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The Flintstones is a 1994 American family comedy film directed by Brian Levant and written by Tom S. Parker, Jim Jennewein, and Steven E. de Souza based on the 1960–1966 animated television series of the same name by Hanna-Barbera.
Feb 3, 2023 · The Flintstones did more to appeal to adults than you probably realized as a child. There are dark themes woven throughout the franchise that a child's less jaded eyes would struggle to identify, but they're there.
- Brian Vanhooker
- The Flintstones Forever. Although the series ended in 1966, Hanna-Barbera released the theatrical film The Man Called Flintstone that same year. The movie saw Fred become a secret agent and served as something of a series finale.
- Fred Gets the Boot. The Flintstones aired its final episode on April 1, 1966. According to Jerry Beck, an animation historian and editor of Animation Scoop and Cartoon Research, “The Flintstones was probably canceled for its ratings sagging.
- Smoke-asaurus Rex. For the first season, The Flintstones was sponsored by Winston cigarettes. Fred and Barney even starred in a commercial where Fred spouted the slogan, “Winston tastes good like a cigarette should!”
- Fred and Barney’s Five O’clock Shadow Was for Budgetary Reasons. The five o’clock shadow Fred and Barney sported was there to help with saving money in animation.
Plot. Big-hearted, dim-witted factory worker Fred Flintstone (John Goodman) lends money to his friend Barney Rubble (Rick Moranis) so that he can adopt a baby, who turns out to be a primitive feral boy raised by mastodons named Bamm-Bamm. As thanks, Barney swaps his IQ test for Fred's during an executive search program.
- Originally, The Flintstones Were The Flagstones.
- Barney and Fred Were Drawn to Resemble Cave people.
- Alan Reed Invented “Yabba Dabba Doo.”
- The Flintstones Didn’T Copy The Honeymooners.
- Hanna-Barbera Did Hire A Former Honeymooners Writer For The Flintstones.
- The Flintstones Helped Sell Cigarettes.
- Pebbles Was Supposed to Be A Baby Boy.
- Mel Blanc Kept Voicing Barney Despite A Horrible Car accident.
- The Voice of Wilma Thinks She and Fred “Really Loved Each other.”
- According to Harvey Korman, The Great Gazoo Is Worth Money.
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. In 1959, they filmed a 90-second pilot. Daws Butler provided Fred’s gruff voice and June Foray played Betty. Unfortunately for her, the part eventually went to Bea Benaderet. “I was terribly disappo...
Ed Benedict was one of The Flintstones’s designers. He told Hogan’s Alleythat he sketched the characters to look like “cave people wearing long beards, with scraggly, unkempt hair and in slightly distorted, hunched-over shapes.” Barbera didn’t like the designs, so Benedict “straightened them up” and made them more “clean-cut.” “Barney, as originall...
Flintstones source WebRockOnline says the originof Fred’s iconic “Yabba dabba doo” catchphrase came from Alan Reed, who voiced Fred, and reportedly used the line during a recording session. Reed’s mother apparently used to say, “A little dab’ll do ya,” which inspired Reed. “Alan said, ‘Hey, Joe, where it says yahoo, can I say yabba-dabba-doo?’ I sa...
It’s true that Fred was based on Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners character Ralph Kramden, but Joe Barbera made him different. “So many people say, ‘Did you copy The Honeymooners?’ I said, ‘Well, if you compare The Flintstones to The Honeymooners, that’s the biggest compliment you can give me,” Barbera told Emmy TV Legends, “but The Honeymoonersdon’t ...
As Barbera relayed to Emmy TV Legends, he hired a guy who had written for The Honeymooners. “We paid him $3000 and he was terrible,” Barbera recalled. “And the reason being is, he just wrote words. It was all dialogue. He had no visual gags, no nothing. Yak, yak, yak, yak. The Honeymoonershad a lot of dialogue, but it was their expressions and [Art...
In the 1960s, Winston cigarettes sponsored The Flintstones. At the end of the show, Fred and Barney would be animated to smoke the cigarettes. In one black-and-white spot, Barney and Fred avoid yard work. “Let’s take a Winston break,” Barney says, as he and Fred light up. Wilma and Betty catch them in the act and throw yard equipment at them, and F...
In 1962, during the show’s third season, the producers decided Fred and Wilma should have a child. Barbera told Emmy TV Legends the plan was for their child to be a boy, until Ideal Toy Company (the company that created the Rubik’s Cube and Betsy Wetsy) changed his mind. One day, Barbera received a call from the guy in charge of Flintstonesmerchand...
The Man of a Thousand Voices portrayed Barney Rubble, even following a devastating head-on car collision in 1961. Blanc didn’t let a 70-day hospital stay deter him too much, and when he got out of the hospital, the cast and crew came to his home to record episodes. Blanc recounted the experience in his book, That’s Not All Folks, writing: “Tangles ...
Jean Vander Pyl supplied the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the show’s beginning to the day she died, in 1999. Though Wilma and Fred argued a lot, they did have a rock-solid relationship. “I loved the bum,” Pyl told the Los Angeles Timesin 1989. “Sure, Fred was a yahoo and I got mad at him all the time. But we really loved each other. Our romance w...
The actor provided the voice of the “superior and arrogant and elite” Great Gazoo, a green alien, for 13 episodes, from 1964 to 1966. Korman told Emmy TV Legends that he didn’t realize how popular—and lucrative—the character was until he attended conventions. “Some years back, I traveled for Hanna-Barbera,” Korman said. “They had these huge convent...
- Garin Pirnia
The Flintstones is the sort of shoddy vehicle that has traditionally been steered by a fat man. Goodman plays a blundering dunderhead, a moral myopic unable to see beyond the next meal.
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May 27, 1994 · Do kids really care much about office politics, embezzlement, marital problems, difficulties with adoption, aptitude exams and mothers-in-law? John Goodman stands foursquare at the center of the story, as Fred Flintstone, a repository of good nature, insecurity, and rock-headed stubbornness.
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