[28], The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black-and-white television commercials for Winston[29] (dictated by the custom, at that time, that the star(s) of a TV series often "pitched" their sponsor's product in an "integrated commercial" at the end of the episode).[30]. List of works produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue, "Reel Life/Film & Video File: Music Helped 'Flintstones' on Way to Fame: In 1960, Hoyt Curtin created the lively theme for the Stone Age family. The movie was released to theaters on August 3, 1966, by Columbia Pictures. In the U.S., syndicated reruns of the series were offered to local stations until 1997, when E/I regulations and changing tastes in the industry led to the show's move to cable television. The name Barney Gumble is a parody (and near homonym) of Barney Rubble, Fred Flintstone's best friend on Hanna-Barbera's TV show The Flintstones. In 1996, The Simpsons passed The Flintstones as the longest running prime-time animated show. Unlike its sister show The Jetsons (the two shows appeared in a made-for-TV crossover movie in 1987), the revival programs were not widely syndicated or rerun alongside the original series. In the episode "The Long, Long, Long Weekend", which originally aired on January 21, 1966, he is shown as being the founder of "Slate Rock and Gravel Company"; still in business two million years later, the company is operated by his descendant, "George Slate the Eighty-thousandth". Ferrell and McKay would also be executive producers. In 1996, The Simpsons passed The Flintstones as the longest running prime-time animated show. Joe Rockhead – A mutual friend of Fred and Barney's, Fred usually mentions doing something (such as going to a baseball game) with Joe when Fred and Barney have some kind of falling out. Creepella Gruesome – Weirdly's tall wife. The Simpsons® is a registered trademark of 20th Century Fox. Fred Flintstone physically resembles both the first voice actor who played him, Alan Reed, and Jackie Gleason, whose series, The Honeymooners, inspired The Flintstones. [39] Common Sense Media gave the series a three out of five stars, saying: "Still a classic, but times have changed."[40]. In 1961, The Flintstones became the first animated series to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, but lost out to The Jack Benny Program. However, some early Flintstones merchandise, such as a 1961 Little Golden Book, included "Fred Jr".[27]. However, he has been seen speaking briefly to Bart, Lisa and Troy McClure. On some occasions, the cars are known to have engines (with appropriate sound effects), requiring ignition keys and gasoline. Fred appears on the cover of one of the old issues of, In the evolution diagram, Fred Flintstone is said to have evolved from, To that dude who keeps honking at me: I can't go any faster. 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Simpson, Homer Simpson, He's the greatest guy in history. When I got through I'd go back to the hotel the phone would ring and say "the president wasn't at that meeting, could you come back and do it for him." "[37], Despite the mixed critical reviews, The Flintstones has generally been considered a television classic and was rerun continuously for five decades after its end. On September 30, 2010, Google temporarily replaced the logo on its search page with a custom graphic celebrating the 50th anniversary of The Flintstones' first TV broadcast. [65] Calaway Park outside Calgary, Alberta, also opened with a Flintstones theme and many of the buildings today have a caveman-like design, though the park no longer licenses the characters. Their disastrous first meeting was recounted in the episode "Bachelor Daze", which originally aired on March 5, 1964. [19], When the series went into production, the working title The Flagstones was changed, possibly to avoid confusion with the Flagstons, characters in the comic strip Hi and Lois. The Simpsons take Grandpa to Ireland so he can go back to visit a pub he went to during the war, but Grandpa and Homer get suckered into buying the bar. ", to which Homer replies "Sorry, buddy, you've got me confused with Fred Flintstone. )", the theme song of The Bugs Bunny Show, also airing on ABC at the time, and may have been the reason the theme was changed in the third season. They briefly reconciled in the episode "Mother-in-Law's Visit", which originally aired on February 1, 1963, until she found out that she became Fred's "nice fat pigeon" when he suckered her out of money that he needed to buy a baby crib for Pebbles. It's easy, free, and your work on the wiki can be attributed to you. A stage production opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1994 (the year the live-action film was released), developed by Universal and Hanna-Barbera Productions, at the Panasonic Theater, replacing the Star Trek show. The show started airing on February 3, 2020 on Boomerang UK. Menu. The Man Called Flintstone was a musical spy caper that parodied James Bond and other secret agents. I would go to the other two boards and tell them what they did, and do all the voices and the sounds and so-on, and I'd stagger back to the hotel and I'd collapse. Title Animated by Original air date "The Flagstones" Kenneth Muse: May 1994 () (on Cartoon Network): First released on The Flintstones: The Collector's Edition on VHS in 1994, it made its television debut on Cartoon Network in May 1994, and aired again on Boomerang in November 2006. 17 Movement 2, composed in 1801/02. Flintstones, meet the Flintstones. [5] In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time (after The Simpsons).[6]. "The Flintstones Adult Reboot" (proposed, 2020), This page was last edited on 4 April 2021, at 23:15. Watch The Simpsons: The Last Temptation of Homer from Season 5 at TVGuide.com ... That was then; now it's TV longest running comedy. The title screen says "The Flintstones" instead of "The Simpsons", it goes back and "The Simpstones" is written, a mix of The Flintstones and The Simpsons, it goes back again and the correct text shows up. The Yes Guy, possibly named Frank Nelson-Type, but normally referred to as "That Annoying Guy Who Always Says "Eeeh-Ye-e-e-es?" [14] Corden had previously provided Fred's singing voice in The Man Called Flintstone[15] and later on The Flintstones children's records. The show is scheduled to be released as a part of the Boomerang IPTV subscription service in 2020. [56][57][58], In 2014, it was announced that Warner Bros. was developing an animated film with Chris Henchy, Will Ferrell, and Adam McKay, to write the script for the project. The 31st annual Simpsons Halloween special includes a frightening look at the 2020 election, parodies of Pixar and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and a ninth birthday Lisa just can't get over. For comparison, the first live-action depiction of this in American TV history was in television's first-ever sitcom: 1947's Mary Kay and Johnny. In 1955, Avery directed a cartoon entitled "The First Bad Man" (narrated by cowboy legend Tex Ritter). It was produced by Mark Marek and Marly Halpern-Graser. Mr. Next Episode (airs 11 Apr. I brought chocolates." Fred might pull into a gas station and say, "Fill 'er up with Ethel", which is pumped through the trunk of a woolly mammoth marked "ETHEL". 2021) Burger Kings. When he first arrives, Dino and Fred mistake him for a giant mouse and are frightened of him, but they eventually become best friends after Hoppy gets help when they are in an accident. The Honeymooners was one of the greatest shows ever written. [3][4] The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons, which debuted in late 1989, outlasted it. This episode saw The Simpsons surpass The Flintstones for the number of episodes produced for an animated series. In January 2009, IGN named The Flintstones as the ninth-best in its "Top 100 Animated TV Shows". Since children did not need their parents' supervision to watch television, though, Hanna-Barbera's output became labeled "kids only". Another story arc, occurring in the final season, centered on Fred and Barney's dealings with the Great Gazoo (voiced by Harvey Korman). One example is "Granite Hotel" including characters such as a newsboy, telephone operator, hotel clerk, and a spoof of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. [2], The continuing popularity of The Flintstones rests heavily on its juxtaposition of modern everyday concerns in the Stone Age setting. Dinosaurs and other animals are portrayed to co-exist during the time of cavemen, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths. So I go back to New York with a portfolio and two half-hour boards. The 100th episode made (but the 90th to air), "Little Bamm-Bamm Rubble" (October 3, 1963), established how Bamm-Bamm was adopted. The original show also was adapted into a live-action film in 1994, and a prequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, which followed in 2000. The Australia's Wonderland and Canada's Wonderland theme parks, both featured Flintstones characters in their Hanna-Barbera-themed children's sections from 1985 until the mid-1990s. [16] Starting in season three, episode three ("Barney the Invisible"), the opening- and closing-credits theme was the familiar vocal "Meet the Flintstones". After his recovery from the accident, Blanc used a deeper voice, quite similar to the voice of the Abominable Snowman he performed in other cartoons and was shown as somewhat dopier than before. The Flintstones is a 1960-1966 animated sitcom created by William Hanna (1910-2001) and Joseph Barbera (1911-2006). The show is set in an anachronistic Stone Age and centers around Fred Flintstone, his wife Wilma and their baby daughter Pebbles, along with their neighbours Barney Rubble and his wife Betty. Bedrock City, also known as Flintstone Park, closed in August 2015.[62]. ", "Apu: You Look Familiar, Sir. It managed to gain adult fans as well as children and remained popular in reruns decades later. It is said that only Homer can see him. . Watch this funny clip where homer acts like Fred Flintstone. [54][55] 11: 227 His shadow was also seen in their debut episode. [59] In 2018, it was confirmed that the project is still in development, but if the crew members would still be involved is unknown. The concept was also antedated by the "Stone Age Cartoons" series of 12 animated cartoons released from January 1940 to September 1940 by Fleischer Studios. Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a film based upon the series was created. All rights reserved to the creator of The Simpsons. Lisa asks for a pony six times on her Christmas list (it's her first line … The plots deliberately resemble the sitcoms of the era, with the caveman Flintstone and Rubble families getting into minor conflicts characteristic of modern life. The guy who took away a show so many kids love and so many parents love, too?'"[13]. LISA REALLY WANTED A PONY. ", and sometimes referred to as "The Obnoxious Yes Guy" by Homer, is a resident of Springfield. His appearance varied throughout the run of the series, but his appearance in the episode "The Picnic", which originally aired on December 15, 1961, was the one most commonly used. [36] Animation historian Michael Barrier disliked the series, calling it a "dumb sitcom" and stated that "I can readily understand why someone who as a small child enjoyed, say, The Flintstones might regard that show fondly today. The show mainly deals with themes commonly known as "jumping the shark", instances that usually occur when a failing show adds a new character or major plot twist to boost ratings. So one of the people at Screen Gems said "This is the worst, those guys...." he was so angry at them. [11] The voice of Barney Rubble was provided by voice actor Mel Blanc, except for five episodes during the second season (the first, second, fifth, sixth, and ninth); Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler filled in and provided the voice of Barney while Blanc was incapacitated by a near-fatal car accident. Another existed until the 1990s at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina. Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs is an American animated web television series spin-off of The Flintstones that premiered in 2020, the first to feature them since they appeared in the 2002 series The Rubbles, and produced by Warner Bros. Nine episodes were produced before it, but aired afterward, which explains why Bamm-Bamm was not seen again until episode 101, "Daddies Anonymous" (Bamm-Bamm was in a teaser on episode 98, "Kleptomaniac Pebbles"). In "A Star Is Burns", Bart watches The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons on TV and sighs "Uh oh, I smell another cheap cartoon crossover". In the 30-year interim, the tenor of adult cartoons had shifted dramatically: The Simpsons … From the time of Ted Turner's purchase of Hanna-Barbera in 1991, TBS, TNT, and Cartoon Network aired the program. As of 2017, full episodes are only available in the U.S. on Boomerang's subscription video-on-demand service, with select clips made available on the official YouTube account tied to the revamped Kids' WB website. 2,500). "[70] The opening of "Marge vs. the Monorail" depicts Homer leaving work in a similar way to Fred Flintstone in the opening of The Flintstones, during which he sings his own version of the latter's opening theme only to slam into a chestnut tree. Bolsters Specialty Portfolios, Including Toons for All Ages", "Corus Entertainment's Powerful Specialty Portfolio Announces Lineup of 2019–2020 Orders", "Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs | Games, Videos and Downloads", https://d2lv662meabn0u.cloudfront.net/boomerang/dynamic/show/00000001/1050/e4de04a6504edeaf6a518ae797ef3d1df1cdda76_1576681153.jpg, "TV Listings for Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs on Boomerang UK", "Flintstones park in South Dakota closing, gets new owner", "Kelowna, BC, Canada – Bedrock City (Gone)", "Remember Flintstones Park in Kelowna? The Flintstones premiered on September 30, 1960, at 8:30 pm Eastern time, and quickly became a hit. It cost $5 per person to get in. The Flintstones (1960-1966) The Simpsons (1989- ) Type: Cursory Cameo: Oh I am pained to include this as any sort of official crossover. The first time the Art Carney-like voice was used was for a few seconds in "The Prowler" (the third episode produced). Blanc was able to return to the series much sooner than expected, by virtue of a temporary recording studio for the entire cast set up at Blanc's bedside. [7] June Foray and Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler voiced the characters for the demonstration film, but Foray was dropped without warning before production began; Foray was upset about the rejection and refused to work with Hanna-Barbera for many years afterward, despite Barbera's efforts to offer her other work. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The longest-running prime-time scripted series ever, The Simpsons is regarded simultaneously as one of the greatest shows of the 20th century and most disappointing of the 21st: the golden age of seasons 3-9 is some of the best TV ever, while the zombified version it became over the subsequent 20 years is rightly lampooned. & YABBA-DABBA DINOSAURS! https://www.buzzfeed.com/louispeitzman/the-simpsons-tv-parodies In Australia, the Nine Network ran a "Name the Flintstones' baby" competition during the 'pregnancy' episodes—few Australian viewers were expected to have a U.S. connection giving them information about past Flintstone episodes. Online, the series was made available on the In2TV service beginning in 2006, then the online version of Kids' WB until that service was discontinued in 2015. In the episode "Homer's Night Out", Homer's local convenience store clerk, Apu, remarks "You look familiar, sir. Barbera and Hanna wanted to recapture the adult audience with an animated situation comedy.[18]. Many of the sight gags from that series antedated similar situations used by Hanna-Barbera in the Flintstones series by many years. These cars are large wooden and rock structures and burn no fuel. Another Flintstones park was located in Bridal Falls, British Columbia, which closed in 1990. Barbera explained that selling the show to a network and sponsors was not an easy task. So after sitting in New York just wearing out, you know really wearing out. Peter finds an old Flintstone vitamin in his coat pocket in " Griffin Winter Games " that he didn't take because it was Barney. It's very funny. Joe was, at some point, chief of the Bedrock Volunteer Fire Department as shown on the episode "Arthur Quarry's Dance Class", which originally aired on January 13, 1961. Here we were with a brand new thing that had never been done before, an animated prime-time television show. 152 "Homerpalooza" One teen wears a The Great Gazoo T-Shirt. Matt Groening watched The Flintstones too as a child, but in the documentary My Wasted Life (2000) he said that he disliked the "TV narrow boundaries, safe and formulaicness" of the show, something he wanted to avoid on The Simpsons. The episode therefore deals with the issue of longevity and the problems that arise when the producers try to make a show "fresh" again. [33] All seasons of this series can currently be streamed on HBO Max, a streaming service from AT&T's WarnerMedia. The show is set in a comical version of the Stone Age, but has added features and technologies that resemble mid-20th-century suburban America. The Flintstones (Fred, Wilma, and Pebbles) are on the couch. Zack Hatrock – Jethro and Gravella's oldest son. For other uses, see, For DVDs, video games, comic books, and VHS releases, see, CD liner notes: Saturday Mornings: Cartoons' Greatest Hits, 1995 MCA Records, The Flintstones, season 2 DVD documentary, Leonard Maltin interviews Joseph Barbera, 1997, Leonard Maltin interviews Joseph Barbera-1997, For example, an episode of the 1987 series, Learn how and when to remove these template messages, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone, The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration, The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special, Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration. Sometimes I wake up in a cold-sweat thinking this is how close you get to disaster. He made two appearances on the Simpsons (see appearances below). [20]:3 It was a difficult sell, and required eight weeks of daily presentations to networks and ad agencies. Since 2000, Jeff Bergman, James Arnold Taylor, and Scott Innes (performing both Fred and Barney for Toshiba commercials) have performed the voice of Fred. Animation historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that the series draws its humor in part from creative uses of anachronisms. "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular" Troy McClure calls the Simpsons "America's most popular non-prehistoric cartoon family", a reference to The Flintstones. In several of the episodes of the first season, Barney Gumble's hair was yellow, just like Barney Rubble's hair. I'm not even putting this down on my list of grouped shows because … Reed based Fred's voice upon Gleason's Honeymooners 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. This society takes inspiration from the suburban sprawl developed in the first two decades of the postwar period. The first theme is a commentary on adding a new character, when the … In 1997, The Simpsons surpassed The Flintstones as the longest-running prime-time animated series when it aired its 167th episode, “The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochy Show.” This episode dealt—not so coincidentally — with the problems of a show getting stale in its long run and trying to keep it “fresh” by introducing a new character. They're the original animated sitcom family brought to us by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera in 1960. So finally on the very last day I pitched it to ABC, which was a young daring network willing to try new things, and bought the show in 15 minutes. Series", "Corus Ent. Both have been in operation for decades. Lyrics Homer: Yabba-dabba-doo! The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company.It is a satirical depiction of a dysfunctional middle-class American lifestyle starring the eponymous family: Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.Set in the town of Springfield, the show lampoons both American culture and the human condition. Whether the car runs by foot or by gas varies according to the needs of the story. [22] William Hanna admitted that "At that time, The Honeymooners was the most popular show on the air, and for my bill, the funniest. [24][25] Another influence was noted during Hanna-Barbera's tenure at MGM, where they were in a friendly competition with fellow cartoon director Tex Avery. This version was recorded with a 22-piece big band conducted by composer Hoyt Curtin and performed by the Randy Van Horne Singers. Granny Hatrock – The mother of Jethro and grandmother of Zack and Slab. Slate was a short character. https://simpsonswiki.com/w/index.php?title=The_Flintstones&oldid=1005591, Barney's name is a reference to Barney Rubble from, The opening of the episode parodies the intro of. 9 The Flintstones An American won the contest and received an all-expenses-paid trip to tour Hanna-Barbera Studios. Since Mel Blanc's death in 1989, Barney has been voiced by Jeff Bergman, Frank Welker, and Kevin Michael Richardson. Around this time, Winston pulled out their sponsorship and Welch's (grape juice and grape jellies) became the primary sponsor, as the show's audience began to shift younger. [32] Season four and part of season five aired Thursdays at 7:30. Like Cave Kids, the show focuses on the lives of best friends Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, who are joined by Dino for many adventures in the Stone Age. The Simpsons referenced The Flintstones in several episodes. Join to talk about the wiki, Simpsons and Tapped Out news, or just to talk to other users. The show ran until January 2, 1997. Henry Corden's voice became Fred's after Reed's death in 1977, starting with A Flintstone Christmas. Uncle Ghastly – The towering brother of Weirdly and uncle of Gobby, he is mostly shown as a large furry hand coming out of a well or a wall. The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown! Beginning with the episode "The Surprise", aired midway through the third season (January 25, 1963), in which Wilma reveals her pregnancy to Fred, the arc continued through the time leading up to Pebbles' birth in the episode "Dress Rehearsal" (February 22, 1963), and then continued with several episodes showing Fred and Wilma adjusting to the world of parenthood. [7] The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock (pop. Jethro Hatrock – The patriarch of the Hatrock Family, he had brown hair in "The Hatrocks and the Flintstones" and taupe-gray in "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes". or That Jerk That Goes '"Eeeh-Ye-e-e-es? Where there was Fred, there was food, beer and bowling – the same is true at Freddy's Brew Pub! [68] The same couch gag was reused in syndicated episodes of "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show", when The Simpsons overtook The Flintstones as the longest-running animated series. I got to know where the laughs were, and where to hit it, nothing; dead, dead, dead. (Maggie) Mind if I come in? The Flintstones Season 1 Episode 28 – Fred Flintstone: Before and After. He's the greatest guy in history! Meet the Flintstones is the theme song from the primetime animated television show of the 1960s, The Flintstones. [12] According to Henry Corden, a voice actor and a friend of Gleason's, "Jackie's lawyers told him he could probably have The Flintstones pulled right off the air. I have a lot more trouble understanding why anyone would try to defend anything about it on artistic grounds. Slab Hatrock – The youngest son of Jethro and Gravella. His first appearance was in The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase where he was seen in sneak peek of Season 9 with the Simpsons family … The idea of The Flintstones started after Hanna-Barbera produced The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw Show. [71], This article is about the original television series. When the Simpsons come in, Fred smiles at Homer and invites him to sit. In the series, Seargent Nicholas Brody behaves suspiciously after coming back home from the Middle East where he was a POW. Miles Laboratories (now part of Bayer Corporation) and their One-A-Day vitamin brand was the alternate sponsor of the original Flintstones series during its first two seasons, and in the late 1960s, Miles introduced Flintstones Chewable Vitamins, fruit-flavored multivitamin tablets for children in the shape of the Flintstones characters, which are still currently being sold. What it was, was that there were two agencies there, and neither one was going to let the other one know they were enjoying it. [35] As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative plots. [63][64] The cartoon concerned the rowdy antics of a bank robber in stone-age Dallas. [50] After Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly read the pilot script and "liked it but didn't love it", MacFarlane chose to abandon work on the project rather than restarting it.[51][52]. I'm pushing the car with my feet through a hole in the floor. In a 1986 Playboy interview, Gleason said Alan Reed had done voice-overs for Gleason in his early movies and that he had considered suing Hanna-Barbera for copying The Honeymooners, but decided to let it pass. The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life, epitomized by the Simpson family, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie.The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society, television, and the human condition. Are You On The Television Or Something? [17] The "Meet the Flintstones" opening was later added to the first two seasons for syndication. Mr. George Slate – Fred and Barney's hot-tempered boss at the gravel pit, he fires Fred on several occasions throughout the series, only to give him his job back by the end of the episode. In the earliest episodes, Blanc had used a much higher pitch to the point of portraying Barney as a smart-aleck. It was originally broadcast on ABC from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, and was the first animated series to hold a prime-time slot on television. During the third season, Hanna and Barbera decided that Fred and Wilma should have a baby. Homer parodies the song in the episode "Marge vs. the Monorail". [21] Animator Kenneth Muse, who worked on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, also worked on the early seasons of The Flintstones. He is known for bellowing “Eeeh-Ye-e-e-es? The show's producers say it may be the most frequently broadcast song on TV", Voiceover legend June Foray discusses The Flintstones pilot, "The Flintstones Frequently Asked Questions List", "The Flintstones Frequently Asked Questions List (item 13)", "The Flintstones Frequently Asked Questions List (item 14)", "Yabba Dabba Cough! In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time (after The Simpsons). This society has modern home appliances, but they work by employing animals. #comic-con #sdcc, Played Fred in the 1980s and 1990s reboots of. The Simpsons has already made the best ending episode possible. Are you on the television or something? 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