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"Aesop & Son" on "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle"

1962?/90? Vincent Van Moose. Volume 3 of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank: Buena Vista Home Video. $9.95 at Washington Video, Georgetown, Dec., '91.

The "Aesop & Son" portion here is the story of the dog and his shadow (5:20), a playful parody of the original about the dog losing a bone. The son tells Aesop the original fable in ten seconds, and so Aesop feels that he has to create something different. His fable, of questionable fable value, has a dog losing his shadow and buying one "hot" from thugs. The interplay between dog and shadow provides for all sorts of good duet games. This section comes about thirty minutes into this forty-four minute tape, after "Dudley Do-Right," Rocky and Bullwinkle at a missile-launching station, and Bullwinkle's "rabbit from a hat" trick--and just before a missile-station guard is gassed.

1962?/90? Le Grande Moose. Volume 5 of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Home Video. $9.95 at Washington Video, Georgetown, Dec., '91.

The "Aesop & Son" portion here is the story of the dumb mule who gets the last laugh on two jokester jackrabbits (5:30). The mule is a water-serving innkeeper in the desert. The jackrabbits run up huge bills with him but manage to get him three times to smoke exploding cigars. When they return from having spent all their riches in Paris, they fall down his well. This section comes about thirty-five minutes into this forty-six minute tape, after and before Rocky and Bullwinkle are depth-charged at sea. I am not aware of an Aesopic original behind the story.

1962?/90? Canadian Gothic. Volume 6 of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Home Video. $9.95 at Washington Video, Georgetown, Dec., '91.

The "Aesop & Son" portion here is about a wolf and a dog. The wolf tries various ploys and finally steals Mauler the sheepdog's false teeth. Ultimately a lamb bites the wolf with false teeth. "Nothing dentured, nothing gained." The fable lasts 5:40. It comes about five minutes into the tape, after Dudley Doright delivers a bag of crabgrass to the inspector and Bullwinkle juggles--and before Simple Simon. We are a pretty good distance here from any Aesop I know!

1962?/90? Whistler's Moose. Volume 7 of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Home Video. $3.15 from George Gates, Paragould, Arkansas, through Ebay, Feb., '00.

The "Aesop & Son" portion here is "A Mice Trapped Cat."

1962?/90? Norman Moosewell. Volume 8 of "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Home Video. $3.15 from George Gates, Paragould, Arkansas, through Ebay, Feb., '00.

There is no "Aesop & Son" portion listed here on the slipcase.

1962?/90? Banana Formula. "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle." Burbank, CA: Buena Vista Home Video. $6.38 from Brian Owen, Jackson, MS, through Ebay, Feb., '00.

The "Aesop & Son" portion here, so the slipcase says, is a catastrophic fable.