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24-534: The emporium was founded and run by Jay Ward , creator of The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show (1959–73). The gift shop was located at 8200 Sunset Boulevard , a few yards from the former Jay Ward Productions (8218 Sunset Blvd.), the tiny studio building where the cartoons were produced, and across the street from the Chateau Marmont . The Dudley Do-Right Emporium opened in 1971 and closed its doors in April 2005. The shop

48-589: A serialized , mock- melodrama format, it followed the adventures of Crusader and his dimwitted sidekick Rags the Tiger. It was, in form and content, much like the series that would later gain Ward enduring fame, Rocky and His Friends . Ward and Anderson lost the rights to the Crusader Rabbit character in a legal fight with businessman Shull Bonsall, who had taken over the assets of the bankrupt Jerry Fairbanks company, and

72-557: A " French-Canadian moose ." Rocky and His Friends premiered in the late-afternoon, after American Bandstand . on ABC in 1959, moving to prime-time on NBC as The Bullwinkle Show in 1961, the series contained a mix of sophisticated and low-brow humor . Thanks to animators from United Productions of America , Ward's genial partner Bill Scott (who contributed to the scripts and voiced Bullwinkle and other characters) and their writers, including Chris Hayward , and Allan Burns , puns were used often and shamelessly. In

96-491: A "Fractured Fairy Tales" featuring Little Jack Horner, upon pulling out the plum, Jack announced, "Lord, what foods these morsels be!" Self-referential humor was another trademark: in one episode, the breathless announcer ( William Conrad ) gave away the villain's plans, prompting the villain to grab the announcer from offscreen , bind and gag him, and deposit him visibly within the scene. The show skewered popular culture, taking on such subjects as advertising , college sports ,

120-678: A giant billboard for the Sahara Hotel across Sunset Boulevard at the eastern end of the Sunset Strip. A picture of this showgirl statue can also be found as the cover of Gore Vidal 's Myra Breckinridge . Jay Ward Joseph Ward Cohen Jr. (September 20, 1920 – October 12, 1989), also known as Jay Ward , was an American creator and producer of animated TV cartoon shows . He produced animated series based on such characters as Crusader Rabbit , Rocky & Bullwinkle , Dudley Do-Right , Peabody and Sherman , Hoppity Hooper , George of

144-518: A new color Crusader Rabbit series under a different producer premiered in 1956. Ward then pursued an unsold series idea, The Frostbite Falls Revue . Taking place in a TV studio in the North Woods , the proposed series featured a cast of eccentrics such as newsman Oski Bear and two minor characters named Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle J. Moose , described in the script treatment as

168-475: The Cold War , and TV itself. The hapless duo from Frostbite Falls, Minnesota , blundered into unlikely adventures much as Crusader and Rags had before them, pursued by "no-goodnik" spies Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale , perennially under orders to "keel moose and squirrel". In a running-joke tribute to Ward, many of his cartoon characters had the middle initial "J." The cartoonist Matt Groening later gave

192-637: The White House the morning the Cuban Missile Crisis was breaking, and were ordered at gunpoint to drive off. Ward married Ramona "Billie" Ward in 1943; the couple had three children: Ron, Carey, and Tiffany. Ward died of renal cancer in West Hollywood on October 12, 1989, and is buried in Glendale 's Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery . The offices of Jay Ward Productions were located across

216-591: The Jungle , Tom Slick , and Super Chicken . His own company, Jay Ward Productions , designed the trademark characters for the Cap'n Crunch , Quisp , and Quake breakfast cereals and it made TV commercials for those products. Ward produced the non-animated series Fractured Flickers (1963) that featured comedic redubbing of silent films . Jay Ward was born Joseph Ward Cohen Jr., the son of Joseph Ward Cohen (1890–1967) and Mercedes Juanita ( née Troplong) Ward (1892–1972). He

240-477: The building and pinned Ward. While recuperating, Ward decided to animate cartoons, but kept his real estate business, later moving it to Domingo Avenue and then Tunnel Road, where it stayed, in Berkeley, even after Ward moved to Los Angeles. He later received incorrect medical treatment while hyperventilating in an airplane. He then developed agoraphobia . Ward moved into the young mass medium of television with

264-520: The characters had been copyrighted in Ward's name alone. He sued Ward's heirs to reclaim credit as a creator, and in either 1993 or 1996 (sources differ), Anderson received a financial settlement and a court order acknowledging him as the "creator of the first version of the characters of Rocky, Bullwinkle, and Dudley." On June 21, 2000, Ward was recognized with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard for his contribution to

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288-561: The help of his childhood friend, the animator Alex Anderson . Taking the character Crusader Rabbit to NBC-TV and the pioneering distributor of TV-programs, Jerry Fairbanks , they put together a pilot film , The Comic Strips of Television , featuring Crusader Rabbit, Hamhock Bones, a parody of Sherlock Holmes , and Dudley Do-Right , a bumbling Canadian Mountie . NBC-TV and Fairbanks were both unimpressed with all but Crusader Rabbit. The animated series Crusader Rabbit premiered in 1948 and continued its initial run through 1952. Adopting

312-680: The lips, hands, or feet, headache, weakness, fainting, and seizures. In extreme cases, it may cause carpopedal spasms , a flapping and contraction of the hands and feet. Factors that may induce or sustain hyperventilation include: physiological stress , anxiety or panic disorder , high altitude , head injury, stroke, respiratory disorders such as asthma , pneumonia , or hyperventilation syndrome , cardiovascular problems such as pulmonary embolisms , anemia , an incorrectly calibrated medical respirator , and adverse reactions to certain drugs. Hyperventilation can also be induced intentionally to achieve an altered state of consciousness such as in

336-466: The middle initial "J." to many of his characters as a tribute to Jay Ward. Ward fought many heated battles over content with the network and sponsor. The "Kirward Derby", a bowler hat that made everyone stupid and Bullwinkle a genius, was named (as a spoonerism ) for Durward Kirby , sidekick of the 1950s and 1960s TV host Garry Moore and the co-host of Allen Funt 's Candid Camera . When Kirby threatened to sue, Ward quipped, "Please do! We need

360-676: The publicity!" An eccentric and proud of it, Ward was known for pulling an unusual publicity stunt that coincided with a national crisis. Ward leased an island on the Canadian border in Minnesota near his home and dubbed it " Moosylvania ," based upon the home of his Bullwinkle TV character. He and publicist Howard Brandy crossed the country in a van, gathering signatures on a petition for statehood for Moosylvania. They then visited Washington, D.C. , and attempted to gain an audience with President John F. Kennedy . Unfortunately, they arrived at

384-435: The rate or tidal volume of breathing eliminates more carbon dioxide than the body can produce. This leads to hypocapnia , a reduced concentration of carbon dioxide dissolved in the blood. The body normally attempts to compensate for this homeostatically , but if this fails or is overridden, the blood pH will rise, leading to respiratory alkalosis . The symptoms of respiratory alkalosis include dizziness, tingling in

408-596: The refurbished statue to the City of West Hollywood as part of its Urban Art collection. On Feb 28th, 2020, the Bullwinkle statue finally received its permanent home when it was installed on the island at Sunset Blvd. and Holloway Drive, right across from where Tower Records and Spago had been. Following Ward's death, Alexander Anderson Jr. , who had created the initial conceptions of the characters Dudley Do-Right, Bullwinkle and Rocky, but had not received public recognition, learned

432-553: The statue as soon as repairs were completed on it; however, as of May 2014, the statue's whereabouts and status were unknown. It had been speculated that DreamWorks intended to relocate the statue to its own headquarters. In late 2014 (ran until 4 January 2015) the statue was temporarily housed at the Paley Center for Media , in Beverly Hills, California , in conjunction with "The Jay Ward Legacy Exhibit". The Jay Ward family gifted

456-600: The street from the Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip . In 2007, the building could be identified by a statue of Bullwinkle and Rocky, located in front. In 2013, the statue was reported by the Los Angeles NBC affiliate KNBC to have been removed from its location by DreamWorks Animation , which previously owned the licensing rights to the Jay Ward catalogue. DreamWorks Animation had stated that they intended to restore

480-537: The television industry, as part of the publicity for the live-action and animation film The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle . Until it closed in July 2004, the Dudley Do-Right Emporium , which sold souvenirs based on Ward's characters and was largely staffed by Ward and his family, operated on Sunset Boulevard . Hyperventilation Hyperventilation is irregular breathing that occurs when

504-399: Was a 15-foot (4.6 m) statue of Bullwinkle J. Moose holding Rocky the Flying Squirrel. The statue was unveiled to the public at a kick-off party to commemorate "The Bullwinkle Show" joining NBC on September 20, 1961. Following Jay Ward's departure, the statue gradually fell into a state of disrepair and, in July 2013, was taken to DreamWorks Animation to be restored. When the restoration

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528-588: Was completed, it was briefly displayed at the Paley Center in Beverly Hills. In January 2015, it was put on display at the West Hollywood City Hall. In August 2019 the West Hollywood city council decided to permanently place the statue on a traffic island at Sunset and Holloway. The rotating statue of Bullwinkle holding Rocky was made to mimic the rotating statue of a Las Vegas showgirl on top of

552-475: Was filled with toys, stuffed animals, trinkets, hats, t-shirts, wristwatches, original animation cels, cartoon scripts, recordings of TV themes, and assorted souvenirs, all bearing the likenesses of Dudley Do-Right , Rocky & Bullwinkle , Peabody and Sherman , Hoppity Hooper , George of the Jungle , Tom Slick , Super Chicken , Boris & Natasha , Snidely Whiplash and the other famous, wacky creations of Jay Ward Studios. In front of Jay Ward Productions

576-509: Was raised in Berkeley, California , attending Frances E. Willard Intermediate School as "J. Ward". He obtained his undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley . In 1947, he obtained his MBA from Harvard Business School . In 1947, the first day that Ward opened his first real estate office at the corner of Ashby and Claremont, a runaway truck crashed through

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