History Trivia / TheFlintstones

** At a brief point there were plans for an animated movie to coincide with the ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' but due to both Critical and Box-Office failure of that film, the idea was quickly scrapped.

* TieInCereal: If there was ever an example of the trope that outlived its source material, that honor would go to Fruity Pebbles and Coco Pebbles. Originally made as a tie-in to TheSixties animated sitcom ''The Flintstones'', the Pebbles Cereal was so popular that the cereal would continue to be sold in every grocery store in America to this day, even as the original show reached its end. Even if you've never seen an episode of ''The Flintstones'' or any other iteration of the franchise, you've probably had one of the Pebbles Cereals at least once.

** In the Latin American Spanish dub, Fred and Barney's Mexican voice actors from many of their animated works since TheSeventies, Creator/ArturoMercado and Creator/FranciscoColmenero, respectively reprised their roles in the movie. This is especially relevant because the dub of the film was recorded at Ultra Video, a Spanish-speaking studio in Los Angeles, and they brought them out straight from Mexico precisely for this in mind. The Los Angeles casting directors assumed that Jorge Arvizu (Fred) and Julio Lucena (Barney) had both passed away (in truth, Arvizu was semi-retired, but Lucena had died in 1985 from cardiac arrest).

** Eventually, the rights were bought by Creator/AmblinEntertainment. Donner eventually left the project to work on ''Film/{{Maverick}}'', so Creator/BrianLevant was brought in to direct and all previous scripts were thrown out. Work on the script began in May 1992 and was completed in August 1993. Principal photography began on May 17, 1993, and wrapped on August 20, 1993.

** Fred and Wilma were originally to have had a son, Fred, Jr. He was cut from the show's final series' bible, but a Golden Book that was based on the original ideas was released just as the show debuted. Then when the character that'd become Pebbles was [[JustForPun conceived]], Barbera once again wanted it to be a boy, but a phone call form a toy company in New York convinced him to change it to a girl.

** In all, no fewer than ''thity-five writers'' contributed to the screenplay (and yet none of them turned up to accept the UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward they all won for Worst Screenplay).

* OutlivedItsCreator: ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstonesStoneAgeSmackDown'' (2015) is the first original Flintstones production since ''On The Rocks'' in 2001... and the first to not involve the original creators, William Hanna (who died in 2001) and Joseph Barbera (who died in 2006). It also marked the first time the character of Mr. Slate was voiced by someone other than John Stephenson.

** Creator/JackieGleason was not happy about learning that Fred Flintstone was based on him without his permission, nor that the series was based on ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' and tried to file a lawsuit for using his likeness, but friends and colleagues dissuaded him from doing so in light of the show's popularity, telling him it would be bad for his reputation if he became known as "the man who killed Fred Flintstone."

** Creator/MeTV skips over "The Prowler" due to the martial arts instructor being a Japanese stereotype. It is also banned on Boomerang.

** Creator/MeTV skips over "The Prowler" due to the martial arts instructor being a Japanese stereotype.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://flintstones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Flintstones The Flintstones Wiki]].

* TropeNamer:
** FlintstoneTheming
** GreatGazoo
** HaveAGayOldTime

** ''The Flintstones: On the Rocks'' has never been officially released on home video in any format. A small clip of it does exist on Website/YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOP76UyeDJM which proves of its existence]], but good luck trying to find the full special online since it aired only a handful of times until sometime [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020927180309/http://schedule.cartoonnetwork.com/servlet/ScheduleServlet?action=GO&theDate=9/2/02&timeZone=EST around 2002]] on Creator/CartoonNetwork, and several times on Cartoon Network UK.

** Creator/JohnCandy, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/DannyDeVito, Creator/BillMurray, and Creator/ChevyChase were all considered for the role of Fred, but they were all deemed too skinny (yes, even John Candy), and putting any of them in a fat suit would look too inappropriate for use in the movie.

** Creator/TraceyUllman was considered for the role of Betty.

* CreatorChosenCasting: Creator/StevenSpielberg casted Creator/JohnGoodman as Fred Flintstone during production of ''Film/{{Always}}'' back in 1989.

* OutlivedItsCreator: ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstonesStoneAgeSmackDown'' (2015) is the first original Flintstones production since ''On The Rocks'' in 2001... and the first to not involve the original creators, Hanna (who died in 2001) and Barbera (who died in 2006) It also marked the first time the character of Mr. Slate was voiced by someone other than John Stephenson.

*** Alan Reed lent his voice to Fred for the final time in the debut episode of ''[[WesternAnimation/LaffALympics Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics]]'' in 1977. He died soon after and would be replaced by Henry Corden. Corden died in 2005 and was replaced by Creator/JeffBergman, although Creator/JamesArnoldTaylor voices him in commercials. (who, according to the documentary, ''Film/IKnowThatVoice''[[note]]centered on the past and present voice actors a lot of cartoon, anime, and video game fans are familiar with, like Creator/JohnDiMaggio, Creator/MelBlanc, Creator/JimCummings, Creator/TressMacNeille, Creator/CharlieAdler, Creator/CarlosAlazraqui, Creator/CreeSummer, Creator/TaraStrong, Creator/TomKenny and Creator/GreyDeLisle[[/note]], almost wasn't chosen because he didn't look like someone who'd be able to do an accurate Fred Flintstone impression. Henry Corden urged the producers to give Taylor a chance, and that's how he was picked).

* AdoredByTheNetwork: You couldn't go a single day on Creator/{{Boomerang}} without seeing ''The Flintstones'' ''several'' times a day to the point of devoting entire weekends to the show. It seemed if a show wasn't ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', a show on Boomeraction, one of the more popular Creator/HannaBarbera or Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation series, or an older show from sister channel Creator/CartoonNetwork, it was going to get pushed around (or outright removed) for more ''Flintstones''. When the channel went through various schedule changes in 2014 and the eventual rebrand in 2015, the show only aired during the wee-hours of the morning before being removed in March 2017. However, unlike most of the other Hanna-Barbera cartoons not named ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', re-runs still occasionally pop up on Boomerang from time to time, with the show's most recent broadcast there being an all-day marathon of episodes centered on Fred that aired on Father's Day (June 20) 2021. The series returned to Boomerang yet again, AND in a good timeslot of 9 PM to boot, on February 6, 2023.

* BannedEpisode: Creator/MeTV skips over "The Prowler" due to the martial arts instructor being a Japanese stereotype.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: ''The Flintstones: On the Rocks'' has never been officially released on home video in any format. A small clip of it does exist on Website/YouTube, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOP76UyeDJM which proves of its existence]], but good luck trying to find the full special online since it aired only a handful of times until sometime [[https://web.archive.org/web/20020927180309/http://schedule.cartoonnetwork.com/servlet/ScheduleServlet?action=GO&theDate=9/2/02&timeZone=EST around 2002]] on Creator/CartoonNetwork, and several times on Cartoon Network UK.

* MissingEpisode: ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby'' was almost never reran due to its storyline about childbirth. It's also not on the Boomerang app, unlike its prequel and sequel.T
* NoExportForYou: At least in syndication -- an episode in which the Flintstones encounter a group of stereotypical Wild West Indians was successfully banned from broadcast in Saskatchewan after protests from Native American groups. The ban became moot when the show began airing on nationally broadcast cable networks and came out on DVD, however.
** ''The Flintstones'' was not released in Norway until 1987.

* OldShame: The ''Flintstones'' cast promoted [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAExoSozc2c Winston cigarettes]] during the show's first two seasons. Amusingly, those ads are now among the ''only'' vintage tobacco commercials that one can easily find online (since showing them is technically illegal just about everywhere on the planet).
** There's also the not-as-well-known ads for Busch Beer but that's another story, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6TI2dkk2MA Especially this one]].

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: On December 31, 2022, seasons four through six were removed from Creator/HBOMax due to the streamer not renewing a licensing agreement with Warner Bros[[note]]This is despite the fact that HBO Max is ''owned by Warner Bros.''[[/note]].

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: On December 31, 2022, seasons four through six were removed from Creator/HBOMax due to the streamer not renewing a licensing agreement with Warner Bros.

** The first five scripts [[https://yowpyowp.blogspot.com/2010/09/the-perfect-flintstone.html were originally recorded with]] Bill Thompson (best known today as the voice of WesternAnimation/{{Droopy}}) as Fred and Hal Smith as Barney. Hanna and Barbera were dissatisfied with their performances, particularly Thompson, who couldn't sustain the gravelly voice they wanted for Fred. They replaced the actors with Alan Reed and Mel Blanc, who re-recorded their episodes.

* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: One episode has Fred playing (and getting roundly beaten at) Scrabble with the paper boy. To save face, Fred makes up the word "zarf" for some extra points. Turns out, [[http://www.dictionary.com/browse/zarf zarf]] is a real word, if a very esoteric one.

* AdoredByTheNetwork: You couldn't go a single day on Creator/{{Boomerang}} without seeing ''The Flintstones'' ''several'' times a day to the point of devoting entire weekends to the show. It seemed if a show wasn't ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', a show on Boomeraction, one of the more popular Creator/HannaBarbera or Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation series, or an older show from sister channel Creator/CartoonNetwork, it was going to get pushed around (or outright removed) for more ''Flintstones''. When the channel went through various schedule changes in 2014 and the eventual rebrand in 2015, the show only aired during the wee-hours of the morning before being removed in March 2017. However, unlike most of the other Hanna-Barbera cartoons not named ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', re-runs still occasionally pop up on Boomerang from time to time, with the show's most recent broadcast there being an all-day marathon of episodes centered on Fred that aired on Father's Day (June 20) 2021. The series is set to come back to Boomerang yet again, AND in a good timeslot of 9 PM to boot, on February 6, 2023.

* KidsMealToy: UsefulNotes/McDonalds released a set of five race cars with small buildings. These consisted of Fred with Bedrock Bowl-o-rama, Wilma with the Flintstones' house, Dino and Pebbles with Toy-S-Aurus, Barney with Fossil Fill-Up, and Betty and Bamm-Bamm with [=RocDonald's=].

* AdoredByTheNetwork: You couldn't go a single day on Creator/{{Boomerang}} without seeing ''The Flintstones'' ''several'' times a day to the point of devoting entire weekends to the show. It seemed if a show wasn't ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'', a show on Boomeraction, one of the more popular Creator/HannaBarbera or Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation series, or an older show from sister channel Creator/CartoonNetwork, it was going to get pushed around (or outright removed) for more ''Flintstones''. When the channel went through various schedule changes in 2014 and the eventual rebrand in 2015, the show only aired during the wee-hours of the morning before being removed in March 2017. However, unlike most of the other Hanna-Barbera cartoons not named ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'', re-runs still occasionally pop up on Boomerang from time to time, with the show's most recent broadcast there being an all-day marathon of episodes centered on Fred that aired on Father's Day (June 20) 2021.