The Bullwinkle Show
ParodyA sustained send-up of other genres or works.This show: 8/10SatiricalComedy sharpened into social and political critique.This show: 8/10AbsurdistSurreal, logic-bending comedy.This show: 8/10Family-safeNothing to worry about with anyone in the room.This show: 8/10EpisodicSelf-contained episodes you can watch in almost any order.This show: 8/10Dry humorDeadpan, understated wit.This show: 7/10Kids & familyGenuinely watchable for and with children.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Bill ScottJune ForayPaul FreesEdward Everett HortonWilliam ConradWalter Tetley
Written by
Bill ScottJay Ward
Starring
Bill ScottJune ForayPaul FreesEdward Everett HortonWilliam ConradWalter Tetley
Written by
Bill ScottJay Ward
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The Bullwinkle Show Episode Ratings Heatmap
| Avg | E1 | E2 | E3 | E4 | E5 | E6 | E7 | E8 | E9 | E10 | E11 | E12 | E13 | E14 | E15 | E16 | E17 | E18 | E19 | E20 | E21 | E22 | E23 | E24 | E25 | E26 | E27 | E28 | E29 | E30 | E31 | E32 | E33 | E34 | E35 | E36 | E37 | E38 | E39 | E40 | E41 | E42 | E43 | E44 | E45 | E46 | E47 | E48 | E49 | E50 | E51 | E52 | ||
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| S1 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 8.1 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 8.1 | 8.1 | 8.3 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S2 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.3 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.2 | 8.4 | 8.4 | 8.8 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 7.6 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.8 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.7 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 8.2 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | |
| S3 | 8.0 | 8.0 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 7.8 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.9 | 8.1 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 7.9 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.0 | 8.1 | 8.5 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.2 | 8.1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| S4 | 7.4 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.5 | 6.9 | 7.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| S5 | 7.7 | 7.4 | 7.8 | 7.6 | 7.6 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 7.5 | 7.5 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 7.8 | 7.8 | 7.4 | 7.2 | 7.8 | 7.3 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 6.8 | 7.1 | 7.6 | 7.7 | 7.9 | 8.0 | 8.4 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 7.9 | 8.2 | 8.7 |
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About
"Cardboard animation hiding razor-sharp satire"
A moose and a flying squirrel from Frostbite Falls stumble through globe-trotting spy plots, foiling two bumbling Cold War villains, while side segments spoof fairy tales, history, and Mountie melodrama. The animation is cheap and jerky, but the scripts are dense with puns, political jabs, and fourth-wall winks clearly aimed over kids' heads at their parents. It moves fast, rewards close listening, and feels more like a radio comedy with pictures than typical Saturday morning fare. Sixty years on, the jokes land more often than the visuals do.
Watch it for
the rapid-fire wordplay and satire that still outsmarts most modern cartoons.
Maybe skip if
you need polished animation, since the visuals are famously threadbare.
Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.
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Season 11959
7.92K2612h 5m
Jet Fuel Formula is the first and the longest Rocky and Bullwinkle story arc and is the pilot of The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends. (Jet Fuel Formula covers forty episodes while the average story arc includes approximately sixteen.) It is also noteworthy in that it established most of the characters, themes, running gags, and other elements that would be employed in later stories and that would become so closely identified with the Rocky and Bullwinkle programs in the years since. The first few episodes contained a laugh track, which was removed when the episodes were released as part of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends Complete Season 1.
In spite of the title, the story actually concerns the pursuit of a formula for rocket fuel.
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Season 21960
7.92K5219h 36m
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Season 31961
8.0986336h 16m
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Season 41962
7.4552192h 58m
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Season 51962
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Full Cast & Crew
Cast
Bill Scott Bullwinkle J. Moose, Additional Voices, Mr. Peabody
June Foray Additional Voices, Rocket J. Squirrel, Natasha Fatale
Paul Frees Additional Voices, Boris Badenov, Inspector Fenwick
Edward Everett Horton Fractured Fairy Tales Narrator
William Conrad Narrator, Dudley Do-Right Narrator, Three-Finger
Walter Tetley Sherman, Girl, Joey Tell
Daws Butler Various Fairy Tale Characters, Junior, Various Fable Characters
Hans Conried Snidely Whiplash, Snidley Whiplash, Red Wood
Charles Spidar Various
Charles Ruggles Aesop
Crew
Jay Ward
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