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The Flinstones
Format Animated situation comedy
Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera
Starring Alan Reed (voice of Fred)
Jean Vander Pyl (voice of Wilma)
Mel Blanc (voice of Barney)
Bea Benaderet (voice of Betty, Seasons 1-4)
Gerry Johnson (voice of Betty, Seasons 5-6)
Theme music composer Hoyt Curtin
Country of origin Flag of the United States United States
No. of episodes 166 (List of episodes)
Production
Running time approx. 30 minutes (per episode)
Broadcast
Original channel ABC
Original run September 30 1960 – April 1 1966
Chronology
Followed by The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971-1972)
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

The Flintstones is an American animated television series produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions.

Inspired by the 1950s live-action sitcom The Honeymooners,[1] The Flintstones is about a working class Stone Age man's life with his family and his next door neighbor and best friend. The first prime time cartoon geared for adults, the show originally aired from 1960 to 1966, on the ABC network. It was also ABC's first series to be televised in color. While the show was originally syndicated by Screen Gems (until 1981, then DFS Program Exchange from, and then Turner Program Services), Warner Bros. Television has the current rights (through parent Time Warner's purchase).

Overview

The show is set in the town of Bedrock in the Stone Age era. The show is an allegory to American society of the mid-to-late 20th century; in the Flintstones' fantasy version of the prehistoric past, dinosaurs, saber-toothed tigers, woolly mammoths, and other long extinct animals co-exist with barefoot cavemen, who use technology equivalent to that of the 20th century, largely through the use of various animals. The characters drive automobiles made out of stone or wood and animal skins and powered by foot.

Although the series was set in the Stone Age, that never stopped the show's creators from producing a Christmas episode during the original series' run, as well as several more Christmas specials in the decades that followed. This time anomaly could be explained by the Flintstones learning about Christmas when they met the Jetsons in the movie The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones although Suspension of Disbelief and Artistic License are more appropriate.

One source of the show's humor was the ways animals were used for technology. For example, when the characters took photographs with an instant camera, the inside of the camera box would be shown to contain a bird carving the picture on a stone tablet with its bill. In a running gag, the animals powering such technology would, breaking the fourth wall, look directly into the camera at the audience, shrug, and remark, "It's a living," or some similar phrase. Another commonly seen gadget in the series was a baby woolly mammoth being used as a vacuum cleaner. Travel to "Hollyrock," a parody of Hollywood, California, usually involved an "airplane" flight—the "plane" in this case often shown as a giant pterodactyl. (Other familiar place names are similarly contorted: San Antonio becomes Sand-and-Stony-o; the country to the south of Bedrock's land is called Mexirock; and so forth.) Elevators are raised and lowered by ropes around brontosaurs' necks; "automatic" windows are powered by monkeys that dwell on the outside windowsill; birds configured as "car horns" are activated by pulling on their tails. An electric razor is depicted as a clam shell housing a bumble-bee vibrating it as the edges are rubbed against the character's face.

Season 6 Episode 6 — "Samantha" features Mr. & Mrs. Stephens (Dick York & Elizabeth Montgomery) from Bewitched as both cartoon characters and voice actors.[2]
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Season 6 Episode 6 — "Samantha" features Mr. & Mrs. Stephens (Dick York & Elizabeth Montgomery) from Bewitched as both cartoon characters and voice actors.[2]

Being set in the Stone Age allowed for endless gags and puns that involved rocks in one way or another, including the names of the various characters being "rock" puns; some such names included celebrities of the 1960s such as "Gary Granite" (Cary Grant), "Stony Curtis" (Tony Curtis), "Ed Sulleystone" (Ed Sullivan)", "Rock Hudstone" (Rock Hudson), and "Ann-Margrock" (Ann-Margret). Other celebrity/puns on The Flintstones were "Alvin Brickrock" (Alfred Hitchcock); "Perry Masonary" (Perry Mason); and a new neighbor lady "Sam" (Samantha of Bewitched).[2]

Closing credits

In the show's closing credits, Fred tries to put the "cat" (actually a saber-tooth tiger) out for the night, and after the cat jumping back in through the window he winds up getting locked out and yelling for his wife to come open the door: "Wilma! Come on, Wilma, open this door! Willllll-ma!" By the time the theme song "Meet the Flintstones"[3] was used, Fred cut the yelling to: "Willllll-ma!" Although the cat, Baby Puss, was seen in the closing credits of every episode, it was rarely actually seen in any of the storylines. This running gag of having the lead character of the series ending up being helpless during the end credits in every episode due to the hijinks of a family pet would later be repeated by Hanna-Barbera in the series The Jetsons in which George Jetson ends up being caught on a treadmill that ends up spinning out of control. He also (as does Fred in this series) cries out for his wife, by asking her to stop the mechanism with the line, "Jane! Stop this crazy thing!"

The characters

The Flintstones

The Rubbles

  • Barney Rubble - Fred's best friend and next door neighbor
  • Betty Rubble (née Elizabeth Jean McBricker) - Barney's wife.
  • Bamm-Bamm Rubble - the Rubbles' abnormally strong adopted son.
  • Hoppy - The Rubbles' pet Hopparoo (a kangaroo/dinosaur combination creature)

Other characters

Resemblance to The Honeymooners

The series drew directly from The Honeymooners for its main quartet of characters: the blustering Fred Flintstone and his ever-patient wife Wilma Flintstone, modeled after the Kramdens, and their friendly neighbors Barney Rubble and wife Betty Rubble modeled after the Nortons. Several of the characters' relationships also resembled those of The Honeymooners, most notably being Fred's rivalry with Wilma's mother being identical to Ralph and Alice's mother.

Opening teasers

The Flintstones opened with a short scene lasting from a few seconds to a couple minutes before the opening song. During the first three seasons this was merely a teaser with footage that took place from within the episode (usually from somewhere in the middle). While this was merely a preview, this opening did not clue viewers in on the actual plot.

Beginning with the fourth season, the opening teaser was actually an opening scene more often than not (examples include Ann Margrock Presents, Sleep On Sweet Fred). But some episodes still had previews for teasers (Glue For Two and 10 Little Flintstones for example). On five episodes though the opening teaser was a scene that was supposed to be in the middle of the episode but during the actual body of the episode this short scene is skipped. These episodes were Daddy's Annonymous, Peek A Boo Camera, Once Upon A Coward, Fred El Terifico and The Hatrocks (a.k.a. Bedrock Hillbillies).

Voice cast

It has been noted that Fred Flintstone physically resembled voice actor Alan Reed, and also Jackie Gleason. The voice of Barney was provided by legendary voice actor Mel Blanc, though five episodes in the second season used actor Daws Butler while Blanc was recovering from a near-fatal car accident. Blanc was able to return to the series, his lines were recorded from his house where he was recuperating.

Additional similarities with The Honeymooners included the fact that Reed based Fred's voice upon Jackie Gleason's interpretation of Ralph Kramden, while Blanc, after a season of using a nasal, high-pitched voice for Barney, eventually adopted a style of voice similar to that used by Art Carney in his portrayal of Ed Norton. In a 1980s Playboy interview, Jackie Gleason said that Alan Reed had done voice-overs for Gleason in his early movies, and that he (Gleason) considered suing Hanna-Barbera for copying The Honeymooners but decided to let it pass.

Henry Corden handled the voice responsibilities of Fred after Reed's death in 1977. Corden had previously provided Fred's singing voice in The Man Called Flintstone and later on Flintstones' children's records. After 1999, Jeff Bergman performed the voice of Fred. Since Mel Blanc's death in 1989, Barney has been voiced by both Frank Welker and Bergman. Various other voices included Hal Smith, Allan Melvin, Janet Waldo, Daws Butler, Howard Morris, and others.

Production history

Originally, the series was to have been titled The Flagstones, and a brief demonstration film was created to sell the idea of a "modern stone age family" to sponsors and the network. When the series itself was commissioned, the title was changed, possibly to avoid confusion with the Flagstons, characters in the comic strip Hi and Lois. After spending a brief period in development as The Gladstones, Hanna-Barbera settled upon The Flintstones. Aside from the animation and fantasy setting, the show's scripts and format are typical of a 1950s American situation comedy, with the usual family issues resolved with a laugh at the end of each episode.

Although most Flintstones episodes are standalone storylines, the series did have a few story arcs. The most notable example was a series of episodes surrounding the birth of Pebbles. Beginning with the episode "The Surprise", aired midway through the third season, in which Wilma reveals her pregnancy to Fred, the arc continued through the trials and tribulations leading up to Pebbles' birth, and then continued with several episodes showing Fred and Wilma adjusting to the world of parenthood.

A postscript to the arc occurred in the third episode of the fourth season, in which the Rubbles, depressed over being unable to have children of their own (making The Flintstones the first animated series in history to address the issue of infertility, though subtly), adopt Bamm-Bamm. The 100th episode made (but the 90th to air), Little Bamm Bamm, established how Bamm Bamm was adopted. About nine episodes were made before it but shown after which explains why Bamm Bamm would not be seen again until episode 101 Daddy's Annonymous (Bamm Bamm was in a teaser on episode 98 Kleptomaniac Pebbes). Another story arc, occurring in the final season, centered on Fred and Barney's dealings with The Great Gazoo (voiced by Harvey Korman).

The series was initially aimed at adult audiences; the first season was sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston.

The show also contained a laugh track, common to most other sitcoms of the period. In the mid-1990s, when Turner Networks remastered the episodes, the original laugh track was removed. Currently, the shows airing on Boomerang and the DVD releases have the original laugh track restored to most episodes (a number of shows from Seasons 1 and 2 still lack them). Some episodes, however, have a newer laugh track dubbed in, apparently replacing the old one. Because of this practice, the only episode to originally air without a laugh track ("Sheriff For a Day" in 1965) now has one.

Films and subsequent TV series

Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a theatrical film based upon the series was released. The Man Called Flintstone was a musical spy caper that parodied James Bond and other secret agents. The movie was released on DVD in Canada in March 2005 but not in the United States.

The show was revived in the 1970s with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm having grown into teenagers, and several different series and made-for-TV movies — including a series depicting Fred and Barney as police officers, another depicting the characters as children, and yet others featuring Fred and Barney encountering Marvel Comics superhero The Thing and comic strip character The Shmoo — have appeared over the years. The original show also was adapted into a hit live-action film in 1994, which was so popular that a prequel The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, followed in 2000.

Music

Ann-Margret as "Ann Margrock" was one of many famous names who lent their likenesses and voices to the series.
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Ann-Margret as "Ann Margrock" was one of many famous names who lent their likenesses and voices to the series.

The Flintstones was one of the more musical animated TV series, with many episodes featuring original, slightly rewritten, or actual popular recordings of the day, performed either by Fred, Barney, or a special guest star. In the first season Fred knew how to sing. One of the first song performances in the series was the old spiritual "When the Saints Go Marching In" performed by Fred in the first season episode "Hot Lips Hannigan" in a vocal style strongly reminiscent of jazz crooner Mel Tormé. A later episode, in which Fred takes on the persona of teen idol "Hye Fye" sees him performing "Listen to the Rockin' Bird" — a rewrite of the standard "Listen to the Mockingbird". Again, Fred's voice sounds so much like Torme's that it was speculated the singer provided the voice, although it is actually Reed singing these two songs. Also in the first season while Alan mostly created Fred's speaking voice in an unnaturally loud tone, on occasion he used his natural tone to voice Fred (episode 5 "Split Personality" for example).

In the second season, Fred was stripped of his singing ability (in the season premiere for Season 2 "Hit Song Writers" Fred could not carry a tune when he attempted to sing "Stardust"). Fred was from then on depicted as being tone deaf, but a couple times sang a few tunes that had limited vocal range. Alan Reed himself sang several tunes in his loud tone in the coming years, including "Christmas is My Favorite Time of Year" and "Dino the Dinosaur" in the series' often-replayed Christmas episode. Mel Blanc also performed a few vocals, including a version of "Old Folks at Home", while Jean Van Der Pyl and Bea Benadaret sang two versions of "The Car Hop Song," one performing as a pair of young girls auditioning for a job with Fred and Barney's new hamburger stand, and a second version in character as Wilma and Betty. The song bears a strong resemblance, both in the tune and in the subject matter, to the much-later "Be Our Guest" from Walt Disney's Beauty and the Beast.

Many of the original songs in the series were composed by Hoyt Curtin, who also did most of the background music for the show (as well as Ted Nichols).

Many musical moments were provided by celebrity voice artists who lent both their vocal talents and their likenesses to characters. Hoagy Carmichael was the one of the first, introducing the original song "Yabba Dabba Doo!" in the second season premiere episode, "The Hit Songwriters" (in the same episode, Fred - on one of his tone deaf days - mangles Carmichael's "Stardust"). Ann-Margret, appearing in a fourth season episode as "Ann-Margrock", performed her single "I Ain't Goin' to Be Your Fool No More" and the lullaby "The Littlest Lamb". James Darren, appearing as "Jimmy Darrock" performed "The Surfin' Craze", while The Beau Brummels (as "The Beau Brummelstones") performed "Laugh Laugh", a real-life hit for the group. In the final season, space-rockers, The Wayouts appeared.

One of the most fondly remembered songs of the series was "The Bedrock Twitch", performed by staff voice actor Daws Butler and later performed in the first live-action Flintstones film by The B-52s (who renamed themselves the BC-52s for the occasion); presented as a parody of The Twist in the original TV series, the lyrics actually make reference to the then-current dance craze, and also include a reference to the rock and roll standard, "Rock Around the Clock". One song written for the series became a standard and not always identified as originating with the Flintstones — the seemingly endless sing-along "Happy Anniversary" which is often performed at anniversary parties. The spiritual "Open Up Your Heart (and Let the Sunshine In)", adopted as the series closing theme during the final season, as popularized by the series although it did not originate on the show. The aforementioned "Littlest Lamb" also became a popular lullaby.

During 1961, the cast members recorded an album of songs, in character, aimed at children. One of these songs, "Meet the Flintstones", was later adopted as the series' theme song beginning with the third season. Hanna Barbera's own record label, Hanna-Barbera Records also released several other Flintstones-related recordings, including the five-song EP, Wilma Flintstone in Songs from Bambi (CS 7041), an unusual crossover between Hanna-Barbera and Disney.

In 1994, Rhino Records released The Flintstones: Modern Stone Age Melodies, an album containing a number of musical selections taken from the series.[4] Missing from the collection are the two Ann-Margret songs, which have been released on the Bear Family Records label of Germany.

A later prime time animated series, The Simpsons, carries on a number of Flintstones traditions, including the incorporation of music into its storylines.

Theme song

The famous theme song "Meet the Flintstones" was not actually introduced until the third season (1962–1963), although early versions of the melody can be heard as background music in many episodes. (The famous "Meet the Flintstones" theme, in a much longer form, first appeared on a Flintstones record released in the early 1960s). The theme used for the first and second seasons, an instrumental called "Rise and Shine", was removed from all first and second season episodes in syndication from the 1960s through the early 1990s and replaced with the "Meet the Flintstones" opening, while a closing credits sequence taken from a later episode was substituted at the end. As a result, the closing credits for all first season episodes in syndication were incorrect for many years. New syndicated versions of the episodes in the 1990s restored the original first season credits and theme, albeit with cigarette and other advertising matter omitted. According to information provided on the DVD release of the second season, this decision was made because at the time syndicated programs were often aired out of their original broadcast order, and it was felt having the show jump between the different opening credits sequences would confuse audiences. Nonetheless, a number of later Flintstones episodes in syndication used an alternate version of the closing credits in which Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are shown singing "Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sunshine In".

The first season of the original series, with the original opening credits, as well as "Rise and Shine" restored but not the cigarette ads, was released on DVD in March 2003; Season 2 was released in December 2004; season 3 in March 2005; Season 4 in November 2005; season 5 in March 2006; and season 6, the final season, in September 2006.

Cultural references

In the 1960s the series had strong ties to a sponsor, Winston cigarettes. In one memorable advertisement, Fred and Barney relaxed while their wives did housework, smoking Winstons and reciting Winston's popular and famous jingle "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should!" In 1963, Winston pulled their sponsorship from the show when Wilma became pregnant; after that point, the main sponsor was Welch's Grape Juice.

Barney hawking Winston cigarettes, on a period black and white TV set.
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Barney hawking Winston cigarettes, on a period black and white TV set.

Welch's advertised their product with animated commercials featuring the cartoon cast and they were often pictured in print ads and on grape juice containers. They were popular in many American homes in the 60s and 70s as drinking utensils (particularly if there were children in the family). Pebbles was frequently seen referred to in the series as drinking grape juice (or Pebbles "gape juice" as she called it) in her bottle. Most famously, Welch's featured cartoon drawings of the Flintstones on their grape jelly glass jars off and on for over a decade in possibly the longest-running television tie-in endorsement ever. It also became a pop culture item of a sort; Flintstone jelly glass jars have been referred in everything from Jodie Foster's opening monologue on a 1970s episode of Saturday Night Live to a line in George Jones' 1989 country music hit "Yabba Dabba Doo, The King is Gone (And So Are You)."

The series spawned three breakfast cereals: the popular Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles, and the discontinued Dino Pebbles (later revived as "Marshmallow Mania Pebbles"). Commercials for these cereals featured a gimmick in the form of Barney (who seems much smarter in the commercials than in the show itself) tricking Fred out of his cereal, usually by way of disguising himself as something completely different. Eventually, Fred catches on and gives chase after Barney as the ad ends. Early ads used the closing tagline, "Yabba-dabba-delicious!", but the phrase was removed during the 1990s.

An enduring license has been a line of children's multivitamins called "Flintstones Complete" (more popularly known as Flintstones Vitamins); the first seasons of the series were, in part, sponsored by Miles Laboratories. There has been a "Did You Know?" quiz circulating on the Internet for a number of years that asks which of the four main characters is not in Flintstone Vitamins. The answer, at one time, was Betty Rubble, who the Vitamin makers felt resembled Wilma too closely for a distinctive shape. However, since 1995 there has been a Betty vitamin after a media blitz wondering why she was curiously omitted. Actress Rosie O'Donnell (who played Betty in The Flintstones movie) was among the most vocal promoters of the idea for a Betty vitamin. The Flintstones' car, the "Flintmobile", which at one time was the fifth "character" in the vitamin cast, was removed to make room for Betty.

"Weird Al" Yankovic released a single and video entitled "Bedrock Anthem" from his album Alapalooza featuring many clips of The Flintstones animated TV show on the video. Also in The Weird Al Show the episode Talent Show, Hanna-Barbara made a short when Yankovic was supposed to be in the show but he was cut after the first episode. The Screaming Blue Messiahs scored a hit in the late 1980s with "I Wanna Be a Flintstone", a rockabilly song that incorporated sound samples from the series. The show and characters are also heavily referenced in the satirical remake of "Anarchy in the U.K." by comic heavy metal band Green Jelly.

In Planes, Trains, and Automobiles starring John Candy and Steve Martin, during a bus ride, John Candy leads the other passengers in a chorus of "Meet the Flintstones" to pass the time.

In Red Dwarf, a popular BBC Sci-Fi Comedy, The Cat and Lister are seen having discussion after having just watched the Flintstones, relating to the physical attractiveness of Wilma and Betty. The Cat: "Well I would go with Betty, but I’d be thinking of Wilma." Lister: "We’re crazy!" (pause) "She’ll never leave Fred and we know it!"

Most recently, The Flintstones have made an appearance in a GEICO auto insurance commercial. It is revealed that the money Fred Flintstone saved by using GEICO was what he used to buy Wilma her omnipresent necklace.

The Simpsons

Only the advent of The Simpsons decades later brought cartoons back to American prime time network television with the kind of success The Flintstones enjoyed. And it was The Simpsons in 1997 that ultimately broke The Flintstones record as the longest-running prime time animated series with the episode with The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show. A number of episodes of The Simpsons made explicit or implicit references to The Flintstones—for example, in one episode of The Simpsons ("Marge vs. the Monorail") the starting sequence parodies the opening and theme song of The Flintstones, in "Homer's Night Out", Homer states to Apu "sorry, buddy, you've got me confused with Fred Flintstone", and in episode ("Treehouse of Horror XII") Homer and Marge Simpson dress as Fred and Wilma Flintstone in the opening. Another episode ("Lady Bouvier's Lover") has Mr. Burns greeting Homer, Marge and Maggie as Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles. Homer subsequently says "Yabba Dabba Doo!" when Mr. Burns gives him a box of chocolates. Another episode, "A Star Is Burns", features a TV announcement "Coming up next, The Flintstones Meet The Jetsons!", to which Bart comments "Uh-oh, I smell another cheap cartoon crossover" (the joke being that Homer promptly enters and introduces him to visiting Jay Sherman, from the short lived animated series The Critic). One couch gag, used in the episode "Kamp Krusty", even featured the Simpsons running in and finding the Flintstones (as they were originally animated) sitting on the Simpsons' couch. This couch gag was also used in reruns of The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show to commemorate the show tying with The Flintstones as America's longest running animated sitcom shown in prime-time.

Miscellanea


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  • While The Flintstones is generally considered the first cartoon to air in prime time, it was preceded by CBS Cartoon Theater, which aired reruns of Terrytoons theatrical shorts for 3 months in 1956, and was hosted by a young Dick Van Dyke. Following that series, The Gerald McBoing-Boing Show, a cartoon based on an Academy Award-winning animated short, ran for a few months on Friday nights on CBS in 1958. Both shows, however, were designed to showcase theatrical cartoon shorts. The Flintstones remains the first animated series made up of all original programming to air prime time. [citation needed]
  • Was the first animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed. (The first live-action depiction of this in American TV history was in television's first-ever sitcom: 1947's Mary Kay and Johnny.)[5]
  • Fred's regular place of employment has been identified by at least 18 different names. [citation needed]
  • Fred's boss had numerous names and even faces, alternating between a short man dressed in purple and a taller completely bald man in glasses. Finally, the taller boss with the glasses became permanent, with the more well known name of Mr. Slate.
  • A boy named Junior was included in the series' press release and in a Little Golden Book adventure (as well as on some advance merchandise related to the program), but never on the actual show.
  • When the decision was made in 1962 that the Flintstones would have a baby, the child was going to be a boy named Fred Jr. Then they decided that a girl would make for better merchandising like dolls, etc. [citation needed]
  • The Flintstones car, if indeed it is the same car from one episode to the next, is sometimes a two seater or four seater, a topped car or convertible, and left side steering or right side steering. [citation needed]
  • The Flintstones' house changes size, design (including garage, which appears and disappears in various episodes), and furniture in nearly every episode. Some fans have tried to explain this away by suggesting that, as the houses are made out of large slates of rock, the inhabitants of Bedrock often rebuild and redesign their houses. [citation needed]
  • It was never specifically stated what Barney's regular work was. He would get laid off occasionally, and worked various places, such as for a repossession firm, and in one episode he worked at a competing quarry, until a brief period of employment at the same quarry as Fred.
  • Dino was originally introduced in the episode "The Snorkasaurus Hunter," in which Fred and Barney are hunting a talking purple dinosaur, which Wilma and Betty befriend and save from danger. Wilma then brings Dino home and he becomes a sort of servant for Wilma. In future episodes the story line was changed without explanation to make Dino a typical dog. [citation needed]
  • In some later incarnations of the show, by which time the word "gay" (as in "We'll have a gay old time") was more closely associated with being homosexual, the lyric was changed to "We'll have a great old (or "groovy") time". However, the first Flintstones movie in 1994 restored the word "gay" to the theme tune, as performed by the band the B-52s (as the BC-52s). [citation needed]
  • Alan Reed and Bea Benaderet have a common link to another prime time TV series - Petticoat Junction. After The Flintstones' cancellation, Reed continued to prosper by working in more secondary character or guest starring roles in live action series, including "Petticoat" and Batman. In Petticoat Junction, he plays "Bandit Lawson," a bank robber nabbed by Uncle Joe, in Episode #166, "Bad Day at Shady Rest". This program aired in the show's fifth season. Unfortunately, Reed could not work with his friend and former Flintstones castmate. Benaderet, starring as hotel matron Kate Bradley, fell ill around this time. She sadly succumbed to lung cancer later in the year. The episode's female lead is Rosemary DeCamp, brought in to play Aunt Helen as Benaderet's replacement.
  • According to an old Cartoon Network promo for The Flintstones, the line "Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet" is the most commonly forgotten line of The Flintstones theme song. This promo now occasionally is aired on Boomerang.
  • The "Meet the Flintstones" theme is sung briefly at the close of the pilot of the sitcom Full House.
  • In earlier seasons, Barney's eyes were portrayed as white circles with a black outline that gave them a "hollow O" shape. However, this attracted controversy among Flintstones viewers and was adjusted in later seasons to a full black circle that exhibited more definition
  • The third season episode The Buffalo Convention (P-67) is taken from the Laurel and Hardy film Sons of the Desert. The film's characters were a clear inspiration for 'The Honeymooners.
  • Danny Hutton, later one of the lead singers in Three Dog Night, worked on the show's music for a time. He can be seen briefly in one episode, singing his solo hit "Roses and Rainbows" on a stone age television.
  • In the Fairly Odd Parents TV Movie Channel Chasers, Timmy Turner ends up in the parody show "The Meatflints," where he tries to escape using one of the Stone-Age cars. He incorrectly says that it's powered by feet, so it would make more sense to just keep running. In "The Flintstones," the cars were started using "feet power," but some sort of "gasoline" engine would take over. This is demonstrated when Fred has to fill up with "Ethyl," coming of course, from an elephant named "Ethyl."

Flintstones series and spin-offs

Television series

Poster to the 1995 Joseph Barbera-directed Dino cartoon Stay Out
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Poster to the 1995 Joseph Barbera-directed Dino cartoon Stay Out

Theatrical animated feature

Television specials

Television movies

Live action films

Other media

For a list of DVDs, video games, comic books, and VHS releases, see List of The Flintstones media.

See also

The Flintstones in other languages

  • Arabic: فلينتستونز (Arabic spelling of Flintstones, was dubbed into Arabic between late 90's or early 2000s. Used both I Yabba-Dabba Do! and Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby as the 2 final story arcs of the show)
  • Basque: Harriketarrak
  • Bulgarian: Семейство Флинтстоун Semeystvo Flinstoun (lit. "Flintstone Family") in the early 1990s the show was known as - Флинтстоунс (Flintstones). Most of the time because of the fact that Fred is most recognized in the country he is mostly known and called as - Флинтстоун (Flintstone)
  • Catalan: Els Picapedra (adapted from Spanish Los Picapiedra)
  • Chinese: 聰明笨伯 (lit. "The intelligent fool") or 摩登原始人 ("The modern prehistoric man")
  • Croatian: Obitelj Kremenko
  • Czech: Flintstonovi
  • Danish: Familien Flintstone (lit. "The Flintstone Family")
  • Dutch: De Flintstones
  • Estonian: Ränirahnud (lit. "Silicon Boulders")
  • Finnish: Kiviset ja Soraset (the names of the Flintstones and the Rubbles)
  • French: Les Pierrafeu (from pierre à feu, lit. "stone for fire", i.e. flint)
  • German: Familie Feuerstein (lit. "Flintstone Family")
  • Greek: Φλινστοουνς
  • Hebrew: משפחת קדמוני Mishpakhat Kadmoni (lit. "Prehistoric Family", from adam kadmon, meaning "prehistoric human")
  • Hungarian: Frédi és Béni, a két kőkorszaki szaki (lit. "Fred and Barney, the Two Stone-Age Chums", also note: the show's lines rhyme in Hungarian)
  • Icelandic: Steinaldarmennirnir (lit. "The stone age people")
  • Italian: Gli antenati (lit. "The ancestors") but they are also known as "I Flintstones" ("The Flintstones")
  • Japanese: 原始家族フリントストーン Genshi Kazoku Furintosutōn ("Primitive Family Flintstone")
  • Korean: 고인돌 가족 Goindol Gajok (lit. "dolmen family")
  • Latvian: Flinstoni
  • Lithuanian: Flinstounai
  • Maltese: Il-Familja Flinstones
  • Norwegian: Familien Flintstones
  • Polish: Flintstonowie (when the series was broadcast for the first time on Polish TV in the late 70s/early 80s, it was titled Między nami jaskiniowcami which when translated from Polish means "Among us, cavemen" )
  • Portuguese: Os Flintstones
  • Romanian: Familia Flintstone (lit. The Flintstone Family)
  • Russian: Флинтстоуны Flintstouny
  • Serbian: Porodica Kremenko Породица Кременко (lit. "The Flintstone Family")
  • Slovak: Flintstonovci
  • Slovene: Kremenčkovi
  • Spanish: Los Picapiedra ("The Stone Choppers")
  • Swedish: Familjen Flinta
  • Turkish: Taş Devri (lit. "Stone Age")
  • Ukrainian: Флінтстони Flinstony

References

  1. ^ http://www.topthat.net/webrock/faq/faq13.htm
  2. ^ a b Barbera, Joseph R. (Executive Producer/Writer), Montgomery, Elizabeth (Samantha Stephens), York, Dick (Darrin Stephens), Corden, Henry (Fred Flintstone), Vander Pyl, Jean (Wilma Flintstone), Blanc, Mel (Barney Rubble), and Johnson, Gerry (Betty Rubble)Gaye Autterson (Betty ). (2006 (Original Air Date: )). The Flintstones – "Samantha" (DVD) [Television series]. USA: Warner Home Video.
  3. ^ http://www.topthat.net/webrock/faq/faq7.htm
  4. ^ http://www.filmmusic.com/soundtracks/database/?id=864
  5. ^ http://www.snopes.com/radiotv/tv/marykay.htm

External links


The Flintstones characters

Fred Flintstone  •  Wilma Flintstone  •  Pebbles Flintstone  •  Barney Rubble  •  Betty Rubble  •  Bamm-Bamm Rubble  •  Dino  •  Baby Puss  •  Hoppy  •  The Frankenstones  •  The Great Gazoo  •  The Gruesomes  •  Mr. Slate  •  Bedrock
The Flintstones television shows

The Flintstones (1960–1966)  •  The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971–1972)  •  The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972–1973)  •  The Flintstone Comedy Show (1973–1974)  •  Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977–1978)  •  The New Fred and Barney Show (1979)  •  Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979)  •  Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979–1980)  •  The Flintstone Comedy Show (1980–1982)  •  The Flintstone Funnies (1982–1984)  •  The Flintstone Kids (1986–1988)  •  Dino: World Premiere Toons (1995)  •  Cave Kids (1996)
The Flintstones television specials

A Flintstone Christmas (1977)  •  The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978)  •  The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980)  •  The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1980)  •  The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling (1980)  •  The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (1981)  •  The Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981)  •  The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration (1986)  •  The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special (1988)  •  A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993)
The Flintstones television films

The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987)  •  I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993)  •  Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993)  •  A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)  •  The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
The Flintstones theatical films

The Man Called Flintstone (1966)  •  The Flintstones (1994)  •  The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000)  •  The Flintstones 3 (2009)
The Flintstones merchandise

Other media  •  The Flintstones (pinball)  •  Fruity Pebbles  •  Cocoa Pebbles  •  Flintstones chewable vitamins

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