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[–] [email protected] 100 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Actually after Pebbles is born Wilma becomes a journalist for the Daily Granite, then becomes a caterer with Betty. Get your Flintstones lore right

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 months ago

"Womenfolk in the workforce? These are strange times, my fellow Water Buffalo!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

she also occasionally worked as a Cigarette Girl. "Cigars! Cigarettes! ... Cigars! Cigarettes! ..."

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

That was before she married Fred. In fact, that's how they meet, he was a bellhop at the same resort.

LORE

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Who are you, so wise in the way of Flintstones lore?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Was he actually illiterate? That might have went over my head when I watched it as a kid.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I remember seeing Fred read the news on his stone tablet.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Plus being able to drive implies at least some degree of literacy

Unless Fred was raised by some of those middle of the woods car wizard redneck types that are dangerously close to keeping their vehicles together and running through Waagh energy

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

But, are they actually driving though? Seems more like...seated running lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He was just looking at the hieroglyphs

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

...isn't that reading?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I'm pretty sure he's read and chiselled stone tablets before

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

No, he read stuff all the time.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago

do remember that Reaganomics hadn't been invented yet, so wages, income, and all that were MUCH better

[–] Honytawk 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Flintstones was based upon 1950 suburban US culture

[–] AppleTea 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On the one hand, you can read it as a parody of late 20th century life - like, haha imagine a caveman clocking into work

but on the other hand, Flinstones and its far future counterpart Jestsons kinda suggest an inability to imagine anything different. Automobile-ized suburban development frequently gets presented an the human 'default'. As though we just default to this, rather than it being one of many ways cities and society could be organized.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I tried watching the Jetsons last year and it was pretty painful. The story moved really slow, the mother was claiming to be overworked pressing a button. Everything was a mildly linear improvement from the 1950s and it had very old ideas. It did not age well

[–] [email protected] 16 points 5 months ago

And they had a large pet that ate just as much as the people

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

And you could afford a rack of ribs big enough to tip over your car.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Heavy equipment operators are actually paid pretty well

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

There’s a conspiracy that he had help making ends meet, in the form of a little green alien friend/slave.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

And yet he couldn't afford shoes

[–] altima_neo 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Not to mention all the fancy modern appliances he's got

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

like some kind of stone-aged George Jetson?!?