:01:00
the New York World's Fair
introduces a bright new future,.
:01:05
and after five scintillating
years on the air...
:01:08
Presto!
:01:09
The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show
is abruptly cancelled.
:01:13
- Cancelled?!
- Cancelled?!
:01:15
Uh, sorry about that, boys.
:01:19
A lothas changed
in 35 years.
:01:21
Velcro has replaced
the zipper.
:01:24
Sneakers have
lights on them.
:01:25
The Cold War is over.
:01:27
And The Rocky and
Bullwinkle Show...
:01:31
is still cancelled.
:01:36
( Yawning )
:01:39
Frostbite Falls, Minnesota,
:01:41
once the beloved home
of Rocky and Bullwinkle,
:01:44
had been a thriving
cartoon town.
:01:46
Nowit was crippled
by years of reruns.
:01:50
The beautiful
Frostbite Falls Forest--
:01:54
decimated.
:01:59
The once majestic falls
above Veronica Lake...
:02:02
( Whistle Blowing )
...devastated.
:02:05
While the narrator--
that's me--
:02:08
down on his luck
and out of a job,
:02:10
was forced to move in
with his mother
:02:12
where he was reduced
to narrating
:02:14
the events
of his own life.
:02:16
"With the speed and dexterity
:02:18
astonishing in a woman
of her advancing years,
:02:20
Mother bastes the chicken,
tosses the salad,
:02:22
and mashes the potatoes."
:02:24
Oh, sonny,
shut up!
:02:26
( Metal Clank)
Ow!
:02:28
And in a little house
at the top of a stump forest,
:02:31
Rocky and Bullwinkle
themselves,
:02:33
were forced to subsist
on ever-diminishing
residual checks
:02:36
from reruns of their oldshow.
:02:38
World famous television stars
:02:41
whose adventures once
took them all over the globe,
:02:44
now their exploits
were just a memory.
:02:48
Yes, it was a
melancholy time indeed.
:02:52
( Record Skipping )
:02:56
Rocky the flying squirrel
hadn't flown in years.
:02:59
What's the point?