Image is everything, and the image that BP needs to present is one of a heroic Dudley Do-Right arriving on the scene to rescue Nell from the clutches of Snidely Whiplash.

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By a twist of fate, he stays frozen for over fifty years, emerging with enough of his Dudley Do-Right manliness intact to impress single mom Jamie Lee Curtis, her young son Elijah Wood, and even her dull suitor Nicholas Surovy.

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How is it Dudley Do Right guys - I used to watch that cartoon growing up - how it is a company of Dudley Do Rights can make it to New Orleans from Vancouver, and they had horses too, how can they make it to New Orleans before the federal government?

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