--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: Rocky and His Friends image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cfa91deba83c091/69869f3506f2c12b75330490/t100_tv_rocky-and-his-friends1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 12, 2014 # _Rocky and His Friends_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett Considering that we didn’t all get blown up, I think we can now agree that the Cold War was worth it, if only for giving us this Ike-era spy-vs.-spy send-up, in which Rocket J. Squirrel and lovable dimwit Bullwinkle J. Moose defended the US of A against Pottsylvanian sneak Boris Badenov and the slinky Natasha Fatale. Writer-animator Jay Ward’s other creations (on _Rocky_ as well as its follow-up _The Bullwinkle Show_) included oblivious Mountie Dudley Do-Right; time-traveling canine inventor Mr. Peabody and his boy Sherman; and the _Fractured Fairy Tales_ narrated by Edward Everett Horton. All shared a love of puns (Bullwinkle was an alum of Wassamatta U), a fast pace and a nothing-sacred sensibility. _Rocky_ may not have won the space race, but it gave red-blooded American kids a leg up on the Russkies in appreciating satire. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103741/rocky-and-his-friends/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103741/rocky-and-his-friends/"},"headline":"Rocky and His Friends","datePublished":"2014-08-12T15:09:12.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:40.363Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103741/rocky-and-his-friends/","keywords":["Children"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cfa91deba83c091/69869f3506f2c12b75330490/t100_tv_rocky-and-his-friends1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6cfa91deba83c091/69869f3506f2c12b75330490/t100_tv_rocky-and-his-friends1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103741/rocky-and-his-friends/","name":"Rocky and His Friends"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Rocky and His Friends","description":"Rocky may not have won the space race, but it gave red-blooded American kids a leg up on the Russkies in appreciating satire.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/7zTrCbOj/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-04T22:01:06.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/7zTrCbOj.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103741/rocky-and-his-friends/","duration":"PT34S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3103741/rocky-and-his-friends/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```