[driftless]

That's what made Rocky and Bullwinkle so great: lousy animation, superior stories and dialogue. You're overestimating Warner Bros amigo. They had great toons, but they also had their share of stinkers even during their golden era. And the W BRos toons greatness only went up to the late fifties. After that their toons were very poor, art and story. Moose and squirrel maintained a consistency of quality in storylines and dialogue until the end.

[BluesDuke]

That's what made Rocky and Bullwinkle so great: lousy animation, superior stories and dialogue.

This, unfortunately, is like calling Le Corbusier a genius because he showed the world how to become a great architect without building buildings. (Thank you, Tom Wolfe!) If you could have taken the Rocky and Bullwinkle stories and repartee and run it through the best of the Warner Brothers animation and direction, man, you would have yourself something unsinkable. I mean, just imagine Chuck Jones or Friz Freleng or Robert McKimson doing moose and squirrel! (For one thing, the Looney Tunes crew would have put a lot more subtlety into moose and squirrel, without killing the essence of their storylines and repartee. But that is probably a question of personal taste more than anything.)

I tend to agree, the Warner Brothers cartoons began deteriorating around the time Chuck Jones left over a tiff the details of which escape me (he went from there to produce a very good round of Tom and Jerry cartoons for MGM) and one David DePate joined the crew, basically bowdlerising the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies concepts and characters - the credit usually read David DePate and Friz Freleng, but I find it hard to believe Freleng's name was there for that much more than just the name boost, these cartoons were so far beneath his best work.

On the other hand, now that Chuck Jones has gone to his richly deserved reward, it seems the baseball movie which is just dying to be made can never be made, because Chuck Jones was the single most qualified director to make a film about the 1962 New York Mets!