| Let's have a gay old time! |
|
|
Noisy_Introvert 3/3/2007 9:51 am
Last Read:
6/5/2008 8:33 pm
|
Okay, so, total apologies for tawpic cribbage from Mr X, but once I started thinking about my fave Flintstones moments, I knew this topic needed a noisy blog!
Did y'all spend your lunches as kids watching The Flintstones like I did? God I loved that show. It was the Simpsons of its day, and I would wager there are just as many catch phrases buried in the Noisy Lexicography from Fred and Barney as there are from Homer and Bart.
To name a few:
- "a judo, a chop, chop, chop!"
- "oink, oink, oink!" (remember when Fred joined F.A.?)
- "eyes as black... as fryin pans?"
- "hello, Dum Dum"
- "ack ack a dack; dack dack a ack"
- "pssst! slalom! slalom!"
Remember when Fred and Barney won a boat on a game show, and they couldn't decide what to name it, so they took the first 3 letters of Barney's choice, "Nautical Lady" and the last 3 letters of Fred's choice, "Queen of the Sea" and called the boat Nau-Sea? I mean, that shďt is timeless, blogstars! Timeless!
What are you fave Flintstones memories?
These things are lame.
|
|
2776 posts
3/3/2007 10:47 am
|
During the credits, when the sabrecat kicked Fred out.
|
|
1148 posts
3/3/2007 12:12 pm
|
I probably first realized the evil capabilities of women when Wilma and Betty hypnotized Fred and Barney into getting them fur coats.
"Yes, yes, yes"
"No, no, no"
Watch Fred bowl on his tip toes always makes me smile.
The gruesome family was good too.
Ya, lots of memories.
Kazoo.
|
|
5648 posts
3/3/2007 1:11 pm
|
el_fontanero - ha ha ha! cute.
|
|
1504 posts
3/3/2007 2:00 pm
|
My fave was when Pebbles and Bam Bam had the band, and Pebbles (as an infant, mind you!) sang that song, "Oh let the sun shine in, face it with a grin, open up your heart, something something something..." I think they also used it for a couple of episodes on the closing credits.
How I loved that song. I was a rather dark child, and this was a very happy song, written, if I recall, to get Fred out of some funk.
Speaking of gay old time, this may be TMI, but one of the first crushes of my pre-school life was on Betty. she was, after all, SUCH a Betty.
|
6576 posts
3/3/2007 2:08 pm
|
Hey Nota, I was inspired by your comment to go look for the credits on youtube. You're never gonna believe what I found! This sucker is all over youtube - The Flintstones doing an ad for Winston cigarettes! "Yeah, Barney, Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should!" checkit: /watch?v=vYfSopE2JUA
fonty, nice shortlist. I liked when Fred was bowling and his bowling ball broke into 10 smaller rocks, one for each pin.
Lotus, yes, he's cute, but what about Fred???
These things are lame.
|
|
1156 posts
3/3/2007 2:37 pm
|
Here we come on the run
with a burger and a bun....
|
|
6576 posts
3/3/2007 3:39 pm
|
OMG, msg, me and my best friend from grade 3 used to have a whole routine to that song!!!
Smilers never lose (never lose!)
And frowners never win!
So awesome. Did you ever hear about some Association for the Advancement of Bettys or some such had a prolonged campaign to include Betty in the Flintstones vitamins? Apparently the concern was that her waist was so thin that they would snap in half in the bottle. (This problem was solved for Wilma by posing her in the quintessential nag-position with hands on hips.)
X-man...
Our burgers can't be beat,
'Cause we grind our own meat,
Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind,
So much bestness.
These things are lame.
|
|
1504 posts
3/3/2007 6:05 pm
|
OH. MYGOD.
that's right! Smilers DO never lose! Frowners DO never win!
I'd FORGOTTEN!
|
|
5789 posts
3/3/2007 10:11 pm
|
I liked all the modern conveniences they had--through the use of animal technology--and the animals always complaining about it. The bird horn followed by Fred sliding down the dinosaur's back. Those cylindrical stone wheels on Fred's ride--accelerated with the obligatory feet on the ground. And the water buffalo lodge, or wherever it was they hung out and often got into trouble. Oh yeah, and Betty and Wilma yelling "Charge it" when they went shopping.
|
|
6576 posts
3/4/2007 9:19 am
|
msg, yeah, that song was basically Pebbles' crowning, perhaps only, achievement on the show. Do you remember the 70s cartoon featuring a teenaged Pebbles and Bam-Bam? I only have a vague recollection. I remember always being disappointed that it wasn't the real Flintstones.
Oh, Dharma, nice memories! The bitchy beasts of burden! Remember the polaroid prototype with the bird that pecked out the image on a stone tablet? Ow, geez! The car was the best - I remember one time the car was on the fritz for some reason and Fred and Barney had to take the bus, and they were saying what a relief it was at the end of the day to take a load off, and then the shot panned out to show all the feet of everyone on the bus, powering the vehicle.
"Charge it!" should have been on my initial list. Good catch. A classic to this day.
These things are lame.
|
|
1148 posts
3/4/2007 11:22 am
|
(blush)
Betty is totally hot, one of the hottest old style cartoons; but who was the red haired movie star? (I liked when real life sort of showed up, ie Stoney Curtis)
I am trying not to be a frowner
|
|
1504 posts
3/4/2007 1:48 pm
|
I am trying not to be a frowner
me too, El Friendo -- I think they have drugs for frowning but I'm trying to go it alone.
Noisy -- i have some vague memory of the kids' show, but i never saw it. Whoa! Did NOT know about the Society of Bettys and their very important campaign to be included in the vitamins. Man, no wonder Wilma is so much better known. Did you ever eat those vitamins? I did. They were tasty.
speaking of vitamins and TV -- AND speaking of red-headed movie stars, could we talked about LUCY??!!! I LLOOOOVVVED the VITA-VEGEMITE (or whatever it was called) show!! Remember that one?
|
|
712 posts
3/4/2007 2:38 pm
|
Oh, I'm sort of curious on the Noise's take on Harvey Birdman's "The Dabba Don." It's rather anti-PC, drawing upon The Sopranos & The Godfather, but what do you expect from Adult Swim? The Sopranos-esque title sequence, the heads of various Hanna-Barbera characters showing up in Birdman's bed, including Quick Draw McGraw, Jabberjaws, & Gloop/Gleep, the "Vesti La Guibba" aria from the opera Pagliacci {Clowns}, the original clips inserted, & the Dabba! Doo Club, all add up for some interesting comedy. I must say the non-Flintstonean Harvey Birdman gags are a bit hard to follow at times.
"Flintstones. Meet the Flinstones. They're the mobbish Stone Age family. From the villa of Bedrock, they're a page out of Godfather III.
/ewe-tewb dahttcomm/ /watch?v=aRlgXaODh04 & /watch?v=yGPgExS_8gA
Indie Shows & Appearances
|
|
712 posts
3/4/2007 3:32 pm
|
nausea. Perfect for Sartre! "You let events flow past; suddenly you see people pop up who speak and who go away, you plunge into stories without beginning or end: you make a terrible witness. But in compensation, one misses nothing, no improbability or, story too tall to be believed in cafés."
Indie Shows & Appearances
|
|
6576 posts
3/4/2007 7:56 pm
|
elf power, I believe the hot red-headed movie star was Ann Margrock? Day-um, she was fine. I liked Stoney Carmichael, doing that song, "A yabba dabba dabba, a-yabba dabba dabba," etc. The best part was at the big gala dinner when they were introducing Stoney and Fred kept standing up, thinking the introductory accolades were aimed at him, and Wilma kept grabbing him and muttering, "Sit down, Fred!"
msg, I was a total vitamin junkie! Mmmm, crunchy tangy goodness that's good for you, too. I did a bit of research into the Betty For Vitamin campaign. Apparently they made room for her by retiring the family car vitamin. I remember the family car vitamin. Good times. (The Betty campaign gained significant exposure once Rosie O'Donnell got on board after playing Betty in the movie. It always helps to have a powerful narcissist in your corner.)
sl:: totally, the opening credits on that little gem is the best part. But it's also pretty great when the bitchy beasts of burden are testifying against Fred in court - the pterodactyl lamp and the can opener. Thanks for the linkies. (PS screw you FC!!!)
As to the unintentional shout-out: hunh.
These things are lame.
|
|
1403 posts
3/5/2007 8:14 am
|
What was the name of that private eye-type character whose shins bowed as he walked?
|
|
6576 posts
3/6/2007 7:54 am
|
rg, I don't know the character you're referring to. I did do a little bit of googling and came up with Perry Gunite, the PI Fred hires to find out who wrote the bad poetry to Wilma (as quoted in blog).
Awesome Perry Gunite quote: "Bartender... rocks over rocks. And bartender... put that in a dirty glass."
These things are lame.
|
|
1403 posts
3/6/2007 11:15 pm
|
That's the guy! Awesome. That walk killed me for years, especially with the critical jazz bass and snare: dit-dit-jzzzh dit-dit-jzzzh dit-dit-jzzzh...
|
|
2570 posts
3/9/2007 12:32 am
|
I remember the cigarette commercials - in the old days the networks whored out the sitcom characters to the sponsors - Barney and Fred used to do just like the real-life actors in live-action TV. "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" as they light up with stone lighters.
And I can remember what a fit my Ma had the night, on primetime network television, Fred Yabba-dabba-do'd to the world that Wilma was pregnant. She almost banned us from watching ever again.
NBC I think...
|
|
6576 posts
3/9/2007 7:22 am
|
Cleve, that's hilarious - your mom, I mean!
These things are lame.
|
|
1 post
3/25/2007 11:32 pm
|
what about the Flinstones episodes where
-fred gets the dynopeptic germ and will die if he goes to sleep, and he gets so tired that he snaps the toothpicks proping his eyelids open to shut his eyes?
-the episode with 'Madame Yes'
-the episode where robotic Fred clones say "Yabbah. Dabbah. Doo!"
-the episodes with Gazoo the green alien (hello, Dum-Dum!)
-the one with the Way-Outs (Beatles) and their groovy song?
|
|
6576 posts
3/26/2007 10:27 am
|
Hey smarty! Serious word to all your recollections!!
I totally forgot the context for Fred's toothpick-breaking exhaustion, but I have that visual floating around my head all the time. Dynopeptic germ. Wild. Nice call!
Madame Yes! From the same episode that brought us "Judo, a chop, chop, chop!"
God, how many times did I wander around at recess going "Yabba. Dabba. Doooo." and then breaking up into histrionic giggles. Good times.
I love all episodes with Gazoo! My brother and I still call each other Dum-Dum, with affection. Um, I think.
I love the Way-Outs. I used to think Devo based their look on the Way-Outs. Hmm. Anyway, it was cool how their torsos separated into separate discs when they got into the song.
Thanks for the postie!
These things are lame.
|
