Episode
The Bullwinkle Show: Peabody's Improbable History - Robert Fulton
Overview
Peabody visits with Robert Fulton, the famed inventor of the steamboat, and helps prove that steamboats can outrun the fastest sailboats. When the workers quit, Peabody cleverly solves the problem by painting the boiler room to look like the North Pole, motivating the new crew to stoke the fires and win the race.
Details
- Series
- The Bullwinkle Show
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 44
- Air date
- 1960-01-15
Episode context
Peabody's Improbable History - Robert Fulton is Episode 44 in Season 1 of The Bullwinkle Show. It aired on 1960-01-15.
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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.
Episode 45: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (18) - Farewell, My Ugly or Knots to You
If only they knew the whereabouts of another mooseberry bush! Perhaps the moon men will tell them, but when our heroes go to New York to call on Gidney and Cloyd, all they find is a theatrical newspaper with the headline: MOON MEN SOCKO IN LOS WAGES! BOFFO B.O.! Sure enough, Bullwinkle baby, the moon men have gone Hollywood, but they take time out from taking bows to take a long-distance call backstage and clue the moose in: There's a mooseberry bush to be found in Pottsylvania, a menacing little land that just happens to be where Boris and Natasha are from!
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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 46: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (19) - Cheerful Little Pierful or Bomb Voyage
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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 47: Fractured Fairy Tales - Princess and the Pea
In this comical retelling, the court jester attempts to trick the King by presenting him with fake princesses. Each "princess" undergoes the classic pea-under-the-mattress test, but the results are far from expected. The King, determined to find a real princess, becomes increasingly baffled by the jester’s antics, leading to a series of humorous misunderstandings and royal mishaps.
Episode 40: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (16) - Canoes Who? or Look Before You Leak
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Episode 48: Bullwinkle's Corner - The Queen of Hearts
Rocky stars as the Queen of Hearts, diligently baking heart-shaped cookies, while Boris takes on the role of the Knave of Hearts, who steals them. Bullwinkle narrates this playful retelling of the nursery rhyme, where the cookie theft leads to a series of humorous and chaotic events as the Queen tries to get her cookies back.
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 49: Peabody's Improbable History - Annie Oakley
Peabody and Sherman travel back in time to meet sharpshooter Annie Oakley, where they discover that the villainous Forest Primeval is attempting to cheat her in a shooting match. Peabody, with his clever tactics, intervenes just in time to ensure a fair competition and help Annie Oakley come out on top.
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.
Episode 50: Rocky & Bullwinkle - Jet Fuel (20) - Summer Squash or He's Too Flat for Me
Picked up by the mighty *S.S. Andalusia,* plowing her way through the seas to Pottsylvania, Bullwinkle sits basking on the deck next to a taciturn old gentleman, Sir Thomas Lipen-Boris—Uncle Chumley, actually—the purloined mooseberry bush in disguise! Meanwhile, Boris is boring...holes in a lifeboat, that is.