Yabba dabba doo! "The Flintstones" are 50. Back in the Stone Age of television, there was "The Flintstones," the cartoon family show set in the actual Stone Age. Sort of. (More on that in a moment.)
The first episode aired back on September 30, 1960. That's right, 50 years ago, Fred, wife Wilma, and daughter Pebbles made their debut along with neighbors Barney, Betty, and Bamm-Bamm Rubble in their caveman subdivision in Bedrock.
The show, originally called "The Gladstones," was basically an animated version of "The Honeymooners." But there was a twist: Wacky inventions gave the comedy, which was set way back, all the conveniences of modern life.
The Flintstones have a car, it's just foot-powered. Fred Flintstone's construction work is assisted with a dinosaur-operated crane. Betty and Wilma get help with housework from an octopus dishwasher. A record player is powered by a bird's beak. It's life in the suburbs, shared with dinosaurs and woolly mammoths. The husbands even duck out of the opera with their wives to go bowling. But hey, what do you expect? They're cavemen!
Like other cartoon families, the Flintstones will forever be stuck in 10,000 BC. But what if they aged? Here, the real ages of our favorite cartoon characters.
Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble: If you're counting by Flintstone years, Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles, roughly the same infant age, would technically be about 12,010, since the show was supposed to take place around 10,000 BC. For the sake of the show's age, we will call Bamm-Bamm 51 and Pebbles a youthful 50.
Bart Simpson: The perpetual bad-boy — introduced on the sitcom "The Simpsons" in 1989 as a delinquent 10-year-old — would now be in his early 30s.
Charlie Brown: The balding pessimist aged throughout the time of the "Peanuts" comic strip, but he was first introduced at the tender age of 4 in 1950. If he had continued on his miserable life at the original age, he'd be 64.
Judy Jetson: The daughter of the space-age family in "The Jetsons" was just 16. The show ended in 1963, which would make Judy a mature 63.
The first episode aired back on September 30, 1960. That's right, 50 years ago, Fred, wife Wilma, and daughter Pebbles made their debut along with neighbors Barney, Betty, and Bamm-Bamm Rubble in their caveman subdivision in Bedrock.
The show, originally called "The Gladstones," was basically an animated version of "The Honeymooners." But there was a twist: Wacky inventions gave the comedy, which was set way back, all the conveniences of modern life.
The Flintstones have a car, it's just foot-powered. Fred Flintstone's construction work is assisted with a dinosaur-operated crane. Betty and Wilma get help with housework from an octopus dishwasher. A record player is powered by a bird's beak. It's life in the suburbs, shared with dinosaurs and woolly mammoths. The husbands even duck out of the opera with their wives to go bowling. But hey, what do you expect? They're cavemen!
Like other cartoon families, the Flintstones will forever be stuck in 10,000 BC. But what if they aged? Here, the real ages of our favorite cartoon characters.
Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble: If you're counting by Flintstone years, Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles, roughly the same infant age, would technically be about 12,010, since the show was supposed to take place around 10,000 BC. For the sake of the show's age, we will call Bamm-Bamm 51 and Pebbles a youthful 50.
Bart Simpson: The perpetual bad-boy — introduced on the sitcom "The Simpsons" in 1989 as a delinquent 10-year-old — would now be in his early 30s.
Charlie Brown: The balding pessimist aged throughout the time of the "Peanuts" comic strip, but he was first introduced at the tender age of 4 in 1950. If he had continued on his miserable life at the original age, he'd be 64.
Judy Jetson: The daughter of the space-age family in "The Jetsons" was just 16. The show ended in 1963, which would make Judy a mature 63.
