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!!Tropes:!!! "Hey Rocky, watch me pull a trope out of my hat!":
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* ExactWords: In the Mr. Know-It-All segment "How to Get Your Money Back if Not Completely Satisfied", Bullwinkle tries to return an item he's not satisfied with and get his money back, but in the end the store owner, Boris, won't give him a refund. When Bullwinkle points out the stores promise, Boris says, "And I'm completely satisfied!"


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** In the Mr. Know-It-All segment "How to Get Into the Movies Without Buying a Ticket", one step is to try a disguise. However, Bullwinkle's disguise still gets him kicked out.
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* CompetitionCouponMadness: Boris and Natasha produce counterfeit box tops to get all the prizes and undermine the world's economy. General Mills (which not only sponsored the show, but owned it outright) was not amused and forced the producers to end the story earlier than planned.

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* CompetitionCouponMadness: Boris and Natasha produce counterfeit box tops to get all the prizes and undermine the world's economy. General Mills (which not only sponsored the show, but owned it outright) was not amused and [[ExecutiveMeddling forced the producers producers]] to [[AbortedArc end the story earlier than planned.planned]].
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* TheBore: One of the Fractured Fairy Tales was about Leaping Beauty, a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin beautiful girl who leaps about]] spreading joy and cheer, until she runs afoul of a witch, who curses her to become a bore, after which she literally puts the entire kingdom to sleep with her incessant prattling.
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In the final serial on the show, "Moosylvania Saved!", it's heavy implied that Fearless Leader executed Boris.]]
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* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: In the final serial on the show, "Moosylvania Saved!", it's heavy implied that Fearless Leader executed Boris.]]
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'''Bullwinkle:''' Neither do they apparently.

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'''Bullwinkle:''' Neither (Looking at us)Neither do they apparently.
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** Also "Sharrup you mouth!", "Allow me to introduce myself", "Hoo-boy!", "Raskolnikov!", and "Kill moose and squirrel" and variants thereof from Boris.

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** Also "Sharrup you mouth!", "Allow me to introduce myself", "Hoo-boy!", "Raskolnikov!", "[[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov]]!", and "Kill moose and squirrel" and variants thereof from Boris.


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* PlanetOfHats: Pottsylvanians are all villainous.
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* BrainsAndBrawn: Rocky and Bullwinkle respectively.

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* BrainsAndBrawn: [[BrainsAndBrawn Brains And Mighty Moose Muscle]]: Rocky and Bullwinkle respectively.
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** In one version of "Sleeping Beauty", Prince Charming was modeled loosely after WaltDisney. In the story, rather than awaken Sleeping Beauty, he built a theme park around her.
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** Bullwinkle, again, in the movie. The villains have almost won, the President has been brainwashed, and Bullwinkle is sitting in front of the MindControl device... and then it turns out that Bullwinkle is so stupid, [[NoSell the brainwashing device has no effect on him.]] Promptly lampshaded by the narrator.
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** "Boris Badenov" is a play on name of Russian tsar Boris Gudenov.
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*UseYourHead: Subverted during the second half of season 2, episode 10.
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* OffModel: This was one of the first animated shows to have its production outsourced to an overseas company (in Mexico). There were some...''bugs'' in the animation, let's just say.

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* OffModel: This was one of the first animated shows to have its production outsourced to an overseas company (in Mexico). There were some...''bugs'' in the animation, let's just say. Among the more common problems were Boris losing his mustache, Bullwinkle losing an antler, or incidental characters up and changing color for no reason.
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-->'''Fearless Leader''': ''[[BigShutUp SHUT UP]]''! This is totally different!" (''Rocky and Bullwinkle'')

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-->'''Fearless Leader''': ''[[BigShutUp SHUT UP]]''! This is totally different!" (''Rocky and Bullwinkle'')
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* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: This was exactly Jay Ward's attitude towards Boris and Natasha. When June Foray first asked Ward what accent he wanted her to do for Natasha, he suggested anything but Russian (as this was during the Cold War, and he didn't want to risk offending Russia).
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* FracturedFairyTale: {{Trope Namer|s}}.

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* FracturedFairyTale: {{Trope Namer|s}}.Namer|s}}, being a title for a supporting segment. Said segment changed a major aspect of the fairy tale.
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* AscendedFanboy: DeNiro, who not only played Fearless Leader but ''produced'' the 2000 film.
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** Also, when Bullwinkle was kidnapped to replace the Greenpert Oogle bird, his kidnappers took an overly complicated course to throw off all pursuit... except [[NoSenseOfDirection Captain "Wrongway" Peachfuzz]].

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* AffectionateParody: ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future". It even had the voice of JuneForay as the episode's villain.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' did an episode with "Blocky and Oxwinkle", also bringing in June Foray to voice the Rocky and Natasha expies.
** The {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s segment itself is an affectionate parody of a book called "Famous Fairy Tales", which had a collection of fairy tales gathered together. Each segment took at least the title of one of these stories, then twisted it around.
** The 2000 Bullwinkle figures [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irYLh32_ee0 made an appearance]] on an early episode of FundayPawpetShow.

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* AffectionateParody: ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' episode "I See a Funny Cartoon in Your Future". It even had the voice of JuneForay as the episode's villain.
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' did an episode with "Blocky and Oxwinkle", also bringing in June Foray to voice the Rocky and Natasha expies.
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The {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s segment itself is an affectionate parody of parodies a book called "Famous Fairy Tales", which had a collection of fairy tales gathered together. Each segment took at least the title of one of these stories, then twisted it around.
** The 2000 Bullwinkle figures [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irYLh32_ee0 made an appearance]] on an early episode of FundayPawpetShow.
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* AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent: Lampshaded in one episode, when Rocky and Bullwinkle come across a poster of Boris in his PaperThinDisguise:
-->'''Rocky:''' Don't we know him from some where?
-->'''Bullwinkle:''' You mean his voice is familiar?
-->'''Rocky:''' No, his face.
-->'''Bullwinkle:''' There's a switch!
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* {{Feghoot}}: Mr. Peabody's segments, always.

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* {{Feghoot}}: {{Feghoot}} / PungeonMaster: Mr. Peabody's segments, always.
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* BoldExplorer: The ''Peabody's Improbable History'' segments featured visits to see many bold explorers, including Sir Walter Raleigh, Marco Polo, Juan Ponce de Leon, Balboa, Columbus and Magellan. Many of them turned out to be not-so-bold in person, and needed a kick in the pants from Peabody and Sherman.
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** The "Maybe Dick" arc featured a shipping magnate named Pericles Parnassus, a thinly-veiled parody of Aristotle Onassis.
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[[caption-width-right:300:"Hey tropers, watch me pull a squirrel out of my hat!" "Again?"]]

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[[caption-width-right:300:"Hey tropers, watch me pull a squirrel out of my hat!" "Again?"]]"But that trick never works!"]]
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* RaceLift: Aesop and Son, possibly. Some sources claim he was either black or middle eastern (if he existed at all). In any case he probably wasn't a redhead.
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** There was also a newspaper comic strip drawn by Al Kilgore from 1962 to 1965.
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* ComicBookAdaptation: Gold Key put out ''Bullwinkle'' comic books from 1962 to 1980, long after the show was cancelled. It was briefly revived in 1987-89 under MarvelComics.
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* BewitchedAmphibians: Twice in {{Fractured Fairy Tale}}s.
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* EnforcedMethodActing: Jay Ward was having trouble getting [[Narrator William Conrad]] to read his lines fast enough, as Conrad felt that his voice sounded hysterical the faster he spoke. So one day, just before the recording session started, Ward walked into the recording booth and ''set Conrad's script on fire.''

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* EnforcedMethodActing: Jay Ward was having trouble getting [[Narrator William Conrad]] Conrad to read his lines fast enough, as Conrad felt that his voice sounded hysterical the faster he spoke. So one day, just before the recording session started, Ward walked into the recording booth and ''set Conrad's script on fire.''

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