Lately many icons of my youth have passed on. I did not know of this man but because of his characters I spent many hours giggling at the TV in my youth.
The Cold War years of the late 1950s and 1960s were a fearful time to grow up. In elementary school we had regular exercises where we huddled under our desks, hands over our necks, and were warned to keep our eyes closed, lest they be blinded by nuclear flash. Two of my neighbors spent thousands installing self-contained underground bomb shelters. The head of the second most powerful nation in the world was seen on TV pounding his shoe on the podium of the UN threatening "We will bury you!"
The writers of this show, more than anyone else helped me to learn there is a humorous side to everything. We should never forget that children need reassurrence and stability. The way my crazy mind works, I'm reminded of the father character in the movie, "Life is Beautiful".
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Carla Ann
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Look, Rocky ...
Watch me pull a joke out of my hat... hmmm, nothing there.
{moment of silence}
It Would Be Very Hard
Can people who didn't live through fallout shelters and the Cuban Missile Crisis really understand what it meant to laugh at a Russian midget and the beautiful, but psychotic, Natasha?
We had misslie silos twenty miles away from our farm. I started building a fallout shelter in our basement when I was ten. I quit when someone told me the following joke.
Q. What to you do when hear the missiles are coming?
A. Sit down and place your head between your knees . . . now reach further and kiss your ass goodbye.
Rocky and Bullwinkle was funny on so many levels. So many puns . . . The Ruby Yacht of Omar Khayyam. Frostbite Falls Forever!
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Veronica Lake
I almost forgot where Frostbite Falls was located. On the shores of. . . .
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At 20 miles
I think I'd just build a nice deck, get some comfy deck chairs and enjoy the view when it happens. At that range a bomb shelter is probably only going to prolong the inevetable and the view is terrible :-)
Rocky and Bulwinkle and nuclear drills
RAMI
A great show, whose writers could write comedy that had appeal for both children and adults.
My elementary school had an air raid siren on the roof. It went off daily, except Sunday at Noon and 6:00 PM for a few seconds. But during the air raid drills it would sound for up to 15 minutes. The Principal turned it on when the drill began, but did not turn it off until he went from class to class to check if we had all duck and covered or were safely hidden under our very protective desks.
In retrospect, how could our teachers, parents and leaders be so stupid
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RAMI
Nuclear drills, evacuation plans and such
The fact is, the leaders in government knew precisely what they were doing. Giving people something to do to keep them from using common sense and putting the known facts together. There is no way any of that stuff would have worked, and evacuating a major metropolitan area is a completely ludicrous proposition.
Kids are pretty smart, however. They may not know all the facts, but they do know when to be scared. And in the early sixties there were plenty of opportunities.
Who'da thunkit.
Just a week ago when editing Take Two Aspirins and Transition in the Morning! for Beth Williams, I noticed that the bad guy attorney had only a first name, Boris. SO I suggested she give him a last name something like Badinov, in Rocky the Flying Squirrel. She did, and he became Boris Butonoff. The she nicknamed the opposing attorney, Rocky.
We didn't take it any further, as the story was not about the cartoon characters, but we wondered how many peole wold notice.
However we did not expect this news just a few days later.
Holly
Holly
It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.
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