HAPPY BIRFDAY...

...to The Flintstones, who turn 50 today.

The show, for its time, was quite advanced.  Given that The Flintstones were a cartoon version of The Honeymooners, they could do things that real people couldn’t.  Fred and Wilma were the first couple to be depicted sleeping in the same bed together.  The Rubbles, when they adopted Bamm-Bamm, became the first television couple to indirectly address the issue of infertility. They also were the leaders in the fields of alternative fuels (foot power) and sustainable living (with indestructible everything).

My favorite ever Flintstones moment is when they find Dino, who at the time was a wise-cracking dinosaur; I can still distinctly hear his surely-voiced-by-whoever-did-Snagglepuss-voice "we are making mistakes, AREN'T we?" from that one.