Actually after Pebbles is born Wilma becomes a journalist for the Daily Granite, then becomes a caterer with Betty. Get your Flintstones lore right
“Womenfolk in the workforce? These are strange times, my fellow Water Buffalo!”
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do remember that Reaganomics hadn’t been invented yet, so wages, income, and all that were MUCH better
Flintstones was based upon 1950 suburban US culture
On the one hand, you can read it as a parody of late 20th century life - like, haha imagine a caveman clocking into work
but on the other hand, Flinstones and its far future counterpart Jestsons kinda suggest an inability to imagine anything different. Automobile-ized suburban development frequently gets presented an the human ‘default’. As though we just default to this, rather than it being one of many ways cities and society could be organized.
And they had a large pet that ate just as much as the people
Was he actually illiterate? That might have went over my head when I watched it as a kid.
I’m pretty sure he’s read and chiselled stone tablets before
Shout out to the comic where Fred introduces some hunter-gatherers to Bedrock and after one day they decide to leave because it sucks.
Not to mention all the fancy modern appliances he’s got
