so i was flying back from atlanta on tuesday and was sitting next to this kid who was watching the flintstones. i hadn’t seen the flintstones in years and it really showed because i never remember thinking that show was so unrealistic. in my naïve little youngling mind, it always seemed like such a funny little prehistoric family just living their daily lives, driving cars with their feet and using terradactyl as clothespins. but as i was watching over this little kid’s shoulder (i know, i know – i didn’t pay $5 to watch it, so i shouldn’t stare at another person’s screen…i don’t think he minded/noticed), it all of a sudden crossed my mind, “how did fred get a blue tie??” i rushed back into my knowledge archives in desperate attempt to remember ever seeing any sort of historic animal with a cobalt hide..nothing came to mind.
a couple other things stood out in the cartoon, but nothing i couldn’t live with. fred and barney played cards under a hanging table lamp…probably lit by fireflies. the boss wears seeing glasses…probably made out of wood with spittle-bug juice lenses. see, those are believable. but i just couldn’t get past the blue tie.
and then it hit me – the flintstones aren’t living prehistorically at all! it’s a similar case as the village (ps – if you haven’t seen the village and want to at some point (i wouldn’t encourage it), please stop reading. i do not want to be blamed for ruining the classically predictable twist) fred probably started out as any strapping young lad in middle suburbia…loved his emo and tetherball and then one day out of nowhere, the elders in his city decided that they needed to revamp and make everybody believe that they were cavemen and eventually, the younglins wouldn’t even remember that they actually lived in the 21st century. this is just a theory. but it at least put my mind to rest. which is good because i normally don’t sleep too great on airplanes.
a couple other things stood out in the cartoon, but nothing i couldn’t live with. fred and barney played cards under a hanging table lamp…probably lit by fireflies. the boss wears seeing glasses…probably made out of wood with spittle-bug juice lenses. see, those are believable. but i just couldn’t get past the blue tie.
and then it hit me – the flintstones aren’t living prehistorically at all! it’s a similar case as the village (ps – if you haven’t seen the village and want to at some point (i wouldn’t encourage it), please stop reading. i do not want to be blamed for ruining the classically predictable twist) fred probably started out as any strapping young lad in middle suburbia…loved his emo and tetherball and then one day out of nowhere, the elders in his city decided that they needed to revamp and make everybody believe that they were cavemen and eventually, the younglins wouldn’t even remember that they actually lived in the 21st century. this is just a theory. but it at least put my mind to rest. which is good because i normally don’t sleep too great on airplanes.
8 comments:
he probably just dyed it with blueberries. that is what i would do. obviously.
that's hilarious. that's exactly what my sister said when i told her it upset me
ck i am more worried about the fact you want cartoons to depict real life. why dont you want to escape it all like the rest of us. some people drink...the others watch cartoons.
oh it's not for me - i'm just worried that kids will grow up thinking there were such things as cobalt blue dinosaurs..the future of our world is in confused hands..
you should ask my friend aaron about what color dinosaurs were. he knows everything. about everything.
my favorite post was the one about michelle bolton.
i think you guys should have to post at least twice a day...
BERRIES!
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