talked to a 60-year-old son fan today who does like. leather working to bring to cons. she mad a sam choker (collar who said that) that featured a moose charm (only crowley calls him that it's a rocky & bullwinke reference) and a pi symbol bc she diagnosed him as polyamorous I guess?
OKAY so I assume this is in context of the "shows that repeat themself" both asking what rocky & bullwinke is, and/or how it applies to the prompt
The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, or rocky and bullwinkle is a old tv show from the late 1950 early 1960s that I watched when I was younger. Its a variety show with some clips and short animated skits that mainly focuses on rocky, a flying squirrel, and bullwinkle, a moose guy. I haven't watched it in a while but I do remember enjoying the show! The mr. peabody and sherman franchise (for lack of a better term) originated as a little skit from the show so yeah.
How it applies to the "shows that repeat" itself is both more and less complicated than my previous answer. There's a short scene thing that was about the story of rapunzel (with the pregnant woman wanting the radish and giving up her kid to her and such) that stuck with me soooo much because the story repeats itself, with rapunzel and the prince marrying each other and rapunzel wanting radishes from a nearby witch's garden and that's why i tagged it as such. Here's a link to the clip!
I wish I had branched into drawing funny as a balance to illustration style draftsmanship. I look at this great Jay Ward airplane and can’t imagine drawing something just like it. Everything that is wrong is funny. Wheels for a wagon, landing gear doors that look like paper scraps, engines, one on top, one on the bottom, multi paned cockpit canopy, random rivet detail, wonky perspective. It’s perfect.
WARNING: Eh, I got nothing. Thank you, take care out there, enjoy.
A Show aWarded With Time or Reboot Me a Size 10
Ah, I used to love watching Rock and Bullwink late at 3 AM while everyone’s sleeping, and it’s nice to know that while people are talking about how shows ruined their childhoods, this reboot of the 1960s duo has some pretty investing merit. Or does it? “As Royal ponders about how this revival doesn’t hold as much water as the original series--” HEY, it does hold up...to a degree. Unfortunately, it does suffer from the old “style over substance” routine in a unique yet still detrimental way.
Now don’t get me wrong, cuz I can’t turn right
This isn’t like Teen Titans GO! as much, because it plays out exactly like a typical Rock and Bullwink episode with moose and squirrel having adventure while somehow beating Boris and Natasha at every turn, almost unknowingly. The characters all sound great and the look of it is a well updated style of the original, with expressions and choppy animations galore. But the look of it is one thing, how it plays out is another, because it is more cartoony than the original series. Looking back, the original Rocky and Bullwinkle had writing and jokes more for adults while the narrated adventures were for the kids. Even in its corniness, to quote the NC, it cared little about the scenario they were in if the right kind of comedy was used. The appeal was more verbal than action-oriented, and it worked to keep the influence of the Cold war from scaring people, and it works to this day as the more down to earth show in a world full of slapstick madness. Heck the movie, as tacky as that was, had the more deadpan charm and more adult written humor of the original series.
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Especially with the punbelievable account of dad jokes it had
But this has more of a zany nature to it. Rock is more on the same page as Bullwink in oblivious naivety than in the original when he was the cynical voice of reason while Bullwinkle was more the dimwit. It’s more slapstickily and fast paced. The puns are scarce. It is more akin to the likes of Animaniacs, Tiny Toons, The New Looney Tunes, Teen Titans GO, Ren & Stimpy, Freakazoid, Fairly Odd Parents, and others. It’s a cartoon; but not so much a Rocky/Bullwinkle cartoon. You see the new Ducktales and it’s like the original in some way. Same with the Ben 10 and Teen Titans Reboot, while changing quite a bit to its own, it at least utilized what the original material had and played off that. Here though, it feels like it sacrificed the original’s unique dry identity and comedy to be like every other cartoon.... with Rocky and Bullwinkle in them. It’s one thing to take an original identity and make it trashy, but it’s another to strip away the identity to generally bandwagon along the other cartoons. Rocky and Bullwinkle and shows like it wasn’t just about the characters, it was about the snappy writing. And when you strip away the writing, what does it have to show for itself beyond saying “Hey look, they’re back” and move on when it moves on, essentially making it more forgettable and obsolete than intended. Doesn’t help when Rock and Bullwink are all you have for what was originally a variety show.
No Dudley. No Aesop. No Peabody. No Tux. No real show.
All in all, I can say this cartoon is still worth your time, especially if you have some to kill. It’s like Itchy and Scratchy now except not as gruesome...so like Animaniacs then. Like I said, everything looks great, certainly sounds great with the spot on voices, and the dynamic animation makes for a faithful yet fine updated version of the old show. But for me, it’s a reboot that’ll fall to the wayside like plenty others, that is if it doesn’t change its melody. It’s not bad, just easily irreverent. But like Wabbit with the New Looney Tunes, it could take some time before they realize they have so much more to work with.
And that’s a bit of hope I’ll certainly keep in mind.
If you can’t say something nice...if you can’t say something nice...if you can’t say something nice...
Amazon Kids’ The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle might be fine. Not sold yet, but maybe? I just don’t know who this is for because it doesn’t really seem to be for kids but it doesn’t feel like it’ll capture the hearts of Rocky and Bullwinke fans either.