The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Goof Gas Attack: Parts 1-2
TV Flash files “Goof Gas Attack: Parts 1-2” as a desk essential hour — The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959–1964) on ABC/NBC, season 4, episode 10, aired 1962-08-10, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S04E10: listed hour 294 of 308 in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide, hour 10 of 19 in season 4. It aired 1962-08-10 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Treasure of Monte Zoom: Parts 7-8” (S04E09). Next is “Goof Gas Attack: Parts 3-4” (S04E11).
Essential hour: “Goof Gas Attack: Parts 1-2”. Goof Gas Attack — mid-catalog title as Cold War joke in a can, Ward still talking past the living-room children.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Rocky and Bullwinkle "Goof Gas Attack" Part 1 of 8, Fractured Fairy Tales "The Wishing Hat", Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties "The Locket", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Goof Gas Attack" Part 2 of 8.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Goof Gas Attack: Parts 1-2 sit in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide?
S04E10 is listed hour 294 of 308 — hour 10 of 19 in season 4, season 4 episode 10.
When did The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show S04E10 air?
Goof Gas Attack: Parts 1-2 aired 1962-08-10 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.
In the series
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…