Product Review

Baby Boomers, prepare yourselves for a trip down memory lane. "Banana Formula" details Rocky & Bullwinkle's unwitting capture of a secret formula for a silent bomb known as a "hush-a-boom" and villains Boris and Natasha's ill-fated quest to steal the formula for Fearless Leader. Viewers will chuckle at the multitude of corny puns, reminisce over references to past popular culture like Candid Camera, and laugh out loud at the ever-dim Rocky & Bullwinkle and the escapades of the inept Boris and Natasha. Sprinkled between Rocky and Bullwinkle episodes are short vignettes featuring Peabody and Sherman, Mr. Know-It-All, Aesop and Son, Bullwinkle's Corner, Dudley Do-Right, and Fractured Fairy Tales. In "Peabody's Improbable History," Sherman and Peabody free Scotland's Bonnie Prince Charles from the British soldiers, "Mr. Know-It-All" can't make friends even with the help of his own book on the same subject, and "Aesop and Son" explores the premise that a monarch can't please everyone. "The Daffodils" carry an expensive price tag, "Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties" loses the Royal Canadian Mounted Police's only horse, and "Fractured Fairy Tales" tells of a dullard who wins a golden goose and the hand of a princess only to be henpecked for the rest of his life. Memories aplenty and 63 minutes of pure fun await you. --Tami Horiuchi