Today’s character of the day is: Pebbles Flintstone from The Flintstones

🦴 Pebbles and Dino 🦕🦖

I'm glad that Mark Marek's out here getting to make projects and you can recognize his style well if you've seen the Henry & June segments of Kablam!

HBOmax is fucking wonderful cartoons in the ass right now so here's how you can watch some of them (THIS WILL BE UPDATED AS I FIND MORE)

gomovies.sx has OK KO, Infinity Train, Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart, Elliott from Earth, Summer Camp Island, Aquaman: King of Atlantis, Close Enough, Dodo, Esme & Roy, The Fungies, Little Ellen, Mighty Magiswords, The Ollie and Moon Show, Tig n' Seek, Uncle Grandpa, Victor and Valentino, and Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs.

which is every cartoon network show being removed with the expections of Messy Goes to Okido, Mia's Magic Playground, Odo, Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures, and The Runaway Bunny.

It's not a cartoon, but Theodosia is also getting removed and is also on gomovies.sx

I haven't looked a ton into it but wcostream.com should also have at least some of these titles, I have checked shows can be safely downloaded from the site by right clicking on the video once you've started playing an episode, I don't know what specific titles are on it.

This has every episode of Infinity Train if gets removed from gomovies.sx

This has the first 28 episodes of Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart

@dogdayafternoon1975 here on tumblr has a good guide to burning dvds posted recently here:

Also if you're mad about this like many others, make sure to wreak havoc on social medias of course, but if you have an account for it go to help.hbomax.com to give feedback. When you do this don't just spam them, say what you are upset about and list specific shows. Remember some of these shows had/have an entire season that was about to air through hbo and now the creators of them are unsure if that's going to happen now because of this. The creators of these shows weren't notified, at all. HBO is going this just to save money on taxes. Animation should be preserved and accessible!

I’m seeing plenty of excellent posts on tumblr addressing how infuriating the Warner Brothers Discover merger is, but my dashboard’s circle of influences has yet to produce for me a more comprehensive sequence of events or list of shows being taken down, so IMMA START

According to Polygon, here is a complete list of the nearly 40 shows HBO Max has taken down:

12 Dates of Christmas

About Last Night

Aquaman: King of Atlantis

Close Enough

Detention Adventure

Dodo

Ellen’s Next Great Designer

Elliott From Earth

Esme & Roy

The Fungies!

Generation Hustle

Generation

Infinity Train

Little Ellen

Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart

Messy Goes to Okido

Mia’s Magic Playground

Mighty Magiswords

My Dinner with Herve

My Mom, Your Dad

Odo

OK K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes

The Ollie & Moon Show

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness

Select Sesame Street specials

Make It Big, Make It Small

Share

Squish

Summer Camp Island

The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo

The Runaway Bunny (special)

Theodosia

Tig n’ Seek

Uncle Grandpa

Victor and Valentino

Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs

HBO Max has also removed about 200 episodes of Sesame Street; I am presuming those certain specials mentioned up above are included. A certain Batgirl movie that would’ve brought back Michael Keaton also got canned.

This is all because Warner Brothers Discovery wants to merge HBO Max and Discovery+ into a single streaming service in order to compete with the likes of Disney and Netflix. Over the course of the next ten+ years they hope to have a base of about 130 million subscribers. It’s also worth noting that, according to The Washington Post, “Warner Bros. Discovery was formed in April, when AT&T’s WarnerMedia unit and Discovery completed their merger, and started with some $55 billion in debt.”

I had yet to see any tumblr posts talking about what Warner Brothers Discovery really plans to do with these programs, and frustratingly it’s unclear at this time how many, if any, of them will make it onto the new streaming platform. (And to be fair, from what I’ve perceived this whole hot mess has been happening on such a rapid timescale it’s been hard to pivot before the rug gets ripped out from underneath us again.) Warner Brothers Discovery through HBO Max would’ve had to keep paying residuals to the creators of these shows, so locking the shows in financial limbo looks a hell of a lot like a massive tax write-off. They’re cutting their losses as much as they can now in order to compete as an even bigger monopoly, but their best bet to pay off their $55 million debt is really to include all the shows onto the platform and let the debt and residuals pay for themselves via the subscription service. And even then, let’s be clear, Sesame Street should be free.

This, I imagine too, is a developing story and we’re bound to hear about some more fuckery in the near future.

Status of all the scripted shows that have just been pulled from HBO Max:

(take all this with a pinch of salt, everything seems very up-in-the-air at the moment)

🟡 Aquaman King of Atlantis - The movie version got a DVD release. The episodic miniseries version will be lost after this week.

🟡 Close Enough - Only available via digital purchase.

🔴 Dodo - No official way to watch in the US?

🟡 Elliott From Earth - Available via digital purchase, and possibly via some on-demand services like Sling.

🔴 Esme & Roy - Season 1 is only available via digital purchase. Season 2 will have no official way to watch in the US.

🟡 The Fungies - Only available via digital purchase.

🟡 Infinity Train - Only available via digital purchase. Only the first two seasons are on DVD.

🟡 Little Ellen - Only available via digital purchase.

🟢 Mao Mao - Available via digital purchase, and possibly via some on-demand services like the CN app. Season 2 will presumably air on Cartoon Network.

🔴 Messy Goes to OKIDO - No official way to watch in the US?

🟡 Mia’s Magic Playground - I think most of this is on YouTube?

🟢 Mighty Magiswords - Still streaming on Hulu for now, and available via digital purchase.

🔴 Odo - No official way to watch in the US?

🟢 OK K.O. - Still streaming on Hulu for now, and available via digital purchase. Season 1 got a DVD in Australia but not in the US.

🟢 The Ollie & Moon Show - Season 1 available to buy on Vudu. I think Season 2 is currently airing on Universal Kids.

🔴 Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures - The first two seasons are on Netflix and Peacock, and available for digital purchase. Season 3 might become unavailable in the US. A few scattered episodes have been released on DVD.

🟡 Sesame Street - Only some specials are being removed. I don’t know which ones specifically, but they should all be available for digital purchase or airing on other services.

🔴 Summer Camp Island - Only available via digital purchase. Unclear if the rest of Season 5 will ever be aired.

🟡 The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo - Only available via digital purchase.

🔴 The Runaway Bunny - No official way to watch in the US.

🔴 Theodosia - No official way to watch in the US.

🟡 Tig n’ Seek - Only available via digital purchase.

🟢 Uncle Grandpa - Still streaming on Hulu for now, and available via digital purchase.

🟢 Victor and Valentino - Airing regularly on Cartoon Network, and available via digital purchase.

🟡 Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs - Only available via digital purchase.

This is all according to justwatch.com, and some of these shows may still be available or airing in non-US countries.

An old lover... Fred Flinstone

✨ anonymous. meme. still accepting!

❝Yabba dabba doo, more like yabba dabba doo me. Flintstones, meet the Flintstones, I'll homewreck a stone-age family. From the town of Bedrock, I'll bedrock myself to history. Fred is a traditional working man.❞ Virote could've sworn he had an entire PowerPoint presentation on this! He made it earlier this year. Just for this. Just for this moment. ❝I'm sure he smells like dinosaur bones, sweat, and alcoholism, but I'd treat him right. Wilma and her ginger state couldn't do what I do. She's an unga bunga, ooga wooga version of Lois Griffin minus any of the sauce.❞

           closed mini event starter for @vcndetta​  ( fred flintstone & nigel thornberry )  /  “nigel .”  fred flintstone spoke the name like they shared one of the world’s oldest and most hotly tested rivalries in history ; as far as they were concerned , they did .  having spotted his greatest enemy on the street below , fred tugged on his dinosaur’s collar signaling it to stop .  without hesitation , he slid across its back and down its tail , landing on the street below .  “yabba dabba doo ... so we meet again ,”  fred glared as he approached the wacky man . 

HBO MAX Dumps Slew of Animated Series!

Bad news strikes! HBO Max has decided to part ways with even more of the animated content offered on the streaming service in leadup to Discovery+ merger. Some of the titles leaving the platform include -

Aquaman: King of Atlantis

The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo

Close Enough

The Fungies

Infinity Train

Mao Mao Heroes of Pure Heart

OK K.O.! – Let’s Be Heroes

The Ollie & Moon Show

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures

Sesame Street Specials

Squish

Summer Camp Island

The Runaway Bunny – Special

Tig n’ Seek

Uncle Grandpa

Victor and Valentino

Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs

“As we work toward bringing our content catalogs together under one platform, we will be making changes to the content offering available on both HBO Max and discovery+. That will include the removal of some content from both platforms,” the company said. “At the same time, we’re already starting to bring our content catalogs together like the launch of the new CNN Originals Hub on discovery+ and a curated collection of Magnolia Network content.”

Source: Animation Magazine

the full list of titles pulled from hbomax for anyone who hasn't seen

12 Dates of Christmas (2020)

About Last Night (2022)

Aquaman: King of Atlantis (2021)

Close Enough (2020)

Detention Adventure (2019)

Dodo (2021)

Ellen’s Next Great Designer (2021)

Elliott From Earth (2021)

Esme & Roy (2018)

Genera+ion (2021)

Generation Hustle (2021)

Infinity Train (2019)

Little Ellen (2021)

Make It Big, Make It Small (2016)

Mao Mao, Heroes of Pure Heart (2019)

Messy Goes to Okido (2015)

Mia’s Magic Playground (2020)

Mighty Magiswords (2015)

My Mom, Your Dad

Odo (2021)

OK K.O.! – Let’s Be Heroes (2017)

Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures (2013)

Ravi Patel’s Pursuit of Happiness (2020)

Summer Camp Island (2018)

Squish (2019)

The Fungies! (2020)

The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo (2020)

The Ollie & Moon Show (2012)

Theodosia (2022)

Tig n’ Seek (2020)

Uncle Grandpa (2013)

Victor and Valentino (2019)

Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs (2020)

Today’s character of the day is: Bamm Bamm Rubble from The Flintstones 

🦖🦕 Dino!!! 🦴🌋

My dad said something kind of funny in discord, so I've decided to share it, just straight up copy paste it:

okay, here's the random thought for today: picture the beginning credits of the flintstones, but substitute a green-cloaked figre with a silver face mask sliding down the dinosaur, and leaping into his car. as he leaves work, he shouts "Yabba-dabba-DOOOOMMMM!"

The Yabba Dabba Do Party

The US political system is often criticized for being dominated by two major parties, the Democrats and the Republicans, that do not adequately represent the interests and needs of the diverse and dynamic American population.

Many people feel disillusioned, disenfranchised, and dissatisfied with the status quo, and yearn for a viable alternative that can challenge the established power structures and offer a fresh vision for the future.

That is why I propose the creation of a new political party, one that is devoted to the working class and inspired by the iconic cartoon characters of The Flintstones.

The Yabba Dabba Do Party.

The Yabba Dabba Do Party would be based on the following principles:

Yabba Dabba Do: This is the party’s motto, slogan, and cheer, derived from Fred Flintstone’s trademark catchphrase. It expresses the party’s enthusiasm, optimism, and determination to overcome any obstacle and achieve any goal. It also reflects the party’s sense of humor, fun, and adventure, as well as its appreciation for the simple joys of life. Like following right behind Fred on another one of his get rich quick schemes.

Working Class: Because nobody slides down the back of a dinosaur when it's quitting time better than Fred. The Yabba Dabba Do Party would represent the interests and needs of the working class, the backbone of the American economy and society. The party would advocate for fair wages, decent working conditions, affordable health care, quality education, and social security for all workers, regardless of their occupation, industry, or background. The party would also support the rights of workers to organize, bargain collectively, and strike if necessary. Included in all of those rights would be the dinosaurs that are all of the machinery and tools.

Prehistoric: The party would draw inspiration from the prehistoric era, as depicted in The Flintstones. The party would embrace the values of community, cooperation, and creativity, as well as the virtues of courage, loyalty, and honesty. The party would also promote environmental sustainability, respect for nature, and harmony with animals. The party would reject the excesses of modernity, such as consumerism, materialism, and militarism, and instead focus on the essentials of human happiness, such as family, friends, food and having words like rock, rubble, granite or stone somewhere in your name.

Flintstones: The party would model itself after the Flintstones, the beloved cartoon family that has entertained generations of Americans. Wilma and Betty would set the fashion trends. Barney's laugh would become everyone's ringtone. Fred would produce instructional videos for first time bowlers. The party would celebrate the diversity and drive of the American people, and welcome anyone who shares the party’s vision and values, regardless of their race, gender, age, orientation, fashion sense, chuckle or bowling score.

The Yabba Dabba Do Party would offer a unique and appealing alternative to the American voters, who are tired of the same old politics and the same old politicians. The party would inject some much-needed humor, energy, and innovation into the political arena, and challenge the status quo with bold ideas and actions. The party would also inspire and mobilize the American people to participate in the democratic process, use their bare feet as automobile brakes and to work together for a better future.

So, what do you say? Are you ready to join the Yabba Dabba Do Party? Then let’s make some noise and let the world know!

YABBA DABBA DOO!

Yabba-Dabba-Whoa: We’ve Unearthed a Flintastic Tale of Dino Demise!

Well, aren’t we the luckiest pebbles in the quarry! We’ve just hit the rock-jackpot, unraveled the Stone Age equivalent of a Hollywood blockbuster, a saga that makes the echo of our dino pals’ last roars sound like a kitty’s purr. You know Fred Flintstone, right? Of course you do, we wouldn't dare to insult your encyclopedic knowledge of all things cool. Well, sit back and get comfy on your rock-hard seats because Fred’s yabba-dabba-delving into the mystery that’s been bugging us since the dawn of, well, us!

Imagine, if you will (and of course you can, your imagination is as boundless as the skies over Bedrock), a time where our esteemed narrator, the iconic Fred Flintstone, channels his inner Sherlock Holmes. Oh, don’t act surprised - we know you’ve seen him don that detective cap! He’s on a quest, but not for a runaway Dino or a misplaced club – it’s something far grander and chillier, echoing with the haunting roars of our long-lost reptilian companions.

Ever wondered how the mighty dinosaurs, rulers of the Earth, masters of all they surveyed, met their rock-hard end? And no, it’s not a tale spun around a campfire, whispered by the elders of Bedrock. It’s the chronicles of Fred Flintstone, the unlikely narrator, unearthing (quite literally) the echoes of a catastrophic ballet between the Earth and sky.

Let’s rewind to a time when rocks rumbled and skies were as moody as a teenager denied their rock music. The Deccan Traps – and no, that’s not a trendy new band from downtown Bedrock – were the stairways of doom spewing nastiness into the atmosphere. Fred, with a narration smoother than Barney’s attempts at flattery, takes us on a wild, shiver-inducing revelation of an Earth that was neither friend nor foe but a frenemy of epic proportions.

Who needs mundane theories, humdrum stories, when the events leading to the dinos’ grand adieu were more dramatic than a soap opera? No alien invasions or intergalactic wars here – we’re talking volcanoes with anger issues and asteroids with zero social skills. It's almost like a plot twist authored by the twisted love child of a geologist and a soap opera writer. Exquisite, isn’t it?

In the poetic prose of Mr. Flintstone, every belch of the volcanoes and every ominous skyward shadow is a haunting refrain of the Earth’s tumultuous ballad. A serenade of doom and gloom, where every spew of carbon dioxide and sulfur dioxide wrote the verses of extinction. You see, our dino pals, they didn’t just face a sky boulder of annihilation or a fiery breath of terrestrial terror – they faced an encore of cataclysmic climactic calamities.

With Fred as our esteemed guide, we’re not just tracing the footprints of the colossal beings that once roamed our Earth. We’re sifting through the rubble of an apocalyptic sonata where the skies, lands, and seas were composers of a tragic yet awe-inspiring symphony. And in those enigmatic echoes, between the roars and the silences, a story of catastrophic beauty unfolds – an ode to the giants that walked before us.

So, esteemed readers with your impeccable taste, prepare to be regaled, astonished, and possibly flabbergasted. We’ve got front row seats to the world’s first end-of-times spectacle, narrated by none other than the iconic, the legendary, the unexpectedly eloquent, Fred Flintstone. Yabba-Dabba-Doo, let the rocky revelations roll!

The Flintstones in the sixties

Joeln was born in early 1960. Joe Barbera brought the Flagstones short, as well as two storyboards that would subsequently be converted into the first and third episodes, to New York City in early 1960 and pitched the programme to as many sponsors and networks as would listen for eight weeks. He presented the programme to ABC executives on the final day, fatigued and disheartened (and threatening to throw the notion into the archives, never to be seen again). ABC, keen to try new things, signed on to the broadcast barely fifteen minutes into his 90-minute presentation. They ordered a 28-episode first season of The Flintstones, which premiered on September 30th, 1960 at 8:30 p.m. While all of Hanna-previous Barbera's series were critical triumphs from the outset, The Flintstones was not, as difficult as it is to believe now. The concert was panned by critics, with New York Times reviewer Jack Gould calling it "an inked catastrophe" and Associated Press writer Bob Thomas slamming the inserted laugh track (which would become, for better or worse, a staple of most H-B shows for the next two decades). Their bet on a primetime animated series appeared doomed to fail before it ever took underway. Fortunately, it found favour with audiences, who saw it as a welcome change of pace in the primetime environment. They enjoyed the setting's humour, with all of the sight gags created by stone age interpretations of modern luxuries (such as all vehicles being foot powered), as well as the humorous situations that the characters frequently found themselves in while remaining deadpan, unaware of how humorous the situation was. Even critics who originally regarded the programme as "nondescript" were loving it by the third season.

Betty was originally voiced by June Foray, but was replaced for the series by Bea Benaderet; ironically, this was a reversal of what happened at Warner Bros. some years previously, when Benaderet was replaced by Foray for the character of Granny in their Looney Tunes cartoons. Benaderet worked on the programme for four seasons before departing to work on "Petticoat Junction," and was succeeded for the final two seasons by Gerry Johnson (who didn't accomplish much outside of The Flintstones). A more extended search was conducted to discover the appropriate permanent voices for Fred and Barney. Alan Reed, who resembled a real-life Fred Flintstone, provided the voice for Fred. Reed improvised Fred's memorable catchphrase at a script reading early in season 1; the screenplay intended for Fred to yell "yahoo," but Reed felt this didn't emphasise Fred's delight sufficiently. He pitched his alternate notion to Joe Barbera, and so the word "Yabba-Dabba-Doo" was created. Mel Blanc, the legendary "man of a thousand voices," gave the definitive voice for Barney Rubble. Blanc already had a vast animation resume, having voiced numerous renowned Looney Tunes characters (including Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck) as well as Woody Woodpecker for Universal. The Flintstones heralded Mel Blanc's switch to television when the theatrical animated short industry dried up (though Warner Bros hung out longer than other animation companies). Following a near-fatal car accident in early 1961 that left Blanc in a coma for two weeks and in a full-body cast for months, a number of second season Flintstones episodes were recorded in his bedroom with a microphone dangling above him (though for a few of the initial episodes that were recorded around the time of the accident, Daws Butler, who voiced Barney in the pilot, briefly stepped in). Mel Blanc also provided the voice for the Flintstones' pet Dino, a pinkish-red dog-like dinosaur that made incomprehensible barking-like noises. Dino's initial appearance, in the episode where Fred obtained him, was a purple dinosaur voiced by Jerry Mann who spoke entire words. The reason for the modification was never revealed, save that it may have been to add additional humorous aspects of a dinosaur acting like the family dog. Mr. Slate, Fred Flintstone's quarry boss, was voiced by John Stephenson and completed the ensemble. Mr. Slate was irritated with Fred's pranks and would frequently dismiss him, only to rehire him at the conclusion of the episode.

Over the course of its historic six-season run, The Flintstones pioneered a variety of new animation directions. Aside from being the first cartoon developed for primetime and the first TV cartoon to focus on one group of characters for a whole half-hour, The Flintstones accomplished numerous things that even other comedies of the time avoided. The famed "Meet the Flintstones" theme was actually the series' second opener. For the first two seasons, the opener was an instrumental called "Rise and Shine," which portrayed Fred driving around Bedrock and conducting errands before returning home to watch television. Dino appeared oddly blue in this introduction, although this was probably not a big deal at the time because, while The Flintstones was created in colour, the first two seasons were broadcast in black and white. The closing credits for those two seasons picked up where the opening titles left off, with Fred turning off the TV and walking to bed before being locked out of the home by Baby Puss, the Flintstones' saber-toothed cat who featured seldom on the programme. ABC began experimenting with colour broadcasting with two shows, The Flintstones and The Jetsons, in the fall of 1962, six years after competitor NBC debuted their colour television campaign. The Flintstones had a new beginning for the third season, which depicted Fred leaving work, gathering his family and the Rubbles, and driving to a drive-in theatre. Like other Hanna-Barbera tracks, the theme song was written by Bill Hanna and composed by Hoyt Curtin. The revised closing credits show the family leaving the drive-in after the film, eventually ending similarly to the previous ending with Fred stuck outdoors for the night by Baby Puss. When the show was finally rerun in syndication, this opening and ending were retrospectively added to the first two seasons. Some episodes in the last season ended with Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm playing "Open Up Your Heart (And Let the Sunshine In)" live. Stuart Hamblen's song "Cowboy Church Sunday School" was a hit in 1954 when it was sung by Hamblen and his family. "No Biz Like Show Biz," the sixth season premiere.

Referencing:

Josh Mwasimer. (2022). History of Hanna-Barbera: "The Flintstones" (1960). [Online]. Reel Rundown. Last Updated: 25 March 2022. Available at: https://reelrundown.com/animation/History-of-Hanna-Barbera-Part-4-The-Flintstones [Accessed 12 December 2022].