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BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!

14 Feb 06 - 07:13 PM (#1668627)
Subject: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

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


14 Feb 06 - 07:25 PM (#1668639)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: tarheel

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...


14 Feb 06 - 07:29 PM (#1668642)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

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!!!"


14 Feb 06 - 07:34 PM (#1668645)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: gnu

Ah, memories. Good memories. Never missed it.


14 Feb 06 - 07:36 PM (#1668647)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Peace

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


14 Feb 06 - 07:51 PM (#1668662)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: SINSULL

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


14 Feb 06 - 07:55 PM (#1668666)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

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


14 Feb 06 - 08:42 PM (#1668706)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Azizi

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

I loved those.


14 Feb 06 - 08:56 PM (#1668713)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

Yes, they were.


14 Feb 06 - 09:08 PM (#1668729)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

Some valuable info about Moose and Squirrel.

Moosylvania


14 Feb 06 - 09:12 PM (#1668735)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Bobert

Snidely Whiplash for President...


14 Feb 06 - 09:13 PM (#1668737)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

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


14 Feb 06 - 09:58 PM (#1668788)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: GUEST,Auggie

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

With that voice, even I could sound intellegent.


14 Feb 06 - 10:02 PM (#1668791)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: number 6

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

sIx


14 Feb 06 - 10:04 PM (#1668794)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Rapparee

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


14 Feb 06 - 10:24 PM (#1668817)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

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


15 Feb 06 - 12:10 PM (#1669456)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: clueless don

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


16 Feb 06 - 10:50 PM (#1670643)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies

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.


16 Feb 06 - 10:52 PM (#1670646)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies

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


16 Feb 06 - 10:53 PM (#1670647)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

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.


16 Feb 06 - 11:30 PM (#1670678)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies

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.)


16 Feb 06 - 11:33 PM (#1670680)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

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.


16 Feb 06 - 11:37 PM (#1670688)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies

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.


17 Feb 06 - 01:00 PM (#1671253)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Kaleea

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


17 Feb 06 - 01:59 PM (#1671296)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Pauline L

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?


17 Feb 06 - 06:28 PM (#1671466)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Little Hawk

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.


18 Feb 06 - 08:59 AM (#1671859)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Ron Davies

Didn't Dudley eventually get his own show?


18 Feb 06 - 10:12 AM (#1671905)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Donuel

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.


18 Feb 06 - 01:27 PM (#1672044)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Alice

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


18 Feb 06 - 03:03 PM (#1672129)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Tweed

And Posonby Britt!!


18 Feb 06 - 04:06 PM (#1672209)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Don Firth

Turn the NSA over to Dudley!

Don Firth


19 Feb 06 - 08:03 AM (#1672713)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Sandra in Sydney

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

sandra


13 Apr 21 - 04:30 AM (#4102063)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Joe Offer

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


13 Apr 21 - 09:55 AM (#4102084)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Cool Beans

Fan mail from some flounder?


13 Apr 21 - 11:01 AM (#4102091)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: robomatic

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.


13 Apr 21 - 04:09 PM (#4102118)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Mrrzy

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


13 Apr 21 - 09:17 PM (#4102141)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: keberoxu

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.


14 Apr 21 - 10:17 AM (#4102191)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: robomatic

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!


15 Apr 21 - 02:44 PM (#4102299)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Donuel

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.


15 Apr 21 - 03:09 PM (#4102303)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: robomatic

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.


16 Apr 21 - 08:19 PM (#4102468)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: keberoxu

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.


16 Apr 21 - 09:05 PM (#4102478)
Subject: RE: BS: Rocky and Bullwinkle!
From: Donuel

Civi...War between the states