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Dog and Pony Shows

Here are my thoughts on three movies and three television shows, with SPOILERS for all of them. Phantom of the Paradise – Brian De Palma’s campy 1974 rock musical is mostly a take on The Phantom of the Opera, with … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Cartoons, Food, Gender, Humor, Magic, Monsters, Music, Relationships, Star Wars, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, Toys, Video Games, VoVat Goes to the Movies | Tagged a new hope, adrienne barbeau, allan sherman, augie doggie, bail organa, barney rubble, boo boo bear, brian de palma, captain caveman, cindy bear, danny devito, darth vader, doggie daddy, faust, fred flintstone, goober and the ghost chasers, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, huckleberry hound, jabberjaw, james earl jones, jamie lee curtis, janet leigh, jellystone, jerry springer, jerry springer fights camera action, jessica harper, John Carpenter, jonny quest, loopy de loop, magilla gorilla, my little pony, my little pony the movie, obi-wan kenobi, oprah winfrey, peter potamus, phantom of the paradise, princess leia, quick draw mcgraw, raspberry rover, richard dominick, satan, scooby-doo, shazzan, smooze, snagglepuss, solo a star wars story, the fog, the hillbilly bears, the phantom of the opera, the picture of dorian gray, tom atkins, tony randall, top cat, touche turtle, vivien lyra blair, wally gator, william finley, wilma flintstone, yogi bear |

Holy Hanna-Barbera!

The Hanna-Barbera Now initiative at DC Comics started in 2016, with the idea to use characters from the old studio’s cartoons in more modern and often darker stories. I’d been interested in the Flintstones series for a while now; it’s … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Animals, Art, Book Reviews, Cartoons, Comics, Environmentalism, Families, Humor, Plays, Politics, Prejudice, Relationships, Religion, Technology, Television, The Flintstones, The Jetsons | Tagged aliens, astro, augie doggie, bamm-bamm rubble, barney rubble, cosmo g. spacely, dc comics, dogs, dorothy parker, elroy jetson, exit stage left, frank pugh, fred flintstone, gay marriage, george jetson, george o'hanlon, great gazoo, hanna-barbera, hanna-barbera now, homophobia, homosexuality, huckleberry hound, jane jetson, jimmy palmiotti, marilyn monroe, mark russell, marriage, mike feehan, nasa, pearl slaghoople, pebbles flintstone, peter potamus, pier brito, president richard nixon, puns, quick draw mcgraw, robots, rosey the robot, roy cohn, satire, snagglepuss, squiddly diddly, tennessee williams, tony danza, who framed roger rabbit, wilma flintstone |

Snally Boy

I noticed that one of the other monsters described in William Cox’s Fearsome Creatures of the Lumberwoods, the same book as the Squonk, is the Snoligoster. (WARNING: The passage is pretty racist.) That’s a name I thought I knew, but … Continue reading →

Posted in Animals, Cartoons, Characters, Etymology, Food, German, L. Frank Baum, Monsters, Mythology, Oz, Oz Authors, Television, The Flintstones, Urban Legends | Tagged barney rubble, dewayo, fearsome creatures of the lumberwoods, florida, fred flintstone, fred flintstone and the snallygaster show, lake okeechobee, maryland, ork, president theodore roosevelt, snallygasters, snoligosters, the scarecrow of oz, william t. cox, wilma flintstone, wolves |

Whores in My Head

Pixies, Doolittle – I think this might be the band’s most popular album, and it was certainly the first one I heard. It’s not my personal favorite, but it’s quite solid. I remember reading that the working title was Whore, … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Frank Black/Black Francis, Music, Pixies, Uncategorized | Tagged bathsheba, bible, david lovering, delilah, doolittle, dr. dolittle, fred flintstone, kim deal, king david, neptune, samson, un chien andalou |

The Griffins Meet the Simpsons

I suppose I might as well take a look at the Simpsons/Family Guy crossover, since I do still watch both shows. It was pretty heavily built up for something that probably would have gone over much better years ago. It … Continue reading →

Posted in American Dad, Cartoons, Family Guy, Humor, Television, The Flintstones, The Simpsons | Tagged brian griffin, crossover, fred flintstone, homer simpson, jackie mason, james woods, kang and kodos, krusty the clown, lisa simpson, maude flanders, rabbi hyman krustofsky, rodney dangerfield, roger, sideshow bob, stewie griffin |

I Get By on All My Prehistoric Knowhow

Alapalooza – “Weird Al” Yankovic’s eighth album, released in 1993, was named after the Lollapalooza music festival, but the cover design references Jurassic Park. In fact, some copies of it had a sticker clearly stating that it was NOT the … Continue reading →

Posted in Albums, Cartoons, Humor, Music, Television, The Flintstones, Weird Al Yankovic | Tagged ac/dc, aerosmith, alapalooza, allan sherman, anthony kiedis, barney and friends, barry manilow, billy ray cyrus, dave barry, dick van patten, dinosaurs, donny osmond, fred flintstone, james taylor, jimmy webb, jurassic park, peter gabriel, prince, queen, red hot chili peppers, rem, richard harris, the weird al show, tiffany, village people, will vinton |

The Initial Problem

It’s sort of an unspoken rule that cartoon characters tend to have the middle initial J. It’s probably really not as common as you might think, but it does show up in quite a few unrelated cartoon franchises. In The … Continue reading →

Posted in Cartoons, Comics, Futurama, Popeye, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Television, The Flintstones, The Simpsons | Tagged abraham simpson, barney rubble, bart simpson, bullwinkle j. moose, donald duck, elmer fudd, fred flintstone, homer simpson, j. wellington wimpy, jay ward, lisa simpson, looney tunes, michigan j. frog, middle initial, middle name, nancy cartwright, philip j. fry, rocket j. squirrel, wile e. coyote |

Deck the Halls with Advertising

People have long complained about Christmas being too commercial. Stan Freberg, who did a fair amount of advertising work himself, lampooned the idea in 1958 with his “Green Chri$tma$.” It was also a major theme of A Charlie Brown Christmas … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Christmas, Food, Holidays, Music, Television, The Flintstones | Tagged a charlie brown christmas, barney rubble, cereal, coca-cola, commercials, ebenezer scrooge, fred flintstone, fruity pebbles, hess, honey nut cheerios, linus van pelt, mcdonald's, mcdonaldland, peanuts, ronald mcdonald, santa claus, stan freberg |

Cereal Offenders

The Internet has had a lot of talk about cereal commercial mascots, but I figured I might as well add my voice to the hubbub. I never was big on this sort of dry cereal myself, partially because my parents … Continue reading →

Posted in Advertising, Cartoons, Food, Television, The Flintstones | Tagged bamm-bamm rubble, barney rubble, cap'n crunch, cereal, cocoa krispies, cocoa pebbles, cocoa puffs, dean martin, fred flintstone, froot loops, frosted flakes, fruity pebbles, gerry matthews, golden crisp, gramps, granny goodwitch, jay ward, jean lafoote, king vitaman, leprechauns, lucky charms, lucky the leprechaun, mascots, mel blanc, paul frees, pebbles flintstone, quick draw mcgraw, snagglepuss, soggies, sonny the cuckoo bird, sugar bear, sugar crisp, sugar frosted flakes, sugar smacks, tony the tiger, toucan sam, trix, trix rabbit |

Stone Age Stumpers

My habit of over-thinking cartoons has led me to wonder how the technology on The Flintstones came into existence in the first place. There’s an incomplete list of animal appliances on the show here, and later specials sometimes updated the … Continue reading →