the Flintstones selling Winston Cigarettes

[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.

[hawaii five-o]

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.

[dynoguy88]

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.

[howilu]

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.

[dynoguy88]

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!"

[vashti1999]

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

[Urkel_2003]

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.

[hawaii five-o]

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???

[dynoguy88]

No, no, no.

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.)

[Daffyfan2004]

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.

[dynoguy88]

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."

[Media Lover]

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

[Roy5]

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

[bossradio93]

You also can find this classic commercial at the ebaumsworld website by clicking for that specific commercial here. 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

[treky]

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!"