Series · ABC · 1960
Pass it on
The Flintstones
45Watch it awake.
The first prime-time cartoon the country sat for. A family is the joke, and the joke stays a family.
The review
A man works in a quarry, comes home to his wife, and thinks of a way around the honest version of the evening. The neighbors are in it. In 1960 this was a strange object, a cartoon in prime time, and the country made it a hit because the object was familiar: a suburb, with the suburbs' jokes about money, bosses, and a husband who would rather bowl. The stone-age costumes are the charm. They are not the subject.
The subject is a household that stays one. He is vain and the schemes are dumb, and Wilma is often the adult. That imbalance is the comedy and also its limit. A child can watch it. Say that the scheme failed because it was a scheme, not because he had bad luck. The country's first idea of a cartoon for the evening. The idea is a family. Later cartoons often forgot to bring the family.
Journal
Keep The Flintstones in the record.
No house has filed a sentence for this yet.
Live Historic number 45. Yours can differ.
The glance
Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance are the thin ones.
Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?
This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.
Consider this
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
58 instead of 45
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur is still a animation show, and it scores 58 instead of 45. What you gain is courage: She steps in for people who cannot.
The eight
- 6Industry
He has a job at the quarry, and the job is why the scheme of the week is a bad idea.
- 7Household
A marriage, a child, and the Rubbles next door are the actual premise.
- 2Piety
No reverence. The lodge and the bowling alley are the highest things on the horizon.
- 3Courage
The risks are social. He is not brave. He is often just caught.
- 3Republic
Bedrock is a town only so there can be a boss and a neighbor.
- 4Temperance
Schemes and appetites drive the half hour, and they usually fail by the end.
- 5Truth
The scheme is a lie, and the ending usually makes him admit it to Wilma.
- 6Stewardship
A child inherits a father who goes to work and a marriage that survives the bowling night.
Where to watch
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Live Historic · The Flintstones · 45IMDb tt0053502
