The network is developing the primetime animated adult comedy series with the Charlie Angels and Hunger Games star set to voice Pebbles Flintstone in addition to producing.
Lol, is the only way she can get roles is by casting herself?
Bedrock will follow the Flintstone family two decades after the original, with Fred on the brink of retirement and 20-something Pebbles embarking on her own career. As the Stone Age gives way to a shiny and enlightened new Bronze Age, the residents of Bedrock will find this evolution harder than a swing from Bamm-Bamm’s club.
Is nothing safe? I can't wait for the awkwardness of modern politics poorly translated into cartoon cavemen society. Currently my expectations are
Fred- idiot conservative "boomer" stuck in the past and has to be enlightened by his wonderful, progressive and of course more intelligent daughter
Pebbles- Basically any modern middle class career woman
Bamm-Bamm- They're gonna soy this poor boy so hard. I fully expect something with him going to therapy for anger issues/toxic masculinity. "You need to express yourself with your words, not your club".
And a completely new secondary family so they can have black characters.
Probably some shit about animal abuse too, it can't just be a joke anymore.
Wanted to archive but the page wouldn't load so just a direct link unfortunately.
While I'd like to note that The Flintstones was always originally meant to be an "adult" cartoon of its time - it did air in prime time, which started at 8 pm, which is when the little kids (<gr 6 or 7)were sent to bed. Exactly like The Jetsons and The Simpsons. If the shows were rerun during daytime hours when kids could see it, well, so were most sitcoms of the 50s-70s available on independent American stations to compete with the game shows and soap operas on the networks. These shows only got confused for "kid's shows" by the same sort of droolers who got brainwashed by Saturday Morning Cartoons to believe that "cartoons r 4 childrun", a common thing in North America after the advent of television (actual Saturday Morning syndicated reruns and made for saturdays spin-offs didn't help, either) .... I think you're right, they're not doing this for nostalgia, they're doing it to destroy the Flintstones, just like they're doing to everything else Gen X grew up with.
And I do remember there being a show with teenage versions of Pebbles and Bam-Bam (one of those Sat am spin-offs), it was very hippie and was yet another show that sold the idea that "all teenagers must want to be in a band" bullshit, from what I remember of it.
I figured that was well enough known, my focus was on the false impression that it was a Honeymooners rip-off for kids.
I feel that impression would be even worse nowadays, in a time where "very special episodes" are pretty much every damn episode of every damn comedy now, and the difference between "for kids" and "something that isn't for kids, but not something you'd need to ban them from either" has been blurred/forgotten.
It's sort of possible. Some of the very remote Germanic peoples were reported to be primarily using stone and bone tools at the same time Rome was doing its thing.
Obviously, Africa and the Americas were also not developed. But they're really talking about genuine development within a human society, not parallel to a different one.
There's also the whole "Some rocks melt and can be made into tools" that existed before metallurgy figured out how to mix them into bronze...
And Flinstones was already a complete 1-1 modern world with rock record players and dino-powered can openers, what are they going to with bronze? Fly to the moon?
There's going to be portable shell phones and vac-tube sceamers, aren't there?
I guarantee, no matter what, it's going to be about some irritating, narcissistic cunts who hate men, are disgusting, and unfuckable, but are somehow surrounded by men who want to date them. Think that fat pedo's show Girls, in their sixties.
I can only imagine how badly it will be butchered. Isn’t she the genius who decided “I’ll remove everything people loved about Charlie’s Angels and turn it into woke garbage”.
Lol, is the only way she can get roles is by casting herself?
Is nothing safe? I can't wait for the awkwardness of modern politics poorly translated into cartoon cavemen society. Currently my expectations are
Fred- idiot conservative "boomer" stuck in the past and has to be enlightened by his wonderful, progressive and of course more intelligent daughter
Pebbles- Basically any modern middle class career woman
Bamm-Bamm- They're gonna soy this poor boy so hard. I fully expect something with him going to therapy for anger issues/toxic masculinity. "You need to express yourself with your words, not your club".
And a completely new secondary family so they can have black characters.
Probably some shit about animal abuse too, it can't just be a joke anymore.
Wanted to archive but the page wouldn't load so just a direct link unfortunately.
Lmao
I was think it'll be more along the lines of grown-up Lisa Simpson.
While I'd like to note that The Flintstones was always originally meant to be an "adult" cartoon of its time - it did air in prime time, which started at 8 pm, which is when the little kids (<gr 6 or 7)were sent to bed. Exactly like The Jetsons and The Simpsons. If the shows were rerun during daytime hours when kids could see it, well, so were most sitcoms of the 50s-70s available on independent American stations to compete with the game shows and soap operas on the networks. These shows only got confused for "kid's shows" by the same sort of droolers who got brainwashed by Saturday Morning Cartoons to believe that "cartoons r 4 childrun", a common thing in North America after the advent of television (actual Saturday Morning syndicated reruns and made for saturdays spin-offs didn't help, either) .... I think you're right, they're not doing this for nostalgia, they're doing it to destroy the Flintstones, just like they're doing to everything else Gen X grew up with.
And I do remember there being a show with teenage versions of Pebbles and Bam-Bam (one of those Sat am spin-offs), it was very hippie and was yet another show that sold the idea that "all teenagers must want to be in a band" bullshit, from what I remember of it.
The Flintstones is a animated remake of "The Honeymooners"
I figured that was well enough known, my focus was on the false impression that it was a Honeymooners rip-off for kids.
I feel that impression would be even worse nowadays, in a time where "very special episodes" are pretty much every damn episode of every damn comedy now, and the difference between "for kids" and "something that isn't for kids, but not something you'd need to ban them from either" has been blurred/forgotten.
Dude, even Age of Empires had to invent a "Tool Age" to bridge that gap of like 40,000 years.
Clubs & Dinosaurs -> Bronze metallurgy in 1 generation.
It's sort of possible. Some of the very remote Germanic peoples were reported to be primarily using stone and bone tools at the same time Rome was doing its thing.
Obviously, Africa and the Americas were also not developed. But they're really talking about genuine development within a human society, not parallel to a different one.
Shit, people in Haiti still live in literal mud huts today, right now.
A quick technological leap is probably going to be the most believable thing about this abortion.
There's also the whole "Some rocks melt and can be made into tools" that existed before metallurgy figured out how to mix them into bronze...
And Flinstones was already a complete 1-1 modern world with rock record players and dino-powered can openers, what are they going to with bronze? Fly to the moon?
There's going to be portable shell phones and vac-tube sceamers, aren't there?
So they replace the rock puns with bronze puns? Dunno how long that'll last.
It is an idealized version of a career women that somehow is better then all men so that you would not think she got there do to affirmative programs.
That's a safe bet.
I guarantee, no matter what, it's going to be about some irritating, narcissistic cunts who hate men, are disgusting, and unfuckable, but are somehow surrounded by men who want to date them. Think that fat pedo's show Girls, in their sixties.
I can only imagine how badly it will be butchered. Isn’t she the genius who decided “I’ll remove everything people loved about Charlie’s Angels and turn it into woke garbage”.
Why create anything new when we can piss on the old
Grand Dad
I wonder how they explain that pebbles is black now. /s