# Ending credits of Rocky and Bullwinkle show. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 29, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-credits-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle-show/257368 "2004-07-29T02:28:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-credits-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle-show/257368/1 "2004-07-29T02:28:39Z")
A LOT of you folks probably noticed that at the _very_ end of the credits of each “Rocky and Bullwinkle” Show, two nonsense words would _briefly_ appear - something like “PONSOBY BRITT”. Then very quickly these “words” would “explode” and that would be the end. What exactly are these words and what possible meaning do they have? ---
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-credits-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle-show/257368/2 "2004-07-29T02:33:41Z")
[Ponsonby Britt](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0110071/) was no more nor less than Ponsonby Britt. According to IMDB, it was probably a fake name that producers Jay Ward and Bill Scott used. Robin ---
**Author:** ![RandMcnally](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b782af/32.png) [@RandMcnally](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RandMcnally)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-credits-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle-show/257368/3 "2004-07-29T02:53:42Z")
The creators didn’t want to take all the credit, it was a team effort, so they made up a fake name. I don’t know if it’s _that_ name though. ---
**Author:** ![Early\_Out](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Early\_Out](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Early_Out)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-credits-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle-show/257368/4 "2004-07-29T03:12:15Z")
According to [this site](http://bullwinkle.toonzone.net/secrets.htm), that was, indeed, the fake name that Ward and Scott invented: > [@](#): > > Ponsonby Britt, O.B.E. > The accredited executive producer of Rocky and Bullwinkle, doesn’t exist. When the series first became famous, many reporters contacted the studio and asked for the staff’s biographies. Rather that tell them about their normal suburban lives, they often sent out the bio for Ponsonby Britt O.B.E. It was embellished with a life filled with adventure and excitement (Think Forest Gump). O.B.E. was an Officer of the Order of the British Empire. The scam worked perfectly as they saw the biography of a fake person grace the media. It was an inside joke that the cast remembers fondly. ---
**Author:** ![wolf\_meister](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf_meister/32/15202_2.png) [@wolf\_meister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_meister)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-credits-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle-show/257368/5 "2004-07-29T03:46:51Z")
Thanks all !!! ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2004, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ending-credits-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle-show/257368/6 "2004-07-29T04:04:10Z")
Now, that that’s taken care of, can someone please explain the psychdelic transitional segment that showed R&B dodging back and forth frantically while lightning bolts destroy the landscape, then the two passing 'through" the Earth and emerging along with a bunch of rapidly-growing flowers? Did Ponsonby smoke a lot of gooooood opium during his travels, or what?