View Full Version : Seth MacFarlane Gets Go-ahead to Reboot The Flintstones
Leonardo Mystic
05-16-2011, 08:47 PM
Fox just announced the deal at its upfront this afternoon. Fox entertainment president Kevin Reilly said production on the animated series will begin production in Fall 2011 for a 2013 premiere on the Fox schedule. In a cross-studio collaboration, The Flintstones will be produced jointly by 20th Century Fox Television and Warner Bros Television.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/05/yabba-dabba-doo-seth-macfarlane-finally-gets-go-ahead-to-reboot-the-flintstones/
Thoughts?
I loved the Flintstones as a kid. I'm not sure how this will turn out.
Jester
05-16-2011, 08:49 PM
Reboot of Flintstones...cool...
Wait, Seth MacFarlane is involved...NOOOOOOO!!!!!
oldmanwinters
05-16-2011, 09:01 PM
Oh... Crap.
Powder
05-16-2011, 09:11 PM
*Laughs* I'll give it a shot.
Flintstones should stay how it is no reboot. :(
TheCanadiandrome
05-16-2011, 10:30 PM
well let's see, any of the recent Flintstones cartoons that came out long after the OS run ended (80s/90s), all sucked more or less. and the movies, well the first one was ok but the second sucked. so i dunno if i like this idea or not
Candy Kappa
05-16-2011, 10:39 PM
if theres no repeating backgrounds, I'm out :P
deadpoolRKO
05-17-2011, 07:49 AM
how many shows does mcfarlane have out now?
family guy
american dad
hamburger something.
am i missing any?
BubblyShell22
05-17-2011, 08:26 AM
If you're thinking of Bob's Burgers, that's not Seth's creation.
I'll give this a shot. I love Family Guy, so I don't think this will be too bad. Not a fan of American Dad or The Cleveland Show, which you didn't mention, Deadpool.
deadpoolRKO
05-17-2011, 08:55 AM
the clevland show , that's right.
& oh i thought bob's burgers was his too. my fault.
The Stryker
05-17-2011, 09:16 AM
Flintstones should stay how it is no reboot. :(
It will. They're not going back and destroying the old show to replace it with the new one.
Does this have to be said in every thread about reboots?
Jester
05-17-2011, 09:18 AM
Actually if you read Seth's Twitter, he said he was going to take the old Flintstones source material and "destroy every last bit of it. It'll be my Flintstones or nothing. Suck it, America!"
BubblyShell22
05-17-2011, 12:03 PM
And that was probably a joke.
Seth MacFarlane doesn't joke... ever. Where'd you get that idea? O_o
Donnie
05-17-2011, 12:45 PM
Love the Flinstones, don't like MacFarlane. Damn.
joe-eyeball
05-17-2011, 04:49 PM
Could care less about a Flintstones reboot, because I never liked the original Flintstones, but I do like Family Guy, especially the first 3 seasons.
A stone-age Family Guy? I hope not.
===HERO
^ I wouldn't doubt it. :ohwell:
Jester
05-17-2011, 08:06 PM
^ I wouldn't doubt it. :ohwell:
So Pebbles will be a teenager that everyone hates and they'll have an idiot son and a 3rd kid that is actually the spawn of Wilma and the Great Gazzoo?
:teek: DON'T GIVE HIM IDEAS!! :x
Jester
05-17-2011, 08:12 PM
:teek: DON'T GIVE HIM IDEAS!! :x
DINO TALKS!!!
:cry: I'm sorry...
And that was probably a joke.
And, yes it was....mine.
BubblyShell22
05-18-2011, 12:03 PM
I think it's awesome that Seth is doing this. I love Family Guy. Heck, it's way better than The Simpsons these days.
Jester
05-18-2011, 06:26 PM
I think it's terrible that Seth is doing this. I hate Family Guy. Heck, The Simpsons is way better than it these days.
BubblyShell22
05-19-2011, 01:28 PM
Maybe for you, but not for me. The Simpsons has fallen flat in terms of comedy. Yeah, FG hasn't been that funny lately, but it hasn't gone the route of The Simpsons yet.
oldmanwinters
05-19-2011, 05:02 PM
So Pebbles will be a teenager that everyone hates and they'll have an idiot son and a 3rd kid that is actually the spawn of Wilma and the Great Gazzoo?
That's about what I'm expecting. And here I thought that it couldn't get any worse than "The Flintstones: On the Rocks." I don't know who would be more ill-suited to reinterpret the Flintstones: MacFarlane or John Kricfalusi (anybody seen his takes on The Jetsons and Yogi Bear? Oy...).
I don't know who would be more ill-suited to reinterpret the Flintstones: MacFarlane or John Kricfalusi
No doubt about it, John K is worse. His stuff has always been painful to watch. >_<
anybody seen his takes on The Jetsons and Yogi Bear?
Wasn't aware he (inappropriately) touched Jetsons, but I'm glad I missed it.
Peanut
05-19-2011, 05:52 PM
Maybe for you, but not for me. The Simpsons has fallen flat in terms of comedy. Yeah, FG hasn't been that funny lately, but it hasn't gone the route of The Simpsons yet.
Family Guy also hasn't ever been close to touching The Simpsons in their heyday, so there's also that to take into account. The Simpsons was so good that it had much further to fall. Family Guy has always just kinda been...well, Family Guy.
oldmanwinters
05-19-2011, 06:37 PM
No doubt about it, John K is worse. His stuff has always been painful to watch. >_<
Wasn't aware he (inappropriately) touched Jetsons, but I'm glad I missed it.
I'm probably in agreement. I at least believe MacFarlane respects the source material, whereas John K. believes himself to be the sole authority on good animation and the heir apparent to the classic Warner Bros. tradition. He's gone on record repeatedly for his distaste of all things Hanna-Barbera.
Jester
05-19-2011, 06:45 PM
Wow, John K. is a veediot....
I think the only thing he did that i liked was Close But No Cigar.
ssjup81
05-19-2011, 10:11 PM
As long as it doesn't turn out to be Family Guy with Flintstone characters, I'll be okay with it...hopefully.
Ironically, I'm one of those who did like pretty much all the Flintstone series after the original one. I loved the Flintstone Comedy Hour, Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm Show, The New Flinstones (well, not too much), and I liked the Flintsone specials that were out (like the one where Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm got married and had twins), and I also liked the Jetsons Meet the Flintstones movie. Didn't care for the live-action films.
Anywho, as long as it doesn't turn out to be another Family Guy-like show, I might be okay with it.That's about what I'm expecting. And here I thought that it couldn't get any worse than "The Flintstones: On the Rocks." I don't know who would be more ill-suited to reinterpret the Flintstones: MacFarlane or John Kricfalusi (anybody seen his takes on The Jetsons and Yogi Bear? Oy...).I've seen John K.'s take on Yogi Bear, which was highly disturbing for me, especially since, as a kid, I loved Yogi Bear cartoons. That "log cabin" joke was weird. >< Didn't know he did anything on the Jetsons and glad I didn't see that. My mind is still scarred from the Ren & Stimpy stuff. Here I thought it was going to be like Nick's version, then I saw that and was like, :tcry:
I'm probably in agreement. I at least believe MacFarlane respects the source material, whereas John K. believes himself to be the sole authority on good animation and the heir apparent to the classic Warner Bros. tradition. He's gone on record repeatedly for his distaste of all things Hanna-Barbera.Well, that explains a lot about John K. Seth does seem to respect the source material, even if he's goofing on it. John K. is just weird and disturbing. He actually sounds like he has a major ego problem, and seems he comes across as being pretty arrogant.
I will say this, though, if John ever touched Johnny Quest, which to me is one of the greatest older toons that HB ever put out (along with 40s/50s Tom & Jerry), I'd scream my head off and want to meet him personally, and slap him with an anvil (I know, I went WB there :trazz::tlol: ).
BubblyShell22
05-20-2011, 12:12 PM
Family Guy also hasn't ever been close to touching The Simpsons in their heyday, so there's also that to take into account. The Simpsons was so good that it had much further to fall. Family Guy has always just kinda been...well, Family Guy.
I do agree that FG will never live up to The Simpsons. However, I still liked earlier seasons of FG. I think what's made it fall flat is when they got rid of Cleveland and made him his own show, which also isn't that good. I'll still watch FG because it's not as bad as The Simpsons is. With FG, I can still laugh a little bit, but with The Simpsons, I barely find anything funny anymore.
Jester
05-20-2011, 12:22 PM
I guess I'm in the minority that thinks the Simpsons is actually improving of late...or maybe it's my total disdain for FG that's causing me to be biased.
ssjup81
05-20-2011, 04:14 PM
I actually prefer earlier Family Guy eps to later ones, and I guess that has a lot to do with the fact that the later eps bash Meg a lot and they don't seem much like a "family" anymore. I also miss Damion Stewie, ya know?
I can still watch later Family Guy eps, but I'm at a point now where I can either take it or leave it.
Venom
05-20-2011, 04:45 PM
Actually if you read Seth's Twitter, he said he was going to take the old Flintstones source material and "destroy every last bit of it. It'll be my Flintstones or nothing. Suck it, America!"
I just did and couldn't find it...from what I have seen the show will use the same designs and share the same tone as the classics.
I guess I'm in the minority that thinks the Simpsons is actually improving of late...or maybe it's my total disdain for FG that's causing me to be biased.
Heh, for me, the Simpsons is becoming more like Family Guy as of late. Now we have two shows featuring Homer Griffin and Peter Simpson!
Abnormal Freak
05-20-2011, 05:35 PM
I'm probably in agreement. I at least believe MacFarlane respects the source material, whereas John K. believes himself to be the sole authority on good animation and the heir apparent to the classic Warner Bros. tradition. He's gone on record repeatedly for his distaste of all things Hanna-Barbera.
He has? :p Everything I've read of his he's said the exact opposite. He loves the late '50s to mid '60s H-B shows (Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, and especially The Flintstones) but loathes Scooby-Doo (which neither Bill Hanna nor Joe Barbera had anything to do with, creatively). He even did artwork for the early '90s Flintstones LaserDisc collection. He's gone on record plenty of times professing his love for the early TV era H-B cartoons and other TV cartoons from around that time period; he isn't solely a lover of '40s WB and Clampett cartoons.
Anyway, I love John K.'s H-B cartoons, ha ha. Wonderfully demented and funny. Family Guy...never funny. Hearing that Seth MacFarlane is making a Flintstones cartoon makes me groan heavily.
(And just so nobody gets the wrong impression, I don't grovel at the groin of Kricfalusi, I just really, really like his cartoons. He has a lot of opinions on cartoons that I strongly disagree with, but so what? People have their differences, and I don't hold it against John for having the opinions and standards he has and the way he expresses them.)
Jester
05-20-2011, 05:49 PM
I just did and couldn't find it...from what I have seen the show will use the same designs and share the same tone as the classics.
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/Jesterangelo/PDVD_040-1.jpg
oldmanwinters
05-20-2011, 06:39 PM
He has? :p Everything I've read of his he's said the exact opposite. He loves the late '50s to mid '60s H-B shows (Yogi Bear, The Jetsons, and especially The Flintstones) but loathes Scooby-Doo (which neither Bill Hanna nor Joe Barbera had anything to do with, creatively). He even did artwork for the early '90s Flintstones LaserDisc collection. He's gone on record plenty of times professing his love for the early TV era H-B cartoons and other TV cartoons from around that time period; he isn't solely a lover of '40s WB and Clampett cartoons.
You might be right on that point. I was thinking back to his various commentaries on the Looney Tunes Golden Collection. I didn't even know that H&B didn't work on Scooby-Doo.
Also, John K. pretty much despises Chuck Jones's work on Looney Tunes, right? I seem to remember that as well.
John K.'s moto seems to be that "it ain't good animation if the characters don't look like they're made of rubber." :-)
Abnormal Freak
05-20-2011, 06:54 PM
Kricfalusi likes and admires Jones as an artist, and likes his cartoons, but not to the degree he likes Clampett. He also doesn't like the way Jones himself pretty much made the change in Daffy Duck's character from looney tune to jealous jerkwad. :p Which is something I totally agree on. It's not that the jerk Daffy is a bad character, he's just...no longer Daffy, in my opinion.
I remember reading a blog post by Kricfalusi about meeting Joe Barbera (I think it was; might've been Hanna) in his office sometime in the '80s. I think he was trying to sell a pitch or find work or something. John supposedly expressed his love for early Hanna-Barbera TV shows as well as his disdain for Scooby-Doo, and purportedly Joe (or Bill—whoever it was) slammed his fist down on his desk and said, "I agree! It's all about a bunch of damn hippies running around!" ;p
oldmanwinters
05-20-2011, 07:09 PM
Kricfalusi likes and admires Jones as an artist, and likes his cartoons, but not to the degree he likes Clampett. He also doesn't like the way Jones himself pretty much made the change in Daffy Duck's character from looney tune to jealous jerkwad. :p Which is something I totally agree on. It's not that the jerk Daffy is a bad character, he's just...no longer Daffy, in my opinion.
Ah, that's what I remember about John K. on Chuck Jones. Eh... what can I say the Jones "Hunting Trilogy" is right up there with my favorite Looney Tunes stuff. And Jones redefined Daffy's character so memorably that the earlier looney version strikes most contemporary viewers as odd and "out of character." It's ironic, really, but I don't think Jones deserves any of the hate that John K. gives him for that.
I remember reading a blog post by Kricfalusi about meeting Joe Barbera (I think it was; might've been Hanna) in his office sometime in the '80s. I think he was trying to sell a pitch or find work or something. John supposedly expressed his love for early Hanna-Barbera TV shows as well as his disdain for Scooby-Doo, and purportedly Joe (or Bill—whoever it was) slammed his fist down on his desk and said, "I agree! It's all about a bunch of damn hippies running around!" ;p
That's a pretty hilarious story. But... honestly, the Scooby-Doo series is my favorite of all the H&B properties.:)
Weapon X
05-20-2011, 07:23 PM
I hate Family Guy.
Really? Didn't you use to have a huge hard on for it?
Hmmm, maybe If The Flintstones were doing more then selling a cereal for the past 40 years, I'd care at all about this.
Jester
05-20-2011, 07:39 PM
Really? Didn't you use to have a huge hard on for it?
I did...that's what makes it so hard. I guess my sense of humor has changed...or I'm more easily offended.
oldmanwinters
05-20-2011, 07:49 PM
My take on Family Guy is that once you get past all the clever pop-culture cut-away jokes and gags, all you have left is a show that really doesn't have any heart to it and simply tries everything it can to get a cheap laugh by trashing anything and everything. It's basically narcissism and self-indulgence.
Jester
05-20-2011, 07:57 PM
Maybe that's why I used to like it...the well of pop culture jokes was still somewhat deep...now it's tapped and the "references" are little more than "Ladies and gentlemen...Mr. Conway Twitty." for 10 minutes.
Redeemer
05-20-2011, 07:59 PM
the clevland show , that's right.
& oh i thought bob's burgers was his too. my fault.
I thought he did Bob's Burgers as well.... Robot chicken and Futurama??? Or is that Matt Groaning???
I will give this show a shot, but I dont think I will like it, bc Seth McFarland show are mostly "stupid" commedy, basically its commedy come from the stupidity of the characters.
The Flintstones however has a completely different style of commedy. I dont know what exactly to call it though...hmm....
Jester
05-20-2011, 08:02 PM
Robot Chicken is Seth Green. Futurama is Groening. Bob's Burgers if created by Loren Bouchard, who created Home Movies.
ssjup81
05-20-2011, 10:19 PM
My take on Family Guy is that once you get past all the clever pop-culture cut-away jokes and gags, all you have left is a show that really doesn't have any heart to it and simply tries everything it can to get a cheap laugh by trashing anything and everything. It's basically narcissism and self-indulgence.And this is why I feel that early Family Guy is better then later Family Guy. I can still get a bit of a laugh out of the later eps because it's just so stupid, but the earlier eps were better to me.
Flintstones reboot? Comparatively speaking, didn't The Simpsons do this already by... being The Simpsons? McFarlane doesn't reboot, he rehashes.
Tuxedo Moroboshi
06-01-2011, 06:18 PM
DINO TALKS!!!
Actually, I think Dino did talk in one episode of the original cartoon... heck, I think it may have even been in his first appearance. Me memory's a bit sketchy, though, and I sadly do not own any Flintstones DVDs to try and confirm this.
Whatever the case, though, it seemed like that was retconned afterwards.
And this is why I feel that early Family Guy is better then later Family Guy. I can still get a bit of a laugh out of the later eps because it's just so stupid, but the earlier eps were better to me.
I'd have to agree. Not to mention the fact that the later episodes try too hard to be edgy, and just come off as offensive to me. I know that happened occasionally with the earlier episodes, too, but it wasn't common, whereas the later episodes tend to often do it in rapid-fire succession. Sometimes it feels like Seth MacFarlane is merely using Family Guy as his own personal soapbox.
Jester
06-01-2011, 06:22 PM
Actually, I think Dino did talk in one episode of the original cartoon... heck, I think it may have even been in his first appearance. Me memory's a bit sketchy, though, and I sadly do not own any Flintstones DVDs to try and confirm this.
Whatever the case, though, it seemed like that was retconned afterwards.
Cracked ran an article about it, actually...kinda made me double take considering my post.
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