History Main / FlintstoneTheming

* Marvel Apes and its simian-themed naming.
* In ''HowTheGrinchStoleChristmas'', Who-ville does this with the word "who". For example, their Christmas feasts involve "Who-pudding" and "Who-roast-beast".

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** Then, of course, there was the chant of "Meeska, mooska, Mouseketeer!" Given that the original show premiered during the height of the ColdWar, the Slavic sound of those first two words [[ReverseFunnyAneurysm only makes them funnier]].

** Then, of course, there was the chant of "Meeska, mooska, Mouseketeer!" Given that the original show premiered during the height of the ColdWar, the Slavic sound of those first two words [[FridgeHumor only makes them funnier]].

** Then, of course, there was the chant of "Meeska, mooska, Mouseketeer!" Given that the original show premiered during the height of the ColdWar, the Slavic sound of those first two words only makes them funnier.

* The "new" version of ''TheMickeyMouseClub'' (the one from the late 1980s and early '90s) [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this trope in a reunion special that brought back Annette Funicello and several other alumni from the original 1950s series. [[{{Retraux}} A black-and-white vintage skit]] "shows" that the Mouseketeers became so universally popular when the show first aired that ''everyone'' was putting a "Mouseke-" in front of every third or fourth word he said. Typical dialog:

Compare HoldYourHippogriffs.

* ''MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' has this in spades. The main cast is called the ''mane'' cast, there are towns and cities such as Canterlot, Manehattan, Appleloosa [[DontExplainTheJoke (like the breed Appaloosa)]], they say things like "everypony" and "nopony"...

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** Humans are primates, too! Therefore, every episode has primate-related humor!

FlintstoneTheming is when a single pervasive concept that is basic to the show is used repeatedly for as many jokes as it can possibly yield, especially with [[PunnyName character names]]. Some shows, however, shoot for the moon and try to make a pun out of ''everything''.

* The "new" version of ''TheMickeyMouseClub'' (the one from the late '80s and early '90s) [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] this trope in a reunion special that brought back Annette Funicello and several other alumni from the original 1950s series. [[{{Retraux}} A black-and-white vintage skit]] "shows" that the Mouseketeers became so universally popular when the show first aired that ''everyone'' was putting a "Mouseke-" in front of every third or fourth word they said. (For example, Mother: "Finish your Mouseke-peas." Daughter: "Mouseke-yuck!")

* ''TheFlintstones'' is the TropeNamer, for reasons that should be obvious to anyone who has ever seen an episode. Between the Stone Age equivalents of modern technology and the rock-and-stone puns tossed out at a rate of four or five per minute, these jokes are basically the only thing that make the show ''not'' ''TheHoneymooners.''

** Humans are primates too! Therefore, every episode has primate-related humor!

* Marvel Apes and it's monkey-themed naming.

* The characters in ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends'' replaced the –body suffix with –buggy (anybuggy, somebuggy, busybuggy, and so on).

* The comic-book adventures of CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew were set in Follywood, Califurnia, in the United Species of America. And it didn’t stop there.

World building is sometimes hard. Coming up with an [[HurricaneOfPuns endless string of bad puns]] based on the concept of your show, on the other hand, is usually pretty easy. At least at first. It gets progressively harder to come up with decent, original puns the longer and longer your show is on the air and the more puns you’ve already used up.

** An episode of ''RobotChicken'' lampshaded the fact that the rock-based puns sometimes just didn’t work well.

* The comic-book adventures of CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew were set in Follywood, Califurnia, in the United Species of America. And it didn’t stop there.

* The characters in ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends'' replaced the –body suffix with –buggy (anybuggy, somebuggy, busybuggy, and so on).

** And then there's ''SharkyAndGeorge'', [[DuelngShows a cop show set underwater, where all the characters were fish]], which also seemed to exist [[IncrediblyLamePun solely]] to make loads and loads of fish-related puns.

World building is sometimes hard. Coming up with an [[HurricaneOfPuns endless string of bad puns]] based on the concept of your show, on the other hand, is usually pretty easy. At least at first. It gets progressively harder to come up with decent, original puns the longer and longer your show is on the air and the more puns you’ve already used up.

** An episode of ''RobotChicken'' lampshaded the fact that the rock-based puns sometimes just didn’t work well.

* The comic-book adventures of CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew were set in Follywood, Califurnia, in the United Species of America. And it didn’t stop there.

* The characters in ''Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends'' replaced the –body suffix with –buggy (anybuggy, somebuggy, busybuggy, and so on).