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.

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.