News-slabs

News-slabs
The Bedrock News news-slab with Stony Curtis from the episode, "The Return of Stony Curtis".
Information
Type	Slab
First appearance	"The Flintstone Flyer" (The Flintstones)

News-slabs (commonly called as Newspapers) are common types of slabs that existed during the Stone Age in the franchise of The Flintstones.

Background

Since Bedrock is from the Stone Age, the news-slab is technically not made from paper, but made from a stone slab and it's seemingly chiseled out of granite.

Titles

According to the franchise of The Flintstones, several news-slab titles for news-slabs were either commonly or rarely used on them including:

• The Bedrock Bugle
• The Bedrock Chronicle
• The Bedrock Daily Slate
• The Bedrock Gazette
• The Bedrock News
• The Bedrock Post (from The Flintstones by Archie Comics)
• The Bedrock Press
• The Bedrock Slab (from "Little Bamm-Bamm" and "Royal Rubble")
• The Bedrock Times (from A Flintstone Family Christmas and the comic strips in the 1990's)
• The Daily Granite
• The Daily Slab (which usually ended up clobbering Fred after being "delivered" by Arnold the Newsboy)
• The Daily Slate
• The Morning Blast (from "Operation Switchover")
• Sunday Slab (from "Training Pains")
• The Tarpit Tribune (from "The Beast of Bedrock" of the tenth issue of The Flintstones and the Jetsons)

Earlier Titles

Earlier titles were used including Sunday Times from "The Flintstone Flyer" and Rockville Times from "The Soft Touchables" for example.

Gallery

The Bedrock Bugle news-slab from "The Hero" along with Fred, a baby and his mother.

The Bedrock News prop from the 1994 film.

Notes/Trivia

• Bedrock Press, a trademark responsible for publishing books in the 1990s was named after one of the news-slabs.
• One of Bedrock's news-slabs, The Daily Granite was named and used in the Captain Caveman segments of The Flintstone Comedy Show, with Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble as news reporters, Captain Caveman (as Chester) putting slabs in the filing cabinet and their boss, Lou Granite.