Good memories. Getting up Saturday morning and watching the Rock & Bullwinkle Show in my pajamas. Eating cereal and looking at and studying the caricatures of Rocky & Bullwinkle on the box. Reading Rocky & Bullwinkle comic books. Rock & Bullwinkle coloring books....
Sat mornings were the best-- making my fort, eating my favorite cereal, and watching great cartoons like Rocky and Bulwinkle. I even remember when the Beatles had their own cartoon show, too.
The voices they do are part of my happiest childhood (and even adult) memories. Their fast-pace, witty, supremely intelligent wordplay is still a marvel. To all the creators of great cartoons in history -- the animators, writers, producers, voices -- we all owe a debt of gratitude for making our lives richer.
I also agree! I was born in 1957 and have VERY fond memories of Rocky, Bullwinkle, Boris, Natasha and all of the others. Brilliant television that is still very near and dear to my heart.
I can not understand that no cable channel, even those centered on cartoons, do not play these extremely intelligent, witty cartoon series! Many of the gags were so sophisticated puns or based on their current events, they went over kids heads, and only got the jokes years later! Is it a copyright problem, or something else preventing Rocky & Bullwinkle (and friends) to be seen again on any network?
@@freeguy77 Agree. I bet some station somewhere is running them, though. If not, I wonder if, like you listed, there's some copyright or licensing problem we don't know about. I hope not.
My uncle owned a car repair shop decades ago, and I can still remember walking in early one morning and finding my uncles and grown cousins who worked there sitting at a table, eating donuts, and watching Rocky & Bullwinkle before work.
I loved watching those cartoons as a kid in the 1960's. The voices were so character perfect, I never really pictured the humans who were doing them. So talented!
I think I became a singer and a voice actor because of June and Bill. As a native resident of Frostbite Falls (MN) and probably the only MN human to really attend Wassamatta U (Chapman College) as well, these voices shaped my entire professional life. God bless, you two.
These two, Mel Blanc, and the voices of Mickey, Goofy, Donald, Chip and Dale, Heckel and Jeckel among others all deserve a place in cartoon history. A shout out to those people who gave voices to the characters that made our childhood great.
Not to mention Popeye and that bunch and of course Yogi the bear and Booboo, and let’s not leave out Woody the woodpecker! Uh huh ha Ha huh, huhhuhuhuhuhu!😉😄
@@brendaleverick3655 I am so grateful for growing up in the 50s and 60s. Yes, we saw a lot of change over the decades, and that was amazing, but to be able to have a simple childhood with all the wonderful entertainment we had - that was precious.
loved Fractured Fairy Tales... the great voice of Edward Everett Horton doing narration... the book slamming shut on the cleaning lady... one could always sense the joy the creators had making this stuff...
We DID grow up with them. Blew me away years later when I found out William Conrad was the narrator. And then when I got older and watched re-runs and started to understand the adult jokes.
@@Mike-ke4yp William Conrad was the voice behind many things. During his radio carrier, he was most known for being the voice of the Lone Ranger and Matt Dillion (Gunsmoke). He also narrated the TV series "The Fugitive".
Voice of William Conrad , " Now boys and girls, will Bullwinkle be able to extricate himself ? " Bullwinkle's voice , " I will just as soon as I can get myself loose ! "
Sadly, June has passed on to The Cartoon Network in the Sky. Thanks June for my childhood memories of Rocky, Granny, The Witch, Lindy Lou Who and so many others. You made me laugh when my house was hell. Saturday mornings will never be the same grand event as they were when I was younger. Rest in Peace dear June.
Ephesians 2:8-9 8 For by God's grace are we saved through faith; not by works, (or being a firefighter or law enforcement or a hero or a marine or a veteran or actor or puppeteer or News reporter/anchor or a soul singer or killed by a terrorist or a sports hero or our heritage or ethnic background or a fashion designer or a rock star or body builder or a writer or cooking show host or walk into a room and lite up a room with their smile or a pioneer or a super pop star or bounty hunter or race car driver or football coach or country music singer or basketball star or cartoon voice over or civil rights leader or being modest or being humble or a Disney star actor or game show host or making people laugh or making people happy or a war hero or dying for your country or never killing anyone) 9 it is the free gift of God, not that anyone can boast of their salvation." Eternity will not be about any of us or what we have done. It will all be about Jesus Christ who died on a cross to save us from our sins. We all deserve hell and then the Lake of Fire that burns with sulphur and fire on Judgement day.
June Foray made a brief cameo in the Boris and Natasha movie. Sally Kellerman played Natasha who suddenly became famous and June tried to get an autograph, speaking in her Natasha voice. I used to watch that scene over and over, just to see June Foray in person.
Love June Foray and Bea Benaderette, 2 lovely and talented ladies who along with such legends as Mel Blanc brought so much joy to my Saturday mornings. Surely God loves someone who uses their talents to bring so much happiness to children. May they all rest in peace.
As a small child, we lived in Glendale, CA. Dad was good friends with a few bit part actors and one day Dorothy Haney of La Cresenta was typing up a script for Bill Scott - a good friend of hers. She said, hey Charlie, tell me what you think of this new cartoon Bill's doing. It's called "Rocky and His Friends" about a moose and a squirrel." As she read away, Dad cracked up. And of course so did the world from then on. One cool thing I remember is that Dorothy's daughter Dawn had a plaster statue of Dudley Doright on his horse that was used by the animators as a model. Too cool. Hope she still has it!
About 20 years ago, I encountered June Foray In a public place of business. She lived not too far from me. She would not know who I was, but I remember her as being a very kind woman.
+flutist218, I Totally, Totally Super Agree with you, New-RU-vid-Friend. And You Know What, She really is Finally Back with Bill Scott in Comedy Heaven with Robin Williams the Stand-Up Comedian (Voice Actor of Genie from Disney's Aladdin). :'-(
I never watched Dudley-do-Right as a kid but I always loved Rocky & Bullwinkle. From a child's perspective (of the 60's and 70's) Saturday morning was THE best day of the week because it was the only day at that time cartoons were aired on TV. There were no VCR 's or other methods to record such programming. If you wanted to watch a program you had to be there at that specific time to view your show and it was a wonderful time to be alive :)
Mikel Hawk...geez were you deprived...I watched them everyday after school...I loved them all. Bullwinkle , Rocky, Mr Peabody, Sherman Natasha. But you had to listen well to get the double entendres and cliches. It wasn't Popeye or Bugs Bunny stuff where people are bashing each other or jumping into rabbit holes. The quirky history lesson of Mr Peabody are classics , IMHO.
I know right! Good old days! We only had one TV 📺 one family car 🚐 one house phone with a short cord☎📞 & Radio📻⏰ and we could ride our bikes🚵🚴🚲 and watch Bullwinkle and Rocky 🦌🐿
June is still beautiful in this video. The talent these voice-over artists have is amazing. Dudley Dooright, Mr. Peabody and Bullwinkle, all from one man! He's like Mel Blanc, a man of a thousand voices.
To all us Boomers! 👵👴👵👴👶who grew up with Rocky and Bullwinkle!🦌🐿 & Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck🐇🦆 and Roadrunner and Tasmanian devil. 🐓🐗 it was fun being a kid. Lol 😂
I'd like to add: Wally Gator, Snagglepuss, Breezly Bruin, The 3 Goofy Guards; Yippy, Yappy, & Yahooie, Magilla Gorilla, The Jetsons, Augie Doggie & Doggie Daddy, Top Cat and his crew.
I'm 18, and I was raised in this generation's cartoons. Rocky and Bullwinkle is very nostalgic, classic cartoons are too. I loved watching them on my DVD'S
I'm so grateful that June, Bill, Jay, and everyone else who gave us Rocky and Bullwinkle were able to find each other. Some of the finest entertainment ever made. -jcr
This show's success was based on the concept that while young kids could enjoy the visuals, adults would get a kick out of the dialogue puns and double entendre jokes that kids would not understand. One of the few cartoon shows of that era not afraid to lampoon itself.
John H ... if you had kids 20 - 40 years ago you may have noticed the same formula being used on Sesame Street. Fun for the kids, with a few adult remarks thrown in, especially in their full length movies. The adult stuff was not dirty but sometimes had older political overtones as the punch line.
This was the only cartoon my dad would watch with us. He laughed at Bullwinkle saying they were broadcast on the National Bullcasting Company. (NBC). I laughed at that 20 years later.
One of the most subversive, clever, and funny cartoon shows ever. The writers and animators were very sly in dropping reference that as a kid were funny but you did not know exactly why at the time. As you were getting older and figuring out the sly and satirical references, you started having AHA moments..lots of them. This show was as much a kid show as it was a wink and a nod to the adults. I LOVED THIS SHOW!!!!
Those references (in Rocky & Bullwinkle and some other cartoon shows on TV at that time) were also a great way for adults to educate their kids on popular culture and cultural history. Mom and Dad explained a lot of the references to us as we watched the shows together. Such great memories, not only of the cartoons themselves, but of the time we had together as a family.
@@AlyraMoondancer Boris and Natasha were both so memorable because their cartoon appearances were based on the Cold War mentality wirh the USSR from 1959-64. Those gags were frequently over the kids heads, unless we were over 10, and knew about the Bomb and always worried about dropping the Big One on our city! Making fun of the Russians was usually the focus, showing them no smarter than the WW2 movies satirizing the Germans or Italians!
My favorites were Aesop's Fables and Fractured Fairy Tales. I never much got into Bullwinkle or Mr. Peabody. Am I the only person who thinks the Bullwinkle voice is almost a dead ringer for Red Skelton?
@@stevenrwilson181 "Davey & Goliath" "The Adventures of Gumby & Pokey" "The Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour" "The Adventures of Mighty Mouse" "The Adventures of Under Dog" "H.R. Puffenstuff" "The Bugaloos" ('The Bugaloos?' - Yes, Martha Raye! Lol!) And many, many more... From the mid 60s to mid 70s, just to be a kid then, the anticipation of getting up early to watch Saturday Morning Cartoons, with all its innocence, fun and joy - Was a decade of pure entertainment never to be repeated ever again, and yet hopefully not forgotten for a long time either.
@@dixonsteele4958 Sooo many good ones... "The Flintstones" "The Jetsons" "The Banana Splits" featuring "Danger Island" ("Uh-Oh, Chongo"...) "The Pink Panther" featuring "The Ant and the Aardvark" "Woody Woodpecker" featuring "Chilly Willy" the penguin "Roger Ramjet" voiced by the late, great Gary Owens from "Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In" and "The Gong Show" Many more that I have missed..... Agree with you 115%!!! Where the hell did the years go???
She may be the oldest voice actress, but in July 2012, we just lost Ernie Borgnine (voice of Mermaidman in "Spongebob Squarepants") at age 95. He was active until the end.
Rocky and Bullwinkle was a kid's show written by adults for adults. We loved it as kids and my dad would laugh his head off at all the inside jokes in the scripts. Very clever writers.
Children today don't have Saturday mornings like we had Saturday mornings. We watched hours of cartoons and toy commercials while eating the sweet tasting cereal of our choice. I still get happy when I walk down the cereal aisle.
Bill is so hysterical when he does Bullwinkle....my favorite character ...so funny...those were the days with great cartoons...today's great cartoon I'd have to say would be Sponge Bob Square Pants....I'd find it very funny even as an adult...some great characters.
@@mreunome I've found SpongeBob to be very relatable as an adult. First off, I used to have a boss as cheap as Mr. Krabs. Secondly, the neighbor across the street from me has a temperament that's remarkably similar to that of Squidward.
I had the great and fun privilege of being a friend of June Foray for the last 15 years of her life, and she always lived up to her billing. And she was whip smart, too! Wonderful to see this now. Thanks.
Its fascinating all the voices they can make, all of the people involved with voice parts in cartoons, Mel Blanc is another example, what incredibly talented people!
June Foray (born September 18, 1917) is still with us and, believe it or not, still working in her 90s! She not only worked for Jay Ward, but for Looney Tunes, Hannah-Barbara, Disney and just about every animator. Mel Blanc is called (rightfully so) a genius, but I don't think June is any less so.
Birthdate is wrong. The 1920 Census states it as: September 18,1918, not 1917. In the Census dated April 20,1920, she's listed as an 18 month old infant residing with her parents in Boston.
Chuck Jones once said June isn't the female Mel Blanc but rather Mel Blanc is the male June Foray. I can do a spot on Bullwinkle (IMHO.) Lots of people can. But I haven't met a person that can do Rocky.
Bea Benaderet ("mom" on Petticoat Junction) is in this talented group. We lost her way too soon :( ...she has a very long resume as well . She was the voice of Betty Rubble and many others.
Even though I never grew up in the 1960s it warms my heart to see that old cartoons like Rocky and Bullwinkle are still loved and appreciated today. RIP Bill Scott and June Foray.
those characters were once in a lifetime classic cartoon voices, nothing nor nobody will ever duplicate them nor top them, that's why I am glad that I picked up their series compilation vhs at the goodwill for half off....sheer clever cartoon entertainment!
Bill Scott and June Foray were Spectacular Voice makeovers. I and So many old timers grew up watching The Bullwinkle and Rocky Show as kids. These two were Magnificent.
Yes they were. Even now as a adult those 2 kept my stitches just 4 the corny jokes of rocky bullwinkel dudley doright & nell. They were a class act RIP to them both.
I had the pleasure to see June at a cartoon festival in a 1930s theater in Glendale CA. We got to enjoy these cartoons on the big screen with June giving commentary.
Supposedly June and Bill went on Johnny Carson. It was mentioned during an interview with Bob Newhart to promote his work on the "new" Disney animated film "The Rescuers". No idea when it happened but I'd guess around the time this video was broadcast. Johnny described having a screen up for a cartoon and the two doing their lines live. Not sure if Carson really got it as he described Rocky as a beaver.
Great to see the people behind the characters of Rocky and Bullwinkle. More intelligence in those cartoons than anything since.....love you guys You were the best...one of a few GREAT memories of the 60's
@@matthewpalumbo9262 ...and she did the cat's voice in the movie: "Visit to a Small Planet" ...and she did the voice of "Brunhilde" in the "Captain Crunch" commercials.
Bugs bunny episode where she did the voice of that big fat woman with the kid and she said she finally found someone to spend all her money to Yosemite Sam 🤣🤣
I named my cat Sherman even though she is a girl kitty. Mister Peabody is a Border Collie / Australian Shepherd mix dog and he will be a year old next month, and they are best friends.
Wow! To see who Rocky and Bullwinkle were is great! I watched them as a kid way back in the 60's only in black and white. Didn't have color until the mid 70's.
funny remark by Bill Scott that people say they are a succesful lawyer, surgeon, businessman but what people respect the most was that Bill was the voice of Bullwinkle Moose. Isn't that always the way? I did grow up with the show. The writing and one-liners were terrific. Rustle up my sleeve ....
Those other jobs allow us to live but his job allowed us to enjoy life! That's why he towers over all the rest. The others are utilitarians, he was a creator for the soul.
That was a great time.... That's me at the end of the clip with the bit about "true fun, not fake fun". Just ran into June the other day in Los Angeles at a screening. She's still out there doing stuff in the world and loving life, a wonderful, sweet, smart and funny person.
I think your comment says it all! I grew up with Rocky & Bullwinkle and it kept us all in stitches back in the "black and white" era of television. When I was in the hospital, as a child, these cartoons would really cheer me up. Thanks for that video comment!
Original run ended in 1964, wow. In 1997 this show made a decade come back, I used to watch these after I was done doing homework. To see the faces of the voices behind Rocky and Bullwinkle is very cool. Thank you for this.
June dubbed in the voice of Sport on The Twilight Zones, "The Bewitchin' Pool" when they had technical difficulties with the audio. She was the voice for the Talking Tina doll on the Twilight Zone too!
Man, I've wondered for years where all those voices came from. Even seeing them do them live it's hard to believe that they were actually creating those sounds and those characters. I always considered Mel Blanc to be the master but these two are also in the big leagues.
I loved their work. I would have loved to have been at a dinner party with them. No, a funeral wake, even. They just seemed like two people who could lighten the mood wherever they were.
Oh, this was really nice. Thank you so much for posting it! This takes me back to my childhood. I remember these voices so well, and voice actors like Bill Scott and June Foray deserve more praise and recognition for their talents.
AT 7 YEARS OLD, I SAT IN FRONT OF OUR 9 INCH TV SCREEN EVERY AFTERNOON WATCHING MY FAVORITE 2 CARTOON CHARACTERS ROCKY & BULLWINKLE!!!! AND, BOOING BORIS & NATASHA !!!! LITTLE DID I KNOW ALL THOSE 4 CHARACTERS WERE PLAYED BY THE SAME 2 GREAT VOICES!!!! THANKS FOR ALL THE FUN !!!!!!!!!
The amazing thing is they CREATED these voices. They were not imitating people like Rich Little does. They actually invented character perfect voices! Genius!
June Foray and Bill Scott we’re good friends of mine. My wife and I used to often take June out to lunch, and we’d have a great time! But she’d never let me pay for it! R.I.P., June and Bill.
Whenever the name of Jay Ward is brought up anymore, nobody mentions the invaluable contributions of Bill Scott. And that is a shame. Bill was only the head writer, the king of bad gags, and the lead voice artist. That's all. He got his start writing at Warner Brothers, and boy does it show. My personal favorite of his many voices? Henry Cabot Henhouse the Third, AKA Super Chicken! "Fred, you knew the job was dangerous when you took it". RIP-Jay and Bill.
rwalfrey I watched this clip a few times and JUST got to that part. I want to go back in time and get them to read some stupid things like youtube comments.
Fabulous! I never knew they did all those voices! Thanks! In college, we used to watch cartoons on Saturday morning with a little 'teeth of the dog' that bit us the night before! AND WE LOVED IT!
I loved every minute of that show. I love puns, and if you don't- WHATS A MATTA U??? R&B were head and shoulders above any other cartoon show. How would you even describe it to a young person today? And June and Bill made it amazing. The animation was great, but THEY brought it to life! RIP you two beautiful people. Thanks!!!
I was just talking to my 7&5 year old grandsons about how we used to get up at 6am get a bowl of cereal and watch cartoons until 12 noon and then meet your neighborhood friends after. We would all just appear. And when we turned around 13 we'd stay and watch American Bandstand. Those were the days. Davey and Goliath on Sunday morning. Memories
"That trick never works!" Some of the most memorable cartoon lines ever. I don't think a rabbit ever did appear. They should've had Bugs Bunny pop out occasionally with a funny line. Or maybe have Bugs doing the trick, showing Rocky how to pull a moose out of a hat!
