2019 The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends: The Complete Series. 5 seasons, 163 episodes, 18 discs, approximately 59 hours. Includes, in their place in each production, all 50 episodes of "Aesop and Son." Ward Productions. Licensed by Bullwinkle Studios. Universal City, CA.
This is a mammoth production! I selected one episode of "Aesop and Son" from each of the five years of the series. "The Mice in Council" features Murphy Mouse, who gets saddled with carrying out his suggestion. After various ploys, he actually gets the cat to put on the bell as a gift from an unknown admirer, but the ice cream vendor's bell confuses Murphy and leads to an attack by the cat. In "The Hares and the Frog," the frog becomes an advisor to the frightened hare: every "top critter" needs a gimmick. The hare's gimmick is wiggling his ears. He overpowers everyone with this gimmick, until he experiences the skunk's "gimmick." Further episodes were "The Jackrabbit and the Coyote"; "The Country Frog and the City Frog"; and "The Jackrabbits and the Mule." Always fun!
2005 Thank-you Rubber Stamp “No act of kindness however small is ever wasted.” Aesop. 2.2" x 2.6". Berkeley, CA: Penny Black, Inc. Source unknown.
I remember seeing this in a Bay Area book and card store. This quotation is used frequently. I suspect it comes from either AD or LM, but I do not know in whose translation. There are, in Lloyd Daly’s literal translation of Perry, two similar references, both (296 and 395) dealing with the same story of a farmer who frees an eagle from a snake and is repaid with kindness. 296 has “That those who have a good service at the hands of another should repay the kindness, for the good that you do will be repaid you.” 395 has more simply “Kindness awaits the benefactor.” “The Hen and the Swallow” (192) seems to say the opposite: “So wickedness is not to be overcome no matter how much it is met with kindness.” See also the MM stamp under “Toys and Games.”
