Among the vintage U.S. presidential campaign buttons seen in the "Aesop and Son" segment ("The Fox and the Winking Horse") are buttons supporting:
Other buttons (drawn, not authentic) make reference to Eisenhower ("Ike"), William Howard Taft (victorious in 1908), Horace Greeley (Grant's 1872 opponent), and "Roosevelt", denoting either Franklin D. Roosevelt (victorious in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944) or Theodore Roosevelt (victorious in 1904, defeated in 1912).
- Wendell Willkie (who lost the 1940 election to Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Herbert Hoover (who won in 1928, but lost his re-election bid in 1932 to Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Alf Landon and Frank Knox (who lost the 1936 election to Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Thomas E. Dewey and Earl Warren (who lost the 1948 election to Harry S. Truman, after Dewey had previously been defeated in 1944 by Franklin D. Roosevelt)
- Adlai Stevenson (who lost the 1952 and 1956 elections to Dwight D. Eisenhower)
- William McKinley (who was elected in both 1896 and 1900 over William Jennings Bryan)
- Ulysses S. Grant (who won both the 1868 and 1872 elections)
- John C. Breckinridge (who lost the 1860 election to Abraham Lincoln).
Other buttons (drawn, not authentic) make reference to Eisenhower ("Ike"), William Howard Taft (victorious in 1908), Horace Greeley (Grant's 1872 opponent), and "Roosevelt", denoting either Franklin D. Roosevelt (victorious in 1932, 1936, 1940, and 1944) or Theodore Roosevelt (victorious in 1904, defeated in 1912).
The name of Boris Badenov's talent scout character D.W. Grifter is a spoof on legendary silent film director D.W. Griffith.
On the "Rocky & Bullwinkle" Complete Season 2 DVD set, this episode is the first in a string of episodes to use the original opening/closing animation from the early episodes of The Bullwinkle Show (1959), though rebranded as "The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends" for the release and featuring the later Fred Steiner music (composed for Seasons 3-5, a.k.a. The Bullwinkle Show (1959)) in place of Frank Comstock's original theme.
The opening shows the trumpeting of royal heralds before Rocky zooms through the skies at supersonic speeds, blowing the hats off of adoring onlookers. Rocky and Bullwinkle march while twirling batons, and later set off fireworks. (A runaway "O" from a sparking "Rocky" sign chases the pair up and down a mountain range.)
The closing shows a gift package wrapping itself around the show's (revised) title before Rocky and Bullwinkle start saying their goodbyes. Bullwinkle says, "Here are some of the people who made this show impossible," and pulls down a screen that displays the end credits (including an on-screen credit for voice actor Daws Butler, who is never listed in the other, "itty bitty card", end credit animation).
This early animation (from Season 1) features a slightly rougher design for Bullwinkle (with his blue gloves) than the one seen in the actual episode.
The opening shows the trumpeting of royal heralds before Rocky zooms through the skies at supersonic speeds, blowing the hats off of adoring onlookers. Rocky and Bullwinkle march while twirling batons, and later set off fireworks. (A runaway "O" from a sparking "Rocky" sign chases the pair up and down a mountain range.)
The closing shows a gift package wrapping itself around the show's (revised) title before Rocky and Bullwinkle start saying their goodbyes. Bullwinkle says, "Here are some of the people who made this show impossible," and pulls down a screen that displays the end credits (including an on-screen credit for voice actor Daws Butler, who is never listed in the other, "itty bitty card", end credit animation).
This early animation (from Season 1) features a slightly rougher design for Bullwinkle (with his blue gloves) than the one seen in the actual episode.
Bullwinkle says he's "the greatest actor since Elmo Lincoln," a silent screen star notable for being the movies' first Tarzan in Tarzan of the Apes (1918).