History Trivia / RockyAndBullwinkle

** The producers of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' rented out a small island in Minnesota, called it Moosylvania, and began a tongue-in-cheek statehood campaign. The "Moosylvania for Statehood" campaign was cut short when the petition reached the White House just as the UsefulNotes/CubanMissileCrisis was unfolding.

* BannedInChina: Even though Pottsylvania was generally seen as a spoof of both UsefulNotes/EastGermany and the Soviet Union, the latter banned ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' for denigrating their culture.

* BannedInChina: Even though Pottsylvania was generally seen as a spoof of both East Germany and the Soviet Union, the latter banned ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' for denigrating their culture.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://rockyandbullwinkle.wikia.com/wiki/Rocky_and_Bullwinkle_Wiki The Rocky and Bullwinkle Wiki]].

** Creator/MattGroening, who counts the show as a big influence on the Simpsons, very nearly revived the show around the turn of the millennium. However, he decided to go with his little [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} sci-fi show]] instead.

* EditedForSyndication: The ''Rocky And Bullwinkle'' episode intros originally had Rocky sailing past signage reading "Rocky the Flying Squirrel," followed by Bullwinkle adjacent to signage reading "featuring Bullwinkle the Moose." When it did a channel hop from ABC to NBC, Rocky's signs were replaced with "The Adventures of Rocky And Bullwinkle," rendering Bullwinkle's signs rendundant.

** If Disney had the rights to make a new ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' series in 1989, we would've had [[http://michaelperaza.blogspot.com/2010/08/bullwinkled.html this]]. It would've had new ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' stories, new ''Peabody's Improbable History'' stories, new ''WesternAnimation/DudleyDoRight'' stories, new ''Mr. Know-It-All'' segments and a whole new segment called ''Fractured Scary Tales'', which would've been spoofs of famous horror films. Of course, if Disney did have the rights, then we wouldn't have gotten what was the end result of the replacement pitch, ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. This is because Disney held the video rights at the time- the TV animation dept. misconstrued that to mean they had all the rights (Creator/{{Universal}} had most other rights at the time- see for evidence the theme park rides with Ward-created characters, the 1999/00 adaptation films, and even the 1995 Energizer commercials with Boris and Natasha (which bore an MCA/Universal copyright).

* TalkingToHimself: Many of the show's voice actors played multiple characters.
** Rocky and Natasha are both voiced by Creator/JuneForay.
** This also occurs occasionally with characters voiced by Creator/BillScott or Creator/PaulFrees.

** The 2014 CG short film was intended to run before ''WesternAnimation/MrPeabodyAndSherman'' in theaters, [[PoorlyDisguisedPilot as a testing ground for a possible feature film and a relaunch of the franchise]]. However, Dreamworks wanted to push ''WesternAnimation/{{Home}}'' instead, and the short was relegated to being an extra on the ''Mr. Peabody'' 3D Blu-ray.

* TalkingToHimself: Rocky and Natasha are both voiced by Creator/JuneForay.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Jay Ward and Bill Scott were planning a ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' revival in the late 1970s, to be co-produced with Creator/DepatieFrelengEnterprises. Bill Scott even wrote a couple of scripts, but it never got into production.

** A few years before ''Rocky and His Friends'' began, there was a storyboard idea called ''The Frostbite Falls Revue'', which would've starred Rocky, Bullwinkle (then called the French-Canadian Moose), Sylvester the Fox, Flora Fauna, Blackstone the Crow and Oski the Bear. It would've involved them running a TV station in the North Woods.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://rockyandbullwinkle.wikia.com/wiki/Rocky_and_Bullwinkle_Wiki The Rocky and Bullwinkle Wiki]].

** The producers of ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' rented out a small island in Minnesota, called it Moosylvania, and began a tongue-in-cheek statehood campaign. The "Moosylvania for Statehood" campaign was cut short when the petition reached the White House just as the UsefulNotes/{{Cuban Missile Crisis}} was unfolding.

** Creator/MattGroening, a BigNameFan who counts the show as a big influence on the Simpsons, very nearly revived the show around the turn of the millennium. However, he decided to go with his little [[{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}} sci-fi show]] instead.

** The producers of the show rented out a small island in Minnesota, called it Moosylvania, and began a tongue-in-cheek statehood campaign. The "Moosylvania for Statehood" campaign was cut short when the petition reached the White House just as the UsefulNotes/{{Cuban Missile Crisis}} was unfolding.

** During the run of Series/XFiles, "Moose and Squirrel" were a common FanNickname for AgentMulder and AgentScully, part due to the initials and part due to the height difference.

* TheOtherDarrin: Played straight for almost everyone in the 2014 short (most notably Creator/TomKenny as Bullwinkle), but averted for Creator/JuneForay as Rocky (and even then his voice was pitched up in post because the then-95-year-old Foray had lost a little bit of her magic; needless to say, it was her final role before her passing in 2017). Later played straight in the case of Rocky in the 2018 series, in which Creator/TaraStrong inherited the role.

* PopCultureUrbanLegends: There's a popular belief that the Box Top Robbery story arc was only twelve chapters (compared to the forty chapters of Jet Fuel Formula) because General Mills was not amused about the idea of counterfeit box tops. The more prosaic truth is that, with a total of fifty-two chapters at two chapters an episode, an episode count of twenty-six allowed for a clean repeat block for summer reruns.

* ExecutiveMeddling: The "Box Top Robbery" story arc ended abruptly after 12 episodes because General Mills was not amused about the idea of counterfeit box tops. They also requested that their ad agency review every script for approval from then on; however, pressure on the ad agency to review the scripts as fast as possible to avoid holding up production reduced the chances of them catching objectionable material before it got on the air.

* MissingEpisode: The Dudley Do-Right episode "Stokey the Bear" did not air after its initial broadcast after Jay Ward was threatened a jail sentence over spoofing Smokey the Bear. It ended up being included on the first season DVD set.