It is Rocky & Bullwinkle Day

[Sherman A1]

Always loved Moose & Squirrel!

[Whovian]

1. That was a brilliant cartoon with stuff that adults could enjoy as well.

It was kind of like it was written by Mad Magazine editors.

[mac56]

25. Someone christened "The Bullwinkle Effect."

When you find a piece of entertainment funny when you're ten, then funny for different reasons when you're thirty, and funny again for different reasons when you're fifty.

[HiPointDem]

2. the thinking child's cartoon.

[william cail]

5. Reruns airs on WWHO

The local CW affilate in Columbus Ohio WWHO airs the show midnights weekdays.

[pinboy3niner]

3. Cappy: "Bullwinkle, allow me to be frank."

Bullwinkle: "Okay, Frank. Allow me to be Bullwinkle."
Cappy: (putting out hand) "I'm Cappy Von Trapment, FBI."
Bullwinkle: "I thought you said your name was Frank."
Cappy: "SHUT UP, BULLWINKLE."
Bullwinkle: "Okay, Frank."



Classic 'toon!

[LeftofObama]

4. "Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!"

[mac56]

22. "Nothin' up my sleeve... PRESTO!"

[michreject]

64. Musta grabbed the wrong hat

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[MgtPA]

6. Fan mail from some flounder?

[cali]

7. hip, hip, hooray

three cheers for Moose and Squirrel. And you too Sherman. Don't forget to keep your glasses smudge free so you can see what awesome place you've landed.

The only cartoon I loved more was the inspiration for Rockie and Bullwinkle: Jay Ward's earlier cartoon, Crusader Rabbit.

[mac56]

21. Rags the Tiger!

[TopHatCat]

8. :- 10 points

For the first person to name the university Bullwinkle attended...

[Whovian]

9. Minnesota Institute of Toe Dancing? (MIT)

[whyzayker]

10. What's a Matter U?

n/t

[Whovian]

11. I forgot that one. I guess it depends on which episode.

[pinboy3niner]

12. Wossamotta U

[TopHatCat]

14. a winner!

Though by rights I would say skyzaker is correct too.

[pinboy3niner]

15. Bonus points for the crest?

[TopHatCat]

16. I think that's

worth a good 5 bonus points...

[pinboy3niner]

17. Happy to welcome to DU a member of such obviously high intelligence! :)

And I think all of the correct answer variations should share in the prize.

Seriously, welcome to DU TopHatCat!

[MarianJack]

43. Wossamotta U,...

...on the shores of Veronica Lake? Or is that Frostbite Falls?

PEACE!

[pinboy3niner]

48. It may be located in whereinthehellarewe? :)

Your guess is as good as mine.

[seltzerwater]

13. Whatsamatta U

I believe

[Ferretherder]

18. Is the coast clear, Bullwinkle?

I don't know Rock', I can't see that far!

[rsweets]

19. i hate moose and scverril

yes, boris daaaling

[mac56]

49. When I was a kid I thought Boris Badenov was a hilarious name all on its own.

Then as a grown up when I discovered there was a composer named Boris Gudenov, I thought it was twice as funny.

Well played, Jay Ward, well played.

[TrogL]

59. No there's an opera called Boris Godenov

The composer is Mussorsky

[mac56]

63. Ah, got it.

Funny either way.

[bigmonkey]

69. And when he'd swear, he'd say "Raskolnikov!"

I.e. the protagonist of Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment.

[mac56]

70. See? The Bullwinkle Effect in action!

Post #25 above.

[mac56]

20. "Today's lesson is mighty important, remember...?"

"BULLWINKLE IS A DO......."

"Not that lesson.... THIS lesson!"

To this day a buddy of mine cannot pass a blank chalkboard without scrawling 'BULLWINKLE IS A DOPE."

[pinboy3niner]

23. Anyone whose username begins with 'Sherman'...

...may be a fanatical Rocky & Bullwinkle fanboi. Just sayin'...

[tridim]

51. Sherman grew up to be Nate Silver.

[kpete]

24. favorite:

[BuelahWitch]

94. Mine too!

[JHB]

26. Sherman, tell Dr Peabody DU says Hi!

[amb123]

30. To quote Mr Peabody, "Every dog should have a boy."

[mac56]

34. I just blogged about them the other day!

http://namebrandketchup.wordpress.com/2012/11/17/remember-some-months-ago-when-i-wrote-that-someone-should-make-a-cgi-movie-of-mr-peabody-and-sherman/

Apparently there is a CGI movie in the works about Mr. Peabody and Sherman.

[mac56]

27. Eeny, meeny, chili beeny

The spirits are about to speak!

[MgtPA]

31. omg, thanks for that memory blast!

I'm using that on my brother on Thanksgiving

[Art_from_Ark]

84. Are they friendly spirits?

Friendly? Just listen...

Funny thing-- I never heard any spirits after that-- just commercials!

[bedazzled]

28. i always liked "hello, low i.q.ers"

nothing like overestimating your audience.

the dvds are nice to have -- they've finally released the last two seasons.

[Kolesar]

29. The adult jokes in Bullwinkle were bad puns

I can't watch that show. I don't like the lady doing the squirrel voice or Boris Badinov.

The fractured fairy tales and Peabody's adventures were the best part of that show.

[Kablooie]

32. June Foray, the voice of Rocky, is still doing well today at 95!

She's still active in the Motion Picture Academy and is reviewing all the animated feature candidates this year.

[Bibliovore]

50. Excellent!

[Auggie]

54. Foray once said the recording sessions were always long

because the voice talent was laughing so much

[mac56]

66. And William Conrad ("Cannon" from the detective show)

was the narrator of the Rocky and Bullwinkle adventures.

Jay Ward et al really admired the voice actors from the 30s and 40s. Highlighted Charlie Ruggles (Aesop), Walter Tetley (Sherman), and Edward Everett Horton (Fractured Fairy Tales).

[Bluenorthwest]

33. A big giant yippeee to Jay Ward

Creator and guardian of Moose and Squirrel

[mac56]

35. Except he and his cronies used the alias "Ponsonby Britt."

It must have been a stone cold blast to work at Jay Ward Enterprises.

[Bluenorthwest]

58. I actually spent a few hours now and again with Jay and his wife years ago

Yes they were fun people, also really sweet hard working artists.

[Trailrider1951]

89. When I was a little kid, I always read that closing credit as "Poisoned by Britt"

Who was Britt and what was he poisoning? LOL, I now have a son-in-law named Britt. Go figure.

[Art_from_Ark]

99. I liked the ending of The Bullwinkle Show

Where they shot out some of the lights in the name "Ponsonby Britt". I always rushed to the TV to try to figure out what the name was before it was shot up, but I never made it in time

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

36. upsadasium

the material James Cameron borrowed for use in Avatar.

[mac56]

37. Jay Ward and some of the rest of the gang took a cross country trip

with a petition to make Frostbite Falls the 51st state.

Eventually made it to Washington DC.

However, they had the bad timing of doing this during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Woops.

[pam4water]

44. Oh I did not know that :O n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

85. Actually, it was "Moosylvania" that was the object of the statehood petition

And "Moosylvania", depending on which episode you saw, was either off the coast of California, or in the middle of Lake of the Woods.

[mac56]

97. I think that's why I muddled it up with Frostbite Falls

d/t the Lake Of The Woods thing.

Minnesota lad here.

[Art_from_Ark]

98. Moosylvania-- the only movable island in the world

(That is, the Moosylvania in Lake of the Woods ). Canada kept pushing it to the US side, and the US kept pushing it to the Canadian side

[pam4water]

38. Hay, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of this hat!

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Don't know my own strength.

[mac56]

39. But that trick NEVER works!

[pam4water]

42. :D n/t

[Rockyj]

40. Really? So Cool...

I was nicknamed Rockyj in grade school after Squirrel because I was always blasting off! Also my favorite cartoon! [link:|

[txwhitedove]

41. "Trizzle, trazzle, trozzle, trome....... time for this one to come home."

[mac56]

45. Help, Mr Wizard!

[txwhitedove]

46. I say that at work when it's a really tough day.

[a kennedy]

47. Loved this show...

thanks for reminding me.

[closeupready]

52. Was watching this when I was just a little boy.

K&R

[Trailrider1951]

53. Best cartoon EVAH!

50 years later and I still love Moose and Squirrel!

[Botany]

55. loves me some moose and squirrel

[Zorra]

56. Rocky: "Hey, what's the meaning of this?"

Agent: "Military intelligence. That phrase mean anything to you?"

Rocky: "It sounds like a contradiction of terms."



Love Moose & Squirrel, dahlink!!!

[Graybeard]

57. Boris and Natasha.

Dated now but this was a great satire on the absurdity
of the Cold War.

Favorite line: "You beezy-bodies have beezied

your last body."

[pinboy3niner]

60. Boris and Natasha...

This thread needs illustration!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

61. Finally, it's a national holiday! I think I'll take the day off and get scrooched!

[spanone]

62. 'Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat'

[mac56]

65. Don't forget Gidney and Cloyd!

[pinboy3niner]

67. And Gidney N Cloyd is the username of a DUer

Love it!

[Graybeard]

68. Gidney and Cloyd is a DUer!

I've seen one of our DUers posting as Gidney and Cloyd.

on edit: There he is! I just noticed Gidney N Cloyd
on this thread at reply #61.

Cool.

[riqster]

71. I loved the reference in Back to the Future

...when Old Man Peabody sees the car knock over a tree, and says over his shoulder "Sherman, get my gun".

[Octafish]

72. Every day is Rocky & Bullwinkle Day

[mac56]

76. Hail, Pottsylvania!

Hail, Pottsylvania
Hail to the black and the blue!
Hail, Pottsylvania
Sneaky and crooked through and through!
Down with the good guys, up with the boss
Under the sign of the triple cross, hey!
Hail, Pottsylvania
Hail, hail, hail!

(crack of thunder, flash of lightning, heavy precipitation)

Fearless Leader: Und vhat is dis?
Boris: Hail....

- -

From Wikipedia: "While many considered Pottsylvania to be a spoof, it was considered offensive by the government of the Soviet Union, which banned Rocky & Bullwinkle as anti-Soviet propaganda."

[Octafish]

100. Ideas are serious business.

Thank you for sharing that mac56. It brought tears to my third eye. In fact, I flashed back to M.I.T.* for a minute.

Why would Krushchev's handlers -- or any authoritarian -- fear a cartoon? The creators of Rocky and Bullwinkle made their budget conscious animation into something to think about. Once their universe was in my head and heart, nothing could drive them out. Not even Upsidasium.



On every level, I think the world of Moose and Squirrel.

* Minnesota Institute for Tap Dancing

[11 Bravo]

73. Rocket J. Squirrel was one happening rodent!

[L0oniX]

74. Fractured Fairy Tales = Rmoney campaign.

[catchnrelease]

75. My other favorite Jay Ward effort

Fractured Flickers with Hans Conried!!! I think it was the inspiration for the MST2/3K's

[mojitojoe]

77. I was always a Gidney and Cloyd fan...

[graham4anything]

78. My favorite tv cartoon always. And went to the Emporium back when it was open in L.A.

and met Jay and his wife.(before Jay died and then it closed.)

more recent picture with current business now housed there
but the statue continues (though the owners of the Pet boarding / grooming don't really like Bullwinkle fans making noise coming through their gate to visit the statue

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[KansDem]

79. Don't forget the "Anti-anti-missile-missile-missile!"

I always liked R&B humor!

[warrprayer]

80. First we steal top secret plans...

... then we kill moose and squirrel!

[DreamGypsy]

81. Solving one of the great mysteries: Set the WABAC machine, Sherman...

...for the year 4,539,997,988 BCE...and we'll show Sen. Marco Rubio here how old the Earth really is...



(yeah, I know, that's actually Robert Downey Jr... and we might be off by +/- 50M years)

[socialist_n_TN]

82. Yep. My favorite cartoon ever........

As others have stated, the jokes worked on SO many levels.

[mac56]

83. The most suggestive they ever got on that show

Rocky and Bullwinkle were set to play a football game for Wossamotta U. But through some machinations of fate, it turned out they were to play an all-female team.

Rocky: "Bullwinkle, this is terrible!"
Bullwinkle: "It is?"
Rocky: "What kind of game can you play with girls?"
Bullwinkle: (addressing the audience) "Boy, this really is a children's show, isn't it?" (pause) "Parcheesi, of course!"

[Art_from_Ark]

86. And Fearless Leader was the coach

Of course, the "girls" were actually male ruffians in drag

[Flying Squirrel]

87. Woot!

[kentauros]

90. So, with all these fallow fans ;)

Maybe someone remembers or heard a mashup title done back in either the 1990s or earlier. It was in the same vein as Alpha Team's "Speed Racer" mashup, but I can't remember either the artist that did the cut or the title. And searching on "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of a hat" doesn't result in hits for this musically-mad title

So, anyone know what I'm talking about?

[mac56]

91. here you go

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[mac56]

92. Might like this one too

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[kentauros]

96. "~~It's like a beautiful dream, Rock!~~"

Yes, that's the one! Thanks!

And if I was a Gordon Lightfoot fan, I'm not sure I'd be amused with the other one

[Art_from_Ark]

93. "That voice--- where have I heard that voice?"

"Only in about 324 other episodes! But I don't remember it, either!"

[BuelahWitch]

95. Of Moose and Men: The Rocky and Bullwinkle Story

PBS documentary from the early '90s

[wandy]

101. Good Rocky and Bullwinkle read.............

They 'punked' more than just the 'goberment'. Even the sponsers were fair game.

Mr. Ward's renegades did lose a round with ''The Great Box-Top Caper,'' in which Boris plotted to destroy the world's economy by counterfeiting cereal-box tops. General Mills, the ''Bullwinkle'' sponsor, thought this hit too close to home. The episodes were cut back.

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/07/movies/television-rocky-and-bullwinkle-brave-the-comeback-trail.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm

[mucifer]

102. Love me some moose and squirrel