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.
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.