Still time to vote--Daria on a roll!

As of 7:40 pm Wednesday, with 4016 votes counted, "Daria" continues to lead "Rocky & Bullwinkle" by a 60-39% margin. The address again:

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Jeg7777 of writes:

I don't even know who Rocky & Bullwinkle are.

Shez wrote:

Me neither. Someone explain, please!

Alli

endless, nameless wrote in message ...

Too bad. This has become cultural knowledge here in in the U.S.

Rocky & Bullwinkle was produced by Jay Ward in the early 1960's and ran for several years on network TV. It featured a brainless moose who walked upright and his tiny flying squirrel friend who he help launch by throwing him. They made their home in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota but their adventures took them almost everywhere. Some of the villains they did battle with included bad-guy spies Boris and Natasha, who were probably loosely modeled after the soviet spy stereotype of the period and their boss, Fearless Leader, a nazi-like stereotype.

The show was pretty good satire of various national issues of the day, along with some silly wordplay and gags. Examples: In one episode Bullwinkle gets tapped to play football (that's AMERICAN football for you people who might not make the connection) for a school named "Wassamatta U." (Get it?) Another word gag involved the search for a jewel-encrusted boat called the "Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam." (Get that one?) And another gag involved a large hat called the "Kerwood Derby." Turns out there was a TV personality at the time named Durwood Kirby [SP?] who was upset about that little bit of wordplay and threatened to sue. Never heard what happened to that case.

Some other cartoons included in each show included the adventures of "Dudley Do-right of the Mounties." You may remember that tie-in from the Daria Episode "Pinch Sitter" in which Helen tells Quinn she wants her to meet with her planning consultant. "Doris Do-right?", Quinn says. Like I said, cultural knowledge.

Mr. Peabody's Improbable History was a cartoon that was included that featured Mr. Peabody, an highly-intelligent dog (you could tell he was intelligent because he wore glasses) and his helpful assistant Sherman, a young boy. They traveled through time, with the help of the device called "The Wayback Machine," and helped various historical figures solve the problems which had made them famous. Each episode always included Mr. Peabody offering some terrible pun about the story just presented. Cultural knowlege again: I once read a magazine columnist mention the "Wayback Machine" in referring to a historical event. If you hadn't seen the Bullwinkle show you wouldn't know what in the hell he was talking about.

Fractured Fairytales were parodies of popular fairytales and folktales. There were always a lot of tie-ins with modern events plus some occasional satire. Daria's & Jane's revision of Cinderella in "Pinch Sitter" was probably somewhat derivative of this cartoon. One of my own favorites was the story of the King who told the truth. In this story, the King broke a butcher's shop window with his golf ball and promised to pay for it. The next day the King came to the shopkeeper and announed it was time to pay the Wienie tax. "I just paid that yesterday," the shopkeeper protested. "It's time again," replied the king. The shopkeeper paid the tax and the King returned the money with, "Here's the money for the window I broke." What a PERFECT satire of modern socialist governments that think you won't notice that they're taking money away from you only to hand it back as some kind of largesse.

Really a good show. Classic. It kind of hurt to have to vote against it in favor of Daria. However, life goes on. You have to move on with it.

Bullwinkle is now available on video tape. I don't know if it's available everywhere on every kind of video format though.

Bob

R. K. Henry wrote:

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Yes, and it was probably the first satirical animated cartoon for TV, and one that both kids and adults get enjoyment out of, but on different levels. Very groundbreaking, that.

Hey, anyone remember the one where Rocky gets captured by cannibals, but they couldn't eat Rocky, because [for real] the network censors disapproved of cannibalism on a kid's show. So, they tied him to a stake and lit wood underneath him, accompanied by the narrator saying, "As the network-approved flames flickered away..." Now *that's* satire! (Oh, and William Conrad was the narrator, and living legend June Foray was the voice of Rocky)

Is it true that Dudley Do-Right is cut out of the versions shown in Canada? What is the rule? "Can-con, but only by Canadian standards"? I imagine they get kinda uppity about their cultural institutions (i.e.: the RCMP) being ridiculed.

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How about the "Sleeping Beauty" parody in which the prince (who was obviously made to look like Walt Disney), instead of waking the princess, realizes he can make a lot of money by transforming her castle into "Sleeping Beautyland", and charging people admission to see her.

MIKE (a.k.a. "Progbear")

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I remember watching this as a kid on BBC2, but then, it was the early '80s, so no wonder some of us from the UK don't know of it. Having said that, they did show some on the Paramount channel several months back. Then again, that was cable, so you probably still haven't seen it... ,:}

Cable TV's great, I pay good money not to watch 30-something channels...

[email] wrote:

I would have been in Greece around that time, so I wouldn'thave seen it, even if I could have remembered seeing it. I do remember watching the Smurfs when I was about two, it was in Russian or Chzech or something, and they'd put subtitles on, which was pretty stupid because the vast majority of people watching the Smurfs are going to be too young to read anyway.

Now, I've got cable, but I don't think I've got Paramount.Damn.

Alli