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Jay Ward (born Joseph Ward Cohen Jr.; September 20, 1920 – October 12, 1989) was the producer of classic cartoons such as ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' and ''WesternAnimation/HoppityHooper''. He and his partner, Bill Scott, also created [[Advertising/CapnCrunch Cap'n Crunch]] and other cereal mascots for Quaker Oats.

Not to be confused with the voice actor who voiced [[Franchise/StarFox Wolf O'Donnell]].
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!!Works which Ward created and/or produced:
* ''WesternAnimation/CrusaderRabbit'' (Created with Alex Anderson)
* ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'' (Created with Bill Scott)
* ''WesternAnimation/HoppityHooper'' (Produced)
* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' (Created with Alex Anderson and Bill Scott)
** ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' (originally a segment on ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'', Ward produced it when it got its own show)

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!!Tropes which appear in his works:

* LemonyNarrator
* LimitedAnimation: His animated shows tended to be this due to their low budgets. They made up for this with the quality of the writing.
* MismatchedAtomicExpressionism: Due to their low budgets and the era they were produced in, the animation and designs of Ward's many productions followed this aesthetic.
* {{Postmodernism}}: This was a staple of Jay Ward Productions -- ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'', and their associated spinoffs. Because the shows had low budgets and LimitedAnimation, Ward made up the difference with snappy writing rife with {{Lemony Narrator}}s, characters [[BreakingTheFourthWall breaking]] or [[NoFourthWall ignoring]] the fourth-wall, MediumAwareness, [[SelfDeprecation self-deprecating humor]], GenreSavvy, AnimatedActors, and more.
* ThickLineAnimation: Again, one of the staples of Ward's productions.
* WorldOfPun: All of his work was this in spades. ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'', ''WesternAnimation/GeorgeOfTheJungle'', all of them were just rife with puns. The narrator was especially fond of the "Tune in next time, when we hear Bullwinkle say..." variety.

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