Video of the week time has hit once again, and here, I'm going to share four different commercials over the years for Flintstones food tie-ins! The stone age family has shown up in tons and tons of advertisements for different food products, and I'm not even getting into the Fruity Pebbles ads today. The first one I'm sharing is a Hardee's commercial for 1991, celebrating a cross-promotion between the restaurant and the 30th anniversary of The Flintstones, complete with...a guy doing a painfully poor rendition of the theme. Well, it can only go up from here!
This one aired on TV back in 1994, and promoted a special Flintstones version of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese. This was just one of many tie-ins made as part of the marketing blitz for the live-action film, which was released that same year.
If mac and cheese isn't your thing, then maybe you'll prefer this Heinz Spaghetti ad from 1992? While it's not as animated as the Kraft one, it at least features some dialogue from the characters.
Last up, appearing in 1990, here we have an ad for Flintstones push-ups. This one has both Fred and Barney along for the ride, and a rap, because, of course, it has a rap. Every ad in the early 90's had one!
I'll take your word on the guy's painfully poor rendition of "Meet the Flintstones," but I've heard some pretty bad ones, usually on Southwest Airlines when a flight attendant (usually male) would sing its praises to that particular tune when the plane landed and after a deranged person in the back row shouted "Thank You, Jesus!" I don't know if they still do that, but I hope not. Suddenly I understood what the barf bags were for.
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