Date: April 24, 2007
Time: 22:33
Place: Welfare Island Swankadero
Bullwinkle was my favorite cartoon. From the standpoint of drawing arts, it was one step above Clutch Cargo, where they'd project human lips onto static cutouts, a technique Conan O'Brien has kept alive. Bullwinkle evolved from Crusader Rabbit, or more accurately Rocky the Flying squirrel evolved from the rabbit, but I'll leave that debate to the zoologists.
These cartoons were made in the late 50's and early 60's. They were preceded by and shared TV time the big studio cartoons of Warner Brothers and MGM. Warner Brothers produced the excellent Bugs, Daffy, Elmer, Taz, et al. MGM produced the consistently unfunny Tom & Jerry that somehow managed to endure for years, kind of like a full motion "Cathy". The animation was top notch and the background music actually employed two of the largest private orchestras in the country. When a Bullwinkle episode had any background music at all, it was a solo kazoo.
God, I loved those guys.
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