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*** Aside from the aforementioned period of recuperating from his car wreck, Mel Blanc voiced Barney up to his death in 1989. Since then, Barney has been played variously by Creator/FrankWelker, Creator/JeffBergman, and Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson, the latter does imitations of Barney's season 1 voice (and Creator/SethMacFarlane in parodies shown on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'').

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*** Aside from the aforementioned period of recuperating from his car wreck, Mel Blanc voiced Barney up to his death in 1989. Since then, Barney has been played variously by Creator/FrankWelker, Creator/JeffBergman, and Creator/KevinMichaelRichardson, the latter does imitations of imitating Barney's season 1 early voice (and Creator/SethMacFarlane in parodies shown on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'').



** Barney's VocalEvolution came about when Mel Blanc suffered brain damage in a car accident. When he came back to work, he suddenly started using that deeper voice for Barney (which was also a much closer imitation of [[Series/TheHoneymooners Art Carney]]'s voice - even though Blanc had originally refused to ape Carney) and no one said anything.

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** Barney's VocalEvolution came about when Mel Blanc suffered brain damage in a car accident. When he came back to work, he suddenly gradually started using that deeper voice for Barney (which was also a much closer imitation of [[Series/TheHoneymooners Art Carney]]'s voice - even though Blanc had originally refused to ape Carney) and no one said anything.
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** In promotion for [[Film/TheFlintstones the 1994 film]], Cartoon Network aired a ''month-long marathon'' (not actually airing 24/7, but there was a LOT of Flintstones to say the least) called Non-Stop Stones, which featured airings of every Flintstones show up to that point as well as the first public showing of [[ThePilot the pilot]], ''The Flagstones''.

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** In promotion for [[Film/TheFlintstones the 1994 film]], Cartoon Network aired a ''month-long marathon'' event'' called Non-Stop Stones (not actually airing 24/7, but there was a LOT of Flintstones ''Flintstones'' to say the least) called Non-Stop Stones, least), which featured airings of every Flintstones ''Flintstones'' show up to that point as well as and was centered around the Non-Stop 'Stones-a-thon, an 83 hour marathon of the original series that also featured the first public showing airing of [[ThePilot the pilot]], ''The Flagstones''. Flagstones''.
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** In promotion for [[Film/TheFlintstones the 1994 film]], Cartoon Network aired a ''month-long marathon'' called Non-Stop Stones, which featured airings of every Flintstones show up to that point as well as the first public showing of [[ThePilot the pilot]], ''The Flagstones''.

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** In promotion for [[Film/TheFlintstones the 1994 film]], Cartoon Network aired a ''month-long marathon'' (not actually airing 24/7, but there was a LOT of Flintstones to say the least) called Non-Stop Stones, which featured airings of every Flintstones show up to that point as well as the first public showing of [[ThePilot the pilot]], ''The Flagstones''.
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** In promotion for [[Film/TheFlintstones the 1994 film]], Cartoon Network aired a 'month-long marathon' called Non-Stop Stones, which featured airings of every Flintstones show up to that point as well as the first public showing of [[ThePilot the pilot]], ''The Flagstones''.

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** In promotion for [[Film/TheFlintstones the 1994 film]], Cartoon Network aired a 'month-long marathon' ''month-long marathon'' called Non-Stop Stones, which featured airings of every Flintstones show up to that point as well as the first public showing of [[ThePilot the pilot]], ''The Flagstones''.
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** In promotion for [[Film/TheFlintstones the 1994 film]], Cartoon Network aired a 'month-long marathon' called Non-Stop Stones, which featured airings of every Flintstones show up to that point as well as the first public showing of [[ThePilot the pilot]], ''The Flagstones''.

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* 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.
* NamesTheSame: In the Quebec French dub, Fred Flinstone shares his last name, Caillou, with [[WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} an imaginative preschooler]].

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* 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.
* NamesTheSame: In the Quebec French dub, Fred Flinstone shares his last name, Caillou, with [[WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}} an imaginative preschooler]].
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** 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 them with Alan Reed and Mel Blanc, who re-recorded their episodes.

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** 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 them the actors with Alan Reed and Mel Blanc, who re-recorded their episodes.
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** 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 them with Alan Reed and Mel Blanc, who re-recorded their episodes.
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* 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=].
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* EarlyDraftTieIn: Fred and Wilma were going to have a son named Fred Jr, but it was scrapped before the show aired. Nonetheless, a Little Golden Book featuring this character was published.


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* ExecutiveMeddling: Pebbles was originally going to be a boy, but Ideal Toy Company told Hanna-Barbera to make the baby a girl so they could sell dolls.
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* 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.
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** ''The Flintstones'' was not released in Norway until 1987.
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** In the Japanese dub, Creator/GaraTakashima reprised her role as Wilma Flintstone from the 1987 release of ''The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone''.
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* 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.
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* CreatorsFavorite: The late Irwin Keyes (Joe Rockhard) ranked ''The Flintstones'' as one of his favorite films.

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* DivorcedInstallment: Hanna and Barbera originally wanted to do a straight-up cartoon version of ''Series/TheHoneymooners'', but couldn't agree on a wardrobe. Eventually, Hanna proposed making them into cavemen so they'd just wear animal skins.



* RecycledSoundtrack:
** In a sense. Mel Blanc's previously-recorded yaps for Dino from the original series were re-used for the films. Blanc himself had been dead for five years by the time the first film was released, and his voice was initially used without a screen credit, prompting his estate to slap the studio with a lawsuit before one was put in for all later releases.
** Several Hanna-Barbera series from around the same time used the show's stock music, most notably ''The Yogi Bear Show''.[[note]]A couple episodes of which even have what would later become "Meet The Flintstones" snuck into the music.[[/note]]
* SerendipityWritesThePlot: Hanna and Barbera originally wanted to do a straight-up cartoon version of ''Series/TheHoneymooners'', but couldn't agree on a wardrobe. Eventually, Hanna proposed making them into cavemen so they'd just wear animal skins.



** 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.
** Rick Moranis usually plays eccentric nerdy characters in his roles, but with blond hair, no glasses, and a deeper voice than usual, he's almost unrecognizable as Barney.

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** Rosie O'Donnell Creator/RosieODonnell 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.
** Rick Moranis Creator/RickMoranis usually plays eccentric nerdy characters in his roles, but with blond hair, no glasses, and a deeper voice than usual, he's almost unrecognizable as Barney.



* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: 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).

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* SavedFromDevelopmentHell: Plans SavedFromDevelopmentHell:
** Joel Silver and Keith Barish bought the rights to the cartoon in 1985 and Steven E. de Souza was comissioned to write the script. He completed a draft in September 1987 that was rejected in October 1989 in favour of a new script by Daniel and Joshua Goldin.
** In March 1990, Peter Martin Wortmann and Robert Conte submitted another draft before Mitch Markowitz was hired to write a script that was reportedly a cross with ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath''.
-->I don't even remember it that well, but Fred and Barney leave their town during a terrible depression and go across the country, or whatever that damn prehistoric thing is, looking
for jobs. They wind up in trailer parks trying to keep their families together. They exhibit moments of heroism and poignancy.
** Creator/RichardDonner was brought in to direct with Creator/JamesBelushi playing Fred Flintstone. He found Markowitz's script to be too sentimental. A further draft was then submitted and revised by Jeffrey Reno and Ron Osbourne in 1991 and 1992.
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the film started rights were bought by Creator/AmblinEntertainment. Donner eventually left the project to work on ''Film/{{Maverick}}'', so Creator/BrianLevant was brought in 1985. No 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.
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fewer than 35 writers ''thity-five writers'' contributed to the first film's screenplay (and yet none of them turned up to accept the Razzie UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward they all won for Worst Screenplay).



** At a brief point there were plans for an animated Flinstones movie to coincide with the ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' but due to both Critical and Box-Office failure of that film, the idea was quickly scrapped.
** At one point, Creator/RichardDonner was attached to direct, Joel Silver was going to produce and Jim Belushi was going to play Fred. When the movie went from Warner Bros. to Universal, Donner stayed around but had to pull out due to conflicting schedules with ''Film/{{Maverick}}''.
** Mitch Markowitz wrote a draft that was described as a cross with ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'':
-->I don't even remember it that well, but Fred and Barney leave their town during a terrible depression and go across the country, or whatever that damn prehistoric thing is, looking for jobs. They wind up in trailer parks trying to keep their families together. They exhibit moments of heroism and poignancy.
** Creator/JohnCandy, Creator/JamesBelushi, 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.

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** At a brief point there were plans for an animated Flinstones movie to coincide with the ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' but due to both Critical and Box-Office failure of that film, the idea was quickly scrapped.
** At one point, Creator/RichardDonner was attached to direct, Joel Silver was going to produce and Jim Belushi was going to play Fred. When the movie went from Warner Bros. to Universal, Donner stayed around but had to pull out due to conflicting schedules with ''Film/{{Maverick}}''.
** Mitch Markowitz wrote a draft that was described as a cross with ''Literature/TheGrapesOfWrath'':
-->I don't even remember it that well, but Fred and Barney leave their town during a terrible depression and go across the country, or whatever that damn prehistoric thing is, looking for jobs. They wind up in trailer parks trying to keep their families together. They exhibit moments of heroism and poignancy.
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Creator/JohnCandy, Creator/JamesBelushi, 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/ElizabethMontgomery was considered for the role of Pearl Slaghoople.

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** Creator/AudreyMeadows and Creator/ElizabethMontgomery was were considered for the role of Pearl Slaghoople.

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* RoleReprise:
** Via archive audio, the late Creator/MelBlanc reprises his role as Dino.
** 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).
** The Brazillian Portuguese dub brings Rogério Márcico to reprise his role of Barney.


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* RoleReprise:
** Via archive audio, the late Creator/MelBlanc reprises his role as Dino.
** 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).
** The Brazillian Portuguese dub brings Rogério Márcico to reprise his role of Barney.

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* PosthumousCredit: Though he was initially uncredited in the theatrical release (until his estate sued for credit and compensation), Creator/MelBlanc's voice work was reused for Dino.

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* PosthumousCredit: Though he was initially uncredited in the theatrical release, Creator/MelBlanc's voice work was reused for Dino.

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

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* RoleReprise: 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).

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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).arrest).
** The Brazillian Portuguese dub brings Rogério Márcico to reprise his role of Barney.
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** Creator/JohnCandy, Creator/JamesBelushi, Creator/DanAykroyd, Creator/DannyDeVito, Creator/BillMurray, and Creator/ChevyChase were all considered for the role of Fred, but they were all deemed too skinny, and putting any of them in a fat suit would look too inappropriate for use in the movie.

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

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* ActingForTwo: In the Japanese dub:
** Creator/ShigeruChiba voices the Dictabird, Fred Schneider and the Fred Flintstone look-alike on ''Bedrock's Most Wanted''.
** Mr. Slate and the ''Bedrock's Most Wanted'' host are both played by Yosuke Akimoto.

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* ActingForTwo: ActingForTwo:
** Though uncredited, Creator/MaryKayBergman played the [=RocDonald's=] counter girl as well as various Bedrock citizens.
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** *** Creator/ShigeruChiba voices the Dictabird, Fred Schneider and the Fred Flintstone look-alike on ''Bedrock's Most Wanted''.
** *** Mr. Slate and the ''Bedrock's Most Wanted'' host are both played by Yosuke Akimoto.
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* 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 once on Creator/CartoonNetwork, and several times on Cartoon Network UK.

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* 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 once 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.
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* 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 ''Scooby-Doo'', 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.

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* 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 ''Scooby-Doo'', ''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.
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* 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 ''Scooby-Doo'', 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 was broadcast on Father's Day (June 20) 2021.

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* 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 ''Scooby-Doo'', 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 was broadcast aired on Father's Day (June 20) 2021.
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Actually, Me TV DID use "Rise and Shine" to open and close the first two seasons of The Flintstones, but later switched over to using "Meet the Flintstones" for those seasons in October 2020.


* 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.

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* 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 ''Scooby-Doo'', 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 was broadcast on Father's Day (June 20) 2021.



** The first two seasons had a completely different theme song and opening sequence, and closing credits. When the show entered syndication, however, this was replaced by the better known "Meet the Flintstones" theme and credits sequence (even though this rendered many syndicated episode credits incorrect). It was not until the series was recirculated in the 1990s that the original versions of the episodes were again broadcast. When Creator/MeTV began airing the series in 2019, they used the "Meet the Flintstones" theme and credits sequence for the first two seasons as well.

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** The first two seasons had a completely different theme song and opening sequence, and closing credits. When the show entered syndication, however, this was replaced by the better known "Meet the Flintstones" theme and credits sequence (even though this rendered many syndicated episode credits incorrect). It was not until the series was recirculated in the 1990s that the original versions of the episodes were again broadcast. When Creator/MeTV began airing the series in September 2019, they originally used "Rise and Shine" to open and close the first two seasons, but in October 2020, they eventually switched over to using the "Meet the Flintstones" theme and credits sequence for the first two those seasons as well.

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