Christmastime is drawing closer, which means you should be able to catch at least one Flintstones Christmas special on Cartoon Network. This is odd when you think about it, since the Flintstones are cavemen and therefore would have existed before the birth of Christ. Although, they did meet the Jetsons once, so maybe they have the ability to time travel and were able to see into the future. Perhaps the Flintstones isn't really about the past at all and is instead a dark look at a post-apocalyptic future where people are stripped of the necessities of modern life and forced to use pelicans as trash cans. The only way Fred maintains his sanity is by taking direction from a tiny alien who lives in his brain.
Anyway, for this "The Five" I've decided to focus on prehistoric matters. So come up with your favorite prehistoric television characters and share them in the comments. Mine are all dinosaurs, since that was my original idea. I decided that was a bit too narrow so I'm stretching it to include anything prehistoric or even closely related, so robot dinosaurs count too.
Dino (The Flintstones): Ahhh, that cute puppet-like mouth and that loud, endearing yap. This fella can knock me down on the floor and lick my face anytime.Baby Sinclair (Dinosaurs): "Not the momma!" Was that as hilarious as I remembered it or was I just too young to know better? Jim Henson Productions created this animatronic puppet show about dinosaurs who live in homes, watch TV, and go to work like regular people. The baby often tortured the patriarch of the family (Earl) by referring to him not as "daddy" but as "not the momma." Baby was performed by Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo.Denver (Denver, the Last Dinosaur): I don't remember much about this cartoon, but that theme song has never left my head: "Denver, the last dinosaur, he's my friend and a whole lot more." Seriously, I've never been able to get rid of it. It's like the "Funky Town" of cartoon theme songs.Godzilla (The Godzilla Power Hour): According to the movie King Kong vs. Godzilla, this mighty creature is actually a hybrid of a tyrannosaurus and a stegosaurus. Therefore, I'm counting him as a dinosaur. I'll even give an honorable mention to Godzooky, even though he was kind of the show's answer to Scrappy-Doo.Grumpy the T-Rex (Land of the Lost): You would think stop-motion dinosaurs would be easy to avoid since they take several hours just to move a few inches. I guess that wasn't the case with Will, Holly, and the rest of the aliens, robots, cave people and other assorted beings who made up this insane little show. 
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11-26-2005 @ 9:42AM
Jamie said...
1. The Sleestak--they were nifty villians. if that show could be revived today with a bigger budget, The land of the lost would be a hit, a la Lost--if they did all the mysteries of the dead civilizations, dropping in other people through whatever portal are heroes fell through, and the like.
2. Capt. Caveman
3. Bubba Duck--I don't really like him, but he marks the decline of a once great cartoon, Ducktales, so he's included.
4. Betty Rubble--much hotter than Wilma.
5. The aliens from the "Distant Origin" episode of star trek: Voyager--The dinosaurs didn't die off, they left for the Delta Quadrant and now explore space themselves. Totally cool, even though most Trekkers hated the episode.
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11-26-2005 @ 2:29PM
Toby OB said...
There was a race of humanoid dinosaurs who evolved here on Earth in "The Lost World" syndicated series from a few years back.
And an old-timer like myself with a weakness for bad sitcoms will remember "It's About Time". Two astronauts end up in the Stone Age among cavemen who were obviously the progenitors of slapstick comedians. (Joe E. Ross, Imogene Coco, Cliff Norton were among the cave-folk.)
I can't remember her name - and I'm too lazy to reach for the Prime Time Directory - but I remember the cave girl as being hot. (And after all these years I do remember her character name - Mlor!)
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