The Treasure of Monte Zoom

The Treasure of Monte Zoom is the third story arc from the fourth season of The Bullwinkle Show. It was broadcast on NBC during the 1962-1963 television season.
Synopsis
Boris and Natasha are at a lake in search for a buried treasure left by Monte Zoom, a legendary race car driver. After finding the X, Boris decides to blow up the dam and let the water run out, which would also harm innocent people. As the narrator points out that Rocky and Bullwinkle always arrive in the nick of time, Boris reveals that he's ready: He'll distract Bullwinkle by blowing a moose horn, and shoot Rocky with a gun (as Boris says, "I can't be tricky all the time, I've got other things to think about!").
When Rocky and Bullwinkle make it to the dam, Boris fails to stop them: Boris mistakenly used a duck horn instead of a moose horn, and when he shot his gun, a flag with the word "BANG!" written on it came out (as Natasha says, "We forgot. There's no violence allowed on television anymore!"). However, when looking at the treasure map, Natasha notices that there's a plug in the bottom of the lake. Boris struggles to pull the plug, and decides to trick Bullwinkle into pulling it. Boris disguises himself as actor Spencer Traceback (reprising his role in "that movie with the fish") and informs Bullwinkle that he needs help with a big fish. Bullwinkle manages to pull the plug and then Boris pushes Bullwinkle into the water, sending him down the drain. Rocky goes after Bullwinkle and Boris puts the plug back in the hole, which goes into a water pipe sending the two through the shower of a citizen.
The treasure ends up not being buried underground (despite there being an X earlier), but Boris and Natasha have trouble getting the treasure chest open. Rocky and Bullwinkle go back to the site of the dam because "the criminal always returns to the scene of the crime". Rocky and Bullwinkle eventually find out about the treasure when Boris and Natasha leave it behind while going to get an A-bomb. Bullwinkle notices something that Boris and Natasha had overlooked: There is a key in the keyhole of the chest. They open it and find that the treasure is just an old car, a 1903 Apperson Jackrabbit. Rocky and Bullwinkle decide to take it to the authorities (the real Apperson Jack Rabbit did not appear until 1906, though Apperson had been making automobiles since 1901).
When Boris and Natasha get back they find out that they were beaten to getting the treasure. However, they see the license plate which reads "14K", giving them the idea that the car is made of solid gold. They open up a fake used car business, disguised as Madman Morris and a little old lady from Pottsylvania, and scam Rocky and Bullwinkle into trading it for a cardboard cut-out of a car. Rocky and Bullwinkle then chase after Boris and Natasha.
Boris and Natasha take the car to a thrift shop run by Andy Grifter to cash it in, but the car itself turns out to be worthless tin. When leaving, they see Rocky flying after them, and they get in the car to drive off. Boris tells Natasha to throw out everything heavy so the car can go faster, and she discovers that the trunk is full of gold coins. She has to toss them out in order to make the car go faster, which works, but Boris is so heartbroken about losing all that gold that he covers his eyes, causing the car to turn around and fall off a cliff. During the plummet, Natasha uses Boris' own catch-phrase against him, when she tells him to "Sharrup you mouth!"
Bullwinkle and Rocky walk, hand in hand, into the sunset, appearing to give the cartoon a stereotypical happy ending before Bullwinkle falls off a cliff and annoyedly remarks that it "must be one of those adult cartoons."
Episode segments
Episode 1
# Rocky and Bullwinkle: Treasure of Monte Zoom
# Fractured Fairy Tales: The Tale of a King
# Bullwinkle's Corner: "The Wind"
# Peabody's Improbable History: John James Audubon
# Rocky and Bullwinkle: Flood Waters or Drown in the Valley
Episode 2
# Rocky and Bullwinkle: A Leak in the Lake or The Drain Maker
# Aesop and Son: The Fox and the Rabbit
# Mr. Know-It-All: How to Disarm a Live TNT Bomb
# Peabody's Improbable History: Mata Hari
# Rocky and Bullwinkle: Bullwinkle Cleans Up or The Desperate Showers
Episode 3
# Rocky and Bullwinkle: Boris Bashes a Box or The Flat Chest
# Aesop and Son: The Hare and the Tortoise
# Bullwinkle's Corner: Peter Piper
# Peabody's Improbable History: Galileo
# Rocky and Bullwinkle: One, Two, Three, Gone or I’ve Got Plenty of Nothing
Episode 4
# Rocky and Bullwinkle: All That Glitters or Baby, It’s Gold Outside
# Fractured Fairy Tales: Sweeping Beauty
# Mr. Know-It-All: How To Remove an Unwanted Guest
# Peabody's Improbable History: Wellington at Waterloo
# Rocky and Bullwinkle: Boris Wheels and Deals or A Profit Without Honor
Video releases
In the early 1990s, this episode (edited down to six parts) was released as the main feature of the video "Mona Moose".

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