Parodies and pop culture references

The following is a list of parodies and pop culture references which have been made about the Flintstones franchise in other media.

Comics

Adventures of Superman

• In Adventures of Superman #441, "The Tiny Terror of Tinseltown", Mr. Mxyzptlk arrives in Hollywood, where he brings various cartoon characters to life and challenges Superman to fight them. One of them is a Fred Flintstone pastiche, whom Superman traps in the La Brea Tar Pits.

Garfield

• The title panel for the April 2, 1989 strip features Garfield as Fred, Arlene as Wilma, and Odie as Dino.

Peanuts

• In an August 9, 1999 strip, Charlie Brown tells Sally that Emily likes to dance with him because he dances like Fred Astaire. Sally replies, "Fred Astaire or Fred Flintstone?"

Piet Pienter en Bert Bibber

• In De Tijdmachine (The Time Machine) Bert Bibber is accidentally sent back in time to the Stone Age. Unaware what is going on he sees a group of cavemen and wonders: "Have I accidentally stumbled upon The Flintstones?" He is then chased away by them.

Sheldon

• In the web-comic, Sheldon, upon finding out that scientists have changed the name of the Brontosaurus, Arthur asks how Fred Flintstone will get his "Brontosaurus Burgers" now.

Sherman's Lagoon

• While Fillmore is participating in a speed-reading competition, Hawthorne notices that one of his competitors is taking some kind of medication out of his pocket. He immediately assumes that it's a performance-enhancing drug, but Fillmore says that he thinks it's actually a Flintstones chewable.

The Far Side

• One two-page cartoon depicts the Stone Age, with a background gag where Fred Flintstone is drowning in a swamp.
• One cartoon had a pair of saber-tooth tigers walking away from a pile of caveman clothes from their latest meal. One of them says, "I've heard a lot of sounds from those creatures, but Yabba-Dabba-Doo was a new one to me."
• In another cartoon, a group of archaeologists are about to find a buried mailbox marked "Fred & Wilma".
  • Bizarro deconstructs the way Flintstone cars work in this strip.

Urbanus

• In De Hittentitten Zien Het Niet Meer Zitten, Urbanus is threatened by some Smurfs, who are then caught by Fred and Barney working for the Hanna-Barbera studios, to bring them to Hollywood to star in the Smurfs' TV series. As they get in their car Fred complains that the studio was too cheap to buy them a proper vehicle, causing them to once again use their feet to get it into motion.

Watchmen

• The child kidnapper murdered by Rorschach named his dogs Fred and Barney after the duo.

Yogi Bear

• From a February 11, 1979 comic strip by Gene Hazelton, Yogi Bear went back in time to the Modern Stone Age with his "Assemble-It Yourself" time machine kit and the Flintstones from the comic strips made a cameo appearance.

Other

• A picture of a depressed Tex Avery dressed as Fred Flintstone carrying a red coffee cup with initials H-B (which said Hanna-Barbera) and saying "Please, fellers. Don't call me, "Tex". Mah name is Fred!", to a trio of cartoonists was illustrated by Pebbles Cereal's Scott Shaw in the "Notes from Generation Tex" feature story from the first issue of Tex Avery's Droopy by Dark Horse Comics.

Films

• In Better Off Dead, Barney from the episode, "Little Bamm-Bamm", appeared on a TV screen talking to Lane.
• In Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Del Griffith (played by John Candy) leads an entire bus in singing the Flintstones theme song.
• In Casper, one of the kids at Kat's Halloween party is dressed like Fred. Casper was produced by the same studio and production company as the 1994 movie, and Steven Spielberg was executive producer on both films.
• In The Amazing Spider-Man, Dr. Curt Connors' lab rats are given the names Fred and Wilma.
• In Son of the Mask, Alvey Avery watches an episode of The Flintstones and after seeing Bamm-Bamm smash a rock gains an idea to throw around his father in the same fashion.
• In the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 film, Top Cat and the Beverly Hills Cats, Fred, Wilma, Dino, Barney and Betty made cameo appearances during a tour of the exclusive neighborhood, Megabucks Drive.
• In Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs, the herd is sliding down a dinosaur while Ellie screams "Yabba-Dabba-Do!"
• In the 2021 film, Space Jam: A New Legacy, Fred in his Flintmobile (voiced by Jeff Bergman) saying the iconic quote, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" and picking up Bamm-Bamm for a ride, along with Wilma, Barney, Betty, Gazoo and Captain Caveman makes cameo appearances with other Hanna-Barbera characters including Jabberjaw, Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo and Magilla Gorilla.
• In the 2022 Disney+ film, Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers, when Chip and Dale rescues the hybridized Toons, Bigfoot from A Goofy Movie can be seen wearing Fred Flintstone's iconic trademark outfit.
• In the 1992 film Adventures in Dinosaur City, three friends Timmy Jamie and Mick are watching their favorite cartoon show Dinosaurs which is about 3 dinosaurs a Tyrannosaurus named Rex, a Protoceratops named Tops, and a Rhamphorynchus named Forry who fight evil cavemen called the Rockies, the opening theme for the cartoon has an animation style similar to the Flintstones and Dino and Barney make small cameos in the cartoon with a hedge shaped like Dino and one of the Rockies from behind looks like Barney.

Television

American Dad

• During the musical number, "I Want A Wife (Not A Partner)" in "Stan of Arabia: Part 1", She is one of Stan's fantasy women who serve their husbands.
• One of the wigs that Roger wins at the competition in "Of Ice and Men" is a replica of the hairstyle of Wilma Flintstone.

The Big Bang Theory

• At one point in "The Wildebeest Implementation", Howard comments on Bernadette seemingly getting along with Leonard's then-girlfriend Priya by saying, "Nice to see that the gals are getting along." Leonard replies, "The GALS? Who are you, Fred Flintstone?"

The Buzz on Maggie

• In the intro of "Lunch Lady/Love Stinks", one of protagonist Maggie Pesky's costumes resembles Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.

Corner Gas

• In one episode of Corner Gas, the town of Dog River strives to not watch TV for a week in order to compete with another town. Oscar offers, "You want some Muppets? Or how about The Flintstones?"

CSI: NY

• In the episode "Trapped", Danny gets locked in a panic room with a dead body but without his kit. Via the intercom, Stella walks him through how to collect evidence old-school-style (using pen ink to take the man's fingerprints, etc). He tells her he thinks he saw some of her techniques on an episode of The Flintstones & calls her "Miss McGyver".

Dexter's Laboratory

• In the Justice Friends segment "Can't Nap", Major Glory tries to throw White Tiger out of the apartment, but he ends up getting locked out and shouts "WILMA!" before correcting himself and shouting "KRUNK!", after which Krunk opens the door dressed as Wilma.
• Dexter is seen walking past Fred Flintstone and George Jetson in "Beard to be Feared".
• In "Dad is Disturbed", Dad gets interrupted from watching his game by Mom calling her friend "Betty", so he goes to her house and ties her up, where the caller is revealed to be Betty Rubble. At the very end, Dad has enough of his family's annoyances and goes to watch the game at Barney's house.

Drawn Together

• In "The Other Cousin", Wooldoor has a withdrawal-induced hallucination a la Trainspotting, with Bamm-Bamm playing the "ceiling baby".
• In "A Tale of Two Cows", we see that the Live-Action Cow has devastated Bedrock, to which Clara says "Well, serves them right for having a gay old time".
• In Drawn Together: The Movie, Toot is shown living in Bedrock to hide from I.S.R.A.E.L., and it's revealed that Bamm-Bamm is her love child with Barney and Betty appears to kill Toot with a bazooka.

Dumb and Dumber

• In one episode of Dumb and Dumber, Fred and Wilma made cameo appearances as citizens.

Esme & Roy

• At the beginning of "Flying High", when Roy practices bowling, he does Fred Flintstone's twinkle toes move.

Family Guy

• In "Wasted Talent", the Great Gazoo appears and calls Peter a "dum-dum".
• In "Dammit Janet!", a news report mentions Peter and Lois being left in Cuba after their plane was hijacked. The artist’s rendering of "an attractive redhead married to a fat man" is of Wilma and Fred.
• In "A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Bucks", Peter and Meg are walking down a New York street when the background transitions into Bedrock, complete with a pastiche of show's background music. Peter acts like he's entered the wrong neighborhood and slowly walks back.
• In "Ready, Willing and Disabled", Joe's wheelchair is tipped over by a plate of dinosaur ribs delivered by a cavegirl carhop.
• A cutaway from "From Method to Madness" has a drunken adult version of Elroy Jetson getting into a cab driven by Bamm-Bamm.
• In "The Cleveland-Loretta Quagmire", Peter repeats "Bam! Bam! Bam!" as an onomatopoeia for sex; he has Bamm-Bamm take over for him, and he in turn gets Emeril Lagasse to take over from him.
• In "Peter's Got Woods", Barney becomes Peter's best friend after Brian neglects him.
• In "Patriot Games", Fred makes a bet with bookie Stewie and says "Bet-bet-bet-bet!" before realizing that a gambling addiction is no laughing matter.
• In "Road to Rupert", Peter and Meg become friends, and in one scene, she takes him to a drive-in and he sticks his head out through the roof, with Meg placing Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm on his head.
• In "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air", Fred and Barney are seen at Peter's "Quahog Men's Club". Fred talks about how he saw Betty naked in Barney's window (adding that she undressed anyway when she noticed he was watching) and that he got an "e-rock-tion" from it.
• A cutaway from "Peter's Daughter" features Fred and Wilma filing for a divorce, and Fred argues about how Wilma didn't hear him when the cat kicked him outside.
• In "Stew-Roids", Connie's friend Gina says that Chris smells like Fred Flintstone's a**. In the ensuing cutaway, Fred angrily shouts that nobody asked her to smell it.
• In "Quagmire's Baby", Chris plays a tape from World's Wildest Police Chases showing the police chasing Fred Flintstone into a drive-in theater.
• In "Road to the Multiverse", Stewie and Brian travel to an alternate universe based on The Flintstones that parodies the use of rock puns.
• In "Burning Down the Bayit", Stewie attends a "baby rave" and drops a "purple Betty" Flintstones chewable vitamin, claiming it sent him flying.
• In "The Simpsons Guy", the crossover episode with The Simpsons, Fred is seen as the judge overseeing the Duff/Patriot case, an affectionate gesture of how neither show would exist without his.

The Fairly OddParents

• In the special multi-part episode, "Channel Chasers", one of the shows Timmy and his fairies enter is The Meatflints, and the scene proceeds to mock the use of repeating backgrounds.
• In "Fairly OddBaby", Cosmo and Wanda are briefly seen wearing Fred and Wilma's outfits during the weirdness that occurs when Poof breaks wind.
• The episode "Land Before Timmy", where Timmy wishes for a world without technology, is a parody of the show.
• In "The Past and the Furious", Timmy goes back in time to Cosmo and Wanda's first godchild in the prehistoric era, and Wanda mentions that she and Cosmo are going to go bowling with Fred and Wilma.

F.C. De Kampioenen

• In the pilot episode, Xavier and DDT are sitting in a car in DDT's garage with the bottom removed. Xavier suggests getting it in motion by using their feet "like the Flintstones do".

Fish Police

• Gil trips on his words when trying to tell Pearl that she knows how he feels about her. She asks him why he talks like that, and he says that all the great couples do it, citing Fred and Wilma, Kermit and Miss Piggy, and Rocky and Bullwinkle.

The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air

• In "The Baby Comes Out", Phil and Will arrive at the hospital to help Vivian deliver her baby. A little later, totally in a panic and unaware where she is, the two call out "PHILIP!" and "VIVIAN!" back and forth to each other. Will ends up replying "WIIIILMAAAAA!!!".
• In "Papa's Got a Brand New Excuse", Will's father Lou is seen wearing a Fred Flintstone t-shirt at one point.
• One first season episode has Will dancing to his own version of "Vogue" with his lyrics being "Michael Jordan, Al Capone, Woody Woodpecker and Fred Flintstone!"
• In "There's No Business Like Show Business", after taking his comedian friend's place in an open mic special, Will cries out, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo! I'm in the showcase, too!"
• Another episode had Will teasing Uncle Phil about his age and his first job, even quipping "Who was your boss, Mr. Slate?" He tries to explain what the reference was from, but his Death Glare told him that he wasn't having it.
• An episode has Hilary taking a job as a caterer, but she wishes to quit and is pointed out on other hobbies she gave up, with her quitting violin because it hurt her chin and giving up ballet because her feet were starting to look like Fred Flintstone's.

Full House

• In the first episode, the Tanners sing the Flintstones theme song to entertain baby Michelle.
  • Likewise, the first episode of Fuller House has the Tanners singing to DJ's baby Tommy. The scene is played side-by-side with the original.
• In "Good News, Bad News", D.J. and Kimmy have a feud when the former fires the latter from being her partner as the editor-in-chief of the school's newspaper. To get back at D.J., Kimmy decides to write her own newspaper, where she writes horrible things about D.J., and even pastes pictures of D.J.'s face on Freddy Krueger's body. When an angry D.J. finds out, she ends her friendship with Kimmy, who takes a picture of her, and says her face will look great on Fred Flintstone's body.
• In "Take My Sister, Please", Joey tells Lisa that he cried for a week when Wilma gave birth to Pebbles, and does an impression of a sad Fred Flintstone.
• In the second part of the two-part episode, "Happy Birthday, Babies", Michelle has a Flintstones-themed birthday party, which was cut short by Becky going into labor. Jesse, dressed as Fred Flintstone, even shouts "WIIIILMAAAAA!!!" at his wife Becky.
• In "Please Don't Touch the Dinosaur", when Michelle is excited about a trip to the museum in the hope of seeing real dinosaurs, Danny reminds her that dinosaurs went extinct millions of years ago. Michelle then tells him that Fred Flintstone lived with dinosaurs, only for Danny to remind her that Fred Flintstone is a cartoon character.

Futurama

• In the Futurama episode "Fun on a Bun", Zapp acts out the giant rib scene from the end credits.

The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy

• In "Modern Primitives", Billy thaws Fred from ice and tries to help him adapt to the modern era. Billy refers Fred as "Jake Steele" in the whole episode, while Fred speaks solely in "Yabba-Dabba-Doo".

Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law

• In the Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law episode "The Dabba Don", which mashes together The Flintstones and The Sopranos (with a dash of The Godfather mixed in), Fred is re-imagined as The Don and is put on trial for it. Harvey successfully argues for the Insanity Defense on the grounds that Fred's been hit on the head so many times that he suffers perpetual Identity Amnesia and only thinks he's a mob boss. The ending reveals that, despite all evidence to the contrary, Fred never was the mafia boss. Barney was.

I Am Weasel

• In the episode, "I Am My Lifetime", Betty, Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and Mr. Slate are among the old cartoon stars.

In Living Color!

• The spoof of Crystal Waters' "Gypsy Woman" had her (portrayed by Kim Wayans) show a clip of the show while referencing it in the song and implementing the words "Yabba-Dabba-Doo, Yabba-Dabba-Dee" into the chorus.
• Another episode had Arsenio Hall (portrayed by Keenan Ivory Wayans) pondering to a bunch a children that he was supposed to talk to about drugs for a PSA why Fred always ordered the Brontosaurus Ribs if they would just tip the car over.

Jellystone!

• Fred appears sitting on a beach with a coconut drink in a bow-tie from the episode, "A Coconut to Remember".
• A muscular and bare-chested Fred with long black hair and his trademark blue tie and Wilma with purple eyes and holding a rose appears in the front cover of a book from the episode, "Must Be Jelly".
• Gazoo appears in the episode "Gotta Kiss Them All" as a video game avatar who tricks Augie into destroying the town. In this version, Gazoo is German instead of British.
• Baby Puss appears in the episode "Ice Ice Daddy" as a ferocious wild Smilodon who menaces Captain Caveman and Cavey Jr. upon melting free from a block of ice.
• Weirdly Gruesome appears in the episode "Uh Oh! It's a Burglar!" in the horror movie Magilla Gorilla is watching, while Fred and Barney make voice-only cameos. Barney warns Fred not to use the cursed toilet.

The Jetsons

• In the episode, "Elroy's Mob", Elroy's friend is seen watching the clip featured in the episode, "The Swimming Pool" from The Flintstones on his TV watch before his teacher confiscates it.
• In the episode, "A Jetson Christmas Carol", Fred and Wilma are on the screen of the fly-in movie theater, visited by Mr. Spacely and the Ghost of Christmas Past.

Johnny Bravo

• Note: See the crossover episode: "A Page Right Out of History".

Looney Tunes

• Near the beginning of "Attack of the Drones" (one of the Larry Doyle-produced shorts made in the 2000s), the Great Gazoo can be seen as a member of the council that Daffy is a part of.

Mad

• In the segment, "2012 Dalmatians", Fred and Barney made cameos as cavemen bones at the "Museum of Natural Mystery".
• In the segment, "Minute to Flynn It", Fred appeared talking to Clu.
• In the segment, "Hey, whatever happened to that guy from that TV show I kinda remember from when I was a kid?", of the episode, "Battleship vs. Titanic / Jurassic Parks and Recreation", it showed what happened to Fred after his show ended.

===Malcolm in the Middle

• In "Grandma Sues", the Flintstones’ theme song’s heard on TV in Malcolm’s living room!
• In "Dewey’s Special Class", Craig confused Fred and Barney with the dance team of Fred and Ginger.

Married... with Children

• An early episode had Steve insulting Al, which makes the latter reply with, "You know, Barney Rubble may not have been much, but at least he was loyal."

Martin

• Among many of Martin's insults for Tommy's bald head was "Head Flintstone".

The Middle

• In the episode "The Shirt", everyone is teasing Mike for wearing a Hawaiian shirt as opposed to his usual flannel. Frankie, in an attempt to justify it, says that if Fred started walking around Bedrock in something other than his "leopard man-dress", then Wilma, Barney and Betty would surely tease him.
• Near the beginning of the episode "Bat Out of Heck", Frankie jokingly calls Mike "Fred Flintstone" after he complains that he prefers to drive places rather than be dropped off. This leads to a discussion between Brick and Axl about why Fred doesn't just walk everywhere considering that his car is powered by his walking.

Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures

• In "Scrappy's Field Day", the two dinosaurs resemble Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.
• In "Don't Touch That Dial", Mighty Mouse gets zapped into several cartoon shows, one of which is a mashup of The Jetsons and The Flintstones called The Jetstones.

Mighty Max

• The episode, "Tar Wars" has Max meeting a caveman. He makes two references to The Flintstones - at one point he calls the caveman "Fred", and earlier he asks him what Betty Rubble does to keep her shapely figure.

The New Scooby-Doo Movies

• In an episode of The New Scooby-Doo Movies, Scooby and friends encounter giant balloons that resemble Fred Flintstone and Yogi Bear.

Ninja Hattori-kun

• In the episode "Let's Go for a Fashion Show", Shishimaru comments that his fashion show costume makes him look like Fred Flintstone, even using his catchphrase "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!"

Pinky, Elmyra and the Brain

• In the first episode, "Patty Ann", Pinky's answer to "Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?" is "Why does Fred Flintstone keep ordering those giant ribs if they keep falling on him?" Later in the episode, Brain explains to him the concept of stock footage.

The Powerpuff Girls

• In the episode, "Hot Air Buffoon," Fred and Barney appear as "The Barefoot Bandits".
• In the episode, "Ploys R' Us", Fred and Barney are seen on a pinball machine in the toy store.

Red Dwarf

• The opening scene from "Backwards" shows Lister and the Cat discussing how attractive Wilma is. They both agree that she is the most desirable woman who ever lived. This gets a Call-Back in Series X with Lister's jacket featuring her on the back.

The Ren and Stimpy Show

• In "Jerry the Bellybutton Elf", Fred and Barney can be heard in the crowd of guests leaving Ren's party.
• In "The Scotsman in Space", Haggis McHaggis does Barney's laugh while having a total meltdown.
• At the end of "Aloha Höek", Ren and Stimpy turned out to be two Soviet communist spies resembling Fred and Barney. Revealed that the whole episode was apparently a mission which they completed.

Robot Chicken

• A sketch from "Easter Basket" has Barney accidentally killing Fred in a brawl over a box of Fruity Pebbles, and Barney ends up killing the household appliances for being witnesses. The sketch ends with him being hanged, and that the whole thing was a cereal commercial.
• A short sketch from "Yancy the Yo-Yo Boy" has Fred stopping his car to a screech with his "brake pads" and horrifically losing his legs in the process. He then wonders if he should go to a hospital or a mechanic.
• A sketch from "Casablankman II" has the Great Gazoo crash-landing and introducing himself to the Flintstones and Rubbles. Thinking he's a god, they hand them their wives and children, kill Dino as an animal sacrifice, and then beat him to death for being weak.
• A sketch from "Triple Hot Dog Sandwich on Wheat" has various cartoon characters who are suffering the effects of smoking, one of whom is Fred, who now speaks through an electrolarynx from smoking Winston cigarettes. Later, Barney lights a cigarette near Fred's oxygen tank, causing an explosion.
• A sketch from "Strummy Strummy Sad Sad" features the dinosaurs and other animals killing the humans, considering their work slave labor.
• A sketch from "May Cause Indecision...Or Not" involves Fred getting a job as a Mall Santa, and breaking the time-space continuum as a result of celebrating Christmas before Jesus' birth.

Salute Your Shorts

• When Sponge was sneaking out to a date as the girls observed him and Z.Z. asks why he's dressed like Orville Redenbacher, Telly replies back, "I don't know, but Fred and Barney (Budnick and Donkeylips) are following him!"

Samson En Gert

• This famous children's duo has a song called "Joebadoebadoe", which takes place in a Stone Age setting and has a refrain that sounds suspiciously close to "Yabba-Dabba-Doo".

The Simpsons

• Barney Gumble is named for Barney Rubble.
• In "Homer's Night Out", Apu tells Homer that he looks familiar due to seeing him on a viral photograph of him dancing with a stripper. Unaware of the photo's existence, Homer comments "You've got me confused with Fred Flintstone".
• One of the horses in "Bart the Murderer" is named Yabba-Dabba-Doo.
• The Couch Gag for "Kamp Krusty" has the Simpsons finding Fred, Wilma and Pebbles seated on the couch, with Fred waving them hello. The gag would later be used in syndication prints of "The Itchy & Scratchy & Poochie Show" due to it being the episode that broke The Flintstones' record for having the largest amount of episodes for a primetime animated series.
• The opening scene of "Marge vs. the Monorail" is a parody of the show's title sequence, complete with Homer sliding of a giant tube instead of a dinosaur's tail and jumping into his car to drive home, breaking his car window here in the process. The song he sings while driving is a parody of the first four lines of the theme song.
• In "Marge in Chains", Bart wants Flintstones' chewable morphine during a flu epidemic. Marge doesn't think they exist.
• In "Lady Bouvier's Lover", Smithers fools Mr. Burns, who can't remember the Simpsons' names, by whispering to him that they are called the Flintstones. Unknowingly, Burns greets Homer and Marge as Fred and Wilma and says to Maggie: "Ah, this must be little Pebbles." He then gives Homer a present, to which he shouts: "Oooh! Yabba-Dabba-Doo!"
• In "Sideshow Bob Roberts", Bart plays with the Flintstone phone when he is sent back to Kindergarten. Henry Corden provides Fred's voice over the phone.
• In the Time and Punishment story from "Treehouse of Horror V", one of the alternate incarnations of the Simpsons' home is the Flintstones' cave.
• In "A Star Is Burns", Bart watches The Flintstones Meet the Jetsons on TV and sighs "Uh oh, I smell another cheap cartoon crossover". Right after he says this, Homer walks in and introduces him to Jay Sherman.
• In "The Simpsons 138th Episode Spectacular", Troy calls The Simpsons "America's most popular non-prehistoric cartoon family".
• In "Homerpalooza", one of the background characters is wearing a Great Gazoo t-shirt.
• In "The Simpsons Spin-Off Showcase", new storylines for The Simpsons are predicted for the future, including "a small alien called Ozmodiar that only Homer can see", an obvious parody of the Great Gazoo. Ozmodiar would reappear in "HOMR".
• The Flintstones' car is seen in the Hollywood Auto Museum in "Beyond Blunderdome".
• In "Missionary: Impossible", Homer decides to use animals as tools like in The Flintstones, such as wearing a turtle shell as a construction hat and using a pelican as a cement mixer. When Homer urges the pelican to say something funny like "It's a living", the pelican just falls over dead.
• In "Pokey Mom", Bruce Vilanch wears a Fred Flintstone t-shirt.
• In the opening of "Treehouse of Horror XII", Homer and Marge are dressed as Fred and Wilma.
• In "Mobile Homer", Bart and Lisa try to consult a Flintstone Fun Map to help them drive Homer's RV back to the dealer. Homer wrote on the map: "Dino short for dinosaur? Remember to Ask Jeeves".
• In "Rome-Old and Juli-Eh", Homer tells Grampa that he "Flintstoned" the car to cut back on gas. While demonstrating it, he says "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!".
• In "In the Name of the Father", the Simpsons visit Blarney Stone in Ireland, then the camera cuts to a similar stone in rubble called "Blarney Rubble".
• In "Little Orphan Millie", Homer's song for Marge features the line "She's the Wilma to my Fred".

Sonic Boom

• In the episode, "Lightning Bowler Society", when the titular team competes against the Pin Dashers in a bowling game, Willy Walrus is seen using Fred Flintstone's twinkle toes move.

The Sopranos

• In one episode, while Tony Soprano is recovering from a gunshot wound in the hospital, an evangelical preacher visits him. The preacher, who is a Young Earth creationist, tells him that dinosaurs co-existed with early humans. Tony remarks, "You mean like The Flintstones?".

South Park

• In the episode "Osama Bin Laden Has Farty Pants", when the boys arrive in Afghanistan, they ask for a taxi to find the boys who gave them the goat. The taxi has no wheels and is pulled by horses, and Cartman comments "What is this, the freakin' Flintstones?"

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987)

• An episode had Donatello question Michelangelo over why he wasn't using his catchphrase of "Cowabunga". He then says he's sick of it and they suggests a "new" one of Fred's signature line, only for Donnie to stop him and say that it's doesn't fit him.

Tiny Toon Adventures

• In the episode, "The Acme Bowl", the Santa Anna Barbarians resemble Fred Flintstone.
• In the opening credits of "Night Ghoulery", Hamton is dressed like Barney Rubble when he goes trick-or-treating with his friends.

Time Squad

• In the episode "Child's Play", Tuddrussel tries to appease Larry's request in finding a more child-friendly catchphrase. At one point he tries out "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", but Larry shoots that one down too.
• In a later episode, "Ex Marks the Spot", Larry sings a song in the tune of The Flintstones theme: "Time Squad, meet the Time Squad, they're a futuristic family! From the- Year One-Hundred Million, it's their job to fix up history!"

Top Cat

• A statue of Fred and Barney was shown at the museum from the episode, "Rafeefleas".

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum

• In the second segment of the seventeenth episode, "I Am Marie Owens", a Fred Flintstone costume can be seen in the museum play area.

Yogi's Space Race

• When Yogi and the gang were trapped in a cave, Fred and Barney appeared from the episode, "The Prehistoric Planet".

Video games

• In the platformer game, Gex, one of Gex's one-liners: "WILMA!" was used.
• In The Itchy & Scratchy Game, the first level, "Juracid Bath", takes place in a prehistoric town that resembles Bedrock, and has a sound-alike of The Flintstones theme song as the background music.
• In LEGO Dimensions, Bedrock appears as a hidden area in the level "Meltdown at Sector 7-G", accessed by using the TARDIS in Mr. Burns' office.
• In Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island, it has a unique enemy named Barney Bubble in one stage after Barney Rubble.

Other

Literature

• In Being Bindy, Bindy's mum takes her to Wonderland, where a man dressed like Barney Rubble takes their picture.

Music

• The Belgian rock band The Pebbles, best known for their hit "Seven Horses in the Sky", were named after Pebbles, Fred's daughter.
• "Weird Al" Yankovic parodied "Under the Bridge" and "Give It Away Now", both from the Red Hot Chili Peppers' Blood Sugar Sex Magik, as "Bedrock Anthem", a homage to The Flintstones. The lyrics and the music video are both brimful with references to the show.
• The Beastie Boys name dropped "Doris the Finkasaurus" from the episode, "Son of Rockzilla", during "What Comes Around" from Paul's Boutique and on that same album, "Fred Flintstone" during "Shake Your Rump".
• SiIvaGunner references the infamous theme song (known best nowadays to be used in a Chinese bootleg Mario game called 7 GRAND DAD) to the point of insanity in his high-quality rips, though this could be considered a Vinesauce reference as well.

Radio

• The Belgian radio station Radio Donna had a morning show called "Yabba-Dabba Doo", after Fred's famous and iconic catchphrase.