The Flintstones Smoke Winstons!

[BewareofNick]

From http://tvparty.com/vaultcomcig.html

 

If I told you the original network run of The Flintstones (1960-1966) was sponsored by a cigarette maker and that you could watch the main characters smoking Winstons at the end of the show, you probably wouldn't believe me. This animated series was a prime-time show, considered adult fare in 1960, so I guess nobody thought any better of it. http://tvparty.com/vgifs5/flintsmoke.gif

 

With a large audience of youngsters tuning in at 8:30pm, was this proof that the tobacco companies were targeting younger potential smokers decades before Joe Camel? The Flintstones could also be seen selling beer in commercials, for what that's worth. http://tvparty.com/vgifs5/flintsmoke1.gif

 

Steve Byrd tells us, "By the time Pebbles was born in 1963, the Flintstones were no longer pitching Winstons... they were selling Motorolas and Welch's grape juice. No way would Winstons have sponsored a cartoon sitcom with a baby character." Especially since, in 1964, the U.S. Surgeon General declared that smoking was harmful to one's health.

 

See it here: http://tvparty.com/vault3/flintbig2.ram

[Guest zipperzone]

And this is of interest why???????

[guyinsf]

It wasn't just The Flintstones...lots of TV shows from the 1950's and 1960's had cigarette company sponsors and showed actors smoking. Of course most of this has been purged for the shows' syndication runs, but if you get GSN (Game Show Network) and they still have the old game shows on late at night (I no longer have the channel, so I don't know their current schedule) you will find many tobacco company references.

 

On a related note, one of my favorite "classic" TV shows is Bewitched. Bewitched was interesting because it prominently featured the consumption of alcohol. In fact one would probably have to diagnose Darren as a functional alcoholic given that he appears to have multiple drinks every day after work. Interestingly there is a current show that features frequent mentions of booze as a way to relax or simply have fun, and that's Ellen Degeneres' talk show. Just yesterday she wrote that she loved gin on a chalkboard and she frequently makes jokes about drinking alcohol.

[+ deej]

Indeed. TVLand reruns are interesting to watch just to see the social differences. Lucy Ricardo lighting a cigarette and her fake nose was considered comedy back then (and considered a classic scene now), but today that bit would never even be considered.

 

It was a completely different world in many ways.

[mmk]

zipper, to be honest, I think this is really interesting. There are many of us here who post in the lounge who mention other things than escorts, which is the nice aspect of the lounge is that all subjects are open. Some are involving pop culture tid bits like this or political issues or what your favorite chinese dish is. To me, that is why I like the lounge because it is a forum where all of us-both escorts and clients-can just talk about everyday stuff.

[BewareofNick]

It must have been of SOME interest to you, otherwise you wouldn't have bothered to read and reply. If you find a thread uninteresting, you wouldn't read it.

[Guest Fisher]

One episode of Bewitched dealt with

Sam thinking she was pregnant. Louise

(Larry Tate's wife) comforted her

with cigarettes and bourbon. That

scene is not shown on Nick-at-Night/

TV Land.

 

- Fisher :7

[Chairmans Pig]

I often watch GSN's (Game Show Network) "Black and White Overnight" (3AM-4AMET). It's amazing to see the sponsorship by tobacco companies to the point that sometimes the "parting gift" is a carton of cigarettes.

 

It's fun to watch TV from a time when the celebrity ladies wore evening gowns and the men tuxedoes.

 

CP

[Guest zipperzone]

>zipper, to be honest, I think this is really interesting.

>There are many of us here who post in the lounge who mention

>other things than escorts, which is the nice aspect of the

>lounge is that all subjects are open. Some are involving pop

>culture tid bits like this or political issues or what your

>favorite chinese dish is. To me, that is why I like the

>lounge because it is a forum where all of us-both escorts and

>clients-can just talk about everyday stuff.

 

I quite agree with you re the purpose of the message center. I didn't find the subject of the original post to be interesting and I asked why it was. Several members have answered why they found it interesting so now I know how they viewed it. It still doesn't do it for me - differnt strokes...... My original post was not intended to be bitchy or condescending but as is so often the case in a forum where the written word is the medium, comments often get misinterpreted.

[Guest zipperzone]

>It must have been of SOME interest to you, otherwise you

>wouldn't have bothered to read and reply. If you find a

>thread uninteresting, you wouldn't read it.

 

Please read my reply to MMK.

 

Some nights I just browse - other nights I read everything - on those nights, call me anal.

[mmk]

I do agree with you zipper about comment coming across as bitchy when they were not meant to be. Hope you did not take offense to my comment.

[Guest zipperzone]

>I do agree with you zipper about comment coming across as

>bitchy when they were not meant to be. Hope you did not take

>offense to my comment.

 

No I didn't - how could I, it was very polite.

[Uncle Bill]

Wasn't the original Darin booted from the show mainly because he was a lush? Then Dick York replaced Dick Sergent (or was it the other way around, lol). I do remember those drinking scenes from when I watched the show as a youngster -- I guess that they were pretty powerful images to have remembered them after all this time.