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* MythologyGag: When the RBTV staff believe that Moose and Squirrel are dead, they sing the Pottsylvanian national anthem, which was heard in the "Missouri Mish Mash" arc of the original series.
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** And it's not just limited to the TV show characters. Karen briefly interacts with the narrator to tell him to shut up when she steals Ole's truck.
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* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: "Cappy" Von Trapment appears to be this for Captain Peter "Wrongway" Peachfuzz, although "Cappy" is far more competent than Peachfuzz.
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** The director of the FBI is named "Cappy" Von Trapment, an obvious play on the character of Captain Von Trapp from ''Theatre/TheSoundOfMusic''.
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* RealLifeWritesThePlot: The film starts outright by mentioning the end of the Cold War as well as a humorous depiction of the fall of the Iron Curtain.
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* ActorAllusion: When Bullwinkle disagrees with something the narrator says, the narrator asks if ''he'' would like to narrate the story instead. Both Bullwinkle and the narrator are voiced by Keith Scott.

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* AdaptationalDumbass: On the original series, Boris was more clever and cunning. Here, he is very incompetent.

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* AdaptationalDumbass: On the original series, Boris was more clever and cunning. Here, he is very incompetent.incompetent, and most of his cunning skills are given to Fearless Leader.
* AdaptationalModesty: Natasha only wears her signature purple strapless dress in animation and once she is pulled out of the cartoon. Otherwise, she is often seen wearing a long trenchcoat.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: On the original series, Boris was more clever and cunning. Here, he is very incompetent.
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* TheCameo: Plenty of celebrities make brief appearances in this film, including in order of appearance:
** Creator/CarlReiner as P.G. Biggershot
** Creator/Jonathan Winters has three roles as the helicopter pilot, the Ohio cop holding a bullhorn, and Old Jeb, the airplane salesman
** Creator/JohnGoodman as the Oklahoma state trooper (who at one point [[DeadpanSnarker snarks]] after not believing that Karen is really who she says she is, "Yeah, sure, and I'm really John Goodman.")
** Creator/BillyCrystal as the mattress salesman
** Creator/WhoopiGoldberg as the appropriately named Judge Cameo
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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.

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* InteractiveNarrator: It wouldn't be a ''Rocky & Bullwinkle'' movie without him. At the start of the movie, movie (depicting the lives of the show's characters after years of reruns), he's been forced to move in with his mother due to decades of unemployment and narrate his own life, which gets on her nerves.
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* FurryReminder: After incapacitating the Pottsylvanian spies during the climax, Bullwinkle then confronts Fearless Leader, kicking his foot across the floor, blowing smoke from his nostrils and even grunting like a real moose as he charges towards him.
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* MoodWhiplash: The ending credits, of all things, goes from the [[FunPersonified catchy as hell]] "Be Ya Self" to the [[AwardBaitSong deep,]] [[TearJerker surprisingly bittersweet]] "Through the Eyes of a Child".

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* MoodWhiplash: The ending credits, of all things, goes from the [[FunPersonified catchy as hell]] "Be Ya Self" to the [[AwardBaitSong deep,]] [[TearJerker surprisingly bittersweet]] "Through the Eyes of a Child".Child"... that is then followed up by a reprise of the whimsical, quirky ''Rocky and Bullwinkle'' theme heard in the opening credits.
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* NoNameGiven: We actually see parts of the narrator's body, like his arm and the back of his body, but he still doesn't have a name. Even his mother simply refers to him as "sonny" or "sonny boy".
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* SacrificialLamb: The animated weasel who Sydney demonstrates the CDI on. He does appear alive in the cyberspace scene, and judging by him high-fiving Bullwinkle as the latter passes by, he's surprisingly okay with being trapped in the internet, but it's unlikely he's capable of coming back to the real world the way Bullwinkle does.

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* SacrificialLamb: The animated weasel who Sydney demonstrates the CDI on. He does appear alive in the cyberspace scene, and judging by him happily high-fiving Bullwinkle as the latter passes by, he's surprisingly okay with being trapped in the internet, but it's unlikely he's capable of coming back to the real world the way Bullwinkle does.
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* 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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* SacrificialLamb: The animated weasel who Sydney demonstrates the CDI on. He does appear alive in the Cyberspace cyberspace scene, and judging by him high-fiving Bullwinkle as the latter passes by, he's surprisingly okay with being trapped in the internet, but it's unlikely he's capable of coming back to the real world the way Bullwinkle does.
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* TheEnd: At the end of the film, Rocky writes the phrase out in smoke as he flies around the air.

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