The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 9-10
TV Flash files “Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 9-10” as a desk essential hour — The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959–1964) on ABC/NBC, season 5, episode 5, aired 1963-09-06, 30 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E05: listed hour 308 of 308 in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide, last listed hour of season 5. It aired 1963-09-06 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 7-8” (S05E04). No later hour is listed in this guide.
Essential hour: “Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 9-10”. Bumbling Brothers Circus, Parts 9–10 close the listed run: catalog tail of satire that never needed full animation to land.
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Rocky and Bullwinkle "Bumbling Brothers Circus" Part 9 of 10, Fractured Fairy Tales "Riding Hoods Anonymous", Peabody's Improbable History "Lord Nelson", Rocky and Bullwinkle "Bumbling Brothers Circus" Part 10 of 10.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 9-10 sit in the The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show guide?
S05E05 is listed hour 308 of 308 — last listed hour of season 5, season 5 episode 5.
When did The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show S05E05 air?
Bumbling Brothers Circus: Parts 9-10 aired 1963-09-06 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…