The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for April 09, 2022

Me too.

I’m not sure I remember the weekly. It seemed to be on every day.

I’m really old: I was one of “The Flinstones”.

When it wasn’t in color!

I wonder if he still remembers the Rainier Brew Master ? That should pretty much date him.

I remember the vitamin commercials from my own B&W TV youth. I recollect there was a ruckus about Flintstones and other brands pushing yummy pills directly to children. The upshot was commercials presumably aimed at parents but rather transparently targeting kids. They were usually animated, and at least one centered on a send-away playhouse offer.

Had to check and confirm Flintstones vitamins are still a thing. But thanks to syndicated reruns, spinoffs, movies and home video, the show is still better known than the pills. The joke would land a little more solidly if Uncle Ted qualified his statement: “I remember when the Flintstones was a weekly prime time show for grownups, and not a vitamin for kids”.

I was around when the Flintstones was a weekly TV show, but I didn’t see it until it was a daily lunchtime show

Uncle Ted is old enough to remember watching The Flintstones as a weekly TV show, but I remember watching the weekend cartoon series Crusader Rabbit, that had Rags the Tiger as Crusader Rabbit’s sidekick. It was the basis of the Rocky and Bullwinkle show. The Rocky and Bullwinkle characters and show greatly improved the theme, still Crusader Rabbit was fun at the time.

I remember when there was no Flintstones.

I’m not sure if Uncle Ted remembers this, but as a weekly network primetime show, it was aimed at a more adult audience. Ironically, Winston Cigarettes was the sponsor for the first two seasons; the Vitamins came later. If you watched the Honeymooners, you could tell it was the inspiration for the Flintstones. In the later seasons, Barney’s eyes were filled in solid instead of plain circles of the earlier seasons.

I remember when the roadrunner was an egg.

Hell, I remember when the Flintstones actually advertised Winston cigarettes! Targeting kids? Nah…

A modern stone age family.

I remember they advertised cigarettes.

i seem to remember getting all my daily vitamins from cap’n crunch and lucky charms…

Everyone was home that night when Pebbles was born…but do not remember who actually received better Ratings…..Pebbles or Tabitha?

Golly, I remember their first year well. In Black and white. Lied to get my drivers license. Year early.

I’m so old I never watched any of those shows. They were for kids.

I remember both of them actually…

I hope I’m not repeating myself here, but I tell my grandkids that I’m so old that when I went to school they didn’t have history yet. Thank you, Rodney Dangerfield.

I’ll never stop watching cartoons.i also like the looney tunes.

I am older than that.

I also remember the Bugs Bunny Show, as a weekly prime time TV Show predating old Fred Flintstone. However, as much as I loved the cartoons, my favorite show and my favorite Hero was The Lone Ranger followed closely by Superman of course…..

How about Top Cat?

Not only a weekly TV show but ‘The Flintstones’ was the first cartoon to be aired in prime time in when it premiered in 1966. Hanna and Barbera had achieved great success with their daytime cartoons [mainly ‘Huckleberry Hound’] and correctly calculated the show would succeed. They duplicated that success with ‘The Jetsons’ in 1962. As a tribute to the the popularity of those shows, many of us old timers can still sing the theme songs in their entirety.

They were more logical than most of all that is famous lately. Shut down almost all the new production and switch on again the productions before 1980.

And the old Saturday cartoons. Nice stories about being human.

It`s howdy doody time it isn’t worth dime let’s change to channel 9 and watch frankenstein

Reebok just came out with shoes that are homages to the Flintstones and the Jettsons. However, by the looks of most of them, the interpretation is so broad that you wouldn’t know this is what they represent. Oh, and prices go from $130 to $200! Needless to say, none of them will end up on my feet.

i remember paying 18 cents a gallon for gas when i was a little kid going around mowing lawns for money

It was also proof to religious conservatives that dinosaurs and humans lived together

We watched that show every week; not sure if Dad had it on for us kids or himself.

Don’t forget Rocky and Bullwinkle

Snagglepuss a favorite. It was his voice and lines. Forsooth! And fivesooth even!

Great strip, Chip! I’m with Uncle Ted on this.

There was once a politician who was so old, he could remember a time when he didn’t deserve to be convicted.