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Cartoon
The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
The Flintstone Comedy Hour
The Flintstones Show

Animal
Prehistoric Man
"Stomp!" enthusiast






Outfit: turtle shell hat / turtle neck / pelt vest / jam shorts / hobbit feet

Tagline: "BAM BAM. . . in high school!"

Plot summary: If there's one thing we know about Hanna-Barbera, it's their willingness to mass market and eventually beat into the ground anything they create that is remotely interesting or popular. Which is why we were at some point in the early 1970's subjected to a show about Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as teens in high school. I suppose someone figured out that they'd run out of ways to rearrange the words "Flintstones," "Comedy," and "Hour," so they got the bright idea to focus a show on the quiet little red headed toddler and her ADHD neighbor.  

The show was just like any other Flintstones endeavor, which is to say it was a cartoon about people doing the exact same things as modern-day people would, only they added in reference to it being the Stone Age.  They still played football and went to sculpting class, but the football was made of like, slate, and after the sculpting class they went into the bathroom and peed into a pterodactyls mouth. (more)

User Comments: Unlike so many of these entries I've done, Bamm-Bamm most definitely gets points for creativity when it comes to his clothing. The boy wears a turlte shell on his head. I tried to save a turtle shell for fashion purposes once, but I just wound up with mites all over my bedroom.  Also, you have to appreciate that he's wear animal fur shorts, instead of a man-dress like his father or Mr. Flintstone.

I'm a bit curious though. See, one of the first things noticable about Bamm-Bamm are his incredibly large feet. Now, logic would suggest that they made this decision because Barney, back in his time, was also drawn with very large tootsies. But anyone with a passable knowledge of The Flintstones will recall that Bamm-Bamm was adopted, having been left on the Rubbles' doorstep. So maybe like, just when Barney thought he'd said all he could say his chick on the side said she had one on the way. So, rather than burdening poor Betty with his Confession Part 2, he just had his neanderthal ho (whom we'll call. . . Jamiqua Rocksalt) keep the baby a secret until it was born, at which point he stole the child, had Jamiqua killed by his brothers in the Royal Order of the Water Buffalo, and set the baby on his doorstep for the loving wife to find.   Yep, pretty sure that's what happened.

User Rating: 5.8/10 (32,545 votes)