Flintstones meet the "Towelheads"

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So here's the premise: 2 Arabs show up in Bedrock and decide Barney bears a striking resemblance to an heir to their throne, and is to be crowned Sultan.

Both Fred and Barney called them "towelheads" and ran through a complete litany of Arab stereotypes before I turned the TV off on the kiddies.

Am I overreacting, or should at least this episode go the way of "Hekyll and Jekyll"?

[cheezus]

1. is THAT what happened to hekyll and jekyll?

As a kid growing up in a 99.9972% white community, I never placed it that they were black. Wait. That's the one with the mice who are always outsmarting Jinxy the cat, right?

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2. Thinly-disguised Amos n' Andy

and very, very non-PC

onedit: and Flintstones is thinly-disguised Honeymooners. But you would never hear Ralph Kramden using a phrase like "towelhead"

[BlueEyedSon]

3. Heckle and Jeckle pic

[cheezus]

6. oooooh-kay. I was thinking pixie and dixie

the mice. and jinxy the cat ("I hate you meeces to peeces!")

I rembeber these guys tho. Yeah, they're like the crows from Dumbo. Pretty obvious now

[MallRat]

4. Hekyll & Jekyll = Crows?

The whole thing went over my head as a wee little lad.

Some of those '40s and '50s cartoons give some sobering insights into pre Civil-Rights America. Lots of blackface... other ethnic stereotypes.

-MR

[Peregrine]

10. Hekyll and Jeckyll were magpies not crows

a nit, but nit to be picked.

[asthmaticeog]

5. Black? I always thought they were

supposed to be the queer stereotype. Haven't seen it in aeons, though.

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. All the older cartoons are un-PC.. I still adore Scooby Doo

and Tom and Jerry and whatnot, but there are times when I cringe watching them with my kids. (Still better than "SpongeBob", which I won't let them watch.)

[cheezus]

8. I'll go half way with you

spongebob is the only cartoon stupider than scoobydoo

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. I dunno, CatDog, Ren and Stimpy, Beavis and Butthead

they never did it for me either.

[cheezus]

11. Want a good one? Fairly Odd Parents

The first season, at least. I quit watching a while ago as it was going downhill. It's a kid's show, but there's a lot of Simpsons/Futurama style humor in there too. I dunno, it cracks me up.