Posted
on September 30, 2015
Have
you met Fred and Wilma Flintstone, and their friends Barney and Betty
Rubble? Do you know Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm? How about Dino and Baby
Puss and Hoppy?
Even
though The Flintstones has been off the air for almost half a
century now (which is super shocking to me, by the way!), it is still
popular and was rated in 2013 as the second Greatest TV Cartoon of
All Time by TV Guide. (Number 1 was The Simpsons.)
You
want to know why? Check out this or this or this other!
The Flintstones was first aired on this date in 1960 and continued for 166 episodes until it ended in April of 1966.
The
Flintstones is all about the everyday concerns of modern life plunked
into a fantasy version of the Stone Age. (Part of the fantasy is the
idea of dinosaurs living at the same time as humans – which of
course never came close to happening!)
Tons of absurd pre-historic
technology, such as an instant camera that works when a bird carves a
picture onto a stone tablet with its beak!
Millions of word-play
“Stone Age” names, like Sand-and-Stony-o for San Antonio and Mick
Jadestone and the Rolling Boulders for Mick Jagger and the Rolling
Stones!
A grand mix of cavemen, wooly mammoths, dinosaurs, and
split-level homes in the suburbs!
Did
you know...?
- There is Flintstones Bedrock City in Custer, South Dakota, with a train ride and a playground and dinosaur models and a theater with The Flintstones cartoons playing. There is also a Flintstones Bedrock Town in Arizona and several other Flintstones theme parks.
- Flintstones Chewable Vitamins are definitely one of the most successful Flintstones products...but there are also Halloween costumes, t-shirts, lunch boxes, collectable figures, ViewMasters, dolls, and much much more!
- Until The Simpsons, The Flintstones was the title holder of longest-running prime-time TV cartoon, AND of most profitable cartoon.
- Dino, the Flintstones' pet, changed colors throughout the series. Actually, the entire cartoon changed colors—because it was first aired in black and white!
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