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* RearrangeTheSong: The original song from ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' is used for the opening, though slightly extended to include the Frankenstones' {{Leitmotif}}, with some lines of lyrics replaced with an instrumental part and [[HaveAGayOldTime "gay"]] replaced with "great".
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* HonorBeforeReason: On one occasion, Fred and Frank had the opportunity to make a fortune in the entertainment business and quit their day jobs, but they balked the second they learned they'd have to be partners instead of solo acts.
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* NotSoDifferent: Fred and Frank both have anger management problems, oppose their families interacting with each other, and engage in assorted wacky schemes.
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* ThreeShorts: Six in this case (seven if the fact that two Dino and Cavemouse segments were played per episode is considered).
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Rockjaw. This makes him the source of various problems in the "Bedrock Cops" segments.
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* ExtremeOmnivore: Rockjaw. Rockjaw ate his way through many objects, and apparently also has an appetite for Shmoo. This makes him the source of various problems in the "Bedrock Cops" segments.segments.
* FeudingFamilies: A zig-zagged variation. Aside from the occasional family competition, the Flintstones and Frankenstones got along well with each other. Fred and Frank, however, hated each other's guts, and tried (often unsuccessfully) to prevent their families from interacting with each other.
* FeudingFamilies: A zig-zagged variation. Aside from the occasional family competition, the Flintstones and Frankenstones got along well with each other. Fred and Frank, however, hated each other's guts, and tried (often unsuccessfully) to prevent their families from interacting with each other.
!!The ''Pebbles, Dino, and Bamm-Bamm'' segments provide examples of:
* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: In "Dino and the Giant Spiders", the Spider Woman never meant any harm to Pebbles, Dino, or Bamm-Bamm, but they fled before she could explain herself. Later, she scolds her spiders for the mischief they caused the protagonists.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Much like in [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo its inspiration]], some segments ended with the unmasking of the monster to reveal a notorious Bedrock criminal.
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* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: In "Dino and the Giant Spiders", the Spider Woman never meant any harm to Pebbles, Dino, or Bamm-Bamm, but they fled before she could explain herself. Later, she scolds her spiders for the mischief they caused the protagonists.
* ScoobyDooHoax: Much like in [[Franchise/ScoobyDoo its inspiration]], some segments ended with the unmasking of the monster to reveal a notorious Bedrock criminal.
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* BigEater: Cavemouse.
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* BigEater: Cavemouse steals, and eats, lots of food from the Flintstone home. Food is often the source of conflict between Dino and Cavemouse.
* CanonForeigner:Cavemouse.Unlike characters such as Captain Caveman and The Shmoo, who have appeared in previous works, Cavemouse is a new character primarily created for Dino and Cavemouse segments, though he appears in other segments as well.
* FriendlyEnemy: There were just as many segments that ended with Dino and Cavemouse (and sometimes Fred) on good terms with each other as those where they weren't.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Cavemouse causes Dino to get caught by an animal catcher in "Come Home, Dino", but suffers [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilt over his actions]] and hurries to free Dino from the animal shelter.
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* FriendlyEnemy: There were just as many segments that ended with Dino and Cavemouse (and sometimes Fred) on good terms with each other as those where they weren't.
* WeWantOurJerkBack: Cavemouse causes Dino to get caught by an animal catcher in "Come Home, Dino", but suffers [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilt over his actions]] and hurries to free Dino from the animal shelter.
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* DaChief: Sgt. Boulder, Fred and Barney's superior.superior, was frequently a no-nonsense guy who wasn't afraid to chew them out for failure. He often assigned the Shmoo to go with them, much to Fred's chagrin.
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* DaEditor: [[Series/LouGrant Lou]] [[PunnyName Granite]], editor-in-chief of "The Daily Granite".
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* DaEditor: [[Series/LouGrant Lou]] [[PunnyName Granite]], Granite]] serves as the editor-in-chief of "The Daily Granite".
* MonsterOfTheWeek: Each segment had a different villain, whose name [[AntagonistTitle was the name of that segment's episode]].
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** Sometimes (especially in the second season) there were variations on this sequence, including Chester using a different coat rack, wearing a different outfit, and even ''halting the sequence in the middle'' because Wilma and Betty were walking past.
* WalkThePlank: Pinkbeard forces Wilma and Betty to walk the plank over a sea with many dangerous animals. When they take too long to jump, Pinkbeard's crocodile cuts off the plank. Fortunately, Captain Caveman arrives just in time.
* WeatherControlMachine: The villains Stormfront andWeathergirl.Weathergirl steal a weather satellite to launch into orbit to amplify the range of their weather-controlling powers to cover (and conquer) the entire planet.
* WalkThePlank: Pinkbeard forces Wilma and Betty to walk the plank over a sea with many dangerous animals. When they take too long to jump, Pinkbeard's crocodile cuts off the plank. Fortunately, Captain Caveman arrives just in time.
* WeatherControlMachine: The villains Stormfront and
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''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' was a SaturdayMorningCartoon on Creator/{{NBC}} that aired from 1980 to 1982. The series featured multiple segments starring different characters, including CanonImmigrant characters the Shmoo (from prior Flintstones series ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' and the comic strip ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'') and WesternAnimation/{{Captain Caveman|AndTheTeenAngels}}.
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''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' was a SaturdayMorningCartoon on Creator/{{NBC}} that aired from 1980 to 1982. The series WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones spin-off featured multiple segments starring different characters, including CanonImmigrant characters the Shmoo (from prior Flintstones series ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' and the comic strip ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'') and WesternAnimation/{{Captain Caveman|AndTheTeenAngels}}.
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* WeatherControlMachine: The villains Stormfront and Weathergirl.
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featured multiple segments starring different characters, including CanonImmigrant characters the Shmoo (from prior Flintstones series ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' and the comic strip ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'') and [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]].
featured multiple segments starring different characters, including CanonImmigrant characters the Shmoo (from prior Flintstones series ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' and the comic strip ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'') and [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]].
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''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' was a SaturdayMorningCartoon on Creator/{{NBC}} that aired from 1980 to 1982. The series
series featured multiple segments starring different characters, including CanonImmigrant characters the Shmoo (from prior Flintstones series ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' and the comic strip ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'') and [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]].
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* '''Bedrock Cops''': Fred and Barney are part-time Bedrock police officers, accompanied by partner/trainee the Shmoo. They spend their time either trying to capture the criminal of the episode or stop the Frankenstones' ravenous, destructive pet Rockjaw.
* '''Captain Caveman''': Captain Caveman's adventures in Bedrock as its resident superhero. Parodying ComicBook/{{Superman}}, Cavey has a secret identity as "Chester," and works as a copy boy at the local newspaper "The Daily Granite" alongside reporters Wilma and Betty.
* '''Captain Caveman''': Captain Caveman's adventures in Bedrock as its resident superhero. Parodying ComicBook/{{Superman}}, Cavey has a secret identity as "Chester," and works as a copy boy at the local newspaper "The Daily Granite" alongside reporters Wilma and Betty.
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* '''Bedrock Cops''': Fred and Barney are part-time Bedrock police officers, accompanied by partner/trainee the Shmoo. They spend their time either trying to capture the criminal of the episode or trying to stop the Frankenstones' ravenous, destructive pet pet, Rockjaw.
* '''Captain Caveman''': Captain Caveman's adventures in Bedrock as its resident superhero. Parodying ComicBook/{{Superman}}, Cavey has a secret identity as "Chester," and works as a copy boy at the local newspaper"The ''The Daily Granite" Granite'' alongside reporters Wilma and Betty.
* '''Captain Caveman''': Captain Caveman's adventures in Bedrock as its resident superhero. Parodying ComicBook/{{Superman}}, Cavey has a secret identity as "Chester," and works as a copy boy at the local newspaper
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* BambooTechnology: As per the norm for the Flintstones, here updated for [[TheEighties the early 80s]]. Home video games appear in a ''Frankenstones'' segment, while Wilma has a "beeper" in one ''Captain Caveman'' segment.
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''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' was a SaturdayMorningCartoon on Creator/{{NBC}} that aired from 1980 to 1982. The series
featured multiple segments starring different characters, including CanonImmigrant characters the Shmoo (from prior Flintstones series ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' and the comic strip ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'') and [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]].
The segments include:
* '''The Flintstone Family Adventures''': Traditional-style adventures of Fred, Barney, Betty, and Wilma.
* '''The Frankenstones''': The Frankenstones, a ''[[Series/TheMunsters Munsters]]''-like family of monsters that live next door to the Flintstones. Unlike other versions of the Frankenstones (from the primetime specials or previous series), Frank Frankenstone here is short-tempered and has a heated rivalry with his neighbor Fred.
* '''Pebbles, Dino, and Bamm-Bamm''': The teens (slightly aged down in appearance from ''WesternAnimation/ThePebblesAndBammBammShow'', but still with their same friends and cave buggy) plus Dino solve mysteries around Bedrock, akin to ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''.
* '''Dino and Cavemouse''': Dino chases a pesky, ravenous mouse around the house, akin to ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''.
* '''Bedrock Cops''': Fred and Barney are part-time Bedrock police officers, accompanied by partner/trainee the Shmoo. They spend their time either trying to capture the criminal of the episode or stop the Frankenstones' ravenous, destructive pet Rockjaw.
* '''Captain Caveman''': Captain Caveman's adventures in Bedrock as its resident superhero. Parodying ComicBook/{{Superman}}, Cavey has a secret identity as "Chester," and works as a copy boy at the local newspaper "The Daily Granite" alongside reporters Wilma and Betty.
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!!''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' provides examples of:
* CanonWelding: Captain Caveman is shown as Bedrock's resident superhero, before he ended up frozen in ice. Also, the Shmoo (or a version of one) apparently existed in the Stone Age.
!!The ''Frankenstones'' segments provide examples of:
* ExtremeOmnivore: Rockjaw. This makes him the source of various problems in the "Bedrock Cops" segments.
!!The ''Dino and Cavemouse'' segments provide examples of:
* BigEater: Cavemouse.
!!The ''Bedrock Cops'' segments provide examples of:
* DaChief: Sgt. Boulder, Fred and Barney's superior.
!!The ''Captain Caveman'' segments provide examples of:
* ClarkKenting: Captain Caveman himself did this to disguise himself as Chester, wearing glasses and a bowtie and raising his voice an octave.
* DamselInDistress: Wilma and Betty were often reduced to this, usually by trying to stop the villain themselves and getting in over their heads.
* DaEditor: [[Series/LouGrant Lou]] [[PunnyName Granite]], editor-in-chief of "The Daily Granite".
* MonsterClown: Clownfoot is a bank-robbing circus clown who, at his circus hideout, rigs a high-wire's bicycle that Betty and Wilma are riding to fall apart over a pit of man-eating saber-toothed tigers.
* SecretIdentity: Cavey has one as Chester, which is in itself kind of a parody of this trope.
* ShoutOut: Mostly to the Superman mythos:
** [[ClarkKenting Captain Caveman's secret identity of glasses-wearing Chester]].
** Wilma's and Betty's positions as reporters akin to ComicBook/LoisLane.
** ''The Daily Granite'', a spoof of ''The Daily Planet''.
** "Lou Granite" is likely a reference to Lou Grant of ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', as well as the ''Series/LouGrant'' spinoff series (''Lou Grant'' and ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' both aired in [[TheEighties the early 1980s]], on CBS and NBC, respectively). In that spin-off, Grant was also the editor of a newspaper.
* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: The 20th-century villain Futuro's goal was robbing Bedrock of random stuff to sell in his own era as valuable "antiques."
* TransformationSequence: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsXbe-Ujwd8 Spoofed.]] It was so loud that literally everyone in the city could hear it, and visually it featured explosions, rockets and an array of rainbow stars, but all that actually happened was that Chester took off his glasses and unfolded his bowtie into a cape.
* WeatherControlMachine: "Stormfront and Weathergirl" on ''The Flintstone Comedy Show''.
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featured multiple segments starring different characters, including CanonImmigrant characters the Shmoo (from prior Flintstones series ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' and the comic strip ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'') and [[WesternAnimation/CaptainCavemanAndTheTeenAngels Captain Caveman]].
The segments include:
* '''The Flintstone Family Adventures''': Traditional-style adventures of Fred, Barney, Betty, and Wilma.
* '''The Frankenstones''': The Frankenstones, a ''[[Series/TheMunsters Munsters]]''-like family of monsters that live next door to the Flintstones. Unlike other versions of the Frankenstones (from the primetime specials or previous series), Frank Frankenstone here is short-tempered and has a heated rivalry with his neighbor Fred.
* '''Pebbles, Dino, and Bamm-Bamm''': The teens (slightly aged down in appearance from ''WesternAnimation/ThePebblesAndBammBammShow'', but still with their same friends and cave buggy) plus Dino solve mysteries around Bedrock, akin to ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo''.
* '''Dino and Cavemouse''': Dino chases a pesky, ravenous mouse around the house, akin to ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry''.
* '''Bedrock Cops''': Fred and Barney are part-time Bedrock police officers, accompanied by partner/trainee the Shmoo. They spend their time either trying to capture the criminal of the episode or stop the Frankenstones' ravenous, destructive pet Rockjaw.
* '''Captain Caveman''': Captain Caveman's adventures in Bedrock as its resident superhero. Parodying ComicBook/{{Superman}}, Cavey has a secret identity as "Chester," and works as a copy boy at the local newspaper "The Daily Granite" alongside reporters Wilma and Betty.
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!!''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' provides examples of:
* CanonWelding: Captain Caveman is shown as Bedrock's resident superhero, before he ended up frozen in ice. Also, the Shmoo (or a version of one) apparently existed in the Stone Age.
!!The ''Frankenstones'' segments provide examples of:
* ExtremeOmnivore: Rockjaw. This makes him the source of various problems in the "Bedrock Cops" segments.
!!The ''Dino and Cavemouse'' segments provide examples of:
* BigEater: Cavemouse.
!!The ''Bedrock Cops'' segments provide examples of:
* DaChief: Sgt. Boulder, Fred and Barney's superior.
!!The ''Captain Caveman'' segments provide examples of:
* ClarkKenting: Captain Caveman himself did this to disguise himself as Chester, wearing glasses and a bowtie and raising his voice an octave.
* DamselInDistress: Wilma and Betty were often reduced to this, usually by trying to stop the villain themselves and getting in over their heads.
* DaEditor: [[Series/LouGrant Lou]] [[PunnyName Granite]], editor-in-chief of "The Daily Granite".
* MonsterClown: Clownfoot is a bank-robbing circus clown who, at his circus hideout, rigs a high-wire's bicycle that Betty and Wilma are riding to fall apart over a pit of man-eating saber-toothed tigers.
* SecretIdentity: Cavey has one as Chester, which is in itself kind of a parody of this trope.
* ShoutOut: Mostly to the Superman mythos:
** [[ClarkKenting Captain Caveman's secret identity of glasses-wearing Chester]].
** Wilma's and Betty's positions as reporters akin to ComicBook/LoisLane.
** ''The Daily Granite'', a spoof of ''The Daily Planet''.
** "Lou Granite" is likely a reference to Lou Grant of ''Series/TheMaryTylerMooreShow'', as well as the ''Series/LouGrant'' spinoff series (''Lou Grant'' and ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' both aired in [[TheEighties the early 1980s]], on CBS and NBC, respectively). In that spin-off, Grant was also the editor of a newspaper.
* TimeTravelForFunAndProfit: The 20th-century villain Futuro's goal was robbing Bedrock of random stuff to sell in his own era as valuable "antiques."
* TransformationSequence: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsXbe-Ujwd8 Spoofed.]] It was so loud that literally everyone in the city could hear it, and visually it featured explosions, rockets and an array of rainbow stars, but all that actually happened was that Chester took off his glasses and unfolded his bowtie into a cape.
* WeatherControlMachine: "Stormfront and Weathergirl" on ''The Flintstone Comedy Show''.
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