minor muppetz
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Regardless of whether it's the same quality, dumbed down, better, whatever, it's still a bit odd. Many big franchises have had movies, specials, and so on, there have been many revivals in considerably different styles (for better or worse). Heck, it would have been great if, following the end of the shows original run, they had come out with Rocky and Bullwinkle specials, back when specials were really common. Reminds me of when I was starting to get back into the show, I had been fantasizing about growing up to make television specials and movies featuring the characters (I especially wanted to make a series of Boris and Natasha specials, whether animated or live-action, and this was a little before I saw the Boris and Natasha movie).I think perhaps it's because Rocky and Bullwinkle always engaged in ample amount of adult humor (not vulgar like Simpsons or Family Guy, more like topical and political humor) that goes right over the kids heads and only adults understand - even moreso than anything else you've mentioned . . . and considering how dumb kids are today from watching so much SpongeBob, there probably isn't a market for Rocky and Bullwinkle without compromising the source material's integrity by dumbing it down so much that it would appeal to kids and turn off adults.
Then again, in The Moose That Roared, it says that Bullwinke started to have a sudden surge in popularity during the last few years of Jay Wards life. Perhaps the 1970s and early 1980s would have been the wrong time for a new series or special or something (or would such things have helped keep them popular?). Still, with them suddenly becoming more popular then, the late-1980s/early-1990s would have been a great time to produce some specials.