renegadeviking-271-528568 The Flintstones is a show that depicts life during the Stone Age. The show focuses around one family, the Flintstones. Fred is the husband that works at a quarry, Wilma is his wife, who is a homemaker. Dino, their dinosaur pet, and Pebbles, the Flintstone baby that was added during the series. Their neighbors were the Rubbles: Barney, Fred's friend that works at the quarry with him, Betty, Wilma's friend and Barney's wife, and Bamm-Bamm, their strong son that the Rubbles adopted.This was one of the best shows and it still is. It was really funny, especially the way they use animals as devices like vacuum cleaner, garbage disposal, etc. It had a great plot, great characters and voice actors, and it is original. This show is a classic, too. Overall, a classic superb show.This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid, I used to watch it all the time, then later when I discovered Cartoon Network, I got to watch it more often, but now I watch it on Boomerang and on DVD.Each season offered something special and I know of this series having so many specials and movies that I can't keep track. While the animation on the show was not too impressive, the animation on the specials and movies was great. But sometimes it is simple animation to make a great show, I don't think I would like this show as much if it had better animation in place of the animation it had when it was made, One episode that confuses me however is the episode "The Snorkasaurus Hunter" While it explains how Dino came, he was really smart in that one and spoke, I wish I knew why that changed but oh well.I like many of the episodes that feature mainly Fred and Barney together because for me it had the most laughs.I loved every episode, every special, and every movie of this great series from the sixties and hope some day they all come out on DVD so I can have the whole bunch. And even after all that, The Flintstones have continued to go on with their popular cereal commercials "Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles" with while about 30 seconds, some nice laughs.I would recommend this show to many kids and many adults who love humor and a spin on a interesting vision of the past, It makes you think if the Stone Age really was modern, how life would be for you back then.

Robert Reynolds This is one of the best animated television shows of all time, a candidate, with The Simpsons, for the ranking of number one of all time. There will be spoilers ahead:William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, after they left MGM, formed a company to produce animation for television. They did Ruff and Reddy first, then two syndicated series before landing The Flintstones in prime-time in 1960. The show has been compared to The Honeymooners, for obvious reasons. The show lasted for six seasons and went through a number of changes over the years, but the basic dynamic pretty much remained the same throughout. Fred Flintstone is Everyman, a lovable loser to a degree, with Wilma, a long-suffering wife who loves him and their best friends, Barney and Betty Rubble. The show is about the trials and tribulations, the joys and happiness of their lives.Over the course of the series, both couples become parents, with Fred and Wilma having a daughter, Pebbles, and Barney and Betty adopting Bam-Bam, the world's strongest boy. The Flintstones have a pet dinosaur named Dino and the Rubbles getting a kangaroo-type dinosaur named Hoppy.The show has some extremely nice touches, with animals as the household appliances and so on. There are caricatures of famous people, with suitably altered names, in keeping with the character names of the cast-names like Stoney Curtis, Cary Granite, et cetera. There were also guest voices like Ann-Margret as "Ann-Margrock".One of the more interesting additions, for the last season, is the addition of The Great Gazoo, voiced by Harvey Korman. Gazoo is an alien banished to Stone-Age Earth for inventing a "doomsday" device. Gazoo received mixed reviews from fans, some who like him, but many who hate the character. Me, I like the character, but the scenario is far-fetched even for a cartoon. But it's the last year of the series and he doesn't hurt the legacy of the series.This is available on DVD and is well worth getting. Recommended.

Julia Arsenault (ja_kitty_71) "The Flintstones" is one of my favorite TV series from Hanna/Barbera and I have seventy-six favorite episodes. You know, I had never know that the show was the first animated prime-time series prior to "The Simpsons" and aimed for adults; until now. Of course throughout the six seasons that had aired, the series is now loved by kids as well as with adults.My favorite characters from the show are Wilma, Betty, Hopparoo (Hoppy), little Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. After I had re-watch my Flintstone box-sets, Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm are my favorite Hanna/Barbera couple. Like Scooby Doo, "The Flintstones" had gained popularity that the studio had made spin-offs series and movies too - live action as well as animated. My favorite spin-off series is "The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show" from 1971.

wakemeup36 After the amazing series put forth by Disney, Warner Brothers and even Hanna-Barbera (mainly for Tom and Jerry) which revolutionized the cartoon industry, mainstream cartoons for the most part took a huge step backwards. The Flinstones is one of the earliest cartoons which showcased this very clearly.You know what's the best thing about cartoons? They can be funny, hilarious, unpredictable wacky or whatever you want to call them. They can defy a lot of real life rules much easier than in movies. That's what makes cartoons so great. No matter how advanced technology gets and no matter how sophisticated film making gets, cartoons will always have the upper hand in terms of making the impossible possible. When cartoons started a whole new world of possibilities opened which was experimented with very finely on classics like Tom And Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse etc. However, when the 20th century was more than halfway over, cartoons like this one came into existence and basically stripped away all that made cartoons fun to watch.I do commend the cartoon for trying something different. Depicting a stone age family living modernly (well, for the 60s anyway) was something that caught the eyes of many viewers. But other than that, there's nothing redeemable about this highly praised cartoon. The jokes are very very bland, the laugh track just makes them more annoying, the advantage the creators had as they were making a cartoon and not a sitcom, has not been utilized much at all. The characters are just boring. The animation is very lazy compared to the cartoons of the 40s, even compared to some cartoons from the 20s. The story is insanely predictable and I repeat, the cartoon is not funny in any way, shape or form. Though some of the jokes involving usage of dinosaurs and other old animals are *kind* of amusing, even they are not presented in a fashion that could actually be humorous. Oh, and the 'catchphrases' are just dumb.You'd think the creators would've learned something from the past cartoons from the classic 40s era and would've tried to analyze what works and what doesn't. Instead they made a pile of drivel which made some of the oldest Warner Bros. shorts seem like masterpieces. This is also one of the cartoons which bred the coming of similar atrocities in the 60s and 70s e.g The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo (though it had some potential), 60s Tom and Jerry, Top Cat, Hair Bear Bunch etc. Mainstream cartoons did not progress at all after this avalanche till the early 90s.In the end all I shall say is .... Yabba Dabba snoooooooore.....