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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.

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?

S1 · E27Fractured Fairy Tales - Beauty and the Beast 1959-12-24＋

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

Rocky and Bullwinkle are up to their necks in trouble...and in water, too, for Boris Badenov has dumped them into the harbor and a huge ocean liner is bearing down on them, about to squeeze them against the dock!

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.

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.