style92 (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} style92) wrote,@ 2007-11-17 00:25:00 |
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Pebbles and Bam-Bam coming to DVD!!!
So reports Toon Zone! They're still good for something!!!
Mmmkay. So. Back in the day when Cartoon Network and Boomerang were still awesome and I watched them rabidly, (about 2000-2004. Since JLU ended, I don't even tune into CN anymore.) one of my favorite things to do was to watch CN and Boomerang, (particularly Boomerang) for old Hanna Barbera shows. The quality, famous shows were always a treat, like Flintstones and Jetsons. But the REAL fun was finding semi-famous, semi-obscure, and obscure old shows and watching them. These could be a real riot. I loved them.
And one of my most favorites was the Pebbles and Bam-Bam show, a semi-obscure Flintstones spinoff from the mid seventies. Though Pebbles and Bam-Bam were famously toddlers in the old series, this spinoff jumped ahead, say, 14-15 years to show what they were like as teenagers.*
The show was basically a forrunner of the current Disney Channel programming strategy, which I recently discussed. Basically, it's about Pebbles and Bam-Bam's high school daze, as they also hang out with some assorted useless friends. (a male nerd, a female who aspires to be a psychic, and another female self-conscious about being overweight. believe me, that's the only development those characters ever got.) they got into all kinds of hijinks, like Pebbles discovering Bam-Bam is a beautiful singer, but only when he's in the shower, so she tries to arrange live performances for Bam-bam that he can perform while showering. Or the time when Pebbles, then Bam-bam, then the other 3 friends, then Fred and Wilma, then finally Betty all believe that Pebbles accidentally turned Barney into a frog while practicing witchliness. (Turns out Barney was just in the can or something. It was a big misunderstanding.) Many of the hijinks are caused because Pebbles gets a "hair brained scheme," and while Bam Bam objects, he still ends up helping. "Why do I always help you with these stupid plans!?" he laments. (Well, the sex, obviously.) So, in this way, Pebbles and Bam Bam's relationship mirrors the relationship of their fathers, Fred and Barney. Just with Sex. Okay, with Sexual tension. Alright, fine, "romantic" tension. But Pebble's schemes are usually more well meant than Fred's. Fred's schemes were usually just money-making plans. Pebbles is usually out to help someone. (although, on at least one occasion, she did have a straight-up money making scheme. It involved a sea monster. Go figure.)
Hmm. Where was I? Oh yeah. To sum up, CN sucks now, I can't even get Boomerang anymore, but Pebbles and Bam Bam is coming to DVD which helps a lot. TZ says it hits this march. cool. In the mean time, I gotta get The Batman Season 4 next week. So there.
*An interesting side note, even though the show was 15 years later, the adults, Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty, who still made regular appearances as ancillary characters, did not age a single day since the old series. If they were early thirties before, they must be mid-to-late forties by now. Still, it's a cartoon, so we can take it in stride. By contrast, I could never understand "peanuts time" when it came to Batman. So, Batman was 30 When Dick Grayson, 12, came to live with him. Batman was still 30 when Dick was 19 and in college. Batman was still 30 when Dick was 23, graduating College, and leaving Gotham and his role as Robin Behind. Finally, Dick, 27, returns to Gotham as Nightwing and Batman is 35. A couple of years after that, the Justice League forms, and Batman, age 30, joins. Mahhuh?
So reports Toon Zone! They're still good for something!!!
Mmmkay. So. Back in the day when Cartoon Network and Boomerang were still awesome and I watched them rabidly, (about 2000-2004. Since JLU ended, I don't even tune into CN anymore.) one of my favorite things to do was to watch CN and Boomerang, (particularly Boomerang) for old Hanna Barbera shows. The quality, famous shows were always a treat, like Flintstones and Jetsons. But the REAL fun was finding semi-famous, semi-obscure, and obscure old shows and watching them. These could be a real riot. I loved them.
And one of my most favorites was the Pebbles and Bam-Bam show, a semi-obscure Flintstones spinoff from the mid seventies. Though Pebbles and Bam-Bam were famously toddlers in the old series, this spinoff jumped ahead, say, 14-15 years to show what they were like as teenagers.*
The show was basically a forrunner of the current Disney Channel programming strategy, which I recently discussed. Basically, it's about Pebbles and Bam-Bam's high school daze, as they also hang out with some assorted useless friends. (a male nerd, a female who aspires to be a psychic, and another female self-conscious about being overweight. believe me, that's the only development those characters ever got.) they got into all kinds of hijinks, like Pebbles discovering Bam-Bam is a beautiful singer, but only when he's in the shower, so she tries to arrange live performances for Bam-bam that he can perform while showering. Or the time when Pebbles, then Bam-bam, then the other 3 friends, then Fred and Wilma, then finally Betty all believe that Pebbles accidentally turned Barney into a frog while practicing witchliness. (Turns out Barney was just in the can or something. It was a big misunderstanding.) Many of the hijinks are caused because Pebbles gets a "hair brained scheme," and while Bam Bam objects, he still ends up helping. "Why do I always help you with these stupid plans!?" he laments. (Well, the sex, obviously.) So, in this way, Pebbles and Bam Bam's relationship mirrors the relationship of their fathers, Fred and Barney. Just with Sex. Okay, with Sexual tension. Alright, fine, "romantic" tension. But Pebble's schemes are usually more well meant than Fred's. Fred's schemes were usually just money-making plans. Pebbles is usually out to help someone. (although, on at least one occasion, she did have a straight-up money making scheme. It involved a sea monster. Go figure.)
Hmm. Where was I? Oh yeah. To sum up, CN sucks now, I can't even get Boomerang anymore, but Pebbles and Bam Bam is coming to DVD which helps a lot. TZ says it hits this march. cool. In the mean time, I gotta get The Batman Season 4 next week. So there.
*An interesting side note, even though the show was 15 years later, the adults, Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty, who still made regular appearances as ancillary characters, did not age a single day since the old series. If they were early thirties before, they must be mid-to-late forties by now. Still, it's a cartoon, so we can take it in stride. By contrast, I could never understand "peanuts time" when it came to Batman. So, Batman was 30 When Dick Grayson, 12, came to live with him. Batman was still 30 when Dick was 19 and in college. Batman was still 30 when Dick was 23, graduating College, and leaving Gotham and his role as Robin Behind. Finally, Dick, 27, returns to Gotham as Nightwing and Batman is 35. A couple of years after that, the Justice League forms, and Batman, age 30, joins. Mahhuh?
