The Flintstones

The Flintstones (1960)

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The Blessed Event - S3-E23

Continuity mistake: After Fred and Barney leave for the hospital without Wilma they realise the mistake and head back to the house, and when it cuts to Wilma in the bedroom Dino jumps atop the blue blanket on the bed, but in the next shot the blue blanket is gone, and then it reappears for Dino to hide under. (00:16:35)

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Swedish Visitors - S3-E27

Continuity mistake: When Fred and family start their drive toward Jellyrock Park, the trailer has one window and a door on its right side (behind Wilma's side of the car), but when they reach Jellyrock that side of the trailer now has two windows and the door is gone. (00:11:50)

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Swedish Visitors - S3-E27

Continuity mistake: When Fred walks into the room with a snack for a second time, he goes back and returns with a purple salt shaker. In the next shot, the shaker is blue.

The Birthday Party - S3-E28

Continuity mistake: When Barney is at the pay phone, there is a dial in the centre of it, but when he sees the car going off on its own with Fred in the driving seat, we cut back to Barney and the dial has disappeared.

The Birthday Party - S3-E28

Continuity mistake: When Fred picks up the receiver on the telephone, there are five holes on the dial, but when we a close-up of the dial in the next shot, there are now six holes on it.

Ann-Margrock Presents - S4-E1

Continuity mistake: When Ann-Margrock is performing on television towards the end of the episode, there are a lot of people sitting on the couch at the Flintstones' house, but at the end there are only Wilma, Betty and Pebbles and all the rest have disappeared.

Little Bamm-Bamm - S4-E3

Continuity mistake: During the hearing, when Perry Masonry is questioning his client about being fixed financially, part of Perry's string loop closure on his clothing vanishes within the same shot, and then reappears. A few moments later Perry's two parallel strings are crisscrossed, then both are back to normal. Later, when Barney asks Perry if he can hold Bamm-Bamm, once again Perry's parallel strings become crisscrossed. (00:20:35)

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Little Bamm-Bamm - S4-E3

Continuity mistake: When Barney, Betty, Wilma, Bamm-Bamm and Pebbles are on the bridge at the end of the episode, Bamm-Bamm's white hair turns red like Pebbles', then changes back to white when they all start laughing.

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Dino Disappears - S4-E4

Continuity mistake: While Fred and Barney are being chased by the police, in the closeup of the stop/go signal we see two ropes beside the monkey's hand - one controlling "stop" and one for "go", but in the wideshot there's only one rope hanging from the post, apparently controlling both "stop" and "go" signals. (00:19:55)

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Big League Freddie - S4-E8

Continuity mistake: While Fred is giving Roger a few baseball pointers, Roger's wearing something that only goes over his right shoulder, but then it switches to going over his left shoulder when Fred "teaches" Roger to slide. (00:05:45)

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Old Lady Betty - S4-E9

Continuity mistake: When Wilma is trying to help Betty find a part-time job in the newspaper, you can see that there is a light blue cloth at the end of the line, but when we see Pebbles playing with Dino in the next shot, the blue cloth has disappeared.

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Old Lady Betty - S4-E9

Continuity mistake: When Betty is talking to Wilma about the job she is doing for the old lady, she chuckles and takes off her wig, but in the next shot the wig is back on her head.

Old Lady Betty - S4-E9

Continuity mistake: When Wilma and Betty are looking at the jobs in the wanted ads, there is a purple cloth between the green and pink cloth on the washing line, but when the two are looking at Dino playing with Pebbles, the purple cloth has disappeared. There's also a basket by Wilma that moves to the end of the washing line.

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Daddy's Little Beauty - S4-E12

Continuity mistake: When Fred is trying to work out what kind of talent Pebbles has, she has her bathing suit on. When Pebbles is seen crawling onto the stage when it's her turn, she has her regular clothes on, and when Pebbles is on the stage with Dino, she has her bathing suit on again.

Fred Flintstone: I love my dear sweet mother in-law. My mother in-law is a doll.
Attendant: Are you feeling all right, mister?
Fred Flintstone: Huh? Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay.
Attendant: Good. Good. You just stay in here and rest. That hot sun out there is a killer.
Fred Flintstone: Poor guy, he must have been standing in it for hours.

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Trivia: When dubbed in Spanish (shown on Spanish stations), Fred and Barney's first names were changed to Pedro and Pablo. Wilma became Vilma and Betty remained Betty.

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Answer: The ratings had declined in its last few seasons, and the series was cancelled.

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