I can see how they might have been, Musket, in a material sense...certainly not in a philosophical sense. ;-) Yeah, Betty was kind of foxy, wasn't she?

I think Hanna-Barbera probably more or less patterned the Fred Flintstone character on Ralph Kramden of the Honeymooners. In the Honeymooners, however, you had great ensemble acting by Jackie Gleason and the rest of the very talented cast, and therein lies the difference.