History WesternAnimation / AFlintstonesChristmasCarol

* MythologyGag: Fred is shown to have a cop friend named Philo Quartz, who was the TokenMinority kid on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneKids''.
** Probably TheArtifact this movie originated as part of the second round of the Superstars 10. It would have been mostly plotted not long after The Flintstone Kids and with the kids as babies aimed to make Philo look to have been there all along. However this wouldn't actually get funded until long after they had made new movies with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as adults in the early 90s.

* AnachronismStew: This is set in the stone age (millions of years before the birth of Christ), but Dickens' story was published in 1846. And to that, the setting in the play is a stone-age rendering of 19th century London.

A return to the normal characterizations and ages of the Flintstones' main cast, this is not to be confused with the previous year's ''A Flintstone Family Christmas'', which was the final installment of the 1993 trilogy of TV specials where Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm marry and have kids. Notable as the last animated Flintstones production (''Cave Kids'' and short films aside) before Hanna-Barbera was merged into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001.

* NeverSayDie: Averted. Scrooge mentions that his sister died at a young age.

* WhatTheHellHero: Barney, Wilma and Betty act this way to Fred all through the show. In fact, after the curtain calls the ''entire cast'' of the play looks angered at Fred.

* WhatTheHellHero: Barney, Wilma and Betty act this way to Fred all through the show.

* AdaptationalNameChange: Scrooge's nephew is named Ned in this version.

** It's also one of the few children's adaptions to include the deathbed scene, Complete with a foot sticking out from under the sheet.

* DarkerAndEdgier: The play has aspects of this in comparison to a typical Flintstones storyline (the fates of Tiny Tim and Scrooge in the "Ghost of Christmas Future" scenes).

* MythologyGag: Fred is shown to have a cop friend named Philo Quartz, who was the TokenMinority kid on ''TheFlintstoneKids''.

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol

* ActingForTwo: In-universe examples; Barney plays Bob Craget and Fezziwig, Mrs. Feldspar as Fan and Clara, Mr. Slate as Jacob Marbley and one of the business men talking about Scrooge's death in the future sequence, and stage manager Wilma filling for several actors who got sick.

* RunningGag: The play's actors coming down with the "Bedrock Bug".

** Also, when Fred plays Scrooge as a boy, Scrooge's sister Fan mentions him being left alone at school and neglected by his father, causing Fred to remember that he forgot to pick up Pebbles from day care because of his Scrooge-like attitude while rehearsing. It helps that Fan is played by Pebble's day care teacher.

* ActingForTwo: In-universe examples; Barney plays Bob Craget and Fezziwig, Mrs. Feldspar as Fan and Clara, and stage manager Wilma filling for several actors who got sick.

** Also, when Fred plays Scrooge as a boy, Srooge's sister Fan mentions him being left alone at school and neglected by his father, causing Fred to remember that he forgot to pick up Pebbles from day care because of his Scrooge-like attitude while rehearsing. It helps that Fan is played by Pebble's day care teacher.

The plot centers around the Bedrock Community Players putting on a stage production of ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'', with Fred Flintstone cast in the leading role as "Ebonezer Scrooge". But Fred's constant rehearsals for his part begin to rub off on his character as he forgets to but his family Christmas presents and treats his peers like "supporting players" and learns the true meaning of Christmas when the play goes on.

* MythologyGag: Fred is shown to have a cop friend name Philo Quartz, who was part of the regular cast on ''TheFlintstoneKids''.

* ThrowItIn: An in-universe example; Fred sees Wilma