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Seth MacFarlane's Reboot of THE FLINTSTONES Will Explore How Fred Courted Wilma at Club Doucherock with Dino-Rohypnol

By Dustin Rowles | Posted Under Trade News | Comments (27)

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Deadline is reporting that the man behind animated asshattery, Seth MacFarlane, will be rebooting The Flinstones as both television and movie projects. Apparently, the move had been in the development for some time, but the rights holders were understandably reluctant to give an unfunny, painfully untalented hack permission to ruin their intellectual property. As always, money won out. The animated sitcom will eventually air on Fox. Yabba Dabba Douche.










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Posted by: Three-nineteen at May 16, 2011 5:06 PM

Except for how Family Guy has had pretty consistently funny Flintstones scenes in its episodes for years that give me hope that MacFarlane gets the tone and appeal of that series. But that's easy to ignore when you right him off as the asshole with the show about the fat guy and the talking baby, right?

Posted by: Robert at May 16, 2011 5:09 PM

And by "right him off," I mean "write him off." Give me a break. I was woken up this morning at 4:30AM for a medical non-emergency that I can do nothing about because the person's already in the hospital and the hospital staff said don't bother coming.

Posted by: Robert at May 16, 2011 5:10 PM

Bitter much, Rowles?


Haters gonna hate, good for Seth.

Posted by: BarbadoSlim at May 16, 2011 5:11 PM

I will give credit where it's due when it comes to McFarlane: good talent lurks within. But when he found out how much money you can make on easy jokes (or things that aren't jokes that are passed off as jokes) he took the low road, and only glimpses of what great jokes we could have had poke through a thirty-minute veneer of dick/rape/reference/manatee jokes.

Actually, you know what? Screw him, he's doing a reboot. He's off the artistic roll call forever.

Posted by: LEROOOY at May 16, 2011 5:20 PM

So what you're saying is that Seth MacFarlane is actually The Great Gazoo incarnate?

Posted by: DarthCorleone at May 16, 2011 5:23 PM

There is nothing to be said or done. There is no use in ranting and raving. There is no use fighting it because we cannot win. The Lowest Common Denominator is now the Mean.

Posted by: Spender at May 16, 2011 6:07 PM

The Flintstones was shit anyway.

Posted by: Steph at May 16, 2011 6:15 PM

Yeah, The Flintstones never did anything for me. And by that, I mean it never made me laugh. Not that it's never done my laundry or given me some bux.

Posted by: Alex at May 16, 2011 6:28 PM

The Flintstones wasn't sexist and misogynistic enough without MacFarlane?

Posted by: MonkeyHateClean at May 16, 2011 6:43 PM

I just keep telling myself, It can't be worse than the Flintstones Kids Saturday Morning turd fest when I was a kid.

But, it's MacFarlane. It could easily be worse. Fuck you, fuckballs.*

* No, Kballs were harmed or fucked in this comment.

Posted by: RobP at May 16, 2011 8:07 PM

That is Dustin's Best. Headline. Ever.

Posted by: Mrs. Julien at May 16, 2011 8:12 PM

Wow! This witten by a guy who thinks "Community" and "How I met your mother" are the best things on TV. Give me a break

Posted by: jen at May 16, 2011 8:51 PM

Jeebus Fucking Cripes. So this asshole is going to have FOUR painfully unfunny, horrible, soul-killing shows on the air? All featuring him doing the same fucking voice at different pitches for all the characters and stealing old jokes from the Simpsons and repeating them across four shows week after week?

FUCK that guy.

Posted by: Figgy at May 16, 2011 8:57 PM

Careful there Jen, them's fightin' words in these parts.

Posted by: Blake Shrapnel at May 16, 2011 9:50 PM

untalented hack? Except Family Guy continues to deliver funny, smart and witty content, while every other animated show on tv basically sucks or has jumped the shark (simpsons).... i, for one, am very very excited.

Posted by: sheRa at May 16, 2011 10:29 PM

"Except Family Guy continues to deliver funny, smart and witty content..."

Holy shit. You cannot be serious. I mean, I know everyone has different opinions but... yikes.

Do us a favor, don't procreate.

Posted by: Ian at May 16, 2011 11:05 PM

I put the blame squarely on FOX for this. They rightfully cancelled Family Guy then turned around and gave McFarlane a $100 million dollar deal which launched the dreadful American Dad and the even worse Cleveland Show. They gotta try and recoup that $100 mil somehow, and by taking two known entities in McFarlane and the Flintstones, their sure to get their money's worth unless somehow no one tunes in...and we can all only hope for that.

Posted by: B-Unit at May 16, 2011 11:07 PM

fuck the world for allowing this to happen.

Fuck everything.

Posted by: Ben at May 16, 2011 11:24 PM

Good for you Rowles. Way to stand up to to the man. Now I can watch your hit animated shows that are such an important part of popular culture...

Posted by: Kris at May 17, 2011 12:42 AM

Oi. Powers-that-be that's the second time recently you've held my comment for review, and the manyth time ever. How come NONE of them have ever turned up? Even the ones where I'm not calling people festering cancers on the balls of society. What gives?

I swear to Godtopus if that comment doesn't arrive soon I'll rain down seven kinds of flaming gory hell (and a pox) on both your houses. (I think Dustin has two houses)

Posted by: Ender at May 17, 2011 5:03 AM

I can see why Fox brought back Family Guy; DVD sales skyrocketed for the show and did what the Browncoats could never do for Firefly. However, in an effort not to repeat the same mistake, like divorced parents attempting to lend misguided foresight when it comes to screwing over their child yet again, Fox continues to greenlight every project that Seth MacFarlane shits out. I would enjoy Family Guy more knowing that American Dad and The Cleveland Show didn't exist.

I'll admit that I still laugh at Family Guy sometimes. It's lowbrow humor and it doesn't attempt to really hide it. Even Brian, who used to be the voice of reason and morality on the show, has become a caricature. Should we accept it? No, not necessarily, but then again, TV's not three channels anymore. If we don't want to watch it, we can change to a different station or pop in a DVD.

Am I bad person that the first thing I thought of was "I hope they do a The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones revamp"?

Posted by: duckandcover at May 17, 2011 7:25 AM

Will MacFarlane have Fred and Barney selling cigarettes, as they did (briefly) back in the 60s?

Unless he turns it into a prehistoric Family Guy - which he will - I see nothing good or original coming from this. Of course, The Flintstones was pretty much a retread of The Honeymooners.

And we must remember that all of MacFarlane's shows are basically copies of The Family Guy. No originality.

Conclusion: This won't end well.

Posted by: The Wanderer at May 17, 2011 8:22 AM

I get the feeling that Seth is just treading water at this point - none of the shows really feel any different than they did when they first started airing. They just feel a little stale at this point.

These days, Family Guy feels like they start with the random cut-aways and pop culture / self references, and then fill in the rest of the show around them.

This just feels like a chance to use another dysfunctional family cartoon to churn out the same jokes he already does.

Posted by: Markus at May 17, 2011 9:18 AM

To all the haters of all things MacFarlane:

How do you know that Family Guy continues to "overuse" the cut-aways and pop culture references? Is it because you STILL watch the show?

And, if YOU still watch it, then who the hell are you to talk crap about the people who watch it just to laugh? It's certainly a better option than watching a show you claim to hate just so you can piss on it in articles or comments.

Posted by: Rufus at May 17, 2011 11:38 AM

"I swear to Godtopus if that comment doesn't arrive soon I'll rain down seven kinds of flaming gory hell (and a pox) on both your houses. (I think Dustin has two houses)"

Well. See what you made me do now? I cancelled the Rapture just to punish you. (Yes, I'm fire-marshall in charge of the Rapture, no you can't have my autograph)

Should I just keep re-submitting my comments when they don't get through? Subtly change the phrasing until I find out what triggered your filter? Because it doesn't seem like you check the filter ever.

It's annoying.

Posted by: Ender at May 24, 2011 9:28 AM

@Rufus, your amateur psychologising is stupid, but your point deserves an answer.

I still watch it because it used to be very funny, and very occasionally still is. Why should I talk crap about people who watch it just to laugh? Because they're obviously so stupid that they don't realise how funny it isn't. They're happy with a watered down repetetive version of something that was once good. And they are responsible for his continuing success and travel downhill to the waters of shit-tv-for-morons-and-the-money.

Posted by: Ender at May 24, 2011 9:31 AM