I Yabba-Dabba Do!

Synopsis:

This Valentine's movie -- the first of three 1993 specials designed to modernize the Flintstones -- brings us our favorite stone-age family with a 90's twist. Like today's world, the prehistoric Bedrock has seen a lot of progress. Huge high-rise apartments and shopping centers have sprung up -- in the traditional Bedrock stone-age style of course. Other signs of the times are prehistoric versions of TV dinners, microwaves, roller blades, computers, and even The Rockindales male strippers. Everything is busier and the streets seem more congested, plus the cavewomen now have careers outside of the home.

There are a few things missing from this special; for starters, it was disappointing not to see Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's longtime friends Moonrock, Wiggy and Penny among the wedding guests (especially when a one-shot character like Bony Hurdle was there). Also, major liberties are taken in references to Fred and Wilma's wedding -- suggesting that the couple had been married in a Rock Vegas, which contradicts the original series. Beyond these sort of things, it's fun to see the characters again in another stage of life in the tradition of TV show reunions.

As the story begins, Fred loses the Flintstones' nest egg in a bet just as Wilma announces that she and Betty are opening a catering business. Pebbles, who is now a gopher at an advertising agency, is madly in love with Bamm-Bamm, who is working as a mechanic. When they surprise their families with plans to marry, Fred does everything he can to stop the wedding so Wilma doesn't find out that he has lost their nest egg (and also over the fear of losing his little Pebbly-Poo). Fred then loses all of Barney's savings in a scheme to get funds for the wedding which starts a war between the families and prompts the kids to run off to Rock Vegas to elope.

Determined to make Wilma and Pebbles happy and make up for his mistakes, Fred drags Barney to Rock Vegas in search of the kids. After inadvertently getting chased by a group of Wedding Wacker thugs, the kids and their fathers barely make it back to Bedrock in time for the wedding, which incidentally gets funded by Rock Vegas casino winnings!

Featured Voices:

Henry Corden	Fred Flintstone
Jean VanderPyl	Wilma Flintstone, Mrs. Slate
Frank Welker	Barney Rubble, Dino
B.J. Ward	Betty Rubble
Jerry Houser	Bamm-Bamm Rubble
Megan Mullally	Pebbles Flintstone
John Stephenson	Mr. Slate
Janet Waldo	Mrs. Slaghoople
Don Messick