ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE

[Golddollar]

Thanks to the marvels of modern technology (I know that sounds funny coming from a Luddite like me). I have been able to acquire DVDs of old TV shows that were on during my childhood. Some of these had been on the shelf for quite a while so I started to make a concerted effort to start watching more of them.

Recently I started watching the first season of the old Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle Moose cartoons that were originally broadcast back in the late 50s and early 60s. Even though they were shown 60+ years ago, they are still funny, and maybe even funnier than when I saw them in childhood. Really and truly I have become convinced that a lot of the humor was directed at the parents, because I'm sure the kids wouldn't have understood a lot of the jokes. Kids probably would not have understood the Cold War setting prevalent in the cartoons which is now part of history.

 

[Alpo]

I realized that Rocky and Bullwinkle was aimed at parents, when Natasha went undercover as a Mexican waitress named Tequila Mockingbird.


That would go right over kids' heads, but adults would laugh.

 

[robvious]

Boris & Natasha... must get moose & sqvirrel

 

[RobertJ.]

It's a far better comedy than anything produced today! Or, at least most of it.

June Foray, the voice of Rocky, provided the voice for lots of other characters, like Granny in the Tweety Bird cartoons. I grew up listening to Stan Freberg, and her voice was featured on "St. George and the Dragonet".

And most don't know that the narrator's voice was a young William Conrad, who went on to star in the TV show, "Cannon".

I like all the cartoons in that series, like Fractured Fairy Tales, Dudley Do-Right, Aesop and Son, and Peabody and Sherman. They are all top-notch comedy.

 

[NFrameFred]

Definitely multi-tiered comedy - silly and banal enough for the childish mind but sarcastic and cutting with the innuendo and social undertones. Kind of a 'Mad Magazine' type show ostensibly masquerading as a kids show - it spawned a lot of other splinter ideas like (I believe) "PeeWee's Playhouse" with Paul Reubens. There were a lot of over-the-heads-of-the-kids gags there, for sure.

 

[Rudi]

Such great old TV shows! Much content for parents. The DVD is the new Way Back Machine.

 

[bdGreen]

Nothin' up my sleeve - Presto! Well, I'm gettin' close.

bdGreen

 

[swsig]

Thanks to the marvels of modern technology (I know that sounds funny coming from a Luddite like me). I have been able to acquire DVDs of old TV shows that were on during my childhood. Some of these had been on the shelf for quite a while so I started to make a concerted effort to start watching more of them....

So you got some of those newfangled DVDs, eh? Have you given up on Betamax already?

 

[Golddollar]

I like all the cartoons in that series, like Fractured Fairy Tales, Dudley Do-Right, Aesop and Son, and Peabody and Sherman. They are all top-notch comedy.

And stop and think that Dudley Do-Right was still present enough in the American lexicon to make a full length movie in 1999.

 

[NFrameFred]

And stop and think that Dudley Do-Right was still present enough in the American lexicon to make a full length movie in 1999.

The very name has become an icon of sarcasm to describe a clueless, idealistic do-gooder.

 

[444 Magnum]

I never got tired of this:

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kx3sOqW5zj4[/ame]

 

[yaktamer]

And most don't know that the narrator's voice was a young Robert Conrad, who went on to star in the TV show, "Cannon".

You mean William Conrad. Robert Conrad, among other roles, was the guy who played Pappy Boyington in "Baa Baa Blacksheep" and Jim West in "The Wild, Wild West."

 

[RobertJ.]

You mean William Conrad. Robert Conrad, among other roles, was the guy who played Pappy Boyington in "Baa Baa Blacksheep" and Jim West in "The Wild, Wild West."

Yes, William Conrad! I had a brain fart!

 

[A10]

I owe my sense of humor to Rocky and Bullwinkle....Animaniacs was definitely based on their brand. Both are brilliant comedies.

 

[s&wchad]

The very name has become an icon of sarcasm to describe a clueless, idealistic do-gooder.

HEY!!!

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

William Conrad was also Matt Dillon in "Gunsmoke" on radio.
Chuck Jones, a top animator, is quoted as saying "June Foray is not the female Mel Blanc. Mel Blanc is the male June Foray."
Like the Warner Brothers cartoons and MAD Magazine Jay Ward's humor was on all levels-"The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam", e.g.
The "Colonel" in Dudley Do-Right was a caricature of Jay Ward.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

Get Moose and Squirrel. Gawd I remember those cartoons fondly. Let's not forget Sherman and Mr. Peabody and the wayback machine! Fun stuff for sure.
And later on there were George of the Jungle, Soper Chicken and Tom Slick.
Shamefull to say but I still remember the Super Chicken jingle:
When you find your self in danger, when you're threatened by a stranger, when it looks like you will take a licking...cluck cluck cluck cluck...there is someone waiting who will hurry up and rescue you.....just callllll for Super Chicken CLUCK CLUCK

 

[Narragansett]

I love the old shows. I still watch them.

I even have 3 cd's somewhere of Amos and Andy.

 

[bdGreen]

Get Moose and Squirrel. Gawd I remember those cartoons fondly. Let's not forget Sherman and Mr. Peabody and the wayback machine! Fun stuff for sure.
And later on there were George of the Jungle, Soper Chicken and Tom Slick.
Shamefull to say but I still remember the Super Chicken jingle:
When you find your self in danger, when you're threatened by a stranger, when it looks like you will take a licking...cluck cluck cluck cluck...there is someone waiting who will hurry up and rescue you.....just callllll for Super Chicken CLUCK CLUCK

“Watch out for that tree!!!”

 

[rwsmith]

What a great show....

It was and still is:

Rocky and Bullwinkle driving a herd of worms cross country.

The Ruby Yacht of Omar Kayyam.

Rocky and Bullwinkle riding on a train. Rocky is half asleep. Boris is trying to sabotage the third rail and gets electrocuted in typical cartoon fashion.

Bullwinkle: Hey Rocky, a feller just went by that was all lit up.

Rocky (sleepily): We must be near the club car.

Me: Man I really love that stuff. A lot of this was obviously aimed at adults, but we were fairly sharp so the jokes weren't lost on us. Mr. Peabody and Sherman were a great way to interest kids in history. The modern twist they put on Fractured Fairy Tales and Aesop and Son were was refreshing. Dudley Do-Right was just plain funny.