Can it really be that The Flintstones television show is 50 years old? Amazing! I certainly remember its first television run. There were few channels at the time, and “The Flintstones” was prime time TV.
The popularity of Jackie Gleason’s, “The Honeymooners,” certainly added to the popularity of “The Flintstones. “ People had no difficulty equating Fred with Ralph Kramden or Barney Rubble with Ed Norton.
While “The Flintstones” seems today like a children’s program, that was not its original intended audience. “The Flintstones” was a comedy cartoon for adults. No better proof of this can be found than in the sponsorship of the program — Winston cigarettes.
Long before Joe Camel, there was Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Barney and Betty Rubble. Have a look. Happy 50th birthday, Flintstones!
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It's too bad the stuff comming out of the end is so horible for everybody else. Because the smoke we're suck'n on is pretty damn good.
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Lobster.
....Yul Brenner's q-ball noggin-WOOOOOOOOO-snifff-FRRRRRRRESH!
"Hi, I'm Yul Brenner, and I'm dead now. But at least it was pleasurable, Jim Fixx died while...jogging. I'm sorry."
"Hi, I'm Yul Brenner, St. Peter."
Welcome and what have you done with your time on earth my son?
"I had much fun with young woman of all kinds, I smoked like a shamanic smoke stack, drank like a fish, partied so much half the clothes I'm wearing aren't mine and was so cool I was a pharoah....now I'm in heaven."
"Hi, I'm Jim Fixx St. Peter."
What did you do my son, to get here?
"Welp, I ate nothing but Tofu 'n.....I went for a jog. Now I'm dead-shit?!"
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ReplyDeleteLife is ironic, isn't it? Another person who made the same type of anti-smoking commercial was William Tallman who played D.A. Hamilton Burger on the old Perry Mason show. Tallman was fired from that show when he was arrested for smoking marijuana. Raymond Burr insisted that he be reinstated, and he was.