The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Defective Story or A Muffled Report/Leaky Lyrics or Bullwinkle Plugs a Song (1961) User Reviews

Scholars have been researching the . . .

[pixrox1 · 7/10 · 16 May 2024]

. . . Music of Moby since Herman Melville first published his 1851 doorstop whaling saga. The Bullwinkle Show's Wailing Whale story arc, parts 9 & 10, aka DEFECTIVE STORY or A MUFFLED REPORT / LEAKY LYRICS or BULLWINKLE PLUGS A SONG may come closest to addressing this aspect of its literary source. G. Gordon Light Finger's famed Top 40 ballad, The Wreck of the Pericles Q. Pea Quad was not part of the original Melville text, though beta versions appeared in time to serve as widely used marching songs for Gen. Bill Sherman's Union troops as they stomped through Georgia. However, Bullwinkle provides few lyrics to explain Melville's whaling epic.

One of the more puzzling pieces of this episode . . .

[oscaralbert · 7/10 · 9 April 2024]

. . . concerns its Broken Fairy Tale, whose subtitle seems difficult for anyone to get right. It is NOT "Tom Thumb." Nor is it "T-h-o-m Thumb." Actually, the correct heading is T-H-O-M T-U-M. This is intended to be a homonym for a percussion instrument, specifically a type of drum. The mud pie maker's gluttonous son is in the habit of pounding his full tummy in the fashion of a tom-tom. However, this magic boy's food receptacle is seldom full. He can engorge mountains of grub, and still have room for several deserts. His tale includes many twists and turns, with a surprise lurking around every mud puddle. Be careful you do not get splashed.

A Crack in the Head

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 10 March 2021]

Thinking they are safe, while in the domed city, Maybe Dick goes by and cracks the plastic wall. Rocky's quick thinking saves them (as do Bullwinkle's antlers). However, heading out again, our heroes are pursued by their quarry and Captain Peachfuzz again becomes a liability. Special features include the story of Thom Tum, a baby in a thimble who grows to enormous size with an enormous appetite. And Peabody and Sherman visit James McNeill Whistler as he makes his most famous painting.

Doubtless the most nostalgic part of this episode . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 8/10 · 7 April 2024]

. . . is the segment titled BULLWINKLE'S CORNER: FAN CLUBV #8. It features an event depicting Natasha Fatale and Captain Peter "Wrong-way" Peach-fuzz competing within potato sacks--with the Naval Hero's loaded down with 100 pounds of said root vegetables! --while Bullwinkle J. Moose and Boris Bad-Enough are both sporting flour bags. Rocket J. Squirrel is serving as the starter for this event. It all brings to mind stories my grandpa told me about Life in the 1900's, particularly Fourth of July picnics at the Sunday Lake VFW Post. Sack races were staples of these celebrations, along with greased pole climbs, oiled pig chases, ladies' shoe-kicking competition, long-range egg-throwing--a couples' activity and parachutists plunging into the copper-red lake. Regarding sack races, Grand Pops always said that the key to winning was knowing how to operate the equipment.

Being a programmer with two English degrees . . .

[cricket30 · 7/10 · 10 April 2024]

. . . my dad understands how the Evil Bots running this site work. For instance, this episode of The Bullwinkle Show includes a "Fractured Fairy Tale." The title of said segment constitutes a complicated pun, relying on an aspect of the American language involving "sound alike" words. "Sound alike" is how American elementary school first grade teachers address this aspect of our language. Older people, such as Second Graders, high school and college kids and literate adults use the specific grammar term intended for grown-up use--EXCEPT when they're on this web site. Here the nefarious censor bots silence, muzzle, stymie, censor and suppress this basic noun because they object to its first four letters. How childishly ignorant can a computer be?