Rocky & Bullwinkle Knowledge Base

[BurtWorm]

Let's assemble an encyclopedia of Rocky & Bullwinkle knowledge, one fact at a time.

Fact 1: Rocky and Bullwinkle lived in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota.

[charlie]

1. Bullwinkle

is a graduate of Wottsamatta U.

[BurtWorm]

17. The big rival of Wottsamattu U.

was Tick-Tock Tech.

[7th_Sephiroth]

33. they had a special

rocky and bullwinkle ad campaign, they gave you a punch card and for every taco you bought they'd punch out one bullwinkle-foot shaped hole and you'd get giveaways after so manny

[VelmaD]

2. Rocky's real first name...

is Rocket.

[BurtWorm]

3. False fact deleted

Bullwinkle's middle initial was not J.

[Semi_subversive]

4. Rocket J. (Jet) Squirrell

to be precise.

[Dogmudgeon]

5. Watch me pull a list of links out of my hat

Jay Ward search results on Google

--bkl
That trick always works!

[Richardo]

12. Again?

[mac56]

6. Bullwinkle is governor of Moosylvania, but doesn't live there.

Moosylvania is in dispute between the US and Canada: each claims it belongs to the other.

[7th_Sephiroth]

8. boris badanov

and natash keep trying to catch moose and squirrel for various reasons, use ridiculous disguises that allways work, and bullwinkle once made a kite out of stolen money

[BurtWorm]

7. Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale

were intelligence operatives for the Pottsylvanian government of Big Leader.

[mac56]

9. Fearless Leader.

The symbol of Pottsylvania: the "Triple Cross".

[BurtWorm]

10. Right. Thank you.

I got him mixed up with the diminutive Mr. Big, who I believe was head of an upsidaisium smuggling ring.

[mac56]

14. Thanks for starting this thread, BW

As always, I'm in awe of the collected toon knowledge held by DUers.

[Mr. Jinx]

35. Wasn't that Fearless Leader?

Or "FL" to his friends?

ON EDIT: (Whoops my bad! I missed the threads above- too much candy corn.)

[mac56]

11. Voice of Bullwinkle: Bill Scott (also one of the writers).

Voice of Rocky and Natasha: June Foray.
Voice of Boris: Paul Frees.

[BurtWorm]

13. Paul Frees was also the voice of Captain Peachfuzz

who was modeled on Ed Wynn.

Bill Conrad was the excitable narrator.

[BurtWorm]

32. Paul Frees performed a miracle of accent work, having Boris

pretend to be a Southern gentleman. I still crack up when I think about how he did that, Russianizing "y'oll" for instance!

[Richardo]

15. Railroad thru Frostbite Falls: The Union Pathetic RR

:D

[7th_Sephiroth]

16. Jason Alexander

does a good boris

[BurtWorm]

18. Correct me if I'm wrong: Frostbite Falls' newspaper

was the Picayune?

[Richardo]

20. The Picayune-Intelligence

:D

[BurtWorm]

21. Right! Thanks.

[dbt]

19. The Mooseberry bush

Which contained an ingredient that could be used in rocket fuel which would propel Pottsylvania (?) to the forefront of the space race!

And let us not forget that penultimate weapon, The Scrooch Gun, as possessed by your Moon boys.

Jay Ward RULES!
:bounce:
dbt

[BurtWorm]

28. The Moon boys talked like Quisp

sort of like Jews from outer space, right? They were probably voiced by the same guy who did Huckleberry Hound and Jinx the cat whose name I'm blanking on. Daws comes to mind...

[Richardo]

29. Daws Butler...

Did a lot of the Hanna Barbera voices in the time period, too.

[BurtWorm]

30. That's right! He was even more of a chameleon than Mel Blanc.

For the longest time I thought it was Paul Frees who did Capn Crunch, but it was Daws Butler.

PS: He did also did the voice of those insipid British princes on Fractured Fairy Tales.

[Wilber_Stool]

22. Jay Ward and Bill Scott.......

were on there way to meet with JFK to discuss the independence of Moosylvania from the United States when the Cuban missile crisis intervened and derailed the plan.

[Richardo]

23. Bullwinkle anticipates Bush in the following line:

<talking to wealthy industrialist> "For a powerful magnate you sure don't pick up things very fast."

My favorite line of all time.

[wryter2000]

25. Richardo

Richardo, I think you're my soul mate. Bump-tee-bump-tee-bump!

:yourock:

[Richardo]

27. Bump City!

:yourock: too, wryter!

[wryter2000]

24. The Oaktown connection

Jay Ward was a realtor with an office near the Claremont Hotel in Oakland. He was recuperating from being hit by a truck that careened into his office when he thought up Rocky and Bullwinkle. The Ward Realty Company still stands on that site.

Now then, this part is speculation. But there is a rather eccentric fellow in Oakland named Bullwinkle who's decorated his house pretty wildly. He was mentioned in a Smithsonian article several years ago. Among other things, he has a sign outside that proclaims, "I am not a folk artist. I am not a folk. I am a Bullwinkle." I always wondered if he was the inspiration for Bullwinkle.

[BurtWorm]

26. Now THAT is a good solid Bullwinkle fact.

Real Bullwinkle scholarship there, wryter2000.

:toast:

[Rowdyboy]

31. My turn, my turn!!! (hand waves in air desperately seeking attention)

Frostbite Falls is located on the shores of Lake Veronica. That's where Bullwinkle found the "Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam"....my personal favorite episode.

34. mine too

I can still remember the first time I saw it when I was about 10 and it began to dawn on me that there was this whole adult layer of punning going on in the cartoon. It was never the same after that.
Hmmmm.... maybe that's where the corruption began, should have answered to that thread the other day as to why I am a liberal.--Rocky and Bullwinkle/

[chemenger]

36. McKeesport, Pennsylvania

One of their adventures took moose & squirrel to McKeesport, Pa. I have relatives there who said that they saw moose & squirrel on Lyle Boulevard.

[Richardo]

37. My mother was born in McKeesport!

Well, not McKeesport - Port Vue, a little upriver.

Signed,
Hank Kimball
County Agent
(from the Green Acres thread)

[Snow]

38. Hmmm. There was a cartoon before R&B that was an action hero

sort of thing, by Ward & friends. Didn't last very long, but I remember enjoying it & wondering why it went away. Was it Crusader Rabbit - or maybe Ricochet Rabbit? Might've been.....

[BurtWorm]

39. Crusader Rabbit.

And after R&B, they had Dudley Dooright and...Hippity Hooper? The show about the frog. (My brain is a drain today for some reason. Must be all this concentrated effort on old TV shows.) Was Odie and the King Jay Ward, also? Or was that made by the same people who did Underdog and Tennessee Tuxedo?