Years ago I bought this video tape called "clasic commericals from the 50s & 60s ". The tape featured Fred & Barney watching Betty & Wilma doing the hard housework. Fred was saying that the girls work hard and such then Barney suggests that they go around back so they wont see them.
Then Barney pulls out a pack of Winstons and pretty soon both fred nad Barney are puffing away.

Very Very Very Odd to see Barney talking about "the pure white filter" and "good smoking pleasure" and Fred saying the famous
Winston slogan " Winston tastes good like a cigarette should ".

Then they showed a clip of the closing of the Flintstones complete with Fre firing up Wilma's Winston. Again puffing away all in wonderful black and white.

So unreal. One of those things you gotta see it to believe it. Kind of like Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke talking about how wonderful is the taste of Kent.

I just saw this commercial. Fred and Barney look like a couple of naughty school boys smoking in the back of the house. And their cigarettes are so long and life like.

Yeah, I've heard of that commercial. Lot's of people smoked back in the 50's and 60's, or so I have been told, so that's not all too surprising to hear but yeah, very odd to imagine.

I don't think any of the characters ever smoked a cigarette on the original show but there were a couple times when Fred and Barney smoked cigars - like when they brought Pebbles home from the hospital.

I remember that episode. Wilma's mother hired a nurse named Miss Frightenshale to look after Pebbles and she ruled the house with an iron fist, causing Fred to fire her.

Yep! LOL! Very funny episode. That nurse was a b**** too! When she enters the room with Fred and Barney smoking the cigars, she says, "O.K. Smokey the Bear, no smoking allowed!"

Later when Fred fires her and she starts to leave in a huff, Fred tells Pebbles, "Wave goodbye to the nice old battle ax....I mean lady!"

Originally posted by dynoguy88
That nurse was a b**** too!

:lol:

I felt very sorry for Fred in this episode. He just got his new baby home from the Hospital and he couldn't even enjoy it cause he had to put up with that jerky nurse.

Fred was right to fire her. However, if I remember right, didn't Wilma's mother come to help??? Or was this the episode where they hired the old lady bank robber, Grandma Dynamite???

No, no, no. :lol: :lol: :lol:

The episode with Grandma Dynamite took place while Wilma was pregnant. She wanted to get her mother to come help around the house but Fred obviously wanted someone else, so he found Grandma Dynamite.

The b*tchy nurse, Ms. Frightenshale, was hired by Wilma's mother to help out when they brought Pebbles home from the hospital.

(I think hiring nurses to come help take care of the baby right after it's been born was very common in the 40's, 50's and 60's.)

Originally posted by bb
Years ago I bought this video tape called "clasic commericals from the 50s & 60s ". The tape featured Fred & Barney watching Betty & Wilma doing the hard housework. Fred was saying that the girls work hard and such then Barney suggests that they go around back so they wont see them.
Then Barney pulls out a pack of Winstons and pretty soon both fred nad Barney are puffing away.

Very Very Very Odd to see Barney talking about "the pure white filter" and "good smoking pleasure" and Fred saying the famous
Winston slogan " Winston tastes good like a cigarette should ".

Then they showed a clip of the closing of the Flintstones complete with Fre firing up Wilma's Winston. Again puffing away all in wonderful black and white.

So unreal. One of those things you gotta see it to believe it. Kind of like Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke talking about how wonderful is the taste of Kent.

I've seen that commercial. It's available at the toontracker.com website.

You can also download it also from this Outrageous commercial sight. I just watched it, but the sound on my computer isn't working, so I couldn't hear what they were saying -

http://www.tvparty.com/emcomm.html

"If the Flintstones enjoy a good smoke, how bad can it be? This Hanna-Barbera cartoon franchise (with a big appeal to kids, but originally created for adults) wisely switched from advertising potential health risks in the Sixties to their own brand of vitamins in the Seventies. By then, cigarette advertising was banned on television, anyway.

After Wilma got pregnant (with Pebbles), the show's sponsor became Welch's Grape Juice - becoming the preferred fruit juice of the baby boomers."

I have this commercial on a double DVD set of TV commercials from the 50s,60s and 70s.

Ironically, when health consciousness made its way into pop culture, One A Day Vitamins became one of their later sponsors. Then of course there was the Flintstones vitamins. No more Winstons!!

-Roy

You also can find this classic commercial at the ebaumsworld website by clicking for that specific commercial here (http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flintston.html). To save it at a particular location on your computer, right click and go to where it says 'Save Target As' and it is playable in Windows Media Player. :)

ebaumsworld website:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com

I remember seeing that commercial on a tape that came out in the 80s, of commercials from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. After they showed it, they showed a scene of Bedrock, with an animated billboard advertising Winstons, and the announcer said "THE FLINSTONES....has been brought to you tonight by Winston cigarettes!" Then they showed Fred and Wilma in their living room with Fred about to light a cigarette for Wilma, and he sings the Winston jingle "Wintston tastes good like a (he flicks a lighter twice) cigarette should!"

UPDATE:

You can now have a better look at the classic Flintstones Winston Cigarette commercial where Wilma does the lawn mowing in the opening scene (the lawn mower is an alligator). I saw this at wimp.com.

Flintstones Winston Cigarette commercial:
http://www.wimp.com/flinstones/

Enjoy! :wave:

Yeah, I've heard of that commercial. Lot's of people smoked back in the 50's and 60's, or so I have been told, so that's not all too surprising to hear but yeah, very odd to imagine.

I don't think any of the characters ever smoked a cigarette on the original show but there were a couple times when Fred and Barney smoked cigars - like when they brought Pebbles home from the hospital. I have also heard about the commercial. It's a video tape and its not the matter of show or in general life. Nobody should smoke for their health and who ever smoke they should realize that it hams not only them but also who stay beside them.

I guess back then people didn't have the same knowledge of the harm cigarettes could do to them. Nowadays I just don't understand how someone like my age could even pick up the habit.

Unfortunately, smoking is still all too common. I never understand why an industry that makes money off of giving people lung cancer is allowed to continue...but there's that freedom of conscience idea- people can do what they want as long as they don't hurt others (in general). But there are also the concerns of second hand smoke which kills almost as many people as smoking does to smokers....

Years ago I bought this video tape called "clasic commericals from the 50s & 60s ". The tape featured Fred & Barney watching Betty & Wilma doing the hard housework. Fred was saying that the girls work hard and such then Barney suggests that they go around back so they wont see them.
Then Barney pulls out a pack of Winstons and pretty soon both fred nad Barney are puffing away.

Very Very Very Odd to see Barney talking about "the pure white filter" and "good smoking pleasure" and Fred saying the famous
Winston slogan " Winston tastes good like a cigarette should ".

Then they showed a clip of the closing of the Flintstones complete with Fre firing up Wilma's Winston. Again puffing away all in wonderful black and white.

So unreal. One of those things you gotta see it to believe it. Kind of like Mary Tyler Moore and Dick Van Dyke talking about how wonderful is the taste of Kent. I don't think that anythings taste can as weird as cigarette. Its smell just like hell. Don't know people how take this type of things.

One thing everyone seems to forget about "The Flintstones" is that it was the first animated cartoon series aimed primarily at adults. It's no secret that Fred and Wilma and Betty and Barney were based on Ralph and Alice and Norton and Trixie's characters on "The Honeymooners," which was by no means a children's show.

It aired Friday nights against the first half of "Route 66," which was sponsored by Chevrolet and Marlboro cigarettes--and no one ever accused "Route 66" of being kid stuff.

"The Flintstones'" first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and Miles Laboratories for Alka-Seltzer and One-a-Day Multiple Vitamins. You may also remember at the end of the earliest episodes there was a large flashing billboard on the outskirts of Bedrock for "Winston" or "Alka-Seltzer," depending on the week.

When Pebbles was born in 1962, Hanna-Barbera and/or ABC figured they could turn "the modern stone-age family" into a true family show (look how quickly Betty and Barney adopted Bamm-Bamm in 1963, and how quickly Welch's Grape Juice and Keebler crackers became the show's next sponsors).

I'm not sure "The Flintstones" would have lasted more than two seasons had the change not been made. "The Jetsons," "Top Cat" and "Jonny Quest" lasted only one season each -- and "The Jetsons'" 1985 episodes were made chiefly to make Monday-through-Friday syndication feasible!

I love it when people seem shocked by the commercial (Theres actually at least 3 different Flintstones/Winston Smokes commercials). As "missy's_pop_pop" has stated above me already, The Flintstones was the first toon aimed at Adults.

Lets not forget their Busch Beer promo:

http://youtu.be/fEZGaLlLfcY

You can also download it also from this Outrageous commercial sight. I just watched it, but the sound on my computer isn't working, so I couldn't hear what they were saying -

http://www.tvparty.com/emcomm.htmlWow that site is awesome!!!!!

Alot of things you can see BEFORE THIS POLITICALLY CORRECT garbage started!!

The flinstones Winston commercial was interesting! (Those files play well,WHY DONT THEY SHOW WHOLE EPISODES USING THIS FORMAT?? (This is FREE,the quality provided by these clips IS FINE!!))


I dont understand it...

I have seen this commercial on youtube and I was like Wow back then they really pushed cigarettes on all audiences.