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I'm wondering if any of you are Flintstones fans? I watched that show religiously on TBS growing up. I remember it was on right after Tom and Jerry's Superstation funhouse, which was later changed to Tom and Jerry's TBS fun house, and even later changed to simply "Tom and Jerry's Funhouse" It was a half hour long and usually shown a Bugs Bunny cartoon, a Tom and Jerry cartoon, and a Popeye cartoon. After that was the Flintstones once at 3:35pm and again at 4:05pm. I loved the Flintstones a lot. I liked the Pebbles and Bamm Bamm episodes a little better, but the older ones from the first few years were good too. Something about TBS in the early days they used to always cut off part of the closing theme. I remember it would end in a different spot each time. Sometimes really early in the theme just as they were pulling up through the drivethru, and other times at the end just as Fred was being put out. I watched the show for a whole year before I finally heard Fred yell "Wilma!" I always wondered how that closing actually ended. Anyways I remember in the fall of 1992 all that cutting stuff stopped and they usually showed the full ending. I remember they also got new versions of their episodes because they were edited in different ways. The original versions TBS had had pretty poor picture quality, making things look really dark and faded in some scenes. They were also edited in a less consistent way back then. They would sometimes edit out the beggining scene of an episode and start it out someplace else like the second scene or halfway into the first scene. You could always tell, because rather than fade onto the screen after they zoomed into the drive in movie screen at the begging, it would go to black then the picture wouldn't suddently come on, with no fading. Also if you were really smart you'd be able to tell that's not where the episode originally began, because it just seemed really weird at how the shows would start out. Well they originally cut out whole big scenes (usually the beggining) this would create confusion sometimes. Like in the episode when Fred wants him and Barney to play hooky from work so they can see a Baseball game and the plan Backfires when Barney says tells his boss he's really sick and his Boss sends puts him in the Hospital. There is a scene that was cut from the original TBS version when Fred disguises himself as a doctor and Operates on Barney and all he does is take a pair of pliers and tugs on Barney's nose. After this everyone asks him how he's doing and he says "I'm fine, but my nose is killing me" this nose refference makes no sense when you didn't see the part with Fred doing the fake operation. Anyways, later on when they got the new versions of the shows, they often edited out little lines and small scenes here and there, rather than whole big scenes. Eventaully my cable provider started carrying Cartoon Network, and the episodes shown on there were complete with everything. TBS eventually got rid of The Flinstones in the fall of 1998. Probably because the uncut Cartoon Network episodes were becomming more popular. Anyways just a few years ago Cartoon Network got rid of The Flinstones. Does anyone know if The Flinstones can be seen anywhere's else? Also who else here is a Flinstones fan? And who remembers when they were on TBS back in the day?
