The Flinstones were characters on a wretchedly stupid and crass cartoon show that basically promoted the most vapid sort of California/Beverley Hills suburban 1960s affluent lifestyle (mindless consumerism and mind-numbing idiocy) with a thin veneer of "caveman" stuff pasted over it for laughs...and to provide a theme.

If you wanted to find out what a dark sickness lay at the heart of the American Dream, one way of doing so was to study the most basic assumptions that underlay shows like "The Flintstones"...shows written and produced by shallow minds FOR shallow minds in one of the shallowest moral tarpits in the entire world: Hollywood.

It was funny at times...if you could stand digesting the overall moronic outlook of the show and what (little) it was saying about life.