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happy 50th anniversary to the modern stone age family!

to commemorate we found this bizarre commercial created back during the very first season.  winston cigarettes was the sponsor for the prehistoric sitcom back then.  there is absolutely no way this would have been remotely possible were the show to launch anytime within that last twenty or more years especially not now!

The Flintstones celebrate 50 year anniversary with a Google doodle

Yabba Dabba Doo! The Flintstones are 50 years old, and there’s a Google doodle in their honour. Which other
animated families deserve a page right out of history?

The Flintstones celebrate 50 year anniversary with a Google doodle

Yabba Dabba Doo! The Flintstones are 50 years old, and there’s a Google doodle in their honour. Which other
animated families deserve a page right out of history?

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The Flintstones Google doodle. Photograph: public domain

“Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, they’re the modern stone-age family … from the, town of Bedrock, they’re a page right out of history …”

Rarely will a Google doodle lodge an earworm quite so firmly in your head – even more rarely one that will leave you wanting to shout “Yabba Dabba Doo!” at the end while sliding down the tail of a giant red dinosaur, unless you already want to do that pretty much all the time. Which, let’s be honest, most of us do.

But, since it is the 50th anniversary of Fred and Wilma, we must tip our enormous granite hats to them – and to some the other cartoon families that we have loved subsequently in today’s round-up of great cartoon families of our time.

from the guardian in the uk

Not necessarily ‘of our time’, both in the sense that the original series ran from 1960-1966, and that it was set in the stone age. But The Flintstones and their friends the Rubbles were two families that many of us grew up watching in a block of cartoons on a Saturday morning, revelling in this family who were apparently from ancient times, but behaved exactly like people from the 1960s, which frankly seemed almost as ancient to us then.

Originally, the Flintstones was a sitcom aimed at adults, modelled on American sitcoms like The Honeymooners, the highest rated show on US television at the time. It had many of the same features as its live-action equivalents: couples bickering, sleeping in the same bed (gasp!), and dealing with mundane jobs and petty officials – all accompanied by a laugh track (though presumably not ‘filmed in front of a live studio audience’, unless they taught some pencils to guffaw at the correct points), and bookended by adverts where Fred and Barney espoused the glory of smoking a particular brand of cigarette.

The realness of the relationships and relatability of the characters was designed to appeal to a mature (or semi-mature) sensibility – an influence that can be seen in generations of cartoon families to follow: as well as in the pop-culture allusion still made today by asking: Wilma? Or Betty?

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