History WMG / TheFlintstones

In "Dino Disappears," after Dino runs away, Pebbles is TooUnhappyToBeHungry. Barney tries to encourage her to eat [[FeedByExample sampling her cereal himself]], saying "Uncle Barney loves Pebbles' cereal"... and then finds that he really does like it and finishes it for her. Maybe that cereal was Fruity Pebbles (Cocoa Pebbles would be introduced later), and this was Barney's first taste of it, creating his addiction to it that made him create all his lavish schemes to steal it from Fred in the commercials.

In the show, all productive machinery and labor saving devices are replaced by exploited animal labor. Moreover, these animals are often clearly shown to be sentient, lampshading the crappiness of their position with a shrug and "It's a living". This represents, quite in line with Marxian political economy, the emphasis upon labor being the prime mover of social wealth. In our world, such goods as a household appliance represent labor mixed with raw materials to create a functional product. But such often goes unrecognized. ''The Flinstones'' makes this connection clear. Fred Flinstone, a worker himself, is alienated from his fellow workers by capitalist socio-economic system. This represents Fred's self-estrangement from himself as a worker due to his consumerist lifestyle. It is clear that there was serious Marxist infiltration of Hanna-Barbara to slip such a subversive message through in a primetime sitcom.

[[WMG: The Flinstones is the United States of America, after WorldWarIII. ]]

Hanna Barbera did get a few others off the ground but are all much farther down the totem pole. The Roman Holidays was a Roman Family. There's also These are the Days (late 19th Century) and Wait Till Your Father Get's home (70s). Also the special 'WesternAnimation/TheThanksgivingThatAlmostWasnt'' might as well be a taste of how they would have done Pilgrim/Puritan times.

Hanna Barbera did get a few others off the ground but are all much farther down the totem pole. The Roman Holidays was a Roman Family. There's also These are the Days (late 19th Century) and Wait Till Your Father Get's home (70s). Also the special 'The Thanksgiving That Almost Wasn't" might as well be a taste of how they would have done Pilgrim/Puritan times.

* The Serfboards (Serf:an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system of medieval europe to work on his lord's estate.)

[[WMG: In the Flintstones-verse it is perpetually the sixties .]]

[[YourObedientSerpent This Troper]] hopes that this doesn't offend anyone; it was originally written in response to a locked Website/LiveJournal post where someone jokingly postulated a segregated Stone Age community "across the tracks" from Bedrock. Now, ''that'' was offensive.

* The Serfboards (Serf:an agricultural laborer bound under the feudal system of medieval to work on his lord's estate.)