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  • Almost anything Dudley says has to crack somebody up.
  • Several fake actor names are amusing, like "Dewar Diddy", "Hickey Pimpleton", "Acne Pitz" and "Abraham Wilkes Booth".
    • In the case of "The Disloyal Canadians", when the actors are said to be played by the members of the Sid Gould family, Inspector Fenwick is credited as being played by Sid Gould's mother-in-law.
    • Sometimes even locations are credited as being portrayed by different places, such as a waterfall being used courtesy of Jay Ward's shower.
  • "The Masked Ginny Lynne":
    • After Nell sends Dudley out to bring in a man, he returns to the camp with a dog. Then when Inspector Fenwick corrects Dudley on what a man is, pointing to a man who reported the string of robberies that happened, Dudley starts to arrest the man in question before the inspector stops him.
    • When Dudley hears the eponymous singer (really Nell in a domino mask) for the first time, he hops onto the stage dancing and singing "Shortnin' Bread".
    • At the end, after Nell reveals herself to her father, she starts singing and he falls asleep, and Snidely and Barney steal both the uniforms of the inspector and Dudley, while the latter is dancing and singing himself.
  • Nearly everything about "Saw Mill", but this one takes the cake.
    Inspector: Well, stand there, Do-Right! Don't just do something!
    Narrator: It took them an hour and a half to straighten out that last line.
  • "Marigolds":
    • When Snidely asks how he looks in his marigold suit, Homer replies, "You look just like a float in the Rose Parade."
    • Dudley's first two attempts to protect himself from Snidely's marigold suit both end in failure: bandaging his nose makes him suffocate, and wearing a gas mask leads Snidely to put a flower from the suit in the container.
    • This exchange after Dudley confesses his marigold allergy to Nell:
      Nell: Lots of people are allergic to marigolds.
      Dudley: But I'm not people, I'm a Mountie.
    • There's also this bit after Dudley explains Snidely's marigold suit to Nell:
      Dudley: I can't get within two feet of him!
      Nell: Well, who would want to?
    • After Nell waters the crabgrass she planted to kill the marigolds on Snidely's suit, Dudley cuts up the crabgrass, but can't find him, and Nell and Dudley think he killed Snidely. Then when Dudley brings the crabgrass to Inspector Fenwick, the latter reveals himself to be allergic to crabgrass, and sneezes from the exposure.
  • In "Trading Places", how does Nell capture Snidely's goons? By stripping, of course.
  • In "The Disloyal Canadians", Dudley tries to infiltrate Snidely's fake musicians by passing himself as a musician:
    Snidely: So, you are a musician?
    Dudley: Yes.
    Snidely: Can you read music?
    Dudley: ...No.
    Snidely: You're hired!
    • Before he can do that, though, he has to get fired from the Mounties. Dudley tries burning down a hotel. "This hotel was condemned last year, and we've been wondering how to tear it down!" He blows up the dam, solving the valley's irrigation problem. He eats his peas with a knife, INSTANT COURT MARTIAL.
  • "Recruting Campaign" has a Running Gag of the inspector failing to recognize that his daughter, Nell, has become a recruited Mountie. At one point, the inspector tells "him" that he should stop wearing lipstick.
  • "Railroad Tracks":
    • After Snidely ties Dudley's finger to the rope he used to tie a woman to the tracks, this happens:
      Dudley: Curses, foiled again.
    • While chasing after Snidely, Dudley finds several people tied to a train track, including Horse, Nell and her father, and even Snidely himself, to Dudley's confusion.
      • Then there's Dudley saluting while he unties the inspector.
    • Inspector Fenwick arresting his own daughter after a bit of a mess-up where Dudley and Snidely are both disguised as Nell and she shows up too.
      Dudley: [removes his Nell mask after Fenwick drags her off] Well, Nell, all's well that ends well.
      Snidely: [also removes his mask] My sentiments exactly, Dudley!
  • "Bullet-Proof Suit":
    • Tempers are short because it's so hot outside.
    Dudley: [sneaking up on Inspector Fenwick] Hot enough for you, Inspector?
    Fenwick: Don't you ever knock, Do-Right? I'm tired of you sneaking up on me like that! Now go outside and knock! [Dudley exits and knocks] Come in. [The door doesn't open.] COME IN, confound it!
    Dudley: [pulling on the knob] I can't, Inspector! The door is locked!
    Fenwick: [also struggling to open the door] Do-Right, get in here on the double. I need you.
    Dudley: But the door, Inspector!
    Fenwick: Oh, confound it, Dudley, fake it!
    [Dudley slams the door open, which falls on Fenwick.]
    • Nell accidentally giving Dudley a black eye when she raises her fists in annoyance after her father suggests she take up knitting.
  • "Flicker Rock": Dudley's been suffering from Circling Birdies after Snidely drops a rock on him. Towards the end of the short, he's back to normal but when he goes to see Fenwick, he runs out of his office in anguish, screaming: "THE BIRDS ARE BACK! THE BIRDS ARE BACK!" Turns out they were just the pet pigeons of Fenwick, who says even he needs a hobby.
  • "The Centaur":
    • Dudley thinking he caught a centaur when he finds Snidely Whiplash in the front half of a horse costume.
    • While Snidely is forced to be Dudley's steed, the latter quips, "Giddy-up, Snidely, or I'll give you a whip lash."
  • "Mountie Bear":
    • Dudley not noticing that Snidely was blowing up a bridge while talking about how he needs to capture a criminal.
    • The reveal that Rocky and Bullwinkle are among the people that the "Mountie Bear" arrested.
  • "Lure of the Footlights":
    • Snidely's chagrin when Nell asks to get top billing when she joins his and Dudley's vaudeville act.
    • The ending, where Dudley, Snidely, Nell and her father all sing different songs at the same time.
  • "Miracle Drug":
    • Twice Inspector Fenwick warns Dudley too late about the shag rug the latter trips over: the first time while the latter brings the former his oatmeal, and the second time when he leaves to take roll callnote .
    • Dudley makes the mistake of putting thermometers in boiling water to sterilize them, and one gets a reading of 182 degrees for one man's temperature.
      Inspector Fenwick: A little high, isn't it?
      Dudley: Well, he's sick.
    • As Dudley trudges through the snow on his journey, the narrator says that "the blinding snowstorm blew up from the Rockies and the Bullwinkles".
    • When Snidely stops Dudley and his dog sled on their way to the trading post, the latter says, "Out of my way, sir! This male must go through!"
      • This is followed by Snidely tricking Dudley into thinking that the former's Santa Claus. When Dudley points out that Santa dresses in red and that Snidely's wearing black, the latter claims to be in mourning for Rudolph, and Dudley falls for it.
    • At the end, after Dudley and Inspector Fenwick drink a quarter each of the "miracle drug" and find that the spots on the other men were actually ink, the former says that their troubles with the "epidemic" are over, while a close-up of the bottle reveals that the medicine they consumed was castor oil.
  • At the end of "Out of Uniform", Dudley steals Snidely's clothes in retaliation for the latter taking the former's uniform.
  • "Elevenworth Prison":
    • Dudley accidentally shocking Inspector Fenwick by handing him the phone while the latter was in the bathtub.
    • Inspector Fenwick revealing that he's in jail for sinking the Lusitaina.
  • "Foreclosing Mortgages":
    • When a shocked Dudley asks how Inspector Fenwick could lose the Mountie camp to Snidely at poker, the latter explains, "Well, I had three queens and he had..." before stopping himself.
    • Homer's attempts to stop Dudely from paying Snidely the post mortgage ending in failure: the boulder he tries to push onto Dudley rolls after him instead, the bomb he tries to set off produces a Canadian flag, which Homer salutes, he runs afoul of a bear while trying to shoot Dudley, and then while he tries to fell a tree onto him, the bear holds Homer at gunpoint.
    • At the end, after Horse beats Snidely in a card game, Dudley reveals that Inspector Fenwick now owes Horse the money needed to pay the mortgage on the post.
  • Snidely Whiplash becoming a laughingstock in "Coming-Out Party", due to the checked coat and Bullwinkle hat he's wearing when he tries to collect mortgages.
  • "Log Jam":
    • On his way to a movie theater, Dudley falls into an open manhole, and sits in a dark sewer for three hours, waiting for a movie to start.
    • The fact that it only took an hour and a half for Dudley to pass basic training, and the tests consist of "Smile Hike", "Knot Tying", "Tent Pitching" and "Chow Call".
    • Snidely being disappointed that his jam business is a success, as he doesn't want a legitimate business.
    • Dudley revealing his plan to stop Whiplash right to his face.
    • Horse winning at poker against Eloise.
      Eloise: That's some horse you've got, Mountie. So far, he's had four flushes and three inside straights.
      Dudley: You should see him play dominoes.
    • At the end, when Horse is playing poker with Inspector Fenwick, the former is revealed to have four aces and a Joker card with Dudley on it.
  • "Stolen Art Masterpiece":
    • When an orderly brings Inspector Fenwick the newspaper with the headline about Snidely Whiplash stealing a painting from the Royal Canadian Museum of Art, the first thing that Fenwick notices is that the crossword puzzle was already finished.
    • When Dudley figures Snidely would sell the stolen painting to a fence, the former interrogates a picket fence and starts tearing it apart when it doesn't answer him. Then, when he boards the boat leaving Toronto, he asks the captain to put the fence section he's holding in the brig.
    • Dudley mistaking a photo booth for a taxi.
  • "Mechanical Dudley":
    • The mechanical Dudley's limited vocabulary causing confusion for Nell and the inspector.
    • The mechanical Dudley malfunctioning in the inspector's office.
  • "Matinee Idol":
    • Dudley not knowing what a movie is.
    • When Inspector Fenwick takes Dudley to see one of Snidely Whiplash's movies, Dudley mistakes a shot of Whiplash for the real deal and tries to arrest him.
    • Dudley being so downcast over how he can't capture Snidely that he doesn't notice other crooks causing trouble.
    • Snidely talking just like Dudley in a romantic talkie film. It gets laughs from everyone except Dudley, who finds the voice pleasant.
  • "Faithful Dog":
    • Seriously, how dumb does Dudley have to be to mistake the sound of howling wolves for a mockingbird or Nell?
    • Dudley having trouble counting off with the other mounties.
    • At the end, Inspector Fenwick asks Dudley to prove his pet wolf is a dog, and Dudley asks it to bury a bone. Later that night, Dudley and Nell are searching for her father, who got buried by the wolf.
  • In "Finding Gold", Dudley thinks he struck gold, but he mistakenly took two bags of money from the payroll. At the end, he tries to dig for gold again, except he's unknowingly digging his way into the Canadian National Bank.
    Narrator: And although we cannot be certain, we feel that he will soon become wealthy beyond his wildest dreams.
    • The narrator's comment that no one thought it odd that Dudley found gold already in sacks.
    • Snidely's first two failed attempts to kill Dudley: his rifle has a kaleidoscopic lens and throws off his aim, and his blowgun blows bubbles.
      • And when Dudley sees the bubbles, he thinks Lawrence Welk is on a road tour.
  • The reveal that the "Top Secret" project was a carving of Whiplash 's head, and when Dudley is asked to destroy it, he instead carves images of his own head and the inspector's.
  • "Mother Love":
    • Dudley's remark when Homer delivers the first newspaper to him:
      Dudley: I say, that was the ugliest newsboy I've ever seen.
    • Dudley treating Snidely like a little kid.
    • After discovering that Whiplash isn't really his younger brother, Dudley beats him senseless, and although failing to bring him to the camp, manages to take his mustache.
  • "The Inspector's Nephew":
    • This exchange when Dudley is asked to babysit Inspector Fenwick's nephew Melvin during the latter's visit to the camp:
      Dudley: But, Inspector, aren't there more important things for me to do than play nursemaid to some whining kid?
      Inspector Fenwick: (incensed) Attention, Do-Right! You must remember that my nephew is a Fenwick! Fenwicks do not whine! If I ever hear you so much as use that expression again, I'm going to drum you out of the force!
      Dudley: (saluting the inspector; in a whiny tone of voice) Yes sir, Inspector Fenwick.
    • The Running Gag of the narrator mentioning that Melvin's still waiting to be picked up at the train station.
    • Nasty Noogle abusing Dudley at the camp, such as tossing a lit bomb at him or shooting him with pistols, which leaves holes in his hat and torso.
    • After Inspector Fenwick points out that looking after Melvin isn't so bad, Nasty Noogle cuts the former's desk in half with an axe, and the inspector adds, "I wouldn't let him play with axes, though."
    • When Dudley reveals that "Melvin" is a 40-year-old man, Inspector Fenwick initially thinks himself 97 years old.
    • When Dudley shows the inspector Nasty Noogle's "Wanted" poster, he describes the crook, and they still don't realize that Noogle was Dudley's charge all along.
  • "Mountie Without a Horse":
    • Dudley mistaking a cow for a horse. He even thought her udder was a spare saddle.
    • The narrator stating that Dudley was the decathlon champion of the 1904 Olympics... which were not held that year.
    • When Dudley is sent to get a horse, the closest thing he could find was a rocking horse.
    • Dudley trying to chase the bank robbers on the rocking horse and not getting anywhere. Also, he unknowingly asks the robbers themselves if they've seen them.
    • The robbers' idea of torturing the Mounties? Forcing them to watch TV.
    • When Dudley finds Inspector Fenwick Bound and Gagged, the former thinks the latter is bundled up to keep warm, and decides to throw logs on a fire, except he throws rifles into the fireplace, and the guns go off, scaring the robbers away.
    • Earlier in the episode, Snidely Whiplash poses as Colonel Crimcrammer and presents a phony order stating that all Mounties should have rocking horses. When the real colonel arrives at the end, he mentions that he wants to make some changes to the force. When Inspector Fenwick asks what kind of changes, the colonel is revealed to be sitting on a rocking horse as he says, "Well, to start with..."
  • When Nell pleads Snidely's case in "Snidely Arrested", she refers to him as a "barefoot boy", confusing him because he's wearing shoes.

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