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.
Continuity mistake: When Betty and Barney are at Child Welfare trying to adopt Bamm-Bamm, the black strap over Bamm-Bamm's shoulder switches from his right shoulder, to his left, then back to his right. (00:14:45)
Continuity mistake: When Barney and Betty are at Child Welfare Authority, Bamm-Bamm is sitting on the counselor's desk right beside her, but in the shot facing Betty and Barney, the baby boy has vanished. (00:15:00)
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)
Continuity mistake: During the adoption hearing, when Perry Masonry rebukes Barney about his "failing memory", Perry's string loop closures on his clothing suddenly vanishes mid-shot, then they reappear. (00:21:50)
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.
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)
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Continuity mistake: When the two couples sit down on the couch to watch Peek-a-Boo Camera on TV, there's an antenna atop the TV in the wideshot, but the antenna has vanished in the TV's closeup.
Ten Little Flintstones - S4-E16
Continuity mistake: When the spaceship lands for the second and last time during the episode's finale, it appears to be night-time, but when Fred is chasing all of his duplicates down the street, it appears to be daylight.
Continuity mistake: When Betty and Bamm-Bamm are having their breakfast at the table, you can see there are two white dishes and a blue bowl in front of them, but when Wilma joins them, the white dishes have disappeared. The white dish in front of Bamm-Bamm, and indeed Bamm-Bamm, also disappear when the boy scout serves Wilma breakfast.
Continuity mistake: When Fred hits the rocks in the road while driving, Dino flies out of the trailer and lands onto the top of the car. At this point, you can see a set of golf clubs in the trailer, but in the next shot the clubs have disappeared.
Continuity mistake: When Fred and Barney are talking about their holiday while driving in Fred's car, the background changes from houses to the sky between shots.
Other mistake: In the "Old MacDonald" sequence, Fred tells the scouts that whoever he points to will sing the chorus in their own language, yet the German and Dutch scouts sing it in English.
Continuity mistake: The man at the Bedrock Auto Club initially has nothing in his left hand when he rolls out the map, but later on he is holding a stick that has appeared out of nowhere.
Continuity mistake: When the man lies out the map at the Bedrock Auto Club, Barney says to him, "We don't want to go camping in the winter!" and you see that Fred and Barney are next to the man. In the next shot, Fred and Barney have disappeared.
Answer: The ratings had declined in its last few seasons, and the series was cancelled.
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