When the Flintstones Peddled Cigarettes

in Random | July 20th, 2008 4 Comments

What can you say about this? A quick trip back to the 1950s… File this under Ran­dom …

(For for­eign read­ers, all you need to know is that The Flint­stones was a clas­sic Amer­i­can car­toon.)

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  • Kristie says:
    July 20, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Oooooh title typo :) “Flin­stones”

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  • Dan Colman says:
    July 20, 2008 at 3:27 pm

    Thanks Kristie for the heads up on that. Typed too quick­ly. Fixed now.

    Cheers,
    Dan

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  • Tim says:
    July 21, 2008 at 5:14 am

    Actu­al­ly the Flint­stones was not intend­ed to be a chil­drens’ pro­gram. The show was note­able at the time for being the first tele­vi­sion car­toon series aimed at adults, not to men­tion the first to be shown in prime time. That’s prob­a­bly why the net­work had no prob­lem with the char­ac­ters sell­ing cig­a­rettes.

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  • Dan Colman says:
    July 21, 2008 at 8:28 am

    Tim, Thanks for the clar­i­fi­ca­tion on this. Appre­ci­ate it. I feel slight­ly bet­ter about human­i­ty now :)

    Dan

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