VLVL2(3): Meet the Flintstones

[Dave Monroe]

"Didn't take many of these repetitions to have an
effect on Zoyd's lunch companion, whose eyes were
flicking back and forth as he hummed a tune that not
till sixteen bars in did Zoyd recognize as 'Meet the
Flintstones' from the well-known TV cartoon show. 
Hector finished the tune and looked sourly at Zoyd. 
'Any of these yours?'" (VL, Ch. 3, p. 26)


"The Flintstones" (1960-66)

"Meet the Flintstones" (1961)

The theme song's lyrics were written by Bill Hanna and
Joe Barbera, with music by Hoyt Curtin, the studio's
musical director, who also composed the theme and
background music for every episode of The Flintstones,
as well as around 300 Hanna Barbera cartoons. The
song, actually a reworking of sad music already
composed for one of the episodes, was recorded with
five singers and a 22-man jazz band.

OPENING CREDITS:

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 

In the CLOSING CREDITS, the "Let's ride" and "Through
the courtesy" lines are replaced with: 

Some day, maybe Fred will win the fight 
And that cat will stay out for the night

The "courtesy of Fred's two feet" line is hopelessly
indecipherable to many people and was dubbed, in one
of Rich Hall's Sniglets collections, a
"Hanna-Barbarism." 

The fifth- and sixth-season theme music features a
slight difference in the vocals. 

Interestingly, the song was actually recorded for the
Golden Record album Songs from the Flintstones in
1961, a year before it appeared as the program's
theme. Sung by the Flintstones cast, the album version
features different lyrics, including a reference to
Dino and an entire "Rubbles, meet the Rubbles"
section.

http://www.topthat.net/webrock/faq/faq7.htm

The framing sequences for the first two seasons
featured an instrumental called "Rise and Shine." The
original opening sees Fred driving home from work,
zipping through the streets of Bedrock....

The more familiar framing sequences, the ones with the
"Meet the Flintstones" theme song, weren't introduced
until the third season....

http://www.topthat.net/webrock/faq/faq6.htm

And see as well ...

http://www.topthat.net/webrock/flisou.htm

http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/information/lyrics.php

http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/watch/video_clips/meetflints/

http://www.straightdope.com/mailbag/mflintst.html

And, in general ...

http://www.topthat.net/webrock/faq.htm


"well-known"

To the Editor:

In a recent letter to the editor, Romain Gary asserts
that I took the name "Genghis Cohen" from a novel of
his to use in a novel of mine, The Crying of Lot 49.
Mr. Gary is totally in error. I took the name Genghis
Cohen from the name of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), the
well-known Mongol warrior and statesman. If Mr. Gary
really believes himself to be the only writer at
present able to arrive at a play on words this
trivial, that is another problem entirely, perhaps
more psychiatric than literary, and I certainly hope
he works it out.

Thomas Pynchon,

New York City.

http://web.archive.org/web/20000824131346/pynchonfiles.com/cohn.htm

http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_essays_cohen.html

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/cl49/GengCo.html

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