1964, a crucial moment in American history...
Lyndon Johnson is re-elected to the presidency by a landslide,
The New York Worlds Fair introduces a bright new future.
And after five scintillating years on the air...
Presto!
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show is abruptly cancelled.
- Cancelled?! - Cancelled?!
Uh, sorry about that, boys.
A lothas changed in 35 years.
Velcro has replaced the zipper.
Sneakers have lights on them.
The Cold War is over.
And The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show...
is still cancelled.
Frostbite Falls, Minnesota,
once the beloved home of Rocky and Bullwinkle,
had been a thriving cartoon town.
Nowit was crippled by years of reruns.
The beautiful Frostbite Falls Forest...
decimated.
The once majestic falls above Veronica Lake...
devastated.
While the narrator... thas me...
down on his luck and out of a job,
was forced to move in with his mother
where he was reduced to narrating
the events of his own life.
"With the speed and dexterity
astonishing in a woman of her advancing years,
Mother bastes the chicken, tosses the salad,
and mashes the potatoes."
Oh, sonny, shut up!
Ow!
And in a little house at the top of a stump forest,
Rocky and Bullwinkle themselves,
were forced to subsist on ever-diminishing residual checks
from reruns of their oldshow.
World famous television stars
whose adventures once took them all over the globe,
now their exploits were just a memory.
Yes, it was a melancholy time indeed.
Rocky the flying squirrel hadn't flown in years.
Whas the point?
I guess the world just doesn't need us anymore, Bullwinkle.
Say, where are you going?
All this exposition is wearing me out.
I'm going for a walk in the woods.
But, Bullwinkle, there aren't any woods anymore.
You don't have to tell me.
I'm the chairman of the Frostbite Falls Society for Wildlife Conversation.
You mean wildlife conservation.
What did I say?
You said, "wildlife conversation."
Somebody's going to start talking about these things.
Yes, even their wordplay had become hackneyed and cheap.
No, it was always like this.
But times were just as tough half way across the drawing
in the former Soviet satellite of Pottsylvania.
Where Rocky and Bullwinkle's archrivals,
Boris and Natasha,
and their fearless leader...
Fearless Leader...
were cooking up their latest scheme
for taking over the world,
when their plans were crushed
by the fall of the Iron Curtain.
Whas going on?
But, while the citizens of Pottsylvania
rejoiced in their new found freedom...
Yay!
Fearless Leaderand his cohorts went underground,
where upon they embarked upona terrifying plan,
a plan that would take them to a strange new land
where the line between cartoon and reality is so thin,
thas is hard to tell one from the other.
A place where with the right special effects,
it might just be possible to break through...
to the otherside!
It was a beautiful and smoggy day at Phony Pictures Studio,
where an ambitious junior executive named Minnie Mogul
was busy searching for a hot new script.
Too intelligent.
Hello, Minnie.
Holy mackerel! Who areyou?
Three of the most terrifying villains
in the history of children's television.
How do you do?
Nice to meetyou.
What do you want?
We were wondering, how would you like
toproduce the Rocky andBullwinkle movie?
I'd love to. I love it.
What is it?
Is classic American cartoon from early '60s.
Mm-hmm.
Listen, Minnie...
we're stuck in reruns. You're looking for a project.
Maybe we can help each other out.
This contractgives youallrights
to The Rockyand Bullwinkle Show.
All you have to do is sign right here
andyour fiirst producing endeavor is as goodas gold.
Whas the matter?
I can't sign a contract
that will help three ruthless villains take over the world.
I just can't.
Why not!?
My pen's out ofink.
Use mine.
Okay.
And then through the miracle of computer-generated
digital technology...
Minnie reached into the televisionset
and signedthe contract.
But when she tried to pull the contractout...
the expensive animated characters
were instantly converted into evenmore expensive
motionpicture stars.
Hey...
how did that happen?
We're attached to the project.
But even though thepun was weak,
the contract was ironclad.
And the three villains walked out of the studio
and into the real world,
while Minnie marched straight into the offiice
of Phony Pictures' C.E.O., P. G. Biggershot.
But unfortunately for her,
when she pitched her project to the powerful executive,
she ran into an unexpected snag.
I don't like moose pictures.
So while Minnie's motion picture plans were stymied,
back in Frostbite Falls,
Bullwinkle got a rare flash of inspiration.
It is kinda hot in here.
I've been inspiring for hours.
- Hey, where areyou going? - I'm going to the White House,
to talk to the president about the trees.
So Rocky and Bullwinkle set off on the road to Washington.
I don't know, Bullwinkle, it looks a little jammed.
Horsefeathers! How bad could it be?
Look at all the red tape!
Don't worry, little buddy.
I'm sure the president will send for us
after all the letters I wrote him.
Why, I bet any second now...
or two... or three... or four...
There the matter seemed destined to rest...
until six months later, in Washington, D. C.,
when idealistic, warm hearted,
and beautiful FBI agent, Karen Sympathy,
was summoned to the office of hard-boiled FBI director,
"Cappy" Von Trappment.
Agent Sympathy,
given all your bungled assignments in the past,
I suppose you were wondering
why I picked you for this mission.
Yes, sir.
Sympathy, allow me to be frank.
Thisjob requires the ideal FBI agent...
someone tough,
someone hard-bitten,
someone emotionless.
Do you understand?
Yes, sir. Tough! Hard-boiled! Unemotional!
Good.
Are you familiar with The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show?
Oh-hh!
I mean... ahem...
I've heard of it.
171/2 short minutes later...
Mr. President,
this is a regular networkTV station.
PresidentSignoff,
standing firm lyin the middle of the road.
But lookwhat happens when we switch to cable...
For the last six months,
a cartoon villain from the old Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
named Fearless Leader has been buying up
every single hour of cable programming in this country,
forming asingle gigantic network
called RBTV,
or "Really Bad Television."
According to our sources, three days from now
Fearless Leader plans to broadcast TV shows so terrible,
they'll turn anyone who watches them
into a mindless zombie,
incapable of independent thought.
Totally different than regular TV.
The RBTV broadcast starts at noon on Saturday.
By 8:00 that night,
Fearless Leaderwill have hypnotized enough viewers
that he can go on the air
and make the whole country vote for him as president.
Well...
thas no good...
No.
No, I mean...
I want to be president again.
Yes.
We all know that, sir.
Can't the Pentagon do something about this?
Any recommendations?
General Foods?
General Store?
General Admission?
We can't think ofanything, Mr. President.
Can't the FBI do anything, Cappy?
We've already sent three crack agents to infii ltrate RBTV...
They've disappeared.
Is almost as if there were a mole in the White House.
Thas just ridiculous.
Yes, sir.
Mr. President,
our only chance is to call on those two gallant heroes...
who successfully foiled Fearless Leader's schemes forworld conquest...
backwhen he posed a threat in the 1960s.
If anyone can stop him, they can.
Rocky and Bullwinkle!
Rocky and Bullwinkle, sir.
Sympathy, you've got exactly 46 hours...
to get Rocky and Bullwinkle to New York
and shut down Fearless Leader's broadcast.
Thank you, sir. I won't fail.
Just be careful.
We've already lost three of our best agents.
So good luck.
Oh, sir, just one thing...
How do I get Rocky and Bullwinkle out ofreruns?
I don't know.
Fearless Leader and those other two
got out somehow, didn't they?
Figure it out!
And, Sympathy, remember,
we only care about results.
Within the hour, Karen was enroute to LosAngeles.
She was determined to give the Rocky and Bullwinkle movie
the green light.
Whas happening?
Cobs and shuckins, Rock!
The president must be beaming us to Washington!
Thas not the president, Bullwinkle.
Thas agreenlight from Hollywood.
Those TV people musve changed their minds.
Whoa!
Goodbye, sonny!
I'llbeback forhiatus, Ma!
Hang on, Rocky!
Mama!
Oof!
Hokey smoke! Areyou all right?
Yeah, but I think we're on the wrong show.
Look how well they drew that girl!
Is you.
Is really you!
Rocky...
and Bull...
Bull...
- Bull... - I believe the word...
you're searching for is "winkle."
Bullwinkle.
Hey, what network areyou from?
I'm not from any network.
Agent Karen Sympathy, FBI.
Listen, you guys. I've been sent here because...
Somebody's coming. We gotta get out ofhere fast.
Quick! Les go to a commercial!
What is this, PBS?
Come on!
Les go!
- Hold it right there, lady! - Just a second!
Er... this way!
Hey, wait for me!
Ow!
Bullwinkle, I don't think we're on television anymore.
Bullwinkle, can you rappel?
Sure! I've been repelling viewers foryears!
Never mind. Get on my back.
I'll carry you down.
What about Rocky?
He's a flying squirrel. He'll manage.
Er...
Aah!
Ooh!
Hurry up, Rocky! Fly down!
Just like old times.
Aaah!
Oh, my God! Are you all right?
Rocky! You okay?
Sure, just out ofpractice.
Moments later...
Agent Sympathy, can I ask you something personal?
Didyou watch ourshow?
Did I watch your show? I lovedyour show!
- You did? - Sure!
Ever since I was a kid I wanted to have adventures like you guys.
Thas why I joined the Bureau.
Really?
But that little girl doesn't exist anymore, Rocky.
They don't want her kind in the FBI.
I do exist! I do exist! Let me out!
- There's something in your eye. - No, there's not.
Ow!
All right, we need to get to New York
and stop Fearless Leader's broadcast within 40 hours.
Waitaminute!
Why don't we take an airplane?
Because then it wouldn't be a road movie. Whee-ee!
We don'tknow how, but Fearless Leader, Boris and Natasha
escaped from the cartoon world into the real world.
- So the president sent me to... - Ofcourse!
The president got my letters about the trees!
What trees?
The Frostbite Falls Forest. I knew he would respond.
- Look, we don't have time... - Bullwinkle,
this lady isn't here about the trees.
- She's from the FBI. - FBI?
Didn't they take our show off the air?
- You mean the FCC. - Didn't they like it either?
Look...
Can you believe we used to get paid for this routine?
Would you listen to me, please?
Finally, in a crisis of conscience,
Karen decided to tell...
an untruth.
Okay, you're right.
The president sent me because he wants you to head...
the... er...
Committee for Animated Wildlife Preservation.
Ooh!
Okay?
Thas not what you said before!
I was building up to it.
Gee, what kind ofmusic is that?
- Hip-hop. - Okay...
but I'd still like to know what kind ofmusic it is.
Thas funny, the radio's off.
Oh, thas just Bullwinkle.
His antlers pick up everything.
Bullwinkle, cover up your nose!
Okay. I was just gettin' jiggy with it.
They sure don't have music like that in Frostbite Falls.
Agent Sympathy,
have things changed a lot in the last 35 years?
Just you waitandsee.
As dawn broke over the City ofAngels,
our valiant protagonists boldly rocketed
toward the beckoning horizon
of a strange new three-dimensional world,
and the unimaginable perils that lay on the road ahead.
While on the otherside of the country,
at Fearless Leader's headquarters,
Really Bad Television...
My fellow Pottsylvanians,
this is the quality control.
It will enhance or degrade the quality
of what ever you run through it.
If the input show is bad enough,
the quality control will exaggerate its mind-numbing properties...
until the audience is completely hypnotized.
So, Badenov,
these shows had better be terrible!
Don't worry, Fearless Leader.
We are ready to test the machine.
Ready to test machine!
Put on your protective glasses!
Put on protective glasses!
Badenov, proceed with the test!
Badenov, proceed with test!
Sometimes, is not so easy being Fearless Leader.
Coming toyour TV,
brand new exciting shows of the highest fun!
So, if adventure is your best ingredient,
try the action with...
Clever Spies Crush the Enemy On Monday!
And the laughter never gets away...
with Three Funny and Wacky Spies & Their Horse,
Who Will Also Be a Spy.
It works!
Yeah!
Silence!
Is a message from my mole at the White House!
Moose and squirrel!
Moose and squirrel.
How many times in the past have they stood between me...
and my dreams ofglory?
How many times have they foiled my plans...
with their bungling interference?
Er... 28?
Quiet, idiot!
They must never reach New York alive.
I want you to destroy them personally.
After 30 years of waiting,
one more chance to crush moose and squirrel!
Oh, Fearless Leader, you are so good to us!
There has never been a way to actually destroy a cartoon character...
until now!
What about in that movie, RogerRabbit?
Shut up! This is totally different!
There has never been a way to actually destroy a cartoon character...
untilnow!
This is the computer degenerating imagery.
Show them, Sydney.
The "computer degenerating imagery"
or C.D.I., as I like to call it,
is totally user-friendly.
Just index the binary codes
of the animated image you're gonna degenerate
and the C.D.I. 'll dismantle the digital image
on your film stock. 'Kay?
Bring in the test subject!
No, no!
Oh, this is what I was afraid of.
I've been tricked! Please, don't send me there.
Please don'tsendme there!
Now I know what happened to my friend Freddy the Ferret
and those cute little bunnies...
Okay, now all you gotta do is type in an address
and send him where all worthless cyberjunk ends up...
the Internet!
Let go of my paw. You broke my nail!
Aah!
So, thas all there is to it.
Here's the manual
and she's all yours.
I assumeyou're both computer literate?
We don't need computerweapon to kill moose and squirrel!
We've been trying to kill moose and squirrel for 35 years.
And we've never even come close.
Exactly.
Andso, armed with the C.D.I.,
and a truck load full of really silly cartoon weaponry,
Boris and Natasha set off to blast Rocky and Bullwinkle
from the face of the Earth,
and immediately got stuck in traffic.
While back at RBTV...
Dear Diary,
soon the presidency will be mine.
As for this FBI agent, Karen Sympathy,
I will deal with her the same way I dealt...
with the three agents before her.
At the moment oftruth,
she'll be plugged directly
into the quality control current
and turned into a helpless...
mindless...
vegetable.
Vegetable.
A barrel ofmoney
Maybe we're ragged and funny
But we'll travel along
Singing a song...
Youknow, lusedtobe justlikeyouguys.
Cheerful, optimistic.
But if there's one thing I learned in the FBI,
is that life is not a cartoon.
Whoa!
Look out!
Whoa!
Aah!
Out of the car!
Whas the rush?
All right, I'm going, I'm going!
Are you all right?
Ofcourse.
Guess I should have figured.
Butnotforlong!
Hey, Rock. They look kind offamiliar.
Yeah! Haven't we seen those two somewheres before?
Whas with the cannon?
Is traditional!
Run!
Boris Badenov!
I've seen you on TV.
You're a crooked, creepy, no-good rotten worm.
Oh, thank you.
You're slimy, sneaky, sleazy...
Please! You'll turn my pretty head.
You're asadisticspy anda...
and a...
really, really bad person!
Stop! You're embarrassing me.
Where is boom?
Boris, darling,
maybe is time to update our technique.
Fearless Leader!
We're so happy you called!
Haveyou liquidated moose and squirrel?
Did you use the C.D. I?
Yes?
Are you talking to me?
Er...
Then who else are you talking to?
Are you talking to me?
Well, I'm the only one here...
soyou must be talking to me...
and you are lying!
Now catch moose and squirrel
and next time use the C.D.I. On them!
ButKaren, we can'tride to therescuein astolen truck.
Yeah!
Why couldn'tyou steal something with bucket seats?
Bullwinkle!
Just kidding, Rock.
Isjust not right.
Is not right? What are you talking about?
They wrecked our car! They were trying to kill us!
But we're supposed to be the heroes.
Rocky, is not 1964 anymore.
You're in the real world now.
Rocky's right, Karen.
And two rights don't make a wrong.
Bullwinkle, thas not what you mean.
You mean two rights do make a wrong?
No!
I always thought two rights made a U-turn.
I don't know how much more of this I can take.
Well, les fii nd out.
Two U-turns make a circle,
two circles make a figure eight,
two figure eights make a butterfly...
Look, all I want from you guys are results. Okay?
It was their first fight.
Andso, racked with internal conflicts,
they made their way across the Great Divide
and onto the great plains.
Hey, look at that, Rock!
What a strange looking town!
Andwhile Bullwinkle ponderedthemodern world,
severalstates back, Boris andNatasha...
were still tramping along theroad.
Ifonlywe had a helicopter.
Butsince they were in themiddle of the desert,
there was obviously no chance whatsoever
of finding a helicopter.
Boris...
Look!
Oh, damn! Nevermind.
Natasha, quick.
Whatluck!
Great googly moogly!
Holy cow! What the?
Hey, listen, gol-darn it!
Thas the third time this month.
I'm sick and tired of shopping for helicopters.
Boy, if I had a missile,
I'd blow your buns right out of the sky!
Yes, Boris and Natasha were back in business,
but they had no way
of discovering the route our heroes had taken...
Hey! You can'tdo that!
Interstate 1,
just outside Red Bait, Oklahoma, darling.
- Cheaters. - Thank you!
And high above our unsuspecting heroes...
- Statepolice? - Yes, ma'am?
This is FBI Agent KarenSympathy...
All right, I'm sorry I yelled.
But you don't understand.
I can't mess up this time.
"This time"? Was there a last time?
Tell us about yourself, Karen.
Lesjust say I've made...
mistakes.
Look, I can't blow this one.
The whole world depends on it,
and I can't do it withoutyour help.
Agent Sympathy,
you can count on Bullwinkle and me.
- We won't letyou down. - No.
Thanks, you guys.
You know,
I'm glad Cappy picked me for this mission.
I think we're gonna make a great team.
- Huh? - Oh, no.
And just as this sentimental moment
had mercifully come to a close,
our heroes were pulled over by two state troopers
and a cameraman from the hit TV show,
Made Up Stories From the Real Highway Patrol.
Step out of the vehicle with your hands up, please!
Is okay, Officers, I'm with the FBI...
Step out of the vehicle now!
Hey, Rock, your face is all blurry.
So's yours.
This truck matches the description...
of a vehicle reported stolen outside Red Bait, Oklahoma,
just a couple ofhours ago.
You are under arrest for grand theft auto
and for impersonating FBI agent, Karen Sympathy.
I am FBI Agent Karen Sympathy!
Like fun you are.
We both know Agent Karen Sympathy...
has a heavy Pottsylvanian accent.
We heard her on the radio.
But she really is with the FBI!
Yeah, and I'm really john Goodman.
Les get in the car.
Just one minute, Officer!
Wherever she goes, we go.
Yeah, thas right. We're a team!
Well, she's going off to the federal pen...
to break rocks for the next fiiveyears.
Okay, well, don't forget to write.
I guess we could always appear atyour trial...
as animated character witnesses!
No! Rocky, Bullwinkle...
is your duty to get to New York by 8:00 PM tomorrow.
Karen, we can't leaveyounow.
Hey, I'm an FBI agent, remember?
I'll straighten this out, and catch up with you later.
But we've never been in the real world before!
Oh, you'll do great. I know it.
Hey! What about our faces?
Oh... sorry.
Wait, you can't just leave them on the side of the road like that.
They don't even know where they are.
Don't worry, ma'am. They're animals.
They'll forage.
C'mon, Rock, time's a-wastin'!
We owe it to Karen to see the president about the trees!
Trees?
Bullwinkle, we have to go to New York.
We don't have time to get to Washington!
This is no time to worry about getting the washing done.
Not "washing done." Washing-ton!
A ton?!
Well, that is a lot oflaundry.
Bullwinkle, that joke just won't wash!
Well, you can't blame me for drying!
I think I'll fly ahead.
Butit was just no use.
Faced with the utter hopelessness of their predicament,
the razor-sharp mind of Bullwinkle
quickly formulated a daring plan.
Help! Help!
Somebody please help!
Help!
So on they walked, two lone figures...
making their way through a foreign and hostile live-action landscape.
I thought you said we were in Oklahoma.
Would you like to narrate this movie?
No.
And so on they walked, two lone figures...
making their way through a foreign and hostile live-action landscape.
They walked until their thumbs ached,
but no one wanted to take a chance...
ona 6'7" talking moose
and a flying squirrel who couldn't fly.
I could f-fly if I had to!
Whoa!
Ow!
Kinda makes you feel discouraged.
Maybe we should be a little more aggressive.
Stop!
This movie's gettin' kind of...
Don't say it!
Two-dimensional.
Yes, things were beginning to look mighty dark...
for our intrepid heroes...
It is gettin' kinda hard to see.
Bullwinkle, he means our situation.
Oh!
Wait a minute, boys, there's a couple of headlights.
I think is...
Yes! Yes!
It was a couple of fresh-faced college students...
named Martin and Lewis.
Come on, Rock! Is a convertible!
All right, buckle up now, fellas.
Yeah, safety fii rst!
So where doyou boys go to school?
We're undergrads at Wossamotta U.
Wossamotta U!
My old alma mater!
Bullwinkle was a big football star at Wossamotta U.
- Quarter-buck! - I thoughtyou looked familiar.
Where are you fellows coming from, anyway?
Thank you!
We've been on the road, looking for America.
We've been looking for America all day.
We just can't find it.
Man, we're exhausted.
Gee, fellas, perhaps you've been looking too hard.
Maybe America is all around you...
in a thousand different beautiful manifestations.
Wouldn't you say so, young people?
Yeah, right.
Rocky, haven't we passed this town before?
Following ominously above them in the Midwestern sky,
Boris conceived a sinister plan.
Flying ahead to Wossamotta U...
the two villains made asizable donation to the college...
in Bullwinkle's name...
prompting the college president to bestow upon Bullwinkle...
an honorary moosters degree.
And when moose is at podium for acceptance speech,
I'll be on water tower with C.D.I.
There was only one problem...
Wossamotta U. Had no watertower.
Can't even find water fountain.
Their entire scheme seemed to be on the verge ofcollapse,
until they hit upon an incredibly ingenious plan...
What?!
Dawn brokeat 6... 00AM.
The day of Fearless Leader's deadly broadcast...
had finally arrived.
And there was Karen, toiling away
under the watchful eyes of a tall, blond,
incredibly handsome, Swedish-American prison guard
named Ole.
Several states away, our hitchhiking heroes
were doggedly making their way to New York,
but little did theyknow they were driving...
straight into Boris Badenov's sinister snare.
Heavens to Betsy!
The car is sticking its tongue out at me!
No, is not. Isjust a fax.
- A what? - A fax!
Don't you guys know about faxes?
Yeah, don't you know about E-mail?
Sure. A fax is a little red critter...
that steals geese and chickens.
Half of them are males and the other half are e-males.
No, is a way of transmitting computer-generated information
across great distances in the blink of an eye.
Well, I was close.
Oh, hey! Is for you.
Hokeysmoke, Bullwinkle!
Wossamotta U. Wants to give you an honorary degree.
And the ceremony is today!
Bullwinkle, we don't have time to go.
We've gotta get to New York!
Oh, woe is me!
I must have my degree!
I'll put it on the wall...
for everyone tosee.
I guess if is in the name of education...
Oh, it was a happy day at Wossamotta U.,
scene of Bullwinkle's football triumphs years ago.
Gee, it looks so different.
Everything's in the same place, but...
Well, Wossamotta U.'s been a live-action university
since the show went into reruns back in '64.
I thought the buildings looked a lot more realistic.
Say, whereyou guys been all this time, huh?
Reruns.
You know thas never gonna happen to us, right?
Well, anyway, there's still a lot...
ofanti-cartoon feeling on campus these days.
Hokey smoke, Bullwinkle!
Is some kind of demonstration.
What are the kids protesting these days?
Is it a civil rights march?
Not really...
Is it an anti-war rally?
No, not exactly.
Tell 'em, fellas.
Is a anti-moose march.
Yes, itseems that araging controversy
had broken out among the students that very morning
over the decision to give Bullwinkle an honorary degree...
Gee, Bullwinkle, I guess is true.
You can't go home again.
Why, Rocky! Whatever doyou mean?
Wossamotta U. Is home!
Oh, brother!
Look! There's the animated freak now!
My fans!
Bullwinkle, these aren't fans.
This is an angry mob.
Butin the face of danger, our insipid hero...
bravely made his way through the angry crowd.
You mean "intrepid hero," don't you?
No-oo...
Hundreds of miles away, in RedBait, Oklahoma,
it was time for the prisoners' daily helping of disgusting slop.
ButKarenSympathy hadsucceededin making Ole,
the simple-minded but incredibly handsome prison guard,
fall madly in love with her.
Presently, Karen promisedto let him take her to the movies
ifhe would help her break out of jail.
Could we hold hands in the movie theatre?
Of course we could, Ole.
But how would we eat our popcorn?
Well, we could eat our popcorn with one hand...
and hold hands with the other.
But what if I want a soda?
Look...
I'm sure we can work this out.
Good morning, students.
Today Wossamotta U. Honors one of our own...
As the students vented their collective spleen at Bullwinkle,
RocketJ. Squirrel anxiously surveyed the raging crowd
for signs of danger.
And suddenly, his sharp little eyes
picked out the terrifying figure of Boris Badenov
near the top of the watertower.
Hey! That guy's not a college student!
That we present this honorary degree...
to Bullwinkle J. Moose.
Good morning, children!
Today's lecture is about trees.
Bullwinkle, look out! Is a trap!
ButRocky's voice couldn'tcarry
overthestridentshouts ofthestudentbody.
With no alternative in sight, Rocky tried one more time
to summon up those faded aeronautical skills
that had once made him a household name.
But just then, Boris managed to turn on the C.D.I.
Aha!
Yes, it looked like curtains for Bullwinkle...
Got to...
save...
Bullwinkle!
Whoa!
"Bad command or fii le name.
Press any key to continue."
Which one is "any" key?
Look out!
Oh, no!
With asingle blow, Rockysent the C.D.I.
Hurtling through thesky...
where upon Boris single-mindedly
reached out to catch the catapulted computer,
forgetting as he did,
one vitally important piece of information...
I ain't a cartoon no more.
Aahh!
Darling!
Ow!
Mayday!
You like me!
You really like me!
I guess I've lost the knack.
I'll never fly again.
Yes, without trees,
where would the birdies live?
Forced to migrate to the cities,
they would take jobs away from local pigeons.
Bullwinkle, they're listening!
Yes, Bullwinkle's speech was soinane...
that thestudents couldn'tunderstand a wordhe was saying,
andconsequently found nothing to object to.
So RockyandBullwinkle bade a fondfarewell
to thehallowedwalls ofWossamotta U.
Don't forget to write, oldbuddy.
Bullwinkle, who are you talking to?
I don't know,
but is like talking to a wall.
I want to thank you fellas for bringing unity back
to this troubled campus with your ludicrous remarks.
Martin and I would like to wish you guys
luck against Fearless Leader.
Yeah, and we would come help you guys, but...
we don't wanna get hurt.
Yeah, man, we're not going near him.
Yeah, until we metyou guys,
we almost totally lost faith in America.
Youknow, andwe lostfaith in our car.
I used to think our carwas really cool,
but now is just always dirty.
And running low on gas.
Yeah, but since we met you guys, we love it again.
Yeah, the car is totally back.
So, as a gesture of our appreciation,
we want you guys to have it.
Yeah, so, take the car.
Really?
Is yours.
Whoa!
Gee, fellas, thanks.
Yeah, thanks!
You do know how to drive, right?
Please!
What moose can't drive a automobile?
Oh, brother!
Never said I could drive it well.
Andjustas Rockyand Bullwinkle got back on the road,
Boris and Natasha emerged from the student infiirmary,
ready foraction.
Meanwhile, in Cow Tip, Oklahoma...
Ole,
why don't you go get the tickets,
and I'll park the truck?
Gosh, Karen!
I've never had so much fun
in my whole life.
Is like...
Is like there was always a little boy trapped...
somewhere inside me,
and now that I've met you,
I can finally let him out.
Please, two for the love movie.
There you go.
Tack.
Now, thas not verynice.
Shut up.
As for Rocky and Bullwinkle,
they were gently motoring along an Illinois interstate...
Hey, Rock,
there's that same town again!
Areyou sure we're going the right way?
Bullwinkle, look out!
Whoa!
Sorry!
Bullwinkle, we're not going to Chicago!
We are now.
As our heroes found themselves racing toward Chicago,
little did they realize that only a few miles behind...
And back in Cow Tip, Oklahoma,
the only person in this movie more clueless than Bullwinkle
faithfully waited for Karen to get back
from parking his truck.
But our heroine was already passing through Indiana...
where she was about tomake an ominous discovery.
For watching miserable people suffer in daytime,
is The Jenny Spy Show.
Are you sorry that you called her fat?
Yes! Yes!
Oh, no! Not already!
Yes, Fearless Leader's hypnotic broadcast...
was already underway.
You are watching premiere broadcast of RBTV.
Ah, I love my RBTV.
Fearless Leader!
The zombombidor shows
that 30% of despised, decadent Americans
are already total zombies!
Good!
I'll address the nation at exactly 8:00 PM
Eastern standard time.
Back at the RedBait Prison Farm,
Karen's daring escape had not gone unnoticed.
Meanwhile on the bustling boulevards ofChicago, Illinois,
Rocky and Bullwinkle were about to discover
they had considerable troubles of their own.
There they are!
Hello!
Look out!
Smush them!
Duck!
Well, mercy me!
Excuse us!
Bullwinkle!
Mamma mia!
Is Rocky and Bullwinkle!
And you thought I couldn't drive.
Bullwinkle! Look out!
Hold her steady, poopsie.
Is time to say goodbye...
to moose and squirrel.
- Ahh! - Oh, no!
Hasta la vista, baby!
Hey, poopsie... whas happening?
I think you degenerated wrong special effect.
And while Rocky and Bullwinkle were making their getaway,
Boris and Natasha were still high above the Chicago streets,
but with one small difference.
No helicopter.
And as luck would have it, a travelling mattress salesman
just happened to be passing bybelow.
Matresses for sale!
How do I do it? Volume!
Ouch. Oy.
Now thas a soft mattress.
Temporarily outofdanger,
Rocky and Bullwinkle breathed a sigh of relief.
At the same time,
Boris and Natasha were forced to rent...
an econoclass Chevy Metro from the Cheapo Rent-A-Car Company
in order to resume the chase.
This slight delay gave our heroes the opportunity
to effect a not her beautiful,
if implausibly coincidental, reunion.
Whoa!
Whoops.
Hey, you lunatic!
Why don't you watch whereyou're...
Rocky!
Bullwinkle!
Karen!
Guys, I missed you so much.
I was so worried about you...
I didn't mean to...
I mean...
Good work,
Agents Rocky, Bullwinkle.
Lookit, we have six hours to get to New York.
- The Big Apple! - Bullwinkle, please!
RBTV is already turning people into zombies.
But Karen, why aren't you injail?
Oh...
er... I was pardoned.
Freeze! Freeze!
Must be some kind of clerical error.
You're under arrest.
Keep your hands high above your head!
And just to think...
Is the opening of moose season.
The states of California,
Arizona, NewMexico,
Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma,
Missouri, Illinois,
Indiana and Ohio, versus KarenSympathy,
Rocket J. Squirrel and BullwinkleJ. Moose.
Judge Cameo presiding.
Who speaks for the defense?
BullwinkleJ. Moose, attorney at law.
Hey, hey, hey!
Hey!
The defendants are charged with
One count;
breaking outofjail... one count,.
Impugning the character of a prison guard...
- Ooh! - One count...
Four counts;
talking to the audience...
- What?! - Five counts,.
Criminally bad punning:
18 counts.
And three dukes and seven earls!
Make that 19.
Hey! Hey!
Counselor,
call your first witness.
Yes, Your Honor.
As our first witness, the defense calls...
Karen Sympathy!
Oh, please, no.
Doyou, Karen Sympathy, swear to tell the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the truth,
so help you God?
I do.
Ha!
A little late!
Oh!
Ms. Sympathy,
isn't it true that when our convertible
was destroyed in Monument Valley...
the first thing you did was to steal...
somebody else's truck?
Um...
That depends on how you legally defii ne the word "steal,"
because I believe...
And didn't you escape from prison...
by telling that poor trusting prison guard
that you would let him takeyou to the movies?
Well, I thought we might have time if we went to a matinee...
Isn't it true you never meant to see a film at all?!
Yes...
is true.
And didn't you tell Rocky and me...
that you got out of prison because you got a pardon?
Yes...
I did do that!
Isn't it true you have no respect for the law
or anything else?
No!
I was just trying to complete my mission!
I was only supposed to care about results!
And how come Rocky and me are still cartoons...
and Boris and Natasha aren't?
I don't know! I didn't write the movie!
I'm only one of the characters!
Your witness, Counselor.
What are the teams again?
Bullwinkle, you're supposed to be the defense attorney.
You just proved we're guilty.
Yes, but now our consciences are clean,
and the healing can begin.
Your Honor,
is time the court showed the world
that no quarterwill be given
to celebrity defendants.
- Celebrity? - Mm-hmm.
Did you say celebrity?
Where are myglasses?
Oh, my Gawd!
Is Rocky and Bullwinkle! Oh, my God!
I love, I loveyour show!
Your Honor!
And you, Mr. District Attorney,
I'd like to point something out to you in the penal code,
section C, paragraph22.
"Celebrities are above the law."
This case is dismissed.
Moments later, our heroes were back on the road,
with a mere three hours
to get from Rabid Froth, Ohio to New York.
Three hours!
If only we had an airplane.
Hokey smoke! Look!
Gosh! Another wild coincidence.
Afternoon, folks.
Hi!
You got any planes left?
Well, lesjust kinda give a look-see...
I thinkwe have one left.
They've got tobehere somewhere, Boris, darling!
Keep the change!
Oh! This is gonna get my stepson a new trial.
Bingo!
Goody! Goody!
Hey! Hey!
Y'all can't get in there.
She won't hold the weight!
You'll never reach the end of the runway.
The wings will come off.
Oh, God!
Oh, crap!
Boris pushed the little Metro for all it was worth...
We've got them, Boris, we've got them!
They've got us, Rocky, they've got us!
But at that very moment,
Boris and Natasha's rental agreement suddenly expired
and they were immediately blockaded...
by the dedicated agents of the Cheapo Rent-A-Car Company.
Come on! Come on!
Come on, you can do it! You old bird!
Come on!
Although Boris and Natasha tried feverishly to complete
the necessary paperwork...
Look!
It was too late.
- Stop! Stop! - Stop!
Stop!
That certainly was a close one.
Les just hope this thing makes it all the way to New York.
Where did we go wrong, Boris?
We tried to blow them up.
We tried to have them arrested.
We tried to degenerate them.
We tried to smush them.
Yes, and we never even came close.
Oh, Boris,
what are we doing, darling?
We been trying to catch moose and squirrel...
ever since we first got drawn.
We tried to stab them, shoot them, smash them,
smush them, crush them, bash them, mash them
and they don't even know our names.
I'm tired of all this, Boris.
I don't want to be spy no more.
Les faceit, darling, we suck.
We can never catch moose and squirrel.
Boris...
don't you want to have little Boris? Hmmm?
Little Natasha?
Wouldn't it be wonderful?
We could rent cottage by sea of Pottsylvania
and teach them how to lie, and cheat and be rotten.
They would be worst children in world!
They'd be monsters.
It would be awful!
We could be so happy.
Telephone.
Hoboy.
Saved by bell!
Well, Badenov, did the C.D.I. Work?
Oh, it... it works all right!
So moose and squirrel are dead, then?
Well, is funny you should ask...
Yes, Fearless Leader!
We killed moose and squirrel!
Excellent!
Wait there for my private jet.
I want you both beside my side for the big broadcast.
- Natasha... - Yes, darling?
Why did you tell him that?!
Because, Boris!
Moose and squirrel can't reach New York...
by 8:00 PM in that little plane.
And what ifthey did? So what?
How could they stop us now?
Practicallywhole country is zombifiied!
We've won, Boris! We've won!
Just the way I planned it!
On their way to New York,
our heroes were soon to discover...
that old Jeb was right.
She won't pull up, we're too heavy!
Rocky, can you fly Bullwinkle down?
I don't think so, Karen.
He's a huge moose!
I beg your pardon! I'm as trim as a young fawn!
You weigh 400 imaginary pounds!
Yeah, but is all "mooscle."
Bullwinkle, can you fly an airplane?
What moose can't fly a aeroplane?
Rocky, you'll have to fly me down.
I can't do that, Karen.
I can't fly again! I've lost the knack.
Bullwinkle, take the controls.
Okay.
Listen to me, Rocky.
- You can do this. - I can't!
- I knowyou can do this. - I just can't!
This is everything you taught me since I was a little kid.
All you have to do is believe in...
Karen!
Look out for the sign!
Aaah!
Here goes n-nothing!
Gotyou!
Rocky!
Uh-oh!
Bullwinkle!
Never said I could fly it well.
See you in New York!
Hang on, Karen! Hang on!
If I could just...
Rocky!
You're flying!
- You're flying! - Yes, I am!
I certainly am.
Look at me! I'm flying!
New York City, here we come!
Yahoo!
Yeah!
What a day, a year, a life it is!
You know
Well, you know you had it coming toyou
Now there's not a lot I can do
Dreamer
A stupid little dreamer
So now you putyour head in your hands, oh, no!
Whoo!
Boris, darling,
how can you be so rotten?
When I stop moose and squirrel from saving country,
I don't kid around!
Karen looked upon the brave little squirrel
with a new admiration.
However, she couldn't help but wonder,
were they too late?
Soaringprecipitously overRockefellerCenter,
Karen and Rocky found the entire city of New York
completely zombifiied.
Rocky, whatever you do,
don't look at the screen!
Touching down outside RBTV,
the daring duo was soon to discover
that something else was terribly wrong.
Where's Bullwinkle? The speech starts any minute!
I knew we shouldn't have lefthim.
Bullwinkle and I have never been apart in 35 years!
Quick, Rock, follow me.
Come, Natasha.
Follow me to Fearless Leader.
Go! Go!
Oh, Fearless Leader!
We're back!
You are so-oo happy to see us!
Well, Fearless Leader, he did it!
Boris Badenov is now offiicial number one killer...
ofmoose and squirrel.
Excellent, my faithful minions!
Excellent!
Hail, Pottsylvania!
Hail to the black and the blue!
Hail, Pottsylvania!
Sneaky and crooked,
Through and through...
Down with the good guys,
Up with the boss,
Under the sign of the triple cross! Hey!
Hail, Pottsylvania!
Hail, hail, hail!
Thank you, Fearless Leader!
Well, no one can stop my broadcast now!
FBI! Freeze!
No one but these chocolate-chewing idiots!
All right, I want anyone in this room...
who's a Pottsylvanian spy to putyour hands up now!
That means you, too, Fearless Leader!
Let me see your hands!
All right, Agent Sympathy.
We don't want anybody to be hurt, now do we?
And whatever you're holding, drop it!
Gladly.
Don't look, Rocky, is a trick.
I'll turn you into a...
Rocky!
Rocky?
Oh-hh!
Peek-a-boopsie!
Well, Agent Sympathy,
I have waited manyyears
to face an enemy I could respect...
and I'm still waiting!
No, that was just a little joke.
But I'm afraid that you and this flying rodent
have reached the end of the road.
Now get ready for a taste of Pottsylvanian hospitability.
Thas ability to put you in hospital, darling.
Andso, Rocky and Karen's onlyhope
in the whole wide world was BullwinkleJ. Moose.
In other words, they didn'thave aprayer.
For Bullwinkle hadmanaged to miss New York altogether
and had flown instead to Washington, D. C.
Gee, New York sure has changed a lot since my day.
They even moved the White House here.
Couldn't fii nd the brakes.
Well, as long as I'm here,
I might as well talk to the president about the trees!
Anybody home?
With onlymoments left before thebroadcast,
Fearless Leader hadreleasedRocky...
from thegrip ofzombifiication sohe could...
share.
As for you, my friends, we have planned...
something quite special.
We are hooking you directly into the quality control.
As soon as we g olive,
the current will pass throughyourbrain
and you will be turned intoahelpless,
mindless vegetable.
But don't worry... it won'thurt.
At least, I never heard a complaint
from the other vegetables.
I think your ecognize
your three missing colleagues from the FBI?
Help us! Help!
I'm sorry, Rocky, I've really done it this time.
Don't worry, Karen, you need the most faith
when things look the most hopeless.
Thanks, Rocky.
And, Karen...
this is pretty hopeless.
Look,
we don't care what you do to us...
just leave America alone!
Ah, America...
I'm proud of you, Karen.
Listen, Fearless Leader:
If there's one thing this plucky squirrel has shown me,
is that you have to be who you are,
no matter how much pressure there is to change!
Yay!
Anddespite this inspiring vindication
ofKaren's innerchild,
Fearless Leader was unimpressed.
So Karen, Rocky, and the entire nation...
werepoisedon thebrink ofunimaginableperil.
And there is no one...
I said no one...
who can stop me now!
Or, in fact, was there?
Soyou see, Mr. President,
all the trees in Frostbite Falls are gone.
The birds have no place to put their things.
The children have no place to build their tree house.
I built them a stump house,
but they say is just not the same.
Please help when you have time.
But Gorka,
the horse has swallowed the transmitter!
Not again!
They certainly enjoy theirTV at the White House.
Bullwinkle!
Don't watch!
Bullwinkle!
Oh, no! Notyou, too!
Not a bad show, eh, Mr. President?
Yes, cheap as itmayseem...
anditcertainly does seem cheap...
Bullwinkle's head was so thick
that Fearless Leader's mind-numbing programming
had absolutely no effect on him whatsoever.
Come here!
At least one thing hasn't changed!
TV's as good as ever!
Bullwinkle, allow me to be frank.
Okay, Frank,
allow me to be Bullwinkle.
I'm Cappy Von Trappment, FBI.
I thoughtyou said your name was Frank.
- Shut up, Bullwinkle! - Okay, Frank.
As we speak,
99% of the country is slobbering in front of the television.
- Whas so strange about that? - Listen to me!
We haven't heard from Karen, I think she and Rocky...
are in terrible danger.
You've got to get to New York!
I thought this was New York.
No, Bullwinkle,
thas Washington out there! Thas Washington!
Really?
Where's that little white wig he always wears?
Is no use.
Fearless Leader's speech starts in less than two minutes.
There's no way anyone could get there in time now.
Oh, butterballs!
If only there were some way of transmitting
computer-generated animated characters
across great distances in the blink of an eye.
Bullwinkle! Thas it!
It is?
Yes, is our only chance!
We're gonna E-mail you to Karen in New York.
Well, okay, but don't you think...
she'd rather get flowers?
Just shut up and hold on!
- Okay! - One... two...
three!
And squeezing into the scanner drive...
Bullwinkle found himself inside the presidential computer.
Butback atRBTV,
Fearless Leader's deadly countdown hadjustbegun.
15, 14...
12...
And thas when Bullwinkle snapped into action.
Look, Frank, solitaire.
I'm sorry, Bullwinkle,
we don't have time for that!
With the coolagility ofajungle cat,
our heroic moose grabbed the corners of the E-mail envelope
and hung on for the ride of his life.
Eight, seven,
si-i...
While time stood virtually still at RBTV,
Bullwinkle surfed the information super highway
onhis way tosave the day.
Look, I'm hangin' four!
S-S-Surf's up, dude!
Hang on, Rocky!
I'm coming!
Bullwinkle found himself inside the RBTV computer...
Five...
You've gotmail!
With only seconds left to spare and no idea how to get out.
Four!
Bullwinkle, hurry up! Click on something!
- "Mine sweeper"? - Three...
Print! Print!
Andusing his brain,
Bullwinkle activated the 'print"icon...
but was hein time?
One...
Fearless Leader!
My fellow Americans.
Say hello to Fearless Leader!
Hello-oo!
You are tired, America. You are getting verysleepy.
Your mind is mush. You need help.
Yes, America,
you need me to run your country.
Youreallyneedme!
So vote forme asyourleader!
Vote for Fearless Leader!
We will vote for Fearless Leader.
I will vote for Fearless Leader.
Yes, America, I will bring order to the government.
This country will finally have a president you can respect.
Look, is moose!
And no sooner had Bullwinkle emerged from the printer
than his might yantlers momentarily jammed
the quality control signal,
reversing the vegetation process
and bringing Karen and Rocky miraculously back to life.
Yes, eversince I was a little sketch
growing up in Pottsylvania,
I dreamed of ruling the world.
Fearless Leader,
moose is loose!
Get them!
Go! Go!
Now, where were we?
Yes. I always knew I would rule the world someday.
Thas exactly whatl'm going to do.
Ouch!
So vote for Fearless Leader
and make a little boy's dream come true.
We will vote for Fearless Leader.
Once I am elected, there will be an end to chaos.
There will be discipline.
Because I'm going to run this country...
like a well-oiled machine...
I guess you could call me a neat freak,
but we all have our little foibles...
That tingles!
I'll be the president.
And with a single voice, America will say...
Aaah!
Come on, Rock! Wrap it all up!
Okay, Karen!
Bullwinkle, finish the speech!
Ahem... Good evening, America.
Bullwinkle Moose here, saying...
Forgot my line.
Just tell 'em to turn off the TV
and vote for whoever they want.
Turn off yourTV and vote for whoever you want!
And whoever wins the election,
replant the forest in Frostbite Falls!
And sure enough, all across America,
RBTV viewers turned off their sets
and faced the diffiicult question
of who they actually wanted to vote for.
And the moment the machine had been destroyed,
the three vegetables from the FBI
immediately resumed their human form.
Thanks, Agent Sympathy.
Freed at last from Fearless Leader's evil grasp,
even the Pottsylvanian spies rejoiced.
Well, we won't be needing this anymore.
Yeah!
Oh, that reminds me!
I should E-mail that nice Frank
an dthank him for his help.
Bullwinkle, no!
Ooh!
Aaah!
Andso the three villains were launchedup into the Internet,
where they wouldbe heardfrom nomore.
Aaaaaugh!
And so it came to pass that the election
took place as planned.
Yes, Rocky and Bullwinkle were stars once again.
RBTV changed its name from "Really Bad Television"
to "Rocky and Bullwinkle Television."
Whas the difference?
Sir, there's one thing I still don't understand.
Why did you pick me for this mission?
I mean, I'm clearly not FBI material.
FBI material is what gets thejob done, Ms. Sympathy.
If you needed an agent to work with a cartoon
moose and squirrel, who would you send?
Someone tough, hard-boiled and cynical?
Or one of those soft, squishy,
lovey-dovey, idealistic types?
Yes, sir.
Thank you, sir...
I think.
Affirmative.
Oh, by the way,
good work.
Well, I really want to thank you guys for everything.
And I really...
Well, I really...
I'd really like to say
that I thinkwe made a great team.
I'd really like to say...
that I think we made a great team.
And if it hadn't been fo ryou,
I never would have learned...
And if it hadn't been for you,
I never would have learned...
That what you believe in when you're young,
can still be true when you grow up.
Please don't make me say that.
You gotta say it!
Who is she talking to?
You got me, Rock.
That what you believe in when you'reyoung,
can still be true when you grow up.
Anyway...
thanks for the adventure.
So long.
Where areyou going?
Um... the movies.
Ofcourse!
The movies!
Hi. Um...
sorry I'm late.
Oh... thas okay.
And as Karen and Ole finally went to the movies,
back in Frostbite Falls the president carried out
the post-hypnotic suggestion to replant the animated trees.
Mama!
Sonny boy!
Meanwhile, all was well with our heroes.
Rocky was his oldself again...
Aw, I'll never forget our trip to New York
to visit President Washington!
Andso was Bullwinkle.
Yes, glad to be homein their revitalized little town,
Rocky the flying squirrel took a well-deserved joyride
through the sunny skies of Frostbite Falls!
- Bye! - Bye-bye!
When you're feeling like you're...
Out of touch
All alone and lost
And drifting through the night
Just think back toyounger times
And you'll fii nd the light
See the world for a while
Through the eyes of a child
You will see so much wonder
In your days
All thatyou believed
When you were small
Are still the dreams
That guide us all
The mirror shows you've grown
But reflects the child in you
If you're lookin' out
On stormy skies
And empty fiields
Afraid to give it one more try
See yourself above the clouds
Spread your wings and fly
See the world for a while
Through the eyes of a child
You will see so much wonder
In your days
All that you believed
When you were small
Are still the dreams you carry on
lmagine what could be
If you just believed in you
When you were young
Who did you wanna be?
What is stopping you
From that dream?
This is whoyou are
Don't be afraid
The child in you will never fail
The power to believe is yours alone
No one can ever take that child away
See the world for a while
Through the eyes of a child
You will see so much wonder
In your days
All that you believed
When you were small
Are still the dreams
That guide us all
The mirror shows you've grown
But reflects the child in you
lfthere's one thing I could
Say toyou
It would be to try
To makeyour dream come true
You can do almost anything
If you just believe...
If only, only, only
You believe...