Flintstones, The: The Complete Third Season (Rpkgd DVD)

By Season 3, "The Flintstones" had become a well-established series. The characters were firmly developed, the drawing and animation refined, the storylines more polished, and it was starting to earn praise and respect from the critics. Season 3 also marks a turning point for the series in 3 significant ways: 1. Rather than focusing on just Honeymooners-style episodes, Season 3 delves more into parodies and references to then-current pop culture. Some of these episodes became classics. Who would ever forget Rock Roll singing "There's a Town I Know Where the Hipsters Go Called Bedrock! (Twitch! Twitch)" or Wilma punching an oversized dinosaur that was chasing Fred, telling it to "Beat it, Buster!"? Or Doozy Dodo saying "Squawk! Frantic City!"? Or Barney playing an infant in order for the Flintstones to collect Uncle Tex's inheritance money? Or the "Everybody into the pyool" remark in "The Big Move." Even a couple of classic Hanna-Barbera characters make a cameo on "Swedish Visitors"! The Flintstones even parody themselves with Barney's nephew Marblehead Sandstone imitating his Uncle's silly laugh! 2. Season 3 also marks the proper debut of the "Meet the Flintstones" theme, although -- oddly enough -- it doesn't appear until Episode 3! The "Rise and Shine" instrumental theme that was used for Seasons 1 & 2 is still heard on "Dino Goes Hollyrock" and "Fred's New Boss," but then the "Meet the Flintstones" theme is introduced for the first time on "Invisible Barney"-- and is used for the rest of the series and then later in syndication for all 6 seasons (probably to maintain a more family-friendly environment). 3. Probably the most significant turning point for the series was when the Flintstones grew from a family of 2 to a family of 3! And even Pebbles' birth broke new ground in cartoonland! For one, Wilma is the first visibly pregnant cartoon character ever. Secondly, Pebbles is the first baby GIRL to be born in a then-predominantly male cartoon world! Pebbles' birth -- on "The Blessed Event" -- was the most-watched Flintstones episode ever. Even though Pebbles seems unusually alert and well-developed for a newborn baby, it still provided Fred & Wilma with one of their most tender, poignant moments yet! Ironically, Hanna-Barbera were originally going to make Fred & Wilma's baby a boy (Fred Jr.), but opted for a girl as they felt baby girl products would sell easier. Smart move on their part! Once again, even though the print quality is superb, there is one episode ("The Big Move") that is missing a few minutes (maybe the original master tape of that episode was damaged?), but that's minor compared to the rest of the set. The packaging is also top-notch, with 3 single-sided and 1 double-sided DVDs in individual holders instead of layered one atop the other. It also contains some trivia notes and a couple of extras (although not as many as in previous sets). Overall, highly recommended for your Flintstones' library.

This is a classic set. For one thing, this is the first of the 3 sets to feature not the original dull opening and closing of the show, but the Flintstones as most of us remember them, with Fred sliding down the dinosaur at the end of his workday and taking Wilma to the drive in to the peppy tune "Meet the Flintstones." As for the epsidoes, like Bullwinkle, if you haven't seen these since childhood, you'll be happily amazed at how good it still is today and how much of the humor may have gone over your head at the time. This is really well written, creative, and funny stuff. The classic THE CONVENTION appears. What an imaginative tale! Cheap Fred buys a talking dodo bird from a con man for $5 (a guy in a trenchcoat who says "psst..hey bud!" at that) and takes him home to Wilma, who is repelled by the ugly creature. Fred and Barney want to go to the Water Buffalo Lodge Convention and beauty contest in "Frantic City" but knowing that their wives will not stand for this, a plumber poses as a fake doctor who goes to the lodge members houses to tell the wives the members have "dipsy doodle itis" and prescribes three days of rest away form the wives. The talking bird overhears these plans and...figure out the rest! This is just a small example of the kind of stuff to be found here. As for the special features, one rather creepy segment deals with a 50+year old man whose house is filled with obscure Flintstone collectibles. This is really eerie until this rather pathetic looking fellow reveals that he is currently an animator for the series and uses this stuff for inspiration. Anothe rsegment deals with the domestic aspect of the Flintstones. This includes a rather touching segment where the animators reveal a very heartwarming story involving Alan Reed and Jean Vanderphyl (voices fo Fred and Wilma) during the recording of the show where Pebbles was born. You have to see this! With all that said, just get the set and you will be cheering, just as the kids did in the episode where Fred goes back to high school and ends up on the football team-FLINTSTONE FLINTSTONE RAH RAH RAH!

It's a tough call for me between the first and third seasons. I found the first season memorable because it had many classic gags, I enjoyed the relative simplicity of the stories, and they seemed to have more focus on the "prehistoric" aspects. I've always loved the episode "The Flintstone Flyer", I even remember building a model of the Flyer from scratch when I was a kid. And although they've always denied a connection with the Honeymooners, at least a few of the stories seem like rehashed Honeymooners episodes. The third season has more involved plots, the running theme of "Wilma's having a baby! Nope, not yet..." and a lot more parody. Would probably have more appeal to today's adults, though I find many of the stories too bizarre to be believable. (I can sorta buy the idea of a human-powered helicopter made out of wood, it fits in with the cartoon's physics... but the third-season "Foxy Grandma" episode involving an old woman bank-robber who throws dynamite sticks was just too much.) The second season wasn't as strong, many of the plots seemed like repeats from the first season and it lost much of the prehistoric charm. And while I'll buy the complete fourth season just to round out the collection, those shows are typically my least favorite by far. They went much too far with the bizarre stories; I never liked The Great Gazoo or uber-strong Bamm-Bamm, and there was way too much emphasis on the kids doing totally unbelievable things. What ultimately killed the original Flintstones series was a lack of consistency in writing and portrayal of the characters, few or no running threads throughout the show, and the tendency for cartoons back then (and even many ordinary shows) to become increasingly outlandish over time. They seemed to have lost their original focus on being a cartoon for adults, especially in the last season--though granted it was a fairly novel idea to have "real" human characters doing human things in a cartoon, so I'll cut them some slack. The quality of the DVDs in this set are much the same as the others, although I did notice two or three episodes had noticeable (but not horrible) video noise, and a couple of episodes had lower-than-normal audio levels (just crank up the volume a bit for those). Probably just means they couldn't find original sources for some of them and had to resort to other means... I haven't checked out the extras, though on this set they used both sides of the last disc to hold episodes instead of using the flip side for extras. Here's my take: if you're not that familiar with the Flintstones then start with the first season, it's the most firmly grounded of the four seasons. If you really like it, check out some of the others. The third-season episodes are some of the best, but there are a few stinkers.

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Another funny Season full of surprises for this Animated Classic Series, and these two Prehistoric Families, The Flintstones and The Rubbles with many of the Episodes Imitating Current Culture, lots of Fun to watch. Each 28 Episodes in 4 DVDs nicely transferred in Full Color and finally the Birth of Pebbles in Episode "Dress Rehearsal" long time coming, The first two Episodes "Dino goes Hollyrock" and "Fred's new Boss" Disc 1, still has the Old Big Instrumental Band Theme Song, that changes in "Barney the Invisible", which is the third Episode also Disc 1, The Flintstones are Fun for the entire Family, the kids love it and so do I The Flintstones Theme Song was Written by Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera Music by Hoyt Curtin Flintstones Meet the Flintstones They're the modern stone-age family From the town of Bedrock They're a page right out of history Let's ride with the family down the street Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet When you're with the Flintstones Have a Yabba-dabba-doo time A dabba-doo time You'll have a gay old time

I may have said once that I'm not a TV person. Okay, so I do watch Monk with my production manager's ex-wife and I do remember the Flinstones is one show I did watch when I was a kid, growing up in Mexico. My grandmother used to let me watch it on Saturday mornings, while she was cooking brunch. I had a whole half hour before she had to listen to her radionovelas. It brings back memories. My ex-former production manager Blane over at the trophy shop loves this show and left a bunch of DVDs in his living room for me and his kids to watch. It really is too bad that I had to go back and work at the trophy shop, after having resigned a few months ago. Blane used to drive me crazy, and he's at it again. the other night at dinner, his ex-wife told me that we ought to invite him over for ice cream with the kids and a couple of rounds of Flinstones, Season Three.

I love the Flintstones and my daughter is starting to love them too. I bought a couple seasons seperately as they were cheap and a review I read stated that there wasn't much to the whole packet collection box and that the disc holder to the complete collection wasn't as good as the individual ones. So as the other season's prices look cheap I'll get those as well.

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Es una serie clásica llena de humor por la que no pasa el tiempo. Me gustan las series clásicas desde que tengo uso de razón , Hanna- Barbera me ha hecho pasar buenos ratos. Recomendable para todas las edades.

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Yabba dabba doo... very fun show from my childhood