Referenced By / The Flintstones

"I don't understand! If cars are powered by feet, shouldn't we just keep running?!"

A list of references, parodies, homages and shout-outs to The Flintstones.

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Anime & Manga

• In the Ninja Hattori episode "Let's Go for a Fashion Show", Shishimaru comments that his fashion show costume makes him look like Fred Flintstone, even using his catchphrase "Yabba dabba doo!"

Comic Books

• The eighth issue of Shadow Cabinet has two background characters discuss the theory that the cartoon actually takes place in a post-apocalyptic future rather than the stone age as an explanation for why the inhabitants of Bedrock have prehistoric equivalents to devices and technology that didn't exist back then in addition to making modern pop culture references.
• In Adventures of Superman #441, "The Tiny Terror of Tinseltown", Mr Mxyzptlk arrives in Hollywood, where he brings various cartoon characters to life and challenges Superman to fight them. One of them is a Fred Flintstone pastiche, whom Superman traps in the La Brea Tar Pits.
• Watchmen: The child kidnapper murdered by Rorschach named his dogs Fred and Barney.

Comic Strips

• Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber: In De Tijdmachine (The Time Machine) Bert Bibber is accidentally sent back in time to the Stone Age. Unaware what is going on he sees a group of cavemen and wonders: "Have I accidentally stumbled upon The Flintstones?" He is then chased away by them.
• Urbanus: In De Hittentitten Zien Het Niet Meer Zitten, Urbanus is threatened by some Smurfs, who are then caught by Fred and Barney working for the Hanna-Barbera studios, to bring them to Hollywood to star in the Smurfs' TV series. As they get in their car Fred complains that the studio was too cheap to buy them a proper vehicle, causing them to once again use their feet to get it into motion.
• Peanuts: In a 1999 strip, Charlie Brown tells Sally that Emily likes to dance with him because he dances like Fred Astaire. Sally replies, "Fred Astaire or Fred Flintstone?"
• Garfield: The title panel for this strip◊ features Garfield as Fred, Arlene as Wilma, and Odie as Dino.
  Garfield as Fred: Your dogasaurus ate my car.
• Sherman's Lagoon: While Fillmore is participating in a speed-reading competition, Hawthorne notices that one of his competitors is taking some kind of medication out of his pocket. He immediately assumes that it's a performance-enhancing drug, but Fillmore says that he thinks it's actually a Flintstones chewable.
• The Far Side: One two-page cartoon depicts the Stone Age, with a background gag where Fred Flintstone is drowning in a swamp.
  • One cartoon had a pair of saber-tooth tigers walking away from a pile of caveman clothes from their latest meal. One of them says, "I've heard a lot of sounds from those creatures, but Yabba-Dabba-Doo was a new one to me."
  • In another cartoon, a group of archaeologists are about to find a buried mailbox marked "Fred & Wilma".
• Bizarro deconstructs the way Flintstone cars work in one strip◊ where Fred Flintstone has to see a foot doctor after all that excessive running.

Film – Animated

• In Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the herd is sliding down a dinosaur while Ellie screams "Yabba-Dabba-Do!"
  Manny: Don't you Yabba-Dabba-Do that again!

Film - Live-Action

• In The Amazing Spider-Man, Dr. Curt Connors' lab rats are given the names Fred and Wilma.
• In Casper, one of the kids at Kat's halloween party is dressed like Fred. Casper was produced by the same studio and production company as the 1994 movie, and Steven Spielberg was executive producer on both films.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022): One of the "bootlegged" Toons that are freed near the end is Bigfoot from A Goofy Movie wearing Fred Flintstone's outfit.
• In Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Del Griffith leads an entire bus in singing the Flintstones theme song.
• My Science Project: After getting attacked by a Neanderthal, Vince complains that Barney Rubble tried to kill them.

Literature

• In Being Bindy, Bindy's mum takes her to Wonderland, where a man dressed like Barney Rubble takes their picture.

Live-Action TV

• In the According to Jim episode "The Swimming Pool" Jim says his idea of fun as a kid during a heatwave was jumping on the roof of his family's car. Cheryl remarks "Oh yeah, I almost forgot about your summer vacations with the Flintstones."
• The Big Bang Theory: At one point in "The Wildebeest Implementation", Howard comments on Bernadette seemingly getting along with Leonard's then-girlfriend Priya by saying, "Nice to see that the gals are getting along." Leonard replies, "The GALS? Who are you, Fred Flintstone?"
• In one episode of Corner Gas, the town of Dog River strives to not watch TV for a week in order to compete with another town. Oscar offers, "You want some Muppets? Or how about The Flintstones?"
• In CSI: NY's episode "Trapped," Danny gets locked in a panic room with a dead body but without his kit. Via the intercom, Stella walks him through how to collect evidence old-school-style (using pen ink to take the man's fingerprints, etc). He tells her he thinks he saw some of her techniques on an episode of the Flintstones & calls her "Miss McGyver."
• FC De Kampioenen: In the pilot episode, Xavier and DDT are sitting in a car in DDT's garage with the bottom removed. Xavier suggests getting it in motion by using their feet "like the Flintstones do".
• The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
  • In "The Baby Comes Out", Phil and Will arrive at the hospital to help Vivian deliver her baby. A little later, totally in a panic and unaware where she is, the two call out "PHILIP!" and "VIVIAN!" back and forth to each other. Will ends up replying "WIIIILMAAAAA!!!".
  • In "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse", Will's father Lou is seen wearing a Fred Flintstone t-shirt at one point.
  • One first season episode has Will dancing to his own version of "Vogue" with his lyrics being "Michael Jordan, Al Capone, Woody Woodpecker and Fred Flintstone!"
  • In "There's No Business Like Show Business", after taking his comedian friend's place in an open mic special, Will cries out, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo! I'm in the showcase, too!"
  • Another episode had Will teasing Uncle Phil about his age and his first job, even quipping "Who was your boss, Mr. Slate?" He tries to explain what the reference was from, but his Death Glare told him that he wasn't having it.
  • An episode has Hilary taking a job as a caterer, but she wishes to quit and is pointed out on other hobbies she gave up, with her quitting violin because it hurt her chin and giving up ballet because her feet were starting to look like Fred Flintstone's.
• Full House:
  • In the first episode, the Tanners sing the Flintstones theme song to entertain baby Michelle.
    • Likewise, the first episode of Fuller House has the Tanners singing to DJ's baby Tommy. The scene is played side-by-side with the original.
  • In "Good News, Bad News", D.J. and Kimmy have a feud when the former fires the latter from being her partner as the editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper. To get back at D.J., Kimmy decides to write her own newspaper, where she writes horrible things about D.J., and even pastes pictures of D.J.'s face on Freddy Krueger's body. When an angry D.J. finds out, she ends her friendship with Kimmy, who takes a picture of her, and says her face will look great on Fred Flintstone's body.
  • In "Take My Sister, Please", Joey tells Lisa that he cried for a week when Wilma gave birth to Pebbles, and does an impression of a sad Fred Flintstone.
    Joey: (crying) Yabba-dabba-doo!
  • In "Happy Birthday, Babies" (part 2), Michelle has a Flintstones-themed birthday party, which was cut short by Becky going into labor.
  • In "Please Don't Touch the Dinosaur", when Michelle is excited about a trip to the museum in the hope of seeing real dinosaurs, Danny reminds her that dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. Michelle then tells him that Fred Flintstone lived with dinosaurs, only for Danny to remind her that Fred Flintstone is a cartoon character.
  • In the prologue to "Room For One More?", when Joey gives Nicky and Alex their first tricycles, the twins climb onto them and ride them while moving their feet across the floor. When Michelle asks them "Didn't you guys ever hear of pedals?", Joey tells her "It worked for Fred Flintstone. Yabba-dabba-doo!" The twins then say "Babba-dabba-doo!"
• In Living Color!:
  • The spoof of Crystal Waters' "Gypsy Woman" had her (portrayed by Kim Wayans) show a clip of the show while referencing it in the song and implementing the words "Yabba-Dabba-Doo, Yabba-Dabba-Dee" into the chorus.
  • Another episode had Arsenio Hall (portrayed by Keenan Ivory Wayans) pondering to a bunch a children that he was supposed to talk to about drugs for a PSA why Fred always ordered the Brontosaurus Ribs if they would just tip the car over.
• Married... with Children:
  • An early episode had Steve insulting Al, which makes the latter reply with, "You know, Barney Rubble may not have been much, but at least he was loyal."
  • The episode where Al is building a second bathroom and the house consistently loses power in order to save money for it, the rest of the family compare themselves to the modern stone-age family and eventually begin to unethuiastically sing the theme song.
• Martin: Among many of Martin's insults for Tommy's bald head was "Head Flintstone".
• The Middle:
  • In the episode "The Shirt", everyone is teasing Mike for wearing a Hawaiian shirt as opposed to his usual flannel. Frankie, in an attempt to justify it, says that if Fred started walking around Bedrock in something other than his "leopard man-dress", then Wilma, Barney and Betty would surely tease him.
  • Near the beginning of the episode "Bat Out of Heck", Frankie jokingly calls Mike "Fred Flintstone" after he complains that he prefers to drive places rather than be dropped off. This leads to a discussion between Brick and Axl about why Fred doesn't just walk everywhere considering that his car is powered by his walking.
• Mike & Molly: After starting a relationship with Victoria, Carl is constantly hanging around the eponymous couple's house. "Eight is Enough" sees him suggest a variety of couples activities they can all do together, but Mike refuses on account of wanting a break from his Motor Mouth best friend.
  Carl: C'mon, you gotta work with me here. How am I supposed to be the Barney to your Fred, if we're not comin' up with funny adventures for our Wilma and Betty?
• Red Dwarf: The opening scene from "Backwards" shows Lister and the Cat discussing how attractive Wilma is. They both agree that she is the most desirable woman who ever lived. This gets a Call-Back in Series X with Lister's jacket featuring her on the back.
• Salute Your Shorts: When Sponge was sneaking out to a date as the girls observed him and Z.Z. asks why he's dressed like Orville Redenbacher, Telly replies back, "I don't know, but Fred and Barney (Budnick and Donkeylips) are following him!"
• Samson En Gert: This famous children's duo has a song called "Joebadoebadoe", which takes place in a Stone Age setting and has a refrain that sounds suspiciously close to "Yabba-Dabba Doo".
• The Sopranos:
  • In one episode, FBI agents are discussing the unlikelihood of Adriana La Cuerva's possible attraction to their surveillance target Tony Soprano:
    "She's a good-looking woman, and she wants to fuck Barney Rubble?"
  • In a later episode, while Tony is recovering from a gunshot wound in the hospital, an evangelical preacher visits him. The preacher, who is a Young Earth creationist, tells him that dinosaurs co-existed with early humans. Tony remarks, "You mean like The Flintstones?".
• Young Sheldon: In "A Brisket, Voodoo, and Cannonball Run", when Sheldon explains that mothers-in-law disliking their daughter's husband is normal and rarely leads to divorce, Missy points out that Fred and Wilma are still happily married.

Music

• The Belgian rock band The Pebbles, best known for their hit Seven Horses In The Sky, were named after Pebbles, Fred's daughter.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied "Under the Bridge" and "Give It Away Now", both from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, as "Bedrock Anthem", an homage to The Flintstones. The lyrics and the music video are both brimful with references to the show.
  • Wilma and Betty are mentioned in "Couch Potato."
• The B-52s recorded a cover of the Flintstones' theme song in 1994, alluding to the live-action film adaptation. The song became a hit in many countries.
• The Beastie Boys namedropped "Doris the Finkasaurus" during "What Comes Around" from Paul's Boutique and on that same album Fred Flintstone during "Shake Your Rump".
  Like Fred Flintstone driving around with bald feet.
• SiIvaGunner references the infamous theme song (known best nowadays to be used in a Chinese bootleg Mario game called 7 GRAND DAD) to the point of insanity in his high-quality rips, though this could be considered a Vinesauce reference as well.

Professional Wrestling

• The Rock mocked John Cena by comparing his colorful shirts to the Flintstones-sponsored cereal Fruity Pebbles, and told him, "Yabba Dabba, bitch!"

Radio

• The Belgian radio station Radio Donna had a morning show called Yabba-Dabba Doo.

Video Games

• Conway's Game of Life has a methuselah named "Wilma", in reference to a previously-discovered methuselah named "Fred".
• Frenzy! have weak enemies that resembles the Flintmobiles which can be blown up at random.
• One of Gex's one-liners: "Wiiiiiiiilllmaaaaaaa!!!"
• In Infinite Craft, "Flintstones" is a possible crafting recipe.
• In The Itchy and Scratchy Game, the first level, "Juracid Bath", takes place in a prehistoric town that resembles Bedrock, and has a sound-alike of The Flintstones theme song as the background music.
• In The Last Ninja, "Barney" and "Fred" are the names listed in the respective third and fourth slots of the game's high score screen.
• In LEGO Dimensions, Bedrock appears as a hidden area in the level "Meltdown at Sector 7-G", accessed by using the TARDIS in Mr. Burns' office.
• Normy's Beach Babe-O-Rama: The first stage, "65,000,047 B.C." takes place in a prehistoric town that resembles Bedrock, and features a sound-alike of The Flintstones theme song as the background music.
• Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island has a Unique Enemy named Barney Bubble in one stage.

Web Comics

• Sheldon: Upon finding out that scientists have changed the name of the Brontosaurus, Arthur asks how Fred Flintstone will get his "Brontosaurus Burgers" now.

Web Original

• In the AlternateHistory.com timeline Look to the West, at one point in the framing story, the research team is discussing the known timelines, and Dr Lombardi refers to "the one where everyone lives in caves with specially trained dinosaurs instead of domestic appliances". Captain Nuttall says he's fairly certain that's just a cartoon.
• The Angry Video Game Nerd:
  • In his review of Wally Bear and the NO! Gang, the Nerd compares the game recycling the same backgrounds to The Flintstones doing the same thing.
  • In his review of Nintendo World Championships, the Nerd calls PatTheNESPunk to see if he has an official copy of the game. During their conversation, Pat boasts about how he has the The Flintstones: The Surprise At Dinosaur Peak game.
  • In his review of Tiger Electronic Handheld Games, one of the games the Nerd plays is based on the live-action movie.
• Climate Town: In "The News Media Is Selling You Out" when talking about the outrage that led to strict regulations for the tobacco industry Rollie mentions that they were caught marketing their product to children, and shows a quick clip of Fred Flintstone talking up a cigarette brand.
• Console Wars: In the Chuck Rock episode, Fred Flintstone appears as a judge for the Battle of the Bands contest.
• The Nostalgia Critic:
  • The Critic has reviewed the live-action movie, its prequel, and The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones.
  • In his review of Barb Wire, when a woman named Spike appears and talks with a robotic voice, the Critic jokes that her voice is due to smoking one too many Winston cigarettes and that the Flintstones lied to her through their infamous Winston commercials.
  • In his review of The Never Ending Story III, he describes the Rock Biter as being turned into a sitcom like The Flintstones and Dinosaurs.
  • In his original "Commercials" review, one of the commercials the Critic reviews is a Fruity Pebbles Christmas commercial, leading to this exchange:
  Critic (As Barney): Hey, Fred, how can we celebrate Christmas if Jesus isn't born yet?
  Critic (As Fred): Just eat your fucking cereal.
  • In "Return of the Nostalgic Commercials", the Critic pokes fun at the Fruity Pebbles commercials where Barney is always going through absurd lengths to steal Fred's cereals.
  Critic (as Fred): Okay, Barney, um, before I chase you around in some comedic routine, I-I just wanna ask you to do one thing. Look at yourself. Just really... look at yourself. I mean, my God, Barney. My God. You're a pathetic wreck. I mean... that stage alone. How much did that cost you? Hundred... maybe thousands of dollars? And... you keep doing this every week! Week after week, you blow your money away when you could be spending time with your family! This is why you're defaulting on your mortgage, Barn! This is why Betty has to strip! (pulls out some cash from his wallet) Here. Here's, uh... twenty dollars. That's... that's good for a couple boxes. Go, go to the store and get a few. Enjoy yourself. You have a problem, Barn. You have a real serious problem, and it needs to be addressed. I mean, seriously, Barn, what is it about my cereal that's apart from other cereals?
  Critic (as Barney): 'Cause it came from your wife's box.
  Critic (as Fred): (loads his gun) Okay, Barn, you're going down!
  • In "Planet of the Commercials", the Critic reviews commercials for Flintstones vitamins.
• PatTheNESPunk has reviewed the The Flintstones: The Surprise At Dinosaur Peak game for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
• Vinesauce Joel once played a bootleg of the licensed game The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy, retitled "7 GRAND DAD" and with Fred's head swapped out for Mario's. His flabbergasted reaction when he boots the game up inspired the entire SiIvaGunner channel.

Western Animation

• 101 Dalmatians: The Series: In "Jurassic Bark", the attire that P.D. De Vil wears for Cruella is Fred Flintstone's orange shirt and blue tie.
• Aqua Teen Hunger Force: The Show Within a Show The Granite Family from the episode of the same name is a parody of The Flintstones.
• In the Bob and Margaret episode "The Discomfort of Strangers", Melvin and Cookie sing the "Happy Anniversary" song, heard in The Flintstones episode "The Hot Piano", to Bob and Margaret.
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In "Who's Running The Show?", the villains hijack a TV station. The heroes infiltrate the station by dressing up as Flintstones characters, but call themselves the "Filthstones". Hilariously, Duke Nukem doesn't recognize them even though their faces are exposed.
• Dexter's Laboratory
  • In the Justice Friends segment "Can't Nap", Major Glory tries to throw White Tiger out of the apartment, but he ends up getting locked out and shouts "WILMA!" before correcting himself and shouting "KRUNK!", after which Krunk opens the door dressed as Wilma.
  • Dexter is seen walking past Fred Flintstone and George Jetson in "Beard to be Feared".
  • In "Dad is Disturbed", Dad gets interrupted from watching his game by Mom calling her friend "Betty", so he goes to her house and ties her up, where the caller is revealed to be Betty Rubble. At the very end, Dad has enough of his family's annoyances and goes to watch the game at Barney's house.
• Drawn Together
  • In "The Other Cousin", Wooldoor has a withdrawal-induced hallucination a la Trainspotting, with Bamm-Bamm playing the "ceiling baby".
  • In "A Tale of Two Cows", we see that the Live-Action Cow has devastated Bedrock, to which Clara says "Well, serves them right for having a gay old time".
  • In The Movie, Toot is shown living in Bedrock to hide from I.S.R.A.E.L., and it's revealed that Bamm-Bamm is her love child with Barney.
• Esme & Roy: At the beginning of "Flying High", when Roy practices bowling, he does Fred Flintstone's twinkle toes move.
• Family Guy
  • In "Wasted Talent", the Great Gazoo appears and calls Peter a "dum-dum".
  • In "Dammit Janet!", a news report mentions Peter and Lois being left in Cuba after their plane was hijacked. The artist’s rendering of "an attractive redhead married to a fat man" is of Wilma and Fred.
  • In "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Bucks", Peter and Meg are walking down a New York street when the background transitions into Bedrock, complete with a pastiche of show's background music. Peter acts like he's entered the wrong neighborhood and slowly walks back.
  • In "Ready, Willing and Disabled", Joe's wheelchair is tipped over by a plate of dinosaur ribs delivered by a cavegirl carhop.
  • A cutaway from "From Method to Madness" has a drunken adult version of Elroy Jetson getting into a cab driven by Bamm-Bamm.
  • In "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire", Peter repeats "Bam! Bam! Bam!" as an onomatopoeia for sex; he has Bamm-Bamm take over for him, and he in turn gets Emeril Lagasse to take over from him.
  • In "Peter's Got Woods", Barney becomes Peter's best friend after Brian neglects him.
  • In "Patriot Games", Fred makes a bet with bookie Stewie and says "Bet-bet-bet-bet!" before realizing that a gambling addiction is no laughing matter.
  • In "Road to Rupert", Peter and Meg become friends, and in one scene, she takes him to a drive-in and he sticks his head out through the roof, with Meg placing Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm on his head.
  • In "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air", Fred and Barney are seen at Peter's "Quahog Men's Club". Fred talks about how he saw Betty naked in Barney's window and that he got an "e-rock-tion" from it.
  • A cutaway from "Peter's Daughter" features Fred and Wilma filing for a divorce, and Fred argues about how Wilma didn't hear him when the cat kicked him outside.
  • In "Stew-Roids", Connie's friend Gina says that Chris smells like Fred Flintstone's ass. In the ensuing cutaway, Fred angrily shouts that nobody asked her to smell it.
  • In "Quagmire's Baby", Chris plays a tape from '"World's Wildest Police Chases'' showing the police chasing Fred Flintstone into a drive-in theater.
  • In "Road to the Multiverse", Stewie and Brian travel to an alternate universe based on The Flintstones that parodies the use of rock puns.
  • In "Burning Down the Bayit", Stewie attends a "baby rave" and drops a "purple Betty" Flintstones chewable vitamin, claiming it sent him flying.
  • In "The Simpsons Guy", the crossover episode with The Simpsons, Fred is seen as the judge overseeing the Duff/Pawtucket Patriot beer copyright case, an affectionate gesture of how neither show would exist without his.
  • "Fertilized Megg" begins with the Griffin children at the bowling alley. To Meg's surprise, she finds Peter and his friends bowling in one lane. During his game, Peter insists that he cannot bowl without mimicking Fred Flintstone's twinkle toes move, with Bruce imitating the sound effects on a xylophone. When Peter scores a strike, he lets out a "Yippa-yabba-yoo!" yell, to which a subtitle that says LEGALLY ACCEPTABLE SOUND-ALIKE appears onscreen.
• The Fairly OddParents!
  • In the TV movie Channel Chasers, one of the shows Timmy and his fairies enter is The Meatflints, and the scene proceeds to mock the use of repeating backgrounds.
  Timmy: I don't understand! If cars are powered by feet, shouldn't we just keep running?!
  • In "Fairly OddBaby", Cosmo and Wanda are briefly seen wearing Fred and Wilma's outfits during the weirdness that occurs when Poof breaks wind.
  • The episode "Land Before Timmy", where Timmy wishes for a world without technology, is a parody of the show.
  • In "The Past and the Furious", Timmy goes back in time to Cosmo and Wanda's first godchild in the prehistoric era, and Wanda mentions that she and Cosmo are going to go bowling with Fred and Wilma.
• Fish Police: Gil trips on his words when trying to tell Pearl that she knows how he feels about her. She asks him why he talks like that, and he says that all the great couples do it, citing Fred and Wilma, Kermit and Miss Piggy, and Rocky and Bullwinkle.
• In the Futurama episode "Fun on a Bun", Zapp acts out the giant ribs scene from the end credits.
• The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy: In "Modern Primitives", Billy thaws Fred from ice and tries to help him adapt to the modern era. Billy refers Fred as "Jake Steele" in the whole episode, while Jake... I mean, Fred speaks solely in "Yabba-Dabba-Doo".
• Jellystone!:
  • In "A Coconut to Remember", Fred appears sitting on a bear with a coconut drink in a bow tie.
  • In "Must Be Jelly", a muscular bare-chested Fred with long black hair and his trademark blue tie and Wilma with purple eyes and holding a rose appear on the front cover of a book.
  • Baby Puss appears in "Ice Ice Daddy" as a ferocious wild Smilodon who menaces Captain Caveman and Cavey Jr. upon melting free from a block of ice.
  • The Great Gazoo appears in "Gotta Kiss Them All" as a video game avatar who tricks Augie into destroying the town. Gazoo is also depicted with a German accent instead of a British one.
  • In "Uh Oh! It's a Burglar!", Weirdly Gruesome appears in the horror movie Magilla Gorilla is watching, while Fred and Barney make voice-only cameos. Barney warns Fred not to use the cursed toilet.
• The Jetsons: In "Elroy's Mob", Elroy's friend is seen watching The Flintstones on his TV watch before his teacher confiscates it.
• Johnny Bravo: The episode "A Page Right Out of History" is a crossover with the show, where an ancestor of Johnny's becomes Fred's slave after he saves his life.
• Justice League: In "Metamorphosis", the caveman-like Java defeats Metamorpho by spraying him with liquid nitrogen. In a rematch, Metamorpho stops Java from doing it again while saying, "Not this time, Flintstone!"
• Looney Tunes: Near the beginning of "Attack of the Drones" (one of the Larry Doyle-produced shorts made in the 2000s), the Great Gazoo can be seen as a member of the council that Daffy is a part of.
• Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures: In '"Don't Touch That Dial", Mighty Mouse gets zapped into several cartoon shows, one of which is a mashup of The Jetsons and The Flintstones called The Jetstones.
• Mighty Max: The episode "Tar Wars" has Max meeting a caveman. He makes two references to The Flintstones - at one point he calls the caveman "Fred", and earlier he asks him what Betty Rubble does to keep her shapely figure.
• In an episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Scooby and friends encounter giant balloons that resemble Fred Flintstone and Yogi Bear.
• In the first episode of Pinky, Elmyra & the Brain, Pinky's answer to "Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?" is "Why does Fred Flintstone keep ordering those giant ribs if they keep falling on him?" Later in the episode, Brain explains to him the concept of Stock Footage.
• The Powerpuff Girls:
  • In "Hot Air Buffoon", Fred and Barney appear as "The Barefoot Bandits◊".
  • In "Ploys R Us", which is the sister episode to the aforementioned "Hot Air Buffoon", a Flintstones pinball machine is one of the things that can be seen in the toy store that a sleepwalking Professor Utonium robs.
• The Ren & Stimpy Show:
  • In "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf", Fred and Barney can be heard in the crowd of guests leaving Ren's party.
  • In "The Scotsman in Space", Haggis McHaggis does Barney's laugh while having a total meltdown.
• Robot Chicken:
  • A sketch from "Easter Basket" has Barney accidentally killing Fred in a brawl over a box of Fruity Pebbles, and Barney ends up killing the household appliances for being witnesses.
  • A short sketch from "Yancy the Yo-Yo Boy" has Fred stopping his car to a screech with his "brake pads" and horrifically losing his legs in the process. He then wonders if he should go to a hospital or a mechanic.
  • A sketch from "Big Trouble In Little Clerks 2" has Fred go to the doctor for lasik surgery. The stork the doctor uses tells the viewers that his last job was giving late-term abortions to unwed teens.
  • A sketch from "Casablankman II" has the Great Gazoo crash-landing and introducing himself to the Flintstones and Rubbles. Thinking he's a god, they hand them their wives and children, kill Dino as an animal sacrifice, and then beat him to death for being weak.
  • A sketch from "Up, Up, and Buffet" has Fred go to the doctor for a colonoscopy, where he gets a birdcamera inserted into his ass. When the bird says he sees "himself going back to college" while in Fred's ass, Fred angrily orders the doctor to get the stork out of his ass.
  • A sketch from "Triple Hot Dog Sandwich on Wheat" has various cartoon characters who are suffering the effects of smoking, one of whom is Fred, who now speaks through an electrolarynx from smoking Winston cigarettes.
  • A sketch from "Strummy Strummy Sad Sad" features the dinosaurs and other animals killing the humans, considering their work slave labor.
  • A sketch from "May Cause Indecision... or Not" involves Fred Flintstone getting a job as a Mall Santa, and breaking the time-space continuum as a result of celebrating Christmas before Jesus' birth.
• The Simpsons. Given the show's pretty much the Spiritual Successor to The Flintstones, it's no surprise to see the show reference it a lot:
  • Barney Gumble is named for Barney Rubble.
  • In "Homer's Night Out", Apu tells Homer that he looks familiar due to seeing him on a viral photograph of him dancing with a stripper. Unaware of the photo's existence, Homer comments "You've got me confused with Fred Flintstone".
  • One of the horses in "Bart the Murderer" is named Yabba-Dabba-Doo.
  • The Couch Gag for "Kamp Krusty" has the Simpsons finding Fred, Wilma and Pebbles seated on the couch, with Fred waving them hello. The gag would later be used in syndication prints of "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" due to it being the episode that broke The Flintstones' record for having the largest amount of episodes for a primetime animated series.
  • The opening scene of "Marge vs. the Monorail" is a parody of the show's title sequence, complete with Homer sliding off of a giant tube instead of a dinosaur's tail and jumping into his car to drive home, breaking his car window here in the process. The song he sings while driving is a parody of the first four lines of the theme song.
  • In "Marge in Chains", Bart wants Flintstones' chewable morphine during a flu epidemic. Marge doesn't think they exist.
  • In "Lady Bouvier's Lover", Smithers fools Mr. Burns, who can't remember the Simpsons' names, by whispering to him that they are called the Flintstones. Unknowingly, Burns greets Homer and Marge as Fred and Wilma and says to Maggie: "Ah, this must be little Pebbles." He then gives Homer a present, to which he shouts: "Oooh! Yabba-Dabba-Doo!"
  • In "Sideshow Bob Roberts", Bart plays with the Flintstone phone when he is sent back to Kindergarten. Henry Corden provides Fred's voice over the phone.
  • In the Time and Punishment story from "Treehouse of Horror V", one of the alternate incarnations of the Simpsons' home is the Flintstones' cave.
  • In "A Star Is Burns", Bart watches The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons on TV and sighs "Uh oh, I smell another cheap cartoon crossover". Right after he says this, Homer walks in and introduces him to Jay Sherman.
  • In "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular", Troy calls The Simpsons "America's most popular non-prehistoric cartoon family".
  • In "Homerpalooza", one of the background characters is wearing a Great Gazoo t-shirt.
  • In "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", new storylines for The Simpsons are predicted for the future, including "a small alien called Ozmodiar that only Homer can see", an obvious parody of the Great Gazoo. Ozmodiar would reappear in "HOMR".
  • The Flintstones' car is seen in the Hollywood Auto Museum in "Beyond Blunderdome".
  • In "Missionary: Impossible", Homer decides to use animals as tools like in The Flintstones, such as wearing a turtle shell as a construction hat and using a pelican as a cement mixer. When Homer urges the pelican to say something funny like "It's a living", the pelican just falls over dead.
  • In "Pokey Mom", Bruce Vilanch wears a Fred Flintstone t-shirt.
  • In the opening of "Treehouse of Horror XII", Homer and Marge are dressed as Fred and Wilma.
  • In "Mobile Homer", Bart and Lisa try to consult a Flintstone Fun Map to help them drive Homer's RV back to the dealer. Homer wrote on the map: "Dino short for dinosaur? Remember to Ask Jeeves".
  • In "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh", Homer tells Grampa that he "Flintstoned" the car to cut back on gas. While demonstrating it, he says "Yabba-Dabba Doo".
  • In "In the Name of the Father", the Simpsons visit Blarney Stone in Ireland, then the camera cuts to a similar stone in rubble called "Blarney Rubble".
  • In "Little Orphan Millie", Homer's song for Marge features the line "She's the Wilma to my Fred".
• In the Sonic Boom episode, "Lightning Bowler Society", when the titular team competes against the Pin Dashers in a bowling game, Willy Walrus is seen using Fred Flintstone's twinkle toes move.
• In the South Park episode "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants", when the boys arrive in Afghanistan they ask for a taxi to find the boys who gave them the goat. The taxi has no wheels and is pulled by horses, and Cartman comments "What is this, the freakin' Flintstones?"
• Tiny Toon Adventures:
  • In the episode, "The Acme Bowl", the Santa Anna Barbarians resemble Fred Flintstone.
  • In the opening credits of "Night Ghoulery", Hamton is dressed like Barney Rubble when he goes trick-or-treating with his friends.
• Time Squad:
  • In the episode "Child's Play", Tuddrussel tries to appease Larry's request in finding a more child-friendly catchphrase. At one point he tries out "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", but Larry shoots that one down too.
  • In a later episode, "Ex Marks the Spot", Larry sings a song in the tune of The Flintstones theme: "Time Squad, meet the Time Squad, they're a futuristic family! From the- Year One-Hundred Million, it's their job to fix up history!"
• In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "The Dabba Don", which mashes together The Flintstones and The Sopranos (with a dash of The Godfather mixed in), Fred is re-imagined as The Don and is put on trial for it. Harvey successfully argues for the Insanity Defense on the grounds that Fred's been hit on the head so many times that he suffers perpetual Identity Amnesia and only thinks he's a mob boss. The ending reveals that, despite all evidence to the contrary, Fred never was the mafia boss. Barney was.
• An episode of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987) had Donatello question Michelangelo over why he wasn't using his Character Catchphrase of "Cowabunga". He then says he's sick of it and they suggests a "new" one of Fred's signature line, only for Donnie to stop him and say that it's doesn't fit him.
• Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: In the Marie Owens episode, a Fred Flintstone costume can be seen in the museum play area.

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