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Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends: Complete Season 5 [DVD]
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| Genre | Kids & Family, Animation |
| Format | NTSC, DVD |
| Contributor | Jay Ward, Bill Scott |
| Language | English |
| Number Of Discs | 4 |
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends introduced some of the most unforgettable characters in TV history! Premiering in 1959 from Jay Ward Productions, the original series features Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties, Aesop and Son, Fractured Fairy Tales, Peabody's Improbable History and more. Starring Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris, Natasha, Dudley Do-Right, Mr. Peabody and Sherman, Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends Complete Season 5 is hours of fun for the whole family!
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- Aspect Ratio : 1.33:1
- MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 4.8 ounces
- Media Format : NTSC, DVD
- Run time : 12 hours and 32 minutes
- Release date : April 24, 2018
- Producers : Jay Ward, Bill Scott
- Language : English (Dolby Digital 2.0)
- Studio : Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
- ASIN : B079PGX6JY
- Number of discs : 4
- Best Sellers Rank: #13,904 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #1,179 in Kids & Family DVDs
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As always, each of the 33 episodes included in this set features multiple features. But the opening and closing segments are always devoted to Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose. These two friends always find themselves in deadly situations no matter what they set out to do, usually at the hands of Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale. On these discs you'll find the following stories:
Bumbling Brothers Circus - Boris has trained a lion to kill Bullwinkle on command, only Bullwinkle seems to have a knack for lion taming by playing - the comb?
Mucho Loma-Much Mud - Rocky and Bullwinkle must stop the masked bandit Zero or face 99 years in a Mexican jail. (Boris and Natasha don't factor into this story).
Pottsylvania Creeper - Boris gives a desperate Bullwinkle a seed to enter in a flower show. Unfortunately, the plant seems to like to eat people. (Shades of Little Shop of Horrors anyone?)
Moosylvania - Bullwinkle gains trouble when he enters Boris' contest, "I like evil because." Of course, Bullwinkle thought it was "I like weevils because."
Ruby Yacht - Bullwinkle's toy boat is actually a good luck piece from a Middle Eastern country, and they will stop at nothing to get it back. (Again, Boris and Natasha sit this one out.)
Bull's Testimonial Dinner - Bullwinkle is going to be recognized at a formal dinner, so he tries to get his shirt cleaned in time - by sending it to China to the laundry that Boris is trying to use to smuggle a bomb out of the country.
The Weather Lady - Rocky and Bullwinkle's home town finally gets a reliable way to predict the weather - a fortune telling machine that plays four of a kind. Naturally, Boris thinks this is a great way to make money and steals it to use in poker games.
Louse on Ninety-Second Street - Bullwinkle becomes the only living person who can testify against a mobster who just happens to be Boris' hero.
Wossamotta U - Bullwinkle's arm wins him a football scholarship to college. Things are going well until Boris decides to fix something - a game.
Moosylvania Saved - Boris sets out to replenish the Pottsylvania treasury by sinking Moosylvania.
Since Boris and Natasha are obvious soviet spies, some of the references are a bit dated. However, the puns are still funny, and that's what I love about this series. They manage to turn just about anything into a pun, and every cliffhanger gives us two great puns based on what is happening. If you're a punny person, you'll absolutely love it.
And I have to give a shout out to Wossamotta U, probably my favorite storyline of the entire series. It's the earliest story I remember watching when I caught some rerun on TV. But what I love about it is that is foresaw political correctness by introducing a secondary character who corrects anyone who refers to The Civil War as anything but The War Between the States. Heck, you can't even talk about a civil discussion with him around.
The other segments in each episode are filled in with the usual suspects. There's a Fractured Fairy Tale or Aesop and Son, Bullwinkle's Corner or Mr. Know-It-All, and Dudley Do-Right or Peabody's Improbable History. Some of these segments seemed familiar to me, and I found confirmation on-line. The only things new in season five of the show were the Rocky and Bullwinkle stories. Everything else had aired in previous seasons. While disappointing, at least the discs aren't missing new material. Honestly, I didn't remember most of them, so I still got to laugh at the antics.
The animation is fitting for TV of the 50's and 60's. It's enough to get the job done, but it's not outstanding by today's standards. When I sit down to watch, it's not long before I am lost in the puns and not even noticing the animation quality.
All 33 episodes are here on 4 discs. The final disc has some outtakes from the voice recording of "Goof Gas Attack," one of the stories from the last season. That's all you get in the way of extras, and its not that great.
But the episodes themselves are still fun all these years later. If you love groaning at puns, you need to check out Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends. Season 5, just like any season of the show, will have you laughing before you know what hit you.
And then...(trumpets please) There is the MOTHER of Moosism, WOSSOMATTA U. This is perhaps the most imaginative, pun filled, and utterly ridiculous episodes in cartoon history. You will laugh yourself SICK from this foolishness about a school so desperate for a winning football team that it fires its English dept. and hires the brainless Bullwinkle to play. This story has so many wild, insane, and outrageous twists and turns that you will not believe your eyes and ears! The lynch mob scene at the end (as is the case for the ending of the final MOOSYLVANIA episode-more on that in a minute) will get the politically correct Barneyfied New Zoo Revue Free to be You and Me tiptoe through the tulips crowd (who destroyed children's television in the 70s and 80s with their sickening pap) panties in a twist, but if you want Mr. Rogers, you're in the wrong neighborhood here!
The final episode, MOOSYLVANIA, for some reason stands out in my childhood memories, but watching this again nearly 4 decades later makes it even more foolish than I remember. Here, our heroes go to MOOSYLVANIA, perhaps the worst vacation spot on earth, in order to appreciate their existance in Frosbite Falls. This leads to some off the wall encounters with Boris, Natasha, and the Fearless Leader (what he does to Boris near the end of this grand finale is truly shocking, but I didn't find it offensive and most children have seen this kind of thing on teleivision before). However, Moose and Squirrell's final words to the camera indeed leaves an odd aftertaste, as does the final Dudley Do-Right. Also, the frog (who "wants to be a people") in one of the last Fractured Fairy tales bears an uncanny resemblance to Bullwinkle's Saturday morning successor HOPPITTY HOOPER, that would debut that fall.
Incidentally, nitpickers will note that the opening and closing themes are not those of the dancing Bullwinkle and exploding lightbulbs of 1964. Instead, we have the original 1959-60 openings with slightly altered theme music. Also altered in the opening parade scene is where Bullwinkle explains he is writing to their sponsor (then General Mills cereals, followed by a commercial of R&B touting the varying brands of kiddie breakfasts). This explains the obviously altered dialogue during the parade and the fade out (where the cereal commericals were cut) that resumes where Boris misleads them into the tunnel. A minor issue since the rest of this is so much FUN FUN FUN!
Okay, now if the Jay Ward menagerie would release the HOPPITY HOOPER series on DVD, I'd REALLY be a happy camper.
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the horrifically terrible puns and the ooutrageous satires taht were constant throughout. a true gem for college students and old children from the 60's..
Join Peabody and Sherman in the Wayback machine and revisit the dawn of children's programming that was directed to adults with childish minds.... The formula of a serial cartoon kept you coming back each week for the conclusion to the story and enjoying the antics along the way with all the other treats thrown in just for kicks..always entertaining.
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