tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post1874931018412616827..comments2024-03-27T01:21:03.543-07:00Comments on Yowp: The Flintstones’ 50th BirthdayYowphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-49578779615411107342022-06-29T21:01:46.638-07:002022-06-29T21:01:46.638-07:00Ah, I remember celebrating that day on Boomerang. ...Ah, I remember celebrating that day on Boomerang. Airing the first episode in black-and-white, but no original opening nor closing! It's a shame the "Boomerock" presentation is still lostAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-57800063495863767642021-03-27T11:42:40.224-07:002021-03-27T11:42:40.224-07:00With all due respect to Yowp, I also generally enj...With all due respect to Yowp, I also generally enjoyed No Biz, even the gaslighting "all just a dream" ending.Pokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-22089466912297992182013-08-14T15:31:34.167-07:002013-08-14T15:31:34.167-07:00And regarding a comment Mr.Lee made, yes, ABC and ...And regarding a comment Mr.Lee made, yes, ABC and FOX later targeted younger, but at opposaite ends in a way: The mid 60s ABC shows were more<br />soft, the Fox shows definitely not so..! SCPokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-27113257278035307172013-08-13T22:51:46.300-07:002013-08-13T22:51:46.300-07:00J.Lee made a VERY good point in the first comment....J.Lee made a VERY good point in the first comment. I don't really remember seeing much of a handful of 1965-66 shows like the Gazoos and "No Biz Like Show Biz" where that "Sunshine" song is crooned by the babies, though I don't mind parts of it. In 1971 though when "The Flinstones" went into daytime syndication ALL the episodes appeared and I was confounded by that little dum dum hating green space alien and that cowboy that Pebbles and Wilma go ga ga far,etc.StevePokeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15936757752447320636noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-30961573916671266212010-10-05T12:32:19.093-07:002010-10-05T12:32:19.093-07:00Hey, sorry my post didn't make sense somewhat....Hey, sorry my post didn't make sense somewhat. I'm only 12 and I'll need to learn to type a little slower. Although I do hope my previous post ain't deleted after this.<br /><br />Anyways, I'm still having a sore throat, but I'm recovering from my illness somewhat.<br /><br />Gotta get off. Thanks!<br /><br />Ryan, #1 fan of "Diary of a Wimpy Kid"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-60401867950456918492010-10-04T05:23:05.803-07:002010-10-04T05:23:05.803-07:00Happy 50th Birthday to the Flintstones. YABBA DABB...Happy 50th Birthday to the Flintstones. YABBA DABBA DOO!!<br /><br />Speaking of The Flintstones, I want to go over a movie that was released in 1966, "The Man Called Flintstone" (which, by the way, I'm sure you heard of). This guy named Rock Slag (voiced by Paul Frees, looks EXACTLY like Fred Flintstine) was injured, and Fred Flintstone fills in for the injured spy.<br /><br />Later, The Flintstones and Rubbles go on a trip to Paris.<br /><br />The two villains that were trying to get rid of Rock Slag once and for all (and of course would mistake Fred for Rock Slag throughout the movie) also boarded on the plane. So, in that scene the family gets on. Then, Wilma starts to feel a little nervous, while Fred gets her to relax.<br /><br />Here's what bothers me. The two villains try to get rid of what they think is Rock Slag, but the knife lands on one of the pilots' hats. The pilot opens up the curtains and says "All right, who's the wiseguy?". So, I guess the first thing they do is search for the two villains, locate them, and throw them off the plane?<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />No.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Instead, they (as usual) change the subject and cut to another scene. In that scene, Wilma wants to know how the Rubbles were doing (they were in last class) and Fred goes out to check. The plane was going to land in a little bit, so they didn't bother to take their places.<br /><br />The people shouldn't just ALWAYS change subjects. They should've just stuck to the scene and LOCATE THE VILLAINS (whom luckly fell out of the plane after that previously mentioned scene). I'm really having concerns to Hanna-Barbera for those things.<br /><br />Anyways, as of Saturday morning, I'm a little ill, but I hope I can feel better soon.<br /><br />Thanks for reading.<br /><br />Have a great Yabba Dabba Doo day, and thank you!<br /><br />RyanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-53084280569918687492010-10-03T13:52:03.855-07:002010-10-03T13:52:03.855-07:00And how many times have we – ALL of us – watched “...And how many times have we – ALL of us – watched “Alvin Brickrock Presents” over the decades and never noticed this! <br /><br />The things you find by accident! <br /><br />In a show where the car and even the HOUSE (See “The Hot Piano”!) change shape from one scene to the next, this little bit of continuity is amazing! <br /><br />At least for me, it proves that I “watch closer” when I watch DVD, than I did when watching TV. With DVD, I’m always noticing little things I didn’t see before. <br /><br />Is that true of the rest of you?Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-27965185365053806412010-10-02T08:14:08.003-07:002010-10-02T08:14:08.003-07:00Wow, Joe's right! It's around 7.5 minutes ...Wow, Joe's right! It's around 7.5 minutes into "Alvin Brickrock" that you see the pool with the two diving boards on either end spanning both yards. Great find! Definitely the strangest thing about Flintstones continuity is the odd time that you do find a consistency you don't expect.88fingersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-46248786622320361112010-10-01T17:57:05.787-07:002010-10-01T17:57:05.787-07:00As other commenters have mentioned “The Swimming P...As other commenters have mentioned “The Swimming Pool”, I thought I’d mention an amazing bit of detail- especially as The Flintstones was not known for any sort of visual continuity!<br /><br />In “Alvin Brickrock Presents”, there’s a shot of the Flintstone and Rubble houses – and the SWIMMING POOL spanning the two yards (!) behind the houses!!! <br /><br />I never noticed this before watching the episode LAST NIGHT, despite seeing the episode for years – and several times on DVD! I think I’ve just discovered a NEW piece of Flintstones trivia… and just in time to be a part of the 50th Anniversary celebration!Joe Torciviahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00421096229407174474noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-71976961668899273172010-10-01T17:30:30.290-07:002010-10-01T17:30:30.290-07:00FLINTSTONES - 50 YEARS (1960-2010)
HANNA-BARBERA 4...<b>FLINTSTONES - 50 YEARS (1960-2010)<br />HANNA-BARBERA 4 EVER!<br /><i>YABBA-DABBA-DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!</i><br /><br /></b>rodineisilveirahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751345474415214163noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-70787834414598865642010-10-01T07:51:29.941-07:002010-10-01T07:51:29.941-07:00Overall, the best Pebbles episodes were "Groo...Overall, the best Pebbles episodes were "Groom Gloom"," with Arnold the newsboy and the first teenage Pebbles (written by Herbert Finn, guest starring Don Messick & Janet Waldo), "Dino Disappears", with the lookalike Dino and Ed Wynn like owner, both show biz tyupes (written by Joanna "Plan 9" Lee, guest starring Jerry Hausner), & the two that J.Lee mentioned, "Daddies Anonymous" & "Pebbles Birthday Party".Pokeyhttp://sjcarrasblog.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-9042610337197398052010-10-01T04:15:31.306-07:002010-10-01T04:15:31.306-07:00Tim, considering the lyrics, I don't think the...Tim, considering the lyrics, I don't think they needed to put the title on the screen (what were viewers going to mistake it for?). And unlike most sitcoms of the era, they didn't open with star credits either.<br /><br />Robto., that's an interesting question. I think they would have run out of ideas, too. Most sitcoms do and have to evolve. Generally, it's for the worse. <i>All in the Family</i> was a brilliant show that was unwatchable at the end.<br /><br />As I mentioned, my favourite Flintstones was actually the 3rd season debut. And there were some good later ones, too; someone mentioned <i>Daddies Anonymous</i>, which I really liked (you can see Carlo Vinci at work). And the Christmas one in the fifth season cloys a bit and is predictable but it wasn't as unwatchable as that Yogi Christmas thing at the inn. I think the problem was the Flintstones episodes that were bad in the later seasons were <i>real</i> stinkers.Yowphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09264605351878574044noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-63767195393516500322010-09-30T14:22:46.103-07:002010-09-30T14:22:46.103-07:00Come to think of it, TOP CAT never had the title a...Come to think of it, TOP CAT never had the title appear during the opening theme song, either... only when TC pulls down the shade in the taxicab's back window, which was actually more a part of the sponsor's identification. Something strange was going on at ABC!Tim Hollishttp://www.facebook.com/tim.hollisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-73168128576573890822010-09-30T12:13:56.902-07:002010-09-30T12:13:56.902-07:00I wonder how many people have ever commented that ...I wonder how many people have ever commented that on the "Meet the Flintstones" show opening, at no point does the title of the program actually appear on the screen? Presumably the brief shot of the mailbox with "The Flintstones" in small letters was meant to substitute for that... but it must set some sort of record in TV history for assuming viewers were so familiar with the show that they didn't even need to see the title.Tim Hollishttp://www.facebook.com/tim.hollisnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-28328516005074194382010-09-30T11:58:10.595-07:002010-09-30T11:58:10.595-07:00Yowp, you hit the nail right on the head. Personal...Yowp, you hit the nail right on the head. Personally, the first two seasons of the Flintstones were the best that Hanna-Barbera ever produced, and then came (gasp!) Pebbles, and then the show began its gradual nosedive into mediocrity. Quite a shame. Imagine if they had produced six seasons of the Jetsons in the 1960s. That might have been even worse, don't you think?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-5080868923477716902010-09-30T10:54:35.140-07:002010-09-30T10:54:35.140-07:00I also meant to say that in "Dripper" Ba...I also meant to say that in "Dripper" Barney wears a diving suit that calls back to the one in "Swimming Pool", and of course in the Flagstones test. Again, maybe meaningless, but I like to think there are some intentional ties at the end with the origins of the series.88fingersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-92079638749930819442010-09-30T10:42:14.172-07:002010-09-30T10:42:14.172-07:00Two other of the last episodes ever made have nice...Two other of the last episodes ever made have nice throwbacks to two of the earliest episodes. In "Dripper" (3d to last episode made & aired) we see a pool that looks a lot like the Flintstones/Rubbles' shared pool in "The Swimming Pool" (S1, 1st produced, third aired). And in "Rocky's Raiders (2d to last episode made & last aired) we see the plane Grandpa Flintstone flies powered by the Barney-stand-in peddling system that looks similar to the one Barney invented in "Flintstone Flyer" (S1, 2d episode produced, first aired). Could I be reading too much into it, and these are total coincidence? Absolutely. Flintstones continuity, after all, is nothing to count on! Still, I like to think there was some nostalgia attached, if by that point they knew the series was ending (and even if not).88fingersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-8353325930005245732010-09-30T08:33:55.843-07:002010-09-30T08:33:55.843-07:00Maybe by the later seasons, cartoons were primaril...Maybe by the later seasons, cartoons were primarily used to entertain kids? Could it be that adults were tuning out simply because they thought cartoons were for kids? Maybe that's why HB changed the direction of the episodes somewhat. Regardless, I disagree that the show jumped the shark with the introduction of the kids and pets. Some of my favorite episodes are from the later years, including "No Biz Like Show Biz," when P&BB sang as well as the guest starring episodes with Ann-Margrock, Stony Curtis, etc. Sure, the show changed course and I can see why people prefer the earlier episodes. But I think it's unfortunate that people's opinion is posted as authoritative "fact" when there are many of us that can sit back and enjoy the series without a high-brow attitude.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-23906033436368712342010-09-30T08:32:58.282-07:002010-09-30T08:32:58.282-07:00As other H-B series premiered through THE FLINTSTO...As other H-B series premiered through THE FLINTSTONES' prime-time run, their 'dedicated' score would also be used on the parent series. Most of the 'urban traveling' cues from TOP CAT was used to good effect. Even most of the JETSONS score fit rather well in FLINTSTONE episodes. (I imagine it would have worked well on a never-realized Season 2 of TOP CAT.) Some of the JONNY QUEST adventure cues fit well in the later, more 'fantastic' episodes.<br /><br />I agree that the MAGILLA GORILLA score didn't suit the 'Stones well; nor did much of the sedate music used in the Snagglepuss/Yakky/Hokey/new Yogi episodes that were produced concurrent with the first two seasons. <br /><br />Thankfully the PIC-A-NIC BASKET CD clearly separates the various sets of cues by the series for which they're best associated.Howard Feinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-40892212292884979482010-09-30T08:20:13.891-07:002010-09-30T08:20:13.891-07:00Interestingly, two of the last episodes ever made-...Interestingly, two of the last episodes ever made- "How To Pick a Fight With Your Wife Without Trying" and "Jealousy" respectively deal with Fred and Wilma separating, and Fred coping with Wilma being feted by an old boyfriend (thanks to the old plot chestnut of Fred feigning illness to bowl instead of attending a cultural event). <br /><br />The kids don't even appear, or are even mentioned in "Jealousy". But Gazoo figures prominently in both episodes. It's as if the writers wished to (a) return to an early series theme of exploring Fred and Wilma's relationship; and (b) using Gazoo to dispense domestic advise rather than rescuing the 'Dum-Dums' by showing up at the last second to vanquish a villian.Howard Feinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5403931334822730200.post-18852547309514331652010-09-30T06:22:25.975-07:002010-09-30T06:22:25.975-07:00Atkinson's perceptive on the 'softening...Atkinson's perceptive on the 'softening' of the characters that, along with the more childish plots, would start to really negatively affect the show by Season 4. Foster, Maltese and the other Season 1-2 writers were working off "The Honeymooners" template, of course, that demanded a lot of friction between the characters, and the pre-Pebbles shows during Season 3 continue that, while the pregnancy/birth arc offered enough new ideas to make the stories worthwhile.<br /><br />But once Pebbles was born and settled in, if became less acceptable to have a dysfunctional family in front of the baby, and only a few shows from Season 4 and on figured out a way to take advantage of the new 'kinder, gentler' situation ("Daddies Anonymous" and "Pebbles Birthday Party" being the two best, IMHO). <br /><br />It's also interesting to note that at the same time the show went to syndication in September 1966, it also went to Saturday mornings on NBC. But the network and/or Hanna-Barbera only used selected shows from the series' six-season run, the bulk from Seasons 1-2 and only a handful from Seasons 4-5-6 (ABC, like the developing Fox 25 years later, targeted young viewers more than the other two networks, which meant that its long-running successful comedies of the 1960s tended to get more child-friendly/dumbed-down as the seasons went on unless there was a really strong producer/star to say 'no').J Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15175515543694122729noreply@blogger.com