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DVD Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete First Season
Now here's something you don't see everyday, Chauncey. It's the complete first season of one of television's smartest, savviest, and most subversively funny animated series, ranked by TV Guide as one of the top 50 series of all time. Like the animators at Warner Bros.' Termite Terrace (birthplace of Porky, Daffy, and Bugs), producer Jay Ward, his partner Bill Scott (the voice of Bullwinkle), and the cracked writing staff did not write down to children. The dialogue is witty and sharply satiric. Characters break the "fourth wall" between the screen and the audience. They make sly references to the show's creators and the television network. They hurl barbs of mass destruction at Washington, D.C. politicians. And then there are the godawful puns. This four-disc set contains the series' first two serial adventures. "Jet Fuel Formula" is a cold war-era blast, as Rocky (voiced by June Foray, the Queen of Cartoons) and Bullwinkle frantically race to re-create a rocket fuel recipe (actually Grandma Bullwinkle's recipe for mooseberry fudge cake), while being menaced by those no-goodniks Boris Badenov and femme fatale Natasha. "Box Top Robbery" reveals that the basis for the world's economy is not gold and silver, but cereal box tops.
Linking these cliffhanging episodes are such hilarious segments as "Fractured Fairy Tales," which upend familiar storybook favorites (Red Riding Hood, for example, is a predatory fur merchant after the unwitting wolf), "Mr. Peabody," the canine genius who travels through time in the company of his boy, Sherman, and forthright Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties, who must contend with his own horse for the affections of sweet Nell. Bullwinkle gets extra credits as Mr. Know-It-All and as the host of Poetry Corner. And watch him pull a rabbit out of his hat! These cartoons are as fresh and funny as when they first aired more than four decades ago. Boomer-era adults will be amazed at the jokes that no doubt soared over their heads as children. --Donald Liebenson
Review(s): DVD Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete First Season
Same old Moose and Squirrel
I purchased this set as a gift for my husband. It's a great way to watch all of the old cartoons we both watched as children. We are second generation fans, and being so neither of us realized there is a story line to follow with each of the short skits. It's been wonderful watching them in the order they were made and understanding the whole story. Plus, the humor is even more interesting now that we are older and understand some of the political implications and satire we missed as kids. Two thumbs up.
This was an enjoyable purchase.
I do not have much to say other than this was a great purchase. I got this dvd set on a whim because I really liked the way the packaging looked. I was not that familiar with R&B but I knew enough. After watching all of the episodes I was amazed, this is a great show and I would recommend it for anyone! Plus the packaging is really nice :^) I have season two and plan to begin watching it as soon as I can. Buy this set if you love clever stories and dialogue with wonderfully bad animation. That sounds cheesy but this is fun cheese.
Social Satire At Its Best
I know...let's satirize the going ons in the world through a cartoon. That way, nobody will know what we're doing...we can have two characters, a moose named Bullwinkle and a squirrel named Rocky...Oh, yeah, it'll be great.
And it was great and it still is! This show was written on so many levels. It was not condescending to adults and it was a joy for children. I remember as a kid I used to hold my sides I laughed so much. Now as an adult I still hold my sides laughing but from all the things I didn't catch as a kid. I mean, the writers of this show literally huck one-liners at you from all over the place. You'll catch one and then another one comes right at you and then another and another...
The Rocky and Bullwinkle show satirized the going ons of America at the time; the Cold War, the Counter Culture Movement..."a lot of people think a Beatnik is just a bum who doesn't bathe. A beatnik is much more...but not by much...", and Politics. It was thinly disguised a child's cartoon, but attracted the young and the old alike. The Rocky and Bullwinkle show was hip, cool, and just downright crazy. You couldn't even get away with doing something like this today. You'd have good 'ol GW setting up surveillance cameras in your bathroom. I wouldn't say that the show was a threat, but it certainly did expose a lot more of how life was back then than any other show of the same period. Everything else was so sterile...so squeaky clean. I even think that the "rough animation" in was done in was a commentary on how everything that appeared so refined and polished was, at its core, in dissaray.
This show is just a brilliant work of art. It truly belongs in the "classic" category. There will never-ever be a show like this again. Nobody seems to have the guts. Everything is laminated. Everything is plastic. Everything is so contrived. So do yourself a favor, buy yourself a set of these DVDs and laugh like crazy before the powers that be try to make laughing illegal.
I'm not kidding...
Related DVD's Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete First Season
Set your WABAC machine for 1960, and the further misadventures of Rocket J. Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose, the most illustrious citizens of Frostbite Falls, MN (population: 48; and that's during the summer rush). This four-disc set contains seven full-length serials, several of which loom large in the Rocky & Bullwinkle canon, including "Upsidasium," "Metal Munching Mice," and "Greenpernt Oogle," with the rare, reclusive oogle bird (sorry, you'll have to wait until the release of season 3 for the Kirwood Derby).
Perhaps emboldened by what they were able to get away with in season 1, producer Jay Ward, writer and the voice of Bullwinkle Bill Scott, Queen of Cartoons June Foray, "and a host of others," gleefully further broke with television convention. Rocky &... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 31 August 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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How did they do it? How did Jay Ward and his crew create the perfect combination of self-conscious silliness, Cold War parody, bad puns, and iconic artwork?
And why has no one since been able to rise to that level of literate goofiness?
Bullwinkle's corner, Aesop and son, the fractured fairy tales, and Mr. Peabody's insane rewriting of history are still huge fun. Half the fun, though, is in knowing the original stories and seeing how they got twisted into these bits of amusement. Yes, I admit to nostaligic favoritism towards these relics of my childhood. Despite that, there really is a lot here for an adult willing to be amused.
Go ahead - be amused!
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I was very pleased with my purchase, a gift for my grandchildren, and found the speed with which I received my purchase as well as the condition of the purchase, excellent. The cartoons have brought a new generation much pleasure. More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 06 August 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Unlike Disney, which has it's penultimate character, Mickey, there really isn't one Hanna Barbera character that you can slap the company name on. You have so many popular shows and characters, everyone is surely to have their favorite. From Fred Flinstone, to George Jetson, Yogi, Huck, Top Cat, and Scooby Doo, there are just too many to put on top as the clear fan favorite.
One thing is for sure, one of the staple characters and my favorite is Yogi Bear and his beloved sidekick, Boo Boo. They are constantly getting in trouble with Ranger Smith, either for stealing picnic baskets, or trying to escape from Jellystone Park. Of course, many should be able to tell that the characterization of Yogi came from Ed Norton of the Honeymooners (while Fred Flinstone was Jackie... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: 15 November 2005
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Mr. Peabody is a TV talisman. I always walk away from these cartoons feeling magically transformed and energized.
In the realm of vintage cartoons made on minimal budgets, Jay Ward rules! Peabody & Sherman, along with Rocky & Bullwinkle, etc, were very much like sly, fast-talking radio plays staged by smartly stylized cartoon characters. This DVD also contains rare Bullwinkle puppet segments that were used in the early broadcasts. They too underline how WAY ahead of the curve Ward was in terms of getting sophisticated and sometimes subversive humor in under the radar.
By the way, Peabody's "boy" Sherman was voiced by a man in his 40's named Robert Tetley. Amazing. More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 31 May 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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