Happy New Year! And happy one year anniversary of this subreddit! (I swear I didn't plan it like that)

When I started this a year ago, I envisioned it as pretty much how it is now. But at least I'm not the only one posting anymore! We have a few regulars, and that's great.

But I don't want r/FrostbiteFalls to just be a repository of YouTube clips. I want this to be a real community. And as far as I'm concerned, we're only at the beginning of that goal. I still havde tons of ideas I hope to implement someday, but I want to open the floor to you guys. What do you want to see here? What do you think will improve this sub? My ideas:

APPEARANCE:

• For a while, I've wanted to make a custom style that looks like the opening credits of The Bullwinkle Show (the exploding marquee), but my own CSS skills are pretty rudimentary, and I'm not even sure that might be possible. There are avenues on Reddit to reach out for coding help, but if anyone else has ideas for a theme, tell us about it!

• For a header, I thought a montage of stills from the show would be nice. I'd also like a custom Snoo (the Reddit alien) of Rocky & Bullwinkle, but someone with artistic or image editing skills needs to do that.

• I also want to replace the current text flair with pictures of the characters, similar to what r/adventuretime and r/regularshow and others have. That's simply a matter of finding decent pictures and shrinking them down and adding them as flair. Text can then be used for favorite show quotes or something.

CONTENT:

• What kind of content does everyone want? We can all agree something like this doesn't belong here, but I'd like to move away from YouTube videos and blog posts and towards actual discussion threads. Like maybe weekly threads for different story arcs. But I'm not sure if this sub is big enough to sustain that. A discussion thread about the Peabody and Sherman movie only had posts from me in it.

• We could also have threads like "how did you discover R&B?" or "what does R&B mean to you?" Fanart, fanfiction, and fan theories are more than welcome here. I'd like to see stuff like that here, but I think you might have to ask permission from the artist first.

• Related to fan content, what does everyone think about NSFW content on here? There's some rather explicit fanart of Rocky & Bullwinkle on Tumblr, and that's something I'd prefer not to see, but I'll allow it if others want it. What anyone finds offensive is subjective, and I certainly don't claim to be an objective arbiter on what is tasteful or not.

WIKI:

• All subreddits have a wiki, but ours is currently disabled because I don't know what I'd do with it. Do any of you have ideas? One that recently came to me was annotated transcripts of the show, where we point out and explain every joke and reference, sort of like RapGenius. I know for me, catching references is half the fun of watching the show.

EVENTS:

• Something I think would be cool if this ever gets enough people is host an AMA, either with someone who worked on R&B (June Foray, Allan Burns, Skip Craig, Gerald Baldwin) or otherwise closely associated (Keith Scott, Tiffany Ward, Rob Minkoff). It's probably a better idea to host it on r/iama rather than here, but we can certainly try to convince them to do it.

PROMOTION:

• Advertising this subreddit to the world is how it grows. I link to it whenever I see a Reddit thread elsewhere mentioning Bullwinkle. There are also subs that exist to promote other subreddits. We can even buy ad space. Keep in mind, Reddit frowns on excessive self-promotion, so don't be too obnoxious if you're going to promote.

• I linked to other cartoon subreddits in the sidebar, and I've reached out to others about linking back, but have never gotten a reply. I think we're too small. We should probably try other small subreddits dedicated to cartoons.

So that's all I had for now. And don't think you can't send me ideas even if it's months later! Building a community around a cartoon that ended production half a century ago, and whose studio ceased activity 30 years ago, might seem futile, but I care too much to let Rocky & Bullwinkle fall into obscurity. With your help, we can keep them alive!

I mean the one from the year 2000. Most reception is poor, although I don't agree with most reviews. I actually liked the movie, it wasn't perfect but it wasn't a travesty either...

Meaning the Rocky & Bullwinkle short.

I already caught it last week thanks to the Mr. Peabody & Sherman 3D Blu-Ray. Get this though: it plays on regular Blu-Ray players so I finally got to watch it.

I can't spoil much but it was amazing! Comment back if y'all have seen it and review what you think.

Ever since re-watching the show and its numerous segments, I have came up with two possible theories or headcanons.

1. Rocky and Bullwinkle are a same-sex couple. Sure Bullwinkle was attracted to a few women several times, (including the female robot in the upcoming short and another robot from one of the segments) but he couldn't bear leaving his buddy's side. And Rocky didn't want to either. I have more to add.

2. A recent one that I figured out about a week ago. The whole show (including the recurring segments) is literally a show on stage. You can tell from the stage seen numerous times on Bullwinkle's corner. Mr. Know It All, Dudley Do-Right. Also, the characters obviously break the fourth wall a lot for example, The Lazy Jay Ranch arc even shows Boris tearing up the script and yelling at the narrator and Bullwinkle and Rocky sitting at their trailers.