The Bullwinkle Show (TV Series) Knock on Wood or Bullwinkle Takes the Rap/A Knock for the Rock or The Lamp Is Low (1961) User Reviews

The third and fourth parts of the . . .

[pixrox1 · 8/10 · 28 January 2024]

. . . MONSTROUS METAL MUNCHING MOON MICE MYSTERY delve deeper into the inevitable trauma from which we in America are increasingly suffering as this our Modern 21st Century insists upon barreling along. Power outages are getting more and more likely to deprive U. S. Citizens of their inalienable right to enjoy must-see TV. Super Bowls and World Series come around only once a year, not to mention the Kentucky Derby, the Daytona and Indianapolis 500's, College Basketball's March Madness, 68 College Football bowl games, the Summer Olympics, riveting live police car pursuits and the odd presidential election. Toss in the convenience of watching the first airings of TV shows the old-fashioned 1900's way, and everybody is done a grave injustice when the juice is cut off to our TV sets. Some of the ramifications of such catastrophes pictured here are eerily similar to the outage outrage we Moderns are still experiencing. So much for the fallacy of Progress.

For Bullwinkle's Corner, America's favorite moose . . .

[tadpole-596-918256 · 8/10 · 27 January 2024]

. . . recites the ORIGINAL version of Simple Simon, which is the first known work of Billy Shakespeare. Then a second grader at King's New School in 1571, it seems that young Bill was fashioning some crude rhymes when he was supposed to be paying attention in penmanship class. Being too young to copyright Simple Simon, he hid the original text in one of the gloves in the reject box at his father's shop. Signed simply "Billie S.," this pivotal poem lay dormant for decades until an artillery man discovered it during a lull amid the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. Recognizing its historical import, Sgt. Salter saved this rare example of the future Bard's handwriting from becoming cannon fodder, later donating it to Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell. This eventually was buried with Ollie in Westminster Cathedral. However, Simple Simon saw the light of day again when Charles II ordered Ollie's corpse to be dug up and decapitated, displaying the noggin on a pike for 30 years on London Bridge. However, Charles' daughter Lady Mary Tudor retrieved Simple Simon from Cromwell's original casket, and it remained in her family until 1938, when the 11th Count of Went-Water donated it to the British Museum, where many ghosts and goblins sample wares.

Mouse on the House

[Hitchcoc · 8/10 · 26 February 2021]

Bullwinkle finally admits that there is a six foot metal mouse eating the antennas in Frostbite Falls. Actually, they are roving through the country not allowing TV stations to show commercials. Rocky is appointed the job of getting to the bottom of things. The fairy tale is another take on Puss n Boots where a crafty cat takes advantage of a stupid man by granting him three wishes. Dudley Do Right is the only Mountie left in the camp which leads to dire consequences. He is asked to recruit men for the force.

People get all excited when they hear that . . .

[oscaralbert · 6/10 · 26 January 2024]

. . . there was a Fractured Fairy Tale from 1961 featuring a talking cat, an ogre and some boots. However, PUSS AND BOOTS #2 is more likely to have inspired THE NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD than SHREK, with its lack of production values, humor, wit and humanity. No. 2 features the garish and sloppily applied color schemes of a kindergartner failing art class. The plot is full of more wrong turns than a fractured GPS satellite. It's said that there's multiple ways to skin a cat, and No. 2 sets out to prove this with all the sensitivity of a chainsaw massacre flick. It would be prudent for anyone enjoying No. 2 to seek immediate psychiatric help.

There's a famous saying about an ox.

[cricket30 · 5/10 · 26 January 2024]

It has to do with whose ox is being gored. This episode of The Bullwinkle Show has five parts. The most controversial bit seems to be the segment labeled as a "Fractured Fairy Tale." The American Right to Free Speech is being muzzled when anyone attempts to comment upon this picture. Some viewers feel they are being stymied and stifled if they make reference to the ogre here. Others guess that it is mentioning the feline that leads to their suppression troubles. There are those who believe that this site is making it impermissible to refer to any other film when reviewing a picture. Legal scholars are taking issue with the way in which Evil Bots are waging their War of Attrition against thinking people. Unless something gives, the current debacle will end with everyone's ox being gored.