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REEL LIFE / FILM & VIDEO FILE : Music Helped ‘Flintstones’ on Way to Fame : In 1960, Hoyt Curtin created the lively theme for the Stone Age family. The show’s producers say it may be the ...
- Originally, The Flintstones Were The Flagstones.
- Barney and Fred Were Drawn to Resemble Cave people.
- Alan Reed Invented “Yabba Dabba Doo.”
- The Flintstones Didn’T Copy The Honeymooners.
- Hanna-Barbera Did Hire A Former Honeymooners Writer For The Flintstones.
- The Flintstones Helped Sell Cigarettes.
- Pebbles Was Supposed to Be A Baby Boy.
- Mel Blanc Kept Voicing Barney Despite A Horrible Car accident.
- The Voice of Wilma Thinks She and Fred “Really Loved Each other.”
- According to Harvey Korman, The Great Gazoo Is Worth Money.
Joe Barbera thought about calling the show The Gladstones, then decided on The Flagstones until he realized there was a comic strip with the same name. In 1959, they filmed a 90-second pilot. Daws Butler provided Fred’s gruff voice and June Foray played Betty. Unfortunately for her, the part eventually went to Bea Benaderet. “I was terribly disappo...
Ed Benedict was one of The Flintstones’s designers. He told Hogan’s Alleythat he sketched the characters to look like “cave people wearing long beards, with scraggly, unkempt hair and in slightly distorted, hunched-over shapes.” Barbera didn’t like the designs, so Benedict “straightened them up” and made them more “clean-cut.” “Barney, as originall...
Flintstones source WebRockOnline says the originof Fred’s iconic “Yabba dabba doo” catchphrase came from Alan Reed, who voiced Fred, and reportedly used the line during a recording session. Reed’s mother apparently used to say, “A little dab’ll do ya,” which inspired Reed. “Alan said, ‘Hey, Joe, where it says yahoo, can I say yabba-dabba-doo?’ I sa...
It’s true that Fred was based on Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners character Ralph Kramden, but Joe Barbera made him different. “So many people say, ‘Did you copy The Honeymooners?’ I said, ‘Well, if you compare The Flintstones to The Honeymooners, that’s the biggest compliment you can give me,” Barbera told Emmy TV Legends, “but The Honeymoonersdon’t ...
As Barbera relayed to Emmy TV Legends, he hired a guy who had written for The Honeymooners. “We paid him $3000 and he was terrible,” Barbera recalled. “And the reason being is, he just wrote words. It was all dialogue. He had no visual gags, no nothing. Yak, yak, yak, yak. The Honeymoonershad a lot of dialogue, but it was their expressions and [Art...
In the 1960s, Winston cigarettes sponsored The Flintstones. At the end of the show, Fred and Barney would be animated to smoke the cigarettes. In one black-and-white spot, Barney and Fred avoid yard work. “Let’s take a Winston break,” Barney says, as he and Fred light up. Wilma and Betty catch them in the act and throw yard equipment at them, and F...
In 1962, during the show’s third season, the producers decided Fred and Wilma should have a child. Barbera told Emmy TV Legends the plan was for their child to be a boy, until Ideal Toy Company (the company that created the Rubik’s Cube and Betsy Wetsy) changed his mind. One day, Barbera received a call from the guy in charge of Flintstonesmerchand...
The Man of a Thousand Voices portrayed Barney Rubble, even following a devastating head-on car collision in 1961. Blanc didn’t let a 70-day hospital stay deter him too much, and when he got out of the hospital, the cast and crew came to his home to record episodes. Blanc recounted the experience in his book, That’s Not All Folks, writing: “Tangles ...
Jean Vander Pyl supplied the voice of Wilma Flintstone from the show’s beginning to the day she died, in 1999. Though Wilma and Fred argued a lot, they did have a rock-solid relationship. “I loved the bum,” Pyl told the Los Angeles Timesin 1989. “Sure, Fred was a yahoo and I got mad at him all the time. But we really loved each other. Our romance w...
The actor provided the voice of the “superior and arrogant and elite” Great Gazoo, a green alien, for 13 episodes, from 1964 to 1966. Korman told Emmy TV Legends that he didn’t realize how popular—and lucrative—the character was until he attended conventions. “Some years back, I traveled for Hanna-Barbera,” Korman said. “They had these huge convent...
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May 2, 2024 · History of the Song. “Meet The Flintstones” was originally written for the opening credits of the 1960s animated sitcom The Flintstones. It was composed by Hoyt Curtin and performed by a studio chorus. The song became a hit, and it has since been covered and parodied by many artists.
The melody of "Meet the Flintstones" can also be heard as incidental music in some episodes of the first two seasons. Starting in Season 3, Episode 3 ("Barney the Invisible"), "Meet the Flintstones" became the opening and closing credits theme.
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"Meet the Flintstones is the iconic theme song to The Flintstones. Although the song's melody was composed as early as the show's first season, the song as most people know it would actually not be heard until "Barney the Invisible", the second episode of the show's third season; up to that...
Sep 30, 2010 · Funnyman Harvey Korman joined the cast in 1965 as the voice of The Great Gazoo. 6. In the first two seasons of The Flintstones, the opening theme was different from the theme song you remember (Meet the Flintstones). The original song, which had no lyrics, was called "Rise and Shine", and was also used for the show's closing credits. (YouTube link)
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Sep 30, 2010 · Created by genius animators Hanna-Barbera, the show presented hilarious Stone Age equivalents to the ’60s sitcom, while its iconic musical theme, “Meet The Flintstones,” has no doubt etched its...
