Review(s): DVD The Flintstones - The Complete Third Season
Great addition to my collection
This is another great addition to my Flintstones collection , i enjoyed this box set very much . the company has also enclosed a cartoon cell which is really nice , cant wait to frame it. all fans will love this box set . cant wait for the fourth , fifth and sixth seanons.
"FLINTSTONE! FLINTSTONE! RAH-RAH-RAH!"
This "Flintstones" package marks the midpoint between the "pre-Pebbles" and "post-Pebbles" eras, and as a lifelong fan who's seen all of these at least twice over, I'm delighted to follow the show as it unfolded. By now, Fred and Barney were at their prehistoric Kramden/Norton best, and the buildup to Pebbles' arrival was- to these much older eyes- surprisingly subtle as well as funny. Hanna-Barbera knew what it was doing and really pitched the show to both kids and their parents. Both the writing (with help from two proud Looney Tunes alums) and animation (headed by a former Walter Lantz director) are sharp and better-timed. Even one-shot guest characters (Grandma Dynamite, fitness expert Brick Boulder) are quirky, while the wisecracking bird/animal appliances are a sideshow in themselves.
Some of my all-time favorite episodes are a part of this season. There's "Dino Goes Hollyrock", where Fred brings Dino to the TV studio for a guest appearance on the "Sassie" show; "The Twitch", featuring prehistoric teen idol Rock Roll; "Baby Barney" with Barney in baby booties as "Little Tex" (to please Fred's rich uncle); "High School Freddie" ("Flintstone! Flintstone! Rah-Rah-Rah!"), "Foxy Grandma" (Grandma Dynamite, the little old lady bank robber, moonlights as Fred's maid), and many more.
Don't miss "The Buffalo Convention", with guest bird Doozy, the Talking Dodo, who- in a great nod to Chuck Jones' "One Froggy Evening"- won't talk in front of anybody but his owner (Fred)...until he tips Wilma off on where the boys have sneaked off to for their convention: "Gawwk! Frantic City! Frantic City! Doctor's a plumber! Gawwk!" That's just one "Flintstones" line that stuck with me the way "Lucy" or "Seinfeld" bits did with others. "Hawaiian Spy" (with guest star Larry Lava) and "Dial S for Suspicion" (a great Hitchcock send-up even better than the "Brickrock" episode in Season 1) are two more that show how this really was an adult, as well as kid, comedy. Finally, those baby cues- a pair of booties here, a visit from Betty's baby nephew there, the parade of maids- all lead up, beautifully, to Pebbles' arrival.
As with the previous volumes, a couple of mini-features are tacked on. Kitsch fans will be impressed by the incredible collection of Flintstone toys and tchotchkes, as displayed by Scott Shaw! (the ! is a part of his name), the rotund cartoonist who's done more Flintstone drawings and designs (cereal boxes, posters, et al.) than anyone. The other item is a tribute to the late Bea Benaderet and Jean VanderPyl, the wonderful voice artists who did Betty and Wilma. (Note that Bea left soon after this season to head the cast at "Petticoat Junction"- her giggly, lovable voice was missed.)
Yes, I did notice that Episode 26, "Big Move" (with some funny bits involving Fred and his new, wealthy neighbor, Reggie Van Slaten- yet another Gleason takeoff) was a bit shorter, and I'm not crazy about double-sided DVDs. But these are minor quibbles. If you're a lifelong 'Stone-head or if you haven't seen them since grammar school, this is for yabba-dabba-you!
No good!
This DVD-box needs to be re-released. one episode has been cut up - how could this happen?
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I could hardly wait to add The Flintstones season 2 to my dvd collection!!! I just adored the episode of Alvin Brickrock, which is a pretty funny parody of Alfred Hitchcock, "Good Evening"! I could'nt help watching the episode when Fred became a bus driver over and over. The scene when he picks up the kids and meets their crazy parents is too funny!
My only complaint is the lack of decent extras. Eventhough all the original actors are no longer living, it would have been nice for Warner Bros. to include a tribute remembering Alan Reed,Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderette, and Jean Vanderpyl. Fortunately I was able to do a major search on the internet for biographies on each actor and see what they all looked like. Oh well I suppose it's more important for Warner Bros. to make a fast buck than... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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So far I have bought the first 3 seasons and plan on getting the rest. I think they are one the best cartoons that I used to watch in the morning before school, back in the 70's--IM HOOKED! It's great having them to watch at any time, as it is not on TV much anymore. More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: 15 November 2005
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Meet The Flintstones in this prehistoric Hanna-Barbera production. Primetime's first animated series was also the longest running until The Simpsons came along. Not so coincidentally, the two shows aren't all that different--even if the former emerged in the sixties, the latter in the eighties. Fred (Alan Reed), patriarch of the cave-dwelling clan, may be marginally more intelligent than the similarly blue collar Homer, but most storylines still revolve around his more dunderheaded moves. Fortunately, wife Wilma (Jean Vander Pyl) and Barney (Mel Blanc) and Betty Rubble (Bea Benaderet), their neighbors, are usually able to set things right. That was also true for Ralph Cramden of The Honeymooners, a direct influence (Reed even sounds like Jackie Gleason).... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Charles A. Nichols DVD Release Date: Released the 16 March 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Like the previous entries in the Looney Tunes Golden Collection series, volume 3 confirms how brilliant the Warner Bros. artists were and how durable their creations have proven. The set includes classics that every cartoon buff will recognize: "Duck! Rabbit! Duck!," "Robin Hood Daffy," "Birds Anonymous." Other selections are less familiar but significant in the development of the studio: "Sinkin' in the Bathtub," the first Looney Tune; "I Haven't Got a Hat," the earliest Warners cartoon viewers can watch for fun, rather than as an historic curiosity; "Porky's Romance," in which director Frank Tashlin introduced rapid cutting to cartoons. Some of the caricature films have aged less gracefully. Younger audiences will recognize the drawn versions of W.C. Fields, the Marx Brothers,... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Friz Freleng - Frank Tashlin - Chuck Jones DVD Release Date: Released the 25 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I have some of the fondest memories of watching Top Cat when I was living in Mexico, but owning this set is one of the best investments I have made to share with my daughters a little bit of what entertainment used to be.
Though I could hear the original English soundband, the outstanding cast of voices in Spanish makes it even more delightful to watch. The translation is superb and the jokes do not lose a single bit. More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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