Like so many "classics," I wonder how many people still regularly watch the 'stones. I wonder if they recall how bad the animation was or how repetitive the storylines were. And bringing the series back will force the issue faced by Ricky Gervais and his pal Karl Pilkington; Karl seemed to think that The Flintstones was basically a documentary about how dinosaurs and humans lived together.
A few weeks back I popped in one of the double-sided DVDs of "Rocky & Bullwinkle" and plowed through both sides in a few evenings (no, I don't have a life, why do you ask). Of course, the animation was virtually nonexistent, but the writing still held up (and I got a few jokes I almost certainly would not have gotten when I was a kid). I don't think I could get through 16 -back-to-back episodes of Fred and Barney. On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 2:58 PM, Mark J. <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On May 18, 4:42 pm, Wesley McGee <[email protected]> wrote: >> On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:04 PM, Bob in Jersey <[email protected]>wrote: >> >> >> >> > Looks like Peter-and-Lois to Fred-and-Wilma isn't that much of a jump: >> >> >http://www.cartoonbrew.com/wp-content/uploads/flintstoneguy.jpg >> >> That's right in more ways than one. >> >> Digression: The most hilarious thing is reading animation snobs elsewhere >> online decry the artistic corruption of a Seth MacFarlane Flintstones -- a >> show that was an unlicensed remake of The Honeymooners -- but with dinosaurs >> -- by a company that was proud of the innovations that allowed them to make >> cartoons cheaper (fewer frames, just animating the parts of the body that >> moved, repeating backgrounds), which began life as a pretty adult (for the >> time) sitcom. >> >> Anyway, I remarked on Twitter that knowing how MacFarlane runs his other >> shows, the Flintstones will not be Family Guy 2. He has three shows on TV >> and only Family Guy is the extreme dead-baby raunchfest. Others there have >> noted he seems to revere the Flintstones, and Hanna Barbera (where he worked >> for a while with Cartoon Network -- his Larry and Steve short is a >> proto-Family Guy, and he did eps of Johnny Bravo). > > I would wonder how far McFarlane's emulation would run. I would > easily see him using the Hoyt Curtin music cues (either the originals > or re-recording them) and of course every post sound house in > Hollywood has (or seems to have) the H-B SFX library. I would wonder > if he would have people go through the archives to find the laugh > tracks used on the original series, though (which were different than > the "Ozzie and Harriet" laugh track they used on "Scooby-Doo" and the > 70s shows, but it wasn't Charlie Douglass). He would probably say it > was a tribute, but by now he's used to the animation community taking > shots at him. > > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -- Kevin M. (RPCV) -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
