dishes? i just can t wait till they invent the faucet. with all the progress that was happening in the late 50s and 60s, the flintstones is an escape from the pressures of the modern family and the question, is progress good? [ laughs ] it was kind of a satire on the consumerism get the newest thing for your kitchen, get the newest kind of car with, you know, these kind of stone wheels. they have a car and it has wheels, but you need your legs to make it move. i bet that is how they did it. a lot of people think it was a cartoon on saturdays. that was actually a network sitcom that just happened to be animated. i m 7 years old and my mom used to get just furious, shaking, angry at me for watching the flintstones , because it s really a show for adults. i remember, i was so sad for betty and the fact that they couldn t have children. we re so anxious to have a
so much joy in times of uncertainty. there s a lot of pressure in the 1960s this notion of new products and everything being new, this kind of brave new world. everything s about the future and modernizing. yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships, but then it s a scary thing. what does the future hold? air force general curtis lemay suggested we bomb north vietnam back into the stone age. yabba-dabba-doo! yabba-dabba-doo! the flintstones was a modern stone age family, if you recall. [ laughs ] it sort of celebrated the modern family, the guise of a it was, like, time travel fantasy for us watching. you almost done with the
baby, we take it out on fred and wilma. betty and barney talk about adopting. it s a ba a ba a baby. that s unusual. we want to do everything according to law, ma am. that had not been heard before. it was a smash hit. the flintstones was on for six years. yahoo! you re the greatest fred! it was really on the cutting edge of escapism for an american audience that was hungry for it. the communist rulers of east berlin reinforce their barricades. in the early and mid 60s, there s so much turmoil, in terms of the civil rights movement, in terms of vietnam. there s a real crisis of identity. and there is a pattern in american entertainment of when things get really serious, we gotta get silly. i just don t understand it.
hour you see no difference from the zucker era to whatever this is now. if anything chris glick is going to bring cnn more to the left of donald trump runs. this once proud news organization, the gulf war, that is when the network was actually worth watching. if they are getting beat right now by the hallmark channel and tlc and i know the latter is pam bondi s go to. that s true but this is having news time right now and you ve got to be better than that. sean: i don t know, i think reruns of the flintstones might do better. last 30 seconds are yours. i like the hallmark channel by the way. it s sad, it s dangerous what they are doing and they are bringing more division to our country. what if they ever tried to embrace the america first agenda? what would happen then? jobs, security, freedom. they never ever say anything positive about our country, nor do they want to because they want to create a bigger divide
difference right now between the zucker era to whatever this is now. . g and if anything, chris lichtor is going to bring cnn more to the left. if donald trump runs and this once proud news organization, remember the first gulf war, bernie shaw and peter arnett, that s when the network waswa actually worth watching. they re going to enjoy g their distant third status and total viewers. they re getting beat right now by the hallmark channelma and tlc. and i knowi the latter is pamkn bondi is go to show and that sut true. but hey, look, happy news time, right? newsand you ve got to do better than that. i don t know. i think reruns ofhi the flintstones might do better last 30 seconds of becausenknk0 i like the hallmark channel,on by the way, yeah, sean, it s sad. it s dangerous. swhat they re doing and they re bringing more division to our country. what if they ever tried to embrace the america first agenda? what would happen then? jobs, innovation, security, freedom. they never, ever sa