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* KangaroosRepresentAustralia: Hoppy, the "hopparoo."
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Comedienne Mitzi McCall (who with husband Charlie Brill were game show staples of the 70s) voiced Penny on ''The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show.'' Mitzi and Charlie had the bad fortune to be the act following TheBeatles on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 (the boys' first appearance on American TV).
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* HeyItsThatVoice: Comedienne Mitzi McCall (who with husband Charlie Brill were game show staples of the 70s) voiced Penny on ''The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show.'' Mitzi and Charlie had the bad fortune to be the act following TheBeatles Music/TheBeatles on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 (the boys' first appearance on American TV).
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** ''The Flintstone Kids'' (1986-1988). Lasted 2 seasons, 24 episodes.
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** ''The Flintstone Kids'' ''TheFlintstoneKids'' (1986-1988). Lasted 2 seasons, 24 episodes.
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** ''Cave Kids'' (1996). Lasted 1 season, 8 episodes.
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** ''Cave Kids'' ''CaveKids'' (1996). Lasted 1 season, 8 episodes.
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* UptownGirl: When Fred and Barney first met Wilma and Betty, the four of them were holding summer jobs at a hotel but a series of misunderstandings caused Fred and Barney to think the girls were wealthy guests and the girls to think the boys were wealthy guests.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Hanna-Barbera voice actor Creator/DawsButler replaced MelBlanc as Barney Rubble for a few episodes in 1961 while Blanc was hospitalized following a near-fatal car accident. (The HannaBarbera publicity department, however, did not acknowledge this, and Blanc was still listed in the closing credits.)
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* TheOtherDarrin: Hanna-Barbera voice actor Creator/DawsButler replaced MelBlanc as Barney Rubble for a few episodes in 1961 while Blanc was hospitalized following a near-fatal car accident. (The HannaBarbera publicity department, (HannaBarbera, however, did not publicly acknowledge this, and Blanc was still listed in the closing credits.)
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* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: Dinosaurs may or may not have coexisted with humans: one POV says that mammals that existed up through the Cretaceous were small and rodent-like. Of course, that [[MST3KMantra hardly matters]].
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* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: Dinosaurs may or may not have coexisted are shown coexisting with humans: one POV says that mammals that existed up through the Cretaceous were small and rodent-like. Of course, that [[MST3KMantra hardly matters]].
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Is also going to receive a reboot via ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' creator SethMacFarlane. [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/seth-macfarlane-to-reboot-the-flintstones.html No, really.]]
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** This has led to the fan theory that the Flinestones are actually in a post-apocolyptic world, presumably with the dinosaurs being mutated versions of domestic animals.
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** ''The Flintstones'' (1994).
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** ''The Flintstones'' ''Film/TheFlintstones'' (1994).
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** A scene in 70s primetime special "Fred's Final Fling" has Fred at the doctor's office. When the doctor examines his x-ray, Fred jokes "How 'bout that, Doc? Flintstone in an [[MediaClassifications x-ray-ted picture]]!"
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* MelBlanc: Barney was possibly Blanc's first major non-''LooneyTunes'' role since giving up his role as the voice of ''WoodyWoodpecker''.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: With all the rock-based playing on celebrity names, ''The Flintstones'' almost deserves to be the [[TropeNamer Trope Namer.]]
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: With all the rock-based playing on celebrity names, ''The Flintstones'' almost deserves to be the [[TropeNamer Trope Namer.]]TropeNamer.
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** That first theme sounded eerily like "This Is It," the theme to ''[[LooneyTunes The Bugs Bunny Show]]'', which premiered the same season on ABC.
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** That first theme sounded eerily like "This Is It," the theme to ''The BugsBunny Show'', which premiered the same season on ABC.
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** That first theme sounded eerily like "This Is It," the theme to ''The BugsBunny Show'', ''[[LooneyTunes The Bugs Bunny Show]]'', which premiered the same season on ABC.
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* RecycledScript: There have been numerous episodes where Fred had a doppelganger and in a TV movie from the 70s Fred took Santa's place. He did the same thing in the original show.
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* DinnerWithTheBoss: Mr. Slate does this a few times.
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* WeirdnessCensor: The human characters rarely acknowledge that the animal appliances talk.
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For similar Hannah-Barbera cartoons, see TheJetsons and RomanHolidays
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Betty apparently kept her pledge paddle, when asked what it was used for she simply took a big swing and said "Whacko"....make of that what you will.
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** Betty apparently kept her pledge paddle, when asked what it was used for she simply took a big swing and said "Whacko"....make of that what youwill.will.
** Wilma is pregnant, so Fred takes her to the hospital, with Barney helping. The two of them semi-carry her to the hospital entrance, which is a revolving door. Barney is even more nervous than fred, and takes Wilma through the revolving door so fast that Fred is spun out, and across the street through the revolving door of a hotel. Slamming into the counter, Fred thinks he's in the hospital, so he innocently says to the desk clerk, "I'm looking for my wife, she just came in here with my best friend." HilarityEnsues.
** Betty apparently kept her pledge paddle, when asked what it was used for she simply took a big swing and said "Whacko"....make of that what you
** Wilma is pregnant, so Fred takes her to the hospital, with Barney helping. The two of them semi-carry her to the hospital entrance, which is a revolving door. Barney is even more nervous than fred, and takes Wilma through the revolving door so fast that Fred is spun out, and across the street through the revolving door of a hotel. Slamming into the counter, Fred thinks he's in the hospital, so he innocently says to the desk clerk, "I'm looking for my wife, she just came in here with my best friend." HilarityEnsues.
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** ''WesternAnimation/ThePebblesAndBammBammShow'' (1971-1972). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
** ''The Flintstone Comedy Hour'' (1972 - 1973). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
** ''The Flintstone Comedy Hour'' (1972 - 1973). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
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** ''WesternAnimation/ThePebblesAndBammBammShow'' (1971-1972). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
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** ''The Flintstone Comedy Hour'' (1972 - 1973). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
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** ''The New Fred and Barney Show'' (1979). Lasted 1 season, 17 episodes.
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** ''Fred and Barney Meet [[LilAbner the Shmoo]]'' (1979-1980). Lasted 1 season, 13 episodes. Episodes of the previous series, combined with a new segment.
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** ''Fred and Barney Meet [[LilAbner the Shmoo]]'' (1979-1980). Lasted 1 season, 13 episodes. Episodes of the previous series, combined with a new segment.
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** ''The Flintstones: On the Rocks'' (2001). Fred and Wilma face marital problems.
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** ''The Flintstones' New Neighbors'' (1980).
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** ''The Flintstones: Jogging Fever'' (1981).
** ''Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper'' (1982). Crossover with other characters.
** ''The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration'' (1986).
** ''Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper'' (1982). Crossover with other characters.
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(1981).
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** ''The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration'' (1986).
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* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Often played straight throughout the series.
** Especially in first episode "The Flintstone Flyer" when Wilma and Betty find out about their husbands feigning illness to avoid going to the opera, in order so they can sneak off and go bowling. What's worse is that Fred and Barney's scheme got surely blown at home in the Flintstone's house, where the two wives became domestically abusive. Wife beater may be considered a serious term, but not sure to say the same for husband beater.
** Especially in first episode "The Flintstone Flyer" when Wilma and Betty find out about their husbands feigning illness to avoid going to the opera, in order so they can sneak off and go bowling. What's worse is that Fred and Barney's scheme got surely blown at home in the Flintstone's house, where the two wives became domestically abusive. Wife beater may be considered a serious term, but not sure to say the same for husband beater.
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* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Often played straight throughout the series.
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** Especially in first episode "The Flintstone Flyer" when Wilma and Betty find out about their husbands feigning illness to avoid going to the opera, in order so they can sneak off and go bowling. What's worse is that Fred and Barney's scheme got surely blown at home in the Flintstone's house, where the two wives became domestically abusive. Wife beater may be considered a serious term, but not sure to say the same for husband beater.
** Especially in first episode "The Flintstone Flyer" when Wilma and Betty find out about their husbands feigning illness to avoid going to the opera, in order so they can sneak off and go bowling. What's worse is that Fred and Barney's scheme got surely blown at home in the Flintstone's house, where the two wives became domestically abusive. Wife beater may be considered a serious term, but not sure to say the same for husband beater.
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** "The Twitch" is created when singer Rock Roll has convulsions as a reaction to his pickled dodo eggs allergy.
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* BrokenAesop: In [[{{Crossover}} "Samantha"]], after some ridicule, the wives are determined to prove they can handle a camping trip with Fred and Barney. They are joined by [[Series/{{Bewitched}} the secretly magical Samantha]]. The episode ends with everyone thinking Wilma and Betty outdid Fred and Barney, but as the viewers saw, Samantha cheated - using her magic to make things vastly easier for the wives than it would've been otherwise.
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* BrokenAesop: In [[{{Crossover}} "Samantha"]], after some ridicule, the wives are determined to prove they can handle a camping trip with Fred and Barney. They are joined by [[Series/{{Bewitched}} the secretly magical Samantha]]. The episode ends with everyone thinking Wilma and Betty outdid Fred and Barney, but as the viewers saw, Samantha cheated - using her magic to make things vastly easier for the wives than it would've been otherwise.
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* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The show did not feature its famous `Meet the Flintstones' theme song until the third season.
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* TheGamblingAddict: Fred is a compulsive gambler. Simply mentioning the word "bet" around him will cause him to get a crazy look in his eyes and start repeating the word over and over in a loud voice:
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* InstrumentalThemeTune: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zbrO3LKxgk "Rise and Shine"]], used in the first two seasons.
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* MelBlanc: Barney was possibly Blanc's first major non-''LooneyTunes'' role since giving up his role as the voice of ''WoodyWoodpecker''.
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''WoodyWoodpecker''.
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* [[TheOnlyOne The Only Ones]]: Fred and Barney in ''The Man Called Flintstone'', when Rock Slag and the Chief were incapacitated, and their double agent XXX is really [[spoiler: The Green Goose]].
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* [[TheOnlyOne The Only Ones]]: Fred and Barney in ''The Man Called Flintstone'', when Rock Slag and the Chief were incapacitated, and their double agent XXX is really [[spoiler: The Green Goose]].
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* RightHandAttackDog: The Green Goose and his pet sabre-tooth tiger Ferocious in ''The Man Called Flintstone''.
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* ShowWithinAShow: Several; none particularly important or prominent -- just parodies of then-current shows. ''[[CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]]'' comes to mind , in ''Flintstone Kids''.
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* TimeMachine: Besides ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones'', a season 5 episode of the original series has the Flintstones and Rubbles stepping into one of these at the Bedrock World's Fair and traveling to the future to encounter several {{Historical Domain Character}}s (including [[TheRomanEmpire Emperor Nero]], KingArthur, ChristopherColumbus, and BenjaminFranklin) before ending up at the ''New York'' World's Fair of 1964!
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* TimeMachine: Besides ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones'', a season 5 episode of the original series has the Flintstones and Rubbles stepping into one of these at the Bedrock World's Fair and traveling to the future to encounter several {{Historical Domain Character}}s (including [[TheRomanEmpire Emperor Nero]], KingArthur, ChristopherColumbus, and BenjaminFranklin) Creator/BenjaminFranklin) before ending up at the ''New York'' World's Fair of 1964!
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* {{Ventriloquism}}: "Ventriloquist Barney"
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* EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos: Hoppy, the "hopparoo."
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* [[BigDamnMovie Big Darn Movie]]: ''The Man Called Flintstone'' made at the same time as the Original Series. Originally intended as a multipart season premire, it was adapted instead into a movie parodying the hot Secret Agent genre.
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* InstrumentalThemeTune: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQYeT8om5E "Rise and Shine"]], used in the first two seasons.
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* ReplacedTheThemeTune: They used an orchestral theme (and completely different opening sequence) early on before switching to the iconic "Flintstones, meet the Flintstones..."
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* RecycledInSpace: ''TheHoneymooners'' in the stone age. The short-lived spinoff ''Cave Kids'' is ''WesternAnimation/Rugrats'' in the stone age.
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The most famous and beloved of {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s cartoons that isn't ''ScoobyDoo'', this one was set in the Stone Age--[[TheThemeParkVersion sort of]]--and based about half its humor on [[FlintstoneTheming prehistoric versions of modern technology]]. Usually an animal was shown rigged to perform some menial task, eg a baby mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner, a parrot used as a recording device, etc.
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The most famous and beloved of {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s cartoons that isn't ''ScoobyDoo'', this one was set in the Stone Age--[[TheThemeParkVersion sort of]]--and based about half its humor on [[FlintstoneTheming prehistoric versions of modern technology]]. Usually an animal was shown rigged to perform some menial task, eg a baby mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner, a parrot used as a recording device, etc. \n Said animal usually makes an AsideComment about their situation.
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* DoesNotWearShoes[=/=]FootFocus: Due to the prehistoric setting, the entire cast is constantly barefoot. {{Lampshaded}} in a ComicBook story in which shoes are invented, but fail to catch on.
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* TheOtherDarrin: Hanna-Barbera voice actor DawsButler replaced MelBlanc as Barney Rubble for a few episodes in 1961 while Blanc was hospitalized following a near-fatal car accident. (The HannaBarbera publicity department, however, did not acknowledge this, and Blanc was still listed in the closing credits.)
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I don\'t think a name of a company could be used as a trope (yeah, I know that Google did a doodle, but I still think this isn\'t a trope).
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->''"[[SayMyName Wiiiiiiiilllmaaaaaaa!!!]]"''
-->-- '''Fred Flintstone''', [[OncePerEpisode every single episode]], ever.
The most famous and beloved of {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s cartoons that isn't ''ScoobyDoo'', this one was set in the Stone Age--[[TheThemeParkVersion sort of]]--and based about half its humor on [[FlintstoneTheming prehistoric versions of modern technology]]. Usually an animal was shown rigged to perform some menial task, eg a baby mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner, a parrot used as a recording device, etc.
The other half was ordinary sitcom material, springing from the antics of boorish Fred Flintstone, who was constantly hatching insane schemes with the help of his neighbor Barney Rubble and subsequently getting them both into trouble with their wives, Wilma and Betty. Later in the series the Flinstones had a daughter, Pebbles; this inspired the Rubbles to adopt a son, the comically super-strong Bamm-Bamm. Dino and Hoppy were the respective family pet(-asaurus)es.
Was the most successful prime-time animated series ever until ''TheSimpsons''.
Like many very popular shows from the 1960s and 1970s, ''The Flintstones'' just would not die. It survived cancellation in any number of subsequent forms, from Saturday morning cartoons featuring teenaged versions of Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles (the latter voiced by Sally Struthers) through a pair of live-action motion pictures, all the way to a breakfast cereal which is still marketed in the early 21st century (and which is the occasion for continuous ''new'' Flintstones animation). Not to mention the vitamins...
Is also going to receive a reboot via ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' creator SethMacFarlane. [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/seth-macfarlane-to-reboot-the-flintstones.html No, really.]]
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!!The various incarnations of the Flintstones in the media:
* Animated Series
** ''The Flintstones'' (1960 - 1966). Lasted 6 seasons, 166 episodes.
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePebblesAndBammBammShow'' (1971-1972). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
** ''The Flintstone Comedy Hour'' (1972 - 1973). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
** ''Fred Flintstone and Friends'' (1977-1978). Lasted 1 season, re-editing of older episodes.
** ''The New Fred and Barney Show'' (1979). Lasted 1 season, 17 episodes.
** ''FredAndBarneyMeetTheThing'' (1979). Lasted 1 season, 13 episodes.
** ''Fred and Barney Meet [[LilAbner the Shmoo]]'' (1979-1980). Lasted 1 season, 13 episodes. Episodes of the previous series, combined with a new segment.
** ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' (1980-1981). Lasted 2 seasons, 18 episodes.
** ''The Flintstone Funnies'' (1982-1984). Re-editing episodes from previous series.
** ''The Flintstone Kids'' (1986-1988). Lasted 2 seasons, 24 episodes.
** ''Dino: World Premiere Toons'' (1995-1997). Only broadcasted 7-minute shorts.
** ''Cave Kids'' (1996). Lasted 1 season, 8 episodes.
* Animated films
** ''The Man Called Flintstone'' (1966). The only one theatrically released.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones'' (1987).
** ''I Yabba-Dabba Do!'' (1993). Pebbles and Bamm Bamm get married.
** ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby'' (1993). Pebbles becomes a mother.
** ''A Flintstones Christmas Carol'' (1994).
** ''The Flintstones: On the Rocks'' (2001). Fred and Wilma face marital problems.
* Television specials
** ''A Flintstone Christmas'' (1977)
** ''Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue'' (1978). Crossover of various Hanna-Barbera characters, with Fred as the host.
** ''The Flintstones: Little Big League'' (1978).
** ''TheFlintstonesMeetRockulaAndFrankenstone'' (1980).
** ''The Flintstones' New Neighbors'' (1980).
** ''The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling'' (1980).
** ''The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma'' (1981).
** ''The Flintstones: Jogging Fever'' (1981).
** ''Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper'' (1982). Crossover with other characters.
** ''The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration'' (1986).
** ''The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special'' (1988). Anti-Drug Special.
** ''Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration'' (1989). Features multiple characters.
** ''A Flintstone Family Christmas'' (1993).
* Live-Action Films
** ''The Flintstones'' (1994).
** ''The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas'' (2000)
* Video Games
** ''The Flintstones'' - MSX
** ''The Flintstones'' - SegaMasterSystem
** ''The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy'' - NES
** ''The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak!'' - NES
** ''The Flintstones'' - SNES
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!!''The Flinstones'' provides the [[TropeNamer name for]] the following tropes:
* FlintstoneTheming
* HaveAGayOldTime
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!!''TheFlintstones'' provides examples of:
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Often played straight throughout the series.
** Especially in first episode "The Flintstone Flyer" when Wilma and Betty find out about their husbands feigning illness to avoid going to the opera, in order so they can sneak off and go bowling. What's worse is that Fred and Barney's scheme got surely blown at home in the Flintstone's house, where the two wives became domestically abusive. Wife beater may be considered a serious term, but not sure to say the same for husband beater.
*** Thanks to CharacterDevelopment, they both became more sweet-natured, although Wilma isn't above hitting Fred whenever he behaves in an exceptionally bad way.
* AccidentalDanceCraze: Twice...
** In one episode Fred stubs his toe and starts hopping up and down. Bystanders join in, and soon everyone is doing the "Flintstone Frantic".
** "The Twitch" is created when singer Rock Roll has convulsions as a reaction to his pickled dodo eggs allergy.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Very, '''very''' much inverted in the first live action movie with regards to Betty.
** Played straight with Barney and Wilma's mother.
* AdjectiveNounFred: In Japan the series was called ''Primitive Family Flintstone''.
* AdultChild: Fred, often.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Dino is a dinosaur that acts just like a big dog.
* AnachronismStew: We have dinosaurs and large mammals living at the same time(depends on your POV), along with modern-esque technology and culture. And they celebrate Christmas.
** [[FridgeLogic Thousands of years before Christ?]]
** Apparently, Fred knows the words to "When the Saints Go Marching In". [[NonSingingVoice And can sing it in someone else's voice.]]
* TheArtifact: Ads for the aforementioned vitamins, being marketed to parents, haven't featured the characters in any form other than what appears on the packaging or the product itself in years (preferring to feature footage of active, healthy-looking kids).
* BambooTechnology: pretty much the main thing that makes ''TheFlintstones'' any different from just setting it in 1960s America, this trope provides much of the humor after the standard sitcom plots and all the silly names. Cars? Telephones? Airplanes? They had 'em. Radio? Television? The only reason they didn't have any electronics more advanced than that was because of when the show was made. If one takes the Fruity Pebbles commercials as {{canon}}, then they actually have not only computers and robots, but HumongousMecha.
** Later spinoffs and TV movies usually update the technology equivalents to match when the spinoff/movie was made. Thus the late 1970s ''The New Fred and Barney Show'' featured CB radios, 80s spinoff ''The Flintstone Kids'' featured video games, while the 90s TV movies ''I Yabba Dabba Do'' and ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby'' feature desktop computers, [=VCRs=], [=CDs=] and car alarms.
* BigDamnMovie: The first film has ambition, loyalty, betrayal, corporate intrigue, and a climactic battle upon an elaborate makeshift DeathTrap. An average episode of the TV series is basically just [[HilarityEnsues Wacky Hijinks]].
* BigFriendlyDog: Dino, even though he's not technically a dog.
* BlackBeadEyes: Some characters, especially Barney and Wilma.
* BowlingForRatings: Fred and Barney are frequently shown bowling, either by themselves or as part of an organized group.
* BrokenAesop: In [[{{Crossover}} "Samantha"]], after some ridicule, the wives are determined to prove they can handle a camping trip with Fred and Barney. They are joined by [[Series/{{Bewitched}} the secretly magical Samantha]]. The episode ends with everyone thinking Wilma and Betty outdid Fred and Barney, but as the viewers saw, Samantha cheated - using her magic to make things vastly easier for the wives than it would've been otherwise.
* BrokenStreak
* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes.
* BumblingDad: Fred, when Pebbles was born.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Gazoo.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Dino is a pretty startling example. In his debut episode, he has a different colour, usually walks on his hind legs, and can not only talk, but can act and fast-talk people, with a vocabulary to match. At the end of the episode, he goes home with the Flintstones... and then turns into a [[AllAnimalsAreDogs dog]] with only the usual level of cartoon animal intelligence (in that he can understand the exact sentences people say and act upon them, but is never seen to be able to talk).
* CatchPhrase: "Yabba-dabba-doo!"
** In the teenage years spinoffs, Pebbles uses "Yabba-dabba-doozy!" Befitting, as her schemes usually were.
** "Wiiiiiiiilllmaaaaaaa!!!"
** (In the cereal commercials) "Barney!!!!! My Pebbles!!!!" (Followed by Barney making a lame pun based on his latest scheme)
* CelebrityIsOverrated
* TheCelebrityLie
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: If you go by historic timelines, it could be said that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm were the very first pair for this trope. Upon first meeting as babies, they were the best of friends and had many adventures as they grew up together, eventually falling in love, getting married, and having children of their own. It was even {{Lampshaded}} by [[HannaBarbera Bill and Joe]] themselves during a [[CreatorCameo cameo appearance]] at their wedding.
* CloserToEarth: Wilma is much more mature and level-headed than Fred, who borders on AdultChild.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch
* {{Crossover}}: with ''TheJetsons'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' and others.
* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: ''The Flintstone Kids'' compared to the original series.
* {{Crunchtastic}}: Their aforementioned cereal. The short-lived Dino Pebbles Cereal, for instance, used "Marshmellow Dinolicious" in their ads, prompting Dino to {{glomp}} whoever said it.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Flintstones animated movie made a few years ago called ''Flintstones on the Rocks''. Fred and Wilma's silly cartoon fighting turned into them being a genuinely unhappy married couple, and the opening scene is them fighting in a marriage counselling session.
* DeadpanSnarker: Fred and Wilma, more so on the latter.
* DietEpisode: At least one episode has Fred getting shamed into dieting.
* DoesNotWearShoes[=/=]FootFocus: Due to the prehistoric setting, the entire cast is constantly barefoot. {{Lampshaded}} in a ComicBook story in which shoes are invented, but fail to catch on.
* DoingItForTheArt: As hard as it is to imagine, the first live action movie. For starters, unless they got John Goodman to play Fred, they wouldn't have even bothered trying to make a movie.
* DoorstopBaby: Bamm-Bamm
* DreamSequence
* {{Drive-In Theater}}: Featured in the opening and closing credits.
* DrivenToSuicide: A heartbroken Barney attempted this when thinking that the Rockefellers won their court case and were free to adopt Bamm-Bamm, by roping a boulder to his torso from a bridge. Fred saved his life, but caught the boulder by accident and wound up (alive, but grumbling) in the river.
* DrunkWithPower: Fred, in the first live action movie.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The show did not feature its famous `Meet the Flintstones' theme song until the third season.
* MrFanservice: In ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'', one episode had them entering Bamm-Bamm in a singing competition. But he can only sing in the shower, so they solved this by having him singing while wearing a small green Speedo and soaking himself in water in front of all his classmates. Sadly it wasn't nearly as hot as it sounds though.
** Said episode was also a RecycledScript of an original series episode with Barney having a similar singing problem/solution to such.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Because a ''Flintstones'' which only used creatures that ''lived'' during the Paleolithic wouldn't be nearly as interesting, although those kinds of animals are around as well.
* EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos: Hoppy, the "hopparoo."
* ExpositoryThemeTune: "Meet the Flintstones", beginning in the third season.
** ''"They're the modern Stone Age family..."''
* FeudingFamilies: "Bedrock Hillbillies."
* TheFilmOfTheSeries: The two {{Live Action Adaptation}}s.
* FirstNameUltimatum: See this page's quote.
* FlintstoneTheming: The TropeNamer.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: As a baby Bamm-Bamm had super strength, but later in ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'' he never used it. It could be explained that he lost it as he grew up, except it later came back in the 1993 TV movies.
* FreakyFridayFlip: A number of times, including once where Fred and Dino swap bodies.
* TheGamblingAddict: Fred is a compulsive gambler. Simply mentioning the word "bet" around him will cause him to get a crazy look in his eyes and start repeating the word over and over in a loud voice:
-->'''Fred''': Bet...bet...bet! BEEETTTTT! BET-BET-BET-BET-BET-BET-BET!!!!!
* GentleGiant: Fred, at his best.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Betty apparently kept her pledge paddle, when asked what it was used for she simply took a big swing and said "Whacko"....make of that what you will.
* GilliganCut
* GodForADay: Well more like "Boss For A Day" when Fred is envious of his boss and the Great Gazoo turns him into a boss. He finds that it's actually a burden, since he has to deal with higher-ups, stay late in meetings, etc.
* {{Google}}: The series was honored with a Google doodle on its 50th Anniversary.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress
* GreatGazoo: TropeNamer.
* HairReboot: In the episode featuring [[FlintstoneTheming Stony Curtis]], when Wilma quickly gets herself cleaned up to meet the celebrity, four quick strokes of her brush are all that is needed to bring her hair to its usual style.
* HappilyAdopted: Bamm-Bamm is notable for being one of the first examples on a cartoon.
* HappilyMarried
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The Great Gazoo is only visible to Fred and usually Barney.
* HaveAGayOldTime: TropeNamer.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The alien who created 10 clones of Fred.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Comedienne Mitzi McCall (who with husband Charlie Brill were game show staples of the 70s) voiced Penny on ''The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show.'' Mitzi and Charlie had the bad fortune to be the act following TheBeatles on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 (the boys' first appearance on American TV).
* HoldYourHippogriffs: The premise of the whole show is to displace modern stories into a prehistoric setting, so language was obvious to follow.
* HorseOfADifferentColour: Dino is just like a dog, except he's a sauropod dinosaur; Hoppy is a kangaroo-like "hopparoo".
** Dino's official species is apparently "snorkasaurus".
* {{Housewife}}
* IdenticalStranger: Fred's lookalikes J.L. Gotrocks (in "The Tycoon") and Rock Slag (in ''The Man Called Flintstone'' movie). Not to mention his robot doppelgangers in "Ten Little Flinstones".
* IncessantChorus: The end of "The Hot Piano" involves Barney and a troupe of policemen who keep singing "Happy Anniversary" to Fred and Wilma, much to Fred's annoyance.
* IncessantMusicMadness: Fred and Wilma find the perfect maid/cook, and everybody's happy--except that Fred keeps singing (badly) an inane song he made up. The hired help finally quits.
-->'''Fred:''' Oh, Lola Brigada/Your food I dig-ada!
* InexplicablyAwesome: It's never explained why Bamm-Bamm has super strength.
** Possibly a sendup of the sort of people who coo over babies and find their every smelly fart to be evidence of what an exceptional child they have on their hands. "Oooh, look at him grip my finger! Feel how strong he is!" Well, this kid really is.
* InkSuitActor: James Darren, Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York gave voice to their cartoon likenesses on the show.
* InstrumentalThemeTune: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQYeT8om5E "Rise and Shine"]], used in the first two seasons.
* InvisibleToNormals: Gazoo is invisible to everyone but Fred and Barney, and later, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.
* IntellectualAnimal: Dino, in his debut episode. He reverts to a standardly intelligent non-talking cartoon animal in the next episode he features in and stays that way.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: No matter the series, movie or special, Fred always falls into this trope.
* JumpingOutOfACake: In "Frantic City", the cake at the Water Buffalos' convention was supposed to have showgirls inside. It had their angry wives instead, rolling pins in hand.
** The "I Yabba Dabba Do" special [[PlayingWithATrope played with this]] when the woman supposed to jump out of the cake at Bamm-Bamm's bachelor party walked out because she wanted more money. This leads to Barney being forced to substitute.
* KangarooPouchRide
* KnifeThrowingAct: "Dial S for Suspicion."
* LastDayToLive: This was the plot of the prime-time special "Fred's Final Fling".
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Pebbles doesn't get named until she's born. Ditto for her own children Chip and Roxy.
* LaughTrack: Notably edited out in the syndicated airings on {{Boomerang}}.
* LimitedWardrobe
* ManInAKilt: Pretty much every male character wears a prehistoric man-kilt.
* MeaningfulName: In TheMovie, the character of Sharon Stone was so named because the Producers had hoped to get the actress SharonStone to play her (they ended up with HalleBerry instead). Which becomes HilariousInHindsight when you consider that in the 2004 Catwoman movie, Halle Berry's Catwoman fights a villain played by Sharon Stone.
* MelBlanc: Barney was possibly Blanc's first major non-''LooneyTunes'' role since giving up his role as the voice of ''WoodyWoodpecker''.
* MetronomicManMashing: Bamm Bamm BAM-BAM-BAM!
* MistakenForDying
* MotionlessChin
* TheMovie: ''The Man Called Flintstone''.
* MythologyGag: In the live-action movie, Fred is mistakenly named as "Flagstone" a couple times. ''The Flagstones'' was the original planned name for the series.
** It was changed to "Flintstones" because there was a comic strip called ''Hi And Lois'' (co-drawn by Mort Walker) whose family was named the Flagstons.
** It has been said that Bamm-Bamm was inspired from Ubble-Ubble, the cave boy in the [[TheRuffAndReddyShow Ruff & Reddy]] story arc "The Chickosaurus Caper."
* NiceKitty: Subverted: Barney sees a Bantydactyl and cheerfully says "Here, pussy pussy" to it until it cheerfully opens its mouth and grabs him leaving only his feet exposed.
* NeverMyFault: In "The Astra' Nuts" Fred and Barney go to get their physical, but Betty gives the wrong address and they end up accidentally enlisting in the army. Of course Wilma and Betty blame them for "bollixing" it up.
* NeverSleepAgain: In one episode, Wilma, Betty and Barney are led to [[spoiler:(falsely)]] believe Fred has an ailment that will kill him if he falls asleep. Also, he must not be informed of this or he'll die too. The gang uses increasingly creative methods to keep Fred awake.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Fred isn't [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a bad person]] [[GentleGiant per se]], but he's not putting as much effort into the marriage as Wilma, who is often forced to suffer his tantrums and schemes. Subverted in one of the movies, though, where Fred had to struggle to get Wilma's favor back after a fight during a holiday trip.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: With all the rock-based playing on celebrity names, ''The Flintstones'' almost deserves to be the [[TropeNamer Trope Namer.]]
* NoIndoorVoice: Fred is frequently guilty of this.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:The Green Goose and his henchmen, as Fred and Barney trapped them inside the doomsday missile/rocket, which is launched into space, that Fred set it to. The screen fades to black just as the rocket is about to ascend into space.]]
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Wilma's Mother.
* OldShame[=/=]ValuesDissonance: There were commercials for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c Winston cigarettes]] promoted by the Flintstones.
* OnOneCondition
* [[TheOnlyOne The Only Ones]]: Fred and Barney in ''The Man Called Flintstone'', when Rock Slag and the Chief were incapacitated, and their double agent XXX is really [[spoiler: The Green Goose]].
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Fred. Literally and frequently.
* TheOtherDarrin: Hanna-Barbera voice actor DawsButler replaced MelBlanc as Barney Rubble for a few episodes in 1961 while Blanc was hospitalized following a near-fatal car accident. (The HannaBarbera publicity department, however, did not acknowledge this, and Blanc was still listed in the closing credits.)
** In addition, Gerry Johnson replaced Bea Benaderet as Betty Rubble in the show's fifth and sixth seasons when Benaderet left to concentrate on her role as Kate Bradley on ''Series/PetticoatJunction''. Johnson died soon after ''The Flintstones'" ended its ABC run and would be replaced in 1971 by Gay Hartwig.
** Alan Reed lent his voice to Fred for the final time in the debut episode of [[LaffALympics Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics]]. He died soon after and would be replaced by Henry Corden.
* OverprotectiveDad: Fred, in regard to Pebbles.
* PantyShot: Pebbles in a couple of viewer participation segments of the NBC ''Flintstone Comedy Hour.''
** Wilma had a panty shot in a one-page comic in an issue of ScoobyDoo (Archie series). She's wearing a fancy new dress that subsequently gets eaten by moths.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Roxy and Chip from ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby''.
* PrettyInMink: Fred is having some sort of problem, making him almost completely lethargic. Wilma buys an expensive fur coat of "genuine Siberian mammoth", knowing the cost will make Fred freak out. That and their clothes are most likely all animal skins.
* PunnyName: Pretty much every character or locale on the show has one, based on some variant of "rock" or "stone." Also, "Barney Rubble" (nearly always shortened to "barney") was Cockney rhyming-slang for "trouble" long before movies were invented.
** The Spanish dub version changed everyone's names for no apparent reason, but still followed this trope. The Flintstones (who should have been called Los Pedernales) were instead called Los Picapiedra (the Stonecutters). Made even stranger because occasional characters with the last name Pedernal DID appear in this version!
** TheFilmOfTheSeries would have lampshaded this - the producers wanted actress SharonStone to play character Sharon Stone (the role ultimately went to HalleBerry).
** The original Hungarian dubs also renamed almost all of the characters (most famously Fred Flintstone & Barny Rubble to Kovakövi Frédi & Kavicsi Béni, and Wilma & Betty to Vilma & Irma, in keeping with the rhyming-theme the dub had going on), but the dubs of later spin-offs and movies restored the original English Flintstone surname. Could get confusing, since there were at least three kind of dubs, with wholly different voice-casts.
** A RobotChicken sketch parodied the phenomenon when a deliveryman rattles off a long, awkward URL mishmashing Amazon.com and at least three shoehorned rock puns. Fred looks at him for a minute and he says, "Look, not all of these rock puns are easy."
* PurelyAestheticEra
** The show is a ReTool of a concept for an animated version of TheHoneymooners. Not TheHoneymooners with any sort of gimmick, just vanilla TheHoneymooners.
* PygmalionSnapBack: When Wilma and Betty changed Fred and Barney.
* RecycledInSpace: ''TheHoneymooners'' in the stone age.
* ReplacedTheThemeTune: They used an orchestral theme (and completely different opening sequence) early on before switching to the iconic "Flintstones, meet the Flintstones..."
** That first theme sounded eerily like "This Is It," the theme to ''The BugsBunny Show'', which premiered the same season on ABC.
* ResetButton
* RhymesOnADime: The entire Hungarian dub is in rhyming prose. Often considered a {{Woolseyism}}.
* RightHandAttackDog: The Green Goose and his pet sabre-tooth tiger Ferocious in ''The Man Called Flintstone''.
* {{Schemer}}: Both Fred and teenage Pebbles.
* SchizoTech
* ScoutOut: one episode features the Cave Scouts who all decided to go camping in the same valley that Fred and Barney decided to go camping in.
* ShowWithinAShow: Several; none particularly important or prominent -- just parodies of then-current shows. ''[[CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]]'' comes to mind , in ''Flintstone Kids''.
* SincerestFormOfFlattery: HannaBarbera openly admit that this show was inspired by ''TheHoneymooners''.
** Jackie Gleason, who starred in ''The Honeymooners,'' thought the resemblance was too close for comfort so he [[YouWannaGetSued filed a plagiarism suit]] against Hanna-Barbera.
* SleepingSingle: The early seasons; although the show was the first ''animated'' show to portray a married couple sharing a bed later on.
* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: Dinosaurs may or may not have coexisted with humans: one POV says that mammals that existed up through the Cretaceous were small and rodent-like. Of course, that [[MST3KMantra hardly matters]].
* SoundEffectBleep
* SpecialGuest: Several.
* {{Spinoff}}: Several.
** SpinoffBabies: ''The Flintstones Kids'', the largely forgotten ''Cave Kids''
** SpinOffspring: ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show''.
* TheSponsor: Fred Flintstone once joined Eaters Anonymous, and his sponsor would grab whatever food Fred got a hold on while giving the group's secret call, "Gobble, gobble, gobble!"
* SpringtimeForHitler
* SpySpeak
* [[{{Steampunk}} Stonepunk]]: You can't miss this, it's all over the place.
* TheThemeParkVersion: It's [[TheFifties early-1960s suburban America]] transposed into the Stone Age, with [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]].
* ThickLineAnimation: The early episodes when the animation drawings were hand-inked on cels. Later on they switched to xerox and the line art got thinner.
* TimeMachine: Besides ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones'', a season 5 episode of the original series has the Flintstones and Rubbles stepping into one of these at the Bedrock World's Fair and traveling to the future to encounter several {{Historical Domain Character}}s (including [[TheRomanEmpire Emperor Nero]], KingArthur, ChristopherColumbus, and BenjaminFranklin) before ending up at the ''New York'' World's Fair of 1964!
* TitleSequenceReplacement: The original TitleSequence was rarely seen until recently.
* TitleThemeTune
* {{Tsundere}}: Wilma is a Type B, a sweet and adorable housewife who only explodes when Fred goes JerkAss.
* [[TurnOutLikeHisFather Turn Out Like Their Fathers]]: As teenagers, Pebbles is often a schemer that gets in way over her head and Bam-Bam is a loyal accomplice prone to urging caution.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Both couples.
** Except in the 1994 LiveActionAdaptation where Betty was played by Rosie O'Donnell.
** Every couple to appear on the show, really, with the exception of the second generation of the leads.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm eventually got married and had fraternal twins... much to the surprise of Fred and Barney who were expecting them to have only one child (Fred wanted a boy, Barney a girl).
* {{Ventriloquism}}: "Ventriloquist Barney"
* VocalEvolution: Barney has a high nasally voice in the earliest episodes.
* WatchWhereYoureGoing: Happens a few times in the series. One person is running, and literally runs into someone else because neither were paying attention.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Barney. By the time of some of the later shows, Barney is shown to be working alongside Fred for Mr. Slate's quarry.
* WildChild: Bamm-Bamm, in the live action film, was found with wild mastadons.
* WraparoundBackground: One of the most famous examples, and is cited whenever the technique is lampshaded.
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''"Wiiiiiiiilllmaaaaaaa!!!"''
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[[caption-width-right:350:The modern Stone Age family.]]
->''"[[SayMyName Wiiiiiiiilllmaaaaaaa!!!]]"''
-->-- '''Fred Flintstone''', [[OncePerEpisode every single episode]], ever.
The most famous and beloved of {{Hanna-Barbera}}'s cartoons that isn't ''ScoobyDoo'', this one was set in the Stone Age--[[TheThemeParkVersion sort of]]--and based about half its humor on [[FlintstoneTheming prehistoric versions of modern technology]]. Usually an animal was shown rigged to perform some menial task, eg a baby mammoth used as a vacuum cleaner, a parrot used as a recording device, etc.
The other half was ordinary sitcom material, springing from the antics of boorish Fred Flintstone, who was constantly hatching insane schemes with the help of his neighbor Barney Rubble and subsequently getting them both into trouble with their wives, Wilma and Betty. Later in the series the Flinstones had a daughter, Pebbles; this inspired the Rubbles to adopt a son, the comically super-strong Bamm-Bamm. Dino and Hoppy were the respective family pet(-asaurus)es.
Was the most successful prime-time animated series ever until ''TheSimpsons''.
Like many very popular shows from the 1960s and 1970s, ''The Flintstones'' just would not die. It survived cancellation in any number of subsequent forms, from Saturday morning cartoons featuring teenaged versions of Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles (the latter voiced by Sally Struthers) through a pair of live-action motion pictures, all the way to a breakfast cereal which is still marketed in the early 21st century (and which is the occasion for continuous ''new'' Flintstones animation). Not to mention the vitamins...
Is also going to receive a reboot via ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' creator SethMacFarlane. [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/tv/seth-macfarlane-to-reboot-the-flintstones.html No, really.]]
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!!The various incarnations of the Flintstones in the media:
* Animated Series
** ''The Flintstones'' (1960 - 1966). Lasted 6 seasons, 166 episodes.
** ''WesternAnimation/ThePebblesAndBammBammShow'' (1971-1972). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
** ''The Flintstone Comedy Hour'' (1972 - 1973). Lasted 1 season, 16 episodes.
** ''Fred Flintstone and Friends'' (1977-1978). Lasted 1 season, re-editing of older episodes.
** ''The New Fred and Barney Show'' (1979). Lasted 1 season, 17 episodes.
** ''FredAndBarneyMeetTheThing'' (1979). Lasted 1 season, 13 episodes.
** ''Fred and Barney Meet [[LilAbner the Shmoo]]'' (1979-1980). Lasted 1 season, 13 episodes. Episodes of the previous series, combined with a new segment.
** ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' (1980-1981). Lasted 2 seasons, 18 episodes.
** ''The Flintstone Funnies'' (1982-1984). Re-editing episodes from previous series.
** ''The Flintstone Kids'' (1986-1988). Lasted 2 seasons, 24 episodes.
** ''Dino: World Premiere Toons'' (1995-1997). Only broadcasted 7-minute shorts.
** ''Cave Kids'' (1996). Lasted 1 season, 8 episodes.
* Animated films
** ''The Man Called Flintstone'' (1966). The only one theatrically released.
** ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones'' (1987).
** ''I Yabba-Dabba Do!'' (1993). Pebbles and Bamm Bamm get married.
** ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby'' (1993). Pebbles becomes a mother.
** ''A Flintstones Christmas Carol'' (1994).
** ''The Flintstones: On the Rocks'' (2001). Fred and Wilma face marital problems.
* Television specials
** ''A Flintstone Christmas'' (1977)
** ''Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue'' (1978). Crossover of various Hanna-Barbera characters, with Fred as the host.
** ''The Flintstones: Little Big League'' (1978).
** ''TheFlintstonesMeetRockulaAndFrankenstone'' (1980).
** ''The Flintstones' New Neighbors'' (1980).
** ''The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling'' (1980).
** ''The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma'' (1981).
** ''The Flintstones: Jogging Fever'' (1981).
** ''Yogi Bear's All Star Comedy Christmas Caper'' (1982). Crossover with other characters.
** ''The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration'' (1986).
** ''The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special'' (1988). Anti-Drug Special.
** ''Hanna-Barbera's 50th: A Yabba Dabba Doo Celebration'' (1989). Features multiple characters.
** ''A Flintstone Family Christmas'' (1993).
* Live-Action Films
** ''The Flintstones'' (1994).
** ''The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas'' (2000)
* Video Games
** ''The Flintstones'' - MSX
** ''The Flintstones'' - SegaMasterSystem
** ''The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy'' - NES
** ''The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak!'' - NES
** ''The Flintstones'' - SNES
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!!''The Flinstones'' provides the [[TropeNamer name for]] the following tropes:
* FlintstoneTheming
* HaveAGayOldTime
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!!''TheFlintstones'' provides examples of:
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale: Often played straight throughout the series.
** Especially in first episode "The Flintstone Flyer" when Wilma and Betty find out about their husbands feigning illness to avoid going to the opera, in order so they can sneak off and go bowling. What's worse is that Fred and Barney's scheme got surely blown at home in the Flintstone's house, where the two wives became domestically abusive. Wife beater may be considered a serious term, but not sure to say the same for husband beater.
*** Thanks to CharacterDevelopment, they both became more sweet-natured, although Wilma isn't above hitting Fred whenever he behaves in an exceptionally bad way.
* AccidentalDanceCraze: Twice...
** In one episode Fred stubs his toe and starts hopping up and down. Bystanders join in, and soon everyone is doing the "Flintstone Frantic".
** "The Twitch" is created when singer Rock Roll has convulsions as a reaction to his pickled dodo eggs allergy.
* AdaptationalAttractiveness: Very, '''very''' much inverted in the first live action movie with regards to Betty.
** Played straight with Barney and Wilma's mother.
* AdjectiveNounFred: In Japan the series was called ''Primitive Family Flintstone''.
* AdultChild: Fred, often.
* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Dino is a dinosaur that acts just like a big dog.
* AnachronismStew: We have dinosaurs and large mammals living at the same time(depends on your POV), along with modern-esque technology and culture. And they celebrate Christmas.
** [[FridgeLogic Thousands of years before Christ?]]
** Apparently, Fred knows the words to "When the Saints Go Marching In". [[NonSingingVoice And can sing it in someone else's voice.]]
* TheArtifact: Ads for the aforementioned vitamins, being marketed to parents, haven't featured the characters in any form other than what appears on the packaging or the product itself in years (preferring to feature footage of active, healthy-looking kids).
* BambooTechnology: pretty much the main thing that makes ''TheFlintstones'' any different from just setting it in 1960s America, this trope provides much of the humor after the standard sitcom plots and all the silly names. Cars? Telephones? Airplanes? They had 'em. Radio? Television? The only reason they didn't have any electronics more advanced than that was because of when the show was made. If one takes the Fruity Pebbles commercials as {{canon}}, then they actually have not only computers and robots, but HumongousMecha.
** Later spinoffs and TV movies usually update the technology equivalents to match when the spinoff/movie was made. Thus the late 1970s ''The New Fred and Barney Show'' featured CB radios, 80s spinoff ''The Flintstone Kids'' featured video games, while the 90s TV movies ''I Yabba Dabba Do'' and ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby'' feature desktop computers, [=VCRs=], [=CDs=] and car alarms.
* BigDamnMovie: The first film has ambition, loyalty, betrayal, corporate intrigue, and a climactic battle upon an elaborate makeshift DeathTrap. An average episode of the TV series is basically just [[HilarityEnsues Wacky Hijinks]].
* BigFriendlyDog: Dino, even though he's not technically a dog.
* BlackBeadEyes: Some characters, especially Barney and Wilma.
* BowlingForRatings: Fred and Barney are frequently shown bowling, either by themselves or as part of an organized group.
* BrokenAesop: In [[{{Crossover}} "Samantha"]], after some ridicule, the wives are determined to prove they can handle a camping trip with Fred and Barney. They are joined by [[Series/{{Bewitched}} the secretly magical Samantha]]. The episode ends with everyone thinking Wilma and Betty outdid Fred and Barney, but as the viewers saw, Samantha cheated - using her magic to make things vastly easier for the wives than it would've been otherwise.
* BrokenStreak
* BrotherhoodOfFunnyHats: Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes.
* BumblingDad: Fred, when Pebbles was born.
* ByTheEyesOfTheBlind: Gazoo.
* CanonDiscontinuity: Dino is a pretty startling example. In his debut episode, he has a different colour, usually walks on his hind legs, and can not only talk, but can act and fast-talk people, with a vocabulary to match. At the end of the episode, he goes home with the Flintstones... and then turns into a [[AllAnimalsAreDogs dog]] with only the usual level of cartoon animal intelligence (in that he can understand the exact sentences people say and act upon them, but is never seen to be able to talk).
* CatchPhrase: "Yabba-dabba-doo!"
** In the teenage years spinoffs, Pebbles uses "Yabba-dabba-doozy!" Befitting, as her schemes usually were.
** "Wiiiiiiiilllmaaaaaaa!!!"
** (In the cereal commercials) "Barney!!!!! My Pebbles!!!!" (Followed by Barney making a lame pun based on his latest scheme)
* CelebrityIsOverrated
* TheCelebrityLie
* ChildhoodFriendRomance: If you go by historic timelines, it could be said that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm were the very first pair for this trope. Upon first meeting as babies, they were the best of friends and had many adventures as they grew up together, eventually falling in love, getting married, and having children of their own. It was even {{Lampshaded}} by [[HannaBarbera Bill and Joe]] themselves during a [[CreatorCameo cameo appearance]] at their wedding.
* CloserToEarth: Wilma is much more mature and level-headed than Fred, who borders on AdultChild.
* ConspicuouslyLightPatch
* {{Crossover}}: with ''TheJetsons'', ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'' and others.
* CosmeticallyAdvancedPrequel: ''The Flintstone Kids'' compared to the original series.
* {{Crunchtastic}}: Their aforementioned cereal. The short-lived Dino Pebbles Cereal, for instance, used "Marshmellow Dinolicious" in their ads, prompting Dino to {{glomp}} whoever said it.
* DarkerAndEdgier: The Flintstones animated movie made a few years ago called ''Flintstones on the Rocks''. Fred and Wilma's silly cartoon fighting turned into them being a genuinely unhappy married couple, and the opening scene is them fighting in a marriage counselling session.
* DeadpanSnarker: Fred and Wilma, more so on the latter.
* DietEpisode: At least one episode has Fred getting shamed into dieting.
* DoesNotWearShoes[=/=]FootFocus: Due to the prehistoric setting, the entire cast is constantly barefoot. {{Lampshaded}} in a ComicBook story in which shoes are invented, but fail to catch on.
* DoingItForTheArt: As hard as it is to imagine, the first live action movie. For starters, unless they got John Goodman to play Fred, they wouldn't have even bothered trying to make a movie.
* DoorstopBaby: Bamm-Bamm
* DreamSequence
* {{Drive-In Theater}}: Featured in the opening and closing credits.
* DrivenToSuicide: A heartbroken Barney attempted this when thinking that the Rockefellers won their court case and were free to adopt Bamm-Bamm, by roping a boulder to his torso from a bridge. Fred saved his life, but caught the boulder by accident and wound up (alive, but grumbling) in the river.
* DrunkWithPower: Fred, in the first live action movie.
* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The show did not feature its famous `Meet the Flintstones' theme song until the third season.
* MrFanservice: In ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'', one episode had them entering Bamm-Bamm in a singing competition. But he can only sing in the shower, so they solved this by having him singing while wearing a small green Speedo and soaking himself in water in front of all his classmates. Sadly it wasn't nearly as hot as it sounds though.
** Said episode was also a RecycledScript of an original series episode with Barney having a similar singing problem/solution to such.
* EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs: Because a ''Flintstones'' which only used creatures that ''lived'' during the Paleolithic wouldn't be nearly as interesting, although those kinds of animals are around as well.
* EverythingsBetterWithKangaroos: Hoppy, the "hopparoo."
* ExpositoryThemeTune: "Meet the Flintstones", beginning in the third season.
** ''"They're the modern Stone Age family..."''
* FeudingFamilies: "Bedrock Hillbillies."
* TheFilmOfTheSeries: The two {{Live Action Adaptation}}s.
* FirstNameUltimatum: See this page's quote.
* FlintstoneTheming: The TropeNamer.
* ForgottenPhlebotinum: As a baby Bamm-Bamm had super strength, but later in ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'' he never used it. It could be explained that he lost it as he grew up, except it later came back in the 1993 TV movies.
* FreakyFridayFlip: A number of times, including once where Fred and Dino swap bodies.
* TheGamblingAddict: Fred is a compulsive gambler. Simply mentioning the word "bet" around him will cause him to get a crazy look in his eyes and start repeating the word over and over in a loud voice:
-->'''Fred''': Bet...bet...bet! BEEETTTTT! BET-BET-BET-BET-BET-BET-BET!!!!!
* GentleGiant: Fred, at his best.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Betty apparently kept her pledge paddle, when asked what it was used for she simply took a big swing and said "Whacko"....make of that what you will.
* GilliganCut
* GodForADay: Well more like "Boss For A Day" when Fred is envious of his boss and the Great Gazoo turns him into a boss. He finds that it's actually a burden, since he has to deal with higher-ups, stay late in meetings, etc.
* {{Google}}: The series was honored with a Google doodle on its 50th Anniversary.
* GravityIsAHarshMistress
* GreatGazoo: TropeNamer.
* HairReboot: In the episode featuring [[FlintstoneTheming Stony Curtis]], when Wilma quickly gets herself cleaned up to meet the celebrity, four quick strokes of her brush are all that is needed to bring her hair to its usual style.
* HappilyAdopted: Bamm-Bamm is notable for being one of the first examples on a cartoon.
* HappilyMarried
* NotSoImaginaryFriend: The Great Gazoo is only visible to Fred and usually Barney.
* HaveAGayOldTime: TropeNamer.
* HeWhoMustNotBeSeen: The alien who created 10 clones of Fred.
* HeyItsThatVoice: Comedienne Mitzi McCall (who with husband Charlie Brill were game show staples of the 70s) voiced Penny on ''The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show.'' Mitzi and Charlie had the bad fortune to be the act following TheBeatles on the Ed Sullivan Show on February 9, 1964 (the boys' first appearance on American TV).
* HoldYourHippogriffs: The premise of the whole show is to displace modern stories into a prehistoric setting, so language was obvious to follow.
* HorseOfADifferentColour: Dino is just like a dog, except he's a sauropod dinosaur; Hoppy is a kangaroo-like "hopparoo".
** Dino's official species is apparently "snorkasaurus".
* {{Housewife}}
* IdenticalStranger: Fred's lookalikes J.L. Gotrocks (in "The Tycoon") and Rock Slag (in ''The Man Called Flintstone'' movie). Not to mention his robot doppelgangers in "Ten Little Flinstones".
* IncessantChorus: The end of "The Hot Piano" involves Barney and a troupe of policemen who keep singing "Happy Anniversary" to Fred and Wilma, much to Fred's annoyance.
* IncessantMusicMadness: Fred and Wilma find the perfect maid/cook, and everybody's happy--except that Fred keeps singing (badly) an inane song he made up. The hired help finally quits.
-->'''Fred:''' Oh, Lola Brigada/Your food I dig-ada!
* InexplicablyAwesome: It's never explained why Bamm-Bamm has super strength.
** Possibly a sendup of the sort of people who coo over babies and find their every smelly fart to be evidence of what an exceptional child they have on their hands. "Oooh, look at him grip my finger! Feel how strong he is!" Well, this kid really is.
* InkSuitActor: James Darren, Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Montgomery and Dick York gave voice to their cartoon likenesses on the show.
* InstrumentalThemeTune: [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoQYeT8om5E "Rise and Shine"]], used in the first two seasons.
* InvisibleToNormals: Gazoo is invisible to everyone but Fred and Barney, and later, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.
* IntellectualAnimal: Dino, in his debut episode. He reverts to a standardly intelligent non-talking cartoon animal in the next episode he features in and stays that way.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: No matter the series, movie or special, Fred always falls into this trope.
* JumpingOutOfACake: In "Frantic City", the cake at the Water Buffalos' convention was supposed to have showgirls inside. It had their angry wives instead, rolling pins in hand.
** The "I Yabba Dabba Do" special [[PlayingWithATrope played with this]] when the woman supposed to jump out of the cake at Bamm-Bamm's bachelor party walked out because she wanted more money. This leads to Barney being forced to substitute.
* KangarooPouchRide
* KnifeThrowingAct: "Dial S for Suspicion."
* LastDayToLive: This was the plot of the prime-time special "Fred's Final Fling".
* LastMinuteBabyNaming: Pebbles doesn't get named until she's born. Ditto for her own children Chip and Roxy.
* LaughTrack: Notably edited out in the syndicated airings on {{Boomerang}}.
* LimitedWardrobe
* ManInAKilt: Pretty much every male character wears a prehistoric man-kilt.
* MeaningfulName: In TheMovie, the character of Sharon Stone was so named because the Producers had hoped to get the actress SharonStone to play her (they ended up with HalleBerry instead). Which becomes HilariousInHindsight when you consider that in the 2004 Catwoman movie, Halle Berry's Catwoman fights a villain played by Sharon Stone.
* MelBlanc: Barney was possibly Blanc's first major non-''LooneyTunes'' role since giving up his role as the voice of ''WoodyWoodpecker''.
* MetronomicManMashing: Bamm Bamm BAM-BAM-BAM!
* MistakenForDying
* MotionlessChin
* TheMovie: ''The Man Called Flintstone''.
* MythologyGag: In the live-action movie, Fred is mistakenly named as "Flagstone" a couple times. ''The Flagstones'' was the original planned name for the series.
** It was changed to "Flintstones" because there was a comic strip called ''Hi And Lois'' (co-drawn by Mort Walker) whose family was named the Flagstons.
** It has been said that Bamm-Bamm was inspired from Ubble-Ubble, the cave boy in the [[TheRuffAndReddyShow Ruff & Reddy]] story arc "The Chickosaurus Caper."
* NiceKitty: Subverted: Barney sees a Bantydactyl and cheerfully says "Here, pussy pussy" to it until it cheerfully opens its mouth and grabs him leaving only his feet exposed.
* NeverMyFault: In "The Astra' Nuts" Fred and Barney go to get their physical, but Betty gives the wrong address and they end up accidentally enlisting in the army. Of course Wilma and Betty blame them for "bollixing" it up.
* NeverSleepAgain: In one episode, Wilma, Betty and Barney are led to [[spoiler:(falsely)]] believe Fred has an ailment that will kill him if he falls asleep. Also, he must not be informed of this or he'll die too. The gang uses increasingly creative methods to keep Fred awake.
* NoAccountingForTaste: Fred isn't [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a bad person]] [[GentleGiant per se]], but he's not putting as much effort into the marriage as Wilma, who is often forced to suffer his tantrums and schemes. Subverted in one of the movies, though, where Fred had to struggle to get Wilma's favor back after a fight during a holiday trip.
* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: With all the rock-based playing on celebrity names, ''The Flintstones'' almost deserves to be the [[TropeNamer Trope Namer.]]
* NoIndoorVoice: Fred is frequently guilty of this.
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: [[spoiler:The Green Goose and his henchmen, as Fred and Barney trapped them inside the doomsday missile/rocket, which is launched into space, that Fred set it to. The screen fades to black just as the rocket is about to ascend into space.]]
* ObnoxiousInLaws: Wilma's Mother.
* OldShame[=/=]ValuesDissonance: There were commercials for [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c Winston cigarettes]] promoted by the Flintstones.
* OnOneCondition
* [[TheOnlyOne The Only Ones]]: Fred and Barney in ''The Man Called Flintstone'', when Rock Slag and the Chief were incapacitated, and their double agent XXX is really [[spoiler: The Green Goose]].
* OpenMouthInsertFoot: Fred. Literally and frequently.
* TheOtherDarrin: Hanna-Barbera voice actor DawsButler replaced MelBlanc as Barney Rubble for a few episodes in 1961 while Blanc was hospitalized following a near-fatal car accident. (The HannaBarbera publicity department, however, did not acknowledge this, and Blanc was still listed in the closing credits.)
** In addition, Gerry Johnson replaced Bea Benaderet as Betty Rubble in the show's fifth and sixth seasons when Benaderet left to concentrate on her role as Kate Bradley on ''Series/PetticoatJunction''. Johnson died soon after ''The Flintstones'" ended its ABC run and would be replaced in 1971 by Gay Hartwig.
** Alan Reed lent his voice to Fred for the final time in the debut episode of [[LaffALympics Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics]]. He died soon after and would be replaced by Henry Corden.
* OverprotectiveDad: Fred, in regard to Pebbles.
* PantyShot: Pebbles in a couple of viewer participation segments of the NBC ''Flintstone Comedy Hour.''
** Wilma had a panty shot in a one-page comic in an issue of ScoobyDoo (Archie series). She's wearing a fancy new dress that subsequently gets eaten by moths.
* PinkGirlBlueBoy: Roxy and Chip from ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby''.
* PrettyInMink: Fred is having some sort of problem, making him almost completely lethargic. Wilma buys an expensive fur coat of "genuine Siberian mammoth", knowing the cost will make Fred freak out. That and their clothes are most likely all animal skins.
* PunnyName: Pretty much every character or locale on the show has one, based on some variant of "rock" or "stone." Also, "Barney Rubble" (nearly always shortened to "barney") was Cockney rhyming-slang for "trouble" long before movies were invented.
** The Spanish dub version changed everyone's names for no apparent reason, but still followed this trope. The Flintstones (who should have been called Los Pedernales) were instead called Los Picapiedra (the Stonecutters). Made even stranger because occasional characters with the last name Pedernal DID appear in this version!
** TheFilmOfTheSeries would have lampshaded this - the producers wanted actress SharonStone to play character Sharon Stone (the role ultimately went to HalleBerry).
** The original Hungarian dubs also renamed almost all of the characters (most famously Fred Flintstone & Barny Rubble to Kovakövi Frédi & Kavicsi Béni, and Wilma & Betty to Vilma & Irma, in keeping with the rhyming-theme the dub had going on), but the dubs of later spin-offs and movies restored the original English Flintstone surname. Could get confusing, since there were at least three kind of dubs, with wholly different voice-casts.
** A RobotChicken sketch parodied the phenomenon when a deliveryman rattles off a long, awkward URL mishmashing Amazon.com and at least three shoehorned rock puns. Fred looks at him for a minute and he says, "Look, not all of these rock puns are easy."
* PurelyAestheticEra
** The show is a ReTool of a concept for an animated version of TheHoneymooners. Not TheHoneymooners with any sort of gimmick, just vanilla TheHoneymooners.
* PygmalionSnapBack: When Wilma and Betty changed Fred and Barney.
* RecycledInSpace: ''TheHoneymooners'' in the stone age.
* ReplacedTheThemeTune: They used an orchestral theme (and completely different opening sequence) early on before switching to the iconic "Flintstones, meet the Flintstones..."
** That first theme sounded eerily like "This Is It," the theme to ''The BugsBunny Show'', which premiered the same season on ABC.
* ResetButton
* RhymesOnADime: The entire Hungarian dub is in rhyming prose. Often considered a {{Woolseyism}}.
* RightHandAttackDog: The Green Goose and his pet sabre-tooth tiger Ferocious in ''The Man Called Flintstone''.
* {{Schemer}}: Both Fred and teenage Pebbles.
* SchizoTech
* ScoutOut: one episode features the Cave Scouts who all decided to go camping in the same valley that Fred and Barney decided to go camping in.
* ShowWithinAShow: Several; none particularly important or prominent -- just parodies of then-current shows. ''[[CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]]'' comes to mind , in ''Flintstone Kids''.
* SincerestFormOfFlattery: HannaBarbera openly admit that this show was inspired by ''TheHoneymooners''.
** Jackie Gleason, who starred in ''The Honeymooners,'' thought the resemblance was too close for comfort so he [[YouWannaGetSued filed a plagiarism suit]] against Hanna-Barbera.
* SleepingSingle: The early seasons; although the show was the first ''animated'' show to portray a married couple sharing a bed later on.
* SomewhereAPaleontologistIsCrying: Dinosaurs may or may not have coexisted with humans: one POV says that mammals that existed up through the Cretaceous were small and rodent-like. Of course, that [[MST3KMantra hardly matters]].
* SoundEffectBleep
* SpecialGuest: Several.
* {{Spinoff}}: Several.
** SpinoffBabies: ''The Flintstones Kids'', the largely forgotten ''Cave Kids''
** SpinOffspring: ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show''.
* TheSponsor: Fred Flintstone once joined Eaters Anonymous, and his sponsor would grab whatever food Fred got a hold on while giving the group's secret call, "Gobble, gobble, gobble!"
* SpringtimeForHitler
* SpySpeak
* [[{{Steampunk}} Stonepunk]]: You can't miss this, it's all over the place.
* TheThemeParkVersion: It's [[TheFifties early-1960s suburban America]] transposed into the Stone Age, with [[EverythingsBetterWithDinosaurs dinosaurs]].
* ThickLineAnimation: The early episodes when the animation drawings were hand-inked on cels. Later on they switched to xerox and the line art got thinner.
* TimeMachine: Besides ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones'', a season 5 episode of the original series has the Flintstones and Rubbles stepping into one of these at the Bedrock World's Fair and traveling to the future to encounter several {{Historical Domain Character}}s (including [[TheRomanEmpire Emperor Nero]], KingArthur, ChristopherColumbus, and BenjaminFranklin) before ending up at the ''New York'' World's Fair of 1964!
* TitleSequenceReplacement: The original TitleSequence was rarely seen until recently.
* TitleThemeTune
* {{Tsundere}}: Wilma is a Type B, a sweet and adorable housewife who only explodes when Fred goes JerkAss.
* [[TurnOutLikeHisFather Turn Out Like Their Fathers]]: As teenagers, Pebbles is often a schemer that gets in way over her head and Bam-Bam is a loyal accomplice prone to urging caution.
* UglyGuyHotWife: Both couples.
** Except in the 1994 LiveActionAdaptation where Betty was played by Rosie O'Donnell.
** Every couple to appear on the show, really, with the exception of the second generation of the leads.
* UntoUsASonAndDaughterAreBorn: Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm eventually got married and had fraternal twins... much to the surprise of Fred and Barney who were expecting them to have only one child (Fred wanted a boy, Barney a girl).
* {{Ventriloquism}}: "Ventriloquist Barney"
* VocalEvolution: Barney has a high nasally voice in the earliest episodes.
* WatchWhereYoureGoing: Happens a few times in the series. One person is running, and literally runs into someone else because neither were paying attention.
* WhyDoYouKeepChangingJobs: Barney. By the time of some of the later shows, Barney is shown to be working alongside Fred for Mr. Slate's quarry.
* WildChild: Bamm-Bamm, in the live action film, was found with wild mastadons.
* WraparoundBackground: One of the most famous examples, and is cited whenever the technique is lampshaded.
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