oh look, it's the Flintstones' version of Scrappy Doo
Gazoo is an even worse offender I've never heard anyone defend this guy
>>153017623>oh lookcan you start a thread without sounding like an autistic 12 year old?
>>153017623are you stewpid?
>>153017623https://youtu.be/JLc9BZoWJ88?si=oD9Mh88iptcyzlIk
>>153017987Why are you getting angry over nothing?
>>153017987He's in character for Gazoo, anon
Bro lectured a lot for being an exiled supervillain.
>>153017623He's far, far worse then Scrappy Doo. Scrappy Doo at least makes sense in the context of the setting. This guy breaks any and all immersion in the Flintstones world.
>>153017623Scrappy at least makes sense in the context of the cartoon he infiltrated, I'll give him that.
>>153019360>>153020276Gazzo is the anti-Scrappy> >Voiced by an all time great comedy legend in his prime>>Was only in a single season so he didn't outstay his welcome>>Unlike Scrappy, Gazzo came in just as the Flintstones was creatively burnt out and was a breathe of fresh air
>>153017623Wasnt the great gazoo a gag on chariots of the gods/ancient astronauts theory that was popping up at the time?
>In her original character description, Lee described Gazoo as "a mirror, reflecting life's vicissitudes, vagaries, ritual magic and dreary reality. Simply, [Gazoo] is life, brought home to our two favorite life participants, Fred and Barney".
>>153020521Chariots of the Gods wasn't published until a few years after Flintstones ended.
>>153020643>herThat explains a lot.
>>153020675Oh i was wrong then. Thanks for the clarification then. Did the ancient astronaut theory exist before chariots of the gods btw, or did that book introduce that idea?
>>153017623I thought they said Pebbles was what ruined the show.
>>153020684There's obviously precursors to the idea. A lot of Lovecraft's stories - particularly Mountains of Madness and Call of Cthulu - lay the groundwork for what will come later; ancient precursor civilizations and manipulation by otherworldly beings. You can see how these ideas later merge with post-War conspiracies about American atomic science and German wunderwaffen - ufology, occultism, etc.Chariots does for ancient alien conspiracies what the journalistic sensationalism around the Hill abduction claims did for ufology and modern alien conspiracies - it gave a bunch of people's loose delusions and theories a central idea to build off of. After the Hill case suddenly every motherfucker is reporting greys and the idea gets reinforced by all the popular media in the following decades that uses the Hill case as a foundation. After Chariots comes out you get a ton of copycats and charlatans using the idea to fuel their own books and scams. It's fun to dig into how human psychology and the broader idea of cultural memes plays into this shit.
>>153020840Semi off topic but this is as good a thread to discuss this as any, whats your take on ufology? I personally believe in aliens but the hill abduction and alot of the alien abduction stuff afterwards is very sus since theirs lots of evidence now it was a mix of mass hysteria, mass psychosis, and people making up shit to sell books. Notice how all of that shit went away the moment smart phones took off. Though you could argue that greys realized the jig was up then and that they couldnt have their free ride to anal probe without getting caught anymore now that everyone had a smart phone to record them.
>>153020765>Kids ruining a marriage Sounds about right.
UFOlogists are dum, they're usually people who rejected the religion they were raised in and are looking to replace it with some substitute faith like making aliens into God.
>>153017623Not at all? That was their jumping the shark.Scrappy Doo has no magic powers.
>>153020966Stop killing babies, jewish scum.
>>153020877I think there's very likely life on other planets, even intelligent life, and I am open to the idea that some of that intelligent life could conceive of a workaround for interstellar travel. But I also think any civilization that could come up with that would also be a lot subtler about how it observers or monitors a planet like ours than abducting random people and shoving stuff up their butts.I think 99% of UFO clips can be explained by innocuous stuff, and another 1% can be explained by military tech. You would think that the rise in security cameras and smart phones would discourage this sort of thing, but all it's done is led to new conspiracies and new scams. I remember in the mid-90s there was a sudden and short-lived cryptid freakout over 'rods' - mysterious multi-winged snake-like creatures captured on low framerate CCTVs of the era... which were to any thinking person, very obviously just blurred videos of bugs. But that didn't prevent multiple people from writing "authoritative" books on their existence or getting TV specials or appearances on the news. Same thing - now we get shaky smartphone videos of drones or birds and people claiming they're aliens. Fucking Bill Maher had a embarrassing segment the other day where he went on an unhinged rant for five minutes about disclosure and aliens and playing a clip of a monitoring balloon getting pegged by a missile and claiming it was indisputable proof that aliens are among us and trying to save us from our political class. Every time you think this shit might finally be over and buried, someone digs it back up either because of their delusions or because they think they can make a quick buck off of it.
>>153020765Spoilers - the show really just wasn't that good and didn't have much to work with beyond basic satire, they tried adding Pebbles, Bam Bam, and finally Gazoo to give the writers something else to work with and it kept failing.
The thing is that gazoo saved the show for a season and he left on good terms til the show ended, and had the timeskip in the 80's with adult Peebles and Bam-Bam in that totally not Josie and the Pussy Cats show And bam bam and peebles got a child.In fact, The Flinstones is literally Kochikame, minus Karen's gigantic army booba
>>153021000Yeah, a big realization that the ufology stuff was mostly bogus killed alot of that childhood wonder in me cuz i was obsessed with that stuff as a kid and thats what caused my depression to go into a nose dive. Humans are boring as shit and suck and if there are no aliens here then whats the point if anything because all the cool fauna died out hundreds of thousands of years ago. But yeah i agree sadly most of that stuff is bogus. I still hope some /x/ stuff is real and i do truly believe life and even intelligent life exists out in the stars but i mostly think greys and other ufology stuff is just fake at this point sadly even if i really dont want it to be fake.
>>153021085Humans do cool fucking shit all the time and it's way cooler when you realize it's just because of human ingenuity, creativity, and bloody-mindedness, rather than because we're playing on tutorial mode having our hands held every step of the way by little gray men. The down side is it means no one is watching out for us and we've got to work hard not to fuck it all up.
doesn't mean no intelligent life exists somewhere in the universe, just that it doesn't actually have the ability to fly across interstellar space and reach us
>>153020998This certainly doesn't make you seem unhinged at all.
>>153021136Humans look boring and have shitty culture 90% of the time and most of the animals alive today are boring as fuck today. Where as aliens look awesome and weird and the fact that nothing like that exists on earth now is why life is meaningless. If i were a billionaire id invest in genetic engineering to make my own monsters to make up for the fact that the creatures of todays biosphere are so tame and lifeless.
>>153017987>a-am I fitting in guys?!
>>153021153Doesnt mean that either, just because they havent found us yet doesn't mean they dont have FTL already. The universe is a fucking huge place after all who knows how many alien civilizations are out there right now as we speak.
>>153017623When I first watched The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas I thought Great Gazoo was a movie original character. They never aired the Gazoo episodes of Flintstones on our local TV stations.
>>153021085What do you do for a living, if I may ask?
>>153021174They used to rerun them on Cartoon Network and yeah they did show the Gazoo episodes.
>>153021192Why do you ask?
>>153021210Helps me to create a metal picture of the kind of person who would hold such an opinion.
>>153018020Scheisse/KurwaI really dont like this,especially this little purple sticker
>>153020499He was only on one season because after he was introduced everyone went "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS",beat their wife and changed the channel to ed sullivan show or the news (only 3 channels)Show was limping thus his introduction but it turned out he was a landmine and he took the legs out and they cancelled the show
>>153021297>and changed the channel to ed sullivan show"Well fuck, watching the McGuire Sisters on Ed Sullivan would even be more enjoyable than this."
>>153021297>He was only on one season because after he was introduced everyone went "WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS",beat their wife and changed the channel to ed sullivan show or the news (only 3 channels)Kek
>>153020765Honestly I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. Kid characters often feel like they ruin shows.
>>153017821I think that's because people barely remember the worst of Scrappy. In the handful of movies they made he's fine. In his Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo show it and him are usually abnormally bad. But it was reran a lot less over the years while the movies where he was mostly fine were reran a lot
>>153021561Lol
>>153021051Flintstones is even more about the giant, retarded swings to me than about puns and reversible TBIs.
>>153017623Didn't most HB shows have an annoying tiny guy in them? That wasn't just Scooby that had it.
>>153021297>John K's dad turns on the TV>"What is this Gazoo shit? To hell with that, I ain't watching the Flintstones anymore.">punches 8 year old John in the head and storms out of the room>John is like "When I grow up I'm going to make better cartoons than this and make Dad proud."
>>153020521He's probably more of a Mxyptlk type. He is pretty much the same thing as a 5th dimension imp. Marvel also had insanely powerful big headed aliens too way earlier than chariots of the Gods like Ovoids, Watchers, and Impossible Man. So it's an old concept to have a godlike entity be a little big headed man from space.
>>153020684Star Trek had an episode in '66 dedicated to the Greek Gods being superpowered aliens that visited Earth. The scifi concept that god or gods were aliens that came to Earth did not originate with Von Daneken.
>>153021000Yeah and in the early 2010s everyone was driving out to Arizona to go get pics of skinwalkers. Every few years some new conspiracy thing becomes popular and then hordes of people go out searching for them and taking pics of whatever they come across as proof.
>>153021051They managed to make Honeymmoners with rock and dinosaur puns last 6 years. That's pretty damn impressive already.Thing is Barbera seemed to have some really personal investment in that show ans refused to let it die. He kept making new updates for Flintstones for another 30 years with the various movies in the 70s. The kids version in the 80s, the attempt at a cool kids one in the 90s, then that Dino cartoon for Cartoon Network. Plus merchandise was eternal, they still make Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles and Flintstone vitamins.
>>153022416it was the studio's first big hit and put them on the map so they didn't want to part with it
As a kid I watched both, but while I can still enjoy the Flintstones and appreciate how corny it is, the Jetsons are just physically painful to watch.
>>153021051>he show really just wasn't that good and didn't have much to work with beyond basic satireYeah it was bro, they just added characters to boost some ratings that's it
>>153020940That is pretty much what Von Daniken and a lot of his fans were doing. They basically invented a religion, with an all-knowing creator of humanity that came from above, and then got right to work demanding everyone drop what they believe in and believe this instead. They were peddling a religion and trying to parade it around as common sense, in a modern day Pascal's Wager type of argument.
>>153017623>we want the My Favorite Martian audience
Gazoo keeps making random appearances, but I don't think i have ever seen the Gruesomes appear in anything Flintstones related since the original series.
>>153022947Space stuff in general was huge in the 60s since it was the biggest part of the Space Race and each time something was sent into orbit it was big news. They were putting rocket fins on every car and buildings were being made to look like flying saucers.
>>153021051How many times can they use a rock themed pun or have some dinosaur acing as an appliance and say "it's a living" before it gets stale? Normally people would get sick of that shit in like 3 episodes but Flintstones was on for decades.
>>153022537Jetsons was just not fun at all to watch. Which is weird since so much more can be done with the concept but it's just a really bland family sitcom that doesn't really do anything new or interesting.
>>153022943>everything that i dont like is a cult, especially if it goes against my crazy 2000 sandie charlatan cult
>today's youth is more familiar with The Flintstones as cereal/vitamin mascots than as the stars of their own TV cartoon
>>153024452It had to happen eventually, right? Same with how for years Popeye was kept alive almost exclusively by that chicken place. At least until they rebranded. Now he's pretty much gone. Unless there's new material with these characters they're going to fade.
>Appear only in a handful of episodes>Get sacked after the show ends>Return only in 2015 in a one-off parody filmWhy did they do him so dirty?
>>153022537I agree. Jetsons were only entertaining during Flintstones crossovers. George needed a Barney of his own. I remember a couple old /co/ threads saying that him not having a best friend to have adventures with is a big flaw of the show.
>>153024452Don't forget grand dad and him getting pibby glitched
>>153024716I still see Popeye brand canned spinach at the grocery store sometimes
>>153017623https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWzgo2gRzxY
awful lot of dum dums in this thread
>>153026417Neat!
>>153024803Hey he was mentioned in the NES game at least
OP is a dumb dumb
>>153020521More like them laying groundwork to introduce the concept in the mainstream. As a kid I liked Gazoo, but I can't imagine he wouldn't be annoying as an adult.
>>153020643> The meaning of life> Vulgarity and ritual magicWas she jewish by chance?
>>153020940This, and they get really upset when you point that out. I can't count how many times I've heard: "How could God exist if there's aliens?" Aliens aren't real. Aliens don't exist.
>>153022239The Munsters moved to Bedrock?
>>153022377Everyone likes to feel important and special sometimes; it's why we go out for sports or compete for awards, work hard in hopes of promotion, etc. It's also why we feel good when we get some recognition at work or get some small acknowledgement from family and friends, etc. But there's a lot of people who latch onto paranormal or conspiracy shit as their way of being important and special. They don't have to practice or put in a lot of hard work because they're "the guy who got abducted" or "the guy who knows about the government's secret plans" or whatever.
>>153023574That is what it is but you won't admit it because a prerequisite to the ideology is wanting a pretensious explanation for why you don't have to believe in God.
>>153024452They were going to let Elizabeth Banks make a reboot but thankfully the strike killed it. I can't imagine it wouldn't have been horrific.>>153024716Are you telling me the black chicken place was originally a brand tie in with Popeye the Sailor Man?
>>153029408Of course aliens exist - they're just not visiting our planet, running our government, or sodomizing hillbillies.
>>153029425Yeah, after the Addams moved out.
>>153029462>Are you telling me the black chicken place was originally a brand tie in with Popeye the Sailor Man?Yes. At least in my areas it was always full of Popeye stuff. Bluto, Oliveoil, and the rest were all over the buckets and cups and stuff. Then somewhere in the early 2010s they entirely dropped the characters and moved over to just generic chicken. Apparently they had the license for like 35 years.
>christcuck larpers in flintstones thread
>the green cumulon is at it again
But Earthling, we don't have polymascotfoamalate on MY planet!
>>153029771Well, I'll be.>>153029470That's the thing, though. They don't. You can say despite no evidence to support it you choose to believe they exist anyways, but they do not actually exist. They've just been depicted in media and people act like the idea is "more scientific" and therefore must be "more likely" and "more respectable" but it's neither of those three things. It isn't supported by any scientific evidence, and pure science would say despite any emotional judgement to the contrary it's just as accurate or likely to say that there is no other life in the universe than the known life here on Earth until such evidence can be observed. It's just dressed up in a sciency aesthetic, but it has no more real life basis than Spider-Man's or The Flash's powers have compared to Dr. Strange's or Wonder Woman's because theirs present themselves as "scientific" powers. >>153029478That's hilarious. >>153029842I'm certainly genuine, no L.A.R.P.ing involved.
>>153029408Why can't God simply create the aliens?If he can create an entire universe, surely he cam create life on other, faraway planets foe shits and giggles.Fuck, for all we know these aliens could look just like us, so the "created in his own image" thing or whatever is the sticking point against aliens isn't contradicted.
>>153030363He could, but didn't. Also you know there made up because all alien media started with the: "they look just like us and maybe believe in God" approach until they got people used to it then started pushing the envelope with weirder designs.
>>153029457>>153030292>>153030452Your god is a jewish myth where as aliens are actually real, fucking live stream your suicide you cross sucking slime. Fuck jesus and go fuck yourself bitch, the bible is only good use is for fucking toilet paper to wipe your ass with!
>>153030452Well it's not like Humans are the only species on earth either, so I still don't see the big deal.
>>153017623cute feet
>>153021665I'm not annoyed by either but Gazoo is by far the worse of the two. The least offensive late addition is Orbity on The Jetsons. Literally nobody ever had anything to say about him, good, bad or otherwise. In fact, this might be the first time anyone ever mentioned Orbity in the entire history of /co/. Cultural relevance: zero.Y'know what? I'm gonna look it up.13. Thirteen mentions of Orbity. Compared to 759 of Gazoo and over 8000 of Scrappy. That makes any discussion about him vanishingly rare. The problem with Scrappy is that he has staying [puppy] power. He's still part of the Scoobyverse to this day. afaik, Gazoo has never been seen again after his original run outside of references to him in Family Guy and The Simpsons.
>>153031428>the bible is only good use is for fucking toilet paper to wipe your ass with!A friend back in high school used to feign interest in conversion to Mormonism or JWism just to get free Bibles because the pages are thin enough to use as rolling papers for joints. I would imagine the way the paper is treated (not to mention the ink) would make this a bad idea but that's what he used to do, regardless.
>>153032661>Gazoo has never been seen again after his original run outside of references to him in Family Guy and The Simpsons.He was in the NES game.
>>153031428I get it, you're 15 and you're mad your grandma made you go to church with her last Sunday.
>>153032661He was in the DC comic
>>153033035>durr you only hate christcuck because you msde you go to church Yeah and not at all because of the fact its a repressive and militant backwards cult, you shit eating retard. Eat shit and die you jesus freak cuck
>>153017623GADZOOKS, MY ROAST IS RUINED!
>>153020499>Gazoo appeared in 11 episodes of The FlintstonesFucking hell, just shows how bad he was if he ONLY appeared in 11 eps.
>>153024803>2015 Parody filmwhat.
>>153032661He was in the second live-action movie.
>>153031428See, this is the: "only like the idea because it gives you a pretentious reason to say you don't believe in God." thing.>>153031456This is the most recent angle which is to say: "O.K. maybe not intelligent life, but some kind of newt or something!" there is no evidence of life existing on other planets. There never has been and never will be. They put it on a TV show one time and everyone was like: "Golly gee! Wouldn't that be something?" and have just ran with it ever since. I feel it's really important to understand that this is an idea that sorings forth from fiction and not any scientific basis. It would be the same as a bunch of people sitting around saying any second now they're going to invent a "scientific formula" that will give everyone heat vision.
>>153032723It is, that's a meme jewish people invented to trick people into defacing Bibles and unfortunately some kids really get caught up in stupid stuff like that. It's like the myth of the "Christmas weed" you can only get right before or on Christmas that has little spiders inside of it. Everyone swears it's real and the "out of town dealer" comes through once a year just in Christmas to sell dank bags to the good little boys and girls, but it's rarely the truth.
>>153033035True>>153034061You've got it backwards. Society flourishes under Christianity and suffocates under Baalism whether they be judaism, satanism, atheism, or why other heathen flavor of evil imagination.
>>153035116>>153035141>>153035156>>153035172Is this a man with tits? Or a woman with sideburns? I can't tell.
>>153035213Its clearly drawn by someone who was born female so like intersex multigender idfk
>>153034774The Flintstones WWE thingy
>>153017623I thought the babies were worse, Gazoo was at least unique within the show and he only showed up in 11 episodes
>>153020521>>153017623wasn't it heavily implied bam-bam was an alien too?
>>153035891He was left on the Rubble's step, and he was strong because he was based on a character from another HB show that was superstrong just for being a cavebaby among modern cats and dogs. I don't think Flintstones made lore for him, maybe he's just a different hominid species.
>>153020877>you could argue that greys realized the jig was up then and that they couldnt have their free ride to anal probe without getting caught anymore now that everyone had a smart phone to record them.If beings from another planet have the technology to travel across the vast universe to come to Earth, then surely they have the technology to render cellphones useless.Maybe they got bored with playing with us; got what they were looking for, or found other civilizations. Maybe something happened to them.
>>153032661The scales are likely heavily weighed by the fact The Flintstones nearly died as a franchise while Scooby-Doo is constantly getting some new show or movie. Discussion is seemingly always going on somewhere for it while The Flintstones doesn't really have that. Also doesn't help the nature of Gazoo as a weird alien exile that he was only visible by Fred and Barney. But that's maybe besides the point.
>>153036709I fucking loved the design of The Space Kook.
>>153035026>and not any scientific basis.explain this point in detail.
>>153017623Scrappy but cool as fuck.
>>153017623How dare you say that about Barney Rubble.
>>153020877the wave of recent disclosures impressed me. I went into it completely expecting a bunch of attention seeking yahoos to be dismantled and the skeptic pushback felt weak. short of a perfectly air tight conspiracy it seems that pilots genuinely saw novel phenomena in the atmosphere. of course that's still purely within the realm of UFO's not aliens.
