History WesternAnimation / FredAndBarneyMeetTheThing

* PantyShot: Nita in "Monster Island". When she and Mickey are lassoed, pulled, and yanked up a cliff, she gives a flash of her undies, which match her Kelly green skirt.

* MsFanservice: Nita in the episode "Monster Island".

In 1979, ''Fred and Barney Meet the Thing'' was an hourlong Saturday morning cartoon on Creator/{{NBC}} in which, ironically, neither Fred Flintstone nor Barney Rubble ever met the Thing. It consisted of a half-hour of ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' and a half-hour of ''The Thing''. Eventually it was expanded to 90 minutes with the addition of a half-hour ''Shmoo'' segment, at which point the title of the show was changed to the equally inaccurate ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' (although it did happen in the "Bedrock Cops" shorts on ''TheFlintstoneComedyShow'').

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Mickey, Billy Joe and Nita from ''The New Shmoo''.

* BeautyBrainsandBrawn: Nita, the beauty; Mickey, the brains; and Billy Joe, the brawn.

* BlondeBrunetteandRedhead: Billy Joe, Nita, and Mickey respectively.

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Count Rockula and his wife are vampires who are on good terms with the Flintstones.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In "Out to Launch", Manfred Von Wreckerstein at one point causes a house to fall apart, revealing a woman bathing. You can see a hint more skin than expected in a 1970's children's cartoon.

* CoveringInnocentEyesAndEars: In one episode, the kids expose the villains by [spoiler: spraying them with a foam that can dissolve clothes], and they end up seeing the bad guys in their undergarments.

* CryptidEpisode: One of the first episodes is "Bigfoot Meets the Thing". Subverted in Bigfoot is just one of the Yancy Street Gang [[ScoobyDooHoax in a costume]]. Double-subverted when the real Bigfoot falls in love with the guy in the (female) costume.

* GoneHorriblyWrong: The opening heavily implies (and several episodes later confirm) that this is the same adult Ben Grimm from the comics, but with a cure that had gone wrong, so he's unable to transform back into his normal adult self. Now he's stuck as either a scrawny geek or a monstrous pile of rocks, neither of which he likes (but he likes being the Thing less).

* SecretIdentity: Only Kelly Harkness and her father know that Benjy is the Thing. Her father is the reason he's a teenager in the first place.

* TransformationSequence: A particularly elaborate one, and another one for reversion. While he normally only transforms two or three times per episode (plus maybe one reversion sequence), in "Decepto the Great", where he transforms to or from the Thing ''seven times'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUSuPvkADDE the first four in the span of a minute and a half.]]

In 1979, ''Fred and Barney Meet the Thing'' was an hourlong Saturday morning cartoon on Creator/{{NBC}} in which, ironically, neither Fred Flintstone nor Barney Rubble ever met the Thing. It consisted of a half-hour of ''TheFlintstones'' and a half-hour of ''The Thing''. Eventually it was expanded to 90 minutes with the addition of a half-hour ''Shmoo'' segment, at which point the title of the show was changed to the equally inaccurate ''Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo'' (although it did happen in the "Bedrock Cops" shorts on ''TheFlintstoneComedyShow'').

!!''The New Fred and Barney Show'' segments contain examples of:

* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Count Rockula and his wife.

* EvilTwin: "Double Trouble for the Thing" features a robot duplicate of the Thing, programmed to commit crimes and frame the real deal.

* PicnicEpisode: "Picnic Panic".

* {{Crossover}}: Averted! Fred and Barney [[InNameOnly never actually meet the Thing]], the shorts of one NEVER crossover with the shorts of the other. The only time they are ''ever'' seen together are during the opening credits and bumpers between segments (though, as mentioned, Fred and Barney did eventually meet the Shmoo in segments of a completely different show).

''The Thing'', which was loosely based on the character of the same name from Marvel Comics' ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' series, followed the adventures of young Benjy Grimm. His magic ring would transform him into a rock-covered monster whenever he touched the two halves together and said, "Thing Ring, do your thing," a particularly cheesy example of ByThePowerOfGreyskull. This was quite a departure from the original character, Ben Grimm, an adult test pilot who was transformed ''permanently'' into the rocky-skinned Thing after having been exposed to cosmic rays (though several episodes state this was the same character, an adult stuck as a teenager). The Thing segments were the only segments specifically produced for this show.

''The Thing'', which was loosely based on the character of the same name from Marvel Comics' ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'' series, followed the adventures of young Benjy Grimm. His magic ring would transform him into a rock-covered monster whenever he touched the two halves together and said, "Thing Ring, do your thing," a particularly cheesy example of ByThePowerOfGreyskull. This was quite a departure from the original character, Ben Grimm, an adult test pilot who was transformed ''permanently'' into the rocky-skinned Thing after having been exposed to cosmic rays.

''The New Shmoo'' (originally a separate series) stars the titular creature from ''ComicStrip/LilAbner'' as the TeamPet of a trio of teenagers in yet another of Creator/HannaBarbera's own [[RecycledINSPACE apings]] of the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' formula.

!!This inaccurately named show contains examples of:

* BeachEpisode: "Beach Party Crashers", though most of the characters spend the episode in their normal outfits, and one only changes into a bikini for one scene, which she spends mostly underwater. "Lights, Action, Thing" starts with the characters on a yacht in swimwear, hewing closer to the trope in spirit if not literally.
* BlessedWithSuck / CursedWithAwesome: the main character is, in reality, neither the scrawny geek Benjy nor the monstrous but popular Thing. He's the adult Ben Grimm, unable to change back to his normal self. The audience is apparently supposed to see his condition as CursedWithAwesome, but Benjy clearly feels differently. As he says in "To Thing or Not To Thing":

* {{Crossover}}: Averted! Fred and Barney [[InNameOnly never actually meet the Thing]], the shorts of one NEVER crossover with the shorts of the other. The only time they are ''ever'' seen together are during the opening credits and bumpers between segments.

* TheNewAdventures: ''The New Fred and Barney Show'' and ''The New Shmoo''.
* PicnicEpisode: "Picnic Panic"

* TwoGuysAndAGirl: Mickey, Billy Joe and Nita from ''The New Shmoo''.

!!''The New Fred and Barney Show'' segments contain examples of:
* FriendlyNeighborhoodVampires: Count Rockula and his wife.
* TheSeventies: The Stone Age technology equivalent here is updated for the seventies, including the presence of microwave ovens ([[BambooTechnology a dragon in a box spewing rings of fire to cook food rapidly]]) and CB radios.
* TyrannosaurusRex: Finally makes an appearance in the series after being absent in the original cartoon.