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Moose — the do-gooders who battle the evils of Boris Badenov and his assistant, Natasha Fataly. Frostbite Falls is serviced by the Union Pathetic Railroad, and when the town's only movie theater, the Bijou, opened, the first picture they showed was A Trolley Named Talullah. Rocky and Bullwinkle attended Frostbite Falls High School and then Frostbite U. (where Bullwinkle was a "BMOC" — Big Moose on Campus; he was also hoodwinked into playing football — jersey number 0 — for Wossamatta U.). Red and purple were the Frostbite U. school colors." I think that those details, plus a very large number of other mentions in a wide variety of sources over a period of five decades, are sufficient to establish the notability of this fictional village.
295:. I added refs to this effect to the article. The fictional town has apparently become a minor cultural icon, denoting a very cold place, or a place one would not wish to be posted by an employer, or a place of little interest. It gets mentioned without mention of the cartoon franchise or its characters, as a symbol which needs no further explanation to readers familiar with the cartoons: 51:. While there is a consensus here that there has been some mention in some reliable sources, it's somewhat also agreed that the mentions aren't numerous or in depth enough to qualify as significant coverage. I do see discussion of merging below, so anything worth merging can and should be done from the article history, obviously ensuring it is attributed properly. ( 323: 329: 317: 314: 308: 302: 299: 332: 326: 320: 305: 296: 311: 445:
by Vincent Terrace, gives a pretty detailed description of Frostbite Falls: "Frostbite Falls, Minnesota, population 29, is the setting for an insane battle of good against evil as seen through the animated adventures of Rocket J. ("Rocky") the Flying Squirrel and his dimwitted friend, Bullwinkle the
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although my heart won't be broken if consensus calls for a merge or a redirect. A reference already in the article,
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a
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The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below.
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to generate a more thorough discussion so a clearer consensus may be reached.
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feeling it necessary to explain the reference, that's saying something.
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The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate.
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Clearly non-notable. No sources to establish the notatably.
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etc. I'm just not sure this is sufficient to satisfy
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