The Flintstones TV Series Goofs and Mistakes
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- Relive the 60s classic TV series the Flintstones through these rare goofs and mistakes that the animators at Hanna Barbera made on occasion due to the fast paced schedule they had to keep to get the show out. See Fred Flintstone lose his head for a second, his hat in another scene, Barney Rubble voiced by Mel Blanc becomes Fred for a few seconds, and Betty Rubbles' voice comes out of Wilma.
Plus, I look at the unusual origin story of Dino the Flintstones pet and how he actually talked for a whole episode. I also look at the inconsistent continuity of some episodes where the Flintstones address changed on multiple occasions and Fred's boss Mr. Slate was Barney's uncle in one episode and a total stranger a few episodes later.
Find out why Daws Butler took over for Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble for a few episodes. Learn a few of the tricks of the trade for classic animators as Hanna Barbera's use of cells in their animation save them a lot of time but occasionally created a goof. Even with a few mistakes and a few goofs, the series is one of the greatest classic television series of all time.
#bloopers #goofs #classictelevision #classictv #flintstones #hannabarberacartoons
0:00 Intro
1:00 The Flintstones address
1:17 Dino's first appearance and origin episode
3:06 Where does Fred Flintstone work
3:57 Is Mr Slate Barney's Uncle
5:23 Barney becomes Fred
6:19 Mel Blanc replaced as Barney - Zábava
The crazy thing about animation errors is that some of them are so blatantly obvious. Yet I swear when I was a kid, I never noticed a single one.
That's exactly what I was going to say. I watched each episode only about a million times each too.
And once you see them it never goes away. I tell people to avoid videos like this if you want to enjoy the show
@@daydreamer8662 Yup me too and probably didn't notice 99% of the errors!
Because we didn't have PVRs back then. I probably did notice something but then forgot about it, since I couldn't rewind and confirm. Today, I would completely ruin shows like this for myself.
13", B&W, Low Def made things a LOT less obvious - especially the color errors. Though as a kid I did notice the continuity errors - especially the car constantly changing, and it was hard to miss Dino going from Snorkasaurus to "Dino Dog".
What I loved about the Flintstones, was the super long hallway of Fred's house.
Fred would walk through his house, and the hallway was always endless.
I knew a girl in high school in the 80s that had a very "long" house. It was huge (her dad was a doctor) but it was built on a pie shaped lot in the rich neighborhood so it was an oddly shaped place. We called it the Flintstone house because if you came in the front door, there was a long, narrow hallway that rant along the garage, then the big kitchen opened up to the right, then the eat in area of the kitchen, then the dining room proper then a step down to the "great room" at the rear - had to be 100 feet or more that you could see from the front door to the rear window. After a few beers my buddy would run back and forth shouting Flintstone's style lines. Never failed to get a laugh.
As a child, watching those episodes where Barney was voiced by Daws Butler was a real trip because his Barney voice was also his Yogi Bear voice. Also his Ed Morton voice in the Warner Brothers Honey-Mousers cartoon.
It's NORTON, not MORTON.
@@KevinMiller-xn5vu It was Morton in the Honey-Mousers cartoon. Look it up.
There ARE differences in the voices you mentioned, but yes, they all came from the mouth of my old friend and mentor, Daws Butler. Without him, there wouldn’t have BEEN a Hanna-Barbera Productions. When that company started, Daws did ALL the voices!
@@KevinMiller-xn5vuIn the words of Daws Butler’s Ralph Kramden voice, “YOU…are a mental case!”
@@edryba4867 Ahem. "ALL THE VOICES"? Have you forgotten Don Messick??
I loved the Flintstones as a kid.
Fred's car ALWAYS changed throughout the series. From being a convertible, switching back and forth between having a back seat and being a two seater and the steering wheel switching sides.
And a trunk, no trunk, a gas tank, no gas tank, has 2 doors that lock, no doors, foot powered, powered by dinosaurs.
I think cartoon bloopers are more fascinating than live action bloopers
I hope you all have fun watching my latest video on the Flintstones. The show is still fun to watch today even if there are a few rare goofs here and there.
Awesome video! It’s funny that I remember as a kid The Flintstones, was a prime time cartoon as was The Jetsons , most people now only remember them as reruns etc. Jonny Quest was my favorite though and I know that Cartoon Network or FX did that show for awhile that was basically Jonny Quest for adults, formthe life of me I can’t remember the name of it! Years ago I wished they would have made a new Jonny Quest even a live action version, but they’d probably ruin it now!!
Even as a kid I had different expectations from Hanna Barbara and Disney but they both have their place!
I think the only non profile shot of Fred was when he was driving down a One Way Street. I don't remember the whole episode, but either Fred or Barney was spelling out the sign.."O Nee Way" Did you ever notice that front face shot of Fred?
This was my favourite show as a child. Mom says that whenever I'd fall down, I'd get up and say "Yabba-dabba-DOOO" 🤣💖🥰
Thanks, from a guy who grew up in the sixties watching The Flintstones on prime-time TV!
Appreciate it
I still watch and I'm almost 60. 💖
Again since all being made up characters and especially from the 60's all flaws will go unnoticed
When the Flintstones first appeared we only had black and white tv, so the colour changes did not get noticed.
Very clever and funny! And that Daws Butler voice is a Yabba Dabba Don't!
Yeah, always sounded kinda’ tinny to me.
Holy crap! I remember noticing Fred's head disappear as a child, but nobody believed me! I thought I was crazy! Thank you for confirming childhood me wasn't insane.
I do remember Fred's arm blending in with his suit
Geez can’t believe all the animation mistakes. As a kid I remember wondering why some episodes Barney’s eyes were little circles and some episodes they were filled in. And I remember the voice change too but never knew why until now. Enjoyed the video.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it.
Glad I read this! I could have sworn the same thing as a kid. I remember seeing some episodes where for a few frames or so, Barney had white eyes with pupils, similar to the way Fred or Betty were drawn.
Talking Human intelligent Dino vs Dog Dino always cracked me up. Kind of like the animators weren't sure if they wanted to go with something like Disney's Goofy or Pluto
I think that talking Dino was based on Phil Silvers and was voiced by Daws.H-B definitely decided that Dino was better dog-like and had Mel voice the barks.
One you missed.
A scene with Wilma asleep in bed. She has no mouth.
Yes remember that
Yes-in the end credits of the first & second seasons, when the “Rise and Shine” theme was used.
If memory serves me, I believe it was because of some kind of caption that had been erased.
@@MrBROTHERFELDER Well, at least without a mouth she couldn’t be found smoking in bed!….while we’re at that subject, it’s interesting that characters from The Flintstones originally were shown in ads sponsoring Winston and other cigarettes, but ironically Yogi and Boo Boo years later were in a public services ad banning smoking. Just to refresh our memories, it’s the one with the guy “puffing his fool head off” and as animation would have it, his head actually comes off and bounces! A humorous yet effective way to get the point across to youngsters.
@@anthonysimpsonanygoround8749 yep, I’m 62 years old and was there while this was happening.
Makes no matter to me the Flintstones are still the best cartoon from a kid who grew up in the 1990's bring the Flintstones back
These are great, tvcrazyman! There were so many simple goofs throughout the series you could do a part two and three easily! The one about Fred's head (and the monkey's arm) was described in the great notes the Columbia House VHS series I used to have along with Dino's snout being all one color in the episode where Fred and Barney are driving away from a baby photography client! Also in the diner "Charlie and Irving" episode and both couples are dressed up to go out to dinner, Betty and Wilma's dresses are the opposite colors at first and then switch back! Okay, one more! In the one where Betty poses as an old lady to work for who she thinks is another elderly lady her name is "Miss Rubble". But for the last job with her she hurriedly says her name is "Mrs O'Lady" the joke name she gave herself when she was trying on the outfit for the first time with Wilma! Haha!
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As long as we’re talking continuity, this show had thousands of kids believing that humans & dinosaurs existed at the same time!
Kent Hovid never grew out of that phase.
@@Savannah_Simpson False teachers like that don’t realize that the Genesis account is referring to 7 CREATIVE “days” (or time periods), some of which could have lasted for millenniums. The Bible agrees with TRUE science.
Loved the show when I was young.
Totally missed all the bloopers.
Great work! Thanks for creating!
I feel like binge watching the series again. Just reminds me so much of being a kid in the 70s and watching all these great cartoons.
I still watch. Not a bad way to forget some on the nonsense going on in the world.
We watched the Flintstones just before supper so our minds were too focused on upcoming pork chops or hamburgers to notice all these goofs. It’s cool to see these now. Thanks for all your meticulous searching.
5:01 I love this scene in the movie. The bus driver calls out, "Alright! All together folks!" And they all start running. Thing is, when they do this, a pneumatic hiss can be heard implying a hatch opened to allow them to reach the ground. Makes you wonder how the bus moves when empty, though.
We had a black and white tv so I don't know if we would have noticed the color changes...
Missing head is still pretty noticeable though 😆
Just like Andy and Barney being cousins and later forgotten
Wow, my thought exactly!
The writers of most shows create their own plotholes like this. In the Flintstones, Mr. Slate is Barney's uncle but in later episodes they treat each others like strangers.
I know the Simpsons have been on the air for over three decades, but The Flintstones will always be my favorite cartoon. Like you said, they had heart. I’ve read that the voice actors of The Flintstones were actually teary-eyed when they voiced the episode of Pebbles being born. Classic show.
Hey this was my suggestion for the Flintstones video...Thanks 👍
I'm still surprised that I never noticed that Fred and Betty had pupils, while Barney and Wilma did not.
One of the most hilarious animation mistakes is in the original TMNT Cartoon where April O'Neil's head bobbles around wildly and looks like it almost comes completely off lol!😂😂😂
When most of these shows were on we didn't have a color TV so the different colors weren't noticed. I enjoyed this look at the Flintstones.
Something that no one ever talks about ...
I remember, as a very young child, watching Sesame Street, and even then, I noticed....
When the Cookie Monster ate the cookies, he never swallowed them.
He would gobble up the cookies into crumbs, and the cookies would fall out of his mouth onto the table.
I kept asking, "Why isn't he eating the cookies? He just spits them out." and no one ever answered me.
Same!
Because he's a muppet 😁
The puppet does have an opening in the back of his mouth for eating things, but it’s rarely used from what I see
I always loved the Flintstones. And I still will, despite their bloopers. 😂
In the early episodes, I remember when the sponsors were Winston cigarettes. The Flintstones even did the commercials.
There's a couple videos on you tube that show some of the Winston cigarette commercials.
Awesome vid. I love neat stuff like this.
Over the years, I've noted the following home addresses for The Flintstones in the original series:
201 Cobblestone Lane
345 Stone Cave Road
39 Stone Canyon Way
35 Cobblestone road
323 Cobblestone lane
And as for where Fred works, I've picked up on the following:
Cave Construction Co
Slate Sand & Gravel Co.
Rock Quarry and Construction co
Rockdome Inc.
Bedrock Gravel Co.
Yabba-dabba Doo!!🙂
Awesome! I wonder, maybe they just kept changing the name of the company because the owners of the company kept changing or something, but Slate was always in charge. Funny how the creators of the Flintstones kept changing the names and addresses though.
@@tvcrazyman It was rumored that Hanna Barbera didn't give a crap about consistency, believe it or not.
@@christiangonzales7429 I can believe it.😀
I always noticed the Wilma-Betty voice swap. Eerie.
There was a similar example to Fred's head disappearance: in an episode (I think early season 3) where the wives were walking away from the store they were just in, and Wilma's entire head also vanished for a second.
Season 1's Judo lessons episode, "The Prowler", there's a moment. Initially, after Wilma throws Fred through a wall, her head pops out, smiling that she "got" Fred. When she realizes the actual prowler was there, too, she screamed and ducked back in, frightened. Only just before her head was all inside, the earlier smile returned to her face!
In the same episode, it was its animator's 1st one (each animator early on had a rougher-drawn episode than the rest) and Barney's original high-pitched was still there. But this one, later in the continuity than the others, had a sequence where the drawing was more late-season, and Barney's voice was further along in development (before Blanc's accident!) to deeper. Presumably, the episode wasn't finished until later in the season. By season's end, multiple animators doing sequences within episodes was the norm. I could always tell the different styles as a kid (mid '60s-mid-'70s).
As many times as I've watched The Flintstones over the last 55 years, I never noticed most of these things.
Although I would argue two points. 1) My own house is only one story like Barney's but if you want to get in the window, you're STILL going to need a ladder. Unless you can jump high or are 7 or 8 feet tall! 2) Regarding the car trunk, early forms of car trunks, which were LITERALLY a trunk (just like Fred's) were in fact removable!
Great video!!! I always wondered about Barney’s cornet voice change. His looks too. Dino lol 😂
There is another goof where Wilma wears a blue formal dress and Betty wears a white one at a fancy restaurant,then the colors switch just before they humiliate Fred and Barney when they sing that Carhop song.
"Here we come, on the run with a burger on a bun..."
As long as we’re at it, I guess they thought her white dress wasn’t interesting enough for the feature “The Man Called Flintstone” in which it is a light purple.
With the poor resolution of 60’s tv sets, it’s quite unlikely that viewers noticed the fine line between Dino’s head and the rest of his body. That being said, that video is well-done and fun to watch. I subscribed! ❤
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According to Rod Serling's daughter her dad loved The Flintstones. It was a show he always made time to watch with her.. so the Twilight Zone clips are kinda fitting.
Great video! Curious to know if you have a part 2 in the planning. If you do, you can mention one big goof in The Drive In. In the nightclub scene, Wilma is wearing a blue dress and Betty is wearing a white dress. As they get up to excuse themselves, suddenly, Wilma’s dress turns back to white and Betty’s dress turns back to blue! In Fred El Terrifico, Wilma, Betty and Barney each purchase sombreros in a store. When they’re watching a bullfight in a stadium, they’re all wearing different colored sombreros. Maybe they exchanged them before the bullfight. Also in Season 1, Barney’s original voice was different. Betty’s voice was different in Season 5, as Gerry Johnson took over the role.
this is hilarious! I am not really detail oriented about bloopers and mistakes when watching shows, and never noticed this stuff. I guess some are continuity errors, but I mean the color and clothes and odd looking things, I never realised that’s so funny
The episode where Fred was surfing, got in trouble, and was saved by Wilma - I think there was a mistake with the animation of Fred's wide - open mouth and the dock piers as Fred and Wilma come straight at you. There were also scenes of Fred and Barney talking as they were riding in Fred's car where they constantly keep going past the same three buildings, over and over again.
There is a scene in an airport on where Fred is talking to an airline officer, I think is the one on which they go to Texarock, when the officer answers a question his mouth and beard shade disappears for a moment.
Thanks for this. The Flintstones were my favorite show growing up. I think it was Wednesday night. By the way, the black and white picture was so bad in those days that the cell seams were not noticeable.
I can imagine. Back in the 80's we had a small black and white tv in the kitchen on rabbit ears. There was a time there where it was the only TV that could pick up the channel the Adventures of Superman was coming on so I'd stand in the kitchen to watch it while occasionally readjusting the antenna.
Fred Flinstone's demeanor is always clearly defined by the position of his eyebrows.
I remember watching The Flintstones during the 1060s and to this day no one has ever come up with a logical explanation. How does the wheel stay on the back of Fred's car? lol
1060's?? Medivial TV!!😊
@@tonycanabal1659Normans took over England by distracting them with the Flintstones while they came across
Another good one ☺️
Thanks love them all🥰
When Mel Blanc came out of his post-accident coma, the first thing he said was "What's up, doc?" in Bugs Bunny voice.
The story is that the doctors would try to talk to Mel while he was in a coma but couldn't get him to respond. But then one of the doctors asked if they could speak to Bugs Bunny and Mel responded as Bugs.
Another story of Mel Blanc was he got pulled over for speeding one night. Cop looks at his licence and asks him if he's the guy with all the voices. Mel answers in Bug's voice and the cop told him that his kids would never let him live it down if he gave a ticket to Bugs Bunny so told Mel to just slow down a bit and be careful.
😂😂😂
This was wonderful and amazing!
Thank you so much!
This cartoon has always entertained me.
Well, I was watching it on a 13 inch TV with snowy pictures, so can't blame me for not noticing these goofs lol.
The one thing that bugged me the most was in the ending credits when the cat would throw Fred out the window, and Fred bangs on the door screaming for "WILMAAAA!!!" to open it to let him back in. Why doesn't he just climb back through the window he just came out of?
- I think Wilma's had multiple maiden names in different episodes.
- Mr. Slate might've had multiple character designs.
- My brother mentioned a little while ago after watching a Flintstones marathon that Joe Rockhead had a different design every time he appeared.
Regarding the visible line between Dino's head and body, that's actually the reason a lot of HB characters have something around their neck: to hide that line. For example, this is why Yogi Bear has a collar and tie despite not wearing a shirt.
You forgot one thing in regards to where Fred lived in Bedrock. In one episode, Fred is riding on a dinosaur bus when the bus driver says "Pebble Street. Next stop, Pebble Street" and Fred gets off the bus at that stop. No address number was given, but I thought I'd bring that up. That scene came from the twenty sixth episode of season one called "The Good Scout". Another thing you failed to mention were the closing credits goof during the time Bamm-Bamm came into the show. In the closing credits, Fred's car had Fred, Wilma, Pebbles, Dino, Baby Puss (who was rarely seen in the TV series), Barney, Betty and Bamm-Bamm, but when Fred's car stops at the drive-in, only Fred, Wilma and Pebbles, alongside their pets, are seen and that carries until they come home when Wilma carries Pebbles in the house and the melee of Fred putting out the cat follows with Fred getting thrown out a few seconds later by the cat. I thought I'd bring these up.
I did subscribe and also, signed up for notifications. Please keep them coming. Thanks.
Thank, I appreciate it.
Baby Puss was apparently owned by The Flintstones, but in one episode at least The Rubbles we notice have a very different-looking “cat” and they even mention having to put it out at night in another episode.
I enjoyed this video so much, I laughed the whole time 😂🤣 I love the Flintstones 💕😍📺 Still watch the show 👍Thank you 👋
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I suspect these shenanigans are the handy work of that snarky Great Gazoo!!
That would definitely explain a lot. That Gazoo was a trouble maker.😀
Just a few of these I remember noticing as a child, but now I recollect explaining these away as only a child's imagination could. e.g. the car with and without a back seat? I just thought they had 2 cars! Didn't know about the Mel Blanc story - fascinating !!
Hilarious 😂😂
I definitely noticed the recurring backgrounds as a kid
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Great work! Loved it.
Thank you!
This was hilarious 😆 Thanks for the laughs
Wow! Thanks for this. Never noticed any of those before
In the closing credits of Season 1, Wilma is shown sleeping in bed, and her mouth is missing.
The episode where Fred buys Wilma a hot piano always cracks me up! In one scene fred lift it up to a window that looks like a 2 story house! Then later the piano goes through the front door past the bedroom, right through the backdoor🤣😅
WOW - never would have thought they messed up so much !
How about the Jetsons ?
That's a good one. I'll see what I can find. Jetsons was a favorite of mine back when I was a kid.
I LOVE THIS!
I laughed all through this video...crazy thing is...I have the boxed set with all episodes of the Flintstones...I've seen them all, but never noticed any of this stuff. lol
One of my favorite cartoons classic cartoons more fun goofs to spot love these video
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Your welcome
What a fascinating video. Thanks.
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Flintstones were on in prime time. I remember when I was about 5.
Very professionally done! Great joib.
Love this!
Love these bloopers
Ahhh Flintstones classic they might not be perfect but damn we had fun and are still having fun rewatching them
Thanks for the videos I spotted some mistakes but found new mistakes
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I binge watched the entire series a couple years ago and found a lot of “mistakes” and scenes I missed as a child. Including Rip Van Flintstone. One minute Barney is standing up at the phone, the next minute he’s being pushed around on a 4-legged wheelchair passed two pictures of (shall we say) severely underdressed individuals of the female persuasion
I kind of wondered if they were seeing if the censors would notice kind of like a game of what can we sneak past them.
Here's one I noticed. In 'Ten Little Flintstones' where Fred is being harassed by ten alien clones of himself ("YABBA...DABBA...DO"), there's the scene where his attempt to lasso them goes awry and the clones end up running over him one by one...except instead of ten clones he gets stampeded by ELEVEN!!!!
There’s also the fact that, even though from the outside the house seems small, when they start running inside the house now becomes a mile long.
As kids in the 70's we had an ongoing contest who could find the most mistakes in cartoons, tv shows, movies, etc. Here's another one I noticed in this series of clips. At the 30 second mark with the car and the cop, the axle for the car is in the wood behind the V at the front. In all subsequent scenes with it, the axle is in the crotch of the V. Also, there's nothing holding the axle in the V - it would fall right out so actually the first version was physically correct. Honorable mentions: the perspective of the cop in the scene is completely off. His body appears to be behind the V of the car on the far side, yet his feet appear to be on the opposite side of the car. Either that or it's floating in mid air for no reason. Back to the bus. If everybody needs to run to propel it, why isn't Fred still running in the other scenes. How does the bus move when there's no riders and just the driver to propel it? How do all the vehicles stay moving after they stop pushing it? How do they turn when they have a single wheel and no giant cut-out in the body for it to move? Oh, that's right, it's just a stupid cartoon - stop overthinking it... We couldn't help ourselves... it was a fun game!
Well, that was fun. Good job made me smile.
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Fred and Betty have the same eyes, and Wilma and Barney have the same eyes.
It's not an animation error but, I've always wondered why in some episodes Fred complains about running out of gas in the car. If their vehicles are powered by the drivers and passengers with their feet, why in the world do they need gas?
I was so young to even notice these things. There is a video of Fred and Barney promoting winston cigarettes..real commercial.
There are a couple of episodes of inside the Flintstone's house where the characters would walk past a window and it would be day light outside, and when they walk past the other window, it would be dark outside with stars.
Cartoons don’t need to be realistic… !
when pebbles and bam bam have the twins in one of the movies dino gets up in the middle of the night to care for the babies and that makes me laugh so much
I LOVED The Flintstones. Fun video😊
Thanks. Glad you liked it. 😀
Hang in there.. you'll get many more subscribers.. people crave old memories..
Just need to get your channel out there more somehow.
Love this channel
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Jean Vander Pyl also played Penny's mother on "Leave it to Beaver" as Mrs. Woods!
That voice was unmistakable! I would close my eyes and hear Wilma Flintstone.
Love this video❤
As a kid I'd either watch this on a 19-in color TV or a 12-in black and white.. HD TV did not exist and the signal usually wasn't 100% clear due to reception issues so a lot of stuff I just didn't notice
Thanks for that
I always thought Barney’s voice was different for a short time.
It was. Mel Blanc had a serious car accident and could not play the part for a couple of months. Daws Butler filled in.
For the first few episodes, yes. Exactly what Jaque1961 said.
@@Jaque1961 Blanc actually recorded some of Barney's dialogue while lying on his back in the hospital after the accident which he claimed caused the voice to sound different. So technically Barney had three voices--a healthy Blanc, a hospitalized Blanc, and Daws Butler.
Theory about the car: They have so many different parts for it, because it's a primitive car, Fred can put the extensions on or off as is needed. If he's out, no problem, he always has a pocket dimension in his butt 🤣
Wow. That was really fun. I liked it.
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Try spotting those on a standard def CRT TV tuned in by antenna. That was fun, but it does explain why most of us never noticed them.
5:35 Barney DOESN'T become Fred here. If you look at the nose shape it's STILL Barney, they just colored him like Fred in that cell. There's no tie like Fred wears, and his nose is long and thin, not short and fat like Fred's. It's just a miscolored Barney.
These guys must have forgot to eat their Pebbles, because they clearly had rocks in their head when doing these
Thank you for the video. You got my sub.
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If you have seen the interview of The Rock (Duane Johnson) where he say no more endorsing people, he is wearing glasses and looks spot on like Mr. Slate now. If they do another live action (oh please NOOOOOOOO) The Rock in the Flintsones as Mr. Slate is a whole lot of perfection of names and looks.
The Rock could be a very intimidating Mr. Slate, but he doesn't yell alot in his movies. The Rock will have to get a little grumpier sounding, maybe.😀 I could see him starting a gym at the rock quarry.
In that last scene, he throws four pies into the air, and swallows five as they come down.
Those must have been the earliest versions of "Man Versus Food" and the other tv shows and CZcams videos of challenges of eating a ton of food in a short amount of time, followed by mukbang videos.