Hello, Bullwinkle Fans!

[BurtWorm]

Here's a fascinating Web site about the voices behind the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. I learned some things: Sherman was voiced by a grown man. The voice beind Quisp and Cap'n Crunch was also the voice behind Huckleberry Hound and Jinx the Cat (among many, many others in Jay Ward and Hanna and Barbera cartoons).

http://www.io.com/~jgjones/tetley/contents.php3


And here's another Web site you'll like:

http://bullwinkle.toonzone.net/

[Birthmark]

1. The narrator on "Rocky and Bullwinkle" once said...

..."Avalanche is better than none." I still haven't recovered.

[Richardo]

4. My favorite R&B line EVER:

Bullwinkle to a wealthy but dim industrialist: "For a powerful magnate you sure don't pick up things very fast."

Sounds like a meme we can use....after seeing Cheney (seemingly) all weekend.

[CO Liberal]

7. WIlliam Conrad Was The Narrator

He Later Played "Cannon" and the Fatman in "Jake and the Fatman".

[LosinIt]

2. Ever notice how much Novak looks like Boris Badenov?????

Compare this:

http://bullwinkle.toonzone.net/boris.htm

to this:

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/anchors_reporters/novak.robert.html

Coincidence, I think not.

[trogdor]

10. And Ann Coulter is just Natasha Fatale with a bleach job.

[BurtWorm]

11. No! I can't abide that!

I always had a crush on Natasha Fatale.

[mac56]

3. Sherman was voiced by Walter Tetley -

a movie and radio actor popular in the 1940s. His voice never got any deeper than that, I'm told.

Daws Butler was the voice for those cereal commercials and about a gazillion other cartoon characters. He worked extensively for Hanna-Barbera (Yogi, Huckleberry, Snagglepuss, Quick Draw, and on and on). Both Daws and Walter worked with the great Stan Freberg as well.

Great site, by the way.

[SiouxJ]

5. I once chatted with Jay Ward's wife

She was working in the little shop they had in Los Angeles. It was about a year after he died. The store had animation cells (which I collect) and other memorabilia. It was really nice getting to talk to her. I guess the place is a dog grooming business now, but the statue of R&B is still there.

Oh, I named my dog after Rocky (only because Bullwinkle was too awkward :-) )

http://anp.awn.com/latour-5.html

:hi:

[Richardo]

6. Awww - the "Emporium" was always one of my favorite stores

..when I lived in LA. :-( (I wonder if I still have my "Super Chicken" T-shirt?)

[SiouxJ]

8. That was it!

I was drawing a blank on the name. Thanks! I drove up there from San Diego. It was sort of a pilgrimage. :-)


BTW - I love your sig line :yourock:

[Richardo]

9. "Hey Rocky! Watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat!"

"But that trick NEVER works."

"This time for sure!"



I have all kinds of obscure knowledge taking up synapses in my brain. :-)

[CanuckAmok]

12. Statehood for Moosylvania!

Jay Ward ran a continuing campaign to gain statehood for Moosylvania. He collected thousands of signatures, via a touring Moosemobile, with a glued-on Bullwinkle nose and antlers.

He pulled up at JFK's whitehouse, photographer in tow, to present the good-natured (and R&BW fan) President with the Moosylvania petition.

He was basically jumped by WH guards and the Secret Service, was searched, and spitited away from the White House under threat of arrest.

His gag backfired because he happened to arive at the White House the day the Cuban Missile Crisis began, and Washington was on high alert!