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She told an interviewer in 1995 that she received $250 per episode for making The Flintstones, and in 1966, when the series ended, she rushed to accept $15,000 in lieu of residual payments from syndication. The Flintstones ran in syndication across the globe for decades.
Sep 29, 1989 · Vander Pyl, 70, still signs notes “Love, Wilma” and keeps a great stockpile of Flintstone memorabilia in her beach-front apartment. Next year will mark “The Flintstones’ ” 30th birthday ...
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- ORIGINALLY, THE FLINTSTONES WERE THE FLAGSTONES. 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.
- BARNEY AND FRED WERE DRAWN TO RESEMBLE CAVE PEOPLE. Ed Benedict was one of The Flintstones’s designers. He told Hogan’s Alley that he sketched the characters to look like “cave people wearing long beards, with scraggly, unkempt hair and in slightly distorted, hunched-over shapes.”
- ALAN REED INVENTED “YABBA DABBA DOO.” Flintstones source WebRockOnline says the origin of Fred’s iconic “Yabba dabba doo” catchphrase came from Alan Reed, who voiced Fred, and reportedly used the line during a recording session.
- THE FLINTSTONES DIDN’T COPY THE HONEYMOONERS. It’s true that Fred was based on Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners character Ralph Kramden, but Joe Barbera made him different.
May 27, 1994 · Jean Vander Pyl was just another leopard-skin-clad lass on the set of The Flintstones movie until the moment she uttered her one and only line. Suddenly, the actress outshone even Elizabeth Taylor,…
Jean Thurston Vander Pyl (October 11, 1919 – April 10, 1999) was an American actress and voice actress. Although her career spanned many decades, she was cast as the original voices of Wilma Flintstone and her daughter, Pebbles in the original series, The Flintstones and its' spin-offs. Vander Pyl was the original voice of Wilma Flintstone, her best-known character, in the original ...
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Apr 15, 1999 · Jean Vander Pyl, the voice who brought the animated character Wilma Flintstone to life in the groundbreaking cartoon series "The Flintstones," has died.
In addition to Wilma, Jean also voiced the Flintstone characters Pebbles and Mrs. Slate. Much to her later regret, Jean was paid just $250 per episode and received a lump sum of $15,000 in lieu of syndication royalties.
