History WesternAnimation / RockyAndBullwinkle

-->'''Rocky''': Don't you like Kipling?\\

* BigShutUp: Boris to Natasha whenever his latest fiendish plan fails: "Shut up your mouth!"

** And in another episode, Boris tells Natasha that the next time he has such a plan, she should "shut up my mouth!"

*** In the same storyline, Bullwinkle remarks that Zero escaped "Bill Scott-free"! (A play on the name of his own voice actor.)

** During the "Mucho Loma" storyline, a judge arrests the duo for jaywalking, to which Bullwinkle replies, "Don't you mean jaywarding?"

** The scene introducing the toon-killing computer weapon to be used against the moose and squirrel claims it's the first and only way to actually kill cartoon characters. Then one of Fearless Leader's men asked, "What about that movie with [[Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit Roger Rabbit]]?" to which Fearless Leader responded, "Shut up! This is completely different!"
** Another shout out to the Roger Rabbit movie could be said of when the TerribleTrio were blasted by their own weapon [[SealedEvilInACan into the Internet]], much like how the Roger Rabbit BigBad perished due to his own weapon used against him.
** In one movie scene Rocky and Bullwinkle are directed to a hospital's J Ward.

** Boris Badenov is named after a titular opera character, Boris Godunov.

* TheFaceless: Mr. Big, whose shadow was the only thing we saw of him until the second-to-last part of the ''Upsidaisium'' story.

* MouthTapedShut: In one episode, Boris and Natasha kidnap and tie up the InteractiveNarrator, which includes taping his mouth. However, they have to rip it off so he can [[EitherOrTitle properly end the episode]].

* EitherOrTitle: Each cliffhanger ended with a pair of joke titles for the [[FindOutNextTime upcoming episode]]. One example was episode 2 of the Ruby Yacht arc: "Let's Drink To The Ruby," or "Stoned Again."

* ThoseTwoGuys: "Now there's something you don't see every day, Chauncey."/"What's that, Edgar?"

** "Sharrup you mouth!", "Allow me to introduce myself", "Hoo-boy!", "[[Literature/CrimeAndPunishment Raskolnikov!]]", and "Kill moose and squirrel" and variants thereof from Boris.

---> '''Boris:''' What luck! Someone down there likes me!

** And in another episode, Boris tells Natasha that the next time he has such a plan she should "shut up my mouth!"

%%* ComedicHero

* ComedicSpanking: Two examples from "Bullwinkle's Corner":
** Bullwinkle spanks three bratty kids at once with his babysitting guidebook in "The Children's Hour".
** At the end of "My Grandfather's Clock", Bullwinkle's grandpa throws him into a grandfather's clock, and Bullwinkle gets spanked by the pendulum.

* SpiritualSuccessor: To Vaudeville, the golden age of radio and ''WesternAnimation/CrusaderRabbit'' (a show also made by Jay Ward).

* LimitedAnimation: This is perhaps one of the most famous examples of a cartoon being very popular regardless of having very crappy animation.
** Boris Badenov even lampshades this in the "Buried Treasure" story. When his gang member comments on how he's using the TNT to blow up the bank vault ''and'' get rid of Rocky, Boris comments "Well, it's low budget show!"

** Dudley Do-Right's horse wore a Mountie outfit similar to his own.