots have become so omnipotent that you can no longer mention Olive's surname when reviewing a Popeye picture. Similarly, Big Toboggan--an obvious substitute term--will not allow or tolerate any mention of the nefarious cats and their vice of choice in this Aesop episode.

It's impossible not to take exception to . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 20 January 2024]

. . . the cigar-chomping felines featured during the AESOP AND SON: THE CAT AND FIFTEEN MICE segment of The Bullwinkle Show, Season 2, Episode 17. During the 1900's, when this picture originated, American AM radio was NOT dominated by Big Tobacco mouthpieces shilling a seemingly endless array of humidor havens potentially providing perverse patrons a respite refuge in which to "rest their ash." However, when the Criminals of "Product Placement" corrupted Cartoon Land with a plethora of stogie-spewing addled addicts in both human and household pet form, it became inevitable that the tykes growing up on such fetid fare would be subliminally programmed for expensive self-extermination by Big Tobacco.