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Hosted by Andrew Quinn and Darren Mooney, and this week with special guest David Monaghan, The 250 is a weekly trip through some of the best (and worst) movies ever made, as voted for by Internet Movie Database Users. New episodes are released Saturdays at 6pm GMT.

So this week, Brian Levant’s The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.

Years before they become the family that audiences know and love, Fred and Wilma are living very different lives. Fred is a quarry working, looking for connection. Wilma is the daughter of a wealthy family, looking to experience something real. Fate (and a meddling alien named Gazoo) conspires to throw the two into one another’s lives. However, Fred soon discovers that he has a potential romantic rival in the spiteful Chip Rockefeller, who invites the couple on a trip that they’ll never forget to Rock Vegas.

At time of recording, it was ranked 92nd on the list of the worst movies of all time on the Internet Movie Database.

Show Notes:

• Recorded 12th January 2023.
• Note: Due to the COVID-19 situation, this episode was recorded remotely. We suspect, going forward that a lot of our episodes will be until the crisis resolves.
• The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas at the Internet Movie Database.
• The Bottom 100 at time of recording.
• Visit David-Monaghan.com.
• Read David’s articles at GCN.
• Read David’s articles at Dublin Inquirer.
• The Flintstones: Fred and Barney Go Fishing, January 1975.
• David Barnett at The Guardian looks at The Flintstones as a show that paved the way for adult animation, October 2020.
• Emily St. James at The A.V. Club considers The Flintstones as “a shameless rip-off” of The Honeymooners, May 2014.
• The Dabba Don, July 2002.
• Barney and Fred sell cigarettes, 1961.
• Calvin Carter at Looper notes that The Flintstones implied that Betty and Barney were infertile, March 2022.
• MeTV considers Fred and Wilma as the first animated marry couple to share a bed on American television, January 2022.
• Alan O’Keefe at The Independent considers a Done Deal survey identifying The Flintstones as Ireland’s favourite childhood television programme, September 2014.
• Sean O’Neal at The A.V. Club reports on Seth McFarlane’s attempted revival of The Flintstones, March 2012.
• Dustin Rowles at Pajiba reports on how Steven Spielberg effectively pushed John Goodman into making The Flintstones, November 2019.
• Simon Brew at Den of Geek considers the rumoured 35 writers who worked on The Flintstones, August 2015.
• Scott Mendelson considers “the Tomb Raider Trap” at Forbes, August 2021.
• The Los Angeles Times reports on Hollywood’ big gamble on The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, April 2000.
• Richard Natale at The Los Angeles Times considers the increasingly packed release schedule, April 2000.
• Nancy Hass at The New York Times considers the sheer volume of summer blockbusters, May 2000.
• Rick Lyman considers the blockbuster summer at The New York Times, May 2000.
• Tyler Golsen at Far Out Magazine considers The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas as “the film that killed Hanna-Barbera”, April 2022.
• David Germain at The Pocono Record considers the movie away from live-action adaptations of cartoons into comic book movies, May 2000.
• Deborah Kaplan and Harry Elfont talk to Polygon about making Josie and the Pussycats, May 2021.
• Roger Ebert reviews The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas at The Chicago Sun Times, April 2000.
• Erik Harrison reviews The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas at The Los Angeles Times, April 2000.
• Joseph Barbera tells The Los Angeles Times that The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas is “much better than the first one”, April 2000.
• Claudia Eller at The Los Angeles Times considers the status of the Jim Henson Company, July 1999.
• Mark Addy talks to Strange Horizons about his work in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, April 2001.
• The Guardian notes that Steven Spielberg’s name is not on The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, July 2000.
• RTÉ reports that Mark Addy was paid $2m for his work in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, July 2011.
• Amy Archerd visits the production of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas for Variety, May 1999.
• Alan Cumming talks to The A.V. Club about his work on The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, May 2018.
• Anthony Scibelli and Logan Trent at Cracked consider the fan theory that The Flintstones actually takes place in a post-apocalyptic future, June 2012.
• Mark Russell and Steve Pugh talk to Vox about their work on the Flintstones comic for DC, March 2017.
• Brian Levant talks to The New York Times about the scale of production on The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, May 2000.
• Michael P. Lucas at The Los Angeles Times considers the transition from practical effects into computer-generated imagery, July 2000.
• Shauna Snow at The Los Angeles Times reports on the initial announcement of The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, May 1998.
• Emily Petsko at Mental Floss reports on the demolition of Bedrock, South Dakota, April 2019.
• CBS reports on the sale of Bedrock, Arizona, June 2015.
• Emily Deruy at The Mercury News takes a tour of the infamous “Flintstone House”, June 2021.
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