The Flintstones "The Flintstone Flyer" Review

 

Animation fans this is a review that i've been putting of for a few days now mostly because something else has come up on the days I planned to do this review. However i've finally got the chance to take a look at something that is kind of historic in the world of animation since without this one episode there would be no Flintstones and without The Flintstones TV series there would be no The Simpsons or no Family Guy and so here is my review of the first episode of The Flintstones TV series with the episode being called "The Flintstone Flyer" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is Barney invents a flying machine which he and Fred want to use to go bowling with Wilma and Betty finding out since both couples have tickets for the opera the very same night that Fred and barney want to go bowling. In all honesty the plot of the episode is average at best which is honestly something that I expected to be the case since this show isn't known for having deep plots or even great plots for that matter but I still would liked the story to have been a bit better then what it actually was.

Starring in the episode is Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone and Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone and The Paper Boy. Also starring in the episode is the late and great Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble and Bea Benaderet as Betty Rubble. I really have nothing to say about the cast for this episode since pretty much all of the actors in this episode are voice acting legends and the fact that the show managed to get this much talent in the show and this episode.

As for what I thought about the acting in this episode it was honestly a lot better then what I remember it being. I say this because I haven't seen this episode in a long time and so I couldn't recall what the acting was like and so you can imagine my surprise when I saw that the acting in the episode was really good which to be honest given who's in the episode really shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone in my opinion.

The animation in this episode was done by Hanna-Barbera Productions and I don't think that I need to say what shows they've worked on since there a really well known company and there shows are really well known. Hanna-Barbera Productions is known for being cheap when it comes to there animation and the same is true with this episode since there are alot of repeated backgrounds and alot of the movements from the characters can be pretty stiff at times.

I personally only noticed one animation error in this episode and it's the fact that for alot of the episode Barney's are coloured black but for some reason near the end of the episode his eyes are colourless. If this was just in one quick shot i'd be alot more forgiving but since it's in the entire finale of the episode and so I have to wonder why didn't anybody bother to fix this issue since more then enough people would have had enough chance to see the mistake and yet no one bothered to do so.

This episode made me realise how violent Wilma and Betty are since we see them hit there husbands quite hard a few times in this episode. Not only that but Wilma hits Fred who she knows has a head and arm injury and she hits him at least once maybe twice on the head  , i'm honestly shocked that it's taken me thins long to realise how violent Wilma and Betty are and i'm surprised that no one else has picked up on it.

This episode is twenty six minuets long which feels about right since the episode doesn't have enough story to cover anything longer then that in my opinion. Helping things is the fact that the pacing of the episode is honestly quite good with nearly all of the scenes focusing on advancing the plot which is what an episode of this length should really be doing and it's something that I feel's be lost since alot of shows these days don't bother with the plot they instead focus on the comedy and nothing more which isn't really a good thing since without a story it doesn't matter what the jokes are because your audience just won't be interested.

This is I believe the only episode of the show where they show that Barney is an inventor which is a shame because with Barney as an inventor you then open the show up to alot of funny plot lines. I honestly have to wonder why they chose to drop this idea because it can be a really funny idea and like I said it does open the door to alot of plots and alot of funny jokes but for some reason the idea of Barney Rubble being an inventor was dropped after this one episode.

Now then boys and girls since this is a comedy that means that I have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode. I honestly that the jokes in this episode are very hit and miss since alot of the jokes are in my opinion very dated and that doesn't make them that funny but the jokes that are funny are honestly pretty freaking funny but I honestly feel that the episode has alot more bad / dated jokes then it does good / funny jokes.

Overall this was a really good episode in my opinion and I can honestly see how the show became as popular as it did. I say that because as i've said in this very review there are alot of good things that are in the episode but at the same time there are a lot of bad things in the episode as well which i've also talked about in this review and so while I don't think this was the best episode for the show to start with I do think that this still was a good episode and so the episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 from this fan of The Flintstones.

All of the images that I used in this review were gathered either Amazon UK , Google Images or the official the Flintstones fandom wiki page. For once i;m not going to recommend that you use Google Images if you want images from either this show or this episode since even tho they have alot more verity the official the Flintstones fandom wiki page has images that are alot more higher quality and higher definition which is something that I always look for when making a review that and the official The Flintstones has an episode by episode cast list which is always handy.

 

The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show "Gridiron Girl Trouble" Review

 

Flintstones fans i've made my love for the franchise known in the past but the one thing that i've never done is taken a look at one of the countless spin off shows from when the show was in it's heyday. One of the things that spin off like to do is shift the focus to people who are pretty much secondary characters in the main show well the show i'm taking a look at doesn't do that because it shifts the focus to two main characters and so here is my review of the debut episode of The Pebbles And Bamm-Bamm Show called "Gridiron Girl Trouble" enjoy.

The plot of the episode is that Bamm-Bamm's pet dog Snoots follows them to high school and while there Bamm-Bamm , Pebbles and there friends have to keep Snoots hidden from a dog catcher which somehow ends up with Pebbles joining the school football team. Yeah this story is as wild and at times hard to follow as I made it look simply because the storyline with Snoots get's dropped pretty freaking quickly which is a shame because that story was pretty entertaining and the one they replaced it just isn't entertaining at all.

Starring in the episode are Sally Struthers as Pebbles Flintstone , Jay North as Bamm-Bamm Rubble and Alan Reed as Fred Flintstone. Also starring in the episode are Lennie Weinrib as Moonrock Crater , Grumpstone and Bronto , Gay Autterson as Wiggy Rockstone , Betty Rubble and Cindy Curbstone , Mitzi McCall as Penny Pillar , Mel Blanc as Barney Rubble , Zonk and Snoots and Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma Flintstone.

The acting in the episode is for me at least one of the episodes better aspects which given everything else that happens really isn't a high bar to reach. That being said Alan Reed just sounds like he's been smoking a ton of cigarettes before going into record because he doesn't like Fred at all which is a shame because he does deliver a good performance as the character as do the actors playing Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm but the script let's the actors playing Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm down since we're not given alot of time to see what these characters personalities are which was fine in The Flintstones since they were very rarely the focus of an episode it's ok when an entire series is built around them and this is something that should have been fixed.

I don't really think that this needs saying since it's kind of obvious but doing the animation for not only this episode but the entire series is Hanna-Barbera Productions. I have to say that the animation is alot better then what I thought it would be simply due to the fact that it doesn't look cheap and it doesn't have the cheap movements that Hanna-Barbera is known for that being said however the episode does have the classic Hanna-Barbera tradition of using repeating backgrounds only this time it's not as noticeable as it is in other shows.

In what I think is a wise move they have the parents of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm appear quite alot in this episode. Which to me is a good thing just because it reassures the auidence a little bit because of the fact they are alot more familiar with those characters due to The Flintstones TV show and the fact that they don't really play a huge part in the plot is for me a good thing because it means that the focus is solely on Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as it should be.

The one thing I wasn't really expecting them to do in this show was for them to make Pebbles look hot as hell. The above image is how she looks in this show and she looks stunning as all hell which given that her mother is Wilma I guess was always going to happen but still she look stunning just to keep with the theme of characters in this show who now look stunning as hell they made Bamm-Bamm look pretty handsome as well.

For some reason when people talk about The Flintstones TV show they never mention any of the spin off shows. Which to me is just odd since it's still those same characters played by alot of the same actors and so it's a continuation of the original show with this one being a prime example of that since they aged up Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm to the point where they are now teenagers attending high school and given that Bamm-Bamm refers to Pebbles as his girlfriend in this episode they are most likely dating as well.

Now I did some basic research and I found out that this show was actually the very first spin off of The Flintstones so we have this show to thank for starting a trend that is still going on to this very day. That trend of course being producing terrible spin off of The Flintstones and even tho this show lasted for one season of sixteen episode the show did kind of receive a continuation with various segments airing as part of The Flintstone Comedy Hour.

As I said before this show lasted for one season consisting of sixteen episode with the show lasting from September 11th 1971 with the final episode airing on January 1st 1972. The show aired on CBS which I don't air The Flintstones and so it makes no sense to me as to why they would air the spin off show , U honestly feel that it would have made more sense for this show to air on ABC since that was the home of The Flintstones during it's run.

Now then boys and girls since is a comedy that means that we have to talk about the jokes that are in this episode. To me alot of the jokes in this episode just weren't that funny which is a shame because there are some clever set ups like the gang having to hide Bamm-Bamm's pet dog Snoots around the school but the episode does nothing with those setups like how funny would it have been in the dog accidentally ended up taking the place of a teacher the possibilities for jokes with that one setup alone are endless but nope the episode doesn't take advantages of them.

Overall this episode wasn't that bad but it also wasn't that good either everything is just OK and nothing more. Which is a shame because this was the franchises first spin off show and so you'd have thought that more effort would have been put into making the show actually good but nope instead more effort went into giving Peddles her own freaking catchphrase "Yabba-dabba-doozy!" as such this episode gets a 5 out of 10 from me.

All the images that I used in this review were gathered from either the official the Flintstones fandom wiki page or Google Images. I honestly cannot say which website is better for images from this episode or this series just because even tho Google Images has more images from both the show and this episode they are the exact same quality as the ones found on the official The Flintstones fandom wiki page so use whichever website you want to use.

 

Some Animated Shows And Movies That NEVER Happend

Animation fans there are alot of animated shows and movies made every year some turn out to be good others not so much. However what you may or may not know is that there are a lot of shows and films that don't get made and well I thought i'd do something a little bit different and tell you about some of the shows and films that we could have got and just to make things easier i'm not going to include shows that were cancelled and then brought back so here we go.

Power Rangers: The Animated Series

Yes ladies and gents you read that right there was going to be an animated series of Power Rangers a pilot for the show was commissioned by Disney in 2009 with the show to air on Disney XD. Unlike the live action show which uses stock footage from a Japanese show called Super Sentai this was going to an entirely American production all that exists of this project is a pitch video made by Nerd Corps which was put together over one weekend.

Live Action Catwoman Animated Sequel

There have been a lot of bad comic book movies and when I say bad I mean really freaking bad and of those movies was the 2004 film Catwoman. This film bombed so hard that it took Warner Bros thirteen years to make another female lead comic book movie but things could have been different because there was plans for an animated movie there is no word tho on if this would have been a sequel or not but the film was cancelled due to the film's commercial failure.

The Flintstones Reboot

 Everyone has at least heard of the original Flintstones and the show itself is considered by many to be a classic show what many don't know or straight up forgot was that there was going to be a reboot. In 2011 it was announced that Family Guy creator and Flintstones fan Seth MacFarlane would be producing a reboot of the show which makes sense since Seth has spoofed the show and it's characters several times on his shows. According to the lost media wiki page there was a few scripts and some animation was indeed produced for the reboot but it but the project was cancelled due to one of the heads at Fox not loving the scripts.

Deadpool: The Animated Series

There are alot of Marvel animated shows out there some good and some bad but there's one animated show that alot of people were excited for but we never got to see. The show in question is Deadpool this show had so much going for it it was given a straight to series order of at least ten episodes and was going to be created by The Glover Brothers Donald and Stephen but for some reason the show got cancelled and there are conflicting reports as to who's to blame.

Buffy: The Animated Series

This is such a well known show that didn't happen that it would be pointless for me to go into that much detail about the show. The only reason why the show wasn't picked up is because it would be to adult to be shown of children's TV but also seen as unsuitable for some in a prime-time slot but there was a four minuet pilot made for the show which did feature several actors from the show reprising there roles which I do recommend any Buffy fan check out since you can find it on Youtube.   

Some Comic Books I'm Going To Review

Comic book fans I thought that i'd do something a bit different today because honestly I couldn't think of a single thing to review. So I thought that i;d tell you some of the comic books that I intend on taking a look at at some point in the future please note that this will include books from alot of different comic book companies so your not just going to find Marvel stuff or DC stuff your going to find stuff from alot of companies so alot of books will be ones that you've never heard of so here we go.

The Jetsons (DC)

Now i've been meaning to read alot more stuff from the Hanna-Barbera beyond line since i', a fan of there work and I did read this when it was coming out. The only thing stopping me from doing it is the fact that I was never that much of a fan of this book I only picked it up to see how they did the characters but it is something that is quite high on my list of comic books to review but it's not something i'll be getting to any time soon.

A Clash Of Kings (Dynamite Entertainment)

Not only am I a huge Game Of Thrones (your talking to a guy who owns all the books plus alot of seasons from the show and have played the dreadful XBOX 360 game) but i've also reviewed the original Game of Thrones comic book. So of course i'm going to be taking a look at this why I havn't done it now is simply because i'm waiting until they've finished the whole book before I even read a single of it.

Elvira: The Shape of Elvira (Dynamite Entertainment)

I read the recent and reviewed the recent Elvira: Mistress Of The Dark comic book which I loved and i've read the first issue of this book and if you've seen the cover and the title you'll have a fair idea of recent film there spoofing. I will say using Elvira to spoof this film to me is pure genius because no one spoofs films better then her and the best thing this series is only four issues long so when ever im able to see the remaining issues the review will be going live.

Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor (Titan Comics)

You comic book fans won't know this but i'm also a huge Doctor Who fan and i'll admit i've not read the comics or heard the audio plays but i've seen the show both classic and recent and i've seen all of the films and spin off shows. I was actually one of the few people excited to be getting a female doctor granted I had to watch something that Jodie Whittaker was in to see if she was any good at drama but she's not let me down so far and as soon as they finish the first story for this run i'll be posting the review.

The Flintstones (DC)

Not only are we heading back to DC but also back to the stone age because just like with The Jetsons recent comic book I read the awesome Flintstones book as it was published. Guys and girls this is a book that i'm dying to revuew for you guys but with it being twelve issues long and the fact that I have many other reviews and stuff to write per day this one might take a few billion years but it will get here that much I promise.

Avengers Standoff: Assault on Pleasant Hill (Marvel)

Now then Marvel fans i've not forgotten about you guys this is a title that i've honestly not seen that many people talking about. I figure tho that with the next Avengers movies coming out soon this would be a great year for me to take a look at it the only issue i'd have is there's so many issues to read and the collected edition is rather expensive so I might have to wait until it drops down in price before I even consider reviewing this one.

A-Force 2015 (Marvel)

I'm not even going to try and lie here the only reason i'd even consider reading and reviewing this book is that it has Captain Marvel on the cover and I could tie it in the new Captain Marvel movie that's coming out. It might be a shameless reason to do a review but it's better then doing a review for no reason at all plus we all know that when that movie comes out any book featuring her is going to sell and sell fast.

Batman/Catwoman: The Wedding Album: The Deluxe Edition (DC)

When this storyline was first announced alot of people couldn't believe that it was finally going to happen Bruce Wayne was finally going to get married to Catwoman it just seems insane right. Well as we all know things didn't exactly go that way and that's why I want to review it so I can see if it makes sense in terms of both the story and the characters or not because it would be so easy for me to say that the storyline sucks but it would be more of a challenge if I sat down and read it and then gave you my thoughts on it.

Any Hellboy Comic

I'm not going to name just one title here because there's so many just for this one character so i;m saying that I want to review any of the Hellboy comics because I honestly like the character. It also helps that he has a new movie coming out and so any review I could do I could then tie it in to the new m movie in shape or form so it would be a really easy for me to get alot clicks or likes just due to that fact.

The Rest Of Red Sonja Worlds Away (Dynamite)

I know that i've just reviewed the first volume but my task is to finish the whole storyline now i'm going to tell you right now i'm not working on this as of this moment because there is such a thing as to much of a good thing. So i'm aiming to finish that whole storyline by the end of the year so that way I myself can take a break from the character and whoever publishes the collected editions can finish releasing it.

My Thoughts On The Recent New Series Announcements By Cartoon Network And Some Reboots That Should Happen

This is something that i've held of doing for sometime mostly because I had no idea what to think about these announcements but also because they came from out of know where and chances are you'll know exactly what announcements i'm talking about so here we go and i'm also going to list of some reboots that should happen.

Announced Shows

Thundercats Roar

Honestly out of three shows that got announced this was one of two shows that truly surprised me because no one 1) saw it coming and 2) wanted another reboot heck I like many of you wanted a second series to the 2011 reboot and like many of you I hated the trailer but unlike many of you I kinda like the artwork it looks alot like OK KO to me and I like that show and yes there will be review of all three of these shows after they've debuted.

I don't think this series will be as bad as people are thinking it will be but the terrible first trailer really didn't help things at all but I do think that the creator of the show does love the original 1980's show and i do think we're all judging this show far to early episode 1 hasn't even come out and i'm seeing videos on Youtube from people saying that it's going to be bad just give the show a chance because you never know it could turn out to be good. 

Scooby-Doo and Guess Who?

This is the only show that really didn't surprise me at all when it got announced because Matthew Lillard tweeted a few months ago I think about recording a new series and then Grey Griffin was on Butch Heartman's podcast and she mentioned she was recording a new Scooby-Doo series so this was really expected.

However what wasn't expected was the fact that this show is basically a freaking remake of The New Scooby-Doo Movies if your going to basically remake any Scooby series don't remake the one that's dated the most remake one of the better series altho I will give this show this it's guest list sounds amazing it has Kevin Conroy as Batman and Mark Hamill will be making an appearance and like the next show i'm going to mention this one will air on Boomerang.

Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs!

Honestly I was more surprised about this being announced then I was about Thundercats Roar just because there hasn't been a new Flintstones series for decades so when this popped up I was truly taken a back by it and even more taken a back by the fact there focusing on Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm even now I still have no idea what to think about this show i'll check it out for sure because Fred , Wilma , Barney and Betty are confirmed to make an appearance.

The one thing I can say for sure is I don't like the designs for Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm they just look so freaking strange the plot of the show is the kinda of thing you'd expect from a show being aimed at a younger audience in that it's Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm with the help of Dino exploring the world around them.

Shows That Should Be Rebooted

The Jetsons

Now this show is being remade in live action but i'm talking about doing a cartoon reboot of the series and it could actually work because since the 60's technology has advanced so far so it would be great if the animated series could reflect that.

Top Cat

Somebody please tell me i'm not the only one that wants to see a reboot of this show if any show deserves a reboot it's this one and again it would be so easy to do all you'd have to do is update it to reflect the current times and boom you have yourselves a show.

  

The Flintstones Series Review

Hey there cartoon fans this review has taken me the longest to do and I have to say it was worth it to give you all the best possible review I could so lets travel back to the stone age and visit everyone's favorite stone age family The Flintstones.

For those of you who either don't know or have forgotten The Flintstones was a TV series that started in 1960 and ran for six seasons ending it's initial run in 1966 racking up an impressive 166 episodes a record which for a long time stayed with The Flintstones until it was beaten by another famous family The Simpsons and i'm guessing they will keep that record until the end of time.

The set up for the show is it's 60's America but in the stone age and as you can most likely guess from what i've just said there's no story for the show but the show isn't episodic because what happens in what episode might effect the next few episodes as was the most famous storyline for the show the birth of Pebbles which started near the end of the third season and a few episodes later she arrived on the scene.

This series has the late Alan Reed voicing Fred and the rest of the cast includes Jean Vander Pyl as both Wilma and later Pebbles , the great Mel Blanc as Barney and Dino , for the first for seasons we have Bea Benaderet as Betty but for the final two seasons we got Gerry Johnson and finally the great Daws Butler as Bamm-Bamm.

The casting for the show I thought was pretty spot on as you could tell I didn't name every actor only the actors who played The Flintstones and The Rubbles and I have to say I really enjoyed Alan Reed as Fred since I grew up with Henry Corden playing Fred I was shocked to actually find myself enjoying Alans portrayal of the character and the rest of the cast are really fantastic I can't really say much about Mel , Jean and Daws since they are legends but I freaking love the voice that Bea uses for Betty.

While watching the show I found out a few things that I didn't know about the characters like for example Betty's maiden name in the show was McBricker and how the couples first met in the two live action films they have stories with contradict each other but here they met at a hotel where both couples pretended to be rich fearing the other wouldn't like them if they knew the truth and that's the tip of the iceberg.

One thing I noticed that's a negative is the quality in the shows writing took a nosedive around the third or fourth season with the first two seasons being written by Looney Tunes veterans Warren Foster and Michael Maltese as well as Arthur Phillips. The stories in those two seasons were more relatable and had more funny gags in them but from the third season on wards they had a rotation of writers and the stories became more kid friendly which wasn't the intention of the show when it first came out.

   

It's time to talk about one of the elephants in the room the animation yes it is cheap and yes the backgrounds do repeat themselves alot in the show honestly you could make a drinking came about how many times the backgrounds repeat but I still found the animation to have a charm to it maybe it's because I grew up with the show and thus i'm already used to it but at the same time I do see where people are coming from when they say the animation in The Flintstones is bad.

This one i'm not sure is an elephant or not but there's alot of animal cruelty in this show it's not awkward to watch or anything like that but it does make you wonder what are there animal cruelty laws in Bedrock or do they even have any.

Now I know alot of people have said over the internet that the show is not funny and boring and while the latter can be said for certain episodes the show is pretty funny and I think that came down to the writing because if you watched the show during during the Pebbles and Bamm Bamm era then there were alot of unfunny jokes but if you watch the show before they were introduced you will find alot of jokes that will make you laugh out loud a few times.

Now not alot of people know this but during the shows run it had to opening and closing themes and if you want to get technical five opening credits for it's first two seasons the opening and closing themes were Rise and Shine which lasted until season 3 episode 3 where it was replaced by the more well known theme Meet The Flintstones. 

The opening and closing credits also changed in that episode because for the first two season the opening credits basically followed Fred going home , picking up a dress and turning on the TV while the closing credits was just him getting ready for bed in season three we got the more familiar intro so I won't talk about that but we got two more opening credits after it because after they introduced Pebbles they added Pebbles to the intro and then after that because they wanted to sell some toys they added a scene with Pebbles playing with what they were trying to sell and then finally we got Bamm Bamm added into the mix.

It's thanks to this show that we got The Flintstones franchise and I guess you could say it's still going strong with smash success that was The Flintstones comic book series but there have been a few bad notes with the live action movie prequel and the weird WWE team up movie.

Overall it doesn't matter what I say about this show because it's legendary and you have all most likely all ready made up your minds on if you like the show or not like I said before this has taken me the longest to do because Batman and The Looney Tunes Show both took at least a day to watch and review this review has taken me closer to two days to watch and review and since this show is all ready a legendary show i'm not going to rate it.

The Flintstones: Little Big League Review

I've reviewed alot of stuff featuring The Flintstones from there live action movies to some of there animated films and the odd special but this special i'm about to review i can honestly say i'm not to sure what rating to give it so here are my thoughts of The Flintstones: Little Big League.

What little story there is involves Fred and Barney coaching rival baseball teams and that's really it yeah when i said little story i wasn't freaking kidding that's all the story you get from this special and while i can see it working since the whole thing with The Flintstones was there meant to be the modern American family in the stone age here tho it just doesn't work.

Returning are Henry Corden , Mel Blanc , Jean Vander Pyl and *sigh* Gay Autterson Hartwig. The returning actors give solid performances altho i will say that Mel's voice for Barney is sounding more and more worn out but all of them out done by one name Pamela Anderson as Pebbles now my quack team of researchers spent a whole five minuets on IMDB and found out this wasn't the same Pamela Anderson from Baywatch but she still is actually pretty solid as now the pre teen pebbles.

Now getting a bit of an-upgrade is the animation don't get me wrong it still looks cheap but now it's more in line with how cheap the animation for the show was which is vast improvement from the quality of the animation in the previous special.

  

Now since Pebbles is a pre teen in this special they give her more mature problems gone are the days when her biggest fear was being cast in terrible live action version of her own family. In this special her main focus is to simply spend more time with Fred since Bamm-Bamm and Barney are spending alot of time together and honestly that story was the most interesting part of this special and it's just a shame they resolve it not that long into the special since that alone could have carried the whole thing.

There are a few good gags mostly with how the dinosaurs are used in Baseball and the fact that Fred gives everyone's son a spot on the team to get out of doing things but apart from that there's very little funny but there's quite alot of sexism in this special and all of it is coming from Fred like the only reason he won't let Pebbles join his team is because she's a girl and the reason why he won't help Wilma clean up is because she's a girl that's not me making up a reason that's the reason they give in the special.

Overall i think if your a fan of The Flintstones you'll enjoy this more then non fans will since it has the characters acting in character but with that being said there are alot of problems with this special so i honestly have no clue what rating to give this special but i can say if your fan of the Flintstones then go and see  this special.