Episode
The Bullwinkle Show: Fractured Fairy Tales - Rumpelstiltskin
Overview
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.
Details
- Series
- The Bullwinkle Show
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 37
- Air date
- 1960-01-08
Episode context
Fractured Fairy Tales - Rumpelstiltskin is Episode 37 in Season 1 of The Bullwinkle Show. It aired on 1960-01-08.
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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 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.
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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 39: Peabody's Improbable History - Sir Walter Raleigh
Peabody and Sherman travel back in time to assist Sir Walter Raleigh, who faces a strict deadline from Queen Elizabeth I to raise his waterlogged cargo. If he fails, it will be "off with his head!" With the clock ticking, Peabody uses his ingenuity to help Sir Walter retrieve the cargo just in time, saving his life and reputation.
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 40: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (16) - Canoes Who? or Look Before You Leak
From Frostbite Falls, it's across a couple of the Great Lakes and portage through downtown Chicago, as the Great Canoe and Leaky Retrofitted Airplane Race is on! It's stroke-stroke-stroke and bail-bail-bail as the pursuit continues down ever more tiny waterways! And finally on one foggy evening, as they approach Washington, D.C., the two competing vessels are so close that—stroke-bail, bail-stroke—their echoes are even writing their own dialogue! But our heroes, prompted by some dastardly sign rewriting, take the wrong turn, heading toward the hideously whirling blade of a sawmill just ahead. Will it be Two for the Ripsaw, or, is it Good-bye, Mister Chips?
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.
Episode 41: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (17) - Two for the Ripsaw... or Goodbye, Mr. Chips
It's getting choppy out there all right, but even though the whirling blade cuts their little vessel in two, our heroes escape unscathed because...they're sitting on opposite sides of the craft!
Rocky and Bullwinkle return to their laboratory in something less than triumph, booed by the fickle citizenry just because they've lost the mooseberry bush, while Boris and Natasha get ready to set sail for their homeland.
Episode 32: Fractured Fairy Tales - The Brave Little Tailor, or T-Shirt Tall
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.
Episode 42: Aesop and Son - The Lion and the Mouse
Aesop tells the classic fable of the lion who spares a mouse, only to be saved by the tiny creature later. As always, Aesop's son questions the moral, leading to a witty and humorous exchange.
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 43: Bullwinkle's Corner - Little Jack Horner
Bullwinkle recites the classic nursery rhyme Little Jack Horner, but his comedic interpretation turns the simple act of pulling out a plum into an absurd and hilarious misadventure.