How Bullwinkle Taught Kids Sophisticated Political Satire: Culture critic Beth Daniels argues the cartoon moose even allowed viewers to reckon with nuclear war. When I lived in Hollywood decades ago I frequently drove past the Jay Ward Productions studio on the Sunset Strip, home to the subversive animation characters lovingly described above. It is one of my great regrets that I never stopped in. My best friend Jack did that years before and had a lengthy chat with the great man himself, Jay Ward, concerning his wonderful creations which have delighted and edified generations.