Ernie101 said:
The Flintstones and the Jetsons are two of the best cartoons ever. However, I rank the flintstones just above the Jetsons.
I agree with Ernie's sentiment here. Loved them both, and liked other Hanna Barbera cartoons like Yogi and Huckleberry. But The Flintstones is clearly the best of them all and one of the best shows ever on television. Six years of many memorable, hilarious episodes. The writing was great, the pre-historic things like a bird being a record player were enormously creative, and the voices for the characters were outstanding (sometimes Fred and Barney seemed so real it's easy to forget they're just cartoons!). And the opening and closing theme songs were great too. Just a great show that I had to watch every time it came on when I was a kid, and it will always have a very special place in my heart.
YeeeeeYABBA DABBA DOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Some great episodes:
(1) Barney is invisible
(2) Barney's dentist gives him a gas to put him asleep that causes him to float up to the sky
(3) Peek-a-boo camera
(4) Ten Flintstones from another planet (Yubba Dubba Doo!)
(5) Fred and Barney get a bowling ball glued together to their hands (Fred sings a lullaby to Barney at night in one scene and a cat on the outside fence says, "Oh brother, and they throw shoes at me.")
(6) Wilma goes into labor with Pebbles (Fred freaks out. He calls the doctor: "This is Fred Hospital, I'm taking my wife to the Flintstone!")
(7) After Pebbles is born, Fred tries to take care of Wilma and Pebbles and all the housework with no nurse or relatives to help. Very funny show.
(8) Fred dresses up like a woman so he can get in a baseball game for free with Barney on "Ladies Day".
(9) The bathtub quartet ("Soft soap is the soap to use. Soft soap. Soft soap. Good for babies and brontosaurus too. It prevents embarrassment. Soft soap in your bathtub. Use a great big hunk. Better buy some soft soap quick. Before they call you skunk.")
(10) Fred as Superstone (parody of Superman) "Beh heh he hee haw!"
Loved "The Flintstones"!
Let's close with this song:
If you think you're sweetie's left for Tahiti. We can give you a clue. There's no need for cryin', roar like a lion - Yabba Dabba Dabba Dabba Doo.
B A D D A means bad. D A B B A means good. Oh what magic in the words we find by switching the letters around.
Soooo if some day the bases are loaded, and they're countin' on you.
You just can't strike out, youv'e got to shout - Yabba Dabba Dabba! Yabba Dabba Dabba! Yabba Dabba Dabba Dabba Doo!
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