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"The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show" is an animated 1971 Hanna-Barbera spin-off of the 1960's "The Flintstones" television series that follows the comedy adventures of teen-age Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble. In this series, their famed parents (Fred and Wilma Flintstone and Barney and Betty Rubble) are back in supporting roles, along with a new cast of stone-age teenagers. Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's Archie-inspired friends are more than a little unique and include astrologically obsessed Wiggy Rockstone, down-to-earth Penny Pillar, and brainy Moonrock Crater. The Bronto Bunch (Bronto, Noodles, Stub, and Zonk) alternates between functioning as a bothersome motorcycle gang and much-needed allies, while Cindy Curbstone and Fabian Fabquartz fill the role of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's conceited rivals. Schleprock ("Wowzie Wowzie Woo Woo!") is the consistent harbinger of bad luck. Pebbles' wooly mammoth Wooly and Bamm-Bamm's pet brontosaurus Snoots round out the cast.
Comedy reigns throughout all 16 episodes - - from simple word play to slapstick and satire. While Pebbles' intentions are always good, her definite knack for misinterpreting a situation often gets her and her friends into all sorts of trouble. She definitely takes after her father!
Four 8-minute bonus "Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm" episodes from the 1972 "The Flintstones Comedy Hour" round out this two-disc set. The smooth animation and clever storylines make this one of the best animated series ever created and produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. Don't miss your opportunity to own it! Yabba-Dabba-Doosie!!
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This was a poor sequel to the Classic Flintstones series, it once and for all convinced me that Hanna-Barbera had lost their touch. When I would watch these uninspired stories as a child I would wonder what happened to the people who brought us the original series. And the awful synthesized music soundtrack was dreadful. The characters were dull, the stories were routine.
To be fair, Hanna-Barbera did come up with a better sequel a decade later with the Fred and Barney Show. So the well of ideas was not dry, it just was not used for this series. Those giving 5 stars based on their memory could be disappointed when they see the show again.
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Okay, mostly us hardcore seventies children and our younger brothers and sisters who watched the USA Cartoon Express in the late 80s and early 90s know anything about this. This was as amusing as it was underrated.
Basically, it's Pebbles & Bamm Bamm a few years after their infancy in the Flintstones and now into their teenage years. Some new and interesting friends are addded to the cast. The nerdy Moonrock ("I concur...") who is clearly based on Dilton Doiley from the Archie cartoons, hippy chick Wiggy ("Oh my stars!" remember, this aired in 1971-72), Pebbles' best bud Penny, Hells Angles prototypes (actually closer to Erich Von Zipper and the Rats from the Beach Party flix) The Bronto Bunch, and best of all the loveable jinx Bad Luck Schleprock ("Wowsy Wowsy woo woo" is his catchphrase) who literally walked around with a strom cloud over his head.
Overall, while there are a few dated aspects to all of this, the series was quite creative and highly amusing if not belly-laugh inducing. The seventies and eighties children who initially enjoyed this will be pleased that it is about as good as they remember and their children should also like this. So get it, relive some laughs and memories, and clue your children into what they missed out on. I have no doubt they'll like it themselves.
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Greetings from Lima-Peru (South America):
Finally; it's here a very long awaiting release on DVD: Pebbles & Bamm Bamm and all the gang!
I enjoyed the original soundtrack with the spanish version so much (dubbed in Mexico in that same time with very famous and talented voices) that I really hope this DVD has the spanish audio as well!
Hopefully it'd also have a "Play music videos only" option for playing the animated clips of the Bedrock Rockers that sparkled each episode!
Yabba Dabba Groovie!!
Cesar Dominguez
Lima, Peru
My Homepage: http://es.geocities.com/infoperuorg
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It's the Pebble and Bamm Bamm Show - that is the opeming line of the theme song. I can still remembet it!
The Flintsones (1960-66) was tv's first successful primetime animated show. But as it was primetime they were looking for an adult audience. This "spinoff" is aimed at the teenage crowd for Saturday morning. Therefore, they decided to revive the classic series but focus on the two children, now teenagers. The show centered on themes that the teenager would relate to but unfortunately it was what adults thought teenagers wanted from the adult perspective. Therefore, the episodes were rather flimsy (but as a teenager of that time, I enjoyed it.)
Three of the original voices comeback - Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone, Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone and Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble. (Bea Benadret - the original Betty Rubble - died in 1968 and Jerry Johnson - the second Betty died shortly after The Flintstones was cancelled in 1966.)
Sally Struthers voiced Pebbles. In January 1971, All in the Family premiered. Therefore, you could watch Sally in the morning in Pebbles and Bamm Bamm and then watch a totally different Sally at night in All in the Family. (For the younger ones she was also Babbette in The Gilmore Girls.)
Jay North voiced Bamm Bamm. But most people will remember him as Dennis, the Menace (1959-63). (And some might remember him for his short lived Indian seriers Maya (1967).
Despite the lackluster storylines, this is a very fun show and definitely something for the adults to remember and the kids to enjoy.
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