Line #40 Trivia/TheFlintstones


1	!![[WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones The cartoon]]
2	* AccidentallyCorrectWriting: One episode has Fred playing (and getting roundly beaten at) ''TabletopGame/{{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.
3	* ActingForTwo:
4	** Creator/MelBlanc voices Barney Rubble and Dino, in addition to some one-off characters.
5	** Creator/JeanVanderPyl voices Wilma Flintstone and Pebbles Flintstone.
6	** Creator/DonMessick voices Bamm-Bamm Rubble and several other minor characters.
7	** Creator/JohnStephenson voices Mr. Slate while also providing his talents to background characters.
8	* AdoredByTheNetwork:
9	** 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.
10	** In promotion for [[Film/TheFlintstones the 1994 film]], Cartoon Network aired a ''month-long event'' called Non-Stop Stones (not actually airing 24/7, but there was a LOT of ''Flintstones'' to say the least), which featured airings of every ''Flintstones'' show up to that point and was centered around the Non-Stop 'Stones-a-thon, an 83 hour marathon of the original series that also featured the first public airing of [[ThePilot the pilot]], ''The Flagstones''.
11	* BannedEpisode:
12	** Creator/MeTV skips over "The Prowler" due to the martial arts instructor being a Japanese stereotype. It is also banned on Boomerang since August 2023. They actually reran the episode up until April 2023, but when they started regularly airing ''The Flintstones'' in order on weeknights in August, they skipped over the episode, indicating it was banned.
13	** 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.
14	* CharacterOutlivesActor: Many of the original show's cast have since passed away, 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.
15	* 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 its featuring 8-bit version of the theme song became a [[MemeticMutation meme]] almost overnight.
16	* CreatorsFavorite: According to the liner notes of the now out-of-print album "The Flintstones: Modern Stone-Age Melodies", Bill Hanna's favorite musical moment is Fred mangling the lyrics to Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" from "The Hit Songwriters".
17	* {{Defictionalization}}: The 1963 episode "Dino Disappears" has a scene where Barney tries to cheer Pebbles up by getting her to eat Pebbles cereal. In 1971, Post created two actual Pebbles cereals, Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles. Since 2018, there have been Peanut Butter and Cocoa Pebbles, as well.
18	* DevelopmentHell: Creator/SethMacFarlane was originally going to revive the show for Creator/{{Fox}}, possibly as a replacement for ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', which was about to be canceled in the middle of season 23 due to money issues.[[note]]the last episode would have been the ChristmasEpisode in the future where Bart tries to bond with his kids while divorced from Jenda while Lisa tries to bond with her teenaged daughter and Maggie is pregnant[[/note]] For better or worse, [=MacFarlane=] shelved the show after the cast and crew of ''The Simpsons'' took a pay cut to keep the show afloat, and FOX and Warner Bros. could not agree on profit negotiations.
19	* 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.
20	* 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.
21	* EditedForSyndication: The first two seasons had a completely different theme song and opening credits, and closing credits. When the series entered syndication, however, this was replaced with the better-known "Meet the Flintstones" theme and credits sequence (even though this rendered many syndicated episode credits incorrect). It wasn't until the series began broadcast on Cartoon Network in 1992 that the original versions of the episodes were seen again.
22	* 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.
23	* FollowTheLeader: The Gruesomes were created to cash in on the then mega popularity of ghoul comedies such as ''Series/TheAddamsFamily'' and ''Series/TheMunsters''.
24	* FridayNightDeathSlot: The show averted the fate that usually met Friday night shows. It aired on Fridays during its first three seasons to great success, moving to Thursdays for the fourth and the first half of the fifth season. It moved back to Fridays for the rest of the run, but its eventual cancellation had more to do with [[SeasonalRot The Great Gazoo]] than with the timeslot.
25	* KeepCirculatingTheTapes:
26	** ''The Flintstones: On the Rocks'' has never been officially released on home video in any format. It is, however, available on Archive.org.
27	** 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 those seasons as well.
28	* KidsMealToy: Dairy Queen sold a set of four bobble figures in 1997. These consisted of Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Dino.
29	* LateExportForYou: ''The Flintstones'' was not released in Norway until 1987.
30	* 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.
31	** Two of the episodes from the original series are missing on the Boomerang app as well; "The Prowler'' for its stereotypical depiction of an Asian character, and "The Gambler" due to themes of gambling. These two episodes are still available on other digital services, though "The Prowler" has a content warning beforehand.
32	* NonSingingVoice:
33	** Fred's renditions of "When the Saints Go Marching In" in "Hot Lips Hannigan" and "Listen to the Rocking Bird" were dubbed by Duke Mitchell. However, Reed did most of Fred's off-key singing himself in other episodes. Averted near the end of his life when Henry Corden, who would later take over as his speaking voice, did Fred's singing voice in ''Alice in Wonderland, or What's a Nice Kid Like You...'' and ''The Man Called Flintstone''.
34	** Wilma's rendition of "Bill Bailey" and the "Rockenschpeel" jingle in "The Happy Housewife" were dubbed by B.J. Baker, who also did Jane Jetson's singing voice for "Bill Spacely" in "Miss Solar System". Jean Vander Pyl did her own singing in other episodes.
35	* TheOtherDarrin:
36	** Hanna-Barbera voice actor Creator/DawsButler replaced Creator/MelBlanc as Barney Rubble for a few episodes in 1961, while Blanc was hospitalized after a near-fatal car accident. Hanna-Barbera, however, did not publicly acknowledge this, and Blanc was still listed in the closing credits. There was one episode where it started with Daws Butler as the voice of Barney, and right in the middle of the episode, he's replaced with Mel Blanc (and, unlike most modern shows where there would be a fourth wall-breaking joke about it, this difference slipped by almost completely unnoticed).
37	** Daws Butler also voiced Fred and Barney in the original pitch reel ''The Flagstones''. Also, Betty was voiced by June Foray.
38	** Wilma's mother was voiced at first by Verna Felton, but was later replaced by Janet Waldo.
39	** Post-show examples: At this point, all of the original ''Flintstones'' actors have died and been replaced (some multiple times).
40	*** Gerry Johnson replaced Bea Benaderet as Betty Rubble in the show's fifth and sixth seasons, when Benaderet left to concentrate on her role as Kate Bradley on ''Series/PetticoatJunction''. Johnson retired soon after ''The Flintstones'' ended its ABC run and would be replaced in 1971 by Gay Hartwig (Benaderet herself died in 1968, during ''Petticoat'''s run). Hartwig herself would be replaced by [[Creator/BJWard Betty Jean Ward]], who was replaced by current voice Creator/GreyDeLisle.
41	*** 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/{{Jim Cummings\|1952}}, 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).
42	*** 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 imitating Barney's early voice (and Creator/SethMacFarlane in parodies shown on ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' and ''WesternAnimation/RobotChicken'').
43	*** Jean Vander Pyl was the longest-surviving female member of the principal cast, playing Wilma until her death in 1999. Since then, Wilma has been played by Creator/TressMacNeille.
44	*** In ''The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age [=SmackDown=]'', Creator/JohnOHurley replaced John Stephenson as the voice of Mr. Slate.
45	* 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.
46	* RecycledScript: There have been numerous episodes where Fred had a doppelgänger and in a TV movie from the 1970s, Fred took Santa's place. He did the same thing in the original show.
47	* 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]]Despite the fact that HBO Max is owned by Warner Bros' [[Creator/WarnerBrosDiscovery parent company]][[/note]]
48	* TechnologyMarchesOn: Later spinoffs and TV movies usually update the Stone Age technology equivalents to match when the spinoff/movie was made. Thus:
49	** The late 1970s ''[[WesternAnimation/FredAndBarneyMeetTheThing The New Fred and Barney Show]]'' featured CB radios and microwave ovens.
50	** The 1980s spinoff ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneKids'' featured video games.
51	** The 90s TV movies ''I Yabba Dabba Do'' and ''Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby'' feature desktop computers, [=VCRs=], [=CDs=] and car alarms.
52	** The 2015 WWE crossover movie ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstonesStoneAgeSmackDown'' shows Bedrock now has flat-screen TV sets, cell phones, and tablets.
53	** If one takes the Fruity Pebbles commercials as {{canon}}, then they actually have not only all that, but also HumongousMecha.
54	** ''WesternAnimation/TheJetsonsMeetTheFlintstones'' crossover film features George and his family introducing the Flintstones to futuristic technology and gadgets while the Jetsons spend time in the Stone Age. Later on, the Flintstones' car absorbs energy from the time machine, and it transports the Flintstones and Rubbles back to Bedrock and the Stone Age.
55	** A cover illustration for a collectors’ magazine showed the Flintstones and Rubbles sitting in the Flintmobile, with the adults wearing seatbelts and Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm in stone car seats.
56	* ThrowItIn:
57	** The script for the first episode had Fred saying "yahoo". Alan Reed didn't like it, and asked whether he could change it to "Yabba-dabba-doo", which was a play on "A little dab'll do ya", which was the slogan of Brylcreem, a hair gel.
58	** Barney's VocalEvolution came about when Mel Blanc 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.
59	* TieInCereal: If there was ever an example of the trope that outlived its source material, that honor would go to Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa 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.
60	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
61	** 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 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.
62	** 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".
63	** Hanna and Barbera tried to get one of the original staff writers from ''Series/TheHoneymooners'' to write for them, but his scripts were reportedly too dialogue-heavy (which, by [=HB=] standards, is saying something).
64	** [[https://badazzmofo.wordpress.com/2011/02/22/2679/ There were plans]] to make a SpinOff called ''The Blackstones'' about an African-American family that moved in next to the Flintstones. It goes without saying why it didn't make the cut.
65	** According to a [=MeTV=] article, Jean Carson; best known for playing the raspy-voiced Daphne, one of the [[TownGirls Fun Girls]] from Series/TheAndyGriffithShow, at one point [[https://www.metv.com/lists/10-things-you-never-knew-about-the-fun-girls-of-the-andy-griffith-show?fbclid=IwAR0Gp81e754zsLpSKU0_fsMWLR9d7FmI0k2DeyiqJXgF89yV7L7QPcHrcA4 auditioned for]] the voice of Betty Rubble.
66	** Comedy writer and actor [[Film/SoYouWantToBeInPictures 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]].
67	** 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}}) and Hal Smith. Hanna and Barbera were dissatisfied with their performances and replaced them with Alan Reed and Mel Blanc, who re-recorded their episodes.
68	** Hanna-Barbera considered a reimagining to the original series in the early 1970s known as ''[[https://flintstones.fandom.com/wiki/The_New_Flintstones_Show The New Flintstones Show]]'', which was functionally the same, but set in the modern day (one can only imagine how they would've pull ''that'' off, considering the majority of the original show's humour hinged on the prehistoric setting).
69	** Former Spumcø animator Bill Wray revealed in a 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.
70	* WordOfGod: Cartoonist Gene Hazelton [[http://cartoonician.com/excavating-bedrock-reminiscences-of-the-flintstones/ said]] he based Bamm-Bamm's design on his son, Wes.
71	* WorkingTitle: The name of the series in its pilot was originally ''The Flagstones''. An early model sheet of Fred also showed another early name for the series, ''The Gladstones''.
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74	!![[Film/TheFlintstones The film version]]
75	* AbilityOverAppearance: Rosie O'Donnell, though not the immediate choice for Betty, mastered her laugh and other mannerisms in her audition.
76	* ActingForTwo:
77	** Though uncredited, Creator/MaryKayBergman played the [=RocDonald's=] counter girl as well as various Bedrock citizens.
78	** In the Japanese dub:
79	*** Creator/ShigeruChiba voices the Dictabird, Fred Schneider and the Fred Flintstone look-alike on ''Bedrock's Most Wanted''.
80	*** Mr. Slate and the ''Bedrock's Most Wanted'' host are both played by Yosuke Akimoto.
81	* AllStarCast: In the first live-action film: John Goodman, Creator/RickMoranis, Rosie O'Donnell, Elizabeth Perkins, Creator/HalleBerry, Creator/KyleMacLachlan, and Creator/ElizabethTaylor (in what turned out to be her final big-screen movie).[[note]]and other than the 2001 MadeForTVMovie ''These Old Broads'', her final movie full stop.[[/note]]
82	* ArtistDisillusionment: This was one of the roles that convinced Creator/RickMoranis to eventually retire from acting in the late 90s, as he was catching on that studios were only hiring him as a box office draw rather than for his acting or improv talents.
83	* AwesomeDearBoy: Creator/JohnGoodman on playing Fred Flintstone.
84	* CreatorsFavorite: The late Irwin Keyes (Joe Rockhead) ranked ''The Flintstones'' as one of his favorite films.
85	* CrossRegionalVoiceActing: The Latin American Spanish dub used voice actors from both the Mexico City and Los Angeles areas.
86	* DawsonCasting: The two pairs of twins who played Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm were both considerably older than the toddlers they were playing, and looked it. Elaine and Melanie Silver were five years old, and Hlynur and Marino Sigurthsson also turned five during production.
87	* DisownedAdaptation: Joseph Barbera didn't exactly ''hate'' the film, per se, but felt that he could've written a better plot.
88	* KidsMealToy: UsefulNotes/McDonalds released a set of five race cars with small buildings in the US. 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=]. Europe featured a different set of four toys; Fred in the Brontosaurus Crane, Wilma and Dino in the Flintmobile, the Bedrock RTD Bus, and the [=RocDonald's=] restaurant.
89	* LoopingLines: Hlynur and Marinó Sigurðsson played Bamm-Bamm on set, while Creator/ElizabethDaily looped the character's lines during post-production.
90	* MissingTrailerScene: A scene shows Fred Flintstone playing with a sing-along rock with him yelling "YABBA DABBA DOO!"
91	* TheOtherDarrin: In the Japanese dub:
92	** Creator/TesshoGenda voices Fred Flintstone instead of Creator/ToruOhira.
93	** Creator/KeiTomiyama voices Barney Rubble instead of Creator/IsamuTanonaka.
94	** Creator/GaraTakashima voices Wilma Flintstone instead of Mitsuko Narita.
95	** Creator/MamiKoyama voices Betty Rubble instead of Mariko Mukai.
96	* PlayingAgainstType:
97	** 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.
98	** 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.
99	* PosthumousCredit: Creator/MelBlanc's voice is reused via archive audio. He died in 1989.
100	* PromotedFanboy: Director Brian Levant reportedly had the world's biggest collection of ''Flintstones'' memorabilia when he took the directing job.
101	* RealLifeRelative:
102	** Twin sisters Elaine and Melanie Silver portray Pebbles Flintstone.
103	** Bamm-Bamm was played by twin brothers Hlynur and Marinó Sigurðsson.
104	** 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.
105	* RoleReprise:
106	** Via archive audio, the late Creator/MelBlanc reprises his role as Dino.
107	** 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 film was dubbed 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 at the time, but Lucena had died in 1985 from cardiac arrest).
108	** The Brazillian Portuguese dub brings Rogério Márcico to reprise his role of Barney.
109	** In the Japanese dub, Creator/GaraTakashima reprised her role as Wilma Flintstone from the 1987 release of ''The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone''.
110	* SavedFromDevelopmentHell:
111	** 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.
112	** 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''.
113	-->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.
114	** 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.
115	** Eventually, the rights were bought by Creator/AmblinEntertainment. Donner 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.
116	** In all, no fewer than ''thirty-five writers'' contributed to the screenplay (and yet none of them turned up to accept the UsefulNotes/GoldenRaspberryAward they all won for Worst Screenplay).
117	* UncreditedRole: Creator/JohnLandis was brought in for uncredited reshoots.
118	* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
119	** At a brief point there were plans for an animated movie to coincide with ''WesternAnimation/JetsonsTheMovie'' but due to both Critical and Box-Office failure of that film, the idea was quickly scrapped.
120	** 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/MelGibson was also considered.
121	** Creator/GeenaDavis and Creator/CatherineOHara were considered for the role of Wilma.
122	** Creator/DannyDeVito was the original first choice for the role of Barney, but he turned down the role as he felt he was too gruff to do the character properly, and recommended Creator/RickMoranis for the part. Creator/DudleyMoore was also considered.
123	** Creator/TraceyUllman and Creator/KimBasinger were considered for the role of Betty.
124	** 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. They tried to change her name to Rosetta Stone, but [[ExecutiveMeddling the studio thought]] people wouldn't get the reference. Creator/NicoleKidman was also offered the role.
125	** Creator/AudreyMeadows and Creator/ElizabethMontgomery were considered for the role of Pearl Slaghoople.
126	** In addition to the ones released for Super NES and Game Boy, there was to be a Flintstones Movie game for the Sega Genesis. Beyond a prototype, this version was reportedly once available on Sega Channel.

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