"Silents, Please!"
(Or "Modern Crimes!")
"WELL THE LAST TIME YOU REMEMBER--"
(*1930's piano ragtime music plays again*)
(Title card: "We've still been silenced by that darn gun, pal.") Rocky spoke.
"OH, RIGHT."
(Title card: "But we also got to meet Mr. Charlie Chaplin!") Bullwinkle cheerfully replied as the silent film actor tipped his little bowler hat.
"AND NOW OUR BOYS WERE ON THEIR WAY TO STOPPING BORIS AND NATASHA AND RESTORING HOLLYWOOD'S SOUND!"
(Title card: "So what's our plan, fellows?") Chaplin asked Rocky and Bullwinkle.
"ROCKY WHISPERED INTO CHAPLIN'S EAR, AND THE MOOSE, SQUIRREL AND MAN BEGAN THEIR PLAN TO REVERSE THE EFFECTS OF THE ACCOUNSTINATOR. WHILE BORIS AND NATASHA WERE NOT LOOKING, THEY SNUCK UP BEHIND THEM, CARRYING TWO BANANA CREAM PIES WITH CHERRIES…"
"Deed yu ewer get feelink yu vere beink vatched?" Boris asked Natasha all of a sudden.
"No, dollink, vhy?" Natasha inquired.
(*KER-SPLAT!*)
"ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE HAD SPLATTERED THOSE PIES ALL OVER BORIS AND NATASHA'S FACES, AND WHILE THE SPIES EXCLAIMED SOME POTTSYLVANIAN EXPLETIVES, CHARLIE CHAPLIN STOLE THE ACCOUSTINATOR."
(Title card: "Twenty three skiddoo! I've got it! How does this contraption work, boys?") Chaplin asked, staring down the barrel of the ray gun.
(Title card: "Turn the dial to "REVERSE" and shoot!") Rocky exclaimed.
"CHAPLIN DID JUST THAT, AND WHEN HE AIMED THE GUN AT HIMSELF, HIS NATURAL COLOR RETURNED COMPLETELY."
"Ah, it's so wonderful to have sound again..." Chaplin sighed.
(Title card: "Wait, you're BRITISH?!") Bullwinkle exclaimed before he and Rocky were zapped, their natural color returning to their bodies.
"I certainly am." Chaplin replied. He blasted an old-timey radio antenna which caused everyone that had been zapped to revert back to normal.
"Well, we did it!" Rocky cheerfully exclaimed.
"And I'll take care o' this!" Bullwinkle stamped on the Accounstinator, reducing it to a pile of broken metal.
"Well done, boys, I've got to get to my next picture filming." Charlie replied, adjusting his suit.
"See ya Charlie!" Rocky smiled.
"WELL THAT'S THE END OF THIS EPISODE! MAKE SURE TO BE WITH US NEXT TIME FOR ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE! AND HOPEFULLY THEY'LL BE TALKING MORE!"
End.
A/N: There's quite a few references in this one, not just to Charlie Chaplin's career, but to the Golden Age of Cinema and 1930's pop culture as well. Also, yes, Charlie Chaplin did come to the United States from the United Kingdom.
- The secondary title refers to a Charlie Chaplin film "The Gold Rush", and is, admittedly, not a good pun on my part. In addition, the last chapter is called "Modern Crimes", an obvious pun on "Modern Times" (1936).
- When Rocky and Bullwinkle become zapped by the Acoustinator ray, they take on the appearances of 1930's cartoons as drawn in that era by Disney/Warner Bros./Fleischer Studios.
- In addition, the second chapter's main title is "Steamboat Rocky", a pun on "Steamboat Willie", the first Mickey Mouse cartoon from 1923.
- When breaking into the film studio, Bullwinkle pretends to be legendary vaudeville comedian Jimmy Durante.