This or That, Day 24
7It was close, but it seems once again the classic has beaten out the modern with preferences for DeLorean beating out Tesla. Well, for those of you with a desire to go back to the future (or is it forward to the past?), the classic DeLorean may in fact be resurrected again: https://www.newdelorean.com/.
And we found out that Wonder Woman has been both a DeLorean car show girl and an awkward Tesla YouTuber. Sorry Mike, I’m going with DeLorean FTW. Besides, the new concept is far more appealing than the rolling block of cheese Tesla truck with the shatter armor glass.
Well, enough of maverick car companies led by people with drug issues. As we begin the Thanksgiving holiday week (and the last week of the unavoidable imposition of my particular brand of derangement), we want to focus on more family-friendly things, and what is more family friendly than cartoons?
So for today we think cartoon families and who better than
Simpsons
Flintstones?
And for anyone hoping to get a legit vote in before WW makes an appearance, you better hurry, because there are hundreds to choose from. Just anticipating which way she goes…
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Flintstones
@msklzannie
So although I do love the Simpsons
I am taking the Flintstones for the win. Yabba dabba do!!
@tinamarie1974 Saw both of those, have to agree. Marge as WW is just a little…weird. Just imagining her voice saying “Thunderbolts of Jove!”
@ybmuG hahahaha. I thought Marge looked hot
/giphy Paris Hilton that’s hot
@tinamarie1974 For me it’s not Marge Simpson being Wonder Woman that’s the issue, it’s Wonder Woman being Marge Simpson.
@ybmuG
/giphy mind blown
@tinamarie1974 Crap - that makes me sound like I just channeled Jung. Maybe I really am deranged!
@ybmuG or maybe…
@tinamarie1974 @ybmuG While I loved the books, the movie missed kinda badly.
…And casting Joel Grey as the Master of Sinanju, the world’s greatest assassin? A Korean? …really?
Simpsons
/giphy simpsons did it
Which to pick? It’s a mystery to me.
We should call in some experts.
Easy - Simpsons - was/is still smart.
Flintstones were dumb and cheap. Even as a kid I didn’t like the H/B universe. I was a Looney Tunes child …
@stolicat “The Flintstones” were meant to be an animated version of “The Honeymooners”, as was “The Jetsons” later on. The jokes and writing were meant to appeal to adults, not kids…
“The Simpsons” was also geared to adults, but was also meant to offer a simpler subtext for kids to enjoy- kind of like Shrek…
Simpsons FTW.
@PhysAssist I thought the honeymooners was pretty funny, both as an adult and a kid, and that had a lot to do with the talent. I always thought the Flintstones were a pretty poor adaptation, both as kid and as adult.
Betty Rubble was kind of cute, tho …
@stolicat I’m right there with you… Plus, what was up with those badly drawn toes…
@PhysAssist @stolicat You have to realize that when the Flintstones was introduced (in 1960), it was a cartoon broadcast in prime time. Most other cartoons were strictly Saturday morning fare. So the novelty alone made it popular.
they deleted the video? well here is this instead:
Even tho Marge looks… odd as WW, I am still going with the simpsons.
Carry on.
Oooo, I have a soft spot for both. I will have to vote for…
/giphy The Simpsons
Simpsons in the most emphatic vote possible. While I don’t dislike the Flintstones, it isn’t even close.
Simpsons
I’ll go with the tale of the tape…
Flintstones: 6 seasons, 166 episodes
Simpsons: 31 seasons, 669 episodes and counting
/giphy homer shrug
/youtube homer simpson flintstones
@ethelthefrog What a great mashup! I had never seen that before.
Use the Delorean to go back to the future where Fred Flintstone joins the WWE.
Both shows share a popular view of a “Prime-time Television First”.
While I Love Lucy first portrayed a married couple in bed (oh, the horror!), it was The Flintstones that first poryrayed a couple in bed together on prime-time television.
While neither claim is technically accurate, no copies have been found of the actual show that claims this first.
Obligatory Wonder Woman tie-in.
@mike808 Any way you look at it, it was a very exploitative treatment of Bam-Bam and Pebbles.
@therealjrn And Ricky Jr. was first.
Except in the case of The Flintstones, being a cartoon, no actual child was exploited for television ratings.