The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Star Reporter
TV Flash files “Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Star Reporter” as hour 148 of 308 in the TV Flash guide — The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959–1964) on ABC/NBC, season 2, episode 18, aired 1960-10-15, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E18: listed hour 148 of 308 in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide, hour 18 of 121 in season 2. It aired 1960-10-15 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Aesop and Son - The Frogs and the Beaver” (S02E17). Next is “Peabody's Improbable History - Robin Hood” (S02E19).
Viewer FAQ
Where does Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Star Reporter sit in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide?
S02E18 is listed hour 148 of 308 — hour 18 of 121 in season 2, season 2 episode 18.
When did The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show S02E18 air?
Mr. Know-It-All - How to Be a Star Reporter aired 1960-10-15 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
A moose-and-squirrel serial plus a Fractured Fairy Tale and a Peabody short is the full Ward mix. Cold War villains Boris and Natasha are the spy-parody wing.
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Why this series still plays
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show packed Cold War spies, puns, and fractured fairy tales into Jay Ward's cheap-looking, expensive-witted cartoons. Moose, squirrel, Boris, Natasha, and Mr. Peabody talked past the kids in the room. Adult satire hiding in limited animation — the opposite of Hanna-Barbera smoothness, and still funnier than most live-action spy spoofs of the same years.
Cheap-looking, expensive-witted, and talking past the children on purpose. The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show packed Cold War spies, puns, and fractured fairy tales into Jay Ward's cartoons — flying squirrel Rocky and moose Bullwinkle stumbling through spy plots while Boris, Natasha, and Mr. Peabody addressed the adults in the room. Also known as Rocky and His Friends / The Bullwinkle Show, 1959–1964, ABC and NBC. June Foray, Bill Scott, and Paul Frees did the vocal damage. Alex Anderson and Bill Scott were among the…
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Filed against
- June Foray as Rocky / Natasha
June Foray packed a flying squirrel and a spy-voiced femme fatale into the same throat for Jay Ward’s Rocky and His Friends, then kept the Cold War giggle going on The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Natasha’s purr, Rocky’s pep — limited…
- Bill Scott as Bullwinkle
Bill Scott’s Bullwinkle — and Dudley Do-Right — made Rocky and His Friends a Cold War pun factory — 1950s catalog limited animation with expensive wit, then The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show keeping the moose talking past the kids in the…
- Paul Frees as Boris Badenov
Paul Frees’s Boris Badenov hissed “moose and squirrel” into Jay Ward’s Cold War kids’ hour — Rocky and His Friends at decade’s end, then The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show’s puns and fractured fairy tales. Limited animation, expensive wit, a…
Also in season 2
- S02E01 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (1) - Upsidaisium
- S02E02 Aesop and Son - The Hares and the Frog
- S02E03 Mr. Know-It-All - How to Remove a Mustache, Without Getting Any Lip
- S02E04 Dudley Do-Right - The Centaur
- S02E05 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (2) - Big Bomb at Frostbite Falls or The Exploding Metropolis
- S02E06 Rocky & Bullwinkle - Upsidaisium (3) - The Road to Ruin or Mine Over Matter