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. . . always has been one of America's most challenging professions. The Bullwinkle Show's 44th episode of its second season includes a Public Service Announcement reminding mothers not to let their children grow up to be window washers. Ironically titled HOW TO WASH WINDOWS AND BE A SMASH SUCCESS, this Mr. Know-It-All segment documents the pitfalls certain to dog the heels of any individuals foolhardy enough to take a crack at cleaning glass panes amid the open skies. Such gratuitous risk is not for the faint of heart, Bullwinkle illustrates. The higher off the ground a squeegee-wielding daredevil ascends, the more ways there are to perish. It would be best to eliminate this crazy job by requiring urban towers to install self-cleansing glass.

. . . they lack an encyclopedic knowledge of 1950's feature films when they attempt to decipher The Last Angry Moose Saga or its second part, A PUNCH IN THE SNOOT. Among the many references are to a flick called A STREETCAR NAMED STELLA, during which biker boy Jim Dean keeps on yelling after a public transit vehicle always disappearing down the tracks without him, since he's habitually late even though he seldom wastes time shaving in the morning. He's always breaking his sister's glass zoo animal collection, until some guys in white coats whisk his sibling away in a medical truck headed for the humorous farm. All of this is just the tip of the lettuce.

. . . no one had discovered Gravity. Furthermore, medical doctors knew very little about the physical make-up and capabilities of the human body, either. Since trains had yet to be invented, Ancients of Aesop's era has no idea about the massive weight of a locomotive and the cars it would be pulling along on future railroad tracks. This is why "Aesop and Son"--THE FOX AND THE WINKING HORSE will strike those of us living in this Our Modern 21st Century as being a little bit off kilter. Humans and horses cannot actually hop on their heads along the streets like so many inverted p-o-g-o sticks, as this would result in fatal neck fractures. The recently discovered Laws of Gravity forbid trains to take it into their engines to behave in this fashion as well. Parking meters, chewing gum ball dispenser machines and big wheel bikes are among the other anachronisms included during this poorly researched story.

Through a set of odd circumstances, Bullwinkle thinks he is a matinee idol. He thinks girls are swooning after him, so he decides to head to Hollywood. Unfortunately, he takes his mattress full of money earned from his paper route and Boris and Natasha lust after it. Special features have Aesop telling us of "The Fox and the Winking Horse," where a winking horse turns people upside down, shaking their money from their pockets. Peabody and Sherman go to visit William Shakespeare.