# Help ID this Episode of Rocky and Bullwinkle **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 28, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764 "2019-07-28T18:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764/1 "2019-07-28T18:17:42Z")
Every time the narrator (William Conrad) mentions the Civil War, he is angrily interrupted by a Confederate soldier, in full battle dress, loudly correcting him: “War Between the States!” Sometimes the scene switches to where the soldier is, and sometimes he barges into the scene being narrated. At one point, some sort of time travel mechanism is deployed, resulting in the outcome of the war being reversed. As the narrator explains this, the soldier interrupts him again when he utters the words “Civil War”, demanding that he call it War Between the States. The narrator says something like, “Quiet! This time, the South wins!” The soldier replies, “Oh. OK. Then it’s Civil War”. The above quotes are from long-ago memory. I saw part of it as a kid, and didn’t understand the satire. I looked and found that this testy revisionist Civil War soldier appears in eipisode 5 of the story arc [Wossamotta U](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wossamotta_U), but I found the episode on youtube and the above exchange doesn’t take place in it. TIA. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764/2 "2019-07-28T18:32:43Z")
I remember pretty much every episode of Rocky & Bullwinkle, but I don’t recall this at all. If time travel was involved, you may be thinking of an episode of Mr Peabody and Sherman, but this doesn’t ring a bell either. There was a Bullwinkle’s Corner where he recited a parody of the poem about Barbara Pritchey (“Shoot if you must this old grey head/But spare my union suit, she said!”). Boris Badenov was a Confederate soldier in this one, but I don’t remember him saying the lines you mention. ---
**Author:** ![F.U.Shakespeare](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aca169/32.png) [@F.U.Shakespeare](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/F.U.Shakespeare)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764/3 "2019-07-28T19:21:35Z")
You’re correct – there was no time travel. I just got done watching that episode. Here’s what happens: Wassamatta U plays a team of ringers in a football game. Bullwinkle mistakenly uses an old Civil War battle plan as a playbook, and through some tortured plot, WU re-fights the last two years of the war. But the South wins this time, resulting in [the exchange I remember.](https://youtu.be/uXJcM8SV2Ck?t=196) Narrator: In the next 10 minutes, WU re-played the entire last two years of the Civil War… Corrector: War Between the States Narrator: … and this time, the South won! Corrector: In that case, you can call it the Civil War. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764/4 "2019-07-28T22:41:41Z")
And now, here’s something we hope you’ll _really_ like. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764/5 "2019-07-28T22:53:16Z")
And that was the first time I ever heard it called the War Between the States. I had completely forgotten that memory. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2019, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764/6 "2019-07-28T23:01:44Z")
Actually, in the deep South, they call it **The War of Northern Aggression**. ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2019, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764/7 "2019-07-29T15:16:55Z")
After the war, it was sometimes referred to as “[the late unpleasantness](https://www.abbevilleinstitute.org/blog/the-late-unpleasantness-memory-meaning-and-understanding/)”. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2019, 3:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-id-this-episode-of-rocky-and-bullwinkle/837764/8 "2019-07-30T03:05:49Z")
Also,[“the War of Northern Aggression.”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_the_American_Civil_War)