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. . . Dick Whit-ting-ton is the most famous, important and beloved Real Life English person in Great Britain. A shoe shine boy who became the fabulously rich Lord Mayor of London thanks to his talking cat, Dick far outshines Robin Hood, the Queens Elizabeth and Henry the Eighth in the hearts of actual English people. On the other hand, America pays more attention to the latter Mount Rushmore of mostly crowned heads due to Tinsel Town distortions. Whether it's Britain, France, Canada or Saudi Arabia, Hollywood cannot get enough of noggin lopping. But Londoners soon get inured to seeing the latest severed luminaries grimacing from the pikes lining their bridge, so Henry or the Elizabeth's are just so much water over the dam for them. Dick, on the other hand, is someone with whom they'd like to share a pint at the nearest pub, especially if he's buying.

. . . MR. KNOW-IT-ALL: HOW TO TAME LIONS! AND PICK UP A LITTLE SCRATCH ON THE SIDE OF YOUR HEAD, though the menu on the second disk of the "Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends" DVD leaves out the exclamation mark, and substitutes the word "get" for "pick up." Bullwinkle J. Moose cautions that the best way to avoid injury from a lion is never getting close to one. In 2022, it took Tinsel Town 93 minutes to get this message across in BEAST. However, B. J. Moose accomplishes this in a mere 90 seconds, with a lot more action and side stories, such as the headless dude parading around. HOW TO TAME LIONS! Also contains more comic relief than BEAST.

Boris is not thought highly of at central command and Fearless Leader decides to have him executed. To save himself from an angry crowd, he dresses Rocky and Bullwinkle as he and Natasha. They are grabbed as they depart in Pottsylvania and brought immediately to an executioner who is to behead them. Our antlered friend counts the steps to the scaffold and announces, "Thirteen! That could lead to bad luck." Of course, for the tenth time, our boys are rescued from the inevitable because of the rocket fuel formula. The Fairy Tale this time is "Dick Whittington's Cat." It is a rather uninspired presentation of a talented cat who makes a star out of a dour young man. The low point is Peabody and Sherman going to see George Armstrong Custer. It uses every stereotypic Indian slur there is. The broken language. The savagery. The expectation that they need to get back to their reservation. This is pre-Little Big Horn and it's really offensive. Did the Indians at that time really say, "Ugh!"

. . . given the Local Authorities' fiendish scheme to execute Rocket J. Squirrel by pushing him off a high rocky cliff toward the conclusion of Jet Fuel Saga, part 28. A recent feature film titled Mid Summer elaborated upon this pernicious Swedish practice, which developed historically to curb population explosions among a populace averse to wearing any clothing despite a severe lack of natural resources to deal with the inevitable resultant baby booms. Fortunately for Rocky, he happens to be a FLYING squirrel, so he's able to thwart the plot of the Evil Pseudo Swedes. This picture makes it clear that the saga's detestable villains, including Boris, Natasha and the Fearless Leader, could only have been spawned in Real Life Sweden.