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Dino ( / ˈdiːnoʊ /) is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series The Flintstones, and its spin-offs and feature films. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. [10] Dino debuted in the opening credits of the pilot episode of The Flintstones, but is not mentioned by ...
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Dino Flintstone (pronounced "dee-no") is a snorkasaurus and the pet of the Flintstones family in the original series, The Flintstones along with the other franchise.
He is the pet snorkasaurus of the series' main characters, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. In the show, he is a metaphorical pet dinosaur and exhibits the characteristics of a typical domesticated dog. In "Dino Disappears", Fred and Wilma recall that they first met Dino one year before Pebbles Flintstone was born (however he was technically with them for three years before Pebbles according to prior episodes), where one day Fred was on his way home from work when he spotted the stray young Dino in the street and decided to play with him for a bit before moving on but unbeknownst to him, the little snorkasaurus had followed him all the way home and so Fred and Wilma decided to adopt him as their pet.
A recurring gag in the series is Dino gets excited and knocks Fred down (usually when he comes home from work) and licks his face continuously. No matter how hard he tries to the contrary, Fred usually gives in to Dino's ticklish and wet doglike kisses.
Dino debuted in the opening credits of the first episode of The Flintstones but was not mentioned by name until the fourth episode, "No Help Wanted" which was also his debut. Here Dino is a lovable pup and would perform the traditional affectionate pounce on Fred that would define his personality for the rest of the franchise's history.
His role was considerably different in the eighteenth episode, "The Snorkasaurus Hunter", where he was portrayed (in an apparent flashback story) talking, colored purple and at the end of the episode, acting like a butler for the Flintstones, answering the phone, dusting and ironing. However this incarnation of Dino was never referenced or mentioned again.
Television shows
•The Flintstones (1960–1966) •The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972–1974) •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) •What a Cartoon! – Dino: Stay Out! (1995) •Cave Kids (1996) •What a Cartoon! – Dino: The Great Egg-scape (1997) •Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law (2002-2004) •Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs (2021-2022) •
Films and specials
•The Man Called Flintstone (1966) •1967 Busch Advertising Reel (1967, cameo on a dartboard) •Energy: A National Issue (1977) •A Flintstone Christmas (1977) •Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue (1978) •The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978) •The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1980) ••The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980) •The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling (1980) •The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (1981) •The Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981) •The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987) •The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special (1988) •The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (1990) •I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993) •Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993) •A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993) •The Flintstones (1994) •A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994) •The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) •The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001) •The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015)
Publications
•The Flintstones (comic strips) (1961-1998) •••The Flintstones (Charlton Comics) and •••••••••
Television shows, films and specials
•Jerry Mann - "The Snorkasaurus Hunter" (1960) •Mel Blanc (1960-1989) •The Flintstones (1960–1966) •The Man Called Flintstone (1966) •The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972–1974) •Energy: A National Issue (1977) •A Flintstone Christmas (1977) •Fred Flintstone and Friends (1977–1978) •The Flintstones: Little Big League (1978) •The New Fred and Barney Show (1979) •Fred and Barney Meet the Thing (1979) •Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo (1979–1980) •The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone (1980) •The Flintstone Comedy Show (known as Flintstone Frolics) (1980–1982) ••The Flintstones' New Neighbors (1980) •The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling (1980) •The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma (1981) •The Flintstones: Jogging Fever (1981) •The Flintstone Funnies (1982–1984) •The Flintstone Kids (1986–1987) •The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones (1987) •The Flintstones (1994, archived footage) •The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000, archived footage) •Frank Welker •The Flintstone Kids (fill-ins) •The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special (1988) •The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera (1990) •I Yabba-Dabba Do! (1993) •Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby (1993) •A Flintstone Family Christmas (1993) •A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994) •What a Cartoon! – Dino: Stay Out! (1995) •Cave Kids (1996) •What a Cartoon! – Dino: The Great Egg-scape (1997) •The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001) •Eric Bauza •The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! (2015) •
Other
•Daws Butler - "Fred Flintstone Woos Again" (1961) •Mark Mangini •The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (2000) •The Flintstones: On the Rocks (2001)
•Dino was introduced in the original series as a regular dogasaurus incapable of regular speech (not even that close to Astro or Scooby-Doo), but in the middle of the first season, "The Snorkasaurus Hunter" infamously tried and failed to retcon Dino as a well spoken dinosaur referred to as a "snorkasaurus" (voiced by Jerry Mann, in an impersonation of comedian Phil Silvers), who was purple and became more the butler of Wilma than Fred. The concept of a Phil Silvers impersonation was later re-used for Hanna-Barbera's character Top Cat.
•Incidentally, Wilma was always the one more fond of Dino, but that may be because she didn't get trampled by him all the time. Furthermore, The Flintstone Kids depicted Dino as specifically Fred's pet since childhood, despite that the original show mentions that Dino was only with the Flintstones one year before Pebbles was born.
•Dino was replaced with Wooly, a small woolly mammoth, in the first season of The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show. He isn't even mentioned, and one episode goes as far as to have an entirely different kind of dogasaurus. When Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm returned as a few "season 2" segments in The Flintstone Comedy Hour, Dino was back and Wooly did not appear again.
•In his first appearance in "No Help Wanted", Dino's species is not mentioned, but is treated much like a dog. However, his species as told in "The Snorkasaurus Hunter" is a Snorkasaurus and was bipedal which bears a striking, if possibly coincidental resemblance to real world Plateosauridae. All later appearances would portray and refer to him as a dog or dogasaurus who walked on all fours.
•Dino appeared as a supporting character in the episode "A Page Right Out of History" of Johnny Bravo.
•Dino, along with the Flintmobile and the Loggin Continental, has been used as the basis for kiddie rides for decades.
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Dino ( / ˈdiːnoʊ /) is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series The Flintstones, and its spin-offs and feature films. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. Dino debuted in the opening credits of the pilot episode of The Flintstones, but is not mentioned by name ...
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- ORIGINALLY, THE FLINTSTONES WERE THE FLAGSTONES. Joe Barbera thought about calling the show The Gladstones, then decided on The Flagstones until he realized there was a comic strip with the same name.
- BARNEY AND FRED WERE DRAWN TO RESEMBLE CAVE PEOPLE. Ed Benedict was one of The Flintstones’s designers. He told Hogan’s Alley that he sketched the characters to look like “cave people wearing long beards, with scraggly, unkempt hair and in slightly distorted, hunched-over shapes.”
- ALAN REED INVENTED “YABBA DABBA DOO.” Flintstones source WebRockOnline says the origin of Fred’s iconic “Yabba dabba doo” catchphrase came from Alan Reed, who voiced Fred, and reportedly used the line during a recording session.
- THE FLINTSTONES DIDN’T COPY THE HONEYMOONERS. It’s true that Fred was based on Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners character Ralph Kramden, but Joe Barbera made him different.
Mar 8, 2024 · Dino ( / ˈdiːnoʊ / ) is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series The Flintstones , and its spin-offs and feature films. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. [10] Dino debuted in the opening credits of the pilot episode of The Flintstones, but is not mentioned by ...
Dino (pronounced dee-no, as in the Latin/Italian pronunciation) is a fictional character featured in the Hanna-Barbera animated television series The Flintstones, and its TV spinoffs and feature films. He is a pet dinosaur of the series' main characters, Fred and Wilma Flintstone. In the show, he is a metaphorical pet dog, and exhibits the characteristics of a typical domesticated canine. He ...
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The first of the spin-off series was The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (1971), followed by The Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972), The New Fred and Barney Show (1979), The Flintstones Comedy Show (1980), The Flintstone Kids (1986) and Cave Kids (1996). Not included in the list are a large number of shows that featured reruns of previous series presented under a different title and format.
