An excited Fred Flintstone saying, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!"
"Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" is Fred Flintstone's most famous and iconic catchphrase on the original series and franchise, The Flintstones, usually to express exuberance and astonishment.
"Yabba-Dabba-Doozy!"
A variant on Fred's original expression is "Yabba-Dabba-Doozy!", originating with the spin-off, The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show on CBS in the 1971-72 season and used by a teenage Pebbles in much the same spirit as her father's original term. Such was also heard in a later spin-off of The Flintstone Comedy Hour (known as The Flintstone Comedy Show) as aired on CBS in the 1972-74 period.
The Bedrock Rockers also had a song with that title, the video occasionally featured on both shows as above.
History
Alan Reed, the original voice of Fred Flintstone, came up with the term ad lib during an early recording session for the series; as Joseph Barbera recalls it in his 1994 memoir My Life In Toons, Reed noted that the script called for him to say simply "Yahoo!", but felt that "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" might make it more interesting.
Notes/Trivia
- Some sources contend that the term was inspired by the Abba-Zaba bar, a peanut-butter-and-Turkish-taffy sandwich such long popular in the American West.
See also
- Yabba-Dabba-Doo! - a 1986 video game.
- Yabba-Dabba Doo! - a song featured in the album, Bedrock Hop.
- I Yabba-Dabba Do! - a 1993 television film.
- I Yabba-Dabba Do! - a song featured in the 1993 television film of the same name.