But they appeared just twice. The imminent birth of Pebbles was a major worldwide sensation. TV networks around the world held viewer contests to pick names, weights, sexes, and other aspects of the birth.
The night that Wilma told Fred she was pregnant January 25, , the end of the show featured a voiceover where a narrator said, "That's right, folks, the Flintstones ARE going to have a baby, and you can win a trip around the world! Hanna and Barbera appeared live on the March 8 show to announce the winner Pebbles was born on the February 22 show.
Of course, this voiceover has been removed from subsequent airings since that night. The Flintstones had three addresses during the series' six seasons run: Rocky Way, Stonecave Road, and then Cobblestone Way. The final "official" address given was Cobblestone Way, Bedrock For almost all of season two, after Mel Blanc 's near-fatal automobile accident on Tuesday, January 24th, , the show was taped in his bedroom where he lay in a full-body cast.
Daws Butler , who had voiced both Fred and Barney in the original pilot The Flintstones: The Flagstones , filled in as the voice of Barney Rubble for five episodes. Producer Joseph Barbera did say that as many as 16 people, along with recording equipment, speakers, and other items crowded into Mel Blanc 's bedroom as he was recovering. The original unaired pilot The Flintstones: The Flagstones was produced in It is only seconds.
Pebbles' birth in The Flintstones: The Blessed Event was the 84th of the episodes; there are 83 episodes before and 83 episodes after. The Flintstone's house size, design, and furniture change in almost every episode. The Rubble's house figure is almost always different, when it is shown, which is rare. The Flintstones was at one time the longest-running prime-time animation cartoon weekly series.
The Simpsons took their record over, in The Flintstones: The Swimming Pool was the first episode made but was temporarily held back after debut The Flintstones: The Flagstones but not the first one aired. This was because co-directors, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera felt that Fred and Barney's quarreling would not a good way to begin their new series. The Swimming Pool was the fourth one aired, following the series' debut, "The Flagstones".
She weighed 6 pounds, 12 ounces, equaling ounces. Her name originated from Wilma's maiden name of Pebble. At the time of her birth Fred that she was "a pebble off the old Flintstone", thus her parents picked her name. The phrase "Yabba-Dabba-Doo! Both Blanc and Benaderet also voiced parts together in some of Jack Benny 's radio programs. However, Barney did have leadership over Fred once, after Mr. Slate realized they were closely blood-related but unknown to each other for a long time, like uncle and nephew in The Flintstones: Fred's New Boss Fred Flintstone's appearance was based on Alan Reed 's personal physique and human appearance but in animated form.
Dino was originally the very talkative bright blue furred Snorkasaurus with black round spots in The Flintstones: The Snorkasaurus Hunter Plus, he has three large solid black round circles in his fur color.
The work whistle in the opening sequence started off as being the bird squawking loudly, but later episodes had the bird making the actual work-site whistle noise. Though he was shown during the opening and closing credits and plays a big part in the latter , Baby Puss, the Flintstone's saber-tooth tiger pet, was hardly ever shown in any of the episodes.
The Flintstones was inspired by the sitcom The Honeymooners It was one of the first cartoons to directly target an adult audience. The series caused Post to have a television marketing campaign for Pebbles cereal. The Flintstone's top two characters, Fred and Wilma, and their nearby neighbors, the Rubbles, originated from the four main characters and with almost identical personalities , in The Honeymooners Justice, in 's top theatrical comedy role in theatrical movies, Smokey and the Bandit and its sequel Smokey and the Bandit II A Warner Brothers cartoon, Wild Wild World , also has been cited as an additional influence, as a "trouble maker".
In the closing credits of seasons 3, 4, 5, and 6, the saber-toothed cat immediately runs back into the Flintstones' house, just after Fred put it out for the night, and then it puts Fred out the front door. Slate's quarry, and neighbor Barney Rubble got into and out of rock-headed scrapes, as Wilma and Barney's wife, Betty, both smarter than their husbands, rolled their eyes. Babies Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble showed up later to this chronologically incorrect world of dinosaurs, mastodons and a mother lode of geological puns.
So, Happy anniversary, Fred and friends! You know you're humming along right now to the show's brassy, classic theme. The visual images are indelible, too: the quarry foreman pulling a bird air horn at the end of a shift, Fred sliding along a dinosaur's tail to his foot-powered Flintmobile and Wilma, Pebbles, dinosaur dog Dino and the Rubbles joining him for a trip to the drive-in.
During the closing credits, the family's saber-toothed cat locks not-too-sharp Fred out of the house, leaving him banging on the door and yelling, "Wilma! Perhaps surprisingly, the well-known theme didn't debut until Season 3. During the first two years, the instrumental "Rise and Shine" opened the show, with the credits featuring sponsor Winston cigarettes, a truly obsolete image today.
And by mammoth, we mean woolly, not huge. If anthropomorphism is the application of human traits to animals or objects, "The Flintstones" variation might be called animal-thropomorphism, or critters as household appliances. A short list includes Triceratops wheelbarrow; porcupine dish scraper; single-horned dinosaur potato peeler; tortoise ottoman; and octopus dishwasher.
The put-upon laborers frequently tossed off sad-sack wisecracks: "What about my dishwater tentacles? Birds never got a break. The concept was also predated by the Stone Age Cartoons series of 12 animated cartoons released from January to September by Fleischer Studios. These cartoons show stone-age people doing modern things with primitive means. One example is Granite Hotel including characters such as a newsboy, telephone operator, hotel clerk, and a spoof of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy.
The first three seasons of The Flintstones aired Friday nights at Eastern time on ABC , with the first two seasons in black-and-white. Beginning with the third season in , ABC televised the Flintstones in color, one of the first programs in color on that network. Season four and part of season five aired Thursdays at The rest of the series aired Fridays at In the U.
On April 1, , the program moved to Boomerang , where it aired until March 6, in its last years on the channel, it had been relegated to a graveyard slot and returned to the channel on July 30, Online, the series was made available on the In2TV service beginning in , then the online version of Kids' WB until that service was discontinued in As of , full episodes are only available in the U. In , MeTV acquired rerun rights to the series, returning the show to broadcast television for the first time in over 20 years.
The night after The Flintstones premiered, Variety magazine called it "a pen and ink disaster", and the series was among many that debuted in a " vast wasteland " of a —61 television season considered one of the worst in television history up to that point.
As late as the s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative plots. Despite the mixed critical reviews at first, The Flintstones has generally been considered a television classic and was rerun continuously for five decades after its end. Comedian Steven Wright joked about The Flintstones , underscoring its longevity and popularity.
Fred and Barney. Following the show's cancellation in , a film based upon the series was created. The movie was released to theaters on August 3, , by Columbia Pictures. The show was revived in the early s with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm having grown into teenagers, and several different spin-offs and made-for-TV movies broadcast mainly on Saturday mornings , with a few shown in primetime , 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 Al Capp's comic strip character Shmoo —have appeared over the years.
The original show also was adapted into a live-action film in , and a prequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas , which followed in
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