Line #48 WesternAnimation/TheFlintstonesStoneAgeSmackDown


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3	->''"Sports entertainment is fun."''
4	-->-- '''John Cenastone'''
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6	''The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age [=SmackDown=]!'' is a 2015 direct-to-DVD ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' movie. It is a collaboration between Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation and Creator/WWEStudios and is the first Flintstones production since 2001's ''The Flintstones: On the Rocks''. It's a bizarre curiosity that followed off WWE's previous crossover with ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' and ushered in Creator/WarnerBros adding other HB characters into the DTV line.
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8	In ''Stone Age [=SmackDown=]!'', Fred Flintstone is looking for a few days off and a paycheck to take his family on vacation. His search for more clams leads him to inadvertently invent ProfessionalWrestling. Features a number of stone-age parodies of WWE personalities, all of whom voice their own characters.
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10	Interestingly enough, the movie functions as a prequel of sorts to the WWE and professional wrestling itself.
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13	!!''Stone Age [=SmackDown=]!'' provides examples of:
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15	* AcquiredSituationalNarcissism: Fred's initial wrestling scheme makes plenty of money for the vacation, but he blows it all on bling and hair gel for himself, then rents out the Bedrock Dome for a massive sports entertainment show with himself as the emcee.
16	* ActorAllusion: Wrestling/JohnCena guest-starring on ''The Flintstones'' sounds like the next logical step after Wrestling/DwayneJohnson compared Cena's appearance to "a big fat bowl of [[Advertising/PebblesCereal Fruity Pebbles]]", then Cena temporarily replaced the Flintstones and the Rubbles as the cereal's official spokesperson.
17	* AnachronismStew: Obvious for ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', but being made in 2015, there are now computers, tablets, and cellphones capable of playing solitaire, all of which somehow function despite being made of rocks.
18	* AsideGlance:
19	** Pebbles gives one to the audience after Wilma notes her "I start worrying" line about her husband.
20	** John Cenastone does this before he enacts DuckSeasonRabbitSeason on Daniel Byrock he does one earlier as Fred Flintstone has an existential crisis about his life on working at the quarry.
21	* AuthorAppeal: Wrestling/VinceMcMahon seems to have been an important piece to getting this off the ground. As such Warner Bros had been expanding its use of Hanna Barbera properties beside ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' and ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' as a result this managed to basically meet two goals in the middle.
22	* BadassInANiceSuit: Rey Mysteriopal wears a nice blue suit, until Fred tears it up.
23	* BerserkButton: The Undertaker does ''not'' like Fred taking away his tablet and is growling in annoyance.
24	* BigWhat: When Fred reveals to Betty and Wilma that the purpose of their sports entertainment event was to get enough money so that both the Flintstones and Rubbles could go to Rockapulco, Barney says [[SayingTooMuch a little more than needed]].
25	-->'''Barney''': Fred came up with the idea after he destroyed the quarry, nearly killed his boss, and had his paycheck taken away.
26	-->'''Wilma''': He '''''WHAT?!'''''
27	* BigYes: Daniel Byrock begins chanting this after going through a DuckSeasonRabbitSeason flyer exchange.
28	* BlackComedyAnimalCruelty: Considering this might the first installment of the franchise to actually show the dinosaurs at the quarry struggling in pain as they're forced to work, but with nothing being done of it, supposedly this was the intent.
29	* BoxingKangaroo: Fred's original plan to raise money involves having people fight against Hoppy. Then CM Punkrock got involved...
30	* TheBusCameBack: Hoppy has returned for a new production after [[LongBusTrip not being seen since the 1970s]].
31	* CatFight: Averted. The Boulder Twins [[ThinSkinnedBully retreat in fear]] after being confronted by Wilma.
32	* ComicallyMissingThePoint: Fred takes away The Undertaker's tablet, which pisses The Deadman more than anything. Fred, who is trying to get the wrestlers psyched up for a match, just states "That's more like it!"
33	* CoversAlwaysLie: Wrestling/DanielBryan is barely in the movie, and he never fights Wrestling/TheUndertaker.
34	* DigitalDestruction: Received a second Blu-ray release on the last disc of the ''Flintstones'' complete series boxset, albeit in standard definition with the audio downmixed from DTS-HD MA 5.1 to Dolby Digital 2.0. None of the bonus features from the individual Blu-ray made it, either, unless one takes into account that "The Engagement Ring" and "Take Me Out to the Ballgame" appear elsewhere in the boxset. The DVD boxset ''The Flintstones: 2 Movies & 5 Specials'' also uses the 2.0 soundtrack.
35	* DistractedByTheSexy: Just as Fred is about to tell Wilma he's canceling the vacation, Wilma appears in a bikini.
36	* DuckSeasonRabbitSeason: John Cenastone puts one on Daniel Byrock when John's trying to give Daniel a flyer--he even gives an AsideGlance to the audience before he enacts it.
37	* ExactWords: When Betty and Wilma confront Fred about his sport event.
38	-->'''Wilma''': You said you weren't going to try to double our clams in some harebrained scheme.\
39	'''Fred''': Actually, I said I wasn't going to try to double our clams in some harebrained ''poker game''. I did, however, double our clams in a harebrained sports entertainment event.
40	* HereWeGoAgain: The movie ends with [[spoiler:Barney and Fred running off to participate in a karaoke contest whose winner gets onto Prehistoric Idol.]]
41	* HowDidYouKnowIDidnt: After Fred tears off Rey Mysteriopal's suit, he's left in a pair of boxers that are akin to wrestling shorts. He questions how Fred even knew he was wearing them with Fred said he didn't and waves it off by saying it was a lucky guess.
42	* IdeaBulb: Fred gets the idea to invent wrestling after people paid clams for Barney's tussle with CM Punk.
43	* IdenticalGrandson: With the PunnyName that each of the wrestlers have, it's difficult to say if they are the ancestors of the modern-day wrestlers, but they do look quite similar to them (or, [[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWrestlemaniaMystery at least]], to the other animated versions of them).
44	** They even have [[GenerationXerox the same occupation]].
45	* {{Jerkass}}: CM Punkrock insults Hoppy, causing the poor guy to tear up before Barney decides to lay the smack-down on him.
46	* LastNameBasis: Both Mr. Slate and CM Punkrock address others by their last names because they "prefer the formality of last names." Though CM Punkrock calls Marble Henry [[FullNameBasis by his full name]].
47	* MotiveDecay: Fred initially gets into all this in order to get more family vacation money. He succeeds, but then he gets greedy.
48	* MythologyGag: John Cenastone suggests that music is his thing, harking back to Cena's Dr. of Thuganomics gimmick and rap album he produced.
49	** This special continued what had been a trend of the 70s, 80s and 90s Flintstone spinoffs to update the technology of the real world present day into Flintstomes BambooTechnology despite little time passing in universe.
50	** When Rey Mysteriopal is introduced in his wrestling match, he places his hands in front of his face before moving them back, an image from his 2004-2005 Titantron video.
51	* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: A character resembling and sounding like Phil Silvers pays good money at the Boulder Twins' kissing booth.
52	* PapaWolf: Barney's interactions with Bamm-Bamm aren't shown, but when Wrestling/{{CM Punk}}rock starts abusing Hoppy to serious jeers, Barney loses it and knocks CM Punkrock out with a suicide dive.
53	* PintsizedPowerhouse: Bam-Bam was always this, but here's to put it in perspective: he puts a MetronomicManMashing to '''Mark Henry''', whose RedBaron is The World's Strongest Man!
54	* PunnyName: Most WWE characters have prehistoric pun names. Wrestling/{{John Cena}}stone, [[Wrestling/MarkHenry Marble Henry]], [[Wrestling/CMPunk CM Punkrock]], [[Wrestling/DanielBryan Daniel Byrrock]], [[Wrestling/TheBellaTwins Nikki and Brie Boulder]], Wrestling/{{Rey Mysterio}}pal, and Vince [=McMagma=]. The only one who doesn't is Wrestling/TheUndertaker. The implication being all the other Wrestlers are Stone Age equivalents of the their voice actors... but The Undertaker being undead is just the The Undertaker himself.
55	* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: The Boulder Twins fled when Wilma and Betty were about to give them a smackdown.
56	* ShoutOut: The Stonebucks logo looks like Squiddly Diddly.
57	* TheSmurfettePrinciple: The Boulder Sisters are the only female wrestlers in the film and they don't add much to the plot. It should be noted that the film was released before the "Women's Revolution" which saw the Bellas and other divas given more serious storylines and longer matches.
58	* SuperStrength:
59	** John Cenastone was capable of lifting and even throwing a ''stegosaurus'' over his head.
60	** Bamm-Bamm gets to demonstrate his when Henry tries to attack Barney from behind. Fred is most impressed, and Barney immediately tells him not to get any ideas.
61	* StealthPun: The Undertaker doesn't have a PunnyName, but what's his FinishingMove? The Tomb''stone'' Piledriver.
62	* TakeThatKiss: The Boulders lift and kiss Fred to [[TheShowMustGoOn keep the match going]]. The sisters then drop him and mockingly pose after riling up the crowd.
63	* TemptingFate: At home, Wilma muses to Betty that a Fred scheme is actually working as intended for once. Barney then points them to the TV, and they see Fred getting manhandled by wrestlers.
64	* ThisIsGonnaSuck: Barney's reaction on having to fight The Undertaker. Then again, who can blame him?
65	* YourSizeMayVary: Rey Mysterio is billed at 5'3 but he seems to be a head taller than Fred.
66	* ZanyScheme: Fred accidentally invents pro wrestling and decides to run with it in order to get more money for a family vacation.

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