In 2018 it's strange to say The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, a show that ran from 1959 to 1964, was social satire almost as subversive as South Park—but it was. It's only a little less strange to compare tensions between Russia and America in 2018 with the era that gave us the Cuban Missile Crisis.
It seems quaint now, but in 1962 Rocky and Bullwinkle was pissing people off, and creator Jay Ward enjoyed it. “We've not only offended people—without meaning to, of course—but we've also had trouble with countries,” he told a TV and radio magazine, “The story of Pancho Villa almost got us into a jam in Mexico and I think our new character, ‘Dudley Do-Right of the Mounties,' may be the hit of the show. But I won't be surprised if we're at war with Canada over him within the year.”
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