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Since children did not need their parents' supervision to watch television, Hanna-Barbera's programs became labeled "kids only". Hanna and Barbera wanted to recapture the adult audience with an animated situation comedy .
- 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...
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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.
Toddler. Bamm-Bamm is short and has fair skin and white hair, his famous form as a toddler. In the original series, The Flintstones, he wears an orange-tan or yellow-tan and black spotted loincloth, an orange-tan or yellow-tan and black spotted hat and a brown or black strap with a white bone.
In the 1994 live-action Flintstones movie, Bamm-Bamm appears as a four-year-old who is adopted after Fred secretly gives money to Barney and Betty to ensure that they could afford the adoption. Bamm-Bamm is seen with long, matted, filthy-brown hair and only wearing a fig leaf loincloth.
Feb 10, 2015 · The Flintstones (1960 - 1966) #WarnerArchive #WarnerBros #TheFlintstones Pebbles gives birth with her husband, Bamm-Bamm, and family at her side. Scene from HollyRock-A-Bye Baby. Directed By ...
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Mar 1, 2018 · via: pintrest. Although generally seen as a show for children The Flintstones contained some fairly grown-up storylines throughout its six seasons. Taking one's own life is an extremely serious subject matter for a real-life action show let alone an animated one but it's something The Flintstones approached in the episode "Little Bamm-Bamm."
