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Wanna drive a car? No problem, just be prepared to use your feet to get it moving, because there’s no such thing as engines or gasoline. It’s acting and personality and, obviously, the scripts too.”Īnother element that separates The Flintstones from other sitcoms is taking elements of our modern world, and giving us a prehistoric take on them. So it’s the characters and how they were brought to life and, like all great television, when we reminisce about it, it always comes down to the characters we love. With television - good television - you come away feeling like we know the characters.

In the end, it was the voice of the cast and the class of the show. “In the end, even if it was inspired by The Honeymooners, Alan Reed was still a great Alan Reed, his Fred Flintstone as unique a voice as Jackie Gleason‘s Ralph Kramden. “What made The Flintstones were the voices and the human aspects of those characters,” suggests author, pop culture historian and lecturer Arlen Schumer in an exclusive interview with Closer Weekly. Think of it as The Honeymooners, but, you know, set in the Stone Age. Set in the town of Bedrock, it deals with the guys (usually under Fred’s lead) trying one crazy scheme after another, and their wives having to pick up the pieces when it inevitably goes wrong.

#BETTY RUBBLE AND BARNEY SERIES#

One of the most beloved Classic TV series ever produced is The Flintstones, the animated sitcom - and that’s the best word for it, since it really does feel like it could have been a live-action show - that introduced audiences to Fred and Wilma Flintstone as well as their next-door neighbors Barney and Betty Rubble nearly 60 years ago.

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