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21 unusual facts about The Flintstones


Boom Desjardins

As an infant, he learned to walk at an early age and was a boisterous child; his family noted the similarity to the character of Bamm-Bamm (in Quebec French, "Boum-Boum") from the popular television show The Flintstones, and began calling him "Boom" as a result.

Carlo Vinci

Among the characters he animated were the original Mighty Mouse, Yogi Bear and Flintstones.

Chuck Cecil

During much of his career, Cecil was forced to wear a "Gazoo Helmet"; a helmet so named because it resembled the head of The Great Gazoo, a recurring character in The Flintstones animated series.

Currency pair

New innovations include Barney for USD/RUB and Betty for EUR/RUB after the fictional characters the Rubbles in The Flintstones.

Custer, South Dakota

Custer is home to the Bedrock City campground, which attracts visitors to its construction of the fictional town of Bedrock from the animated television series The Flintstones.

Danelectro Dano Pro

The body's vaguely trapezoidal shape has led to it being described as a bowtie or Flintstone guitar.

Dick Ambrose

During his playing days he was nicknamed "Bam-Bam," after the character of that name on The Flintstones.

Duke Mitchell

Mitchell also provided the Elvis-like "singing voice" of Fred Flintstone in several episodes of the popular cartoon TV series, The Flintstones.

Ed Love

He is well known for his work at Disney (1932–1941), MGM (1941–1945), Walter Lantz (1946–1948), and his work on television shows such as Yogi Bear and The Flintstones.

Ionion FM

The station is named with the Ionian Sea, on its slogans, it reads ...not the sea, the radio station (Ionion, ohi ton pelagos...) One of the jingles featured Fred Flintstone (of The Flintstones) in the original voice and said Yabba Dabba Doo, leave a message, I'll get back to you.

Laugh, Laugh

The Beau Brummels promoted the single by appearing on several television shows, including a 1965 episode of The Flintstones in which the band gave an animated performance as the Beau Brummelstones.

Learning Perl

Schwartz selected the world of The Flintstones for the examples in this book, giving rise to the somewhat frequent use of Fred and Barney as metasyntactic variables, rather than the classic foo and bar.

Listen to the Mocking Bird

"Listen to the Mocking Bird" was parodied in the television series, The Flintstones, as a swinging jazz tune called "Listen to the Rocking Bird".

Preston Blair

Blair continued his career in animation into the 1960s, working on The Flintstones at Hanna-Barbera.

Randy Van Horne

The group became most famous for recording the theme songs for several high profile Hanna-Barbera cartoons, including The Flintstones and The Jetsons.

Skip Heller

He did, however, start writing television music for such shows The Flintstones: On the Rocks and Dexter's Laboratory.

Television comedy

A few prime-time animated comedies, notably The Flintstones, The Simpsons, Family Guy, successfully mixed attributes of traditional cartoons and sitcoms.

The Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Madrock

A prototype version dumped as a ROM image is almost identical to the completed version of the game, but there is a lot of slowdown.

The Gruesomes

Taking their name from the scary neighbours on TV's The Flintstones, the Gruesomes developed an image of matching black turtlenecks, Beatle boots and bowl haircuts, combining it with a "snotty" punk musical style.

Tower Dream

Stone towers are used for the prehistoric world, which strongly resembles The Flintstones.

What Comes Around

The lyrics made some references to popular culture, by mention: Phil Rizzuto, Rapunzel, Dolemite, Geraldo Rivera, skinheads, the song "Beat on the Brat" by the Ramones, and Doris the Finkasaurus.


Flintstones Chewable Vitamins

They feature pills in the shapes of the following characters: Fred Flintstone, Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles Flintstone, Barney Rubble, Betty Rubble, Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Dino, and The Great Gazoo.

Gravel Pit

The music video, directed by Joseph Kahn, features the Wu-Tang Clan arguing in their time machine, and in argument accidentally sending themselves back to "2,000,000 BC", which bears strong resemblance to the representation of the Stone Age in The Flintstones.

Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair

Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble sang a version of the song in an episode of The Flintstones titled, "The House Guests", which originally aired on December 22, 1961.

KASY-TV

Initially, KASY ran cartoons (such as Highlander: The Animated Series, The Flintstones, Mutant League and Mighty Max), old movies, talk shows, classic sitcoms (such as Gilligan's Island, I Love Lucy and The Andy Griffith Show), recent off-network sitcoms (such as Harry and the Hendersons).

KUKC-LP

It remained a ValueVision affiliate, but also featured children's programming during the afternoon hours, including The Flintstones and Mighty Max.

R.S. Allen

Usually collaborating with longtime writing partner Harvey Bullock, Allen co-wrote for a large number of television programs, including The Andy Griffith Show, The Flintstones, The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., Hogan's Heroes, and The Love Boat.

The Flintstone House

Known popularly as "The Flintstone House", it derives its name from The Flintstones, a Hanna-Barbera Productions animated cartoon series of the early 1960s about a Stone Age family.

Thomas W. Moore

Among the shows aired during this time were The Real McCoys, 77 Sunset Strip, My Three Sons, The Flintstones, Ben Casey, and The Untouchables.

Warren Foster

He had contributed to the comedy, plot and character development on several episodes of The Yogi Bear Show, Loopy De Loop and The Flintstones, including his final work on the feature-length The Man Called Flintstone in 1966.