History Trivia / TheFlintstones

** Comedy writer and actor George O'Hanlon auditioned to voice Fred Flintstone before it was decided on Alan Reed as Fred. O'Hanlon then scripted several Flintstones episodes, and Hanna-Barbera later cast him to voice [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons George Jetson]].

** Actor and writer George O'Hanlon auditioned to voice Fred Flintstone before it was decided on Alan Reed as Fred. O'Hanlon then scripted several Flintstones episodes, and Hanna-Barbera later cast him to voice [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons George Jetson]].

** Former Spumcø animator Bill Wray revealed in 2021 [[https://twitter.com/WilliamWray19/status/1405690288434122755?s=19 tweet]] that he once pitched a potential reboot series to Hanna-Barbera in 1995 that nearly got picked up. However Creator/JohnKricfalusi, who had connections to a studio executive, convinced them to pass on the project out of revenge for his former employees who left to continue working on ''WesternAnimation/TheRenAndStimpyShow'' for Nickelodeon after his termination.

* TheWikiRule: [[http://flintstones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Flintstones The Flintstones Wiki]], and another [[http://the-flintstones.wikia.com/wiki/The_Flintstones_Wiki Flintstones Wiki]].

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Many of the creative team involved in the original show have since passed away, including William Hanna, Joseph Barbera and Hoyt Curtin, as well as several cast members including Alan Reed, Henry Corden, Creator/MelBlanc, Jean Vander Pyl, Bea Benaderet, Gerry Johnson, Creator/DonMessick, Creator/HarveyKorman and John Stephenson. The characters do get [[TheOtherDarrin new voice actors]] from time to time.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: Many of the creative team involved in the original show have since passed away, including William Hanna, Joseph Barbera and Hoyt Curtin, as well as several cast members including Creator/AlanReed, Henry Corden, Creator/MelBlanc, Jean Vander Pyl, Bea Benaderet, Gerry Johnson, Creator/DonMessick and John Stephenson. The characters do get [[TheOtherDarrin new voice actors]] from time to time.

* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The Latin American Spanish dub used voice actors from both the Mexico City and the Los Angeles areas.

* RoleReprise: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Fred and Barney's Mexican voice actors from many of their animated works since the 70's, Arturo Mercado and Francisco Colmenero, 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 precisly 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).

* PlayingAgainstType

* AbilityOverAppearance:
** Rosie O'Donnell, though not the immediate choice for Betty, mastered her laugh and other mannerisms in her audition.
** Jane Krakowski's Betty in the prequel was slightly more well-received.

* TheOtherDarrin: Production of the prequel ''Viva Rock Vegas'' led to all the characters, due to the film taking place before Fred and Barney were married to Wilma and Betty.

* ArchivedAppearance: Even though he died in 1989, Creator/MelBlanc's voice work was reused for Dino's appearances.

* CreatorBacklash: Joseph Barbera didn't exactly ''hate'' the film, per se, but felt that he could've written a better plot.

* PosthumousCredit: Though he was initially uncredited in the theatrical release, Creator/MelBlanc reprised his role as Dino through the use of pre-recorded voice-overs.

** There's also [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6TI2dkk2MA this not-as-well-known ad for Busch Beer]].

*** In ''The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age [=SmackDown=]'', John O'Hurley replaced John Stephenson as the voice of Mr. Slate.

* ColbertBump: The LicensedGame based on ''The Flintstones'' for NES called ''[[VideoGame/TheFlintstonesTheRescueOfDinoAndHoppy The Rescue of Dino and Hoppy]]'' was a relatively obscure game until Joel of ''WebVideo/{{Vinesauce}}'' featured a Mario-themed bootleg of the game in one of his videos. As a result, the game (though particularly the bootleg version of it, known as "7 Grand Dad") and it's featuring 8-bit version of the theme song became a [[MemeticMutation meme]] almost overnight.

* PosthumousCredit: Archive recordings of Mel Blanc were used to voice Dino.

* RealLifeRelative: Javier Pontón, who voiced Cliff Vandercave in the Latin American Spanish dub, is the brother of Carlos Pontón, who was the ADR Director for that dub.

* DevelopmentHell: Plans for the film started in 1985. No fewer than 35 writers contributed to the first film's screenplay (and yet none of them turned up to accept the Razzie they all won for Worst Screenplay).

* DoingItForTheArt: As hard as it is to imagine, the first live action movie. For starters, unless they got John Goodman to play Fred, they wouldn't have even bothered trying to make a movie.
* DevelopmentHell: Plans for the film started in 1985. No fewer than 35 writers contributed to the first film's screenplay (and yet none of them turned up to accept the Razzie they all won for Worst Screenplay).

* ArtistDisillusionment: This was one of the films that contributed to Creator/RickMoranis's disillusionment with Hollywood, as by this point studios were only hiring him as a box office draw and he wasn't given the freedom to improvise.

* DevelopmentHell: No fewer than 35 writers contributed to the first film's screenplay (and yet none of them turned up to accept the Razzie they all won for Worst Screenplay). Plans for the film started in 1985.

* TheOriginalDarrin: Through archive recordings, Mel Blanc returns to reprise his role as Dino.

* PlayingAgainstType: Rosie O'Donnell is known for playing "tough girl" characters. Betty, while not a complete wallflower by any stretch of the imagination, was generally the more placid one between her and Wilma in the series.

** The role of Sharon Stone the secretary was written for... Creator/SharonStone, but due to scheduling conflicts with ''Film/TheSpecialist'', she dropped out and Creator/HalleBerry signed on. Creator/NicoleKidman was also offered the role.
*** They tried to change her name to Rosetta Stone, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio thought]] people wouldn't get the reference.

* 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 (eventually) Cartoon Network original content, it was going to get pushed around (or, at worst, 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.