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Then, after some
wrangling for possession of it, Rocky and Bullwinkle decide to take the hat to Washington so that the government can avail itself of the hat’s powers.
Unfortunately, they still can’t afford transportation, so Rocky quickly gets himself elected to Congress to represent Peaceful Valley by promising the Floys he will expel all Hatfuls from the county and promising the Hatfuls he will expel all Floys. Rocky and Bullwinkle are thus sent to Washington at public expense—with Fearless Leader and Boris and Natasha in hot pursuit. In Washington, the moose and squirrel encounter their old friends, the moon men Gidney and Cloyd, who are also seeking the derby, which turns out to have been created by a wizard on the moon in an effort to smarten up an incredibly stupid prince so that he could rule the moon more wisely.
(The hat was loaned to Gidney and Cloyd to aid them in their first trip to earth, but they accidentally left it behind when they returned home.) In the end, the hat is returned to Gidney and Cloyd, who take it back to the moon, once again foiling Fearless Leader’s quest for world domination.
The naming of the Kirward Derby was typical of the show’s lighthearted play with American popular culture. It was obviously a warped version
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of the name of Durward Kirby, at the time a fairly well-known television personality (among other things, he was co-hosting the Candid Camera program at the time). But the name was clearly used in fun and did not seem intended as any particular commentary on Kirby, though the latter actually threatened a lawsuit over the name. The suit, however, was dropped after Jay Ward responded, “Please sue us; we love publicity.” This episode and many other details regarding the background of the program are detailed in the excellent book The Moose that Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose (published by St. Martin’s Press in 2000) by Keith Scott, himself a talented voice artist who worked on the 2000 theatrical film based on the series.
Fearless Leader is a particularly interesting villain. Though he is the boss of the spectacularly Russian Boris and Natasha, he himself is clearly depicted as a leftover German Nazi military officer. From the point of view of the early twentieth century, this depiction reminds us of how recent World War II still was when the series was originally made. But it also serves as a central reminder of one of the major strategies of American Cold War propaganda, which consistently attempted to equate German and Soviet “totalitarianism” (with a special attempt in the early Cold War years to equate Josef Stalin with Adolf Hitler). This strategy took advantage of ongoing anti-Nazi feelings on the part of Americans who still remembered World War II and the associated shocking revelations concerning the Nazi death camps such as those at Auschwitz and Dachau. On the other hand, it made no
sense and ignored the fact that the Americans and Soviets had been allies against the Germans in the recent world war—and that it was, in fact, the Soviet Red Army that was principally responsible for the German defeat.
One could, of course, read the lumping together of German Nazi military officers with stereotypical Russian spies in Rocky and Bullwinkle as a critique of this Cold War strategy, but there is little in the program itself to indicate that this critique was actually intended. On the other hand, the inclusion of Fearless Leader among the show’s villains does contribute to the show’s satirical suggestion (however mild) of the American tendency to demonize enemies and to view them in stereotypical ways, lumping them all together without regard to their actual characteristics. The treatment of Rocky’s congressional campaign and his subsequent debut in Congress (where
he becomes a great hit with his colleagues by accidentally beginning his maiden speech by calling for Congress to adjourn) is also mildly satirical in its treatment of the American political process, but such critiques in Rocky and Bullwinkle are always good humored, couched in such silliness that they are unlikely to offend or inspire anyone.
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Still, the very presence of such material indicates the extent to which the show was aimed at an audience that was expected to include at least a reasonable number of adults. The same might be said for the show’s consistent consciousness of its status as a fictional artifact, which anticipated the rise of postmodern “metafiction” later in the 1960s. The show’s ability to appeal to viewers of a variety of ages no doubt accounts for the ongoing popularity of the series, which has remained a presence on American television in the decades since it was originally canceled in 1964. Reruns aired as part of the regular ABC Saturday-morning lineup until 1973, then in syndication.
Occasional continuing appearances in television commercials helped to keep the moose and squirrel in the public consciousness as well.
Rocky and Bullwinkle inspired a series of live-action films, beginning in 1992 with the made-for-TV film Boris and Natasha
(directed by Charles