the.com/flintstones
stone-age suburbia with cars made of feet and problems made of nowhere else.
means a 1960s animated sitcom that reskinned modern middle-class family life in prehistoric costume, dinosaurs and all.
from hanna-barbera pitched it in 1960 as prime-time cartoon comedy for adults, structurally lifted from the honeymooners, right down to the loud best friend next door.
first animatedprime-time cartoon before the simpsons existed
honeymooners lawsuitjackie gleason considered suing, decided against it
vitamin empireflintstones vitamins outlived the show by decades
bedrock economyevery gadget is an animal doing forced labor