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Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete First Season
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Manufacturer: Classic Media
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Theatrical Release: December 31, 1969
Average Rating: 5 out of 5 Stars
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Starring: Hans Conried, Walter Tetley, Charles Spidar
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
User Submitted Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends - The Complete First Season Reviews
September 1, 2008
Rocky and Bullwinkle DVDs
Great Rocky and Bullwinkle memories. Extremely happy with this purchase in every way! Hope Moose and Squirrel seasons 4 and 5 will be made available soon.
July 8, 2008
Just as I remember!
Love it! It's just the way I remember and my kids love it too!
April 15, 2008
"BOOO!!! The Original Music Is Missing!"
I remember "R&B" when I was little and one of most striking things about it was hearing that zany theme. So imagine my enthusisam when I received the "Season One" DVD set as a gift. Then imagine my disappointment when descovering that the original music was replaced by OTHER music! I never played my "R&B" DVD again after that. Without the zany orignial music--"Hokey Smokes"it's not Rocky & Bullwinkle!!
February 15, 2008
Can't beat the old cartoons
I enjoyed Rocky and Bullwinkle so much as a kid but they aren't on tv any more. They just don't make em like they used to.
January 26, 2008
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Great reminder of childhood television; a little more repititious than as I recall as a kid...but still fun...
December 28, 2007
Rocky and Bullwinkle full of redundant clips
I love Rocky and Bullwinkle. But this package containes every minute of every broadcast. This means that you have to sit through the same opening, middle and ending credits clip each time you watch a broadcast. Get ready to use the fast forward button.
November 29, 2007
Great Box Set
If you like Jay Wards style, this is for you. If you don't, what do you like? This set contains a few full runs of Rocky and Bullwinkle stories interspersed with Fractured Fairy Tales, Sherman and Peabody, Aesop's Fables and Dudley Dooright. How can you go wrong? It holds up to time.
November 23, 2007
STOP MESSING WITH THE BACKGROUND MUSIC!!!
I just love Bullwinkle, and the treasures on this disc would easily merit five stars, if it wasn't for the producers' tampering with the cartoons themselves. Nearly all of the original background music in the cartoons themselves have been replaced with unauthentic, unspectacular & intrusive canned music. Worse, some short scenes have had music added where none existed before.
I cannot understand why they would have done this, except maybe the producers couldn't guarantee that they had all of the proper clearances to avoid a possible lawsuit with some music writer. That would be understandable, except for when they tampered with scenes that called for trumpets or bugles, which lasted 2 or 3 seconds. Do they really think someone will file a lawsuit over a 3-second bugle call?!
If they do a volume 4 and they have to remove the music, please don't bother finding replacement music. Just leave the vocals and I'll understand.
November 1, 2007
As Fun and Clever As EVer
No use in going on and on about the details of this season collection. The show is the funniest, most cleverly written and produced animated series TV has ever seen. The jokes hold up just as well today as they did originally, even the very obscure reference jokes -- e.g., Bullwinkle is saved at the last minute from being thrown into a pit of snakes; he rushes back to the pit to call out, "Goodbye, Olivia!" -- Olivia DeHavilland (sp?) won an Academy Award for best actress for her role as an inmate in an asylum in "The Snake Pit." Sick, corny humor abounds herein. What more could you ask for? I am begging for the Complete Season 4! Where is it! We must have all five or six (depending on how they squeeze 'em or not) complete seasons!!!
September 19, 2007
What can I say?
It's that loveable Moose and Squirrel!! All the favs are here - Peabody, Fractured Fairy tales, Bullwinkle reading poetry!!
Me and my kids have enjoyed this one!!
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