History WesternAnimation / AFlintstonesChristmasCarol

* RunningGag: The play's actors coming down with the "Bedrock Bug", and Wilma having to take over their roles.

* ThrowTheDogABone: After all the emotional grief caused by Fred and the hectic workload she endured filling in for various others at the last minute, Wilma receives a genuine apology from Fred and is publicly praised for the play's success.
* WhatTheHellHero: Barney, Wilma and Betty act this way to Fred all through the show. In fact, after the curtain falls, the ''entire cast'' of the play looks angered at Fred.

** The newspaper the Flintstones subscribe to is the ''Daily Granite'', the paper Wilma works for in the early 1980's ''The Flintstone Comedy Show.''

* YetAnotherChristmasCarol

A return to the normal characterizations and ages of the Flintstones' main cast, this is not to be confused with the 1977 special ''A Flintstone Christmas'' (where Fred fills in for Santa) or the previous year's ''A Flintstone Family Christmas'' (the final installment of the 1993 trilogy of TV specials where Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm marry and have kids.) Notable as the last animated Flintstones production (''Cave Kids'' and short films aside) before Hanna-Barbera was merged into Warner Bros. Animation in 2001.

* ActingForTwo: In-universe examples; Barney plays Bob Craget and Fezziwig, Mrs. Feldspar as Fan and Clara, Mr. Slate as Jacob Marbley and one of the business men talking about Scrooge's death in the future sequence, stage manager Wilma filling for several actors who got sick, and Dino playing both the Craget's pet and the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come when the original actor also gets sick.

* AnachronismStew: This is set in the stone age (tens of thousands of years before the birth of Christ at the very least), but Dickens' story was published in 1846. And to that, the setting in the play is a stone-age rendering of 19th century London.

* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Fred initially wonders why Wilma is so upset with him, saying he hasn't stumbled over any scenery or screwing up any lines.

* JerkassRealization: Fred starts hitting this after Wilma breaks down in tears after the Christmas Past segment over his behavior, and even moreso when he realizes he never followed up on trying to pick up Wilma and Pebbles' presents after leaving them with a kid to wrap them (fortunately the kid also has a role in the play and brought them with him to give to Fred after the show).
* MythologyGag: Fred is shown to have a cop friend named Philo Quartz, who was the TokenMinority kid on ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstoneKids''. This is probably TheArtifact due to this movie originating as part of the second round of the Superstars 10. It would have been mostly plotted not long after The Flintstone Kids and with the kids as babies aimed to make Philo look to have been there all along. However this wouldn't actually get funded until long after they had made new movies with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as adults in the early 90s.
** The mannequin's outfit Fred buys at the department store has a wig that looks like the teenage/adult Pebbles' hairstyle.

** Also, when Fred plays Scrooge as a boy, Scrooge's sister Fan mentions him being left alone at school and neglected by his father, causing Fred to remember that he forgot to pick up Pebbles from day care because of his Scrooge-like attitude while rehearsing. It helps that Fan is played by Pebbles' day care teacher.
* RememberTheNewGuy: Several new characters are featured as if they have been regular parts of the supporting cast for years. However as seen in WhatCouldHaveBeen some of these may have originally been grown up versions of characters introduced in The Flintstone Kids but changed along the years.

* WhatTheHellHero: Barney, Wilma and Betty act this way to Fred all through the show. In fact, after the curtain falls the ''entire cast'' of the play looks angered at Fred.