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Hey have a grand old time remember as a kid watching this some and from time to time still catch an episode of this in syndication. The cartoon "The Flintstones" was colorful plus it had a catchy theme song and most segments and things that the characters did was just downright funny and outrageous. As it was a mix of two modern day stone age families the flintstones and rubbles lead by Fred and Barney respectively. And they would try to do modern things in the stone age! The laughs and animals featured were funny as this cartoon is still remembered even as new generations discover it. So watch it and have a grand old time!

"The Flintstones" is a classic cartoon. As a kid I had no idea that the show had been off the air for twenty years before I began watching it. I couldn't get enough of the exploits of Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, and later, Bamm-Bamm. They made prehistoric times look like real fun. It seems that all you needed was a little ingenuity and you could have everything that we had in the '80s.

Later I found out that Fred Flintstone (voiced by Alan Reed) was a bit of a mimicry of Jackie Gleason in "The Honeymooners." None of that was relevant to me as I watched Hanna-Barbera Productions classics such as "The Flintstones," "The Jetsons," and "Scooby-Doo."

A lot of people don't remember that The Flintstones was the first prime time cartoon series, and what a success it was.

I think the fact that it was written for prime time, with writing meant to appeal to old and young alike, is why the series holds up so well into these times. Of course, it was also based on the solid foundation of copying The Honeymooners, and that didn't hurt either.

I learned a lot of lessons from the Flintstones. I don't have misunderstandings with my friends, and I don't sneak out to do things my wife doesn't know about. LOL I also buy dogs that are too small to knock me down when I get home.

Almost every story is a little morality play with a lesson, large or small learned. Fred is obviously not a character to pattern your life after, and this is another important lesson.

Lessons aside, the shows are uniformly amusing, and the clever turns of names into stone age words, and modern conveniences into useful animals, is always clever and will bring chuckles when first you see them.

"The Flintstones" was so dead-on satirical in its view of a prehistoric suburban world that I don't really understand it when people tell me they liked "The Jetsons" better. There's nobody I can relate to on "The Jetsons", no character who exudes any warmth or wit. The characters here (Fred, Barney, Wilma, Betty, Dino, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, Mr. Slate, Mrs. Slaghoople, etc.) have expressions and personalities which are instantly recognizable to an audience. They're a very funny bunch, and they often find each other greatly amusing as well (each character has a sense of humor--and their friendships really do seem like a bond). I don't know why the Hanna-Barbera team weren't able to duplicate the quality of this show in terms of its writing and voice-casting (perhaps it was all a fluke?), but "The Flintstones" has it all: great writing and voices which bring one-dimensional drawings to life, terrific plots, fantastic music by Hoyt Curtin. Not a kiddie show...not a sitcom...not a child-pacifier. "The Flintstones" is a minor miracle.

It's sad how I can only find this show on Boomerang now. I have to hurry up and purchase the DVD before there is no more. I remember my mother saying that they still air the show, so there is no need to by the DVD. Now what she said is incorrect.

This show was a very great show to watch, along with the Jetsons. I remember having a fake car toy that I rode and pretend I was Fred Flintstone. This show had over 50 years of making kids love it. It's not too late. The Flintstones should air for another fifty, or hundred. There is no need to cancel it.

I recommend you to watch this show before it stops airing. It used to be one of the best shows on television.

I'm aware that it broke several tv boundaries but personally I think it's ok. The jokes are dated and in some cases offensive by today's standards but there're still some funny jokes that get a laugh. The characters don't need much of an introduction as they're well known. In fact you probably know them due to Fruity or Cocoa Pebbles. I don't have much to say other than if you like old cartoons give this one a go.

I don't care how much flack I'm going to get for this, but I'm 44 years old, and I STILL think this is the best TV show of all time! All through my school years it was broadcast every day on a local TV station at noon, and at noon every kid in town would run home, gobble down their lunches, and watch. I must have seen every episode at least 100 times, if not more. And long after I got out of school I continued the ritual. If anything, I appreciate it more now that I'm older. There was so much that resonated. The chemistry between Fred and Barney couldn't be beat. Best friends through thick and thin. Even tho they'd drive each other crazy at times, when the chips were down they'd walk thru fire for each other. I could give a million reasons why I love this show. This show is one of my happiest childhood memories, and I know I'll NEVER tire of it. Thank you Hanna and Barbera.

For me - TV's "The Flintstones" is one of those 2-D animated series from the early 1960s that was only marginally entertaining, at best.

Yes. There was some very cute and clever thought put into the stone-age setting of the town of Bedrock. But, unfortunately, the unwelcome element of family soap opera crept into way too many of the episodes more often than I could honestly appreciate.

(*Trivia Note*) - "The Flintstones" was one of the most successful animated TV series to run during prime-time broadcasting.

I grew up on shows like Scooby Doo and Tom Jerry and this is no exception. I love the Flintstones:- it is funny and incredibly smart, and at 17 I can still watch it and there is very seldom a dull moment. What makes it great? Well, the detailed and colourful animation contributes hugely. Also the theme tune, has to be one of the most catchy theme tunes on any animated TV show. Then there's the humour, the whole show is constantly funny and is guaranteed to have you chuckling away. Finally we have the characters. Fred is one zany cartoon, and Alan Reed was the perfect choice for him. Another hilarious character, perhaps even more so than Fred is Barney, who is quite goofy yet completely lovable. Who'd better to voice him than the immortal Mel Blanc? Then we have Wilma, who is a great sexy female character and wonderfully voiced by Jean Vader Pyl. Plus the voluptuous Betty, voiced to perfection by Bea Benaderet. The writing constantly is incredibly witty, sharp and smart, the story lines are outstanding and the supporting characters namely the hilarious Mr Slate and cute as a button Pearl are just as great. All in all, I loved this when I was a kid, and as a near-adult I still love it. Adults will enjoy it as well as kids. 10/10 Bethany Cox

The Flintstones is a show that depicts life during the Stone Age. The show focuses around one family, the Flintstones. Fred is the husband that works at a quarry, Wilma is his wife, who is a homemaker. Dino, their dinosaur pet, and Pebbles, the Flintstone baby that was added during the series. Their neighbors were the Rubbles: Barney, Fred's friend that works at the quarry with him, Betty, Wilma's friend and Barney's wife, and Bamm-Bamm, their strong son that the Rubbles adopted.

This was one of the best shows and it still is. It was really funny, especially the way they use animals as devices like vacuum cleaner, garbage disposal, etc. It had a great plot, great characters and voice actors, and it is original. This show is a classic, too. Overall, a classic superb show.This was one of my favorite shows when I was a kid, I used to watch it all the time, then later when I discovered Cartoon Network, I got to watch it more often, but now I watch it on Boomerang and on DVD.

Each season offered something special and I know of this series having so many specials and movies that I can't keep track. While the animation on the show was not too impressive, the animation on the specials and movies was great. But sometimes it is simple animation to make a great show, I don't think I would like this show as much if it had better animation in place of the animation it had when it was made, One episode that confuses me however is the episode "The Snorkasaurus Hunter" While it explains how Dino came, he was really smart in that one and spoke, I wish I knew why that changed but oh well.

I like many of the episodes that feature mainly Fred and Barney together because for me it had the most laughs.

I loved every episode, every special, and every movie of this great series from the sixties and hope some day they all come out on DVD so I can have the whole bunch. And even after all that, The Flintstones have continued to go on with their popular cereal commercials "Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles" with while about 30 seconds, some nice laughs.

I would recommend this show to many kids and many adults who love humor and a spin on a interesting vision of the past, It makes you think if the Stone Age really was modern, how life would be for you back then.

After the amazing series put forth by Disney, Warner Brothers and even Hanna-Barbera (mainly for Tom and Jerry) which revolutionized the cartoon industry, mainstream cartoons for the most part took a huge step backwards. The Flinstones is one of the earliest cartoons which showcased this very clearly.

You know what's the best thing about cartoons? They can be funny, hilarious, unpredictable wacky or whatever you want to call them. They can defy a lot of real life rules much easier than in movies. That's what makes cartoons so great. No matter how advanced technology gets and no matter how sophisticated film making gets, cartoons will always have the upper hand in terms of making the impossible possible. When cartoons started a whole new world of possibilities opened which was experimented with very finely on classics like Tom And Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse etc. However, when the 20th century was more than halfway over, cartoons like this one came into existence and basically stripped away all that made cartoons fun to watch.

I do commend the cartoon for trying something different. Depicting a stone age family living modernly (well, for the 60s anyway) was something that caught the eyes of many viewers. But other than that, there's nothing redeemable about this highly praised cartoon. The jokes are very very bland, the laugh track just makes them more annoying, the advantage the creators had as they were making a cartoon and not a sitcom, has not been utilized much at all. The characters are just boring. The animation is very lazy compared to the cartoons of the 40s, even compared to some cartoons from the 20s. The story is insanely predictable and I repeat, the cartoon is not funny in any way, shape or form. Though some of the jokes involving usage of dinosaurs and other old animals are *kind* of amusing, even they are not presented in a fashion that could actually be humorous. Oh, and the 'catchphrases' are just dumb.

You'd think the creators would've learned something from the past cartoons from the classic 40s era and would've tried to analyze what works and what doesn't. Instead they made a pile of drivel which made some of the oldest Warner Bros. shorts seem like masterpieces. This is also one of the cartoons which bred the coming of similar atrocities in the 60s and 70s e.g The Jetsons, Yogi Bear, Scooby Doo (though it had some potential), 60s Tom and Jerry, Top Cat, Hair Bear Bunch etc. Mainstream cartoons did not progress at all after this avalanche till the early 90s.

In the end all I shall say is .... Yabba Dabba snoooooooore.....

This is definitely the show that put Hanna-Barbera studios on the map. After years of producing primarily cartoons for children (Yogi Bear, Huckleberry Hound et ala.), this really became the first cartoon show that was geared for adults, though there still is enough to keep children interested. Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty are all people everyone can relate to even though the show is set in the stone age. And even though I feel that in most cases the introduction of cute kids ruins a show, the introduction of Pebbles and Bamm Bamm helped to show that beneath his gruff exterior Fred was a big teddy bear. However, I do agree that when Gazoo was introduced was when the show's quality began to go down hill. Thankfully, he was never included in any of the subsequent incarnations of the "modern stone age family".

After the original series left the air in 1966, there have been a lot of inferior remakes and adulterations in other venues. Nothing compares with the original. People have compared this to the Honeymooners. Not so. The Honeymooners was a simple situation comedy. Except for the early episodes, Fred and Wilma didn't bicker much. The show was busy making subtle and not so subtle satiric points.

In one episode, they poked fun of ratings, unrealistic TV shows, placement of station breaks and people who live vicariously through television.

In, the Beauty Contest, Fred and Barney waxed nostalgic over when they were single and longed to hear a woman's voice. Later, there were many hilarious exchanges. The show didn't give you what you expected. Sometimes an overdone point was hysterically funny. Betty: I don't feel like watching television. Barney: But you HAVE to watch television, Betty. Some lines of dialogue are for the ages BARNEY: Did you ever start up a gangplank and have a sudden feeling there was no ship?

Among stellar characters, we must mention Verna Felton's portrayal of Wilma's mother. She was the worst mother-in-law in the world. (I must point out that Wilma's maiden name is Pebble. Later writers forgot that and gave her the name Slaghoople. Thus are errors perpetuated.) At turns the show could be warm, mature, serious, poignant and hysterically funny because of the subtlety with which certain things were done. Every week was an incredible adventure. I was there when it began. It was my favorite show then. It still is.

I should also mention the great Alan Reed, the quintessential everyman, incomparable Mel Blanc and real life best friends Jean Vander Pyl and Bea Benaderet playing best friends and wives Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble.

I could mention Paula Winslowe's portrayal of Greta Gravel in an episode with an important message about marriage. I'm sure you get the picture. I could go on and on, but I won't.

I watched reruns of The Flintstones on Boomerang when I was younger and still watch it once in a while, and I got to admit that it's one of many timeless Hanna Barbera classics that I grew up with! I also like Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles, and Flintstones vitamins.

I made an informative speech on Hanna Barbera in my speech class in high school. While I was doing research to come up with what to say, I learned a few new things, such as The Flintstones changed cartoons forever in some ways. It was the first prime time cartoon, the first animated sitcom, and the longest running cartoon before The Simpsons, which happens to be the longest running cartoon now.

The premise is one of the best things about the show and like nothing else I've seen before. The Flintstones are the first modern stone age family, as mentioned in the theme song. The cars are powered by the drivers' feet instead of real-life car components, the caves are basically prehistoric houses, dinosaurs are basically prehistoric dogs, saber tooth tigers are cats, dodo birds are fire alarms, wooly mammoths' noses are vacuums, etc. These aspects give the show a strong prehistoric feeling yet make it somewhat modern and human. They also make it dead-on satirical and give a good idea of what the prototypes of various items that didn't exist during the prehistoric times (TVs, cars, cameras, etc.) were like.

The characters (Fred, Wilma, Barney, Betty, Dino, Pebbles, Bam Bam, Mr. Slate, etc.) have expressions and recognizable personalities. They're a funny bunch, and they often find each other greatly amusing and feel like an actual family. My favorite character is Fred. He is a loving husband and father, but he's short-tempered, which I can relate to at times. Like Donald Duck, his yelling is incredibly hilarious to listen to rather than being annoying or dull-witted. Even though he can come off as a jerk sometimes, he cares about his friends deep down. I especially love his catchphrase, "Yabba Dabba Doo!"

It's obvious that The Flintstones was meant to appeal to the young and old alike, and it really does! The show is amusing, and the turns of names into stone age words and modern conveniences into prehistoric animals are clever and sometimes funny! This really is one of the most enduring cartoons of all time!

This is a great animation series for all viewers to watch and enjoy. The crew did an alright job in creating this animation series. The storyline of the series might have been simple but it worked. The cast selection was alright. They brilliantly committed to the storyline all the way throughout the series. This animation series reveals to viewers a glimpse of what history was like for the world. History has the power to help everyone look and prepare for the future. If everyone works together as a team. It is a possibility that the world of today can become a better and safe place. This is a fine animation series for everyone to watch.

There were two major turning points in "The Flintstones" six-year run. The first was the introduction of the characters of Pebbles (at the end of Season 3) and Bamm-Bamm (beginning of Season 4). The second was when the wonderful Bea Benaderet left the show at the end of Season 4. She made the character of Betty Rubble a real person and not just "the second wife". Her replacement for the last 2 seasons was not in the same league. But, getting back to the first change. Part of what made the show special was the notion of an animated sit-com with scripts geared for adults. Episodes involving suspicion of infidelity and Fred's gambling addiction show that children were not the target audience. After the introduction of the children the show changed. There were still great episodes (my favorite "A Haunted House is Not a Home" is from Season 5) but also episodes made to appeal to children. (Episodes such as "Superstone" and "Dripper" are almost unwatchable to anyone over 12.) And when you start introducing characters based on other sit-coms (The Hatrocks, The Gruesoms) it's a sign you're running out of ideas. Still, during the first 3 seasons nearly every episode was wonderful. One thing I love to listen for--when the four lead voice actors appear doing "additional voices". Alan Reed did it occassionally. The other three in nearly every episode. Trying to spot them is fun. BTW Wilma's Mother didn't have a name during her early appearances. It's only in Season 4 that we hear Betty call her "Mrs. Slaghoople". Where they got the name "Pearl" I don't know as she's never called that.

The original sitcom! It might not have been the first, but it definitely created most of the tropes associated with the genre nowadays. The Simpsons, American Dad, Family Guy, the Goldbergs, and Family Ties, among many many others, owe a lot to the Flintstones.

The science of History, not so much, however. One of the most original concepts of the show was exactly the defiance of historic facts: mankind and dinosaurs coexisting; modern scientific inventions in the remote past; etc.

A blast of a show that, hopefully, no one mistook for anything more than sheer fun!

Blow-hard. Obnoxious. Putz. These are just a few adjectives that accurately describe the protagonist of this sit-"com". The "com" being in quotations because the comedic value of this show is little to none.

The animation is just basic, and that is being kind. Looping backgrounds and characters with their heads on backwards abound. Cavemen? I think not! They are rubber-necks!

Back to the simpleton that is the main character... Fred Flintstone is the personification of all that is wrong with boomers. Loud-mouth, know-it-all and brashly strutting around proudly in his ignorance. With this being the mentality that boomers find so funny and entertaining, is it any wonder the world is in such a poor state today?

One only needs to watch a single episode to see how terrible it is. Jokes don't land, so they need to add a laugh track to point them out. Simply a cover for any imbecile that chooses to watch this drivel.

Would give 0/10 if possible. Do not watch this show or your IQ will be reduced to that of a brontosaurus burger after passing through Fred's colon.

THE FLINTSTONES hold a special place in my memory, as I'm sure they do for many people the world over. The series started in Britain in 1960, the year I had my very first job - babysitting for a neighbor. I was just 15. The two kids were total brats, screaming, spoilt, mashed potato slam-dunked over the wallpaper...but I didn't care, I was watching Fred and Barney live out there lives of near-perfection in a world that was starting to move away from near perfection! "Yabba Dabba Doo" must surely be one of the most recognizable cries on earth - WHO would not know its origins from 4 to 90?

The success of this animated icon probably lies in the simplicity of the Flintstone and Rubble clans. Everyone on this planet is part Fred, Barney, Betty or Wilmer at some time in their lives. Events depicted in each and every episode were things that everyone can, did (and will continue) to identify with. They are Mr and Mrs Average and if we all lived our lives and never achieved anything more than the Flintstones we could justifiably be happy. The show supported family values, decency, togetherness, love, friendship, clean living, laughter and it was environmentally aware, socially responsible and able STILL to reach children.

The lives of everyone in the Western World would have been that much poorer had it not been for THE FLINTSTONES. I can't say as much for the two appalling movie spin-offs!

The Flintstones was the cartoon to begin all cartoons. Head of Household (or so he thought) Fred Flintsone, his wife Wilma (what a woman's libber for the stone age!), their child Pebbles...and their very close neighbors and friends Barney (Fred's hanging buddy and partner in crime), Betty (Wilma's partner in crime!)and adopted son Bam-Bam (what a concept!), the dead end job with the egotistical boss (Mr. Slate...of late!)all set back in the 'stone age'...which I always thought was a personal Hanna Barbera joke due to many of Fred's views and the things that went on around his life...well, this cartoon is the grand-daddy of all cartoons.

As I remember correctly, The Flintstones was patterned after the live show "The Honeymooners". But a cartoon...can do more than human actors can! And in watching the Flintstones, it was imagination beyond belief - Stone Aged Dinosaurs tamed and used as building machinery, pelicans used to mix concrete, Fred smacking Barney so many times he should be in a hospital, cars run by foot power and also your feet as the breaks against the hard stone ground...OF COURSE THIS IS NOT REAL LIFE! It's cartoons, humor...fun. Remember that?

Loved this cartoon to death...what long lasting images, staying power and I can watch it 1,000,000 and not tire of it. Consequently, I can watch it 1,000,000 times and not develop a violent streak in my body either. (The Flintstone was also one of the first cartoons to be placed on the "violent cartoons" list...and now the smoking and drinking lists as well.) It's a piece of childhood (and now adult) fantasy...nostalgic...loads of fun and quite a look back at the foundation that runs through many cartoons today. Remember: Copying is the best form of flattery..and The Flintsones have been flattered...a lot.