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The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Bullwinkle (left) and Rocky (right), the stars of Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show.
Country of origin	United States
No. of episodes	98
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	NBC
Original run	1959 – 1973
External links
TV.com summary

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is the collective name for two separate American television animated series: Rocky and His Friends (1959–1961) and The Bullwinkle Show (1961–1964). Rocky & Bullwinkle enjoyed great popularity during the 1960s. Much of this success was a result of it being targeted towards both children and adults. The zany characters and absurd plots would draw in children, while the clever usage of puns and topical references appealed to the adult demographic. Furthermore, the strengths of the series helped it overcome the fact that it had choppy, limited animation; in fact, some critics described the series as a well-written radio program with pictures.^[1] Image File history File links Information. ... This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ... Bullwinkle J. Moose Bullwinkle J. Moose is a fictional character in the 1959-1964 animated television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show (often collectively referred to as Rocky and Bullwinkle), produced by Jay Ward. ... Rocky the Flying Squirrel. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... NBC (a former acronym for National Broadcasting Company) is an American television network headquartered in the GE Building in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... See also: 1958 in television, other events of 1959, 1960 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1959-60 American network television schedule. ... See also: 1972 in television, other events of 1973, 1974 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1973-74 American network television schedule. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ... See also: 1958 in television, other events of 1959, 1960 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1959-60 American network television schedule. ... See also: 1960 in television, other events of 1961, 1962 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1961-62 American network television schedule. ... See also: 1960 in television, other events of 1961, 1962 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1961-62 American network television schedule. ... See also: 1963 in television, other events of 1964, 1965 in television and the list of years in television. For the American network television schedule, please see 1964-65 American network television schedule. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ... A demographic or demographic profile is a term used in marketing and broadcasting, to describe a demographic grouping or a market segment. ... Limited animation is a process of making animated cartoons that does not follow a realistic approach. ... Radio drama is a form of audio storytelling broadcast on radio. ...

Background

The series was created by Jay Ward and Alex Anderson, who had both previously collaborated on Crusader Rabbit, and was based upon the original property The Frostbite Falls Revue. This original show was about a group of forest animals running a TV station. The group included Rocket J. Squirrel, Oski Bear, Canadian Moose (Bullwinkle), Sylvester Fox, Blackstone Crow, and Floral Fauna. The show in this form was created by Jay Ward's partner Alex Anderson.^[2] J. Troplong Jay Ward (September 20, 1920–October 12, 1989) was a creator and producer of animated television cartoons. ... Alex Anderson is a cartoonist who created the characters of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right, as well as the more obscure Crusader Rabbit. ... Crusader Rabbit and his friend, Rags the Tiger Crusader Rabbit was the first animated series produced especially for television. ...

Ward wanted to produce the show in Los Angeles; however, Anderson, who lived in the San Francisco Bay area, did not want to relocate. As a result, Ward hired Bill Scott, who became the head writer and co-producer at Jay Ward Productions, and who wrote all of the Rocky and Bullwinkle features. Ward was also joined by writers Allan Burns (who later became head writer for MTM Enterprises) and Chris Hayward. Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: , State California County Los Angeles County Settled 1781 Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ... Bill Scott (August 2, 1920 - November 29, 1985), born William John Scott in Philadelphia, died in Tujunga, California, was a voice actor, writer and producer for animated cartoons, primarily associated with Jay Ward. ... Jay Ward Productions is an animated cartoon studio, founded in 1949 by American animator Jay Ward. ... Allan Burns (born May 18, 1935) is a Jewish-American screenwriter and television producer. ... The MTM logo, featuring Mimsie the Cat. ... Chris Hayward (19 June 1925 – 20 November 2006) was an American television writer and producer. ...

The series began with the pilot Rocky the Flying Squirrel. Production began in February 1958 with the hiring of voice actors June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Scott, and William Conrad. Eight months later, General Mills signed a deal to sponsor the cartoon, under the condition that the show be run in a late-afternoon time slot, where it could be targeted towards children. Subsequently, Ward hired most of the rest of the production staff, including writers and designers. However, no animators were hired, since Ward was able to convince friends of his at Dancer, Fitzgerald & Sample, an advertising firm that had General Mills as a client, to buy an animation studio in Mexico called Gamma Productions S.A. de C.V. This outsourcing of the animation for the series was considered financially attractive by General Mills, but caused numerous problems. Bill Scott, when interviewed by animation historian Jim Korkis in 1982, described some of the problems that arose in the production of the series: A voice actor (also a voice artist) is a person who provides voices for animated characters (including those in feature films, television series, animated shorts), voice-overs in radio and television commercials, audio dramas, dubbed foreign language films, video games, puppet shows, and amusement rides. ... June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is an extremely versatile voice actor who has worked for most of the studios which produced animated films since the 1940s. ... Paul Frees (June 22, 1920 - November 2, 1986) was a voice actor born in Chicago. ... Bill Scott (August 2, 1920 - November 29, 1985), born William John Scott in Philadelphia, died in Tujunga, California, was a voice actor, writer and producer for animated cartoons, primarily associated with Jay Ward. ... Conrad in Cannon William Conrad (September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994), born William Cann, was an American actor and narrator in radio, film and television noted for his gifted use of a marvelous baritone voice, as well as for his sizable girth. ... General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is a Fortune 500 corporation, mainly concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. ... Outsourcing became part of the business lexicon during the 1980s and often refers to the delegation of non-core operations from internal production to an external entity specializing in the management of that operation. ...

We found out very quickly that we could not depend on the Mexico studio to produce anything of quality. They were turning out the work very quickly and there were all kinds of mistakes and flaws and boo-boos. They would never check. Mustaches popped on and off Boris, Bullwinkle's antlers would change, colors would change, costumes would disappear. By the time we finally saw it, it was on the air.^{[citation needed]}

The show was broadcast for the first time in the fall of 1959 on the ABC television network under the name Rocky and His Friends. In 1961, the series was moved to NBC, where it was renamed The Bullwinkle Show. Subsequently, in 1964, the show returned to ABC, where it was canceled within a year. However, reruns of episodes were still continually aired on ABC until 1973, at which time the series went into syndication. In addition, an abbreviated fifteen minute version of the series ran in syndication in the 1960s under the title The Rocky Show. This version was sometimes shown in conjunction with The King and Odie, a fifteen minute version of Total Television's King Leonardo and his Short Subjects. The King and Odie was similar to Rocky and Bullwinkle in that it was sponsored by General Mills and animated by Gamma Productions. The American Broadcasting Company ( oftenly known as ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ... The National Broadcasting Company or NBC is an American television broadcasting company based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center. ... King Leonardo and his Short Subjects was an animated cartoon series released in 1960 by Total Television (which would later rename itself Leonardo Productions after the main character of this show). ... General Mills (NYSE: GIS) is a Fortune 500 corporation, mainly concerned with food products, which is headquartered in Golden Valley, Minnesota, a suburb of Minneapolis. ...

Sponsor General Mills retains all United States television rights to the series, which remains available in domestic syndication through The Program Exchange, although the underlying rights are now owned by Bullwinkle Studios, a joint venture of copyright holder Ward Productions and Classic Media. Two packages, each containing different episodes, are available. The syndicated version of The Bullwinkle Show contains 98 half-hour shows (#901-998). The first 78 comprise the Rocky & Bullwinkle storylines from the first two seasons of the original series (these segments originally aired under the Rocky And His Friends title). Other elements in the half-hours (Fractured Fairy Tales, Peabody's Improbable History, Dudley Do-Right Of The Mounties, Aesop And Son, and short cartoons including Bullwinkle's Corner and Mr. Know-It-All) do not necessarily correspond to the original broadcast sequence. The final 20 syndicated Bullwinkle Show episodes feature later Rocky & Bullwinkle storylines (from "Bumbling Bros. Circus" through the end of the series, minus "Moosylvania") along with Fractured Fairy Tales, Bullwinkle's Corner and Mr. Know-It-All segments repeated from earlier in the syndicated episode cycle. (Originally, many of the syndicated shows also included segments of Total Television's The World Of Commander McBragg, but these cartoons were replaced with other segments when the shows were remastered in the early 1990s.) Another package, promoted under the Rocky And His Friends name but utilizing The Rocky Show titles, features other storylines not included in the syndicated Bullwinkle Show series. The current syndicated Rocky And His Friends package still retains the 15-minute format (consisting of 156 individual episodes), but like The Bullwinkle Show, its content differs from the versions syndicated in the 1960s. In fact, neither package includes all the supporting cartoon segments; however, all of the Fractured Fairy Tales (91), Peabody's Improbable History (91), and Aesop And Son (39) segments are syndicated as part of Tennessee Tuxedo And His Tales, and 38 of the 39 Dudley Do-Right cartoons are syndicated as part of Dudley Do Right (sic) And Friends. Syndicated versions of the shows distributed outside of the United States and Canada are again different, combining all of the various segments under the package title Rocky And Bullwinkle And Friends; it is this version of the show that is represented on official DVD releases by Classic Media. Jay Ward Productions is an animated cartoon studio, founded in 1949 by American animator Jay Ward. ... Classic Media, Inc. ... Bullwinkle (left) and Rocky (right), the stars of Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show. ... Mr. ... Dudley Do-Right was the eponymous hero of a segment on The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show which parodied early 20th century melodrama and silent film. ... Mr. ...

Credits

Rocky and His Friends

Season 1

• Producers: Jay Ward, Bill Scott
• Directors: Bill Hurtz, Ted Parmelee, Gerry Ray, Gerard Baldwin, Jim Hiltz, Rudy Zamora, Dun Roman
• Animation: Val-Mar Studios
• Writers: Chris Hayward, Chris Jenkyns, George Atkins
• Voices: E.E. Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Conrad, Walter Tetley, Daws Butler (uncredited: Bill Scott)
• Host of Others: Skip Craig, Al Shean, Roy Morita, Wiliam Schleh, Harvey Siegal, Sam Clayberger
• Theme Music: Frank Comstock
• Recorded by Glen Glenn Sound
• Executive Producer: Ponsonby Britt, O.B.E.

Season 2

• Producers: Jay Ward, Bill Scott
• Directors: Gerard Baldwin, Peter Burness, Bill Hurtz, Gerry Ray, Bob Schleh, George Singer, Ernie Terrazas
• Writers: George Atkins, Chris Hayward, Chris Jenkins, Lloyd Turner
• Animation: Gamma Productions
• Associate Producer: Edwin A. Gourley
• Voice Actors: Edward Everett Horton, June Foray, Paul Frees, Bill Conrad, Walter Tetley (uncredited: Bill Scott, Daws Butler)
• Design and Layout: Sam Clayberger, Dave Fern, Frank Hursh, Dan Jurovich, Joe Montell, Roy Morita, Al Shean, Shirley Silvey, Sam Weiss, Al Wilson
• Supervisor: Harvey Siegel
• Host of Others: Barbara Baldwin, Skip Craig, Adrienne Diamond, Art Diamond, Roger Donley, Sal Faillace, Carlos Manriquez, Jesus Martinez, Bob Maxfield, Dun Roman, Jean Washam

The Bullwinkle Show

• A Producers Associates of Television Production (Peter Piech, producer)
• Animation by Gamma Productions (Bud Gourley, producer)
• Produced by Jay Ward, Bill Scott
• Directors: Bill Hurtz, Pete Burness, Ted Parmelee, Lew Keller, Sal Faillace, Gerard Baldwin, George Singer
• Writers: Chris Hayward, Lloyd Turner, Chris Jenkyns, George Atkins, Al Burns
• Actors: June Foray, Paul Frees, Edward Everett Horton, Hans Conried, Bill Conrad, Walter Tetely (uncredited: Bill Scott, Daws Butler)
• Artists: Sam Clayberger, Adrienne Diamond, Art Diamond, Roy Morita, Al Shean, Shirley Silvey, Barbara Baldwin
• Editor: Skip Craig
• Theme Music: Frank Steiner
• Additional Music: Dennis Farnon, George Steiner
• Executive Producer: Ponsonby Britt

Characters

The lead characters and heroes of the series were Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel, a flying squirrel, and his best friend Bullwinkle J. Moose, a dim-witted but good-natured moose. Both characters lived in the fictional town of Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, which was based on the real life city of International Falls, Minnesota.^[3] The scheming villains in most episodes were the fiendish, but inept, agents of the fictitious nation of Pottsylvania: Boris Badenov, a pun on Boris Godunov, and Natasha Fatale, a pun on femme fatale. (The names also resemble those of a young couple in Tolstoy's War and Peace). Boris and Natasha were commanded by the sinister Mr. Big and Fearless Leader. Rocket J. Squirrel, usually called by the nickname Rocky, is the name of the flying squirrel sidekick of the cartoon moose Bullwinkle in the early 1960s animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, produced by Jay Ward. ... Two groups of rodents are referred to as flying squirrels. ... Bullwinkle J. Moose Bullwinkle J. Moose is a fictional character in the 1959-1964 animated television series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show (often collectively referred to as Rocky and Bullwinkle), produced by Jay Ward. ... Binomial name (Linnaeus, 1758) Moose range map The moose (so named in North America, derived from Eastern Abenaki moz)[1] or elk (in Europe), Alces alces, is the largest extant member of the deer family Cervidae, distinguished from // Moose are typical of boreal and mixed deciduous forests of the Northern... Frostbite Falls, Minnesota is a fictional small town seen on the American animated series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show. ... International Falls is a city in Koochiching County, Minnesota, United States. ... Pottsylvania, in the fictional universe defined by Jay Wards The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, was a country in Eastern Europe whose interests were generally understood to be hostile to those of the free world. The geography of Pottsylvania is indeterminate. ... From left to right, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, and Fearless Leader. ... Tsar Boris I Boris Feodorovich Godunov (Бори́с Фёдорович Годуно́в) (c. ... From left to right, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, and Fearless Leader. ... Convicted spy Mata Hari made her name synonymous with femme fatale during WWI. A femme fatale (plural: femmes fatales) is an alluring and seductive woman whose charms ensnare her lovers in bonds of irresistible desire, often leading them into compromising, dangerous and deadly situations. ... War and Peace (Russian: Война и мир, Voyna i mir; in original orthography: Война и миръ, Voyna i mir) is an epic novel by Leo Tolstoy, first published from 1865 to 1869 in Russki Vestnik, which tells the story of Russian society during the Napoleonic Era. ... Mr. ... From left to right, Boris Badenov, Natasha Fatale, and Fearless Leader. ...

Structure

Each episode comprises two "Rocky & Bullwinkle" cliffhanger shorts that stylistically emulated early radio and film serials. The plots of these shorts would combine into much larger story arcs that would span numerous episodes. For example, the first and also the largest story arc of the series was called "Jet Fuel Formula" and consisted of 40 shorts (20 episodes). Each story arc would place the mighty moose and plucky squirrel in a different adventure, ranging from seeking the missing ingredient for a rocket fuel formula, to tracking the monstrous whale Maybe Dick, to a desperate attempt to prevent mechanical, metal-munching, moon mice from devouring the nation's television antennas. Rocky and Bullwinkle confront a number of obstacles and enemies in the course of their adventures, most frequently the two Pottslyvanian nogoodniks, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. For other uses, see Cliffhanger (disambiguation). ... It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

At the end of most episodes, the narrator, William Conrad, would announce two humorous titles for the next episode that typically were puns of each other. For example, during an adventure taking place in a mountain range, the narrator would state, "Be with us next time for 'Avalanche Is Better Than None,' or 'Snow's Your Old Man.'" Conrad in Cannon William Conrad (September 27, 1920 – February 11, 1994), born William Cann, was an American actor and narrator in radio, film and television noted for his gifted use of a marvelous baritone voice, as well as for his sizable girth. ... The Himalaya as seen from the International Space Station A mountain range is a group of mountains bordered by lowlands or separated from other mountain ranges by passes or rivers. ... A Himalayan avalanche near Mount Everest. ...

Each episode was introduced with one of four standard opening sequences:

• Rocky flies about snow-covered mountains. Below him, hiking on a snowy trail, Bullwinkle is distracted by a billboard featuring his name, and walks off a ledge. He becomes a large snowball as he rolls downhill. Rocky flies to him and pushes against the snowball, slowing it to a halt just at the edge of another cliff. Bullwinkle pops out of the snowball to catch the teetering squirrel at the cliff edge.
• In a circus, Rocky is preparing to jump from a very high diving board into a tub of water tended by Bullwinkle. However, when Rocky jumps, he ends up flying around the circus tent, while Bullwinkle chases after him carrying the tub. As Rocky lands safely, Bullwinkle tumbles into the tub.
• Rocky is flying acrobatically about a city landscape. Bullwinkle is high atop a flagpole painting a sign, and is knocked from his perch as the squirrel flies by. Rocky attempts to catch the plummeting moose with a butterfly net, but the moose falls through it. Rocky then flies lower to find his friend suspended from a clothesline, having fallen into a pair of long johns.
• Similar to the previous opening, Rocky is again flying about the city. Bullwinkle is suspended from a safety harness on a large billboard, posting a sign. He loses his balance as the squirrel zooms past him and tumbles off the platform. The moose lands on a banner pole mounted on the side of a building, and the recoil springs him back into the air. He lands on a store awning, slides down it, and drops a few feet to a bench on which Rocky is seated. The impact launches the squirrel off the bench, and Bullwinkle nonchalantly catches him in his left hand to end the sequence.

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Supporting features

The "Rocky & Bullwinkle" shorts served as "bookends" for several other popular supporting features, including: Categories: Stub ...

• Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties, a parody of early 20th century melodrama and silent film serials. Dudley Do-Right was a Canadian Mountie in constant pursuit of his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash, who sported the standard "villain" attire of black top hat, cape, and oversized moustache. This is one of the few Jay Ward cartoons to feature a background music track. As was standard in Ward's cartoons, jokes often functioned on two levels. A standard gag was to introduce characters in an irised close-up with the name of the "actor" displayed in a caption below, a convention seen in some early silent films. However, the comic twist was using the captions to present silly names or subtle puns. Occasionally, even the scenery was introduced in this manner, as when "Dead Man's Gulch" was identified as being portrayed by "Gorgeous Gorge," a reference to professional wrestler Gorgeous George.
• Peabody's Improbable History featured a talking dog genius named Mister Peabody who had a pet boy named Sherman. Sherman and Peabody would use Peabody's "WABAC machine" (pronounced "way-back", and partially a play on early computer brands such as UNIVAC and ENIAC) to go back in time to discover the real story behind historical events, and in many cases, intervene with uncooperative historical figures to ensure that events actually transpire as history has recorded.
• Fractured Fairy Tales presented familiar fairy tales and children's stories, but with storylines altered and modernized for humorous effect. This series was narrated by Edward Everett Horton.
• Aesop & Son was similar to Fractured Fairy Tales (complete with the same theme music), except it dealt with fables instead of fairy tales. The typical structure consisted of Aesop attempting to teach a lesson to his son using a fable. After hearing the story, the son would erode the fable's moral with a pun. Aesop was voiced (uncredited) by actor Charlie Ruggles.
• Bullwinkle's Corner featured the dimwitted moose attempting to inject culture into the proceedings by reciting poems and nursery rhymes, inadvertently and humorously butchering them. Poems subjected to this treatment include several by Robert Louis Stevenson ("My Shadow", "The Swing" and "Where Go the Boats"), William Wordsworth's "Daffodils", "Little Miss Muffet", "Little Jack Horner", and "Wee Willie Winkie", J. G. Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie", and "The Queen of Hearts" by Charles Lamb.
• Mr. Know-It-All again featured Bullwinkle posing as an authority on various topics. Disaster invariably ensued.
• Rocky and Bullwinkle Fan Club, a series of abortive attempts by Rocky and Bullwinkle to conduct the club's business. The fan club consisted only of Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris, Natasha, and Captain Peter Peachfuzz. Notably, these shorts seemingly break the fourth wall by showing these characters "out of character," as opposed to their portrayals in the serialized Rocky and Bullwinkle episodes.
• The World of Commander McBragg, short features on revisionist history as the title character would have imagined it; this was actually prepared for Tennessee Tuxedo and His Tales (and later shown on The Underdog Show). Although the shorts were animated by the same animated company, Gamma Productions, they were actually produced for Total Television, rather than Ward Productions. These segments were part of pre-1990 syndicated versions of The Bullwinkle Show (and also appear in syndicated episodes of The Underdog Show, Dudley Do Right And Friends, and Uncle Waldo's Cartoon Show).

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Themes

There are distinct parallels between Rocky and Bullwinkle and the Cold War. First of all, the two protagonists, Rocky and Bullwinkle, can be seen as representatives of the United States during the Cold War, while the two antagonists, Boris and Natasha, act like stereotypical Russian villains. Furthermore, many of the episodes are inspired by scientific inventions that the antagonists are attempting to steal, which was a plot structure often used in Cold War fiction. For other uses, see Cold War (disambiguation). ...

Other characters in the series represented government, business, and the popular 1960's opinion of authority in America. For example, Captain Peter Peachfuzz, a dim-witted naval officer was a representation of the military intelligence system of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administration.

Comic books, films and DVD releases

• Rocky and Bullwinkle comic books have been released by Gold Key Comics and Star Comics (an imprint of Marvel Comics). The 1980s Star Comics series were called Bullwinkle and Rocky. The comics, although clearly for children, did contain numerous references spoofing issues such as celebrity worship or the politics of the 1980s. In one issue, Bullwinkle owns a small company, which makes him eligible to compete in a fun run in Washington DC for presidents of small companies. When Bullwinkle says he is there for the race, it is mistaken that he is campaigning for President. The comic also spoofed US President Ronald Reagan, and he personally thanks Bullwinkle for stopping Boris & Natasha by rewarding him with monogrammed jelly beans. Another comic broke the fourth wall when the narrator is outraged at a plot of Boris', to which Boris claims he has control of everyone "by capturing the Marvel Comics building and tying up the editor". When the narrator says how this is morally wrong, Boris quiets him by saying "you will agree or you will not find find paycheck in mail this month!"
• A live-action made-for-television feature film Boris and Natasha, starring the two spies, was produced in 1992. Neither Rocky nor Bullwinkle appear in this film; however two characters are identified as 'Moose' and 'Squirrel'.
• A theatrical film starring Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, was released in 2000. It was mostly live-action with Rocky and Bullwinkle appearing as computer-generated characters. For the film, June Foray returned to voice Rocky, while Bullwinkle was voiced by Keith Scott. Although the movie retained the spirit and feel of the original cartoons, most critics didn't think the film was as humorous as the original cartoon.^[4]
• Dudley Do-Right, a theatrical live-action film, was released in 1999 and starred Brendan Fraser and Sarah Jessica Parker.
• A live-action Peabody's Improbable History was planned for release in 2001, but the film was cancelled due to Dudley Do-Right and The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle underperforming at the box-office. More recently, the film's production has been revived by DreamWorks Animation to now be a computer-animated film.
• In 2002, Jay Ward Productions established a partnership with Classic Media called Bullwinkle Studios. In 2003 and 2004, the partnership produced DVDs of the first two seasons of the series, which were renamed (for legal reasons) Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends. In September 2005, the third season was released onto DVD. According to a pamphlet accompanying the DVDs for the first season, the DVDs use the second season opening, which Ward's daughter Tiffany says was her father's favorite. Nevertheless, the DVDs for the third season just use the opening and closing from the first season. In addition, the DVDs for the first two seasons replaced the original music with themes Ward produced for the third season.
• In 2005, Bullwinkle Studios released a series of "best of" DVD compilations of popular segments of the series.

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References in popular culture

• In the 1985 film Back to the Future the DeLorean time machine goes back to 1955, it crashes into a barn. The farmer who owns it is named Peabody, and his son is named Sherman.
• The middle initials of The Simpsons characters Homer J. Simpson, Bart J. Simpson, and Abraham J. Simpson, as well as those of Futurama characters Philip J. Fry, Hubert J. Farnsworth, and Cubert J. Farnsworth, are a tribute by Matt Groening to Jay Ward and Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• Mr. Peabody and Sherman were featured in The Simpsons Treehouse of Horror V episode. They were also featured in the Family Guy episode "The Kiss Seen Around the World" where Brian (as Peabody) explains Columbus to Peter (Sherman).
• In The Simpsons episode, Moe'N'a Lisa, an episode from the eighteenth season shown on Jan. 18 2007, a competitor in the 'Senior Olympics' re-enacts the Rocky & Bullwinkle 'high-dive' episode opening, complete with the opening's music track.
• In the Simpsons Season 9 episode 'Simpsons Tide' the couch gag is an homage to the Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. The Simpsons fall off a cliff and end up growing out of the ground like Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• In 1986, house music producer Dean Anderson, under the alias Boris Badenough, released a single "Hey Rocky!", which relied extensively on samples from Rocky and Bullwinkle shows.
• Animatronic versions of the characters were created for a chain of Bullwinkle themed restaurants in the late eighties and early nineties. The restaurants which go by the name "Family Fun Center and Bullwinkle's Restaurant", "Bullwinkle's Pizza Parlor", or simply "Bullwinkle's" currently have locations in Raleigh, North Carolina; Wilsonville, Oregon; Tukwila, Washington; and Juneau, Alaska.
• In the movie True Lies, when Helen Tasker (Jamie Lee Curtis) is brought into the team, her contact's code name is revealed to be Boris, at which point Helen asks if hers is "Natasha." As a joke, the code name "Doris" is assigned to her instead.
• In the Boy Meets World episode "I Was A Teenage Spy", Alan and Amy speak with Eastern European accents and refer to themselves as the spies Boris and Natasha.
• The characters Rocky and Bullwinkle were featured in several 1993 Taco Bell commercials, where they were up against arch-rivals Boris and Natasha, who were selling "McBoris" burgers.
• In the Family Guy episode "The Thin White Line", Rocky appears after a joke and tells the audience, "And now, here's something we hope you'll really like."
• In 2005, Rocky and Bullwinkle made a disturbing brief cameo appearance in the Drawn Together episode Foxxy vs. the Board of Education.
• Lumpy the Moose from Happy Tree Friends is a parody of Bullwinkle.
• The Powerpuff Girls episode "I See a Funny Cartoon In Your Future" is a parody of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• In the episode "Don't Touch That Dial" of Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, one of the shows that Mighty Mouse gets trapped in is called "Rocky and Hoodwinkle" and features a boxer and a moose.
• In the Rugrats episode "Sour Pickles" Stu watches a cartoon called "Blocky and Oxwinkle", about a boy made of blocks and his friend, an ox. Blocky and Oxwinkle are chased by two spies named Uri and Svetana. June Foray provided the voices of Blocky and Svetana.
• The Wayback Machine, a web site that allows visitors to browse an archive of historically significant websites, was named in reference to Mr. Peabody's WABAC machine.
• In an episode of St. Elsewhere, Dr. Craig (played by William Daniels) condescendingly asks his new Russian housekeeper to say the phrase "Moose and squirrel," referencing Natasha Fatale.
• An episode of Married With Children had Bud and Kelly spying on Al to see if he was cheating with Jessica Hahn. While Bud is thinking to himself about the moral dilemma of it being unfair to jump to conclusions and not to listen to Al's side of the story, he wonders what Kelly is thinking to herself, to which her inner monologue is recalling an episode of "Rocky & Bullwinkle". Another episode had Kelly surfing through channels, where she is uninterested in history making news reports of that time, such as the fall of the Berlin Wall, until she gets to a channel where the voice is heard "Snidley Whiplash, unhand Nell!"

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Trivia

• The show listed the fictional Ponsonby Britt as executive producer.
• Bullwinkle's name came from a friend of Jay Ward's, Clarence Bullwinkel, who was a property owner/landlord in Berkeley, California. He also owned a Chevrolet dealership in neighboring Oakland, California.
• Since the production budget was so small, there are a number of circumstances where the actors ad-libbed around blown lines, and the animations were adjusted to accommodate. For example, narrator William Conrad could not finish reading the end of the script within the time limitations. Therefore, in the final take, Jay Ward set fire to the script, which resulted in Conrad having to read the material before he would be burned.^[5]
• Rocky and Friends has aired in over 100 countries. A popular urban legend claimed that it was banned in Canada, because of the portrayal of Dudley Do-Right, even though neither CRTC or the old Board of Broadcast Governors had the ability to ban TV shows as such, only fine broadcasters which violate broadcast standards which deal mostly with obscenity, violence, and racism, and obviously not with depictions of Mounties. The show aired in Canada the early 1960s, and was on YTV throughout the 1990s.
• The introductions for Rocky and Bullwinkle features are popular with hackers. During protracted debugging sessions, it is common for hackers to say "this time for sure" in a Bullwinkle Moose voice.^[6]
• A pinball machine dedicated to Rocky and Bullwinkle was released in 1993 by Data East.^[7]
• TSR, Inc. produced a role playing game based on the world of Bullwinkle and Rocky. The game consisted of rules, mylar hand puppets, cards, and spinners.
• Excerpts from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show are not available on YouTube because of a copyright claim. YouTube says that the claim was made by Warner Bros.
• As a publicity stunt, Ward and Scott campaigned for statehood for "Mooselvania", Bullwinkle's fictional home state. They drove a van to about 50 cities collecting petition signatures. Arriving in Washington DC, they pulled up to the White House gate to see President Kennedy, and were brusquely turned away. They learned that the evening they had arrived was during the height of the Cuban missile crisis. ^[8]

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See also

• The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends video game
• Upsidaisium
• Bullwinkle's Family Restaurant
• Dudley Do-Right Emporium

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Notes

References

• The Moose that Roared, by Keith Scott, St. Martin's Press, 2000. ISBN 0-312-19922-8

External links

• Rocky and His Friends at the Internet Movie Database
• The Bullwinkle Show at the Internet Movie Database
• Full episodes of Rocky and Bullwinkle Show free at AOL Video