: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?
:03:01
I guess the world just doesn't
need us anymore, Bullwinkle.
:03:06
Say, where are
you going?
:03:09
All this exposition
is wearing me out.
:03:11
I'm going for a walk
in the woods.
:03:14
But, Bullwinkle,
there aren't any
woods anymore.
:03:17
You don't have
to tell me.
:03:19
I'm the chairman of
the Frostbite Falls Society
for Wildlife Conversation.
:03:23
You mean
wildlife conservation.
:03:26
What did I say?
:03:27
You said,
"wildlife conversation."
:03:30
Somebody's going to start
talking about these things.
:03:33
Yes, even their wordplay
had become hackneyed and cheap.
:03:39
No, it was always
like this.
:03:41
But times were just as tough
half way across the drawing
:03:45
in the former Soviet satellite
of Pottsylvania.
:03:48
Where Rocky and Bullwinkle's
archrivals,
:03:50
Boris and Natasha,
:03:51
and their fearless leader--
:03:53
Fearless Leader--
:03:54
were cooking up
their latest scheme
:03:56
for taking over the world,
:03:58
when their plans
were crushed
:03:59
by the fall
of the lron Curtain.