The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC. The series takes place in a romantic Stone Age setting, depicting the lives of titular characters and their next-door neighbors and best friends. Originally aired from September 30, 1960, until April 1, 1966, in prime time schedule, the first example for the animated series.
The continuing popularity of The Flintstones relies heavily on the juxtaposition of modern day care in the Stone Age setting. The Flintstones was the most financially successful network animation franchise for three decades, until The Simpsons debuted decades later. In 2013, TV Guide rated The Flintstones The Largest Second Cartoon TV of All Time (after The Simpsons ).
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The premise of this show is that it is arranged in a funny, satirical version of the "Stone Age" which, although using primitive technology, resembles a mid-century American suburb of the 20th century. The plots deliberately resembled a sitcom in those days, with the caves of Flintstone and Rubble entering into the small conflicts characteristic of modern life. The show is set in Stone Age of Bedrock (pop 2500). In the fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs and other extinct animals coexist with cavemen, sharp-toothed cats, and hairy mammoths. Like their mid-twentieth-century counterparts, these cave people listen to records, live in separate-level houses, and eat in restaurants, but their technology is entirely made of pre-industrial materials and is empowered primarily through the use of animals. For example, cars are made of stone, wood, and animal skin, and powered by passenger feet.
The animated historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that this series draws his humor in part from the creative use of anachronisms. The main one is the "modern" placement, the twentieth-century society in prehistory. This society took inspiration from the suburban sprawl developed in the first two decades of the postwar period. These communities have modern home appliances, but they work by hiring animals. They have cars, but they hardly resemble cars in the 20th century. These cars are large wooden structures and do not burn fuel. They are supported by people who run while they are inside. Finally, these community stone houses are bakery cutters positioned in distinctive environments.
As a joke, it is often "prehistoric" analogues to modern machines using animals.
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Character
The Flintstones
- Fred Flintstone is the main character of this series. Fred is an accident-prone cargo carrier at Slate Rock and Gravel Company and Flintstone's household head. He gets angry (usually over trivia), but is a loving husband and father. He is also a clever bowling and is a member of the fictitious "Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes" (Lodge No. 26), a men's club that matches real-life fraternities such as the Faithful Order of Moose. His famous slogan is "Yabba Dabba Doo!"
- Wilma Flintstone is the wife of Fred and Pebbles. She is smarter and more level-headed than her husband, although she often has a habit of spending money (with Betty and her slogan being "Da-da-da duh da-da CHARGE IT !!"). He was often an outlet for Fred's bad behavior.
- Pebbles Flintstone is a Flintstones baby girl, born near the end of the third season.
- Dino, is a Flintstones pet dinosaur that acts like a dog. A joke in this series involves Fred coming home from work and Dino gets excited and drops him and licks his face repeatedly. The Baby Puss is a pet cat flintstones, which is rarely seen in the actual series, but is always seen throwing Fred out of the house during the end of the credits, causing Fred to hit repeatedly at the front door and shouting "Wilma!", Wake the entire environment in the process.
Rubbles
- Barney Rubble is a secondary character and Fred's best friend and next-door neighbor. His work is, for the most part of the series, unknown, although the episode then describes him working in the same mine as Fred. He shares many of Fred's interests such as bowling and golf, and is also a member of "Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes". Although Fred and Barney often clashed with each other (usually due to Fred's short temperament), their brotherly ties remained clear.
- Betty Rubble is Barney's wife and best friend Wilma. Like Wilma, she is also a bit smarter than her husband and has a habit of spending money.
- Bamm-Bamm Rubble is a very strong Rubbles adopted son, whom they adopted during the fourth season; his name comes from the only phrase he once uttered as a baby: "Bamm, Bamm!"
- Hoppy is a Hopparoo pet from Rubbles (kangaroo/dinosaur combination), which they bought at the start of the fifth season. When he first arrives, Dino and Fred think of him as a giant rat and fear him, but they end up being good friends after Hoppy gets help when the owner has an accident. She takes care of the children as she takes them around in her pocket, which also serves as a shopping cart for Betty.
Other characters
More than 100 other characters appear throughout the program.
- Sir. Slate is the angry boss Fred and Barney in the gravel pit. Mr. Slate shot Fred on several occasions throughout the series, only to give him a job back at the end of the episode. A joke is Slate's ever-changing first name, which is revealed to be Sylvester, Nate, Oscar, and George as the series continues. In the episode "The Long, Long Weekend" originally aired on January 21, 1966, he was featured as the founder of "Slate Rock and Gravel Company"; still in business two million years later, the company operated by his descendants, "George Slate the Eighty-Thousandth". Notice, at the beginning of the Flintstones episode, the more familiar character of Mr. Slate was known as "Mr. Rockhead" and was the supervisor of Fred's. Mr. Slate is a short character. During the cartoons, the two men changed the identity and the shorter characters faded from existence. Arnold is a child of the Flintstones paper, which Fred greatly despises, especially since Arnold is often able to defeat Fred in a number of tasks and also because he often ("accidentally") throws newspapers on Fred's face. Arnold's parents are mentioned in the series, but his mother Doris, a friend of Wilma and Betty (as evidenced in the episode "The Little Stranger", originally aired on November 2, 1962), referenced only in name, never actually appeared on screen. Arnold's father, however, appeared on the episode of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game", which originally aired on April 27, 1962, although his name was never mentioned.
- Joe Rockhead is a friend with Fred and Barney. Usually, when Fred and Barney fall down, Fred mentions doing something (like going to a baseball game) with Joe. Joe, at some point, the head of the Bedrock Battery Fire Department (as shown in the episode "Arthur Quarry Dance Class", originally aired on January 13, 1961). His performance varied throughout the series, but his appearance on the episode "The Picnic", which originally aired on December 15, 1961, was the most commonly used.
- Pearl Slaghoople is an uncomfortable Wilma's mother, Fred's and Pebbles's mother-in-law, who constantly denounces Fred and his behavior. Their first disaster-filled encounter was told in the episode of "Joke of Scholars", which originally aired on March 5, 1964. They briefly reconciled in the episode "Mother-in-Law Visits", which originally aired on February 1, 1963. That is, until, that he became a "fat pigeon" Fred when he sucked it out of the money he needed to buy a crib for Pebbles. They reconciled at the end of the TV movie I Yabba Dabba Do .
- The Great Gazoo is an alien disposed to Earth that helps Fred and Barney, often against their will. He was actually from the future, and quite anxious when he realized that he had been sent back to the "Stone Age". He can only be seen by Fred, Barney, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, the other little boy, Dino, and Hoppy. Gazoo appeared in the last season alone.
- Uncle Tex Hardrock is the uncle of Fred's mother and a member of Texarock Rangers. He constantly holds Fred's future legacy over his head.
- Sam Slagheap is the Grand Poobah of the Air Buffalo Lodge.
Voice Actors
Fred Flintstone is physically similar to the voice actor who plays it, Alan Reed, and Jackie Gleason, whose series, The Honeymooners , inspires The Flintstones . Barney Rubble's voice was awarded by voice actor Mel Blanc, though five episodes during the second season (first, second, fifth, sixth, and ninth) used Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler while Blanc was unable to use a car almost fatal crash. Blanc could return to the series sooner than expected, based on a temporary recording studio for all the players mounted beside Blanc's bed. Blanc's description of Barney had changed a lot after the accident. In the earliest episode, Blanc has used a much higher tone to the point of describing Barney as an ingenious person. After recovering from the accident, Blanc uses a deeper voice, much like the Abominable Snowman sound he does in other cartoons, and is shown as somewhat dopier than before.
Reed based on Fred's voice on Rleph's interpretation of Gleason's Honeymooners, while Blanc, after a season using a high-pitched sound for Barney, finally adopted a sound style similar to that used by Art Carney in his role as Ed Norton. The first time Art Carney's voice was used was for a few seconds in "The Prowler" (the third episode produced).
In a 1986 Playboy interview, Gleason said Alan Reed had been doing voice-overs for Gleason in the early films and that he had considered suing Hanna-Barbera for copying The Honeymooners but decided to let it pass. According to Henry Corden, a voice actor and a friend of Gleason, "Jackie's lawyer told him that he might be able to have The Flintstones drawn straight from the air, but they also told him, 'Do you want to become known as a person who pulled Fred Flintstone out of the air? People who take so much love children's show, and so many parents also like it? '"
Henry Corden's voice became Fred after Reed's death in 1977, beginning with A Flintstone Christmas . Corden had previously provided Fred's singing voice in The Maneded Flintstone and later on the children's notes The Flintstones . Since 2000, Jeff Bergman, James Arnold Taylor, and Scott Innes (doing both Fred and Barney for Toshiba ads) have done Fred's voice. Since the death of Mel Blanc in 1989, Barney has been voiced by Jeff Bergman, Frank Welker, and Kevin Michael Richardson. Various additional character sounds were created by Hal Smith, Allan Melvin, Janet Waldo, Daws Butler, and Howard Morris, among others.
Voice cast
- Fred Flintstone - Alan Reed (speaks only)
- Wilma Flintstone/Pebbles Flintstone - Jean Vander Pyl
- Barney Rubble - Mel Blanc; Daws Butler (season 2; episodes 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9 only)
- Betty Rubble - Bea Benaderet (season 1-4); Gerry Johnson (season 5-6)
- Bamm-Bamm Rubble/Hoppy/Arnold - Don Messick
- Dino - Mel Blanc
- Sir. Slate - John Stephenson
- Madam. Slaghoople - Verna Felton and Janet Waldo
- The Great Gazoo - Harvey Korman
Additional cast sound
- Howard Morris
- Doug Young
- Henry Corden
- June Foray
Episode
Music
The theme of opening and closing credits during the first two seasons is called "Rise and Shine", an instrumental underworld that accompanies Fred on his way home from work. The song is similar to "The Bugs Bunny Overture (This Is It!)", The Bugs Bunny Show Theme Song, which also aired on ABC at the time, and may be the reason why the theme changed. in the third season. Starting season 3, episode 3 ("Barney the Invisible"), the opening theme and closing credits are the familiar vocals of "Meet the Flintstones". This version was recorded with a 22-piece jazz band, and a five-voice singing group called Skip Jacks. This melody comes from the 'B' part of Beethoven Piano Sonata no. 17 Movement 2, organized in 1801/02. The opening of "Meet the Flintstones" was then added to the first two seasons for syndication. Underscore music is credited to Hoyt Curtin for the first five seasons of the event; Ted Nichols took over in 1965 for the last season.
History and production
The idea of ​​The Flintstones began after Hanna-Barbera produced The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw Show . Although these programs are successful, they do not have a broad audience appeal just like their previous theater cartoon series Tom and Jerry, which entertain children and adults who accompany them. However, since children do not need the supervision of their parents to watch television, Hanna-Barbera's output becomes labeled "only for children". Barbera and Hanna want to recapture an adult audience with animated sitcoms.
Barbera and Hanna experimented with hillbillies (hillbilly themes were later incorporated into two episodes of Flintstones, The Bedrock Hillbillies and The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes), Roma (Hanna-Barbera finally created The < Roman Holidays), pilgrims, and Indians as a setting for two families before deciding on the Stone Age. According to Barbera, they set it because "you can take whatever it is today, and turn it into a stone age". Under the working title The Flagstones , the family originally consisted of Fred, Wilma, and their son, Fred, Jr. A short demonstration movie was also created to sell the idea of ​​a "modern stone age family" to sponsors and networks. Animator Kenneth Muse, who is working on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, also works early in the The Flintstones season.
The show was imitated and falsified The Honeymooners , although the initial sound characterization for Barney was Lou Costello. William Hanna admitted that "At that time, The Honeymooners was the most popular show in the air, and for my bill, it was the funniest show in the air.His character, I think, is great. affect what we do with The Flintstones ... The Honeymooners are there, and we use that as some kind of basic concept. "However, Joseph Barbera denied this claim in an interview "I do not remember mentioning the The Honeymooners when I sell the show, but if people want to compare The Flintstones to The Honeymooners This is a total compliment. The Honeymooners is one of the greatest shows ever written. "Jackie Gleason, creator of The Honeymooners, is considered suing Hanna-Barbera Productions, but decided that he did not want to be known as "the man who pulled Fred Flintstone off air". Another influence was recorded during Hanna-Barbera's time at MGM, where they were in a friendly competition with fellow cartoon director Tex Avery. In 1955, Avery directed a cartoon titled "The First Bad Man" (narrated by Tex Ritter's cowboy legend). The cartoons concern the frenzied antics of bank robbers in the Stone Age Dallas. Many visual jokes are flooded by many similar years used by Hanna-Barbera in the Flintstones series. Many students from the American animation point to this cartoon as the progenitive seed of Flintstones.
The concept is also preceded by the Stone Age Cartoons series of 12 animated cartoons released from January 1940 to September 1940 by Fleischer Studios. These cartoons show people of the stone age doing modern things in primitive ways. One example is the Granite Hotel including characters such as newsboy, phone operator, hotel clerk, and spoof from Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
Barbera explains that selling shows to networks and sponsors is not an easy task.
Here we are with new things that have never been done before, an animated prime-time television show. So we developed two storyboards; one of them is they have some kind of helicopter and they go to opera or whatever, and the other is Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble who quarreled about swimming pool. So I returned to New York with a portfolio and two half-hour boards. And no one will believe that you dare suggest such a thing, I mean they look at you and they'll think you're crazy. But slowly the word came out, and I used a presentation that took almost an hour and a half. I will go to the other two boards and tell them what they do, and do all the sounds and sounds and so on, and I stumble back to the hotel and I will faint. The phone will ring like crazy, like one time I do Bristol-Myers, the whole company is there. When I passed by I would return to the hotel, the phone would ring and say, "The President is not at that meeting, can you go back and do it for him." So I have many of them, once I have two agencies, they fill the room I mean God about 40 people, and I do the whole show. I have to know where the laughter is, and where to hit it, nothing; dead, dead, dead. So one of the guys at Screen Gems said, "It's the worst, those guys..." he's so mad at them. What it is, is that there are two agents there, and no one will let others know they are enjoying it. But I set it up for eight weeks in a row and no one bought it. So after sitting in New York just exhausted, you know it's really tired. Pitch, pitch, pitch, sometimes five days. So finally on the last day I gave it to ABC, which is a brave young network willing to try new things, and buy the show in 15 minutes. Thankfully, because this is the last day and if they do not buy it, I'll take it all, put it in the archive and never install it again. Sometimes I wake up with a cold sweat thinking this is how close you are to disaster.
When the series begins to be produced, the titles of The Flagstones work are changed, perhaps to avoid confusion with Flagstons, the characters in the comic strips Hi and Lois . After spending a brief period in development as The Gladstones (GLadstone became a Los Angeles phone exchange at the time), Hanna-Barbera settled on The Flintstones, and the idea of ​​Flintstones having children from early discarded, with Fred and Wilma starting out as a childless couple. However, some of the early merchandise of Flintstones, such as the 1961 Little Gold Book, included Fred Jr., before it was decided to be discarded.
Despite animations and fantasy settings, the series was originally intended for mature audiences, which are reflected in comedy writing, which, as noted, resembles the average primetime sitcom era, with ordinary family problems resolved by laughing at the end of each episode, as well as the inclusion of laughing songs. Hanna and Barbera employ many authors from the direct action world, including two writers Jackie Gleason, Herbert Finn and Sydney Zelinka, as well as relative newcomer Joanna Lee while still using traditional animated stories such as Warren Foster and Michael Maltese.
The Flintstones aired on September 30, 1960, at 8:30 pm, and quickly became a hit. This is the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma, Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed, though Fred and Wilma are sometimes described as sleeping in separate beds. In comparison, the first live-action depiction in the history of American TV was on the first sitcom on television: Maryne and Johnny's 1947s Mary Kay.
The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and characters appeared in several black-and-white television commercials for Winston (dictated by the custom, at the time, that the stars of the TV series often "pitched" their sponsorship products in "integrated ads" at the end episode).
During the third season, Hanna and Barbera decided that Fred and Wilma had to have a baby. Initially, Hanna and Barbera intended for the Flintstone family to have a son, the head of the marketing department convinced them to turn him into a girl because "girl dolls sell much better than boys dolls". Although most of the episodes of Flintstones are self-contained storylines, Hanna-Barbera makes a story arc around the birth of Pebbles. Starting with the episode "The Surprise", which aired in the middle of the third season (January 25, 1963), where Wilma revealed his pregnancy to Fred, the arch continued all the time before the birth of Pebbles in the episode "Dress Rehearsal" (February 22, 1963), and then continued with several episodes showing Fred and Wilma adjusting to the parent world. Around this time, Winston issued their sponsorship and Welch's (grape juice and jelly wine) became the main sponsor. The integrated ad for Welch products featured Pebbles asking for grape juice in his son's dialect, and Fred explained to Pebbles Welch's unique process of making jelly, compared to competition. Welch also produces jelly wine packed in a reusable jar as a drinking glass, with a painting scene featuring Flintstones and characters from the show. In Australia, the Nine Networks run the name 'Baby Flintstones' competition during the episode of 'pregnancy' - some Australian viewers are expected to have US connections that gave them information about the episode of Flintstone in the past.
Another bow occurred in the fourth season, where Rubbles, depressed as unable to have their own children (made The Flintstones) the first animated series in history to tackle the infertility problem, though subtle), the adoption of Bamm-Bamm. The 100th episode was made (but 90 into the air), "Little Bamm-Bamm Rubble" (October 3, 1963), establishing how Bamm-Bamm was adopted. Nine episodes were produced before that but aired later, which explains why Bamm-Bamm was not seen again until episode 101, "Daddies Anonymous" (Bamm-Bamm was in the teaser on episode 98, "Kleptomaniac Pebbles"). Another story arc, occurring in the last season, centered on Fred and Barney dealing with Great Gazoo (voiced by Harvey Korman).
After the birth of Pebbles, the tone and writing became more juvenile and the rank of the adult demographic began to decline. The original original episode was aired on April 1, 1966.
The first three seasons of
In the US, syndicated reruns of this series were offered to local stations until 1997, when E/I regulation and changing tastes in the industry led to the transition of events to cable television. From the time of Ted Turner's purchase from Hanna-Barbera in 1992, TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network aired the program. In 2000, the program moved to Boomerang, where it aired until no later than 2016 (in its final years on the channel, has been moved to the grave slot). Online, this series is available in In2TV service from 2006, then the online version of WB Kids until the service is discontinued in 2015. By 2017, the full episode is only available in the US on Boomerang's subscription video on demand service, with clips available at an official YouTube account tied to the updated Kids WB website.
Reception
The night after The Flintstones aired, Variety called it "A cat and ink disaster", and this series among many debuted on the 1960s "broad ground" - TV season 61 was considered one of the worst in television history up to that time. In the late 1980s, clever critics ridiculed animated shows and limited derivative plots. Despite critical criticism at first, The Flintstones has generally been regarded as a classic of television and continued to play for five decades after its end. In 1961, The Flintstones became the first animated series to be nominated for the Emmy Primetime Prize for an Extraordinary Comedy Series, but lost to Jack Benny's Program. In January 2009, IGN named The Flintstones the ninth-best in "100 Top Animated TV Shows". Nielsen ranking
Next movie and television series
After the cancellation of the show in 1966, a film based on the series was made. The Man Called Flintstone is a music-eyed spy who parodies James Bond and other secret agents. The film was released to theaters on August 3, 1966, by Columbia Pictures. It was released on DVD in Canada in March 2005 and in the United States in December 2008.
The show was revived in the early 1970s with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm growing up into teenagers, and several different series and made-for-TV movies (mainly broadcast on Saturday mornings, with little to show in prime time); including the series depicting Fred and Barney as police officers, others portraying the characters as children, and others featuring Fred and Barney meeting up with the superheroes of Marvel Comics The Thing and Al Capp's comic strip The ShmooÃ, - have appeared for years. The original show was also adapted into a live-action movie in 1994, and a prequel, The Flintstones at Viva Rock Vegas, followed in 2000. Unlike his brother's The Jetsons (two shows appeared in a crossover film made for TV in 1987), revival programs were not widely syndicated or played back with the original series.
Television series
- Gravel and Bamm-Bamm Performances (1971-72) (one season)
- The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972-73) (one season)
- The Flintstone Comedy Show (1973-74) (compilation series)
- Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977-78) (compilation series)
- New Fred and Barney Show (1979) (one season)
- Fred and Barney Meet The Thing (1979) (one season)
- Fred and Barney Meet Shmoo (1979-80) (one season)
- The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980-82) (two seasons)
- The Flintstone Funnies (1982-84) (compilation series)
- The Flintstone Kids (1986-88) (two seasons)
- What is a Cartoon! - displaying Dino: Stay Out! (1995) and Dino: The Great Egg-Scape (1997)
- Children's Cave (1996) (one season)
- Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! (2019)
Theatrical animation feature
- The Man Called Flintstone (1966, released by Columbia Pictures)
Television specials
- The Flintstones on Ice (1973)
- Energy: National Problem (1977)
- A Flintstone Christmas (1977)
- The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978)
- The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1979)
- New Neighbors of Flintstones (1980)
- The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling (1980)
- The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (1981)
- Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981)
- Flintstones 25th Birthday Celebration (1986)
- The Flintstone Kids "" Say Say No "Special (1988)
- Hanna-Barbera 50th: Celebration of Do'a Dabba Yabba (1989)
- A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993)
Movies of television
- The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)
- I am Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993)
- Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993)
- A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)
- The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
Educational film
- Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips
- Bamm-Bamm: The term paper (1978)
- Bamm-Bamm: Information Please (1979)
- Flintstones: A Weighty Problem (1980)
- Flintstones: Fire Alarm (1980)
- Flintstones: Fire Escape (1980)
- Flintstones: Driving Guide (1980)
Live action movie
- The Flintstones (1994)
- The Flintstones at Viva Rock Vegas (2000)
Direct-to-video movie
- Flintstones & amp; WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015)
Other media
- For a list of DVDs, video games, comic books and VHS releases, see List of Flintstones media .
Canceled Seth MacFarlane reboot
In 2011, the maker of Family Guy , Seth MacFarlane will revive The Flintstones for the Fox network, with the first episode airing in 2013. After Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly read pilot script and "liked it but did not like it" MacFarlane chose to ignore the work on the project rather than restart.
Theme park
Two amusement parks exist in the United States: Bedrock City in Custer, South Dakota, and others in Valle, Arizona. Both have been in operation for decades. Bedrock City, also known as Flintstone Park, closed in August 2015.
Others existed until the 1990s at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. In Canada, Flintstone Park in Kelowna, British Columbia, opened in 1968 and closed in 1998; it's important to statue "Fred's Forty Foot" Fred Flintstone which is a famous Kelowna landmark. Another park of Flintstones is located in Bridal Falls, British Columbia, which closed in 1990. Calaway Park outside Calgary, Alberta, Canada, also opened with the theme of Flintstones and many of the buildings currently has a cave-like human design, although the park does not license the character. The Australian Wonderland and Wonderland Canadian theme parks feature both Flintstones characters in the Hanna-Barbera-themed children from 1985 to the mid-1990s. Kings Island near Cincinnati, Ohio, owns Hanna-Barbera land, where many Hanna-Barbera characters are featured, including Flintstones, in the 1980s and early 1990s.
Live Theater
A stage production was opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1994 (the year the live-action movie was released), developed by Universal and Hanna-Barbera Productions. It opened at the Panasonic Theater, replacing the Star Trek show. The story consists of Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty to "Hollyrock". The event lasted until January 2, 1997.
In popular culture
Miles Laboratories (now part of Bayer Corporation) and their vitamin One-A-Day brand are an alternative sponsor of the original Flintstones series during its first two seasons, and in the late 1960s, Miles introduced the Chewable Vitamin Flintstones, fruit multivitamin tablets for children in the form of Flintstones characters, which are currently being sold.
The Simpsons referenced The Flintstones in several episodes. In the episode of "Homer's Night Out", the local store official Homer, Apu, commented, "You look familiar, Sir Are you on television or what?", Homer replied "Sorry, mate, you confuse me with Fred Flintstone. "During the joke of the episode opening credits of" Krusty Camp ", the Simpson family arrive home to find the Flintstone family who are already sitting on their couch. The same sofa bench was reused in the "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" syndication episode, when The Simpsons took over The Flintstones as the longest animated series. In "Lady Bouvier's Lover", Homer's boss, Mr. Burns, showed up at the family home and said "Why, that's Fred Flintstone (referring to Homer) and his lovely wife, Wilma! (Marge) Oh, and this must be a little Pebble. (Maggie) Mind if I go in. I bring chocolate." Homer responded by saying "Yabba-dabba-doo!" The opening of "Marge vs. Monorail" describes Homer leaving work in a manner similar to Fred Flintstone in the opening of The Flintstones, where he sang his own version of the last opening theme.
On September 30, 2010, Google replaced the logo on its search page with custom graphics to celebrate the 50th anniversary of First Flintstones TV broadcast '.
See also
The Hanna-Barbera Character honors Fred in the all-star celebrity grill for his birthday (1977)
References
Source
Lehman, Christopher P. (2007), "The Cartoons of 1961-1962", American Animation Cartoons from the Vietnam Era: The Study of Social Commentary in the Program © InfoSUM.net All rights reserved. Film and Television, 1961-1973, McFarland & amp; Company, ISBN 978-0786451425
Further reading
- "The Flintstones": Official Guide to the Cartoon Series , by Jerry Beck, Running Press, 2011.
External links
- The Flintstones on IMDb
- The Flintstones in Big Cartoon DataBase
- The Broadcast Communications Museum: The Flintstones
- The Flintstones - Cartoon Network Department of Cartoons (Archive)
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