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Loved the show, especially Snidely Whiplash, Sherman, Mr. Peabody, Crabby Appleton and Boris and Natasha. By the way, "Guest" is wrong, Dudley Dooright was never banned in Canada.

King (discovering that his straw has been spun into gold): I'm rich...er!

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Bullwinkle: Are you a damsel in distress?
Natasha: Dis dress, dat dress, who cares? I'm distraught!

Never jumped. I loved William Conrad (later the rotund detective on ''Cannon'') as the narrator. He had a booming bass, but here he spoke excitedly in a higher range. He had more dialogue than anybody. Other characters would interrupt his narration and even argue with him. Very avant-garde for its time. Yes the jokes were bad, but it is amazing how good a bad joke can be.

BW:

Eeanie Meanie! Chili Beanie! The spirits are about to speak!

Rocky: Are they friendly?

BW: Just listen!

BW puts hand into hat and pulls up a growling lion.

LOL! I love it!

Aesop's Fables, Mr. Peabody & Sherman....I LOVED these shows! *sign* I feel so nostalgic. Those were good times in television.

As I've stated before, Bullwinkle never JTSed, but the 'Black Family Channel did, by goin' out of business. I wonder if Boomerang's picked up moose and squirrel. It'd be a cryin' shame if they did. Not everybody WANTS to have a satellite dish. Bullwinkle and Rocky need their rightful place back on Cartoon Network!!! Peace.

never jumped.television really lacks this kind of intelligence and wit.there really is little that is currently being broadcast that rises to the level of this. it's classic,just pure genius better than so called classics like 'all in the family'or even mash and mary tyler moore.for what we have now, 'the daily show is close'and thats just about it.

Bullwinkle was written so an adult could enjoy the humor as well. Somthing rarely if ever seen anymore. A classic among classics. NEVER jumped.

Fan mail from some flounder?...no a message in a bottle....is it important?...just look!!...best ad intro in history!!!!

[quote]"The Country and the City Frog" where the country frog gets rich by selling a field full of holes to a golf-course developer for a million nickles and goes to the big city to spend his money.[/quote]

The Aesop & Son fairytales were my favorite part of the show. My favorite is the magician who didn't feed his rabbit so the rabbit had to pick the pockets of the audience. At the end the magician and the rabbit part company and the magician ends up peniless. Aesop gives the morale, A fool and his Bunny are soon parted. His son says: I have a better morale than that. Aesop stops him and says: You're not going to say: A fool and his HARE are son parted, are you? The son replies: No pop, I was going to say: Hare today, gone tomorrow!

CLASSIC STUFF

And did anyone even mention Peabody & Sherman? Absolutly hysterical stuff.

'Bullwinkle' absolutely never jumped. Every episode was lots of pun. Kudos to the Black Family Channel for bringin' it back, but shame on them for takin' away, 'Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!' Still cracks me up!

Jay Ward and the gang wrote some fun, fast-paced and intelligent shows back in the sixties: all that, and Edward Everett Horton too! Never jumped!

I have waited a long time to post something here about one of my favorite childhood cartoons.I have realized,after going through all the episodes(and Internet has more than one site listing all of them)that Bullwinkle J.T.S. during the final seasons because the stories weren't taken seriosuly enough.Oh,sure,they were always supposed to be funny-and the humor and parody never lost quality-but in the beginning,the stories were a little more suspenseful,like the Upsidasium Mine story or the tale of the Oogle Bird-and even The 3 Musketeers story or the Kirwurd Derby tale(and it was a little while before I got the pun about that)and the Goof Gas tale-had a sense of suspense and adventure which caused many youngsters to want to tune in next week to see what happens next to our heroes.We always knew they would get out of whatever mess they were in at the end of the episodes,wether it be having a boulder roll down at them("that same unsteady boulder")or being caught in a mine field("land mines?What about water mines?"),but the big question was,"how?"I also learned a few small tidbits of history from Peabody and Sherman,and saw sometimes funny,sometimes better variations on old fairy tales and fables.(BTW,did anyone know Dudley Do-Right was banned in Canada?This shows how much of a sense of humor our Northern neighbors have.) However,during the final year or so of the Bullwinkle show the stories weren't quite as suspenseful.The Treasure of Monte Zoom,The Bungling Brothers Circus,Wossamatta U and the tales of Mooselvania didn't seem so adventurous or compelling.Fractured Fairy Tales was re-doing tales they'd re-done before and all involved seemed to be getting into a rut.The ending story of Mooselvania Saved(which ended,by the way,with the implication that Fearless Leader had shot Boris and thus no more stories)seemed to BE the ending story with Rocky and Bullwinkle smiling at the audience before the final fade-out.All this being said,I will always have regard for Bullwinkle as being one of the best TV cartoons of the sixties,if not of all time-showing that really good stories and/or jokes can overcome any lack of fluid animation-which TV cartoons always had anyway.

Rocky and Bullwinkle was a perfect blend of satire. The cheesy animation encouraged me to pay attention to the dialogue which was hilarious and richly laden with puns on many levels. The humor was adult humor that also worked for children and reminds me of the late great Ernie Kovacs in its mix of absurdity and wit. Having Edward Everett Horton as a narrator was a touch of genius.

This show never jumped. All most remember is "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit outta my hat!" What they don't remember are the great political jabs the creators took at just about everybody. Example, R&B are in a jet powered by hot air and it begins sputter as it's running out of fuel. So B starts reading the congressional record into the fuel line because it's the best source of hot air that can be found anywhere. C'mon-that's funny!

Never jumped. Actually, it got better as it went along and the writers and animators got the formula down cold. So many great moments mentioned here - protesting Norman Mailer, games you can play with girls, etc. - but my favourite cartoon of all the R&B - apart from the Dudley episodes - is a FFT about the three bears, where Bill Scott does the baby bear. Great lines: Baby Bear - How do I know when I'm cold? Papa Bear - You turn blue (punches baby bear). Baby Bear (after being hit while attempting to play piano) - If you keep hitting me like that, someday you're going to break my spirit. Priceless. Never equaled by any animated show. Only institution they left unscathed was religion.

Simply the most brilliantly written animated show ever, in terms of gags-per-minute and the sophistication of those gags. And to clarify someone else's implicit question of voice artists: Bill Scott (Bullwinkle, Fearless Leader, Gidney, Mr. Peabody, Dudley Do-Right, and a host of one-shot characters); June Foray (Rocky, Natasha, Nell, and a host of one-shot characters); Paul Frees (Boris, Capt. Peachfuzz, Cloyd, first narrator of Dudley Do-Right, a host of one-shot characters); William Conrad (narrator of Rocky and Bullwinkle, second narrator of Dudley Do-Right, a few one-shot characters); Hans Conried (Snidely Whiplash, possibly some one-shot characters); Edward Everett Horton (narrator of Fractured Fairy Tales); Walter Tetley (Sherman); Charles Ruggles (Aesop); Daws Butler (a host of uncredited one-shot characters); Julie Bennett (various voices), and Dorothy Scott (several uncredited characters).