toobfreak
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What got me thinking about the Flintstones? A couple weeks ago, a local channel brought them back on the exact date they originally aired in 1960 and is showing the series again in the order made. They are great.
But it got me thinking that such a cartoon would be impossible today. Then I realized why there are no good cartoons anymore! Think about it:
SOME OF THE REASONS WHY THE FLINTSTONES WOULD NEVER PASS MUSTER TODAY:
In fact, I'm just waiting for the station now to get so many complaints from parents that they are forced to remove it from the air to avoid lawsuits for promoting humor, accurate social situations, pointless violence with no underlying constructive social message other than to just be funny. And we all know that liberals just do not have any sense of humor, especially about themselves.
The Flintstones - Wikipedia
PS: Little known fact: The voice of the Great Gazoo was done by Harvey Korman of the Carol Burnett Show and the voice of Betty was done by Bea Benaderet who went on to become Jethro's mother (Pearl Bodine) on the Beverly Hillbillies and a regular on Petticoat Junction.
But it got me thinking that such a cartoon would be impossible today. Then I realized why there are no good cartoons anymore! Think about it:
SOME OF THE REASONS WHY THE FLINTSTONES WOULD NEVER PASS MUSTER TODAY:
- Fred weaves through lanes speeding in traffic to get home. This clearly promotes the wrong message to children and general recklessness. Would be banned by MADD.
- His car is made of stone. Everyone knows that stone gets very poor miles to the gallon. Would not get EPA approval.
- He brakes with his feet. Obviously a smear at the Middle Class who cannot afford real brakes or shoes. Would cause a lawsuit by the ACLU.
- No one wears seat belts. This would be frowned on by the DMV.
- He demands that supper be on the table when he walks in the door. Promotes a male dominant, misogynistic view sure to draw the ire of Women's Lib.
- Wilma keeps house. A clearly Chauvinistic promotion that would never fly with NOW.
- There are no minorities in the show. NAACP would have a field day filing discrimination lawsuits.
- Fred and Barney sneak out at every chance to get away from the wives. Bowling, pool, etc., every night while the wives stay home to cook and clean? Sponsors would be attacked. Toxic masculinity.
- All the appliances from the faucet to the shower to the vacuum cleaner to the duster and phonograph all use live, talking animals. Holy shit! PETA would have the show off the air for the enslavement and cruelty to animals!
- There is no glass in any of the windows. No glass, no insulation, bare stone walls and floors, the homes were a veritable environmental disaster of wasted energy, pollution, smoke, fire; the EPA would have to stop it at once.
- They eat 6 foot long brontoburgers. Cooking and eating all that meat on an open spit? Burning wood, cow farts, no protections for dinosaurs, a sure bet this is a poke in the eye to any civic-minded climate person. And don't get me started on the cholesterol.
- Fred works in a rock quarry. You just know that all that rock dust cannot be good for the climate and environment.
- The kids ride on the roof of the car. No baby carriers, no seat belts, this is a tragedy in the making.
- Pebbles is a girl and Bam Bam is a boy. Perhaps the worst offense of all, these poor children were never allowed to explore their sexuality much less gender choices. Unthinkable to the LGBT that Pebbles was made to wear a short dress and pony tail while Bam Bam smashed everything with super strength and a club.
In fact, I'm just waiting for the station now to get so many complaints from parents that they are forced to remove it from the air to avoid lawsuits for promoting humor, accurate social situations, pointless violence with no underlying constructive social message other than to just be funny. And we all know that liberals just do not have any sense of humor, especially about themselves.
The Flintstones - Wikipedia
PS: Little known fact: The voice of the Great Gazoo was done by Harvey Korman of the Carol Burnett Show and the voice of Betty was done by Bea Benaderet who went on to become Jethro's mother (Pearl Bodine) on the Beverly Hillbillies and a regular on Petticoat Junction.
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