Fun Facts About Rockos Modern LifePre dating The Simpsons by almost 3. The Flintstones was the first primetime animated show on TV and, until 1. The Simpsons stole the crown, The Flintstones aired the most episodes of any animated show in primetime, with 1. The show was so successful, it established Hanna Barbera as the largest producer of animated films. Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their neighbors, Barney and Betty Rubble, live in Bedrock during 1. B. C. Fred and Barney work at a quarry, and Betty and Wilma are homemakers who are constantly at odds with their husbands. In the third and fourth seasons, respectively, kids Pebbles and Bamm Bamm joined the cast. Akin to other Hanna Barbera produced shows like Scooby Doo, The Flintstones reappeared in many other series and specials throughout the decades, including two live action theatrical movies and several spinoff series, including 2. The Pebbles and Bamm Bamm. Show, featuring the kids as teenagers. Nearly a dozen TV specials aired, including The Flintstone Kids Just Say No Special, a couple of Flintstones holiday specials, and a made for TV JetsonsFlintstones mash up. Along with all of the shows, The Flintstones launched multi million dollar merchandising with Fruity Pebbles cereal and Flintstones vitamins. Here are 1. 5 brontosaurus sized facts about one of the greatest animated families of all time. 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. In 1. 95. 9, they filmed a 9. Daws Butler provided Freds gruff voice and June Foray played Betty. Unfortunately for her, the part eventually went to Bea Benaderet. I was terribly disappointed, and when my agent talked to Joe Barbera, he said they wouldnt even let me come in and retest for the part or any of the others, Foray told Hogans Alley. The pilot didnt air, and the name got changed to The Flintstones. But in 1. 99. 3, Cartoon Network unearthed the pilot, found in a New York storage warehouse. It was this mythological sort of thing animators had heard of it, but nobody had actually seen it, Mike Lazzo, the Cartoon Networks head of programming, told. Entertainment Weekly. So we sent out teams of researchers to look for it all over. It was like the search for the Holy Grail. The pilot finally aired on TV in May of 1. The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger Movie Dvd Quality ' title='The Cow Who Wanted To Be A Hamburger Movie Dvd Quality ' />Watch The Boss Baby online streaming full movie in HD for free. Stream The Boss Baby full movie free in good quality without download online. As eyeopening as Blackfish and as inspiring as An Inconvenient Truth. A new cut from executive producer Leonardo DiCaprio now exclusively streaming on Netflix. Japanese Bukkake DVD movies category Miscellaneous Unsorted titles DVD reviews, scene descriptions and picture previews. BARNEY AND FRED WERE DRAWN TO RESEMBLE CAVE PEOPLE. Ed Benedict was one of The Flintstoness designers. He told Hogans 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. Barbera didnt like the designs, so Benedict straightened them up and made them more clean cut. Barney, as originally designed, had a strap over one shoulder, and when he turned he had a bare shoulder, Benedict said. It just didnt look right, so we had to correct that. I was told they had a pet, so a dinosaur seemed appropriate, and thats all Dino is a small dinosaur. I had six spots on Freds loincloth and remember exactly that it was reduced to four. I continued to add little things, like the necktie on Fred and the stone necklace that Wilma wears. Joe just continued making very small changes, bit by bit. Joe was going more for a neat, cute look, but not cute for its own sake. ALAN REED INVENTED YABBA DABBA DOO. Flintstones source Web. Rock. Online says the origin of Freds iconic Yabba dabba doo catchphrase came from Alan Reed, who voiced Fred, and reportedly used the line during a recording session. Reeds mother apparently used to say, A little dabll do ya, which inspired Reed. Alan said, Hey, Joe, where it says yahoo, can I say yabba dabba doo I said, Yeah. God knows where he got it, but it was one of those terrific phrases, Barbera said. THE FLINTSTONES DIDNT COPY THEHONEYMOONERS. Its true that Fred was based on Jackie Gleasons 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, thats the biggest compliment you can give me, Barbera told Emmy TV Legends, but The Honeymooners dont have all the gags that we had in there, including a Stoneway Piano and the Polarrock Camera. HANNA BARBERA DID HIRE A FORMER HONEYMOONERS WRITER FOR THE FLINTSTONES. As Barbera relayed to Emmy TV Legends, he hired a guy who had written for The Honeymooners. We paid him 3. 00. 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 Honeymooners had a lot of dialogue, but it was their expressions and Art Carneys attitude that made it work. When youre doing an animation, you better go beyond that. You cant just have people making faces at each other. You have to move them. THE FLINTSTONES HELPED SELL CIGARETTES. In the 1. 96. 0s, 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. Lets 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 Fred says the tagline, Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should. The smoking was short lived Enacted in 1. Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act required stricter health warnings on cigarette packs, and it also banned cigarette ads on TV and radio. Later on, The Flintstones started shilling the healthier Welchs grape juice. PEBBLES WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A BABY BOY. In 1. 96. 2, during the shows 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 Rubiks Cube and Betsy Wetsy changed his mind. One day, Barbera received a call from the guy in charge of Flintstones merchandising. He said, Hey, I hear youre having a baby on the show. I said, Yeah, Barbera said. He said, Is it a boy or a girl What else, a boy. A chip off the old rock. He says, Thats too bad. I have the ideal toy. If it was a girl, we couldve made a hell of a deal. I said, Its is a girl. They sold three million dolls within the first couple of months. MEL BLANC KEPT VOICING BARNEY DESPITE A HORRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT. The Man of a Thousand Voices portrayed Barney Rubble, even following a devastating head on car collision in 1. Blanc didnt let a 7. Blanc recounted the experience in his book, Thats Not All Folks, writing Tangles of wires were scattered all over the floor, and chairs and microphones were arranged around my hospital bed. The cast gathered around Blanc, and the producers talked to him through a built in speaker. Every couple of hours Joe would ask if I was too tired to carry on, but I insisted on completing the show, Blanc wrote, saying that they recorded about 4. Thankfully, by September, my doctors allowed me to sit up a bit, elevated by way of a pulley cable system, to a semi sitting position. It was no more than a few inches difference, but as I laughingly told my colleagues, How nice is it to be able to look at your faces instead of at the damned ceiling. THE VOICE OF WILMA THINKS SHE AND FRED REALLY LOVED EACH OTHER. Jean Vander Pyl supplied the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the shows beginning to the day she died, in 1. Though Wilma and Fred argued a lot, they did have a rock solid relationship. I loved the bum, Pyl told the Los Angeles Times in 1. Whole Sonic The Hedgehog Movie Online on this page. Sure, Fred was a yahoo and I got mad at him all the time. But we really loved each other. Our romance was one of the things that made us so popular. We were real. Pyl also voiced Rosie the Robot and Mrs. Spacely on The Jetsons, but its Wilma who made her famous.