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When Fred first arrives home from the quarry and sits in his recliner, he picks up a newspaper while talking to Wilma. The headline on the paper says "Pterodactyl Crashes into Andes, Eats Rugby Team to Survive". This is a reference to Uurguayan Air Force Flight 71 that crashed into the Andes mountains on October 13, 1972 while flying a rugby team to a match. They were trapped on the mountain for 72 days, during which time some of the survivors were forced to eat the remains of some of their deceased comrades in order to survive.
On Elizabeth Taylor's first day onset, she was greeted with 30 bouquets of flowers, a Cartier watch, a prehistoric bowling ball with her name engraved on it and a bottle of her Passion perfume redesigned Bedrock-style.
When the newspaper headlines are shown featuring stories about Fred Flinstone, the photo used is not of John Goodman but an original cartoon drawing of Fred Flintstone.
Sharon Stone was originally going to play the role of Sharon Stone, but had to decline due to contractual obligations with The Specialist. (The role went to Halle Berry.)
The Bedrock set took two months to film and accounted for 10% of the film's $45,000,000 budget.
Barney's snow cone van plays the theme song from The Jetsons.
The B-52's appear at Cavern on the Green (Tavern on the Green) as the BC-52's.
When Elizabeth Taylor was on the set, two jokes were played. When her character is at a makeup table, a stone perfume bottle is engraved "White Diamonds" which is the name of Taylor's perfume line. Another was when her character was tied up, Taylor playfully looked at the director and asked, Did he know how many men "wanted [her] in that position?".
The song playing on Fred's radio at the start of the film is the original recording of "The Bedrock Twitch" from the original TV series. Later in the film, the "BC-52s" perform a modernized version of the song. The version they recorded for the soundtrack CD, however, is a different arrangement than the one performed in the movie.
Because the cartoon version of Barney Rubble is supposed to be a short man, no actor 5'6 or over was considered for the role of Barney Rubble.
When Fred walks into the board meeting late, Mr. Slate refers to him as "Flagstone." The pilot to the original cartoon series was "The Flagstones".
Although she is not a real match for Betty Rubble, 'Rosie ODonnell nailed her audition for the role by perfecting the Betty Rubble laugh.
Almost three dozen people worked on the script and at one point, the part of Fred Flintstone was offered to James Belushi.
When Joel Silver was originally attached to the film as producer, he always had James Belushi in mind to play Fred Flintstone. When Silver left the project, he gave Belushi a silver Mercedes as payment.
One of the enticements to coax Elizabeth Taylor back onto the big screen, after a six year absence, was that the proceeds from the film's premiere would go to her AIDS foundation.
Jean Vander Pyl, who plays Mrs. Feldspar, was the actress who voiced Wilma Flintstone in the original cartoon series, The Flintstones.
According to industry estimates, this project hired a record amount of writers to work on a single movie script during the course of many years. The number is reportedly 35 different screenwriters, however only three are credited with writing it.
Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Chevy Chase were considered for the role of Fred Flintstone but they were all deemed too skinny, and a fat suit was deemed too inappropriate.
Since the entire cast performed barefoot, glassware of any kind was banned from the set.
The "Bowling Alley" sequence was almost not in the movie. It was added at the last moment, because Fred's "Twinkle Toes" bowling style was such a big part of the series, they felt they couldn't leave it out.
No fewer than 35 writers worked on the film. Steven E. de Souza turned in the original draft in 1987, though Michael J. Wilson's 1992 draft later became the working model. When director Brian Levant signed on, he recruited Gary Ross to handle the screenplay; Ross turned in his draft in 1993. This was junked. Various other writers, including Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel, worked on the script before Levant was finally happy in August 1993. Though just three writers ended up being credited, a total of 32 people (including Levant and producer Bruce Cohen) were awarded the film's Golden Raspberry for Worst Screenplay.
A live action version of The Flintstones had been in development for a number of years. Reportedly, this version would not have been made if John Goodman had turned down the role of Fred.
At the drive in sequence, a Bedrock version of the Universal (Univer-shell) Logo is seen, complete with the main letters spelled out in bones, the older Universal/MCA Television theme music, and the continents on the globe placed together in to the prehistoric continent of Pangaea.
John Candy was considered for the role of Fred Flintstone. The Flintstones was his all time favorite cartoon.
One of the reasons Brian Levant was selected as the director was because he was a genuine fan of the cartoon series. He reportedly has a large personal collection of Flintstones merchandise.
Janine Turner was originally considered to play the part of Betty Rubble.
Harvey Korman, who played the "Dictabird" in this film, voiced the "Great Gazoo" in the original Flintstones cartoon.
At the beginning of the drive-in, there is a sign that says: "Coming Soon: Gorge Lucas TAR WARS" (George Lucas's Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope).
Mel Blanc receives a credit for the voice of Dino five years after his death from heart disease. The 'dialogue' is taken directly from The Flintstones
Last cinema film of Elizabeth Taylor.