The Bridgekeeper

[MartyMuppets]

Does anyone remember the series of animated pieces about a wizard-like figure guarding a bridge and asking different questions before allowing people to cross? I don't recall seeing very many of them. Can anyone please tell me how many were made and what basically happened in them each?

 

[mikebennidict]

There were 3 of them I recall. I'll just mention 1 for now and allow others to take turns with the others. 1 gut come from the store with groceries and the keeper says you must eat eveything that's round before you pass and the guy does but then he says I didn't come to cross the bridge I just came to deliver your groceries.

 

[ISNorden]

The other Bridgekeeper segment taught about triangles; he made one of his trademark demands in rhyme:

"To cross the bridge is completely free.
Just show me a triangle--make it three."

The stranger pointed out two triangles in the bridgework, then drew a third in the dirt with the Bridgekeeper's staff. Unfortunately, he isn't allowed to pass because of a loophole in the rules.

"To cross the bridge is completely free,
but you must play a tune to pass by me!"

The stranger unshoulders an accordion he'd been carrying and plays a foreign-sounding melody, after which the segment ends abruptly.

 

[Infinity Sirius]

The sounds really familiar. Did the guy delivering the groceries eat a white cookie?

 

[ISNorden]

I remember him eating a pepperoni pizza (a circle with lots of little circles inside, as the Bridgekeeper points out). The other groceries include an orange and a box of cookies which looked like plain sugar cookies--those must be the white ones you recalled.

 

[MartyMuppets]

I can remember both of these clearly now. But what was the third one please anybody?

 

[Daffyfan4ever]

Yeah. I remember the two of them that were mentioned. I don't remember the third one though. Sorry.

 

[mikebennidict]

The other was he hold up a square and asks people was it is, how many sides it has and what's it good for? 1st one I can't remember. 2nd a girl says it makes a nice picure frame. Last one a man comes by and the bridge keeper asks the same questions and finaly what's it good for? the man says these things are great and eats it, saying i eat for sqare meals every day.

 

[MartyMuppets]

That third one sounds absolutely hilarious

 

[Xerus]

The foods that the grocery boy had and ate were cookies, a pizza, and a watermelon slice.

Also, the Bridgekeeper series reminds me of another bridgekeeper from the Monty Python movie, The Holy Grail. If you answered his 3 questions right, he'd let you cross the bridge, but if you answered wrong, he'd use magic to toss you into the pit to your doom. I wondered if the SS Bridgekeeper would do the same thing if those travelers happened to get his questions wrong?