Episode
The Bullwinkle Show: Jet Fuel Formula (8) - The Submarine Squirrel or 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea
Overview
Fortunately, Bullwinkle offers the wrong toast—"To crime!"—and Boris and Natasha, official bad guys that they are, are obliged to drink up, gulping down their own knockout punch; meanwhile, the flying squirrel is being used for target practice by the U. S. Navy, until quick-witted Rocky uses the smoke from the aircraft fire to spell out the phrase "U. S. Taxpayer" and, of course, the Navy needs every one of those that it can get. Soon Rocky finds Bullwinkle, and just as our heroes are about to leave with the moon men, a grateful U. S. government responds by arresting them!
Details
- Series
- The Bullwinkle Show
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 20
- Air date
- 1959-12-10
Episode context
Jet Fuel Formula (8) - The Submarine Squirrel or 20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea is Episode 20 in Season 1 of The Bullwinkle Show. It aired on 1959-12-10.
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Episode 19: Peabody's Improbable History - Wyatt Earp
Peabody and Sherman travel to Dodge City, where famed sheriff Wyatt Earp is unable to face the outlaw "Aces Wilde" in a gun showdown due to a string of bad luck and a leg injury. With Earp out of commission, Peabody steps in to take on the outlaw, using his intelligence and quick thinking to settle the showdown and restore order in the Wild West.
Episode 21: Jet Fuel Formula (9) - Bars and Stripes Forever
Yes, the government agents who've arrested our heroes are waiting for two spies. If it's not Rocky and Bullwinkle, it must be those two funny-looking green guys, reasons Special Agent Iris T. Upthecreek, but when he tries to take the moon men into custody, he's scrooched...for a full fifty years, which creates a tiny problem until Rocket J. hits upon the idea of putting the scrooched agent on a pedestal, right in front of the National Security Building, while he slowly thaws.
Meanwhile, the moon men have become media darlings, with pointed heads all the rage, and they're even given the keys to the city (they're delicious). Cloyd and Gidney respond to all this flattering attention by heading back to their spaceship for a little peace and quiet, but ensuring that same peace and quiet on the moon means keeping Grandma Moose's recipe out of earthling hands, so it looks as if our heroes are going to be forced to go lunar themselves.
More episodes from this season
Episode 18: Bullwinkle's Corner - Where Go the Boats
Bullwinkle recites the classic poem about boats, but adds his own spin by telling a humorous story about his experience riding on a boat. His version, filled with whimsical mishaps and unexpected turns, turns the serene journey into a comical adventure on the water.
Episode 22: Fractured Fairy Tales - Jack and the Beanstalk
In this comical version, the forgetful Giant can’t remember his famous saying, which allows Jack to outsmart him and make his escape. The Giant's constant memory lapses lead to a series of humorous situations, turning the classic tale into a lighthearted and amusing adventure.
Episode 17: Fractured Fairy Tales - Goldilocks and the Three Bears
In this amusing version, Goldilocks learns the hard way about the consequences of misusing other people's property. As she tries out the bears' porridge, chairs, and beds, things quickly go awry, leading to a comical series of events that ultimately teach her a valuable lesson about respecting others' belongings.
Episode 23: Bullwinkle's Corner - My Shadow
Bullwinkle recites the classic poem My Shadow, but things take an unexpected turn when his shadow comes to life and begins to cause trouble. Instead of quietly following him around, Bullwinkle's shadow starts a comical fight, leading to a chaotic and amusing battle between Bullwinkle and his mischievous shadow.
Episode 16: Jet Fuel Formula (7) - Rocky’s Dilemma or Squirrel in a Stew
Rocky's blown away all right, out to sea in a leaky hot air balloon courtesy of Boris Badenov. Meanwhile, an anxious nation and two anxious moon men are searching for the missing moose, who's still baking away in Boris's secret laboratory. By going door-to-door to every house in the country, Gidney and Cloyd eventually turn up there, so Boris and Natasha quickly throw them a surprise party complete with knockout punch, while back out over the stormy seas, lightning strikes Rocky's balloon, sending it plunging.
Episode 24: Peabody's Improbable History - King Arthur
Peabody and Sherman arrive in King Arthur's kingdom to find things in disarray, as a dragon is terrorizing the land and the knights are too weak to fight. With no traditional solution in sight, Peabody devises a clever new strategy using Sherman's bubble gum to outwit the dragon and restore peace to the kingdom.
Episode 15: Jet Fuel Formula (6) - Monitored Moose or The Carbon Copy Cats
Every move the moose makes is duplicated in the faraway spy lab. Bullwinkle cooks up some tasty chocolate pan dowdy that blows up when the spies try it, and when Rocky smells the delicious aroma, it leads him right to Bullwinkle, but Boris is ready with a helpful trapdoor that sends the plucky squirrel falling into another stew!
Episode 25: Jet Fuel Formula (10) - Hello Out There! or There's No Place Like Space
Up and up they go, and then down and down: Cloyd and Gidney are out of fuel, or is that fudge cake? Because Boris and Natasha have absconded with their last fuel tank, the moon men have no choice but to tell Rocky the recipe, and they're just one ingredient short: mooseberry juice, which grows in only one place in the entire nation, and that hard-to-find spot just happens to be Rocky and Bullwinkle's hometown, *Frostbite Falls, Minnesota* (population twenty-three).
Meanwhile, Boris and Natasha, those two creeps in the deep, board a midget submarine.
Episode 14: Peabody's Improbable History - Lord Nelson
Peabody and Sherman travel back in time to meet Lord Nelson, who is preparing to battle the Spanish fleet but faces an unexpected problem: his crew has left port without a crucial supply. With the battle looming, Peabody steps in to help Lord Nelson solve the dilemma and get his fleet ready for action, ensuring that history stays on course.
Episode 26: Jet Fuel Formula (11) - A Creep in the Deep or Will Success Spoil Boris Badenov?
Boris has plenty of medals—for burning down orphanages, for kicking small dogs, for taking candy from babies—so why isn't he happier? He's forgotten something, he's certain, but can't remember what it is until he gets his orders: KILL MOOSE! So, of course, he and Natasha put the sub on autopilot, slip into breathing apparatus, and swim straight back to the U. S. of A. Meanwhile, our heroes are finding it tough to get to Frostbite Falls, so they head off to the nearest airfield to rent a cut-rate private plane, where they immediately find Ace Ricken-Boris, whose motto is *Fly Now, Pray Later.* Rocky wants to do some square business, but all Ace Ricken-Boris is offering are round trips for eighty-five cents per, which just happens to be all the money Rocky and Bullwinkle have. Is Ace really wild about flying them to Frostbite Falls, dollink, or is that vaguely familiar, vampy stewardess strapping our heroes into a flying casket?