Mr. Peabody was originally a backup segment on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, and the pedigreed pooch has tended to play a bit of a second banana to his more famous stablemates, which might be why ...

Mr. Peabody has much bigger things on his mind ... and takes flight back to times and places like Renaissance Italy, Marie Antoinette’s Versailles, and ancient Egypt. Cue light-hearted history ...