The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) The Rat-Pack Attacks or Sharrup You Mouse/Bucks for Boris or Rocky Pays the Piper (1960) User Reviews

This episode of The Bullwinkle Show includes . . .

[oscaralbert · 6/10 · 11 February 2024]

. . . a segment that might be better suited to The Twilight Zone. TINY TOM, aka TOM THUMB 2, is a "Fractured Fairy Tale" during which the height of the title character is given as "two and 1/4 inches." His biggest accomplishment is running the four-minute yard. When a six-foot or 72-inch man trots a four-minute mile, he is outpacing his height 220 times. However, having a 2.25 inch tall individual taking four minutes to plod 36 inches yields a ratio of just 16. This means that Tiny Tom is four and a half times slower than Roger Bannister! In other words, Tiny Tom is puffing along like a car chugging 15 MPH on an interstate freeway! Hopefully he's not hogging the fast lane on his dish! Then things get even weirder when it turns out that there is a whole village full of slow pokes like Tiny Tom. Talk about creepy.

When Rocket J. Squirrel shoves $6,000 into . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 12 February 2024]

. . . the grasping mitts of swindler Boris Bad Enough for monstrous rat eradication, some viewers will be wondering HOW a rodent could get its paws on so much moo-la. The answer lies in the fact that rodents have very sharp teeth. They can chew their way through a two-by-four in mere hours. The American Insurance Racket considers rodents one of the ten leading causes of household roof collapses. Therefore, all of those Red State yokels who do not trust banks, and instead stash their cash under mattresses, in cigar boxes or within wooden tool boxes should not be surprised to find their dough missing when they need it the most. It will be gone with the rats, mice, squirrels and other vermin, who will have most likely transported it into the neighbors' trees and attics.

This episode does not devote enough time to the . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 7/10 · 4 February 2024]

, , , so-called "Bane of Jane" Scandal which rocked the prim confines of the British Education System in 1784. That was the timing of the infamous flap originating when a second-grader named "Jane Austen" submitted a four stanza poem to fulfill the homework assignment "Write a short essay about what you were up to this past summer." Naturally, when a horrified instructor first set eyes upon Jane's response, titled LITTLE BO-PEEP, the wayward student was immediately suspended indefinitely for presenting such outrageous verbal images of human pillory punishment, sheep tail docking and feminine itinerant wanderings. Jane's parents had to solemnly vow that all of their misbehaving daughter's future writings--if any--would be boring society romances, and that their child would never again stray outside the bounds of genteel propriety into the lurid depths of England's penal code and brutish animal husbandry practices.

The Pie Eyed Piper

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 27 February 2021]

The next step in getting rid of the moon mice is to hire a pied piper. Boris puts on a piper hat and smokes a pipe and proceeds to cheat his way to a small fortune. We are finally let in on the reason the two moon men brought the metal munching mice to Earth. Quite clever. The special features are fun. The fairy tale involves Tiny Tom. His parents are amazed after years that he has not grown. They try everything. Then, it's Peabody and Sherman with Alexander Graham Bell who only invents the Alexander Graham Cracker. There is a funny football scene, too.