I always loved watching The Flintstones as a child. Did you like it?
Yes I do! I used to take the vitamins! It was aired on ABC all the time! I haven't seen in on in awhile!
Yes, I haven't watched it in a long while. But, I even remember the movie, that wasn't animated. I enjoyed The Flintstones movie too.
I love how they make it back in a cool stone age setting and makes a story of them and their neighbors and best friends!
Yes, Fred and Barney! They were so funny. Aren't they also on "Fruity Pebbles" cereal?
Yes they are! Can you believe that it was first broadcast all the way back in 1960?? Thats crazy!
I didn't realize it had been around that long! I know it's been around since I was young, but not well before I was born.
Yes! It was the most popular and most watched animated series for three decades, and then well, Homer Simpson and his clan kindof took the stage from them. So sad!
Oh, yes, I remember them as well. Cartoons certainly have changed throughout the years!
suburban America. The plots deliberately resemble the sitcoms of the era, with the caveman Flintstone and Rubble families getting into minor conflicts characteristic of modern life. The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock (pop. 2500). In this fantasy version of the past, dinosaurs and other long-extinct animals co-exist with cavemen, saber-toothed cats, and woolly mammoths.
Animation historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that the series draws its humor in part from creative uses of anachronisms. The main one
2004 interview, Knight said, "I don't think I've ever been satisfied with a recording. I haven't played all my recordings. Some of them I haven't heard. I haven't seen... the video that I did of Salome from Covent Garden... [P]erhaps when I'm not singing any more, I'll dig it out and watch it... I listen and I'll think, 'Yes, but I could have done this or that'".
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