I was thinking about movies from my childhood and had a full flashback to one of the most camp live action movie. THE FLINTSTONES.
I mean first of all the costume and set design was out of this world. Second of all the cast! Rick Moranis from ghostbusters fame, John Goodman of roseanne fame, Rosie O'Donnel from A league of their own fame and talk show icon, Elizabeth Perkins best known for her role on weeds and last but not least ELIZABETH TAYLOR FROM ELIZABETH TAYLOR FAME.
The mcdonalds collab was also so insanely good. Shirts and those amazing glass mugs that always made drinks seem so much colder.
we all should go rewatch this movie immediately!
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A Christmas Carol Holiday Season: "A Flintstones Christmas Carol" (1994 animated feature)
Here we find yet another classic family franchise, The Flintstones, giving its characters the Dickensian treatment. While less well-known than Mr. Magoo's, Mickey Mouse's, or the Muppets' versions, this Carol starring "the modern Stone Age family" has also been a TV mainstay during the holiday season and has probably introduced a fair amount of children to Dickens's story. It's also a bittersweet landmark in Flintstones history, as it was the last cartoon to feature Jean Vander Pyl and Don Messick, the original voices of Wilma Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, and Henry Corden, the second and longest-running voice of Fred Flintstone. (Barney and Betty Rubble, meanwhile, are voiced by Frank Welker and B.J. Ward, as their original performers had already died.) For that reason alone, it's worthwhile for any Flintstones fan to watch.
Much like Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol, this Christmas Carol is framed as a stage play: the Bedrock Community Theater's Christmas Eve performance of the classic story by "Charles Brickens." Unlike the Magoo version, however, this one has more of a plot outside the play. Said plot is that Fred's casting as "Ebonezer Scrooge" (i.e. "E-bone-ezer") has swelled his ego, and he can think of nothing except his starring role, even forgetting to buy Christmas presents and forgetting to pick Pebbles up from daycare. Meanwhile, a seasonal stomach flu, "the Bedrock Bug," spreads through the play's cast, forcing stage-manager Wilma to take the roles of both the Ghost of Christmas Past and Belle. Ultimately, performing Scrooge's journey teaches Fred to be less selfish as well – although he still contracts a karmic case of the Bedrock Bug at the end.
As for the Christmas Carol portion itself, it's surprisingly faithful to the original – apart from the pseudo-prehistoric setting, of course. Alongside Fred and Wilma, the play features Barney doubling as "Bob Cragit" and Fezziwig, Betty as Mrs. Cragit, Bamm-Bamm as Tiny Tim, and Mr. Slate as the ghost of "Jacob Marbley." The setting is Piltdown (a reference to the "Piltdown Man" fossil hoax) rather than London, nephew Fred is renamed Ned to avoid confusion with Fred Flintstone, and the happy ending takes some liberties, with Scrooge making Bob his new partner (a la Mickey's Christmas Carol), and with Fred and Wilma improvising a reunion and reconciliation between Scrooge and Belle. But much of the book's original dialogue is used, and the story's emotions are given due weight.
This is no definitive Christmas Carol in the least, but if you're a fan of The Flintstones, it still offers plenty to enjoy.
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467. Daily Press, September 1, 1994
Ok, there's a lot going on here. I'll give you a minute. Remember Adam Clayton and Naomi Campbell from last month's entry? over already.
Ah! There's a mention of our boy Herb. Also, I have so many of these Burger King commercials on my old tapes with you know, just people carrying on about burger prices. (1, 2, 3).
This was just the beginning of O.J. madness.
I wonder of this column was a repeat for the holiday week, because what kid in 1994 was still wondering about Socks the Cat.
Ok, in today's comics we see the conception of Edgar the dog in For Better or for Worse, Doc Martens mentioned in Cathy, and the overpopulation of Planet Hollywood in Mixed Media, a comic strip I completely forgot about.
I feel like by the back to school season of 1994, kids had already forgotten about the live action Flintstones movie. god, what a tacky lunchbox.
I know this entry was very short, so I dug out Newsweek from the same week from archive.org.
I don't know anything about Magic the Gathering, but here it is for the people who do.
Guys, this was what podcasting was back in 1994. There's actually an archive of them on archive.org.
Why Cats Paint is also on archive.org!
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Flintstones Doublevision #1 (September 1994) by Harvey Comics
Written and drawn by Angelo DeCesare, Howard Bender, Rusty Haller, Frank Hill, Jorge Pacheco, Alfredo Alcala, and Ruth Leon.
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