Episode
The Bullwinkle Show: Fractured Fairy Tales - The Brave Little Tailor, or T-Shirt Tall
Overview
After the Little Tailor kills seven flies with one blow, the townspeople mistakenly believe he has slain giants. As a result, they assign him the daunting task of confronting real giants, leading to a series of comedic and absurd misadventures as the clever but reluctant tailor tries to live up to his exaggerated reputation.
Details
- Series
- The Bullwinkle Show
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 32
- Air date
- 1960-01-01
Episode context
Fractured Fairy Tales - The Brave Little Tailor, or T-Shirt Tall is Episode 32 in Season 1 of The Bullwinkle Show. It aired on 1960-01-01.
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Episode 31: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (13) - The Back Seat Divers or Mashed Landing
A last-second reconsideration of orders from headquarters (the message didn't say KILL MOOSE; it actually read DON'T KILL MOOSE) means Boris has to save Rocky and Bullwinkle, whose brilliant idea to retrieve the last mooseberry bush on Mooseberry Island (SWIM THE RIVER!) has one tiny flaw (Bullwinkle doesn't know how to swim!).
Episode 33: Bullwinkle's Corner - Taffy
Bullwinkle recites the poem "Taffy." However, in the telling of the story, Boris (in the role of Taffy) begins to "bend and ad-lib" his parts. For example, instead of stealing "a piece of beef," Taffy steals a whole cow. Bullwinkle gets upset as the poem is changed, and he thinks that he's got Boris with the last line of the poem. ("I went to Taffy's house, Taffy was in bed. I took a marrow bone and hit him on the head.") However, upon arriving, Boris takes the marrow bone and hits Bullwinkle in the head, giving the story an unhappy ending, much to Boris' delight.
More episodes from this season
Episode 30: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (12) - Ace Is Wild or The Flying Casket
The auto-controlled spy sub goes slightly out of control, blowing up an entire foreign port.
Meanwhile, after fastening Rocky and Bullwinkle into one-way seatbelts, stewardess Natasha bails out, while Boris gleefully smashes instruments in the pilot's compartment. It looks like a smash landing ahead.
Episode 34: Peabody's Improbable History - Lucretia Borgia
Lucretia Borgia, the world's best poison artist has just gotten a 12th husband who is snacking on furniture. Peabody and Sherman try to get the husband to leave Lucretia but he loves her too much to bail out on her. So, Peabody creates a special potion for him that will make the man impervious to poison so he will live and not leave his wife.
Episode 29: Peabody's Improbable History - Franz Schubert
Peabody and Sherman go back to the year 1824 and meet Franz Schubert. They decide to help him compose his latest musical masterpiece. But his piano is stolen by his next-door neighbor and he won't give it back.
Episode 35: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (14) - Bullwinkle’s Water Follies or Antlers Aweigh
Despite going over Thundering Falls, Bullwinkle, by remaining cuke as a coolcumber, manages to snatch the last available mooseberry bush in the entire country, but a federal plant inspector with a familiar accent turns up, spraying the precious bush for blight, and forthwith, he and the bush disappear behind the huge cloud.
Episode 28: Bullwinkle's Corner - I Love Little Pussy
In Bullwinkle's amusing version of this classic poem, things take a wild turn when the "little pussy" is actually a tiger! Bullwinkle's attempts to recite the sweet and gentle rhyme are hilariously disrupted as the tiger causes chaos, transforming the poem into a comical adventure.
Episode 36: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (15) - The Inspector-Detector or A Kick in the Plants
Those laughing Indians going by in a canoe aren't part of the Minnie-Ho-Ho tribe, but really Boris and Natasha with the purloined plant, so the big canoe race is on, with our heroes transforming their crashed plane into a water-worthy craft.
Episode 27: Fractured Fairy Tales - Beauty and the Beast
In this playful retelling, the Beast is under a spell that can only be broken by a kiss from a beauty. However, finding someone willing to kiss the Beast proves to be more difficult than expected, leading to a series of humorous and unexpected situations as the Beast tries to break the curse.
Episode 37: Fractured Fairy Tales - Rumpelstiltskin
In this humorous take, Rumpelstiltskin uses the power of publicity, rather than magic, to convince everyone that his client can spin straw into gold. Through clever marketing and hype, Rumpelstiltskin manages to create a buzz around the supposed miracle, leading to comedic consequences as the truth slowly unravels.
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?
Episode 38: Bullwinkle's Corner - Wee Willie Winkie
Bullwinkle tackles the nursery rhyme Wee Willie Winkie, but things take a humorous turn as the pajama-clad Willie runs through town, only to get tangled up in Bullwinkle’s antics. The segment adds a comical twist to Willie’s midnight journey, with Bullwinkle causing unexpected complications as Willie attempts to deliver his message.