"I Yabba-Dabba Do!" Talkback (Spoilers)

[Kolbar]

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Release Date: February 7, 1993
Studio: Hanna-Barbera Productions
Director: William Hanna
Starring: Henry Corden, Frank Welker, Jean VanderPyl, B.J. Ward, Megan Mullally, Jerry Houser, June Foray, Janet Waldo, John Stephenson, Ronnie Schell, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna, Michael Bell, Charlie Brill, Greg Burson

Plot Summary: Many, many years have passed and Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are all grown up. They're thinking about getting married, and the father of the bride says "money is no object", which he willfully regrets when his boss, George Slate, fires him. The bank won't give him a loan either. Fred and Barney need money and quick! Pebbles is quite carried away about the wedding session. Even Fred's nemesis, Pearl Slaghoople, Wilma's mom, drops in. Well eventually Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm decide to elope to Rock Vegas, so Fred and Barney head off to save them, while watching out for a gang of evil hoods.

Comments?

This movie airs today on Boomerang at 2:00pm.

[Anthonynotes]

NOt seen this one in ages (and don't have Boomerang), but recall enjoying it well enough as a followup/closure on the whole Flintstones mythos (if one wishes to call it that) via the obvious/expected-sooner-or-later plotline of the families' kids marrying each other (as if Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm would marry someone else...).

Liked the updated 90's-era "Stone Age" tech (IIRC, the photocopier was amusing).

Error: Since when was Wilma annoyed at Fred for their wedding? The original series states they got hitched without incident at some mountain lodge (sans anyone imitiating Elvis).

Another oddity: Rock Vegas seemed rather close to Bedrock (vs. the original series showing it as at least an overnight drive).

More oddity (Pointed out since another website pointed it out): we don't see Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's friends from their teen years (Moonrock, etc.) show up at the wedding. My theories: A) some of them moved away from Bedrock and thus lost contact over the years with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (as sometimes happens with classmates in real life); B) they were too busy to show up for the wedding; C) they *did* show up at the wedding, but thanks to cheap animation, we didn't see them depicted (but could be assumed that since various guest stars from the original series were seen walking into the church, that their friends were there too). I prefer "C" myself (cheap animation's an easy excuse :-) ).

Signs of how things have changed since the show's original 60's heyday: divorce is mentioned (as is a bit of an acknowledgment of sex, along with various pregnancy issues, in the followup film "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby")

[greg!]

I absolutely hated Pebbles as a vally girl. Its not like Sally Struthers was too busy to reprise her role....It should have been more like the series & included her friends & her ability to wrap Bamm Bamm up in her schemes instead of being just another Flintstones movie that happened to include Pebbles & Bamm Bamm.

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I absolutely hated Pebbles as a vally girl. Its not like Sally Struthers was too busy to reprise her role....It should have been more like the series & included her friends & her ability to wrap Bamm Bamm up in her schemes instead of being just another Flintstones movie that happened to include Pebbles & Bamm Bamm.

Pebbles didn't seem to be a valley girl in this movie. She didn't use such phrases such as "like" or "totally" or "to the max". That would be more like Shirley the Loon on Tiny Toon Adventures. Although the nicknames "Bammer" and "Pebbs" were a bit annoying. And in typical fashion, Fred manages to mess things up, but as usual in most cartoons, things work out in the end. At least for this and the sequel, we have the return of Bamm-Bamm's super strength which was missing in the Saturday morning Flintstones series.


More oddity (Pointed out since another website pointed it out): we don't see Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's friends from their teen years (Moonrock, etc.) show up at the wedding. My theories: A) some of them moved away from Bedrock and thus lost contact over the years with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (as sometimes happens with classmates in real life); B) they were too busy to show up for the wedding; C) they *did* show up at the wedding, but thanks to cheap animation, we didn't see them depicted (but could be assumed that since various guest stars from the original series were seen walking into the church, that their friends were there too). I prefer "C" myself (cheap animation's an easy excuse :-) ).

I'd go more with "A". I do remember recurring characters like Joe Rockhead from the original series being in this movie. Mr. Slate appears as well, but with yet ANOTHER first name (this time, George previously having had names like Sam, Sylvester, and even Nate in the 80's)! They probably just didn't bother with any of the Saturday morning series characters like Penny, Wiggy, Moonrock, or even Schleprock (which in particular would be fortunate since his bad luck would have ruined the wedding). If they did, we might have even seen a cameo by Captain Caveman. And Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm themselves weren't around for The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones movie (likely away at college at the time). The animation for the movie was very good, certainly far from "cheap" as you put it. And at least we had the cameos by William Hanna and Joe Barbera, which is a touching tribute now since the latter's recent death. Overall, this was a good movie, but Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby was the better of the two. :)

[Anthonynotes]

Pebbles didn't seem to be a valley girl in this movie. She didn't use such phrases such as "like" or "totally" or "to the max". That would be more like Shirley the Loon on Tiny Toon Adventures. Although the nicknames "Bammer" and "Pebbs" were a bit annoying. And in typical fashion, Fred manages to mess things up, but as usual in most cartoons, things work out in the end. At least for this and the sequel, we have the return of Bamm-Bamm's super strength which was missing in the Saturday morning Flintstones series.


Actually, adult Pebbles' personality reminded me a bit of, well, Sally Struthers' "Gloria" on "All in the Family" for some reason... which since Struthers was her first non-infant voice would seem a bit appropriate. :-)

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I'd go more with "A". I do remember recurring characters like Joe Rockhead from the original series being in this movie. Mr. Slate appears as well, but with yet ANOTHER first name (this time, George previously having had names like Sam, Sylvester, and even Nate in the 80's)! They probably just didn't bother with any of the Saturday morning series characters like Penny, Wiggy, Moonrock, or even Schleprock (which in particular would be fortunate since his bad luck would have ruined the wedding). If they did, we might have even seen a cameo by Captain Caveman. And Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm themselves weren't around for The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones movie (likely away at college at the time). The animation for the movie was very good, certainly far from "cheap" as you put it. And at least we had the cameos by William Hanna and Joe Barbera, which is a touching tribute now since the latter's recent death. Overall, this was a good movie, but Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby was the better of the two. :)<<<

Yeah, I haven't talked to anyone I knew in high school in awhile either...

Re: Slate's first name: I liked "Nate" myself, but oh well...

Capt. Caveman was referred to in "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby" (the marquee of Granite's Chinese Theater mentions a Capt. Caveman movie, IIRC).

I assumed the kids were away at college for "Jetsons Meet the Flintstones" as well (another oddity: I vaguely recall, when the film originally aired in syndicated TV, the "we now return to..." lead-in/lead-out title cards depicted an infant Pebbles with the gang, despite her not being in the movie!).

No, the animation wasn't really cheap---I was just being glib. :-p

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Capt. Caveman was referred to in "Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby" (the marquee of Granite's Chinese Theater mentions a Capt. Caveman movie, IIRC).

I assumed the kids were away at college for "Jetsons Meet the Flintstones" as well (another oddity: I vaguely recall, when the film originally aired in syndicated TV, the "we now return to..." lead-in/lead-out title cards depicted an infant Pebbles with the gang, despite her not being in the movie!).



And don't forget about the HB pun they put in the sequel as well. Remember Hanna-Barbarian Studios?!? :p

RE: The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones. It did originally air in syndication like the 80's Jetsons series. And I do remember the lead in/lead out to and from commercials was one of Fred taking a picture of the Jetsons clad in their stone age outfits (there might have been a picture of baby Pebbles in the background, I'm not sure) and the other was Fred and Barney trying to fly the space car with George hanging on to it by its tail looking as he's trying to get inside to help them. You could notice Fred punched his feet through the bottom as if he were driving his own car. :D

[Eric Brown]

Just finished watching the movie. I hadn't seen since I recorded it off of the TV on the night it premiered as a prime time ABC Movie Special. Interestingly, that night, the movie was interrupted by a news bulletin (can't remember content) and I'm missing about 5 or 6 minutes from where Fred was going use Barney's money in a condo investment to where Fred is selling his stuff in a pawn shop. Did I miss anything significant?

Just 4 days earlier, Jean Vander Ply (Wilma) and Frank Welker (Barney / Dino) appeared on Good Morning America to promote the upcoming movie. This I also have on tape.

Anyway, the movie. It sure could have been done better. The use of thin outline Xerox on the animation cells, for me, just seemed to lower the appearance quality. The "Pacific Rim" animation quality just doesn't have the heart of the original series. Wilma and Betty character designs seem to have lost their "petiteness" as they appear more "bulked up". I think they could have done a bit better with Pebbles character design, too. Anyone remember the grown Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm from episode 148 (Rip Van Flintstone) from the the original series? I thought the Bamm-Bamm character design was still good, as was Wilma's mother (she's never changed). I also wished Frank Welker could do a better Barney laugh. I thought the writing was rather juvenile. Could this be attributed to Mark Young's (co-executive producer) involvement in the project? I've noticed when he was involved with an HB product, the story or the writing just seemed to suffer. Anyone else notice?

It was mentioned in earlier threads that no characters from the P & BB series appeared in this movie. True. However, one of the office girls looked a lot like "Wiggy" and one gal at the batchelorette party looked a lot like "Penny".

I rated this movie 2.5 in the poll. What did I like? I liked Betty's wedding hat and Bill and Joe's cameos.

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[Steve Carras]

Actually, adult Pebbles' personality reminded me a bit of, well, Sally Struthers' "Gloria" on "All in the Family" for some reason... which since Struthers was her first non-infant voice would seem a bit appropriate. :-)
Jean Vanderpyl in "Rip Van Flinstone", and before that Janet Waldo in "Groom Gloom".(in the orig. 1960's Flintstones.:-))

[Anthonynotes]

Jean Vanderpyl in "Rip Van Flinstone", and before that Janet Waldo in "Groom Gloom".(in the orig. 1960's Flintstones.:-))

Fine, first non-infant voice in a non-dream sequence depiction. ;-)

[Peter Paltridge]

I remember this from its first airing on ABC, but I also remember skipping "Hollyrock" because it was just so overdone at the time to have TV characters give birth to twins.

Tell me: did they look like Fred and Barney? They better have....

[Tinytooncrazy]

They were more like pebbles and bam bam I can rememeber the girl haveing white hair and their boy was named chip

[Anthonynotes]

I remember this from its first airing on ABC, but I also remember skipping "Hollyrock" because it was just so overdone at the time to have TV characters give birth to twins.

Tell me: did they look like Fred and Barney? They better have....

Well, since Bamm-Bamm's adopted, they *can't* look like Barney... ;-)

Chip (the boy) had red hair (like Pebbles) and inherited Fred's loud mouth; Roxy (the girl) inherited Bamm-Bamm's superstrength and had white hair. Both looked like their parents...

Here's this site with a photo of the entire Flintstones/Rubble clan, as seen in this movie (note Wilma's mother finally gains grey hair here, but the older Flintstone/Rubble adults still look the same as always otherwise):

http://www.topthat.net/webrock/specials/HollyrockBaby.htm

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