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CARTOON EVOLUTION #13
On their 60th anniversary Meet The Flintstones! GRANDDAD!
I take a look at the history and evolution of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, Barney and Betty Rubble and their children Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, the modern stone age creations of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the very first Prime Time cartoon series in history.
Inspired by classic sitcom, The Honeymooners, The Flintstones solidified Hanna-Barbera as a leader in the animation industry, and became the bedrock for all cartoon sitcoms that have followed - inspiring the likes of The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad and King of the Hill.
I take a look at how the show and characters have evolved over 9 television series, 1 theatrical animated film, 17 telemovies and specials and 2 live-action theatrical films and much, much more and how The Flintstones has become one of the most beloved cartoon franchises of all time - having remained on television screens continuously for 60 years!
I discuss the most important changes in their design and personality and in the stylistic and narrative structures of their productions prevalent across 6 decades of series and movies.
Here's my look at The Flintstones through the years!!
Flintstones Series and Movies discussed and featured:
The Flagstones Pilot
The Flintstones
The Man Called Flintstone
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
The Flintstone Comedy Hour / Show / Fred Flintstone and Friends
Energy: A National Issue
The New Fred and Barney Show / Fred and Barney Meet The Thing / Fred and Barney Meet The Shmoo
The Flintstone Comedy Show / Frolics: Family Adventures, Bedrock Cops, Pebbles Dino and Bamm-Bamm, Dino and Cavemouse, The Frankenstones
A Flintstone Christmas
Little Big League
The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone
New Neighbors
Fred’s Final Fling
Wind-Up Wilma
Jogging Fever
The Flintstone Kids
The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
I Yabba-Dabba Do!
Holly-rock-a-Bye-Baby
A Flintstone Family Christmas
A Flintstones Christmas Carol
The Flintstones - Live Action Movie
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
What a Cartoon! - Dino: Stay Out, The Great Egg-Scape
Flintstones on the Rocks
Harvey Birdman: The Dabba Don
Johnny Bravo: A Page Right Out of History
Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age Smackdown
Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs
Bedrock City Theme Park Footage
Bedrock Bowling
Bedrock Racing
DC Comics The Flintstones 2016
Other Hanna-Barbera Media Featured:
Ruff and Reddy Show
Huckleberry Hound
Qick Draw McGraw
Yogi Bear - Yogi's Big Break
Scooby-Doo Where Are You
Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels
Tom and Jerry - Tom's Photo Finish
Top Cat
Magilla Gorilla
Peter Potamus
Atom Ant
Secret Squirrel
Wacky Races / Dastardly and Muttley
Jonny Quest
Space Ghost
The Jetsons
Marvel's The Thing
L'il Abner's The New Shmoo
Other Media featured:
The Simpsons
Family Guy
American Dad
Walt Disney's Disneyland
How Walt Disney Cartoons Are Made
Bugs Bunny - Stage Door Cartoon
The Bugs Bunny Show
Laurel and Hardy - Flying Elephants
Felix the Cat in the Stone Age / Trifles With Time
Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur
Stone Age Cartoon - Way Back When a Razzberry Was a Fruit / Wedding Belts / The Fulla Bluff Man / Way Back When a Nag Was Only a Horse / Way Back When a Nightclub Was a Stick
Tex Avery's The First Bad Man
Married with Children
Home Improvement
The King of Queens
Bye Bye Birdy - Ann-Margret
What's My Line - Tony Curtis
Bewitched
James Bond - Dr. No
The Archies
The Munsters
Back to the Future
Father of the Bride (1991 - Steve Martin)
Father of the Bride Part 2 (1995)
Father of the Bride (1950 - Spencer Tracy)
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
George of the Jungle
Inspector Gadget
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Dudley Do-Right
Scooby-Doo
The Rugrats
Scoob! (2020)
Seth Macfarlane, Will Ferrell, Elizabeth Banks Flintstones projects
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@ratboygirl 4 года назад

i find it crazy that a lot of these extremely popular, famous, and influential cartoons are often turned down. wonder how many world-changing cartoons we'll never be able to see!

@kellykerr5225 3 года назад

I read a music review calling a young musician the most terrible thing they ever heard and it offended their ears. They were reviewing Beethoven. Arguably not terrible lol.

@willshad 3 года назад

Every famous actor, musician, artist, etc experiences many many rejections before they find 'success'. It's part of the process, no matter how talented you are. Persistence and luck are more important than talent.

@CONEHEADDK 3 года назад

"The Curse of Creativety" - watch (listen - few or no pics at all) the video - depressingly realistic. As I was told at "18" - "It's 5% talent, the rest is hard work", but they didn't know of/remember to say "and luck/lack of bad luck".

@jul2447 3 года назад

@@kellykerr5225 I wanna watch it

@kellykerr5225 3 года назад

@@jul2447 I watch so many things about music that I can’t remember what RU-vid channel it was on. You might try putting in his name and reviews, maybe it will pop up. Happy listening. That’s definitely not my favorite music but it’s an important part of history

@14DaveHunter 4 года назад

Making The Flintstones more adult and crude (animation included), will never work. The basics of it, remains multi-generational. Making it change, just for change sake will always bomb.

@zacharyyamashita8554 3 года назад

Same with the Rugrat's which unfortunately is getting Rebooted.

@beeznutz1928 4 месяца назад

No way, lots of people would pay to see more mature flintstones

@efeugurYT 4 месяца назад

Yeah Just make something everyone can enjoy

@jordankeller4253 Месяц назад

They already did change it for change sake and it made it boom in popularity, actually. The Flintstones began as adult-oriented (but not necessarily crude) and eventually became super family or kid focused. Edit: The video literally mentions this multiple times lol

@geoffreyrichards6079 Месяц назад

It can be adult, the first 2 seasons show that it can work. It’s the ‘crude’ part that’s not needed.

@martinjohnson7225 4 года назад

Jackie Gleeson bears a striking resemblance to John Goodman, who played Fred in the first live action Flintstones movie. Interestingly they also share the same initials: JG.

@nazishhussain2712 4 года назад

I agree

@jaggin7561 4 года назад

Cool. But I think Jeff Garlin could play a great Fred Flintstone. His initials are also JG!

@wildstory2718 3 года назад

Wasn’t that intentional?

@fireballxl-5748 3 года назад

Fred was based on Jackie Gleason.

@Marcel_Audubon Год назад

John Goodman and Jackie Gleason are polar opposite. John Goodnan? yuk! he activates m6 gag reflex

@NoTengoDinero69 3 года назад

It’s crazy to think about how influential The Flintstones is. A solid chunk of my favorite shows ever might not exist without it. The show genuinely holds up too. I’ve been rewatching it and it gets multiple laughs out of me per episode.

@DaveLeeDownUnder 3 года назад

Had SO MUCH fun revisiting parts of the series while I made this video. Bought the Blu-ray set not long ago, and plan to power through it very soon! It really is surprising how WELL it’s held up!! That’s what happens when you don’t rely on “topical” stories and gags.

@NoTengoDinero69 3 года назад

@@DaveLeeDownUnder the Blu Ray set is where it’s at. It’s nice having everything all together and in terrific quality.

@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 4 года назад

Fred also made an appearance in an entire episode of Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy but he only spoke gibberish and no one actually referred to him by name.

@ArtificialOrangeStudios 4 года назад

He actually DOES say his name is Fred in that episode too. Though Billy ignores it.

@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 4 года назад

@@ArtificialOrangeStudios Wait he did? It's been years since I saw the episode so I only remember the gibberish.

@ArtificialOrangeStudios 4 года назад

@@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 Yeah, it's the only non-gibberish thing he says in the whole episode. Billy asks what his name is and he says "Ohhhhh... Fred." and then Billy comments on how he can't understand his mumbo jumbo language.

@visualgagging 4 года назад

Seeing the Flintstones in modern clothes in the Energy video felt very unsettling...

@amparolopez6236 4 года назад

I hope you do The Pink Panther, and his friends.

@richiehoyt8487 3 года назад

Seconded!! Has to be said though, PP felt like a cartoon with far more heart than The Flintstones. While I liked both as a kid, even then I would have much preferred the Pink Panther; the Flintstones' 'prehistoric' take on modern (American) working-class life was mildly funny and perhaps mildly innovative and the visual humour of the pre-historic tech didn't wear quite as quickly as one might have supposed - but I can go back to the Pink Panther cartoons as an adult and still get something from them (and The Ant and the Aardvark and - especially - The Inspector) in a way with which I just can't with the Flintstones. The Flintstones unfortunately was born out of hackwork; I mean to be fair to H-B, in an effort to make a living in their early days they had to make a virtue of economic necessity, but it had the result of making 'cheap' their house style, and it feels like that attitude was to pervade the ethos of the whole company. I know little about the gestation of the Pink Panther or Inspector Cluseau other than that they were spin-off creations from the eponymous live-action movies with Peter Sellers. However, it may not be a popular view but I don't think it's too much to say that the cartoons were hands-down funnier than the films from which they originated! It's difficult to quantify exactly what it is that sets the Pink Panther apart from The Flintstones... Though it's possible, I suppose that that big, motion picture capital can't have been *entirely* irrelevant! Still, you look at the obvious points of comparison, naturally there are going to be stylistic differences, but while the Flintstones characters are *crude* , the Pink Panther characters are by contrast *simple* - simple, but not simplistic. To me, the drawings of characters like Big Nose and Cluseau show an appreciation of *style* and a love for form and line. The Flintstones meanwhile look like they wouldn't be out of place in South Park! The difference in approach comes through, if anything, even more clearly in the backgrounds. Flintstones and HB backgrounds in general are of course known for their pared-back minimalism. The Pink Panther backgrounds of course are by necessity simple as well, we're talking TV shorts here, not Disney features! Nonetheless there is something paradoxically almost Baroque in PP's backgrounds - without EVER becoming overly busy, they seem to have something of the quality of a Victorian engraving about them! I haven't even mentioned here some of the other things that that put the PP Stable head and shoulders above their contemporaries. The surreal genius of the gags, the sheer imagination inherent in the antagonists; these are some of the things that for me make the Pink Panther a thing of joy! I have already wrote far too much though (sorry- writing this in a hospital bed at 4am- time perhaps lays a little heavily on my hands!) I should say of course before I finish though - sadly- that needless to say, 'THEY' would go and ruin the Pink Panther et al. The introduction of voices, something which would also ruin Tom & Jerry... Bland, generic artwork; one doesn't have to know the details to smell a rat, or rather a corporate vulture of some sort. My comments here should be taken as applying to the early material only, ie pre-1971, approximately...

@JustinTheLogoKid 2 года назад

too long

@foldabotZ 4 года назад

No mention of Fred's guest appearance in the Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, unless that'll be in his dedicated evolution video.

@dwaynewood2424 4 года назад

He didn't mentioned Betty Boop's appearance in Project Runway All-Stars.

@blazinggecko 4 года назад

@foldabotZ I believe you mean... Jake Steel lol

@foldabotZ 4 года назад

@@blazinggecko ...Who?

@blazinggecko 4 года назад

@@foldabotZ it's what Billy named Fred in the episode

@calebkuti7897 4 года назад

Yabba dabbba, Yabba dabba!

@TheMediaLover02 2 года назад

I can honestly respect The Flintstones for Revolutionizing the landscape of animation as we know, later cartoons like The Simpsons, Family Guy, and American Dad took heavy inspiration from it, all while putting their own unique twist on the family animated sitcom aspect.

@ironheadrat3420 3 года назад

For a while the Pebbles commercials were kind of like the current Flintstones series. They never stopped referencing current events- you had a Game Boy, Fred had one made of rocks and sticks.

@janebyrne6463 4 года назад

I would love to see you do an evolution of Wacky Races. Or of the various "Scooby Clones" Hanna-Barbera put out in the 1970s (Jabberjaw, Goober and the Ghost Chasers, etc.)

@donovanmedieval 3 года назад

'The Honeymooners' was heavily influenced by Laurel & Hardy. In his authorized biography, How Sweet it Is, Jackie Gleason made no secret of his love for then when he was a kid.

@jaihdendover4282 4 года назад

Dave just a question but are you ever gonna do a cartoon evolution on Alvin and the chipmunks

@dementedpurplechicken 4 года назад

There’s already a pretty good video on it

@jaihdendover4282 4 года назад

@@dementedpurplechicken really whats the name of it so i can find

@MathieuLeblanc1991 4 года назад

Alan Reed also did a cameo as Fred in Laff-A-Lympics before he died, the rest of the series was voiced by Henry Corden

@zacharyyamashita8554 3 года назад

I'll pulverize you >:D

@davidtiktin1819 11 месяцев назад

Yes, I read someplace that Alan Reed's voicing Fred for this Laff-A-Lympics cameo (sometime in 1977) was actually the last time he ever played Fred.

@aegisofhonor 3 года назад

funny story about John Goodman in The Flintstones. Steven Spielberg sorta "suckered" John into the role and at first John was pretty livid about it, but once production started, he started enjoying the role and now it's one of his favorite movie roles he ever did.

@am2382 4 года назад

The Flintstones definitely revolutionized modern cartoons.

@davidthecommenter 4 года назад

Quite Literally.

@violetrose34 4 года назад

It's underrated nowadays.

@justinboisvert3231 4 года назад

Especially the Simpsons and family guy

@Kaylin777 4 года назад

Facts

@jennifergriel861 4 года назад

Yeah. And killed the golden age of animation in the process.

@jaihdendover4282 4 года назад

Am early so i might as well say it, YABBA-DABBA-DOO. Also just think about the fact that if we didnt have the flintstones we most likely wouldnt have the simpsons or even family guy

@glitchyy4397 4 года назад

It would be a blessing if Family Guy didn't exist

@violetrose34 4 года назад

The first 3 seasons of Family Guy are gold.

@gamingandstuff1522 4 года назад

@@glitchyy4397 family guy was not always as bad as it is today.

@calebkuti7897 4 года назад

Am I a bad person for liking Family Guy as a guilty pleasure?

@Marvelfanatic3658 4 года назад

@@calebkuti7897 nope it's pretty good

@lyndapies 2 года назад

The original Flintstones will always be my favourite version. I grew up watching the Flintsones!!

@brianlevine871 4 года назад

I used to watch "The Flintstones" on some old VHS tapes and Cartoon Network back when I was a kid. Recently, my family and I have been watching reruns on this channel called MeTV, which is dedicated to shows from the 1950s-70s. This retrospective couldn't have come at a better time. You can't beat the original show, although I still have a soft spot for the Jetsons crossover (my first viewing of both shows btw), "A Flintstone Family Christmas," and that "Rockula" special.

@animationnerd2748 4 года назад

So Dave since you did three of my four favorite Hanna-Barbera Cartoons Scooby-Doo The Flintstones and Tom and Jerry I would love to see you do the fourth one The Jetsons

@LowellLucasJr. 4 года назад

Flinstones is so incredibly iconic its a crime. Its humor and adult content is still relevant to this day and its character designs are timeless& amazing! I love the franchises and give credit to Iwao Takamoto for his iconic redesigns that make them forever memorable!

@kencoleman5007 2 года назад

And it's adult without being a McFarlane level if taste. I think that was a big misstep. Like when Sony thought that Paul Feig understood the essence of Ghostbusters.

@sunspotmill1291 4 года назад

I never really got how the first live action movie and Flintstones on the Rocks were considered 'too adult' or 'off-brand' by critics. They were both actually closer in tone to the 1960 series' first two seasons aim at adults rather than being family-friendly. If anything, they actually a bit more on-brand by the Flintstones' standard. While neither also didn't quite go as Family Guy level overboard about it either. Now I'd be more scared about the Seth McFarlene-style take on The Flintstones if I _really_ didn't want the modern stone age family to become too adult and off-brand for its own good (and sophomoric I may add).

@Oscarhudson_Official 4 года назад

Fred Flintstone: Grandad! Mario: Flintstones?!

@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121 4 года назад

A fellow man of culture I see

@pantherman691 4 года назад

For the memory of bootleg mario Aka G R A N D. D A D

@sonicfanboy3375 3 года назад

Felix the cat: HeT

@UncleJemima 3 года назад

What the shit?

@SpectrumAssociates 4 года назад

You forgot to add the pinnacle of Fred's cartoon evolution. GRAND DAD.

@Webb_Studios 3 года назад

FLEENSTONES!!

@snakewhitcher4189 3 года назад

Did they ever show an elderly Fred Flintstone? I always assumed he died middle age. Which was 18 to 23 back then. Good nutrition gave them them length of bone, but the still died like rubes. Well fed hustling rubes, but rubes none the less. You know?

@jagerzaku9160 2 года назад

Actually look in the corner of the thumbnail

@mightyfilm 4 года назад

Thanks for taking my suggestion of the Japanese commercials. Shame that some of the worst ones have seemed to have disappeared from YT, though. Having said that, I very much find it disappointing that Flintstones really only exist in modern media as a cereal and vitamins. The cereal commercials barely feature the characters anymore, and it's usually a silent cameo or archival footage of the TV show. I really miss Barney scamming Fred out of his cereal, probably as payback for all the times Fred mooched off Barney over the years.

@ironheadrat3420 3 года назад

I can still recite the Christmas one verbatim.

@KasumiKenshirou Год назад

@@ironheadrat3420 That Christmas one ran for several years. It even has a variant version where Santa was given a different voice for some reason. (I think all the dialog and lyrics were exactly the same, so I don't know why this version was created.)

@jennifergriel861 3 года назад

It’s so weird how adult Pebbles and Bam Bam just don’t look like Flintstone characters at all.

@almightykuzon 2 года назад

i actually enjoyed flintstones on the rocks as a kid. i still have the vhs recording of it, not knowing at the time that it would never be aired again. looking back, i can't believe my mom would let me watch it. 😂

@life-of-lies7971 4 года назад

the flinstones, jetsons, scooby doo and other hanna-barbera cartoons are 60+ years old. the Simpsons are 30 years old, and south park is nearing its 25th birthday and Spongbob is 21 years old. some cartoons are better to be left alone and die with dignity and grace, you don't see anyone rebooting Charlie Chaplin, Stan laurel and Oliver hardy or even rebooting bewitched, my favorite martian, i dream of Jeannie or the Dick van dyke show, even though most of those shows got a modern movie made, what i am saying is that we need new shows with new material, Cartoon network, Nickelodeon, syfy and many other t.v and movie studios need to leave these shows alone, many of them had a good run and i understand nostalgia is one hell of a drug but could we please stop looking at the past to make money(i'm looking at you Disney!) and take a damn risk on something new for once.

@icecreamhero2375 4 года назад

Bewitched did get a terrible movie.ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Hz44sb5OWJQ.html

@walker1984 4 года назад

They did try to reboot Laurel and Hardy with a series of movies. The first one failed, so the series became a one off movie.

@jimtait6263 4 года назад

Fantastic job!! Thank you for digging up everything Flintstones. Loved it.

@BoyNamedSue4 4 года назад

Let’s be honest. Who hasn’t tried to do the twinkle toes while bowling

@LegendStormcrow 4 года назад

Me. But I can't bowl.

@MaherandIbrahimsAvengers 4 года назад

I have and sometimes I works and I get a strike But it seems like I can only so it once cause if I do it again in the same game I will either get a spare or a miss

@sillyspine 4 года назад

I haven’t.

@visualgagging 3 года назад

Not sure how you can do that in bowling shoes... But once I tried the classic “Hanna-Barbera run-in-place-before-dashing” trick, and I actually got a strike

@JasontheCartoonFan 4 года назад

Dave VS the Forces of Granddad.

@SHINOBI-03 4 года назад

The Great Gazoo was a mistake.

@IsitheScribe 4 года назад

I do agree that the Flintstones have plenty of life left in them. Heck, they inspired the Simpsons and Family Guy for pete's sakes, that's some serious relevance! For me the classic episodes still are my favourite iteration and frankly my favourite Hanna Barbera cartoon alongside Top Cat:)

@AidanR2008 4 года назад

MOST FRIENDS LIKE TO CALL HIM TC

@scottbilger9294 3 года назад

The American release of A Man Called Flintstone was the first mega-hit. The reaction was completely unexpected. It was the first movie that had people lined up around the block, with theaters hastily adding showings to accommodate the crowds. I remember waiting in line for hours myself (at 8 years of age).

@alex9920ro 4 года назад

The Flintstones - a great, funny and memorable show and also must be the favorite of the Young Earth Creationists 😂

@OtterloopB 4 года назад

Unless of course you're an Old Earth Creationist, then your dig loses its edge.

@alejandrofernandez1265 3 года назад

Dave just a question but are you ever gonna do a cartoon evolution on Alvin and the chipmunks

@bobbybucklew7898 3 года назад

I loved the Flintstones growing up in the 80s and at over 40 years old I still love the original 6 seasons of the Flintstones

@jonmckenzie7678 4 года назад

HB was influenced by Art Carney's character Ed Norton in the form of Yogi Bear. Note Yogi's hat and his voice as performed by Daws Butler.

@cindydott452 3 года назад

Daws Butler performed as Yogi's hat and voice? What a talent!

@brysonaarondawsoncartoonch2514 4 года назад

The flinstones is a good classic YABADABADOO

@roshill2010 4 года назад

I watched the entire series years ago. As I missed alot on tv when I was a kid. Loved every bit. The show has soo much nostalgia for me.

@brysonaarondawsoncartoonch2514 4 года назад

True

@EChacon 4 года назад

Who knew that William Hanna and Joseph Barbara were reluctant to do the Flintstones before they relented due to pressure.

@AidanR2008 4 года назад

Some suggestions I would like to see: Top Cat Jetsons Charlie Brown Garfield Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Yogi Bear

@fioravanti675 4 года назад

Patient yes

@Mr.Tw1sty 3 года назад

*Garfielf*

@AidanR2008 3 года назад

@@Mr.Tw1sty ?

@sonicfanboy3375 3 года назад

Good news: he did charlie brown

@hurdygurdyguy1 3 года назад

Yep, Except Garfield and TMNT...

@lp-xl9ld 4 года назад

Perhaps the best example of how long and effective this show's influence was: in the mid-2000's, when he was well into his eighties, my father--likely suffering from Alzheimers at the time--could still remember the Flintstones Vitamins jingle ("Yabba dabba doo, yabba dabba doo, Flintstones Vitamins are good to chew!") No other series or tie-in had that kind of staying power.

@CorruptinMind 4 года назад

The Flintstone's design by Shane Glines wasn't so bad. Till Yabba Dabba Dinosaur ruined everything. Flintstones needs a proper reboot

@starthefrakkfangirl6094 3 года назад

I think only certain dinosaurs looked good.

@anitauguna7029 4 года назад

YABBA DABBA DOO to you to dave. Also could you also do an evolution on sonic the hedgehog

@noshok7436 3 года назад

The Flinstones were on at lunch time in Canada for like 30years. Growing up, and still to this day, I knew every episode pretty much by heart. When they stopped playing it a lunch hour, it was almost as if you had lost a close relative, or a limb or something. It was weird. Flintstones are a true classic. Pioneers.

@stephenholloway6893 4 года назад

Turner was the one who bought Hanna Barbera first and launched Cartoon Network. Warner then later bought Turner.

@normanpopcultureboy8563 4 года назад

Fred Flinstone makes a cameo in The Banana Splits Show when Drooper tells the password is Fred’s catchphrase “Yabba Dabba Doo”

@talkaboutcinema3304 4 года назад

2:57: Great choice of clip. The editing on these just keeps getting better and better. I agree that The Flintstones does have a timeless feel to it. While I do tend to prefer full animation from theatrical cartoons like the Looney Tunes, shows like The Flintstones heavily benefited from good writing and attention to character personality. While the later seasons of the original show did seem to get more kid-friendly, they at least still did a good job maintaining the adult characters’ personalities. One thing I will slightly disagree on is that Bea Benaderet’s Betty voice was more “generic.” I get what you mean in that her voice wasn’t really like Trixie from The Honeymooners, but Benaderet did have a very warm, motherly-like voice that definitely worked well in portraying her relationship with Barney, much better than Gerry Johnson did. She could get angry at times and it could work, but Benaderet also did convey the feeling of someone who was always just trying to watch out for her husband and make sure he was staying out of trouble. Gerry Johnson’s voice was definitely generic; she was Betty’s equivalent of Marla Frumkin as Velma. There certainly is a way to still make this show work today, but sadly, many adaptations are either too kid-friendly or too adult-focused (I haven’t seen On the Rocks, but judging from those clips you showed, it looks horrible). There’s got to be a way to meet the right balance just like the original series did. If Looney Tunes Cartoons proves anything, it’s that with enough effort, you can recapture the magic of the original cartoons, even if the animation process is extremely different from what it was back then. Great job as always. Looking forward to more Evolutions in the future.

@davidconway6874 3 года назад

Cool! I was hoping you'd mention the energy short from the 70's. That was one of those memories I wasn't sure was real or imagined.

@Jim-db9bt 3 года назад

Hands down, no contest: The first, original series was the best version of the Flintstones iterations over the years, but the most fascinating fact that I took from this video was that Fred and Wilma were the first TV couple in situation comedy to be seen sleeping in the same bed(oh my!). Overall, the best tribute and history I've seen on our favorite stone age family.

@TheRowlandstone73 3 года назад

9:32 Hey, I've seen this one, this is a classic! .. This is where Ralph dresses up as the man from space!

@seandecool6958 4 года назад

I didn’t know that they were inspired by real people how surprising 😱😨 I guess every toons always are inspired by real people sometimes and there personalities any way nice video keep up the good work there Dave 👍☺️

@enriqueramirez0615 3 года назад

I've actually enjoy watching the 1994 live-action film from Universal pictures.

@pamelamays4186 4 года назад

I am a fan of the original series. In the original series, Dino first appeared as a talking dinosaur, with a refined accent. It seems like Pebbles and Bam Bam shift between adulthood and childhood. Interestingly, Elroy and Judy Jetson have been the same age over the decades. Trivia: The Scooby Doo franchise gave a shout out to the Flintstones. Scoob has a cousin named Yabba Doo, who's the sidekick of a small town sheriff in the Southwestern United States. Also, there's an American female hip hop artist who goes by the name Pebbles. In the right hands, I believe that the Flintstones franchise can go on.

@quadb6574 3 года назад

You mean Pebbles (Perri Reid) who did the song "Mercedes Boy" and managed the girl hip hop group TLC, who filed bankruptcy to sever themselves from Pebbles' draconian management?

@barneynedward 3 года назад

Yabba was Scooby's brother.

@mermaidprettymuch 2 года назад

Barney Rubble walked into his house one episode dancing and sing the phrase"Scooby Dooby Doo"

@jamalvargas6146 4 года назад

Love this show paved the way for my favorite animated properties like the simpsons family Bob's burgers American dad and oblongs

@TerrenceNowicki 2 года назад

On The Rocks is terrific. It's completely ridiculous that it's never been rebroadcast or officially released in any other format.

@stebaer 3 года назад

Yes one reboot after another gets crazier and crazier.

@microbusss 4 года назад

"thru the courtesy of Fred's two feet" is one line no one remembers! Flintstones also sponsored Winston Cigarettes & Busch Beer also Fred's car changed quite often! The Jetsons Meet The Flintstones was the last time Mel Blanc & George O'Hanlon did the voices The Flintstones movie was the last one that Liz Taylor did

@douglasparks8430 3 года назад

I always thought it sounded like "thru the courtesy of Pistol Pete," As in Pete Marovich, NBA star at the time.

@microbusss 3 года назад

@@douglasparks8430 nopes

@GreatMewtwo 3 года назад

The Flintstones Winston commercials were among those things that stuck with me in the 8th grade from a smoking documentary. I was fried for a moment. Apparently, the Winston account was scrapped when the show went towards a more family-oriented direction (Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm).

@Mibbitmaker 4 года назад

My favorite era is the original, more specifically the first season. I love the rawer drawing and each animator's first episodes are my favorites. The Barney voice heard in this evolution is Daws Butler as a fill-in since Mel Blanc was unable to work due to his car accident in 1961. His was far more Art Carney-like in its inflections than Blanc's later version. Some of the season 2 episodes were dubbed over by Blanc after his return, but a few of them remained with Butler's Barney. The On The Rocks show was also an attempt to return the characters to a more season one look and feel. But, yes indeed, they made it far more adult. I didn't mind the adult aspects at all, but I really disliked the gross-out humor modern animators seem to be addicted to. Worth a viewing, though.

@spencerpetunia8268 3 года назад

Where could I find the On the Rocks special? The grossout humor irks me in what I've seen of it too but it otherwise looks fascinating and I'd love to watch it!

@Mibbitmaker 3 года назад

@@spencerpetunia8268 I'm not sure where it can be seen these days. I wouldn't mind seeing it again.

@Yakkolicious 4 года назад

Hey! You changed the thumbnail! Nice Grand Dad reference.

@briang9581 4 года назад

At least WB has a good track record in regards to managing the companies they acquire [wipes forehead] Close one!

@YujiUedaFan 4 года назад

From what I gather, this is the timeline (excluding educational films, comics, live action films and crossovers): The Flintstone Kids (non-canon) The Flintstones The Man Called Flintstone (finale movie of the original Flintstones series) A Flintstones Christmas Flintstones meet Rockula and Frankenstone The New Fred and Barney Show The Flintstones' New Neighbors Fred's Final Fling Wind-up Wilma Jogging Fever A Flinstones Christmas Carol Cave Kids (toddler Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm) Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! (Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as pre-teen children) The Flintstone Frolics/The Flintstone Funnies (Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as young teens) The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show (Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as older teens) The Flintstone Comedy Hour/The Flinstone Comedy Show (the latter is missing four cut Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show episodes) Flintstones Little Big League I Yabba-Dabba Do! (Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as young adults) Hollyrock-A-Bye-Baby Flintstone Family Christmas Unknown: Dino in Stay Out (What a Cartoon Show) Dino the Great Eggscape (What a Cartoon Show) The Flintstones on the Rocks (reboot)

@saturdaymorningfan3123 4 года назад

Another great video. Man i love these history of cartoon videos. Some notes--Flinstone kids and cave kids was not a new idea. It was based on a old comic book in the 60s called cave kids. Flinstones did a bush bear cartoon special also that never aired on tv but shown at bush beer factories tours as well as showing up in "alice in wonderland or what's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this" and was on yogi's space race and laff-a-lympics and yogi's all star christmas caper but other then wonderland (with them in a outfit) they more or less looked the same so i can see why you skipped them. Grim adventures of billy and mandy had fred show up for a full episode also. It's kind of a mean spirited episode however. Thanks again for the videos. Maybe you do casper the ghost or smurfs in the future?

@jacobwhaley5902 4 года назад

Just a quick question, Dave. Since we have the cartoon evolutions of Tom & Jerry, Scooby-Doo and the Mystery Gang and The Flintstones (as well as a possible cartoon evolution story of The Jetsons), will ya' do cartoon evolutions of Hanna-Barbera's other cartoons, like Top Cat or Yogi Bear?

@DaveLeeDownUnder 4 года назад

In time, yes.

@fioravanti675 4 года назад

@@DaveLeeDownUnder I like hanna barbera cartoons

@P-B-G_YT 3 года назад

At 15:38 the picture of Bedrock City shows it in Chilliwack, B.C. about two hours east of Vancouver, Canada. There may have been two other locations where there was a Bedrock City in the USA, but there definitely was one in Canada too.

@tavvyprods1275 4 года назад

I feel “On The Rocks” deserves better. Heck, I even liked that special.

@SpectrumAssociates 4 года назад

But what would it be like if John K directed the short?

@zanpakutoman4225 4 года назад

A childification show of Fred, Barney, Wilma, and Betty, cartoons where Barney and Fred are police officers with The Shmoo, a Rugrats rip-off and "On the Rocks" is the most off-brand piece of media?

@nubeyazul 4 года назад

I was about to comment exactly the same thing, I really enjoyed this TV special.

@mysterion3182 4 года назад

I liked it too and I wish it would get a DVD release. I had it recorded on VHS until my sister recorded MTV crap over it.

@calebkuti7897 4 года назад

I liked the voice acting in On The Rocks

@G.S.Holland 4 года назад

Flintstones On the Rocks is underrated. I really wish they would put that out at least on HBO Max if not on Blu-Ray

@Musicradio77Network Год назад

Or perhaps Tubi.

@ramonaragondiaz9258 4 года назад

Do The Jetsons next. I think that The Jetsons meet the Flintstones is the best crossover in cartoon history. Does anyone remember that Fred Flintstone came out in an episode of The Grim adventures of Billy and Mandy?

@icecreamhero2375 4 года назад

Yes I love Billy and Mandy.

@Moonbeam143 4 года назад

I will always love the original show, but I do love "The Flintstone Kids".

@diddymuck 3 года назад

the flintstones were originally supposed to have a son from the beginning. Various kids books published before the concept switch to no offspring shows Wilma and Fred with their kid in the story.

@HeyGuy4321 3 года назад

I love when barney counterfeits

@santajackfan101 4 года назад

Fantadtic bud! Maybe you could make an evolution of the jetsons??

@LILGHETTI 4 года назад

The theme of this show is sooo iconic, I also enjoy John Goodman as fred! Great evolution video!

@davepubliday6410 3 года назад

The video says there are only two Flintstones theme parks, one in Arizona and one in South Dakota, yet the image in the video is from the Flintstones park in Chilliwack, Canada.

@VortexBunche 4 года назад

Original series only. It landed at just the right time with the right flavor, and it should have been allowed to rest on its laurels when canceled. The further iterations lacked the heart of the original and were obviously just cranked-out product in order to keep the brand going.

@juliansalinas7920 4 года назад

I am so happy that you are covering The Flintstones (one of my favorite animated shows of all time)!

@13thwho 4 года назад

In 1966, Fred and Barney appeared as the caterpillar in Hanna-Barbera’s animated “Alice in Wonderland” special.

@Dinosaurprince 4 года назад

You made a mistake regarding Barney. That is someone else filling in, when Mel was in an accident.

@calebkuti7897 4 года назад

Daws Butler

@eduardo_corrochio 3 года назад

@@calebkuti7897 Daws sounded soooooo much more like Ed Norton from The Honeymooners than Blanc did. It smacked of complete imitation. Nothing wrong with that, but it was almost uncanny. I enjoyed Butler's voice work as Barney.

@alejandrofernandez1265 3 года назад

The Animaniacs are officially animani-back. LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO!

@SportsFan-vq9kk 4 года назад

The 2001 version looks like the Ren and Stimpy show

@mechasaurus 4 года назад

The Flintstone's Christmas Carol stands as my favorite take on the original story just slightly ahead of the Muppets. No other parody really touches on Scrooge's sister or the idea of Scrooge making amends with Belle.

@kylekullin2520 3 года назад

We are kindred spirits!!!!

@allisoncorona7381 3 года назад

The Flintstone's Christmas Carol even includes the small bit of dialogue between Mr and Mrs Cratchit (played by Betty and Barney Rubble) discussing Tiny Tim's (played by Bam-Bam) behavior in church, Bob saying that Tiny Tim said that it would be good for people to remember on Christmas day "who made lame men walk and blind men see.", thus mentioning a man who, according to the premise of the Flintstones, won't be born for at least a million years later.

@robertdoherty2001 4 года назад

Proof that the more you screw with something, the worse it gets. Look what happened to “Star Trek”.

@bilalwarsi11 4 года назад

DAVE! I’m lovin the cartoon evolutions! Judging by ur community posts, u spend really long making these and I really appreciate it!

@twilightman2816 4 года назад

21:55 Yeah, I know. That's another thing I remember about all of these late 70s / early 80s cartoons. Everybody was in a band. I realize now (as you point out) that everyone was trying to recapture the "lightning in a bottle" moment when "Sugar Sugar" actually became a REAL top 10 pop song, not to mention that devoting a five minute section of the cartoon to a musical interlude (complete with animation segments that could be used over and over again in various episodes) made making all of the cartoons much easier. In addition to this cartoon and The Archies cartoon, there was Josie and the Pussycats, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qEdWvYA0icg.html (the whole comic book itself was retooled from "an Archie clone" to make this concept more accessible) img0.etsystatic.com/036/0/9603370/il_570xN.613739662_sb16.jpg Remember Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kids???? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Pds3zI7YxaY.html The Amazing Chan and The Chan Clan??? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-M8dweVMviBQ.html Fat Albert had a rock band. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pMx9mqyLQ-g.html The Brady Kids had a cartoon complete with rock band. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VS1C01-D59Q.html The Partridge Family -------- so........... I need to explain this............... Due to the ......... "success" ...... of this cartoon, the people at Hanna-Barbara came up with the idea of taking "The Jetsons" and "aging" them as well. Elroy would now be a teenager, Judy would be a young adult, and the two of them would also be in a rock band with friends. Something, however, "fell through" and that idea was scrapped, buuuuuutt.............. due to the existence of the "templates" and the success of the Brady Kids cartoon............ the "logical" idea was to make a cartoon................. where the Partridge Family live in the future?????????? ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-spJznoiaTPk.html The 70s were very weird.

@isabeld.paredes4923 Год назад

I'd say late 1960's/early 1970's, not only with the Archies(1968), but also the Hardy Boys animated series (1969), the Flintstone Comedy Hour (1972), Josie and the Pussycats (1970), Groovy Ghoulies, Mission: Magic (1973), the Brady Kids (1972), the Beagles (c. 1966-67), the Cattanooga Cats (1969) and a few others before moving on to Jabberjaw (with the Neptunes, 1976), and later on, to Jem and the Holograms (1985 as part of the Super Saturday cartoon show, and later as a stand-alone series, 1986)

@G.S.Holland 4 года назад

You mentioned how they floated the idea of the Flintstones as Romans, you mentioned the futuristic version The Jetsons, but really should have at least given a nod to Roman Holidays, the Flinstones concept that H&B eventually made in Roman times!

@LowellLucasJr. 4 года назад

Yknow, I personally love Flinstones on the Rocks! It was more adult oriented, but was willing to experiment with new sequences! Also,it's hard to ignore Wilmas very lovely 💘 redesign!

@mechajay3358 4 года назад

I know right. I feel it gets way to much backlash.

@calebkuti7897 4 года назад

I loved Fred’s voice in that movie

@GoodJuju.8D 3 года назад

I don't know about Wilma's redesign, but I did enjoy (with a bit of guilt) On the Rocks. As a kid I always wondered what characters were like when the cameras shut off. I realize how that sounds, but I also got super excited when I'd see the promo for "Batman... in Living Color" on my tiny black and white tv, thinking I'd finally be able to watch Color TV. I kept wondering why I always missed that episode. 😔

@davidtiktin1819 11 месяцев назад

@@GoodJuju.8D Yeah, I also found On the Rocks a guilty pleasure. It reminded me of Ren & Stimpy's style of animation and humor. I don't think I would ever want to see the Flintstones franchise permanently become this version---in addition to the adult suggestiveness, the characters were much more harsh---but as a sort of one time stand-alone experiment, I found parts of it to be quite funny. If the Flintstones were always considered satirical, then this was kind of a satire of a satire.

@timdakis2107 4 года назад

Happy 60th Anniversary to The Flintstones this year in 2020. The show first aired new since 1960 on Channel ABC.

@HawthornHawk 4 года назад

Was that Godzilla (HB animated version) kicking a boulder at Fred in the Cartoon Network promo?

@princevegeta3307 3 года назад

Yes it was i remember it from uk version of Cartoon network in 1998-2001

@eduardo_corrochio 3 года назад

Lots of interesting information here. I enjoy seeing storyboard sketches and things like that. Cannot deny that this series was a phenomenon in its day, and has continued to charm audiences. It's a big part of American pop culture ... well, the entire world, I suspect. My first intro to this prehistoric show was via reruns on weekday afternoons, after school back in the 1970's. As I grew up I realized I enjoyed season 1 the most because of its loose look and the varied black lines on the characters, plus those sponged background designs of home interiors were cool. And it was much more cartoony and zany than the rest of the seasons. I mean, in one episode Fred walks across the back lawn toward Barney's yard, walks up the stone wall/fence, over it, and then down it, without any gravity affecting him. I think many fans were drawn to things like the household appliances and tools that were made up of birds and animals and dinosaurs. Barney would be trimming his hedge with a bird that had a huge beak, or Wilma would vacuum the living room with a little elephant. Any admirer of the show, particularly its earlier episodes, will recall the Car Hop Song from the episode "The Drive-In": "Here we come, on the run, with a burger on a bun, and a dab of coleslaw on the side. Oh, your taste we will tickle with a cold dill pickle, and all of our potatoes are french fried-fried-fried; our burgers can't be beat 'cause we grind our own meat-- grind, grind, grind, grind, grind. And when you drive away, a tip upon our tray, we hope to find-find-find-find-find ...." I want to mention and praise some of the talent that lent their voices to supporting characters on The Flintstones, seasoned character actors who did a super job: Howard Morris (better known as Ernest T. Bass, he did dozens and dozens of Bedrock characters over the years, from toddlers to hillbillies to wealthy snobs); also from Mayberry were Hal Smith and Howard MacNear (Otis and Floyd, respectively), MacNear always seemed to play a doctor on the show; and I can't forget Frank Nelson, whom we all know as The "Yessssss?" Man from classic television ... Frank played store clerks and such on the show from time to time, including the memorable anniversary piano episode in which he does a duet with Barney of "Strolling Through the Park" in the music shop. We should include comedy icon Harvey Korman who did The Great Gazoo, among others. Also, Verna Felton portrayed Wilma's often surly mother Mrs. Slaghoople. There's more talent-- but these are some outstanding examples worth mentioning. And finally, one important thing that made the show special was the background music scoring by Hoyt Curtin. Simply wonderful! He was talented. He created so many enjoyable themes and melodies that were used in The Flintstones as background music or as bridges between scenes.

@XAnumber1X 4 года назад

With the references to Rugrats I would love to se a “Cartoon Evolution” on that franchise

@calebkuti7897 4 года назад

He even edited that clip perfectly to fit the duration of his lines before the Rugrats logo was shown

@dragonfye1 3 года назад

Even My aunt Melissa, who absolutely DESPISES animated shows and movies and is NOT afraid to say so, ADORES The Flintstones. I myself love animation and appreciate just how much work goes into it.

@GamingHistorySource 3 года назад

32:50 How could fred & Wilma have problems after seeing this ? lol

@benjaminkellog7311 4 года назад

The original has always been the big one for me, but, believe it or not, "On the Rocks" comes in a close second. The more adult bent of the first two seasons was a clear influence with this one which I somewhat appreciated, and its style was close to Genndy Tartakovsky's "Dexter's Lab." (I'm pretty sure it was done by the same animation unit as that latter show.) "Stone Age SmackDown" comes in third; as a WWE fan, I got a huge kick out of seeing Undertaker, Rey Mysterio, and other stars getting the Bedrock treatment. Daniel Bryan's character, with his ginormous beard and only using the "yes" gesture for communication, is the real highlight of that production. (Missed opportunity: they should've paired the "Boulder Twins" (Nikki and Brie Bella) with the Boulder Brothers from "Wacky Races" for maximum crossover potential.)