There aren't a lot of TV shows that I can watch with my kids and enjoy them. They love crap on the Disney Channel and I love The Daily Show. While we both love Spongebob, I can only see the same episode so many times.
One show that seems to hold up for all of us is The Flintstones. The kids especially like the later episodes with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.
On one particular day, I was enjoying an episode of The Flintstones with my kids and something odd happened. In this particular episode, Fred and Barney got into a huge fight because they were on a road trip and they ran out of gas.
Think about that for a minute. On The Flintstones...they ran out of gas. The reason for the fight was that it was Barney's responsibility to fill up the gas can with extra gas, therefore Fred was reading him the riot act.
Never mind the fact that dinosaurs still live and walk among them, therefore there are no fossils from which to make fossil fuels. Never mind that the internal combustion engine has yet to even be conceived let alone built and put in the car. There's nothing under the hood but a bird who squawks when you pull his tail!
I couldn't understand why Barney didn't just explain this to Fred so they could get back in the car, stomp their feet and be on their way.
Now for this week's question...
Who was the only non-fictional celebrity to guest star on The Flintstones and not have their name altered?
Congratulations KLB! Hoagy Carmichael is correct.















Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
7-07-2008 @ 10:48AM
Nathaniel said...
Maybe Samantha Stephens and her husband Darrin from Bewitched? Ivaguely remember her using magic to transport them back in time..
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7-07-2008 @ 10:52AM
Nathaniel said...
ack missed the non fictional part.. stupid stupid stupid..
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7-07-2008 @ 10:59AM
nosidam said...
Rock Hudson
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7-07-2008 @ 11:03AM
nosidam said...
Rock Hudson
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7-07-2008 @ 11:11AM
klb said...
Hoagy Carmichael
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7-07-2008 @ 11:12AM
Oreo said...
"Never mind the fact that dinosaurs still live and walk among them, therefore there are no fossils from which to make fossil fuels."
Oh dear, our species is screwed.
Dinosaurs lived ruffly between 500 million years ago and 65 million years ago. The planet is 4.5 billion years old. There has been live on the planet for 3.8-4.1 billion years.
Therefor there were fossils of other creatures before the dinosaurs.
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7-07-2008 @ 11:59AM
segsig said...
They make the cars go with their own feet.
7-07-2008 @ 12:11PM
GL said...
Our species may be screwed, but most likely from a disturbing obsession with minutia while entirely missing the fact that the Great Gazoo's doomsday machine is still out there.
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7-26-2008 @ 12:15AM
joecab said...
It was Hoagy. This episode occurred early enough that they hadn't yet settled on Flintstonifying actual guest celebrity names as a rule.
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