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They just don't make cartoons the way they use to. I love the Flintstones and always will. Great Cartoon.
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The 32 episodes here were a joy to watch. Quality is excellent & suitable for the entire family. I found myself watching the episodes to detect the different artists at work. This was due to one of the bonus features that talked about the different artists. I mean I've watched the credits, so I knew there were a lot of artists invoved but I had never realized that they differed so much from episode to episode. The bonus features really abound on this set with audio commentaries in three episodes. Bonus features include Songs of the Flintstones album, old commercials & some rarely before seen artwork. Warner Brothers has done an outstanding job assembling this set.
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The Flintstones are a classic! This is great viewing for the new generation as well as the old. This beats the cartoons of today. My six year old son enjoys it.
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I could hardly wait to add The Flintstones season 2 to my dvd collection!!! I just adored the episode of Alvin Brickrock, which is a pretty funny parody of Alfred Hitchcock, "Good Evening"! I could'nt help watching the episode when Fred became a bus driver over and over. The scene when he picks up the kids and meets their crazy parents is too funny!
My only complaint is the lack of decent extras. Eventhough all the original actors are no longer living, it would have been nice for Warner Bros. to include a tribute remembering Alan Reed,Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderette, and Jean Vanderpyl. Fortunately I was able to do a major search on the internet for biographies on each actor and see what they all looked like. Oh well I suppose it's more important for Warner Bros. to make a fast buck than spend a little extra effort on this classic cartoon series. I think if Hanna-Barbera still owned the rights to their priceless video library the Flintstones would have been released with all the trimmings like the Simpsons.
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Here's another bonanza for "Flintstones" fans old and new, including people like myself who've probably seen every single episode two or three times over (I'm old enough to remember when it was still in prime time). As with the first-season package, this is the pre-Pebbles era- classic Fred and Barney, in the Kramden-Norton tradition. The first episode here is not only a classic, but the answer to a great cartoon trivia question: who was the only celebrity to appear, in an animated likeness of course, as himself? Would you believe Hoagy Carmichael? The great songwriter shows up in "Hit Songwriter", when Fred takes his original song lyric to a piano player who rips off "Star Dust". Hoagy writes and sings an original called "Yabba-Dabba-Doo" here (watch how his piano turns into a suitcase!).
Proving once again that even an ancient cartoon could forecast future trends, Fred's in an all-night poker game, gets clobbered as a Little League umpire, and really goes to town when Wilma stumbles into the "Happy Housewife" TV show (brought to you by Rockenschpeel's Meats) and displays "My dinner! On TV!"
With no babies to clutter things up, the original "Honeymooners"-
style tone of this show combines with the simple animation (these artists made raised eyebrows an art form) to show why "The Flintstones" was the best-known and best-loved animated sitcom of them all until the much different, much more cynical "Simpsons"-era shows of today emerged.
The Flintstones and Rubbles really jelled in both appearance and personality, though some of the other regulars (Mr. Slate, Arnold the paper boy) have different looks in this early period. The Mr. Slate we know and love, for instance, had the same voice (John Stephenson) and look (bald with glasses) but a different name (Mr. Rockhead). Looks to me like the artists tried different character sketches- who says Hanna-Barbera was over-simplified? Of course, the original voices can't be beat- Henry Corden, who passed away recently, actually voiced Fred for longer than Alan Reed did, but Alan Reed was the only Fred that mattered. Bea Benaderet, with her wacky little-old-lady voice, was the real Betty Rubble. (She left to join "Petticoat Junction" in '63 and passed away a few years later.)
Extras here include a routine documentary with mostly talking-heads (a couple of surviving animators). A couple of very crude commercials (not, alas, including the notorious Winston spot) are here too- anyone else remember Welch's grape jelly in glasses with Flintstone cartoons on them? We must have had half a dozen. The absolute cheesiest item, however, is the complete "Songs of the Flintstones" album- yes, there was such a thing, with the cast doing mostly spoken bits over Hoyt Curtin's familiar, and eerily Lawrence Welk-ish, background music. The tracks include the original "Rise and Shine" theme with lyrics (forgettable), the "Meet the Flintstones" theme with different lyrics ("Meet the Rubbles!"), and the "Car Hop" song (completely out of context). Stills from the show are used as visuals- like I said, this section is so kitschy it's funny.
In an early "Jetsons" episode, Elroy's class-clown buddy, Kenny Countdown, is docked from class because he's watching "the billionth repeat of 'The Flintstones'" on his wristwatch TV. With these DVDs, there just might be a billionth rerun in our future!
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