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Jay Ward and his business partner Alex Anderson created Bullwinkle for The Frostbite Falls Review, a storyboard idea which was never developed into a series.They gave him the name "Bullwinkle Jay Moose" after Clarence Bullwinkel, who owned a Ford [8] [9] dealership at College and Claremont, in Oakland, California, [10] [11] because they thought it was a funny name. [12]
Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel, also known as Rocky the Flying Squirrel, is one of the two protagonists of the 1959–1964 animated series Rocky and His Friends and The Bullwinkle Show (both shows often referred to collectively as The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show), produced by Jay Ward. Rocky is the best friend and ally of the western moose ...
Bullwinkle's name came from the name of a car dealership in Berkeley, California, called Bullwinkel Motors. Anderson changed the order of the last two letters of the name and gave the name to his moose. [19] Ward wanted to produce the show in Los Angeles, but Anderson lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and did not want to relocate.
This category contains characters from the 1959-1964 animated television series The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show. Subcategories This category has only the following subcategory.
Joseph Ward Cohen Jr. (September 20, 1920 [1] – October 12, 1989), also known as Jay Ward, was an American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows.He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit, Rocky & Bullwinkle, Dudley Do-Right, Mr. Peabody, Hoppity Hooper, George of the Jungle, Tom Slick, and Super Chicken.
Alexander Hume Anderson Jr. [1] (September 5, 1920 – October 22, 2010) [1] was an American cartoonist who created the characters of Rocky the Flying Squirrel, Bullwinkle, and Dudley Do-Right, as well as Crusader Rabbit. [2] [3] He was not directly involved in The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, however.
Cloyd is both an actual surname and a given name—see former major league baseball player Cloyd Boyer as well as current major league baseball player Tyler Cloyd.) The names also suggest the Bonnie and Clyde gangster couple, of whom Clyde was the more trigger-happy. Gidney and Cloyd are "Moon Men", inhabitants of Earth's Moon. They are ...
The episode features the revelation of Homer's middle name, "Jay", which is a "tribute" to animated characters such as Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket J. Squirrel from The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show who got their middle initial from Jay Ward. [3] The name was pitched on for three days by the writers. [2]