The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle

Reruns

Cold War parody. In the 1950s and 60s, the Cold War was a significant theme that was in the consciousness of, well, everyone. As a balance against the angst, derived from images of entrapped East Europeans, the spread of communism, air raid drills in school, etc., American (and British) television, film and print artists created a body of cold war humor productions. At the pinnacle of creativity stood TAOR&B. Social commentary, humor- intellectual and simple, role reversal, satire, etc. You can stay up all night finding cultural references from Robert Conrad channelling Walter Winchell to a spoof of American's addiction to TV….

Geoff