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Here's why Jean Vander Pyl called working on The Flintstones ''kind of like a homecoming''
The cast of The Flintstones already loved each other, even before the show began.
Just because something is old doesn't mean it isn't still good. Obviously, you know this because you're reading this article on MeTV.com, and not to toot our own horn, but we're kind of the place to be for timeless television. However, there are a lot of young people today who haven't reached the "Respect Your Elders" chapter of their etiquette manual, and who seem to think that when something reaches a certain age, it loses value.
We're here to dispel that myth, yet again. Take a show like The Flintstones, for example. It originally aired in the 1960s, yet the series still has an audience of viewers young and old, who love to laugh at the citizens of Bedrock. Moreover, the series actually takes place in the Stone Age, which is about as old as practically anything can get. Still, the show provides engaging and entertaining content, episode after episode. Is every episode authentic to the time period? Absolutely not, that family has a dinosaur as a house pet. Is it still an incredibly relatable and hilarious series? Yes, absolutely.
According to an interview with The Los Angeles Times, it was incredibly entertaining for the cast of The Flintstones to bring those loveable characters to life as well.
Jean Vander Pyl, best known for voicing Wilma Flintstone, said that the true success of the series lay in the friendship that the voice actors shared with one another, not only during their time on the series but through their shared experiences through radio.
She stated, "We were all such good friends. We had worked together for many years on radio shows. This was kind of like a homecoming."
Vander Pyl also argued that The Flintstones was such a widely enjoyed series because of its broad appeal, both to young and old audience members. She said, "The Flintstones also was good clean humor. They didn't have to get their humor from smut, you know."
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It took place during the creators created age.
Good to be honest with the kiddies.
Also, Richard Denning played Lucy's husband on the radio show. He later retired to Hawaii. When they filmed the original Hawaii Five-O series they asked him to play the governor.
