winstones

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Most of us have seen the famous Flintstones ad for Winston cigarettes that's available on a number of collections. Until today, despite having seen the series first-run, it hadn't occurred to me that it wasn't the only one.

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Above: Fred goes to the store. Below: Barney's record player.

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YouTube also has the complete opening of the show from when Winston was the sponsor, and similarly the uncut closing credits. There's even an ad for Alka-Seltzer.

As always, we stand on the shoulders of giants: thanks to Mark Evanier's news from me for bringing this to my attention. Mark's blog reads good, like the (clap clap) internet should!
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Comments

Re: Unintended irony

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They did indeed. Mel "Barney Rubble" Blanc seems to have died of emphysema, but I don't think he was a smoker. (When he did Bugs Bunny, he actually hated carrots. Since nothing else sounded like a carrot, he used to take his bite of carrot and then get rid of it in a trash can in the studio. Perhaps as Barney, he took a drag, then quickly turned and exhaled...)