Bullwinkle & Rocky "Wossamotta U" Full Episode ('87/'90 restoration)

The Adventures of Bullwinkle and Rocky, "Wossamotta U" full episode. From Season 5 (1963-64). Source from Bullwinkle's Moose-a-Rama, (aired Miami, FL, early 1990's).

[@prowelderbill]

I'm 67 years old and at 4 years old in 1960 I knew Bullwinkle and Rocky show was written at a adult levels of humour but for children cartoons. This show taught me how to use word play as quick wit and humor for speaking eloquently

[@kenmartin6776]

And everything l know about Opera l learned from Bugs Bunny.

[@rahkinrah1963]

@@kenmartin6776 One of the BEST!

[@rahkinrah1963]

I was 7 then. Watched this stuff religiously. Just like LEAVE IT TO BEAVER and MR. ED, et al - it's even better now.

[@mauricedavis2160]

🙏✨👌👻🥰🐲❣️

[@Bluswede]

A generation truly educated!! Sadly it's wasted on the young adults these days, you have to know a good deal of history to get a lot of the jokes. I just watched a 1968 episode of "Laugh In" shot before Bobby Kennedy was assassinated. I know this as there were a couple jokes about him. There was also a reasonably amusing skit that was a play-by-play done on a riot at a college. The kids now wouldn't recognize it though... The disturbances we recently had around the country pale in comparison to those of 1968.

[@sprague49]

Natasha: "Boris! You went to college? Penn State?" Boris: "No. State Pen." Cracks me up every time.

[@sealyoness]

HAHAHAHAH I remember that! I also was born in 1960.

[@lindaluckett4032]

😂😂😂

[@sealyoness]

YEAH, that was a quick one and just funny!

[@barbarabaldwin7120]

ho

[@TerlinguaTalkeetna]

Some of the best writers in TV history. To write adult humor that kids thought was funny.

[@Nupetiet]

Parcheesi!

[@allfieldsrequired1]

@@Nupetiet Protesting Norman Mailer!

[@foto21]

I was a kid and I didn't give a crap about the writing, but I didn't like cheap animation. This wasn't WB, but it was better than what came later. The announcer for this was amazing, as of course were the characters. But the narrator is beyond great.

[@rahkinrah1963]

I'm 70 now. Watched this as a kid. SO relevant to today's social issues!

[@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd]

"Dumb as a college student" has replaced "dumb as a box of rocks".

[@Anthony-hu3rj]

@@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd How many years have you been sitting on that one? More than years than you went to college, it appears.

[@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd]

@@Anthony-hu3rj Wake up on the wrong side oy your bed of nails today? I am obviously referring to butt-ignorant protesters at colleges and universities. Develop a sense of humor.

[@davidwright8432]

Yup. Mark of a true classic - unlike fish, always fresh.

[@MichaelSheffield-ox8yd]

@@Anthony-hu3rj You mean an indoctrination camp? Yeah, I got a useless BA from one of those, then spent two years in trade school amassing the skills necessary for a real job.

[@Ray-tu4rw]

Bullwinkle and Rocky, Fractured Fairy Tales, Aesops Fables, Dudley Doright, and Peabody and Sherman one of the TV shows of all time.

[@Ray-tu4rw]

Left out the word best.

[@MarthaRoseMoore415]

Boris and Natasha were a great pair of sinister spies, too!

[@Tiafa230]

Boris Badanoff

[@bsmith9506]

"Allow me to introduce myself...Boris Badenov, world's greatest nogoodnik!"

[@karlfisher1864]

My sister Christine always laughed when Dudley made such a Dufus out of himself and Nell Fenwick saved the day! Highly ironic in the days when men were always the heroes. Karl

[@shelleymarquis2887]

I love Rocky and Bullwinkle. I need a Way Back Machine.

[@NormanChester882]

Me too

[@sarahmcmann5253]

So do I

[@NormanChester882]

@@sarahmcmann5253 where is frostbite falls 🤣 yeah I'd like to have a wayback machine too

[@markcraven8386]

Who needs a Wayback machine when you have KZbin. Practically one in the same. LOL

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

Um. KZbin?

[@yeslsaidthat]

I'm 70 years old and grew up watching Rocky and Bullwinkle. Who is just twisted enough that I liked it and it's exactly the way my personality is always been. My mom used to always argue why are you watching that.

[@sandysands5066]

Your poor Mom! She didn’t realize what a brilliant son she had!😊

[@EJP286CRSKW]

@@sandysands5066 Or what a brilliant TV show he was watching. My mother gave us standing instructions after school that if a Daffy Duck cartoon came on we were to call her out of the kitchen.

[@sandysands5066]

@@EJP286CRSKW 😂😂😂😂

[@janiehill4256]

I’m 72 and this show shaped a good part of my personality! Lol!

[@janiehill4256]

Oh my god…it just hit me…Bairley Normal!

[@BobWalsh-n1p]

The comedy was silly enough for children and yet sophisticated enough for adults. It still makes me laugh.

[@veecee3669]

You hit me nail on the head, Rocky and Bullwinkle was beloved by both children and adults.

[@geoffreypiltz271]

The satire on universities has aged well.

[@sealyoness]

The satire on politics and world events too! This may have been part of my interest in history.

[@RenataCantore]

" The more things change, the more things stay the same ".

[@sealyoness]

@@RenataCantore That is a timeless quote. Thanks.

[@iDuckman]

60 years on, this show is as gut-churningly hilarious as it was then.

[@foto21]

I haven't watched this since I went stoned to see it at a theater in the late 80s. I thought I would be too old for this now, but it's still good in 2024! WOOHOO!

[@barbarabaldwin7120]

Yes!!" Null and Void," -- football scouts!

[@johnshields6852]

I was 4 in 1964 and Bullwinkle was my hero, sarcastic, goofy, carefree, what's not to love.

[@Doo_Doo_Patrol]

Me too

[@katiekane5247]

​@@Doo_Doo_PatrolI was 6. Best part of the week.

[@sealyoness]

I was 3 1/2. As I grew up, the jokes got funnier and funnier.

[@user-bf5ik2sq5e]

My husband always said "Wossamotta U" 💕 as a kid grownups said cartoons had jokes, we couldn't understand today, I rewatch them when I can and I watch a lot of new cartoons and see the humor kids just don't understand. thanks for this

[@jackal59]

My favorite exchange of all time: "Hey, lady, are you in distress?" "Dis dress, dat dress, who cares? I'm distraught!" Absolute poetry.

[@barbarabaldwin7120]

har.

[@amcname494]

clicked on youtube, and there it was, moose and squirrel. Heaven.

[@mariapelayo6276]

Still entertaining after all these years! Thank you.

[@johncaldwell-wq1hp]

This show was far beyond it's time !!-I used watch this show,in Sydney-Australia,-in 1963 !!--I have a "T-shirt with ''Wossamotta --U''--on it,-& the young folk of to-day,-(being dumbed down''-think it's a real University'--you can tell them anything !!-(

[@LeydenAigg]

"Hey, Rocky! Wanna see me pull a rabbit outta my hat?" 😆😆😆

[@thewkovacs316]

Remember when they made toons that even adults could enjoy? Those were the days

[@lukehauser1182]

I dunno, I'm an adult and I enjoy my town! (Berkeley CA) -- Oh.... you mean TOON..... Yeah, yer right...

[@FlipDahlenburg]

@@lukehauser1182 No, he means towns. And he's right. Same with toons. No coincidence.

[@lukehauser1182]

@@FlipDahlenburg I stand corrected - may we all love both!

[@tomkerruish2982]

​@@lukehauser1182Even with People's Park being closed?

[@brianbullivant1009]

You mean like las Vegas. lol

[@martineastburn3679]

I'm 76 and remember watching and hearing this for years. 5 children in my family. So as I started, the next ones watched in their times. Loved it.

[@curtisashby768]

Rocky and Bullwinkle are a FUNNY duo as they go on adventures and they make people laugh!!!

[@rcortez911]

I used to get up at 5am on my own when I was six years old to watch cartoons. Times have changed

[@richinoable]

You gotta pay for tv and nothing this good is on anyway

[@wonder929]

"What does every successful university have that we don't have? ... The address of the Ford Foundation?" 😂😍 And how sadly true when they "fire a few English teachers" to pay for the football team! Sigh...I SO LOVE that the brilliant writers just went ahead with their actual best material--which was genius!--instead of dumbing things down for kids. Children still adored these cartoons...and THEN we got to grow into the adult satire...that is still relevant! What an amazing creative treasury those cartoons of the 60's are, an absolute national treasure❣❣ So grateful they were part of my formation and then still contribute intelligent, hilarious humor to my adult life! 🥰 I discovered that whole other level of humor, the social commentary and satire, when I was in college...I was so blown away, realizing how brilliant and relevant they were...and still are! 🥰 Thank you so much for posting! 🥰

[@ncmathsadist]

This is brilliant and timely satire. Fabulous!

[@marbleman52]

@ncmathsadist....I agree!!! But today, satire has been burned at the stake and anyone using satire is charged with "racism" and "hate speech". What has happened to Society is sickening and disgusting.

[@cybercamp2900]

So many levels of humor! Born in ‘63 I did t get it back then, I loved the show. Now that many years are past and I am a grandfather now. This cracked me up the whole way through the episode😂🤣 Thanks for uploading🙏🏻

[@kenjohnson8510]

These two residents of Frostbike Falls, MINNESOTA, make me proud to be a Gopher.

[@andrewbesso4257]

Gee.. A college fires five profess in order to spend more money on football. It's a good thing that nothing like that could ever really happen.

[@jonathanwarrdddedcxddeecec4787]

A joke that simultaneously aged poorly and like fine wine

[@soakupthesunman]

America needs fewer professors.

[@bobbob8229]

​@@soakupthesunmanRIGHT On....

[@sandysands5066]

😂

[@sandysands5066]

The more things change….😂

[@stevensica5918]

Watched these as a kid back in the 1960s, all of this humor was totally over my head.

[@MatGurman]

It’s amazing how much these cartoons shape who we and our sense of humor. A lot of beat generation animators and writers were involved in the 50s and 60s creative work that I saw as a child and it definitely had an impact on my perspective, sense of humor and taste. Artist really do mold us in ways we may not even be consciously aware of.

[@lelandfranklin3487]

William Conrad...what a great voice!😊

[@cpfiffner]

He said the only note they ever gave him was “faster!”

[@sandyboggs8099]

Cannon

[@cpfiffner]

@@bsmith9506 I take umbrage at your comment. Conrad was an expert vocal actor, which was why he was hired in the first place. If the producers could have artificially sped his voice up, they wouldn’t have bothered to tell him to speak faster.

[@bsmith9506]

@@cpfiffner Ironically after commenting I found a video of him reading a "Rocky" voiceover and you are right, he voiced it without any studio tricks. I will delete my comment.

[@marksprague1280]

​@@sandyboggs8099The original Matt Dillon.

[@hdgehog6]

I loved this show back in the day..... ('60s) but it took me getting into the '70s to understand half the jokes!

[@bsmith9506]

We were young and the jokes were adult and quick. Lots of them you saw as youngsters, then when you got older, you got the jokes.

[@HarryMarsee-fw9ot]

I now understand why I like shameless puns so much. I watched Rocky and Bullwinkle as a child. I laugh just as much now as I did then.

[@terryherrera9054]

I come from a family of 15. Im #13 and we all enjoyed watching this cartoon every time. It had us rolling as a family in laughter it was Hilarious then and still is today. It is truly amazing how accurate about how colleges are ran and what's more important to them. It certainly isn't education. Thanks for the childhood memories that's when cartoons where entertaining as well as funny. 😂😅🤣🤗

[@Nupetiet]

good god, ur mama sure got it good

[@waltglow6396]

I'm 73 years old and remember when the first time this played 😂

[@dondickerson9978]

I always watch them every week, with my 2 brothers, sister and my parents. We would all laugh. My parents saw nothing wrong with them. They just would love watching them with us and laugh.

[@FlipDahlenburg]

Goin' over to the Student Union to picket Norman Mailer!

[@erindurkin4441]

"Wossamotta"? TIMON: Nuttin', wossamotta with you? (cracks up laughing) Lol 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@g.p.b.]

This was very funnier than I ever thought it could be

[@MediaWest]

everyday, after school, jay ward cartoons were the best. they still stand up. amazing this was a prime time show too!

[@lynnfisher3037]

What do they mean on this Dick Tracy two-way wrist radio when it says"add a reply"?

[@virginiagrundman4012]

I loved Whatsamatta U.❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@hartwell146]

Couldn't wait until they played tiktok tech😊

[@markcraven8386]

Purdy Poly...0 LOL

[@archstanton_live]

Dry humor at its best. This parody of college sports just goes *on and on.* I may be deaf but I am not dumb. Fraught with portend. I don't want to look like a show-off. Throw the pass not a game... It is nice to see a few weeks' worth of Sunday morning episodes that taught us to appreciate puns, condensed into a single viewing. Moose and squirrel live On and on...❤ Plug uglies, LOL

[@virginiagrundman4012]

@@archstanton_live very well said

[@lynnfisher3037]

I am a proud alumnus. My pronouns back then were all in an English grammar text...for you confused millenials that was a book with words printed on paper.

[@raycooper3269]

I've said "watza matta ? U" for years, always got a laugh. Having forgotten where it came from it was a delight today to view the comic . Thanks !

[@Kw1161]

Thanks for showing this …written by the Nostradamus of the 1960’s cartoon shows…😂! The Universities are even more like this than Jay Ward and writers predicted…😂! Have a great day Everyone!

[@tonyshort1623]

Great shows shame today can't make these classics!!!

[@lynnfisher3037]

No one would watch them. No swearing , sex or violence

[@pamelacox540]

The main cartoons were on Saturday but Sunday had Rocky and Bullwinkle❤️

[@MrSteve280]

Clever writing. The SNL for kids in the 1960s.

[@waltglow6396]

Im 74 years old, and remember when this cartoon first aired 😅

[@BetsyChamberland]

I grew up watching Rocky & Bullwinkle, so glad I found this!

[@majkus]

"Boy, this really is a children's show, isn't it!"

[@sticksmcfly]

I'll admit that I don't know why the southern gentleman prefers "war between the states" to "civil war." Great "episode." Thanks for the upload!

[@robertkroberjr.157]

Always loved Rocky and Bullwinkle! Good times!

[@JeffreyNorberg-i1m]

In Minnesota at Wossamatta U, you get pop from the Coke machine.

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

Born 1960 Bullwinkle's humor and somewhat sarcastic attitude was a perfect fit with me, I really havent chsngrd much in 64 yrsrs, rockys okay but Bullwinkle is the man.

[@wonder929]

I feel the same way, Bullwinkle is the star!!

[@Tommy-76]

Rocky Knute? A takeoff on Knute Rockne!!

[@alejandrotrevino7189]

Still enjoy watching Rocky and Bullwinkle at age 67yrs yound😂😂

[@1fan164]

Thanks for introducing us erstwhile kids to satire!

[@gilbertlopez3544]

When I was a kid in the '60s great shows, I had not watched TV in 30 years all junk. Just sports. The 60s and 70s were the best shows. The 80s ok. Miss those days😢😢😢😢

[@Playsinvain]

The idea you edited this and posted is fantastic.

[@siresoundschannel2]

Thanks, was lucky to find the complete episode in parts on one tape.

[@wonder929]

@@siresoundschannel2 Thank you SOOOO much!! 🥰 Really does matter...it's cultural gold!! 😍

[@jeffalanvasconcellos3039]

Funny how times new change even at 70! Salute to all the other seniors whom logged in a blog on this page!

[@kriseikenbery112]

Loved this as a kid! At 66 it still makes me laugh.😅

[@roberthuron9160]

Today,with the paid student athletes,and the NCAA, has made it real! History has come to fruition! Real sports,and and cartoons co-incide,amazing! Thank you!! 😇!

[@macsnafu]

They needed a successful football team to be a 'better' college. This accurately reflects the increased reliance on sports, especially football, at colleges and universities to bring in more money. Now if only there was a moral to the story, THEN it would be educational! ;-)

[@chrisikaris5891]

Who could imagine that a child's cartoon from 60 years ago could have any relevance for today? Thanks for your apt comment.

[@pinkiesue849]

Never trust fearless leader-moral

[@jjgravitas4152]

Still funny 50 years later.

[@stevekohl5351]

Of course Boris and Natasha were the show's commentsry on the Cold War.

[@ruthanncaldwell7935]

Love these cartoons ❤❤❤❤

[@norbertrossi7925]

Best cartoon EVER.

[@rcnotes]

I met the woman who became my wife at a Rocky and Bullwinkle midnight movie marathon.

[@waltglow6396]

Borris you went to college? Penn State ? No State Penn! 1973 graduate 😂😂😂

[@Nupetiet]

TWO HEELS WITHOUT SOULS GOOD GOD WHAT A LINE

[@RenataCantore]

Brilliant script. I used to watch this show as a kid ❤🎉 🇺🇸

[@TheVigilantEye77]

Pure timeless genius

[@ralphe5842]

One of my favorite episodes

[@fluxfaze]

And Bullwinkle’s eyelash length gags make me rofl at the contemporary extra-long false eyelash fashion.

[@selfwitness]

This one is quite relatable to today 😉

[@linuxandretrogamingfan3882]

Thanks for uploading an old toon like this. It can be a thankless profession. Anywho, I vividly remember watching Rocky and Bullwinkle when I was young--we rented VHS tapes of the show if you can believe that. I also saw the Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle live action movie back in the day which was a real disappointment to me as I'm sure it was to most everyone else.

[@siresoundschannel2]

Thank you! It's certainly a labor of love, but I'm happy to preserve history for all to see. Maybe someday or someone can release all of the Jay Ward material from the original film masters, boy that would be a treat!

[@banjarqueenee]

“…two heels without souls…”😂

[@EASFan1997]

It was originally from the 1963-1964 season of “The Bullwinkle Show” on NBC.

[@larrysouthern5098]

One of the greatest satire cartoons of all times..

[@N8570E]

Ah! The really important things in life. In calculus, I got as far as partial differential equations. And my brain really hurt. That was as much as I could handle. As a freshman, I was starting quarterback for my fraternity team (Triangle, sadly I dropped out of it) and the Air Force ROTC (Reserve Officer Training Corps) B-team (freshmen and sophomores). Also, punter and place kicker. And I played barefoot! Kicking really hurt! Later I played basketball for the Air Force team. But that was at IIT (Illinois Institute of Technology). Thank you. May you and yours stay well and prosper.

[@tomkerruish2982]

Don't sell yourself short. PDE's are nothing to sneeze at.

[@N8570E]

@@tomkerruish2982 PLEASE! The headaches are starting to return.

[@EJP286CRSKW]

@@tomkerruish2982 So much so that Laplace invented a whole new branch of mathematics to make it easier to deal with them.

[@bill8985]

Thank you. I was so depressed before I came across this.

[@intelligentcat192]

It's all classic❤

[@colonelkurtz2269]

I attended Faber College. WU were our rivals.

[@tokenjoy]

Faber had a helluva Dean. "Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son." Sage advice.

[@colonelkurtz2269]

@tokenjoy yes. Took me 7 years, but I got my BA.

[@lynnfisher3037]

I was there too but never got out of 'Double-Secret Probation".

[@lynnfisher3037]

​@@colonelkurtz2269Me too but back then it was called Bastard of Analogy.

[@colonelkurtz2269]

@lynnfisher3037 better than a BS degree

[@BestLife1133]

As a kid, I wouldn't eat moose meat cuz of my fondness of Bullwinkle.

[@DarrylRuiz-s1w]

Loved it as a kid and as a adult thr humor is even funnier now that I understand the jokes

[@TheSleepingonit]

Much better than what is on the air today

[@DennisDugan-q2g]

Greatest cartoon of all time. No ands if buts maybe about it

[@Mach11976]

Every Sunday morning at 9:30 am. Still my favourite.

[@fluxfaze]

About a two decades after graduating from my final alma mater (I attended five as I moved around following common-laborer jobs) its leadership decided to do exactly what this cartoon depicts. It worked for a while but after the football glow dimmed and funding from that went down the tubes, it has been absorbed by a larger university and is now bound by its rules and regs.

[@nedludd7622]

At the end they even had a parody of a famous painting by Picasso.

[@sandrabbitlane]

Some lines are immortal, and still live. " Stroke, Natasha, stroke!" "Bail, Borris, Bail!"

[@Edward-bd8iy]

The best scene I remember is Boris holding those two telegrams. One reads "Keel Moose"; the other reads "Do Not Keel Moose"

[@EJP286CRSKW]

@@Edward-bd8iy Natasha: "Look, Boris: moose and squirrel."

[@jerryrichmond4707]

I enjoy the adult humor as well. It reminds me of when I was about 12 years old, and I saw The Beatles' "HELP" movie on the big screen. At the time, I just thought it was funny and, of course, I loved to hear the music. When I watched it as an adult, I found that it had a lot of adult humor as well as sight gags that got by me as a kid.

[@kevincage1641]

Remember, cartoons in the 1940-1950’s were never meant for kids but were shown before the main attraction at the adult movies. On Saturday morning, we saw WWII cartoons about Nazi’s, Hirohito, the ante-bellum South, gangsters, and mad scientists. It wasn’t until the late sixties and early seventies that cartoons were specifically made for kids. The violence of Bugs Bunny. Daffy Duck and the Road Runner would give the kids of today too many ideas.

[@ArtStoneUS]

The stock in Acme anvil company is going up 25% according to MSNBC. Buy!

[@gogoyubari366]

Rocky and Bullwinkle are great!

[@mctavish23]

I miss this.

[@JamesHynes-uo5rk]

This was the funniest cycle of episodes

[@BobWalsh-n1p]

But darling, is always moose and squirrel!

[@bsmith9506]

"..allow me to introduce myself, Boris Badenov, world's greatest nogood-nick!"

[@96Mustang5]

I'm 61 & 1960s & 70s cartoons are best.

[@katstevens8266]

lol Hugs from Canada

[@siresounds]

Oh Canada ! Well greetings from the south, Florida that is.

[@katstevens8266]

@@siresounds TY SIR lots

[@MrFBrookes]

Fist bumps from Philadelphia

[@waynesmith3767]

Wave Heigho” to Dudley.

[@bearheart1657]

Rocky and Bullwinkle have never been equalled! They still crack me up, esp Boris and Natasha. Their monotone parody of FBI agents is still a riot.

[@barbarabaldwin7120]

WHEN CARTOONS WERE FUNNY, WELL-WRITTEN, AND BOTH ADULTS AND KIDS COULD " GET" THEM.

[@jeff9266]

Wassa😂 I really like the cartoons. I remember them from my young er years.❤

[@bloqk16]

Considering this cartoon series is some 60+ years old, the scenario playing out for Wsossamotta U getting a football team seems eerily similar to what colleges may resort to in 2024.

[@GathKingLeppbertI]

Do you mean trans players?

[@dpelpal]

No it doesn't. At all.

[@ArtStoneUS]

Things have just moved upscale. Now the city of whatsamatta floats a bond issues so they can have a big football stadium in order to attract a good employer

[@lynnfisher3037]

Because the low-pitched squel macine was broken and in "Emmet's Fix It Shop" for repairs.