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* ImmuneToMindControl: Bullwinkle can't be hypnotized because he's just to dumb to fall for it. At least, that's what the narrator says.
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* ImmuneToMindControl: Bullwinkle can't be hypnotized because he's just to dumb to fall for it.so thick-headed that he doesn't register the hypnotic effect. At least, that's what the narrator says.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Subverted:
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Subverted:[[BaitAndSwitchComment Subverted]]:
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* ListOfTransgressions{=/=}TheLongList: Karen, Rocky and Bullwinkle are charged with one count of grand theft auto, one count of breaking out of jail, one count of impugning the character of a prison guard, four counts of reckless driving, [[BreakingTheFourthWall five counts of talking to the audience]] and eighteen counts of bad puns.
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* ListOfTransgressions{=/=}TheLongList: ListOfTransgressions / TheLongList: Karen, Rocky and Bullwinkle are charged with one count of grand theft auto, one count of breaking out of jail, one count of impugning the character of a prison guard, four counts of reckless driving, [[BreakingTheFourthWall five counts of talking to the audience]] and eighteen counts of bad puns.
** Later on, the farmer, who gives the trio a plane to get to New York, hadn't told them that it won't hold all of them.
-->'''Farmer:''' Oh, God. Oh, '''crap!'''
-->'''Farmer:''' Oh, God. Oh, '''crap!'''
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** The TropeNamer is briefly referenced.
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** The TropeNamer [[{{TropeNamer}} trope namer]] is briefly referenced.
* SelfDeprecation: All over the place.
** This example, that also crosses with MediumAwareness:
--->'''Narrator:''' Even their wordplay had become hackneyed and cheap.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like this.
** Later:
--->'''Karen:''' Your jokes have gotten really corny.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No they haven't, they were ''always'' that bad. When you were a kid, you didn't notice.
** Then:
--->'''Narrator:''' Then, RBTV was changed from Really Bad TV to Rocky and Bullwinkle TV!\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' What's the difference?
** While preparing to abseil down the Green Lighthouse:
--->'''Karen''': Bullwinkle, can you rappel?\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Sure! I've been [[{{Malaproper}} repelling]] viewers for years!\\
'''Karen''': Never mind.
** Earlier, after Minnie Mogul signs the contract from Fearless Leader, giving her all rights to the Rocky and Bullwinkle franchise, the studio CEO, P.G. Biggershot, rejects her pitch for the movie simply because:
---> '''Biggershot''': I don't like “moose pictures”!
** This example, that also crosses with MediumAwareness:
--->'''Narrator:''' Even their wordplay had become hackneyed and cheap.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like this.
** Later:
--->'''Karen:''' Your jokes have gotten really corny.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No they haven't, they were ''always'' that bad. When you were a kid, you didn't notice.
** Then:
--->'''Narrator:''' Then, RBTV was changed from Really Bad TV to Rocky and Bullwinkle TV!\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' What's the difference?
** While preparing to abseil down the Green Lighthouse:
--->'''Karen''': Bullwinkle, can you rappel?\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Sure! I've been [[{{Malaproper}} repelling]] viewers for years!\\
'''Karen''': Never mind.
** Earlier, after Minnie Mogul signs the contract from Fearless Leader, giving her all rights to the Rocky and Bullwinkle franchise, the studio CEO, P.G. Biggershot, rejects her pitch for the movie simply because:
---> '''Biggershot''': I don't like “moose pictures”!
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-->'''Bullwinkle''': This movie's gettin' kind of-\\
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-->'''Bullwinkle''': This movie's gettin' kind of-\\of...\\
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'''Bullwinkle''': Two-dimensional.
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* TakeThatUs: All over the place.
** This example, that also crosses with MediumAwareness:
--->'''Narrator:''' Even their wordplay had become hackneyed and cheap.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like this.
** Later:
--->'''Karen:''' Your jokes have gotten really corny.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No they haven't, they were ''always'' that bad. When you were a kid, you didn't notice.
** Then:
--->'''Narrator:''' Then, RBTV was changed from Really Bad TV to Rocky and Bullwinkle TV!\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' What's the difference?
** While preparing to abseil down the Green Lighthouse:
--->'''Karen''': Bullwinkle, can you rappel?\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Sure! I've been repelling viewers for years!\\
'''Karen''': Never mind.
** Earlier, after Minnie Mogul signs the contract from Fearless Leader, giving her all rights to the Rocky and Bullwinkle franchise, the studio CEO, P.G. Biggershot, rejects her pitch for the movie simply because:
---> '''Biggershot''': I don't like “moose pictures”!
** This example, that also crosses with MediumAwareness:
--->'''Narrator:''' Even their wordplay had become hackneyed and cheap.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like this.
** Later:
--->'''Karen:''' Your jokes have gotten really corny.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No they haven't, they were ''always'' that bad. When you were a kid, you didn't notice.
** Then:
--->'''Narrator:''' Then, RBTV was changed from Really Bad TV to Rocky and Bullwinkle TV!\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' What's the difference?
** While preparing to abseil down the Green Lighthouse:
--->'''Karen''': Bullwinkle, can you rappel?\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Sure! I've been repelling viewers for years!\\
'''Karen''': Never mind.
** Earlier, after Minnie Mogul signs the contract from Fearless Leader, giving her all rights to the Rocky and Bullwinkle franchise, the studio CEO, P.G. Biggershot, rejects her pitch for the movie simply because:
---> '''Biggershot''': I don't like “moose pictures”!
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* ThatLiarLies: When Fearless Leader calls Boris and Natasha after their first failed ambush, Boris [[BadLiar rather weakly]] claims that Moose and Squirrel are dead and that they used the CDI. After Fearless Leader establishes that Boris and Natasha are, indeed, [[Film/TaxiDriver talking to him]], he adds, "AND YOU ARE LYING!"
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* ThatLiarLies: When Fearless Leader calls Boris and Natasha after their first failed ambush, Boris [[BadLiar rather weakly]] claims that Moose and Squirrel are dead and that they used the CDI. After Fearless Leader establishes that Boris and Natasha are, indeed, [[Film/TaxiDriver talking to him]], he adds, "AND "[[SuddenlyShouting AND YOU ARE LYING!"LYING!]]"
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'''Karen''': Hip-hop\\
'''Bullwinkle''': (''starts dancing in his seat'') Okay, but I'd still like to know what kind of music it is.
'''Bullwinkle''': (''starts dancing in his seat'') Okay, but I'd still like to know what kind of music it is.
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'''Karen''': Hip-hop\\
'''Bullwinkle''': (''startsHip-hop.\\
''('''Bullwinkle''' starts dancing in hisseat'') seat)'' Okay, but I'd still like to know what kind of music it is.
'''Bullwinkle''': (''starts
''('''Bullwinkle''' starts dancing in his
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* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Karen is arrested for ImpersonatingAnOfficer (namely, herself), the Oklahoma cop tells her, "We both know Agent Karen Sympathy has a heavy Pottsylvanian accent. We heard her on the radio." The joke of course being that Natasha was the one who impersonated her on the radio, NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
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* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Karen is arrested for ImpersonatingAnOfficer impersonating an officer (namely, herself), the Oklahoma cop tells her, "We both know Agent Karen Sympathy has a heavy Pottsylvanian accent. We heard her on the radio." The joke of course being that Natasha was the one who impersonated her on the radio, NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.[[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent not even bothering with the accent]].
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-->'''Karen''': Bullwinkle, can you rappel?\\
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** Earlier, after Minnie Mogul signs the contract from Fearless Leader, giving her all rights to the Rocky and Bullwinkle franchise, the studio CEO, P.G. Biggershot, rejects her pitch for the movie simply because:
---> '''Biggershot''': I don't like “moose pictures”!
---> '''Biggershot''': I don't like “moose pictures”!
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* ContinuityNod: A few, mostly related to the animated series (as much as you can for a show that has no continuity whatsoever). The most notable is Bullwinkle's ImmuneToMindControl; a similar device was used in one of the cartoon's story arcs.
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* TheDitz: Bullwinkle
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* TheDitz: BullwinkleBullwinkle, as usual.
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* FailedAttemptAtDrama: Boris and Natasha set off from New York with the CDI to catch Rocky and Bullwinkle... and immediately get stuck in traffic.
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* PunnyName: Karen Sympathy
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* PunnyName: Karen SympathySympathy ("Care and sympathy").
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Not to be confused with the new animated series, or ''Film/BorisAndNatasha'', with [[Series/{{SCTV}} Dave Thomas]] and Sally Kellerman in the title roles.
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Not to be confused with the new 2018 Amazon animated series, or ''Film/BorisAndNatasha'', with [[Series/{{SCTV}} Dave Thomas]] and Sally Kellerman in the title roles.
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Not to be confused with ''Film/BorisAndNatasha'', with [[Series/{{SCTV}} Dave Thomas]] and Sally Kellerman in the title roles.
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Not to be confused with the new animated series, or ''Film/BorisAndNatasha'', with [[Series/{{SCTV}} Dave Thomas]] and Sally Kellerman in the title roles.
roles.
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* AnimationBump: While still keeping the simplistic design and colors, the animated sequences look far more professional and fluid than the original show.
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* {{Pun}}: It gets to where eventually the group is charged with "criminally bad punning".
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* {{Pun}}: It gets to where eventually the group is charged with "criminally bad punning". 18 counts, to be exact -- until Bullwinkle suggests three dukes and seven earls might also be involved, at which point the judge amends it to nineteen.
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** Later in the movie, he also ends up at the controls of a plane. He flies about as well as he drives. (His sense of direction is also, shall we say, lacking.)
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The LiveActionAdaptation of [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle the animated series]], ''The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle'' is a mix of animation and live-action starring the famous moose and squirrel and their enemies, Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale.
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The LiveActionAdaptation of [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle the animated series]], ''The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle'' from 2000 is a mix of animation and live-action starring the famous moose and squirrel and their enemies, Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale.
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* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The normally peppy Rocky is suspiciously - and surprisingly - more downbeat in this movie, to the point where WebVideo/TheNostalgiaCritic recommended to him "that creepy shit from ''VideoGame/WeHappyFew''."
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* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGkN8ndvRo Through the Eyes of a Child]] by Lisa Mc Clowry
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* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGkN8ndvRo Through the Eyes of a Child]] by Lisa Mc Clowry[=McClowry=] is oddly melancholic for a film like this. But it ''does'' fit the movie's moral.
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* WhoWritesThisCrap: Rocky and Bullwinkle are as critical as anyone else at the {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s they spout - and that it's the same stuff they'd ''always'' done. It's a TakeThatMe since Jay Ward co-wrote the film.
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* WhoWritesThisCrap: Rocky and Bullwinkle are as critical as anyone else at the {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s they spout - and that it's the same stuff they'd ''always'' done. It's a TakeThatMe since Jay Ward co-wrote the film.
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* CirclingBirdies: Boris has these after the CDI falls on his head. At the same time.
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* CirclingBirdies: Boris has these after the CDI falls on his head. At Note that this happens in the same time. middle of Bullwinkle rambling about birds losing their homes to deforestation.
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* IveHeardofThatWhatIsIt: When the villains approach Minnie Mogul about buying the rights to ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'', she replies,
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* IveHeardofThatWhatIsIt: IveHeardOfThatWhatIsIt: When the villains approach Minnie Mogul about buying the rights to ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'', she replies, "I'd love to. I love it. What is it?"
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'''Boris''': If only we had a helicopter.\\
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'''Boris/Natasha''': [[InsultBackfire Thank you.]]\\
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'''Boris/Natasha''': [[InsultBackfire Thank you.]]\\]]
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* AccidentalMisnaming:
-->'''Cappy''': Bullwinkle, Allow me to be frank.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Okay Frank, allow me to be Bullwinkle.\\
'''Cappy''': I'm Cappy Von Trapment, FBI.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': I thought you said your name was Frank.\\
'''Cappy''': ''Shut up'', Bullwinkle!\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Okay Frank.
* ActionGirl: Karen, who takes down Boris and Natasha during the climax.
-->'''Cappy''': Bullwinkle, Allow me to be frank.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Okay Frank, allow me to be Bullwinkle.\\
'''Cappy''': I'm Cappy Von Trapment, FBI.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': I thought you said your name was Frank.\\
'''Cappy''': ''Shut up'', Bullwinkle!\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Okay Frank.
* ActionGirl: Karen, who takes down Boris and Natasha during the climax.
* AndThenJohnWasAZombie: When Fearless Leader turns on a giant TV in front of them, Rocky fails to look away in time and gets zombified.
* ChekhovsLecture: Martin and Lewis's explanation of e-mail comes up again when Bullwinkle has to get from Washington to New York to save Rocky and Karen. Not that he actually remembers what they told him.
* CirclingBirdies: Boris has these after the CDI falls on his head. At the same time.
* CirclingBirdies: Boris has these after the CDI falls on his head. At the same time.
* ContrivedCoincidence: Several of these, usually lampshaded by the narrator or someone else. Karen's reunion with Rocky and Bullwinkle in Ohio is a standout.
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* DaChief: Cappy Von Trapment, Karen's FBI superior. He's abrasive to her when sending her off, bringing up her bungled assignments in the past, but he praises her after the day is saved.
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* DaChief: Cappy Von Trapment, Karen's FBI superior. He's abrasive to her when sending her off, bringing up her bungled assignments in the past, but he praises her after the day is saved. saved, in his own way. When she questions why she was given the mission, since she's "clearly not FBI material", he replies, "FBI material is what gets the job done, Miss Sympathy. If you needed an agent to work with a cartoon moose and squirrel, who would you send? Someone tough, hard-boiled and cynical? Or one of those soft, squishy, lovey-dovey, idealistic types?"
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-->'''Narrator:''' At that moment, Karen and Rocky's only hope in the whole world, was Bullwinkle J. Moose. In other words, they didn't have a prayer.
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-->'''Narrator:''' At that moment, Karen And so, Rocky and Rocky's Karen's only hope in the whole wide world, was Bullwinkle J. Moose. In other words, they didn't have a prayer.
* DrivesLikeCrazy: Bullwinkle, who crashes Martin and Lewis's car into a wall immediately after assuring them can he can drive it. "Never said I could drive it ''well''."
* FantasticRacism: Rocky and Bullwinkle arrive at Wossamotta U. in the middle of an anti-Moose march, in response to Bullwinkle being given an honorary Moosters degree. Bullwinkle manages to defuse it with his incomprehensible lecture on trees.
* HoistByTheirOwnPetard: Boris attempts to use the CDI on the heroes while chasing them in Chicago. He does this inside their helicopter, destroying it.
-->'''Natasha''': I think you degenerated wrong special effects.
** And in the climax, the villains are defeated when Bullwinkle accidentally activates the CDI while trying to send an e-mail to "Frank".
-->'''Natasha''': I think you degenerated wrong special effects.
** And in the climax, the villains are defeated when Bullwinkle accidentally activates the CDI while trying to send an e-mail to "Frank".
* LiteralMinded: When Boris is trying to operate the CDI, he's told to "press any key to continue". Naturally, he can't find the any key, giving Rocky time to stop him.
* NothingCanStopUsNow: Natasha uses this to justify lying to Fearless Leader that Moose and Squirrel are dead, believing they won't be able to get to New York in time. Fearless Leader himself says it right before Karen walks in. And again after they've been captured, while Bullwinkle is still unaccounted for.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Since [[TheUnintelligible no one can figure out what the heck Bullwinkle says]] during his speech at Wossamatta U., no one is offended.
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* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Since [[TheUnintelligible no one can figure out what the heck Bullwinkle says]] during his speech at Wossamatta Wossamotta U., no one is offended.
* RealityEnsues: When Boris steps away from the water tower to catch the CDI, he [[PuffOfLogic remembers]] that he's not a cartoon anymore. Kinda subverted in that he still has enough time to say that aloud before he starts to fall, [[GravityIsAHarshmistress much the way a cartoon character would]].
* RidiculouslyFastConstruction: Boris plans to ambush Bullwinkle at Wossamotta U by sniping him with the CDI from the water tower. When they learn that Wossamotta U doesn't ''have'' a water tower, they proceed to build one overnight.
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* ThatLiarLies: When Fearless Leader calls Boris and Natasha after their failed ambush, Boris [[BadLiar rather weakly]] claims that Moose and Squirrel are dead and that they used the CDI. After Fearless Leader establishes that Boris and Natasha are, indeed, [[Film/TaxiDriver talking to him]], he adds, "AND YOU ARE LYING!"
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* ThatLiarLies: When Fearless Leader calls Boris and Natasha after their first failed ambush, Boris [[BadLiar rather weakly]] claims that Moose and Squirrel are dead and that they used the CDI. After Fearless Leader establishes that Boris and Natasha are, indeed, [[Film/TaxiDriver talking to him]], he adds, "AND YOU ARE LYING!"
* UnknownRival: As in the original series, Rocky and Bullwinkle don't remember who Boris and Natasha are, though they at least look familiar to them. Natasha brings this up when she points out that Moose and Squirrel don't even know their names after forty years of this, though Bullwinkle did mention them by name in the courtroom scene just minutes earlier.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Rocky does not approve of Karen stealing Boris and Natasha's truck to get away from them, even though they forced them off the road and wrecked their first car to begin with. "We're supposed to be the heroes!"
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* WhatTheHellHero: Rocky does not approve of Karen stealing Boris and Natasha's truck to get away from them, even though they forced them off the road and wrecked their first car to begin with. "We're supposed to be the heroes!"heroes!" Likewise, the narrator later tells her off for stealing Ole's truck after telling him she'd park it for him.
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* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Rocky tells Bullwinkle this after they learn about the anti-Moose sentiments going around Wossamotta U. these days. Bullwinkle doesn't quite get the point: "Rocky, whatever do you mean? Wossamotta U. ''is'' home!"
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* HurricaneOfPuns: Several scenes, but in particular:
-->'''Rocky''': We don't have time to get to Washington.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': This is no time to worry about getting the washing done.\\
'''Rocky''': Not "washing ''done''", Washing''ton''!\\
'''Bullwinkle''': A ton? Well, that is a lot of laundry.\\
'''Rocky''': Bullwinkle, that joke just won't wash.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Well, you can't blame me for drying.
-->'''Rocky''': We don't have time to get to Washington.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': This is no time to worry about getting the washing done.\\
'''Rocky''': Not "washing ''done''", Washing''ton''!\\
'''Bullwinkle''': A ton? Well, that is a lot of laundry.\\
'''Rocky''': Bullwinkle, that joke just won't wash.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Well, you can't blame me for drying.
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'''Boris:''' Please. You'll turn my pretty head.\\
'''Karen:''' You're a sadistic spy and a... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking really bad person.]]\\
'''Karen:''' You're a sadistic spy and a... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking really bad person.]]\\
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'''Boris:''' Please. You'll turn You're turning my pretty head.\\
'''Karen:''' You're a sadistic spy and a... (''snuffs out the cannon fuse while he's distracted'') [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking really, really bad person.]]\\
'''Karen:''' You're a sadistic spy and a... (''snuffs out the cannon fuse while he's distracted'') [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking really, really bad person.]]\\
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* TheLongList: Karen, Rocky and Bullwinkle are charged with one count of grand theft auto, one count of breaking out of jail, one count of impugning the character of a prison guard, four counts of reckless driving, [[BreakingTheFourthWall five counts of talking to the audience]] and eighteen counts of bad puns.
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* TheLongList: ListOfTransgressions{=/=}TheLongList: Karen, Rocky and Bullwinkle are charged with one count of grand theft auto, one count of breaking out of jail, one count of impugning the character of a prison guard, four counts of reckless driving, [[BreakingTheFourthWall five counts of talking to the audience]] and eighteen counts of bad puns.
* NoOneGetsLeftBehind: After Karen gets arrested for stealing the truck and impersonating herself, Bullwinkle insists to the cops that they come with her. "Wherever she goes, we go!" He changes his tune when he's told she's going to the federal prison to break rocks for five years (without a trial, apparently). "Okay, well, don't forget to write."
** IWillOnlySlowYouDown: For her part, Karen insists that they focus on getting to New York by 8pm tomorrow, and she'll catch up with them later.
** IWillOnlySlowYouDown: For her part, Karen insists that they focus on getting to New York by 8pm tomorrow, and she'll catch up with them later.
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--->'''Fearless Leader:''' There has never actually been a way to destroy a cartoon character until now.\\
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--->'''Fearless Leader:''' There has never actually been a way to actually destroy a cartoon character until now.\\
* SacrificialLamb: The animated weasel who Sydney demonstrates the CDI on. He does appear alive in the Cyberspace scene, but it's unlikely he's capable of coming back to the real world the way Bullwinkle does.
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* StylisticSuck: The shows Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader come up with to show on Really Bad Television to turn their viewers into vegetables, all of which are somehow spy themed. "Three Wacky Spies and Horse Who Is Also Spy" actually sounds better than some programs that have made it on TV in real life.
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* StylisticSuck: The shows Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader come up with to show on Really Bad Television to turn their viewers into vegetables, all of which are somehow spy themed. "Three ''Three Funny and Wacky Spies and Their Horse Who Is Will Also Be a Spy" actually sounds better than some programs that have made it on TV in real life.life.
* SquashedFlat: Rocky and Bullwinkle after getting run over by a bus they were trying to flag down.
-->'''Bullwinkle''': This movie's gettin' kind of-\\
'''Rocky''': Don't say it.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Two-dimensional.
* SustainedMisunderstanding: During the argument over the stolen truck:
-->'''Bullwinkle''': Rocky's right Karen. And two rights don't make a wrong.\\
'''Rocky''': Bullwinkle, that's not what you mean.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': You mean two rights ''do'' make a wrong?\\
'''Rocky''': ''No''!\\
'''Bullwinkle''': I always thought two rights made a U-turn.\\
'''Karen''': I don't know how much more of this I can take.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Well, let's find out. Two U-turns make a circle, Two circles make a figure eight, two figure eights make a butterfly...
* SquashedFlat: Rocky and Bullwinkle after getting run over by a bus they were trying to flag down.
-->'''Bullwinkle''': This movie's gettin' kind of-\\
'''Rocky''': Don't say it.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Two-dimensional.
* SustainedMisunderstanding: During the argument over the stolen truck:
-->'''Bullwinkle''': Rocky's right Karen. And two rights don't make a wrong.\\
'''Rocky''': Bullwinkle, that's not what you mean.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': You mean two rights ''do'' make a wrong?\\
'''Rocky''': ''No''!\\
'''Bullwinkle''': I always thought two rights made a U-turn.\\
'''Karen''': I don't know how much more of this I can take.\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Well, let's find out. Two U-turns make a circle, Two circles make a figure eight, two figure eights make a butterfly...
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* TemptingFate
-->'''Karen:''' If the FBI has taught me one thing, it's that life is not a cartoon.\\
-->'''Karen:''' If the FBI has taught me one thing, it's that life is not a cartoon.\\
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* TemptingFate
TemptingFate:
-->'''Karen:''' If there's one thing I learned in theFBI has taught me one thing, FBI, it's that life is not a cartoon.\\
-->'''Karen:''' If there's one thing I learned in the
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** Happens to the ''narrator'' a few scenes later:
'''Boris''': If only we had a helicopter.\\
'''Narrator''': But since they were in the middle of the desert, there was obviously no chance whatsoever of finding a helicopter.\\
'''Natasha''': (''gasps'') Boris, look! (''cut to a helicopter'')\\
'''Narrator''': Oh, damn. Never mind.
** Immediately after they steal the helicopter:
-->'''Narrator''': Yes, Boris and Natasha were back in business. But they had no way of discovering the route our heroes had taken and- (''Natasha grabs the map from the front of the screen'') You can't do that!\\
'''Natasha''': Interstate 1, just outside Red Bait, Oklahoma, darling.\\
'''Narrator''': Cheaters.\\
'''Boris/Natasha''': [[InsultBackfire Thank you.]]\\
* ThatLiarLies: When Fearless Leader calls Boris and Natasha after their failed ambush, Boris [[BadLiar rather weakly]] claims that Moose and Squirrel are dead and that they used the CDI. After Fearless Leader establishes that Boris and Natasha are, indeed, [[Film/TaxiDriver talking to him]], he adds, "AND YOU ARE LYING!"
'''Boris''': If only we had a helicopter.\\
'''Narrator''': But since they were in the middle of the desert, there was obviously no chance whatsoever of finding a helicopter.\\
'''Natasha''': (''gasps'') Boris, look! (''cut to a helicopter'')\\
'''Narrator''': Oh, damn. Never mind.
** Immediately after they steal the helicopter:
-->'''Narrator''': Yes, Boris and Natasha were back in business. But they had no way of discovering the route our heroes had taken and- (''Natasha grabs the map from the front of the screen'') You can't do that!\\
'''Natasha''': Interstate 1, just outside Red Bait, Oklahoma, darling.\\
'''Narrator''': Cheaters.\\
'''Boris/Natasha''': [[InsultBackfire Thank you.]]\\
* ThatLiarLies: When Fearless Leader calls Boris and Natasha after their failed ambush, Boris [[BadLiar rather weakly]] claims that Moose and Squirrel are dead and that they used the CDI. After Fearless Leader establishes that Boris and Natasha are, indeed, [[Film/TaxiDriver talking to him]], he adds, "AND YOU ARE LYING!"
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* TravelMontage: Occasionally cuts to a map with lines tracking the heroes and villains' paths across the United States. The villains use it to their advantage by stealing the map FromBeyondTheFourthWall.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Rocky does not approve of Karen stealing Boris and Natasha's truck to get away from them, even though they forced them off the road and wrecked their first car to begin with. "We're supposed to be the heroes!"
* WheresTheKaboom: Boris and Natasha ambush the heroes on the highway with a cannon, presumably intending to kill them by setting off a landslide. Karen distracts them and snuffs the fuse out with her fingers. They then cover their ears and look away, not noticing Karen steal their truck. They turn back, saying "Where is boom?" in unison.
* WheresTheKaboom: Boris and Natasha ambush the heroes on the highway with a cannon, presumably intending to kill them by setting off a landslide. Karen distracts them and snuffs the fuse out with her fingers. They then cover their ears and look away, not noticing Karen steal their truck. They turn back, saying "Where is boom?" in unison.
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* YourCostumeNeedsWork: When Karen is arrested for ImpersonatingAnOfficer (namely, herself), the Oklahoma cop tells her, "We both know Agent Karen Sympathy has a heavy Pottsylvanian accent. We heard her on the radio." The joke of course being that Natasha was the one who impersonated her on the radio, NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent.
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* DaChief: Cappy Von Trapment, Karen's FBI superior. He's abrasive to her when sending her off, bringing up her bungled assignments in the past, but he praises her after the day is saved.
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-->'''Minnie''': I can't sign a contract that will help three evil villains take over the world. I just can't. \\
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-->'''Minnie''': I can't sign a contract that will help three evil villains take over the world. I just can't. \\
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* TheMole: A literal one, feeding information from the White House about FBI activities to Fearless Leader, including the decision to send Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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* NiceJobFixingItVillain: The villains using their deal with Minnie Mogul to get to the real world is what allows Karen to summon Rocky and Bullwinkle via the Phony Pictures Studio Green Lighthouse.
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** While preparing to abseil down the Green Lighthouse:
-->'''Karen''': Bullwinkle, can you rappel?\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Sure! I've been repelling viewers for years!\\
'''Karen''': Never mind.
-->'''Karen''': Bullwinkle, can you rappel?\\
'''Bullwinkle''': Sure! I've been repelling viewers for years!\\
'''Karen''': Never mind.
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* WhosOnFirst: Briefly:
-->'''Bullwinkle''': What kind of music is that?\\
'''Karen''': Hip-hop\\
'''Bullwinkle''': (''starts dancing in his seat'') Okay, but I'd still like to know what kind of music it is.
-->'''Bullwinkle''': What kind of music is that?\\
'''Karen''': Hip-hop\\
'''Bullwinkle''': (''starts dancing in his seat'') Okay, but I'd still like to know what kind of music it is.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: Subverted:
-->'''Minnie''': I can't sign a contract that will help three evil villains take over the world. I just can't. \\
'''Villains''': Why not?\\
'''Minnie''': My pen's out of ink.
-->'''Minnie''': I can't sign a contract that will help three evil villains take over the world. I just can't. \\
'''Villains''': Why not?\\
'''Minnie''': My pen's out of ink.
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* IveHeardofThatWhatIsIt: When the villains approach Minnie Mogul about buying the rights to ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'', she replies,
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-->'''Narrator''': With a speed and dexterity astonishing in a woman of her advancing years, Mother bastes the chicken, tosses the salad and mashes the potatoes!\\
'''Mother''': Oh Sonny, shut up! (''throws frying pan at him.'')
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In the first present-day scene of Rocky and Bullwinkle, they're looking over old photographs with melancholy music in the background. As it starts skipping, pan left to reveal a record player, which Bullwinkle then turns off.
'''Mother''': Oh Sonny, shut up! (''throws frying pan at him.'')
* LeftTheBackgroundMusicOn: In the first present-day scene of Rocky and Bullwinkle, they're looking over old photographs with melancholy music in the background. As it starts skipping, pan left to reveal a record player, which Bullwinkle then turns off.
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* {{Pixellation}}: When [[Creator/JohnGoodman the sheriff]] pulls over Karen, Rocky and Bullwinkle, both Rocky and Bullwinkle's faces become blurred a la ''Series/{{Cops}}''. [[LampshadeHanging They immediately notice it]] and have to tell the cameraman to turn it off when the police leave.
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:: Done right in the French dub of the film however, where the Narrator accurately says "Et merde".
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* ScrewTheRulesImFamous: Played for Laughs when the judge proclaimed that "celebrities are above the law" when she found out she met Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: Courtesy of Fearless Leader: "Well, Agent Sympathy. I have waited many years to face an enemy I could respect... and I'm still waiting!"
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* MediumAwareness: When beset by bad guys, Bullwinkle exclaims, "I know! Let's go to a commercial break!" When none happens, Bullwinkle mutters, "What is this, PBS?!"
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* MediumAwareness: When beset by bad guys, While escaping from the Green Lighthouse, Bullwinkle exclaims, "I know! Let's go to a commercial break!" commercial!" When none happens, Bullwinkle mutters, "What is this, PBS?!"
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* FanGirl: Karen is a ''huge'' fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
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* FanGirl: Karen is a ''huge'' fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle. As is Judge Cameo.
* AFoolForAClient: Bullwinkle represents himself, Rocky and Karen in court. He then proceeds to examine Karen as if he was prosecuting her.
* AFoolForAClient: Bullwinkle represents himself, Rocky and Karen in court. He then proceeds to examine Karen as if he was prosecuting her.
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* AndImTheQueenOfSheba: Parodied:
-->'''Rocky''': But she really is with the FBI!\\
'''[[Creator/JohnGoodman Oklahoma Cop]]''': Yeah, and I'm really John Goodman.
-->'''Rocky''': But she really is with the FBI!\\
'''[[Creator/JohnGoodman Oklahoma Cop]]''': Yeah, and I'm really John Goodman.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: "All celebrities are above the law." Yeah, tell that to Wesley Snipes[[note]]he thought he was smart enough to dodge the IRS[[/note]] and Creator/LindsayLohan.[[note]]she's had numerous run-ins with the law over the past several years and was threatened with prison time for lying to police officers in connection to an incident in the summer of 2012[[/note]] Hell, tell that to the family of Creator/FattyArbuckle.[[note]]While he was acquitted of murder, the accusations ruined his career and spurred the creation of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode[[/note]] Granted, it seems to be a TakeThat aimed to celebrities who actually believe that, but in the film this is played straight.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: "All celebrities "Celebrities are above the law." Yeah, tell that to Wesley Snipes[[note]]he thought he was smart enough to dodge the IRS[[/note]] and Creator/LindsayLohan.[[note]]she's had numerous run-ins with the law over the past several years and was threatened with prison time for lying to police officers in connection to an incident in the summer of 2012[[/note]] Hell, tell that to the family of Creator/FattyArbuckle.[[note]]While he was acquitted of murder, the accusations ruined his career and spurred the creation of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode[[/note]] Granted, it seems to be a TakeThat aimed to celebrities who actually believe that, but in the world of the film this is played straight.it's literally part of the penal code.
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* GenkiGirl: Karen
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* GenkiGirl: KarenKaren, as much as she tries to restrain it around her superiors. She eventually finds out this was why she was assigned to this case in the first place.
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--->'''Bullwinkle:''' Hey, there's someone in your eye!
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'''Karen''': No there's not! (''rubs at her eye, pushing her inner child over backward.'')
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* InteractiveNarrator: It wouldn't be a ''Rocky & Bullwinkle'' movie without him.
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* InteractiveNarrator: It wouldn't be a ''Rocky & Bullwinkle'' movie without him. At the start of the movie, he's been forced to move in with his mother and narrate his own life, which gets on her nerves.
* PragmaticHero: Karen, who is not above lying and stealing - whether from the villains or from naive prison guards - if it means completing her mission. She gets called on it by Rocky at one point and it gets her arrested twice. She does at least fulfill her promise to the prison guard at the end.
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* RoadTripPlot: The whole movie is involves our heroes trying to get to New York. Lampshaded by Bullwinkle, who points out that even though they're in a hurry if they took an airplane or anything quicker then there would be no plot - though they do ultimately take one.
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* RhetoricalQuestionBlunder: After Fearless Leader learns that Moose and Squirrel have followed them to this world.
-->'''Fearless Leader''': How many times in the past have they stood between me and my dreams of glory? How many times have they foiled my plans with their bungling interference?\\
'''Boris''': Er... 28?\\
'''Fearless Leader''': Quiet, idiot!
* RoadTripPlot:The whole Most of the movie is involves our heroes trying to get from Los Angeles to New York. Lampshaded by Bullwinkle, who points out that even though they're in a hurry if they took an airplane or anything quicker then there would it wouldn't be no plot a ''road'' movie. - though they do ultimately take one.
-->'''Fearless Leader''': How many times in the past have they stood between me and my dreams of glory? How many times have they foiled my plans with their bungling interference?\\
'''Boris''': Er... 28?\\
'''Fearless Leader''': Quiet, idiot!
* RoadTripPlot:
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* TakeThat: Rocky and Bullwinkle are acquitted in court because the law states that celebrities are above the law.
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* TakeThat: Karen, Rocky and Bullwinkle Bullwinkle's charges are acquitted in court dropped because the law penal code states that celebrities are above the law.
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'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like that.
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like that.
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--->'''Narrator:''' Even their wordplay had become cheap hackneyed and hackneyed.cheap.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always likethat.this.
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like
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--->'''Karen:''' Your jokes have gotten really corny.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No they haven't, they were ''always'' that bad. When you were a kid, you didn't notice.
--->'''Karen:''' Your jokes have gotten really corny.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No they haven't, they were ''always'' that bad. When you were a kid, you didn't notice.
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[[quoteright:300:http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/rocky_and_bullwinkle_4.jpg]]
The LiveActionAdaptation of [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle the animated series]], ''The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle'' is a mix of animation and live-action starring the famous moose and squirrel and their enemies, Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale.
In this film, Rocky and Bullwinkle's home of Frostbite Falls has fallen into ruin from years of their show's reruns, while the three villains find a way into the real world and plot to take over America with a cable TV station that brainwashes the viewers. To save the country, FBI agent Karen Sympathy brings the moose and squirrel to the real world and journey across the country to stop the fiends and save the people of America.
Not to be confused with ''Film/BorisAndNatasha'', with [[Series/{{SCTV}} Dave Thomas]] and Sally Kellerman in the title roles.
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!!''The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle'' provides examples of:
* AndIMustScream: The three FBI agents (and later Karen and Rocky) subjected to RBTV and turning into literal vegetables, with their screams for help muffled.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: After the villains' defeat, everyone, even the Pottsylvanian spies, celebrate their demise.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: "All celebrities are above the law." Yeah, tell that to Wesley Snipes[[note]]he thought he was smart enough to dodge the IRS[[/note]] and Creator/LindsayLohan.[[note]]she's had numerous run-ins with the law over the past several years and was threatened with prison time for lying to police officers in connection to an incident in the summer of 2012[[/note]] Hell, tell that to the family of Creator/FattyArbuckle.[[note]]While he was acquitted of murder, the accusations ruined his career and spurred the creation of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode[[/note]] Granted, it seems to be a TakeThat aimed to celebrities who actually believe that, but in the film this is played straight.
* AsHimself: See the Trope Image.
* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGkN8ndvRo Through the Eyes of a Child]] by Lisa Mc Clowry
* BetterThanABareBulb
* BrickJoke: The cartoon ferret that got subjected to the CDI is later seen when Bullwinkle is surfing the Internet. Also, the occasional cuts to the prison guard that Karen abandoned at the movie theater halfway through the film as he waits for her to park his truck (It's explicitly mentioned that this guy is even thicker than Bullwinkle).
* BroughtDownToNormal: Rocky can't fly after entering the real world. He gets better.
* CassandraTruth: When Karen is falsely arrested, the heroes' insistence that she is an FBI agent goes unbelieved.
* ChekhovsGag: Bullwinkle's antlers picking up radio waves proves very useful in the climax.
* ColdEquation: Realizing the plane can't hold their weight, Rocky gain the confidence to fly again and carries Karen to New York while Bullwinkle redirects to Washington, DC.
* {{Cyberspace}}: Bullwinkle surfs the net near the conclusion.
* DarkestHour: Fearless Leader has zombified most of the country and Rocky and Karen are held captive.
-->'''Narrator:''' At that moment, Karen and Rocky's only hope in the whole world, was Bullwinkle J. Moose. In other words, they didn't have a prayer.
* TheDitz: Bullwinkle
* TheFaceless: The narrator.
* FailureHero: Bullwinkle, as usual. And we love him for it.
* FanGirl: Karen is a ''huge'' fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
* GenkiGirl: Karen
* GhostInTheMachine:
** Karen's inner child located inside her eye, which becomes a RunningGag.
--->'''Bullwinkle:''' Hey, there's someone in your eye!
** The Swedish prison guard she falls in love with has one too. At one point, the two children wave to each other at a distance.
* HairTriggerSoundEffect: there's a handsome-but-not-particularly-bright security guard. There's an AudibleGleam ''every'' time he smiles.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Bullwinkle can't be hypnotized because he's just to dumb to fall for it. At least, that's what the narrator says.
* InnerMonologue: Near the end, Karen has an argument with her inner child, which causes Rocky to ask who is she talking to.
* InsultBackfire
-->'''Karen:''' Boris Badenov. I've seen you on TV. You're a crooked, creepy, no-good rotten worm.\\
'''Boris:''' Oh, thank you.\\
'''Karen:''' You're slimy, sneaky, sleazy...\\
'''Boris:''' Please. You'll turn my pretty head.\\
'''Karen:''' You're a sadistic spy and a... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking really bad person.]]\\
'''Boris:''' Stop. You're embarrassing me.
* InteractiveNarrator: It wouldn't be a ''Rocky & Bullwinkle'' movie without him.
* {{Leitmotif}}: For this film, "[[Music/{{Supertramp}} Dreamer]]" is Rocky's.
* TheLongList: Karen, Rocky and Bullwinkle are charged with one count of grand theft auto, one count of breaking out of jail, one count of impugning the character of a prison guard, four counts of reckless driving, [[BreakingTheFourthWall five counts of talking to the audience]] and eighteen counts of bad puns.
-->'''Bullwinkle:''' And three dukes and seven earls.\\
'''[[Creator/WhoopiGoldberg Judge Cameo]]:''' Make that nineteen.
* MediumAwareness: When beset by bad guys, Bullwinkle exclaims, "I know! Let's go to a commercial break!" When none happens, Bullwinkle mutters, "What is this, PBS?!"
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers had Bullwinkle saying things like "Wassup" and "I'd like to use one of my lifelines please." He never says those in the film.
* NoFourthWall
* OhCrap: "Fearless Leader, MOOSE IS LOOSE!"
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Since [[TheUnintelligible no one can figure out what the heck Bullwinkle says]] during his speech at Wossamatta U., no one is offended.
* PrecisionFStrike: Well, precision D-strike anyway -- from the narrator, [[ContrivedCoincidence when Boris and Natasha somehow run across a helicopter (with the keys in the ignition)]] [[LampshadeHanging right after he pointed out that there's no logical way they could ever find one in the middle of the desert.]]
-->'''Narrator:''' [[OnlySaneMan Oh, damn. Never mind.]]
:: Done right in the French dub of the film however, where the Narrator accurately says "Et merde".
* {{Pun}}: It gets to where eventually the group is charged with "criminally bad punning".
* PunnyName: Karen Sympathy
* RealWorldEpisode
* RoadTripPlot: The whole movie is involves our heroes trying to get to New York. Lampshaded by Bullwinkle, who points out that even though they're in a hurry if they took an airplane or anything quicker then there would be no plot - though they do ultimately take one.
* RogerRabbitEffect:
** A CGI Rocky and Bullwinkle interacting with live people.
** The same goes to a traditionally animated test subject for the CDI.
** The TropeNamer is briefly referenced.
--->'''Fearless Leader:''' There has never actually been a way to destroy a cartoon character until now.\\
'''Spy:''' What about that movie ''Roger Rabbit''?\\
'''Fearless Leader:''' SHUT UP! This is totally different!\\
''[[[UncomfortableElevatorMoment awkward pause]]]''
* ShoutOut:
** The laptop called "CDI" is also the same name that was came from the [[UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi infamous video game console]].
** The Swedish security guard waiting for Sympathy at the movie theater recalls the ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' BrickJoke of Stryker leaving the hapless passenger in the cab with the meter on.
* StylisticSuck: The shows Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader come up with to show on Really Bad Television to turn their viewers into vegetables, all of which are somehow spy themed. "Three Wacky Spies and Horse Who Is Also Spy" actually sounds better than some programs that have made it on TV in real life.
* TakeThat: Rocky and Bullwinkle are acquitted in court because the law states that celebrities are above the law.
* TakeThatUs: All over the place.
** This example, that also crosses with MediumAwareness:
--->'''Narrator:''' Even their wordplay had become cheap and hackneyed.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like that.
** Then:
--->'''Narrator:''' Then, RBTV was changed from Really Bad TV to Rocky and Bullwinkle TV!\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' What's the difference?
* TemptingFate
-->'''Karen:''' If the FBI has taught me one thing, it's that life is not a cartoon.\\
''[cue safe falling overhead]''
* ThemeSong: Rocky's is Music/{{Supertramp}}'s "Dreamer".
* TooDumbToFool: Since he's already an idiot, Bullwinkle is unaffected by the effects of RBTV.
* TookALevelInBadass: Bullwinkle in the climax, where he manages to effectively toss several spies with his antlers.
* VillainousBSOD: Boris and Natasha when the heroes get away in the plane, and they sit down and contemplate quitting spying and having kids who are as bad as them.
* VisualPun: Frequently.
* WalkingDisasterArea: Bullwinkle, as usual. It's his {{BFG}}.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Rocky and Bullwinkle are as critical as anyone else at the {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s they spout - and that it's the same stuff they'd ''always'' done. It's a TakeThatMe since Jay Ward co-wrote the film.
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The LiveActionAdaptation of [[WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle the animated series]], ''The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle'' is a mix of animation and live-action starring the famous moose and squirrel and their enemies, Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale.
In this film, Rocky and Bullwinkle's home of Frostbite Falls has fallen into ruin from years of their show's reruns, while the three villains find a way into the real world and plot to take over America with a cable TV station that brainwashes the viewers. To save the country, FBI agent Karen Sympathy brings the moose and squirrel to the real world and journey across the country to stop the fiends and save the people of America.
Not to be confused with ''Film/BorisAndNatasha'', with [[Series/{{SCTV}} Dave Thomas]] and Sally Kellerman in the title roles.
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!!''The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle'' provides examples of:
* AndIMustScream: The three FBI agents (and later Karen and Rocky) subjected to RBTV and turning into literal vegetables, with their screams for help muffled.
* AndThereWasMuchRejoicing: After the villains' defeat, everyone, even the Pottsylvanian spies, celebrate their demise.
* ArtisticLicenseLaw: "All celebrities are above the law." Yeah, tell that to Wesley Snipes[[note]]he thought he was smart enough to dodge the IRS[[/note]] and Creator/LindsayLohan.[[note]]she's had numerous run-ins with the law over the past several years and was threatened with prison time for lying to police officers in connection to an incident in the summer of 2012[[/note]] Hell, tell that to the family of Creator/FattyArbuckle.[[note]]While he was acquitted of murder, the accusations ruined his career and spurred the creation of UsefulNotes/TheHaysCode[[/note]] Granted, it seems to be a TakeThat aimed to celebrities who actually believe that, but in the film this is played straight.
* AsHimself: See the Trope Image.
* AwardBaitSong: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSGkN8ndvRo Through the Eyes of a Child]] by Lisa Mc Clowry
* BetterThanABareBulb
* BrickJoke: The cartoon ferret that got subjected to the CDI is later seen when Bullwinkle is surfing the Internet. Also, the occasional cuts to the prison guard that Karen abandoned at the movie theater halfway through the film as he waits for her to park his truck (It's explicitly mentioned that this guy is even thicker than Bullwinkle).
* BroughtDownToNormal: Rocky can't fly after entering the real world. He gets better.
* CassandraTruth: When Karen is falsely arrested, the heroes' insistence that she is an FBI agent goes unbelieved.
* ChekhovsGag: Bullwinkle's antlers picking up radio waves proves very useful in the climax.
* ColdEquation: Realizing the plane can't hold their weight, Rocky gain the confidence to fly again and carries Karen to New York while Bullwinkle redirects to Washington, DC.
* {{Cyberspace}}: Bullwinkle surfs the net near the conclusion.
* DarkestHour: Fearless Leader has zombified most of the country and Rocky and Karen are held captive.
-->'''Narrator:''' At that moment, Karen and Rocky's only hope in the whole world, was Bullwinkle J. Moose. In other words, they didn't have a prayer.
* TheDitz: Bullwinkle
* TheFaceless: The narrator.
* FailureHero: Bullwinkle, as usual. And we love him for it.
* FanGirl: Karen is a ''huge'' fan of Rocky and Bullwinkle.
* GenkiGirl: Karen
* GhostInTheMachine:
** Karen's inner child located inside her eye, which becomes a RunningGag.
--->'''Bullwinkle:''' Hey, there's someone in your eye!
** The Swedish prison guard she falls in love with has one too. At one point, the two children wave to each other at a distance.
* HairTriggerSoundEffect: there's a handsome-but-not-particularly-bright security guard. There's an AudibleGleam ''every'' time he smiles.
* ImmuneToMindControl: Bullwinkle can't be hypnotized because he's just to dumb to fall for it. At least, that's what the narrator says.
* InnerMonologue: Near the end, Karen has an argument with her inner child, which causes Rocky to ask who is she talking to.
* InsultBackfire
-->'''Karen:''' Boris Badenov. I've seen you on TV. You're a crooked, creepy, no-good rotten worm.\\
'''Boris:''' Oh, thank you.\\
'''Karen:''' You're slimy, sneaky, sleazy...\\
'''Boris:''' Please. You'll turn my pretty head.\\
'''Karen:''' You're a sadistic spy and a... [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking really bad person.]]\\
'''Boris:''' Stop. You're embarrassing me.
* InteractiveNarrator: It wouldn't be a ''Rocky & Bullwinkle'' movie without him.
* {{Leitmotif}}: For this film, "[[Music/{{Supertramp}} Dreamer]]" is Rocky's.
* TheLongList: Karen, Rocky and Bullwinkle are charged with one count of grand theft auto, one count of breaking out of jail, one count of impugning the character of a prison guard, four counts of reckless driving, [[BreakingTheFourthWall five counts of talking to the audience]] and eighteen counts of bad puns.
-->'''Bullwinkle:''' And three dukes and seven earls.\\
'''[[Creator/WhoopiGoldberg Judge Cameo]]:''' Make that nineteen.
* MediumAwareness: When beset by bad guys, Bullwinkle exclaims, "I know! Let's go to a commercial break!" When none happens, Bullwinkle mutters, "What is this, PBS?!"
* NeverTrustATrailer: The trailers had Bullwinkle saying things like "Wassup" and "I'd like to use one of my lifelines please." He never says those in the film.
* NoFourthWall
* OhCrap: "Fearless Leader, MOOSE IS LOOSE!"
* PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad: Since [[TheUnintelligible no one can figure out what the heck Bullwinkle says]] during his speech at Wossamatta U., no one is offended.
* PrecisionFStrike: Well, precision D-strike anyway -- from the narrator, [[ContrivedCoincidence when Boris and Natasha somehow run across a helicopter (with the keys in the ignition)]] [[LampshadeHanging right after he pointed out that there's no logical way they could ever find one in the middle of the desert.]]
-->'''Narrator:''' [[OnlySaneMan Oh, damn. Never mind.]]
:: Done right in the French dub of the film however, where the Narrator accurately says "Et merde".
* {{Pun}}: It gets to where eventually the group is charged with "criminally bad punning".
* PunnyName: Karen Sympathy
* RealWorldEpisode
* RoadTripPlot: The whole movie is involves our heroes trying to get to New York. Lampshaded by Bullwinkle, who points out that even though they're in a hurry if they took an airplane or anything quicker then there would be no plot - though they do ultimately take one.
* RogerRabbitEffect:
** A CGI Rocky and Bullwinkle interacting with live people.
** The same goes to a traditionally animated test subject for the CDI.
** The TropeNamer is briefly referenced.
--->'''Fearless Leader:''' There has never actually been a way to destroy a cartoon character until now.\\
'''Spy:''' What about that movie ''Roger Rabbit''?\\
'''Fearless Leader:''' SHUT UP! This is totally different!\\
''[[[UncomfortableElevatorMoment awkward pause]]]''
* ShoutOut:
** The laptop called "CDI" is also the same name that was came from the [[UsefulNotes/PhilipsCDi infamous video game console]].
** The Swedish security guard waiting for Sympathy at the movie theater recalls the ''Film/{{Airplane}}'' BrickJoke of Stryker leaving the hapless passenger in the cab with the meter on.
* StylisticSuck: The shows Boris, Natasha and Fearless Leader come up with to show on Really Bad Television to turn their viewers into vegetables, all of which are somehow spy themed. "Three Wacky Spies and Horse Who Is Also Spy" actually sounds better than some programs that have made it on TV in real life.
* TakeThat: Rocky and Bullwinkle are acquitted in court because the law states that celebrities are above the law.
* TakeThatUs: All over the place.
** This example, that also crosses with MediumAwareness:
--->'''Narrator:''' Even their wordplay had become cheap and hackneyed.\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' No, it was always like that.
** Then:
--->'''Narrator:''' Then, RBTV was changed from Really Bad TV to Rocky and Bullwinkle TV!\\
'''Bullwinkle:''' What's the difference?
* TemptingFate
-->'''Karen:''' If the FBI has taught me one thing, it's that life is not a cartoon.\\
''[cue safe falling overhead]''
* ThemeSong: Rocky's is Music/{{Supertramp}}'s "Dreamer".
* TooDumbToFool: Since he's already an idiot, Bullwinkle is unaffected by the effects of RBTV.
* TookALevelInBadass: Bullwinkle in the climax, where he manages to effectively toss several spies with his antlers.
* VillainousBSOD: Boris and Natasha when the heroes get away in the plane, and they sit down and contemplate quitting spying and having kids who are as bad as them.
* VisualPun: Frequently.
* WalkingDisasterArea: Bullwinkle, as usual. It's his {{BFG}}.
* WhoWritesThisCrap: Rocky and Bullwinkle are as critical as anyone else at the {{Incredibly Lame Pun}}s they spout - and that it's the same stuff they'd ''always'' done. It's a TakeThatMe since Jay Ward co-wrote the film.
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