Rocky and Bullwinkle: Difference between revisions

** [[Rugrats]] did an episode with "Blocky and Oxwinkle", also bringing in June Foray to voice the Rocky and Natasha expies.

** The [[Fractured Fairy Tale|Fractured Fairy Tales]] segment itself is an affectionate parody of a book called "Famous Fairy Tales", which had a collection of fairy tales gathered together. Each segment took at least the title of one of these stories, then twisted it around.

* [[Always Gets His Man]] : Dudley Do Right is an [[Affectionate Parody]] of this.

** As is the Peabody episode where the mountie can't take in his target because she's a woman.

* [[Anachronism Stew]]: The Peabody and Sherman segments are full of this.

* [[Animated Anthology]]

* [[Art Evolution]]: Several of the characters looked a bit different in the beginning, but the one who has gone through the most recognizable changes is Fearless Leader. In his first appearance, he was thin with a trenchcoat, sunglasses, and a hat like Boris's. His next few appearances depicted him fat, in a uniform, no hat and no sunglasses. When Rocky and Bullwinkle arrived in Pottsylvania, Fearless Leader was slimmed down a little. And finally, when Boris meets up with him in person, Fearless Leader looks as he does today: skinny, given a hat, a differently shaped head, a scar on his face and a monocle.

** Alternatively, Pottsylvania goes through a lot of Fearless Leaders.

* [[Bad Boss]]: Fearless Leader always threatens to shoot his men. Only rarely that he actually does it. In ''Missouri Mish Mash'', he even sent one of his men to be executed after he tells Fearless Leader that Boris is the only available Pottsylvanian spy in Minnesota.

* [[Bad Is Good and Good Is Bad]]: Boris takes any insult as a compliment and can't stand anything nice. One time when he was out cold, Natasha did CPR while saying "Out goes the good air; In comes the bad".

* [[The Bad Guy Wins]]: {{spoiler|Boris and Natasha in "The Last Angry Moose" story get away with stealing Bullwinkle's savings without getting caught. It's not a total loss for Bullwinkle, though, since he gains alot of money from the success of his movie.}}

* [[Bat Deduction]]: In a "Mr. Peabody's Improbable History":

'''Mr. Peabody (Narrating):''' And that's where we found him: in a shady diner behind a [[Rouge Angles of Satin|bowel]] of pea soup. }}

* [[Big Bad]]: Though Mr. Big is the ruler of Pottsylvania, Fearless Leader is shown to be more in charge.

* [[Big Shadow, Little Creature]]: {{spoiler|Mr. Big was revealed to be this towards the end of ''Upsidaisium''.}}

* [[Big "Shut Up!"]]: Boris to Natasha whenever his latest fiendish plan fails.

* [[Funday Pawpet Show]]: The 2000 Bullwinkle figures [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irYLh32_ee0 made an appearence] on an early episode.

* [[Genius Ditz]]: Turns out Bullwinkle is ''really'' good at fencing (although he uses it to shish kebab). Good enough to not only be mistaken for one of [[The Three Musketeers (Literature)|The Three Musketeers]] (by one of the ''actual'' Musketeers), but even to take on a small mob of swordsmen by himself.

* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]:

** Somehow the censors missed a book in Gidney and Cloyd's bookshelf titled ''Sex on Planet 'X' ''.

'''Boris''': Who's little? }}

* [[Idiot Hero]]: Bullwinkle, of course. Although there are moments when he's [[Genre Savvy]].

** They were so many sometimes the character didn't want to do them:

{{quote| '''Bullwinkle:''' "Uh-oh! What are those things Rock? (points to a pair of [[Tank Goodness|tanks]])<br />

'''Bullwinkle:''' [[Lampshade Hanging|In about 364 other episodes. But I don't know who it is, either]]. }}

** And the one time Rocky actually knew where he heard that voice, the effects of the goof gas gets to him right before he could say Boris's name.

{{quote| '''Bullwinkle:''' Remember when we used to do this at the title, Rock?}}

* [[The Other Darrin]]: Keith Scott voiced the narrator, Bullwinkle and the cartoon versions of Boris and Fearless Leader in the movie.

* [[Puppet Shows]]: In one of the network runs the segments were introduced by a Bullwinkle puppet. The puppet suddenly disappeared shortly after Bullwinkle said "Say kids, you know [[Technology Marches On|that knob that changes the channel]] on your tv comes off? Why dont you pull it off right now! Then you'll be sure to be here next week! And the week after that! And the week after that! And the week....."

* [[Recruiting the Criminal]]: Rather than sending him to jail, Zero is sent to do a job where his skill at making [[Zorro Mark|zero marks]] is useful. What is this job? [[Take That|Scorekeeper for the New York Mets]].

** The 2000 CVS figure of Boris has deeply red eyes, ether the actual eye color or meant to be sunglasses.

* [[Red Scare]]: Boris is specifically called a "spy and no-goodnik"

{{quote| '''Karen Sympathy:''' Your jokes have gotten really corny.<br />

'''Bullwinkle:''' No they haven't, they were ''always'' this bad. When you were a kid you didn't notice. }}

** That scene was actually used to introduce the toon-killing computer weapon to be used against the moose and squirrel, in contrast to the [[Hollywood Acid|Dip]].

** A final shout out to the Roger Rabbit movie could be said of when the [[Terrible Trio]] were blasted by their own weapon [[Sealed Evil in A Can|into the Internet]], much like how the Roger Rabbit [[Big Bad]] perished due to his own weapon used against him.

* [[The Starscream]]: Boris has attempted a few times to stab Fearless Leader in the back. Considering they're spies, what else would you expect?

* [[Stern Chase]]

* [[Syndication Title]]: ''Bullwinkle's Moose-a-rama'' on Nickelodeon

** Also ''The Rocky Show'', a 15-minute edited series of episodes that aired in syndication starting in the 1960s.

* [[Taken for Granite]]: Gidney the moon man fits this trope as he has a [[Freeze Ray]] which can turn a person into a solid statue for unknown amounts of time.

* [[Time Passes Montage]]: Bullwinkle invokes one to shorten a long airplane flight (he forgot the sandwiches), but overshoots and grows a long white beard. His response was to put some of the leaves back on the calendar and turn himself back to normal.

* [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You]]: The Goof Gas story arc had Boris give the Narrator a whiff of the IQ dropping fumes in order to not let him tell where they were going.

{{quote| '''Boris''': You were saying?<br />