The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show

The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is the collective name for two separate American television animated series (Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show) that originally aired from 1959 to 1964. Rocky & Bullwinkle enjoyed great popularity during the 1960s, and is still found in reruns in the United States.

Supporting segments

The "Rocky & Bullwinkle" shorts served as "bookends" for several other popular segments, including:

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• Dudley Do-Right, a parody of early 20th century melodrama and silent film. Dudley Do-Right was a Canadian Mountie who was always trying to catch his nemesis, Snidely Whiplash. Do-Right was so interested in himself that he scarcely noticed the flirtatious advances of his would-be love interest, Nell Fenwick, towards his horse, thinking she was flirting with him.
• Peabody's Improbable History featured a talking dog genius named Mr. Peabody who had a pet boy named Sherman; Sherman and Peabody used Peabody's "WABAC machine" (pronounced "way-back") to go back in time to discover the real story behind historical events. The WABAC machine inspired the naming of the Wayback Machine, a web site that allows visitors to browse an archive of historically significant websites.
• Fractured Fairy Tales, presenting familiar fairy tales and children's stories with the storyline humorously changed.
• Aesop & Son, similar to the above, except dealing with fables instead of fairy tales. The usual framing portion consisted of Aesop attempting to teach a lesson to his son using a fable; after the story his son subverts its moral with a pun.
• Bullwinkle's Corner, presenting Bullwinkle reading a poem or nursery rhyme that he inadvertently and humourously distorts. Poems subjected to this treatment include several by R. L. Stevenson ("My Shadow", "The Swing" and "Where Go the Boats"), "Little Miss Muffet", "Little Jack Horner", "Wee Willie Winkie", and J. G. Whittier's "Barbara Frietchie", and "The Queen of Hearts" by Charles Lamb.
• Mr. Know-It-All, presenting Bullwinkle trying to give practical advice on something only to have it go disastrously wrong.

Some segments were introduced by Rocky. In one common introduction, Rocky would be interrupted by Bullwinkle's cry of "Hey, Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat." Undaunted by Rocky's response ("Again?"), Bullwinkle then pulls out something preposterous, such as the head of a rhinoceros.

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