Line #32 Funny/RockyAndBullwinkle


1	Funny moments in ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle''.
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3	!!Cartoon
4	* After escaping a hot-air balloon which took him out to a sea storm, Rocky is flying back to the shore, where he is mistaken for an enemy plane and shot at with flak cannons. In order to prove he isn't an enemy, Rocky flies in a certain pattern to spell out two words. Upon reading them, the general in charge of the air defences orders them to cease fire immediately. The words which Rocky spells out: [[spoiler:US Taxpayer]].
5	** Ending up with Rocky getting a full escort of fighter planes.
6	* The boat race between Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris and Natasha, which goes from the lake in Frostbite Falls to smaller and smaller bodies of water, including puddles and irrigation creeks, all while Boris instructs Natasha to keep rowing and Bullwinkle keeps pouring water out of a bucket to contain a leak in his boat, actually a downed airplane.
7	-->'''Boris:''' Stroke stroke stroke!\
8	'''Bullwinkle:''' Bail bail bail!
9	** Then later when they sail at night in a fog:
10	---> '''Boris:''' Stroke stroke stroke!\
11	'''Bullwinkle:''' Bail bail bail!\
12	'''Boris:''' Stroke stroke!\
13	'''Bullwinkle:''' Bail bail!\
14	'''Boris:''' Stroke!\
15	'''Bullwinkle:''' Hmm. There's quite an echo. Bail!\
16	'''Boris:''' Stroke!\
17	''[beat]''\
18	'''Bullwinkle:''' Bail!\
19	'''Boris:''' Stroke!\
20	''[beat]''\
21	'''Bullwinkle:''' [[BrokenEcho That's the first echo I ever heard that wrote its own dialogue.]]
22	** Eventually, Natasha passes out from exhaustion from paddling, so [[PetTheDog Boris offers to switch places]]. But just as Natasha starts to shout "Stroke," they ''immediately'' reach their destination.
23	---> '''Natasha:''' Boris, I thought you said you'd paddle half way!\
24	'''Boris:''' I did! It's just that your half was ''bigger'' than my half. ''[chuckles]'' You lucky kid.
25	* When Rocky and Bullwinkle teach Gidney and Cloyd how to be Americans, one of the questions Rocky asks is how to make a fire without matches. Cloyd's first guess before Rocky corrects him? "Rub two boy scouts together?"
26	** Later when the moon men are questioned by Senator Fussmussen about the government, they can only answer what they learned from Rocky and Bullwinkle's books.
27	--->'''Fussmussen''': If the president doesn't sign a bill, how many days before it becomes a law?
28	--->'''Gidney''': Uh, 30 days hath September, April June and November.
29	--->'''Fussmussen''': Apart from congressional action, how may a bill be introduced?
30	--->'''Cloyd''': By rubbing two sticks together?
31	--->'''Fussmussen''': What?
32	** Followed by Bullwinkle and Rocky's conversation outside the committee room:
33	--->'''Rocky''': How are they doing, Bullwinkle?
34	--->'''Bullwinkle''': Oh, they're getting the answers perfect, Rock.
35	--->'''Rocky''': Good.
36	--->'''Bullwinkle''': Only thing is, he keeps asking the wrong questions.
37	* Rocky's rather brief DisneyDeath in the "Upsidasium" arc after he saves Bullwinkle from falling in a well, and how it subverts what could have been a real TearJerker.
38	--> '''Bullwinkle:''' ''(as he sees Rocky lying unconscious on a pile of rocks)'' Rocky, buddy, speak to me! Don't tease ol' Bullwinkle! ''Say something!''\
39	'''Rocky:''' ''(regains consciousness)'' [[LiteralMinded Something.]]\
40	'''Bullwinkle:''' ''([[MoodWhiplash in a more chipper tone]])'' Well, that's [[ExactWords something]].
41	* In another episode, Rocky and Bullwinkle are inside of an airplane falling out of the sky (surprisingly, this isn't the first time this has happened to them.) Instead of jumping out, they decide to find a way to keep the airplane afloat. Rocky comes up with the brilliant idea of using hot air, but where are they going to find the hot air they need? [[spoiler:Rocky pulls out a copy of the US Congressional Record and tells Bullwinkle to start reading from it]].
42	** [[DontExplainTheJoke For those of you not in the know]], [[spoiler:the Congressional Record can be revised to correct "errors" by the politicians themselves. The "fixes" that can be implemented can be as egregious as adding whole new speeches or removing those in which the politician shot himself in the foot]].
43	* The government suffers another shot in the Goof Gas arc, when Boris and Natasha attend a congressional hearing. After the speaker has finished talking gubernatorial nonsense (Specifically, a statement that the government needs to remove the government from the process of running the government):
44	-->'''Natasha:''' Boris, what he said! You think he's already had goof gas?\
45	'''Boris:''' Natasha, what he said, that ''is'' goof gas!
46	* The reveal that Mr. Big is in fact [[spoiler: ''smaller than Rocky'']].
47	* The show's first real meta gag: after the mooseberry bush dies and Bullwinkle makes off with the mooseberries, only for them to (seemingly) explode and take Bullwinkle out with them, Natasha laments: "thirteen episodes worth of effort, wasted!"
48	* The show has mocked itself several times despite its popularity. Below this paragraph is probably the most famous one from "The Treasure of Monte Zoom": What Rocky & Bullwinkle say after Boris & Natasha decide to use an A-Bomb to open the chest.
49	-->'''Rocky:''' Did you hear that, Bullwinkle?!\
50	'''Bullwinkle:''' Well, sure! They repeated it twice!\
51	'''Rocky:''' Do you know what A-Bomb means?!\
52	'''Bullwinkle:''' Certainly! "A Bomb" is [[SelfDeprecation what some people call our program]].\
53	'''Rocky:''' I don't think that's so funny!\
54	'''Bullwinkle:''' (AsideGlance) [[TakeThatCritics Neither do they, apparently.]]
55	* Also from Monte Zoom: the beginning has a gag where Boris and Natasha attempt to blow up the Frostbite Falls dam. Natasha worries that Rocky and Bullwinkle will show up to stop them - but Boris is prepared. He goes into ''elaborate'' detail describing the weird and kooky weapon he went through great effort to find that he intends to use to stop Bullwinkle. Expecting something equally elaborate, Natasha asks about Rocky. Boris' response?
56	-->'''Boris:''' [[AntiClimax For him I got a gun!]] ''(pulls out ordinary pistol)''
57	* If we can put ''Fractured Fairy Tales'' here (since there seems to be no page for their funny moments), the entire "Riding Hoods Anonymous" episode is comedy gold. Especially the running joke about the basket full of (BOOM!) ...goodies.
58	* The end of "The Treasure of Monte Zoom", where Natasha tells ''Boris'' to [[BorrowedCatchphrase "Sharrup your mouth!"]]
59	* This from "Lazy Jay Ranch", when the pair finds out exactly what kind of ranch it is:
60	-->'''Narrator:''' Good heavens, both of our heroes have fainted! What did you tell them?\
61	'''Lazy Jay:''' Just told them what we raise on this ranch.\
62	'''Narrator:''' Well, what is it?\
63	'''Lazy Jay:''' I better whisper. (to the camera) [[spoiler: Worms.]]\
64	'''Narrator:''' [[spoiler: WORMS]]!? (fainted)\
65	'''Lazy Jay:''' Well, I'll be doc. He fainted, too.
66	* This conversation between Rocky and Bullwinkle in "Goof Gas Attack".
67	-->'''Rocky:''' I'm worried, Bullwinkle.\
68	'''Bullwinkle:''' The ratings of the show down again?\
69	'''Rocky:''' No.\
70	'''Bullwinkle:''' That's odd.\
71	'''Rocky:''' There have been two attempts on your life.\
72	'''Bullwinkle:''' Don't worry, we'll be renewed.\
73	'''Rocky:''' I'm not talking about ''[[TitleDrop The Bullwinkle Show]]''.\
74	'''Bullwinkle:''' You'd better, [[SelfDeprecation we could use the publicity...]]
75	** Also in "Goof Gas Attack": "We'll declare war on EVERYBODY, but we won't tell ANYBODY!"
76	** Fearless Leader has the inventor of goof gas test it on Gerhart.
77	--->'''Fearless Leader:''' Gerhart, take a sniff.\
78	''[The inventor sprays Gerhart with goof gas.]''\
79	'''Gerhart:''' Smells good.\
80	'''Fearless Leader:''' Now, Gerhart, do you think I'm the handsomest, kindest man in Pottsylvania?\
81	'''Gerhart:''' Of course not. You're a mean, ugly schnook.\
82	'''Fearless Leader:''' Put that man under arrest!\
83	'''Boris:''' ''[voiceover]'' And poor Gerhart was hauled off to solitary confinement.\
84	'''Fearless Leader:''' My boy, your goof gas is a success! Gerhart turned into a complete idiot.\
85	'''White-Moustached Man:''' But his answer was right, Fearless Leader. You ''are'' a mean, ugly schnook.\
86	'''Fearless Leader:''' ''[pointing the goof gas gun at him]'' Of course. But nobody but an idiot would tell me so!
87	** "It's... Time for Ding-Dong School!"
88	*** "Ding Dong School" is the funny name of an actual children's television program in the late 1950s and early 1960s.
89	** In the Mr. Peabody segment "Mati Hari", Peabody makes a pun and Sherman says that he should have saved that for the ending, to which Peabody remarks "I've got one much worse than that". At the end, Sherman groans at Mr. Peabody's ending pun, and Peabody says, "I warned you Sherman".
90	* In the "Ruby Yacht" story arc, Rocky and Bullwinkle go to a library to research the ruby, and the librarian complains about that "noisy cat, always stomping around". The cat in question isn't making ''any'' noise.
91	** An instance where the delivery kills it.
92	--->'''Bullwinkle:''' The rules clearly stipulate no human over ten can participate. I'm about as ''in''human as you can get.\
93	'''Rocky:''' You're a moose!\
94	'''Bullwinkle:''' And that's ''another'' reason!
95	** The recap in ''The Deep Six or It's Tough To Fathom'' has this exchange when recalling how the S.S. Plankton was over its cargo limit and something had to be thrown overboard.
96	--->'''Captain:''' What'll it be? Passengers or lifeboat?\
97	'''Crewmen:''' PASSENGERS!\
98	'''Narrator:''' Well, we couldn't get away with it on a kids' show, so it was the lifeboat they jettisoned.
99	*** In the prior episode proper (''The Malady Lingers On or I Bought You Violence for Your Furs''), the Captain still gave the option to either jettison the passengers or a lifeboat, and it was decided by a coin flip.
100	** Bullwinkle is about to be thrown into a pit of cobras. He quips:
101	--->'''Bullwinkle:''' Too bad it isn't the end of the episode. We could use "Fangs For The Memories" as a title.
102	* In the "Banana Formula" arc:
103	-->'''Boris:''' Okay, here's what we do: ''(whispers in Natasha's ear, comes out as gibberish)''\
104	'''Natasha:''' I can't understand a word you say, Boris! Speak up!\
105	'''Boris:''' I said: ''([[ExactWords uses exact same gibberish out loud]])''\
106	'''Natasha:''' [[DeadpanSnarker That's what I thought you said]].\
107	'''Boris:''' [[UnspokenPlanGuarantee You think I'm gonna let every Tom, Dick, and Gordon in on the plot?]]
108	* In the "Wossamotta U" arc, Natasha finds out Boris went to "college":
109	--> '''Natasha:''' Boris, you went to Penn State?\
110	'''Boris:''' No, [[{{Pun}} state pen]].
111	* During the "Bumbling Bros. Circus" arc, Boris disguises himself as a kid so he can covertly feed the circus elephants reducing pills disguised as peanuts to make it look like Rocky's not taking good care of them, so he'll give up hope and leave. Bullwinkle can't quite get over [[AtrociousAlias the name he picked for his disguise]]:
112	-->'''Boris:''' ''(in childish voice)'' [[ElmuhFuddSyndwome Dere he is, that mean widdle squirrel who won't feed the pwetty ewephants!]] Shame on you! Shame, shame, shame!\
113	'''Natasha:''' Please, Ethelbert!\
114	'''Bullwinkle:''' [[FlatWhat Ethelbert?]]\
115	'''Boris:''' I'll give you a hit with my all-day sucker, you bad squirrel, you!\
116	'''Natasha:''' Come along, now.\
117	(''Natasha leads him away.'')\
118	'''Bullwinkle:''' ''(Confused)'' [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude Ethelbert?]]\
119	'''Rocky:''' You see, Bullwinkle? [[DespairEventHorizon Even the kids have lost faith in me]].\
120	'''Bullwinkle:''' ''(Incredulous)'' [[RuleOfThree ETHELBERT?]]
121	** Near the end of one segment, when a tribe of Indians are about to shoot arrows at Rocky and Bullwinkle, the Narrator is too busy laughing at one of his own corny jokes ("Don't miss our next ''arrowing'' episode...") to finish the outro, and an [[LamePunReaction un-amused]] Rocky and Bullwinkle have to do it for him.
122	--->'''Bullwinkle:''' (''ticked off'') Come on, come on! It's the end of the episode! (''Narrator keeps laughing'')\
123	'''Rocky:''' (''just as ticked'') Oh, boy...\
124	'''Bullwinkle:''' The next episode is "Flaming Arrows..."\
125	'''Rocky:'''[[EitherOrTitle ...or "Bullwinkle Meets His Match!"]]
126	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DXm-kIB2vo She Can't Pay The Rent.]]
127	* The "Upsidaisium" serial has General Broadbeam accusing Rocky of stealing the Upsidaisium payload (Boris did by impersonating Rocky). Rocky's alibi is that the General was with him the whole time. Broadbeam subsequently accuses himself, handcuffs himself and walks off saying "Come along, me!"
128	** In the same story, Rocky has launched himself on a missile to retrieve the trucks filled with the Upsidaisium. Boris sabotages the missile causing it to veer off course:
129	--->'''Gen. Broadbeam:''' He's headed to Washington!\
130	'''Bullwinkle:''' Do you think he'll take the farm vote?
131	** Earlier, as Boris and Natasha are riding a motorcycle through the desert, thinking their plan to have Rocky and Bullwinkle killed in a minefield explosion worked, Natasha sees the heroes hitchhiking while Boris is talking. When she asks who they just passed, a horrified Boris thinks that the heroes were ghosts, and a skeptical Natasha asks, "Hitchhiking?"
132	*** Which is followed by this exchange after Boris stops the motorcycle:
133	---->'''Natasha''': What are you going to do now, Boris?
134	---->'''Boris''': ''(confidently)'' You couldn't guess, Natasha? Me, world's number one villain? Cold-blooded, nerves of steel? What would I do?
135	---->'''Natasha''': What?
136	---->'''Boris''': ''(now distressed)'' I cry like baby! ''(does just that)''
137	* From "Painting Theft," where Bullwinkle says he gave 4,000 gallons of whitewash to some guys investigating [[http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola Payola]]:
138	-->'''Bullwinkle:''' Believe me...to them it's just a drop in the bucket!
139	* In the "Rue Britannia" story arc, one of Boris Badenov's plans is to send a threatening letter to Bullwinkle to get him to leave the mansion. But he misspells "moose" (Boris: "How many [=Us=] in moose?" Natasha: "Let's see... Moose: M-U-S-E. Two."), resulting in the letter being delivered to the wrong person - a tall, bulky guy. In the next cut, Boris is wearing bandages.
140	* This exchange:
141	--> '''Rocky:''' Bullwinkle, have you forgot the plot again?\
142	'''Bullwinkle:''' In a word, you said it.\
143	'''Rocky:''' That's three words.\
144	'''Bullwinkle:''' I'm a heavy tipper.
145	* In the ''Peabody and Sherman'' short about Robin Hood, Sherman notices that the Sheriff of Nottingham is a perfect shot, despite the target moving around.
146	-->'''Peabody:''' ''No one's'' that good. ''(beat)'' Except ''me''.
147	* The Mr. Know-it-All about being a stunt double in the movies. One involves jumping off a 5,000 ft. cliff onto a net below.
148	-->'''Bullwinkle:''' The net is there, all right, but no one is holding it. ''(Bullwinkle has a hard landing)'' And so in [[{{Pun}} contusion]], to be a stunt man, one must always be careful to avoid painful injury.\
149	'''Rocky:''' Thank you, Mr. Know-it-All!\
150	'''Bullwinkle:''' ''(revealed to be in a wheelchair with arm and leg casts)'' ''(pained voice)'' Yooouuuu're welllcooome....
151	* During the "Metal-Munching Mice" arc Boris and Natasha follow the mice where they hear Bullwinkle singing. Natasha's reaction is both funny ''and'' heartwarming:
152	-->'''Natasha:''' Boris take off your hat.\
153	'''Boris:''' Why?\
154	'''Natasha:''' [[DreadfulMusician I think someone is dying in there]].
155	** The cherry on top is Boris' sad expression at the news.
156	** Later, there's the scene where Boris checks the wiring in one of the metal moon mice. When Natasha asks about one of the wires, he warns her that it could be a live wire, leading to this:
157	--->'''Natasha''': How do I know if it's live wire?
158	--->'''Boris''': Well, if you touch it like this and it goes... ''([[TooDumbToLive touches the wire and gets shocked, before falling unconscious]])''
159	--->'''Natasha''': Boris! Oh dear, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint now I'll never know if it's live or not!]]
160	** Then there's Natasha giving Boris CPR:
161	--->'''Natasha''': ''(pushing down on Boris' chest)'' [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad Out goes the good air, in comes the bad. Out goes...]]
162	--->'''Narrator''': Uh, pardon me, miss, but isn't that "Out goes the bad air, in comes the good"?
163	--->'''Natasha''': Dollink, Boris hates anything good.
164	--->'''Boris''': Yeah, so sharrup you mouth, wise guy!
165	** When it sounds like the Moon Mice are about to attack the heroes and moon men, Rocky tells Bullwinkle to call the sheriff. Bullwinkle's response? "[[LiteralMinded SHERIFF!!]]"
166	* In the Mr. Know-It-All segment, "How To Have a Hit Record", we have this:
167	-->'''Rocky:''' And now for the educational part of our program!\
168	'''Bullwinkle:''' ''(angrily)'' Don't say that or nobody will watch!
169	* The "Topsy Turvy World" arc had one segment end with Bullwinkle reading a very boring book to create [[{{Pun}} hot air]] for the plane to stay afloat. It's so boring it puts the narrator to sleep, so it's a rare instance where we don't get the typical next episode titles. Upon the start of the next episode, the narrator groggily wakes up and rejoins the story.
170	* This exchange from "The Last Angry Moose" arc when Rocky and Bullwinkle are on a train to Hollywood and Boris makes a move to [[ItMakesSenseInContext steal Bullwinkle's mattress]] in the dark when they enter a tunnel.
171	-->'''Bullwinkle:''' Hey, what's goin' on!?\
172	'''Rocky:''' Yeah, who are you?\
173	'''Bullwinkle''' I'm Bullwinkle.\
174	'''Rocky:''' Not you, you!\
175	'''Bullwinkle:''' I'm ''still'' Bullwinkle!
176	* The "Bullwinkle's Corner" version of "Simple Simon" turns the poem into a parody of WhosOnFirst.
177	* One fourth-wall breaking exchange shows that EvenEvilHasStandards:
178	-->'''Boris''': Phooey! Foiled again!
179	-->'''Natasha''': Don't you mean "Curses! Foiled again!"?
180	-->'''Boris''': Please, Natasha. This is kiddie show.
181	* In "Buried Treasure", the heroes try to warn the people in a bank that it's about to be robbed. Unfortunately, Bullwinkle picks the wrong way to warn them...
182	-->'''Bullwinkle''': Hey, everybody, it's a stick-up!
183	** Sure enough, the bank guards open fire upon hearing this.
184	* During the fan club's telethon, Boris does a perfect impression of Bullwinkle. When asked how he did that, Boris claimed that was his natural voice and that he was using a phony accent otherwise.
185	* This exchange in "Moosylvania Saved" after Fearless Leader chides Boris for launching dynamite at Moosylvania, saying that if the island blows up there'll be nothing to steal but goo:
186	-->'''Boris''': Acres of what?
187	-->'''Fearless Leader''': Goo! Goo!
188	-->'''Boris''': ''(to Natasha)'' Natasha, I think Fearless Leader is in his second childhood.
189	!!2000 Film/2018 series
190	See [[Funny/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle here]].
191
192	!!2014 Short
193	* Fearless Leader’s latest plan is creating a lady moose-bot for Boris to pilot. Boris is initially excited, asking if he will control the moose-boot from afar with a plug in his cerebral cortex. It turns out that was the original plan, but then Fearless Leader admits they had some budget cuts… [[JumpCut Cue]] Fearless Leader and Natasha shoving Boris into the moose-bot.
194	--> '''Boris:''' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Hoo boy,]] HereWeGoAgain.
195	* This exchange after the title:
196	-->'''Narrator''': When we last left our intrepid duo...
197	-->'''Rocky''': For one thing, it was 1964.
198	-->'''Bullwinkle''': Yeah, how long did you expect us to stay frozen like that? [[CallingYourBathroomBreaks I could really use a potty break.]]
199	* When Rocky arrives on the ship to stop the wedding, and the narrator asks if the squirrel can save Bullwinkle in time, there's this question from Boris:
200	-->'''Boris''': [[ToiletHumour Will I ever go to normal toilet again?]]
201	* The Poetry Corner segment, where Bullwinkle attempts to recite the works of a certain [[Music/{{Eminem}} Marshall Mathers]] the Third. He [[https://ovarianeruption.tumblr.com/post/100503729944/i-actually-was-able-to-record-this-and-gaah-but makes it through]] a few lines of ''Superman'' before stumbling across Eminem's trademark foul mouth in the book he was reciting from. He then flips through the rest of said book to find something less offensive to read from...then inevitably has to cut the rest of the segment short.
202	-->'''Bullwinkle:''' Next week, the complete works of mister [[Music/{{FiftyCent}} Fifty Cents]].
203	* The colossal amount of abuse Boris takes inside the lady moose-bot.
204	--> '''Boris:''' (Bowling ball falls out of nowhere onto his gut) Who is keeping bowling ball in here?!
205	* Bullwinkle getting electrocuted when he kisses the lady moose-bot.
206	* We finally find out why Fearless Leader wants Boris and Natasha to kill moose and squirrel.
207	--> '''Rocky:''' Why does Fearless Leader want us dead anyway?
208	-->'''Natasha:''' If you saw his rumpus room, you would totally get it.
209	-->(JumpCut to the Fearless Leader’s rumpus room, which is filled with animal trophies, except for two empty ones labeled “Moose” and “squirrel”. The Fearless Leader himself is sitting in the room with a hilariously childish pout)
210	* After Boris ejects himself from the lady moose-bot, he pulls a ripcord, expecting a parachute to open. Instead, he gets the following note from Fearless Leader:
211	-->'''Boris''': ''(reading the note in mid-air)'' "I owe you one parachute. Signed, Fearless Leader." ''(faces the audience)'' [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Hoo boy.]] ''(falls toward the ship screaming)''
212	** Following this, Natasha has Rocky at sword-point and asks, "AnyLastWords" and he replies, "Look up there!" At first she thinks he's trying to trick her, but, sure enough Boris lands on top of her and they fall out of the ship.
213	** Then, when Rocky launches the moose-bot into the water and it blows up on the villains, this happens:
214	--->'''Boris''': Ha! [[TemptingFate It will take more than that to do in Boris Badenov!]] ''(a shark eats him and Natasha)'' Me and my big mouth.
215	* In TheStinger, [[BrickJoke Fearless Leader decides to go bowling, but he can't find his bowling ball]], since it's not in its bag. He asks his mother if she's seen it, and she asks him "Did you look in your killer robot?" Cue an OhCrap from Fearless Leader.
216
217	!!Other
218	* From the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EI7s73X_lU "I'm Rocky's Pal" record,]] after finishing the titular song, the duo wonder what to do now that they're on a record.
219	-->'''Bullwinkle:''' How about if I do my famous juggling act? Like this, hup, hup, hup!\
220	'''Rocky:''' No, no, no. It's gotta be something people can hear.\
221	'''Bullwinkle:''' Believe me, when I juggle, you can hear it!\
222	''(CRASH!)''
223	* The fake commercial for "Moosecalls: The Best of Bullwinkle Sings". It can be viewed [[https://youtu.be/Aje2Xd4frX0?si=HD0I0iQWHZNqYV6Q here]].

Context Funny / RockyAndBullwinkle