Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.
It's obviously just a picture made up to fit the aesthetic without great thought to worldbuilding, but if you ignore the perspective it could be made of multiple vertical sheets of rock.
Yeah. I grew up watching the Flintstones. He was never portrayed as a loser. He was just a regular blue collar guy. Like Dan on Roseanne. Not like Al from married with children. Someone who was broke all the time but still had a 2 story house and dog, wife, two kids, and a shitty car and vacation like every year even though he was a single income shoe salesman at a mall that was bad at his job.
And 12000 yaer later there was a dude called Al Bundy. He had a wife that liked to shop. 2 kids in school, a car and a own home. Paid it all with a shooselling wage...
He is also seen as the loser...
yeah, every now and then i think about going out to the hills and building a stone and mud hut. slapping an A/C unit on the side with extension cords leading all the way down through a grassy field to the nearest airport or quarry. not a fire hazard at all.
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JoMiran@lemmy.ml · 72 pts · 59d
And a car, and his house had an attached garage, and an oven big enough to fit a rack of brontosaurus ribs.
Shieldtoad@sh.itjust.works · 42 pts · 59d
And his best friend lives next door.
echodot@feddit.uk · 39 pts · 59d
Ok so one thing I've always wondered about the Flintstones. Did he just hollow out a big boulder? The house isn't made of piled up rocks, it appears to be one big single rock.
rumba@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 59d
Based on the show's content, they probably used Bronto-Jackhammers to split the rocks and finished it off with stone hand tools.
Mantzy81@aussie.zone · 14 pts · 59d
rumba@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 59d
I am sad that I have but one upvite to give
Wizard_Pope@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 59d
Leviathan dinosaur egg.
PuddleOfKittens@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 59d
It's obviously just a picture made up to fit the aesthetic without great thought to worldbuilding, but if you ignore the perspective it could be made of multiple vertical sheets of rock.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 59d
Yeah, if you're watching Hannah Barbera cartoons looking for detailed animation and well thought out worlds, you've gone to the wrong place lol
Pencilnoob@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 59d
I think in the movie they show houses being made with stacked layers of rock chiseled out like a 3d printer
MeowerMisfit817@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 59d
The roof and the garage seem to be other rocks. And the chimney too.
Simulation6@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 59d
It was Buckminster Fuller cement home. I couldn’t find a link for them, but they were made from a mold and looked sort of like that.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 58d
those are big dinosaur molars. dinosaurs with bad dental hygiene
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 59d
Fred Flintstone wasn't a loser, he was just an average guy.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 8 pts · 59d
Yeah. I grew up watching the Flintstones. He was never portrayed as a loser. He was just a regular blue collar guy. Like Dan on Roseanne. Not like Al from married with children. Someone who was broke all the time but still had a 2 story house and dog, wife, two kids, and a shitty car and vacation like every year even though he was a single income shoe salesman at a mall that was bad at his job.
Hawk@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 59d
Al wasn't bad at his job at all, he just cared little.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 59d
Tell your customers they're giant fatties tends to drive away business....
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 59d
Who drove a rust-bucket car with an odometer that rolled over to zeroes.
The family was jokingly on the brink of starvation and would fight over a scrap of food.
They celebrated when they paid the water bill and had it turned back on.
It’s well known Al only owns less than 5 pairs of socks and pairs of underwear with most of his clothes falling apart.
Despite owning a house it’s been said over and over that it’s an eyesore in disrepair from the outside.
The family routinely gets involved in scams and schemes to get money.
But most important of all...it's a fictitious, satirical television show
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 pts · 59d
You trying to make a point somewhere?
Nounka@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 59d
Idd.
And 12000 yaer later there was a dude called Al Bundy. He had a wife that liked to shop. 2 kids in school, a car and a own home. Paid it all with a shooselling wage...
He is also seen as the loser...
Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 59d
Who drove a rust-bucket car with an odometer that rolled over to zeroes.
The family was jokingly on the brink of starvation and would fight over a scrap of food.
They celebrated when they paid the water bill and had it turned back on.
It's well known Al only owns less than 5 pairs of socks and pairs of underwear with most of his clothes falling apart.
Despite owning a house it's been said over and over that it's an eyesore in disrepair from the outside.
The family routinely gets involved in scams and schemes to get money
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 10 pts · 59d
Al Bundy was considered poor and a loser because he was a shoes salesman.
A shoes sales man with a nice house, 2 cars, 2 kids and a wife that liked to spend money.
Fuck if that's what being a loser is, what the fuck even am I?
EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app · 10 pts · 59d
I loved the Flintstones, good parody
raman_klogius@ani.social · 8 pts · 59d
Letting the days go by
heartSagan5@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 59d
He has a house. The way AirBnB, house flippers, and corporate rentals has priced many out of the market; that’s wild to call him a loser.
Do the Flintstones even have a mortgage?
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 58d
yeah, every now and then i think about going out to the hills and building a stone and mud hut. slapping an A/C unit on the side with extension cords leading all the way down through a grassy field to the nearest airport or quarry. not a fire hazard at all.
Eyekaytee@aussie.zone · 6 pts · 59d
pretty sore feet though iirc
valar@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 59d
Who ever said Fred Flintstone was a loser?
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 59d
There, you just did, through the magic of selective quoting:p
Sharkticon@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 58d
The show did. Rather often. Hell it was even in the movie.
valar@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 58d
I watched a lot of Flintstones and I don't remember it that way.. A blue collar oaf maybe but respected.
Sam_Bass@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 59d
crane operators used to be well paid
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 58d
Fred was a loser? I mean they depicted him as treating Barn like one, but Barn always had the better end of the deal.