BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!

Subject: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 07:13 PM

Thrill to the sights and sounds of the wackiest and most cunningly subversive of all the oldtime cartoons, the Rocky & Bullwinkle Show!

Moose and Squirrel

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: tarheel
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 07:25 PM

bullwinkle to rock...Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!!!!
bullwinkle reaches into his magic hat and out comes a roaring Lion!!!
bullwinkle then turns to rocky and says...
"no doubt about it...i gotta get a new hat!!!"

lol, i remember that one for so long a time...
rocky and bullwinkle were terrrific cartoons!
i can do the voices of both of them on that little Magic Hat,routine!
i use to thrill my kids to pieces with that little routine!!!
tar...

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 07:29 PM

In that case, tarheel, you have to go here:


More Moose and Squirrel


And play the great sound clips. My favorite is Bullwinkle exclaiming, "Well, that does it, Rock! Now my dandruff is up!!!"

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: gnu
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 07:34 PM

Ah, memories. Good memories. Never missed it.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Peace
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 07:36 PM

That show put the cold war into perspective for many of us.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: SINSULL
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 07:51 PM

Boris Badanoff and Natasha - their arch enemies. Loved it.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 07:55 PM

I thought Natasha was quite a knockout in her own rather weird way. She needed to get a little sun.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Azizi
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:42 PM

Was fractured fairy tales part of the Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon series?

I loved those.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 08:56 PM

Yes, they were.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:08 PM

Some valuable info about Moose and Squirrel.

Moosylvania

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:12 PM

Snidely Whiplash for President...

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:13 PM

It's already been done. Nixon's the one! Notice the shifty eyes?

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: GUEST,Auggie
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 09:58 PM

Ah, Fractured Fairytales, narrated by the inestimable Edward Everett Horton.

With that voice, even I could sound intellegent.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: number 6
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:02 PM

No one has mentioned my fav ... Peabody's Improbable History.

sIx

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:04 PM

I always carried a torch for Nell. She deserved better than the dud Dudley.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Feb 06 - 10:24 PM

Nell was rather fetching. That damsel in distress routine is very enticing. She had a thing for Dudley's horse, actually. Really quite odd.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: clueless don
Date: 15 Feb 06 - 12:10 PM

Some years ago, I was walking around a fair of some sort and I came upon a fellow doing the shell game, surrounded by a sizable audience. As he manipulated the three shells, he started saying "Eenie, meanie, chili beanie, the spirits are about to speak!" Well, right on cue I said "Are they friendly spirits?"

Complete silence. No one seemed to pick up on the reference - including the shell game operator!

Of course, in his defense, my piping up with that line may have interrupted his concentration, so he may have decided to ignore me in hopes that I would go away.

Don

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 10:50 PM

Ah, finally a way to unite all Mudcatters--right across the political spectrum, evidently. It definitely is the best cartoon of all time, as far as I'm concerned. My favorite part was probably Bullwinkle's Corner--especially when he read poetry. I loved the hard-bitten cops grilling Tom-- "Now listen, Piperson..." , "The Swing", and probably all the others too. And so much else.

When somebody says "presto" I still say "wrong hat". I definitely would have picked up on Eenie Meenie, Chili Beanie! The spirits are about to speak! That was a great story too.

Thanks so much, LH, for those links--I've already learned so much more than I knew before--had no idea about Moossylvania etc.    What a great story!--and in October 1962! And Jay Ward also did Crusader Rabbit?--that was one of the best of the earlier cartoons--and you can see the pedigreee.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 10:52 PM

Hope the UK Mudcatters also have had a chance to see the show.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 10:53 PM

I loved the way they reduced the Cold War to an exercise in total idiocy on both sides (which is exactly what it was)! It was a gloriously conceived cartoon.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 11:30 PM

And I remember being so happy when I figured out where the name Boris Badenov came from.

Rocky and Bullwinkle will live forever-- (of course it helps that the Baby Boom generation is the pig in the python.)

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 11:33 PM

Poor Boris never got to kiss Natasha. That's tragic.

Bullwinkle proved that being an idiot is no impediment to achieving fame and fortune. That gives hope to all idiots.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 16 Feb 06 - 11:37 PM

I've bought the whole first season on DVD--just as great as ever. It must be one of the best illustrations that there is no such thing as a bad pun.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Kaleea
Date: 17 Feb 06 - 01:00 PM

. . .and what about that "Fractured Fairy Tales" theme--
                      Ah, the classics!

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Pauline L
Date: 17 Feb 06 - 01:59 PM

Everyone has missed something very important. "Rocky and Bullwinkle" is part of the Suzuki method for teaching small kids rhythm. Say "Rocky and Bullwinkle," and you've got two quarter notes followed by four eighth notes.

I love Boris Badenov and Natasha. Was Dudley Do-right part of this show?

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 17 Feb 06 - 06:28 PM

Yes, Dudley and his Horse had their own mini-show within the larger show. They spent much time rescuing Nell, the damsel-in-distress, from Snidely Whiplash, the arch-villian. Snidely could be played very well by Daniel Day-Lewis in a live version...a la Bill the Butcher, but not nearly as effective. Nell was in love with Dudley's Horse, Dudley was in love with Nell, and Snidely was in love with pure evil for its own sake. The Horse I am not sure about.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 08:59 AM

Didn't Dudley eventually get his own show?

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Donuel
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 10:12 AM

True Story:

The 2 writers for the Rocky and Bullwinkle show had a scheduled meeting with President Kennedy to honor the fictional Frostbite Falls with its own official day or other such idea.
When they arrived they were turned away because that was day 1 of the Cuban Missle Crises.


I have about a hundred Rocky and Bullwinkle toys including all the 13 stuffed plush versions that came out about 9 years ago. The Sherman and Peabody as well as Dudley and his horse are particularly outrageous.

The great civil war episodes in the form of a football game remain our favorite.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Alice
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 01:27 PM

Don't forget the Aesop's Fables segment of the show.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Tweed
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 03:03 PM

And Posonby Britt!!

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Don Firth
Date: 18 Feb 06 - 04:06 PM

Turn the NSA over to Dudley!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 19 Feb 06 - 08:03 AM

this thread brings me back to my TV watching days 1966 to 1976, the shows were classics in those days!

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 04:30 AM

I came across a YouTube video of the people who did the voices of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Bill Scott and June Foray. This is healthy for your cultural education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieOGZtGUjRQ

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Cool Beans
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 09:55 AM

Fan mail from some flounder?

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: robomatic
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 11:01 AM

In my first engineering job the chief engineer took time after lunch every day to walk back to his house and watch Rocky and Bullwinkle.

He was a good guy. I am more than twice the age now he was then.

My childhood favorite series of Rocky & Bullwinkle was the Metal Munching Moon Mice.

I owe to R & B my fear of short guys with big shadows and my devotion to tall brunettes in black raincoats. And my superb fake Russian accent: "BE HE HE HE!"

The greatest show that ever was and still is, "The Simpsons" gave Homer the middle initial 'J' in honour of Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose who got them from their creator Jay Ward.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 04:09 PM

I, too, recall my epiphany when I first heard of Boris Gudenov!

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: keberoxu
Date: 13 Apr 21 - 09:17 PM

I always dreamed of getting to see
REAL flying squirrels --
but I'm too much of a coward,
because you have to
go out in the deep woods after dark to see them.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: robomatic
Date: 14 Apr 21 - 10:17 AM

Mrrzy:

Me, too. It's corny as hell, but for me it never gets old. I especially love explaining it to Russians.


BEH HEH HEH HEH!

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Donuel
Date: 15 Apr 21 - 02:44 PM

Today the short Mr.BIG is Putin. Putin has never accepted that they lost the cold war. His cold war carries on with substantial results.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: robomatic
Date: 15 Apr 21 - 03:09 PM

Donuel:

Interesting addition. Your bit of nonsense based on reality is a perfect counterpoint to the reality of this thread which is based on nonsense.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: keberoxu
Date: 16 Apr 21 - 08:19 PM

A lot of the humor on this show
went clear over my head when I was a little
saturday-morning-cartoon-watching person.

"Beany and Cecil" was more my speed for some reason.

Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Donuel
Date: 16 Apr 21 - 09:05 PM

Civi...War between the states