Honeycomb is a breakfast cereal first released in 1965, owned by Post Holdings . It consists of honey -flavored corn cereal bits in a honeycomb shape.
84-525: At the end of 2006, Post changed the formula for Honeycomb to make it healthier. This change, although tested by Post beforehand to positive reviews, received mainly negative reviews from consumers. Following this public response, in March 2007, Kraft Foods (then-owner of Post Cereals) introduced a new "Improved Taste" version of the cereal that the company claimed would improve "the cereal's taste, texture and appearance while incorporating key nutritional benefits to
168-404: A Flintstones theme and many of the buildings today have a caveman-like design, though the park no longer licenses the characters. The Australia's Wonderland and Canada's Wonderland theme parks, both featured Flintstones characters in their Hanna-Barbera-themed children's sections from 1985 until the mid-1990s. Kings Island (near Cincinnati ) and Kings Dominion (near Richmond, Virginia) had
252-599: A Hanna-Barbera land, in which many Hanna-Barbera characters were featured, including the Flintstones, in the early 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s. Bedrock is one of the themed lands in the indoor Warner Bros. World Abu Dhabi park in Abu Dhabi , United Arab Emirates , mainly home to the Flintstones Bedrock River Adventure flume ride. A stage production opened at Universal Studios Hollywood in 1994 (the year
336-403: A Honeycomb kid!"). The commercial ends with the kid happily eating a bowl of Honeycombs. In 1995, a mascot , Crazy Craving , AKA "the crackhead Honeycomb guy from the '90s", was introduced as a wild-haired, wide-eyed character who craves Honeycomb cereal and whom children in the commercials transform into. Its catch-phrase was "Me Want Honeycomb!" A more recent commercial introduces Bernard,
420-419: A baby girl named Pebbles. Barney and Betty Rubble are their neighbors and best friends, and later on adopt a super-strong baby boy named Bamm-Bamm and acquire a pet hopparoo (kangaroo) called Hoppy. Producers William Hanna and Joseph Barbera , who had earned seven Academy Awards for Tom and Jerry , and their staff faced a challenge in developing a thirty-minute animated program with one storyline that fit
504-408: A boy raised by bees . In the advertisement, he is found by human people and they attempt to socialize with him. Although he had clearly been a feral child , he apparently cannot argue the fact that he is a 'bee' not a 'boy,' and he enjoys Honeycomb . In a later commercial, a man gives a safari -like tour for the bee boy, luring him with Honeycomb. In a commercial released in 2010, a second bee boy
588-405: A boy, but the head of the marketing department convinced them to change it to a girl since "girl dolls sell a lot better than boy dolls". Although most Flintstones episodes were stand-alone storylines, Hanna-Barbera created a story arc surrounding the birth of Pebbles . Beginning with the episode "The Surprise", aired midway through the third season, in which Wilma reveals her pregnancy to Fred,
672-409: A child from the start was discarded, with Fred and Wilma starting out as a childless couple. However, some early Flintstones merchandise, such as a 1961 Little Golden Book , included "Fred Jr". Despite the animation and fantasy setting, the series was initially aimed at adult audiences. This was reflected in the comedy, which resembled the primetime sitcoms of the era, with family issues resolved at
756-413: A day. So finally on the very last day I pitched it to ABC, which was a young daring network willing to try new things, and bought the show in 15 minutes. Thank goodness, because this was the very last day and if they hadn't bought it, I would have taken everything down, put it in the archives and never pitched it again. Sometimes I wake up in a cold-sweat thinking this is how close you get to disaster. When
840-483: A hit. It was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed, although Fred and Wilma are sometimes depicted as sleeping in separate beds. The first live-action depiction of this in American TV history was in television's first sitcom: 1947's Mary Kay and Johnny . The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and
924-493: A lot of Honeycomb to acquire the entire collection. The Mercurys were followed by a series of generic racing cars (1970), an offering of marble-powered dune buggies (1973), and a small model of the Flintmobile from the television series " The Flintstones " (1975). By then, Honeycomb had become the source for automotive toys from Post. Miniature license plates had been a cereal premium mainstay since 1953, and Honeycomb continued
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#17330945506461008-576: A made-for-TV crossover movie in 1987), the revival programs were not widely syndicated or rerun alongside the original series. Original runs : Compilation shows : In 2011, it was announced Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane would be reviving The Flintstones for the Fox network, with the first episode airing in 2013. After Fox Entertainment president Kevin Reilly read the pilot script and "liked it but didn't love it", MacFarlane chose to abandon work on
1092-464: A need for a "big" cereal. The kids introduce the visitor to the cereal, winning over the visitor, and then they examine the size of the cereal bits with a tape measure and sing the jingle : During the 1980s, the cereal offered the Honeycomb Hideout Club for children, distributing badges, membership cards and clubhouse toy incentives on specially marked box tops. The jingle was spoofed on
1176-416: A newsboy, telephone operator, hotel clerk, and a spoof of Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy. Barbera explained that selling the show to a network and sponsors was not an easy task. Here we were with a brand new thing that had never been done before, an animated prime-time television show. So we developed two storyboards; one was they had a helicopter of some kind and they went to the opera or whatever, and
1260-517: A regular television series in Canada in September 2019, but ended up airing in September 2020. The show started airing on February 3, 2020, on Boomerang UK. In 2014, it was announced that Warner Bros. was developing an animated film with Chris Henchy , Will Ferrell , and Adam McKay , to write the script for the project. Ferrell and McKay would also be executive producers. In 2018, it was confirmed that
1344-468: A relatable reality. The dialogue style of The Flintstones set a precedent for acting in animation that continues to exist today, and is sometimes falsely attributed in modern animated productions as "revolutionary." In a 1986 Playboy interview, Gleason said Alan Reed had done voice-overs for Gleason in his early movies, and that he had considered suing Hanna-Barbera for copying The Honeymooners , but decided to let it pass. According to Henry Corden ,
1428-547: A series depicting Fred and Barney as police officers, another depicting the characters as children , and yet others featuring Fred and Barney encountering Marvel Comics superhero The Thing and Al Capp 's comic strip character The Shmoo —have appeared over the years. The original show also was adapted into a live-action film in 1994, and a prequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas , which followed in 2000. Unlike its sister show The Jetsons (the two shows appeared in
1512-417: A small child enjoyed, say, The Flintstones might regard that show fondly today. I have a lot more trouble understanding why anyone would try to defend anything about it on artistic grounds." Despite the mixed critical reviews following its premiere, The Flintstones has generally been considered a television classic and was rerun continuously for five decades after its end. In 1961, The Flintstones became
1596-457: A snack food company and a grocery company. On April 2, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. announced that it had filed a Form 10 Registration Statement to the SEC to split the company into two companies to serve the "North American grocery business". On October 1, 2012, Kraft Foods Inc. spun off its North American grocery business to a new company called Kraft Foods Group , Inc. The remainder of Kraft Foods Inc.
1680-467: A streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery , while the complete series can be found on Tubi , a streaming service owned by Fox Corporation . On August 1, 2024, the program can also be found on Hulu . In Canada, The Flintstones first aired Monday nights at 9:00 Eastern time on CBC Television until the third season when it moved to the CTV Television Network . At the time, CTV aired
1764-435: A voice actor and a friend of Gleason's, "Jackie's lawyers told him he could probably have The Flintstones pulled right off the air. But they also told him, 'Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air? The guy who took away a show so many kids love and so many parents love, too?'" Henry Corden first spoke for Fred Flintstone on the 1965 record album Songs From Mary Poppins , then continued doing
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#17330945506461848-538: Is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions , which takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles. It was originally broadcast on ABC from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, and was the first animated series with a prime-time slot on television. The show follows the lives of Fred and Wilma Flintstone and their pet dinosaur, Dino, and they later on have
1932-429: Is derived from part of the 'B' section of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 17 Movement 2, composed in 1801/02. "Meet the Flintstones" was later used in the first two seasons in syndication. The musical underscores were credited to Hoyt Curtin for the show's first five seasons; Ted Nichols took over in 1965 for the final season. Many early episodes used the underscores composed for Top Cat and The Jetsons . Episodes of
2016-667: Is set in a comical version of the Stone Age , with features and technologies that resemble mid-20th-century suburban United States. The plots deliberately resemble the sitcoms of the era, with the caveman Flintstone and Rubble families getting into minor conflicts characteristic of modern life. The show is set in the Stone Age town of Bedrock (pop. 2,500), where dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures are portrayed as co-existing with cavemen, saber-toothed cats , and woolly mammoths . Animation historian Christopher P. Lehman considers that
2100-480: The Futurama episode entitled " The Sting " in 2003. Honeycomb Kid sought what he called "The Honeycomb Secret." Honeycomb Kid had learned from his prior adventures that the secret consisted of three separate parts: the first was the crunch; the second was the shape; however, the third and most important answer had always eluded him. In the last installment of his first commercial appearances, Honeycomb Kid discovers that
2184-577: The Kraft Nabisco Championship , one of the four "majors" on the LPGA tour. The company also sponsored the Kraft Fight Hunger Bowl , a post-season college football bowl game , from 2010 to 2012. The company's core businesses are in beverage , cheese , dairy foods , snack foods , and convenience foods . Kraft's major brands include: The Flintstones The Flintstones
2268-578: The 1990s at Carowinds in Charlotte, North Carolina . In Canada, Flintstone Park in Kelowna, British Columbia , opened in 1968 and closed in 1998; it was notable for the "Forty Foot Fred" billboard of Fred Flintstone which was a well-known Kelowna landmark. Another Flintstones park was located in Bridal Falls, British Columbia , which closed in 1990. Calaway Park outside Calgary , Alberta, also opened with
2352-541: The Stone Age because "you could take anything that was current, and convert it to stone-age". Under the working title The Flagstones , a treatment was written by Harry Winkler . The family originally consisted of Fred, Wilma, and their son, Fred, Jr. A brief demonstration film was also created to sell the idea of a "modern stone-age family" to sponsors and the network. It was a difficult sell, and required eight weeks of daily presentations to networks and ad agencies. June Foray and Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler voiced
2436-439: The Stone Age setting. Its animation required a balance of visual with verbal storytelling that the studio created and others imitated. The Flintstones was the most financially successful and longest-running network animated television series for three decades, until The Simpsons surpassed it in 1997. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Flintstones the second-greatest TV cartoon of all time, after The Simpsons . The show
2520-648: The TV special, A Flintstone Christmas . Since 2000, Jeff Bergman , James Arnold Taylor , and Scott Innes , who performs both Fred and Barney for Toshiba commercials, have performed the voice of Fred. Since Mel Blanc's death in 1989, Barney has been voiced by Jeff Bergman , Frank Welker , Scott Innes , and Kevin Michael Richardson . Various additional character voices were performed by Hal Smith , Allan Melvin , Janet Waldo , Daws Butler, and Howard Morris , among others. The opening and closing credits theme during
2604-696: The United States. One was Bedrock City in Custer, South Dakota . It closed in 2015 when the new owner Mike Tennyson and Warner Bros. could not come to an agreement over changes. It was too expensive for the repairs and changes that Warner Bros. wanted, having Tennyson closed it. The entire site was bulldozed in April 2019. The second one, near Williams, Arizona, was still open for the summer of 2019 but slated to close by 2020. It cost $ 5 per person to get in. Both parks had been in operation for decades. A third park existed until
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2688-490: The adult audience with an animated situation comedy . Hanna and Barbera considered making the two families hillbillies, a theme which was later incorporated into two episodes, "The Bedrock Hillbillies" and "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes", ancient Romans , an idea which was later developed into The Roman Holidays , pilgrims , and American Indians before deciding on a Stone Age setting. According to Barbera, they settled on
2772-520: The announcement of the deal, which will bring Heinz back to the public market following its takeover over two years prior. The companies completed the merger on July 2, 2015. Kraft is an official partner and sponsor of both Major League Soccer and the National Hockey League . Since 2006, Kraft Foods has sponsored Kraft Hockeyville , a reality television series produced by CBC/SRC Sports, in which communities demonstrate their commitment to
2856-559: The arc continued through the time leading up to Pebbles's birth in the episode "Dress Rehearsal", and then continued with several episodes showing Fred and Wilma adjusting to parenthood. Around this time, Winston pulled out their sponsorship and Welch's grape juice and grape jellies became the primary sponsor, as the show's audience began to shift towards a younger demographic. The integrated commercials for Welch's products feature Pebbles asking for grape juice in her toddler dialect, and Fred explaining to Pebbles Welch's unique process for making
2940-529: The cereal in Kraft's Sensible Solution program. Originally, an animated cowboy named The Honeycomb Kid was the cereal's mascot. The cereal's jingle was borrowed from the song " Honeycomb ," a 1957 hit for Jimmie Rodgers . During the 1970s and 1980s, television commercials featured visitors to a children's clubhouse called the Honeycomb Hideout in which the visitor arrives, initially hostile, and exclaims
3024-481: The characters appeared in several black-and-white television commercials for Winston. This was dictated by the custom, at that time, that the stars of a TV series often "pitched" their sponsor's product in an "integrated commercial" at the end of the episode. During the third season, Hanna and Barbera decided that Fred and Wilma should have a baby. Originally, Hanna and Barbera intended for the Flintstone family to have
3108-444: The characters for the demonstration film, but Foray was dropped without warning before production began; Foray was upset about the rejection and refused to work with Hanna-Barbera for many years afterward, despite Barbera's efforts to offer her other work. Animator Kenneth Muse , who worked on the Tom and Jerry cartoons, also worked on the early seasons of The Flintstones . William Hanna
3192-427: The contest and received an all-expenses-paid trip to tour Hanna-Barbera Studios. Another arc occurred in the fourth season, in which the Rubbles, depressed over being unable to have children of their own, adopt Bamm-Bamm. This made The Flintstones the first animated series to address the issue of infertility , though subtly. The 100th episode made but the 90th to air, "Little Bamm-Bamm Rubble", established how Bamm-Bamm
3276-435: The earliest episodes, "The Prowler." Reed was insistent on playing Fred in a relatively natural speaking voice, rather than a broad, "cartoony" style. Few animated short cartoons used this "straightforward" method, except for experimental studios like UPA and feature films with more realistic characters. The performances of Reed and the cast, combined with the writing, helped to ground the animated world of The Flintstones in
3360-443: The end of each episode, as well as the inclusion of a laugh track . Hanna and Barbera hired many writers from live-action, including two of Jackie Gleason's writers, Herbert Finn and Sydney Zelinka, as well as relative newcomer Joanna Lee . However, they still used traditional animation writers, such as Warren Foster and Michael Maltese . The Flintstones premiered on September 30, 1960, at 8:30 pm Eastern time, and quickly became
3444-499: The first animated series to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series , but lost out to The Jack Benny Program . In January 2009, IGN named The Flintstones as the ninth-best in its "Top 100 Animated TV Shows". The first season of the series received an approval rating of 100% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes , based on nine reviews, with an average score of 6/10. Common Sense Media gave
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3528-533: The first two seasons in black-and-white. Beginning with the third season in 1962, ABC televised the Flintstones in color, one of the first programs in color to air on it. Season four and part of season five aired Thursdays at 7:30, while the rest of the series aired Fridays at 7:30. In the U.S., The Flintstones was part of NBC Saturday mornings from 1966 to 1970, with syndicated reruns offered to local stations until 1997, when E/I regulations and changing tastes in
3612-521: The first two seasons was "Rise and Shine", a lively instrumental underscore accompanying Fred on his drive home from work. . Starting in season three, episode three ("Barney the Invisible"), the opening and closing credits theme was "Meet the Flintstones". This version was recorded with a 22-piece big band conducted by composer Hoyt Curtin and performed by the Randy Van Horne Singers. The melody
3696-486: The industry led to the show's move to cable television. From the time of Ted Turner 's purchase of Hanna-Barbera in 1991, TBS , TNT , and Cartoon Network aired the program. On April 1, 2000, the program moved to Boomerang , where it aired until March 6, 2017, but returned to the channel on July 30, 2018. Online, the series was made available on the In2TV service beginning in 2006, then the online version of Kids' WB until it
3780-525: The jelly, compared to the competition. Welch's also produced a line of grape jelly packaged in jars that were reusable as drinking glasses, with painted scenes featuring the Flintstones and other characters from the show. In Australia, the Nine Network ran a "Name the Flintstones' baby" competition during the 'pregnancy' episodes—few Australian viewers were expected to have a U.S. connection giving them information about past Flintstone episodes. An American won
3864-574: The last two seasons used the underscore of Jonny Quest for the more adventurous stories. The idea of The Flintstones started after Hanna-Barbera produced The Huckleberry Hound Show and The Quick Draw McGraw Show , which were successful. However, they did not appeal to a wide audience like their previous theatrical cartoon series Tom and Jerry , which entertained both children and adults. Since children did not need their parents' supervision to watch television, Hanna-Barbera's programs became labeled "kids only". Hanna and Barbera wanted to recapture
3948-567: The live-action film was released), developed by Universal and Hanna-Barbera Productions , at the Panasonic Theater, replacing the Star Trek show. The story consists of Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty heading for "Hollyrock". The show ran until January 2, 1997. Miles Laboratories (now part of Bayer Corporation ) and their One-A-Day vitamin brand was the alternate sponsor of the original Flintstones series during its first two seasons, and in
4032-471: The needs of the story; on some occasions, the cars appear to have engines, requiring ignition keys and some representation of gasoline. Fred might pull into a gas station and say, "Fill 'er up with Ethel ", which is pumped through the trunk of a woolly mammoth marked "ETHEL". As well, the stone houses of this society are cookie-cutter homes positioned into neighborhoods typical of mid-20th-century American suburbs. Over 100 other characters appeared throughout
4116-449: The other was Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble fighting over a swimming pool. So I go back to New York with a portfolio and two half-hour boards. And no-one would even believe that you'd dare to suggest a thing like that, I mean they looked at you and they'd think you're crazy. But slowly the word got out, and I used the presentation which took almost an hour and a half. I would go to the other two boards and tell them what they did, and do all
4200-442: The parameters of family-based domestic situation comedies of the era. After considering several settings and selecting the Stone Age, one of several inspirations was The Honeymooners , which was itself influenced by The Bickersons and Laurel and Hardy (Hanna considered it one of the finest comedies on television). The enduring popularity of The Flintstones mainly comes from its juxtaposition of modern, everyday concerns with
4284-424: The product." Three flavor variations have been marketed: Strawberry Blasted Honeycomb , Chocolate Honeycomb , and Cinna-Graham Honeycomb . The product's ingredients are listed as: The product's ingredients prior to May 2017 are listed as: When Bran Blend , defined as whole grain corn flour and corn bran, was included in the ingredient list, the fiber content was tripled (from 1g to 3g per serving). This put
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#17330945506464368-445: The program slowly began to spread its popularity around the world. The BBC picked up the rights for the program in 1985. The series was repeated for decades in various daytime and early evening time-slots; episodes were also sometimes used by the BBC in case of last minute schedule changes, such as coverage of sporting events being affected by bad weather. The final BBC broadcast of an episode
4452-422: The project is still in development and produced by Warner Animation Group , at the time it was unknown if crew members would still be involved with the production. On June 9, 2023, as part of the restructuring of Warner Animation Group, now called Warner Bros. Pictures Animation, it was announced that a new Flintstones movie titled Meet the Flintstones was in early development and is meant to be an origin story to
4536-451: The project rather than restarting it. Concept art of the series was posted on background artist Andy Clark's website. Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs is an American animated web television series spin-off of The Flintstones that premiered in 2020, the first to feature them since they appeared in the 2002 series The Rubbles , and produced by Warner Bros. Animation . It was produced by Mark Marek and Marly Halpern-Graser. Like Cave Kids ,
4620-605: The room I mean God about 40 people, and I did this whole show. I got to know where the laughs were, and where to hit it, nothing; dead, dead, dead. So one of the people at Screen Gems said "This is the worst, those guys...." he was so angry at them. What it was, was that there were two agencies there, and neither one was going to let the other one know they were enjoying it. But I pitched it for eight straight weeks and nobody bought it. So after sitting in New York just wearing out, you know really wearing out. Pitch, pitch, pitch, sometimes five
4704-414: The series a three out of five stars, saying: "Still a classic, but times have changed." Currently, several authors consider The Flintstones as a cartoon linked to the golden age of American animation . Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a film based upon the series was created. The Man Called Flintstone was a musical spy caper that parodied James Bond and other secret agents. The movie
4788-452: The series entered production, the working title The Flagstones was changed, possibly to avoid confusion with the Flagstons, the main characters in the comic strip Hi and Lois . After spending a brief period in development as The Gladstones (GLadstone being a Los Angeles telephone exchange at the time), Hanna-Barbera settled upon The Flintstones , and the idea of the Flintstones having
4872-518: The series partly draws its humor from anachronism , mainly the placing of a "modern" 20th-century society in prehistory which takes inspiration from the suburban sprawl developed in the first two decades of the postwar period. This society has modern home appliances which work by employing animals. It also has automobiles, but they mostly do not resemble the cars of the 20th century, as they are large wooden and rock structures powered by people who run while inside them. This depiction varies according to
4956-493: The series was marketed as a family series rather than the "adult" animated show of the earlier seasons. As a result of a wider number of yearly viewers, including children, and competition from TV's trend toward fantasy shows, the episodes varied from family comedy to fantasy/adventure, but still had stories about couple dynamics. The last original episode was broadcast on April 1, 1966. The first three seasons of The Flintstones aired Friday nights at 8:30 Eastern time on ABC, with
5040-475: The series was now co-produced by Fox Entertainment and Warner Bros. Animation along with Brownstone and received the title Bedrock . The series would have take place two decades after the original series with Fred Flintstone on the verge of retirement and a twenty-something Pebbles (voiced by Banks) trying to find her way in life as the Stone Age comes to an end and the Bronze Age arrives. On March 10, 2023, it
5124-471: The series. Below are those who have made more than one appearance: Fred Flintstone physically resembles both the first voice actor who played him, Alan Reed , and Jackie Gleason , whose series, The Honeymooners , inspired The Flintstones . The voice of Barney Rubble was provided by voice actor Mel Blanc, except for five episodes during the second season (the first, second, fifth, sixth, and ninth); Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler filled in and provided
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#17330945506465208-441: The series. The movie will be written by Aaron Horvath and Michael Jelenic , who both previously directed Illumination 's The Super Mario Bros. Movie and directed by Dreamworks Animation veterans Hamish Grieve and Todd Wilderman. In 2019, it was reported that a new Flintstones reboot series, directed to an adult audience, was in development by Elizabeth Banks and her production company Brownstone Productions . In 2021,
5292-463: The show at different evening time slots throughout its last three seasons. Syndicated reruns were also offered to local stations until the early-1990s. The show was also later carried overtime on YTV , Teletoon Retro , Cartoon Network , and Boomerang , alongside French channels ICI , TQS , TVA , and Prise 2 . When Independent broadcaster ITV first aired The Flintstones to England in January 1961,
5376-458: The show focuses on the lives of best friends Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, who are joined by Dino for many adventures in the Stone Age. The show was scheduled to be released as a part of the Boomerang IPTV subscription service . On August 19, 2021, it was announced the series would instead be released on HBO Max on September 30, 2021. The series was set to first air on Teletoon as
5460-426: The show, but if people want to compare The Flintstones to The Honeymooners , then great. It's a total compliment. The Honeymooners was one of the greatest shows ever written." Jackie Gleason, creator of The Honeymooners , considered suing Hanna-Barbera Productions, but decided not to since he did not want to be known as "the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air". Gleason was sued because The Honeymooners
5544-462: The sport of ice hockey in a contest revolving around the theme of community spirit. The winning community gets a cash prize dedicated to upgrading their hometown arena, as well as the opportunity to host an NHL preseason game. In 2007, it was then relegated to segments aired during Hockey Night in Canada . In 2015, Kraft Hockeyville was expanded to the United States with a separate competition for communities there. From 2002 to 2014, Kraft sponsored
5628-692: The third component of the Honeycomb secret is the taste. Another set of Honeycomb Kid commercials were made in the 1980s in which a child athlete finished practicing, then came up to a table with Honeycomb cereal, exclaimed it was his or her favorite cereal, to where the older people at the table would somewhat mock the "little kid" or "little guy" for wanting "big Honeycomb," to which the kid would respond, "Little kid (guy)?! Watch this!" The kid would then show off his or her skills to them, thoroughly impressing them (saying "Big stuff!" and "Honeycomb kid!" as they watched) and being accepted by them ("I didn't know you were
5712-411: The tradition into the 1970s and 1980s with their free "in pack" mini-license plate promotion. One miniature state license plate was free inside each box, with the ability to order the whole set of 50 plates by mail for a few dollars. Kraft Foods Kraft Foods Group, Inc. was an American food manufacturing and processing conglomerate , split from Kraft Foods Inc. on October 1, 2012, and
5796-452: The voice for most other Flintstone records on the label. Around the same time, Corden was providing Fred's singing voice in two films being produced at the studio: the 1966 special Alice in Wonderland, or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? and the 1966 feature film The Man Called Flintstone . Corden assumed the role completely after Reed's death in 1977, starting with
5880-471: The voice of Barney while Blanc was incapacitated by a near-fatal car accident in 1961. Blanc was able to return to the series sooner than expected because a temporary recording studio for the cast was set up at his bedside. Blanc's Barney voice varied from nasally to deep before the accident, as he and Barbera, who directed the sessions with Alan Dinehart, explored the right level in relation to comedy and other characters. Blanc uses both Barney voices in one of
5964-404: The voices and the sounds and so-on, and I'd stagger back to the hotel and I'd collapse. The phone would ring like crazy, like one time I did Bristol-Myers , the whole company was there. When I got through I'd go back to the hotel the phone would ring and say "the president wasn't at that meeting, could you come back and do it for him." So I had many of those, one time I had two agencies, they'd fill
6048-663: Was about the rowdy antics of a bank robber in stone-age Dallas . Many sight gags from The First Bad Man antedated similar situations used by Hanna-Barbera in The Flintstones by many years. Therefore, students of American animation call The First Bad Man a progenitive seed of The Flintstones . The concept was also antedated by the " Stone Age Cartoons ", a series of 12 animated cartoons which Fleischer Studios released from January to September 1940. These cartoons show stone-age people doing modern things with primitive means, such as " Granite Hotel " including characters such as
6132-463: Was adopted. Nine episodes were produced before it, but aired afterward, which is why Bamm-Bamm was not seen again until episode 101, "Daddies Anonymous". However, Bamm-Bamm did appear in a teaser in episode 98, "Kleptomaniac Pebbles". Another story arc, occurring in the final season, centered on Fred and Barney's dealings with the Great Gazoo. After Pebbles's birth, the audience demographic expanded and
6216-399: Was among many that debuted in a " vast wasteland " of a 1960–61 television season considered one of the worst in television history up to that point. As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative plots. Animation historian Michael Barrier disliked the series, calling it a "dumb sitcom" and stated that "I can readily understand why someone who as
6300-442: Was discontinued in 2015. As of 2017, full episodes are available in the U.S. on Boomerang's subscription video-on-demand service, with select clips made available on the official YouTube account tied to the revamped Kids' WB website. In 2019, MeTV acquired rerun rights to the series, returning the show to broadcast television for the first time in over 20 years. The first 3 seasons of the series can currently be streamed on Max ,
6384-456: Was headquartered in Chicago, Illinois . It became part of Kraft Heinz on July 2, 2015. A merger with Heinz, arranged by Heinz owners Berkshire Hathaway and 3G Capital , was completed on July 2, 2015, forming The Kraft Heinz Company , the fifth-largest food and beverage company in the world. In August 2011, Kraft Foods Inc. announced plans to split into two publicly traded companies —
6468-473: Was honest about the inspiration, saying, "At that time, The Honeymooners was the most popular show on the air, and for my bill, the funniest. The characters, I thought, were terrific. Now, that influenced greatly what we did with The Flintstones ... The Honeymooners was there, and we used that as a kind of basis for the concept." Joseph Barbera disavowed these claims in a separate interview, stating, "I don't remember mentioning The Honeymooners when I sold
6552-652: Was in 2008 on BBC Two . Additionally, the series appeared on Cartoon Network in the mid-1990s. Other international networks that aired the original run of the series include RTF in France, ARD in Germany, Rai 1 and Rai 2 in Italy, NTS in the Netherlands, and Fuji TV in Japan. The night after The Flintstones premiered, Variety called it "a pen-and-ink disaster", and the series
6636-481: Was in response to a petition by activist Vani Hari and blogger Lisa Leake who delivered a petition to the company to remove controversial synthetic dyes Yellow 5 (labeled as Tartrazine ) and Yellow 6 from its signature macaroni and cheese products. On March 25, 2015, Kraft Foods Group Inc. announced that it would merge with the H.J. Heinz Company, owned by 3G Capital and Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Kraft's shares rose about 17 percent in premarket trading after
6720-420: Was introduced played by Canadian actor Joel Cox. In 1969, one of Post Cereal's most profitable promotions was launched for the twentieth time in as many years. Free scale models of four different 1969 Mercury automobiles were packed one to a box of Honeycomb. Offered in six authentic '69 Mercury colors, the entire set included 24 different cars. Because these models were not offered by mail, one had to purchase
6804-466: Was released to theaters on August 3, 1966, by Columbia Pictures . It was released on DVD by Warner Home Video in Canada in March 2005 and in United States in December 2008. The show was revived in the early 1970s with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm having grown into teenagers, and several different series and made-for-TV movies (broadcast mainly on Saturday mornings , with a few shown in primetime), including
6888-659: Was renamed Mondelēz International, Inc. , and was refocused as an international snack and confection company. Burt P. Flickinger III of Strategic Resource Group said the strategy "worked for Mondelez, but not for Kraft." On November 19, 2013, an arbitration ruling ordered Starbucks to pay Kraft Foods Inc. $ 2.7 billion because of an early contract termination. The money would go to Mondelēz International, Inc. In October 2013, Kraft announced that it would remove artificial dyes from three macaroni and cheese varieties made in kid-friendly shapes, but not its plain elbow-shaped Kraft Macaroni and Cheese product with "original flavor". This
6972-440: Was reported the series would have also featured the voices of Stephen Root (Fred), Amy Sedaris (Wilma), Joe Lo Truglio (Barney), Nicole Byer (Betty) and Manny Jacinto (Bamm-Bamm). It was also reported that Fox had ordered a pilot presentation of the series which was written by Lindsay Kerns. On July 17, 2024, it was reported that Fox chose to pass on the series. Three Flintstones -themed amusement parks have existed in
7056-427: Was similar to The Bickersons , as critics noted at the time, but the lawsuit served by Bickersons creator Philip Rapp was ultimately settled out of court. Another influence was noted during Hanna-Barbera's tenure at MGM , where they were in a friendly competition with fellow cartoon director Tex Avery . In 1955, Avery directed a cartoon entitled The First Bad Man , narrated by cowboy legend Tex Ritter , which
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