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'Rocky and Bullwinkle' writer dies a 81
Associated Press ^
| December 18, 2006
Posted on 12/18/2006 2:52:44 PM PST by Zakeet
BEVERLY HILLS, California - Chris Hayward, an Emmy-winning television writer who helped develop the bumbling animated Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-Right and other offbeat characters for the Rocky and Bullwinkle TV show, has died. He was 81.
Hayward died of cancer Nov. 20 at this Beverly Hills home, his wife, Linda, told the Los Angeles Times in Sunday editions.
Hayward contributed satire, wordplay and puns for "Rocky and His Friends," a witty cartoon that built a large adult following. The show debuted on ABC in 1959 and was renamed "The Bullwinkle Show" when it moved to NBC in 1961.
Besides its titular flying squirrel and moose, the hit show featured segments including Mr. Peabody, a time-traveling dog with a boy companion, and Dudley, a klutzy hero always in pursuit of his nemesis Snidely Whiplash.
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MOOSE AND SQUIRREL ARE SAD
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:52:47 PM PST
by
Zakeet
To: Zakeet
Awww, that's too bad. Prayers, to his surviving family. I grew up watching "moose and squirrel." I love Fractured Fairytales and Alan Arkin as the anteater. They don't make cartoons like they used to.
To: Zakeet
I didn't watch many cartoons as a kid, but R & B was one I thoroughly enjoyed.
R.I.P. Mr. Hayward.
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:55:33 PM PST
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Zakeet
My favorite was Mr Peabody and his boy Sherman.
Loved the Way Back Machine.
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:56:07 PM PST
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: Zakeet
Frostbite Falls Minnesota....Rocky the Squirrel's hometown. The only obscure trivia I ever remembered. RIP.
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:57:18 PM PST
by
cj2a
(When you're pathetic, but you don't know you're pathetic, that's really pathetic.)
To: Zakeet
Hey Rocky, watch me pull a rabbit out of my hat !!!
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:57:51 PM PST
by
Obie Wan
To: Zakeet
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:58:08 PM PST
by
null and void
(You might as well do something big, because doing something small is just as hard ~ Larry Bock)
To: Zakeet
"Nuthin' up muh sleeve! PRESTO!"
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:58:27 PM PST
by
Tall_Texan
(NO McCain, Rudy, Romney, Hillary, Kerry, Obama or Gore in 2008!)
To: rabidralph
No, they indeed do not make cartoons like they used to.
Loved The Rocky and Bullwinkle show! Can hear the music in my head as I type this. (Da da da da da, da da da da da...)
Rest in peace, and prayers for the family.
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:59:33 PM PST
by
Theresawithanh
(I'm Time's Person of the Year - and mom said I'd never amount to anything!)
To: rabidralph
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posted on
12/18/2006 2:59:40 PM PST
by
mware
(By all that you hold dear... on this good earth... I bid you stand! Men of the West!)
To: Peanut Gallery; Corin Stormhands; Darksheare
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:00:32 PM PST
by
Professional Engineer
(As far as we know, all numbers are imaginary. some just hurt your brain more than others. ~ lepton)
To: Zakeet
Who can forget Boris Baddinoff and the delightful Natasha!!!
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:01:10 PM PST
by
Ronin
(Ut iusta esse, lex noblis severus necesse est.)
To: Obie Wan
To: mware
Hey!..what's with the Moose!
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:03:00 PM PST
by
Cvengr
To: Zakeet
To: Zakeet
Mr. Hayward is looking down on us right now from his mountain of Upsidaisium.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:06:18 PM PST
by
oblomov
(Progress is precisely that which the rules and regulations did not foresee. - von Mises)
To: Theresawithanh
No, they indeed do not make cartoons like they used to.
I'd disagree - the quality and writing in cartoons these days is as good or better than ever. But Rocky and Bullwinkle was definitely a great one, full of sharp little asides and very funny throw-away lines. Great stuff.
To: Zakeet
Condolences to his family.
Ah the memories of my yute:
Moose & Squirrel
Boris and Natasha
Shermon & Mr.Peabody and his way back machine
Fractured fairytales
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:07:14 PM PST
by
FMBass
("Now that I'm sober I watch a lot of news"- Garofalo from Coulter's "Treason")
To: Izzy Dunne
Not many cartoonists get icons memorialized on Sunset Strip.
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:07:20 PM PST
by
Cvengr
To: Zakeet
Frostbite Falls is in mourning!
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posted on
12/18/2006 3:08:50 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
(Iraq: Give therapeutic violence a chance!)
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