Johnny Unusual
(He/Him)
The Flintstones
Oh, I missed something… the ending for season one. I’m generally doing the intros but the endings are actually AS notable and iconic and I feel like I wouldn’t be doing my due diligence if I didn’t cover them too. And they are pretty good, for all the grief I give them.
We see Fred turning off the set in the dead of night and wandering out of the room, where Dino takes his place on the armchair (arm rock? Rock chair? Rock rock?)
Fred then walks into his room where a mouthless Wilma is sleeping. Fred then goes to a bird in the corner of the room and zips a cloth up over his head. I’m… not sure what this is. Is it just that they have a pet bird that isn’t an appliance and its like how we cover bird cages so they don’t make noises at sun up? Is it an alarm clock? If it’s a lamp, it provides no illumination. If anyone can help me out here, I’d appreciate it, maybe I’d know if I’d seen season one.
We see all the lights going out one by one in Bedrock as people go to bed. But then one set of lights turns back on. Fred puts out two rock bottles of milk for the milkman and goes back in and the lights go out. Then they come back on immediately and Fred puts the sabretooth tiger out for the night. Did you remember that they had another pet? I didn’t.* And I remembered that the Rubbles eventually get a dinosaur kangaroo thing.
And like Dino in later seasons, the tiger dives back in the house * before Fred can and he ends up getting locked out and does his iconic bellow for Wilma despite open windows that Fred could fit through being, like, right there. Right fucking there, Fred. They are huge.
In terms of jokes, there’s not much there but I do like it in terms of mood as the show gives us a “turning in for the night” section that sets a nice atmosphere. I feel like it flows well from the intro's "getting home from work to watch TV" element and makes it feel like part of a larger piece.
* EDIT: The cat, whose name I seriously cannot remember, is actually there for the whole thing and plays the same role in the outro that I misremembered Dino taking over. He's always been there and I don't even know it's name.
Oh, I missed something… the ending for season one. I’m generally doing the intros but the endings are actually AS notable and iconic and I feel like I wouldn’t be doing my due diligence if I didn’t cover them too. And they are pretty good, for all the grief I give them.
We see Fred turning off the set in the dead of night and wandering out of the room, where Dino takes his place on the armchair (arm rock? Rock chair? Rock rock?)
Fred then walks into his room where a mouthless Wilma is sleeping. Fred then goes to a bird in the corner of the room and zips a cloth up over his head. I’m… not sure what this is. Is it just that they have a pet bird that isn’t an appliance and its like how we cover bird cages so they don’t make noises at sun up? Is it an alarm clock? If it’s a lamp, it provides no illumination. If anyone can help me out here, I’d appreciate it, maybe I’d know if I’d seen season one.
We see all the lights going out one by one in Bedrock as people go to bed. But then one set of lights turns back on. Fred puts out two rock bottles of milk for the milkman and goes back in and the lights go out. Then they come back on immediately and Fred puts the sabretooth tiger out for the night. Did you remember that they had another pet? I didn’t.* And I remembered that the Rubbles eventually get a dinosaur kangaroo thing.
And like Dino in later seasons, the tiger dives back in the house * before Fred can and he ends up getting locked out and does his iconic bellow for Wilma despite open windows that Fred could fit through being, like, right there. Right fucking there, Fred. They are huge.
In terms of jokes, there’s not much there but I do like it in terms of mood as the show gives us a “turning in for the night” section that sets a nice atmosphere. I feel like it flows well from the intro's "getting home from work to watch TV" element and makes it feel like part of a larger piece.
* EDIT: The cat, whose name I seriously cannot remember, is actually there for the whole thing and plays the same role in the outro that I misremembered Dino taking over. He's always been there and I don't even know it's name.
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