Meet the Flintstones

## Video

**Meet the Flintstones** (also worded as **(Meet) the Flintstones**) is the iconic theme song featured in the third through sixth seasons of the original series, *The Flintstones*.

## Premise

In the opening version, Fred comes home from work at the Slate Rock and Gravel Company, happily and excitedly saying his most iconic catchphrase, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", slides on a dinosaur's back and tail with his feet and drives his Flintmobile on the way to pick up
Wilma, Dino and Baby Puss (in the third season), Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm, Barney, and Betty (in the fourth through sixth seasons), plus he goes to a drive-in theater to see a movie.

In the closing version with the ending credits, after they see a movie in a drive-in theater, Fred and the whole gang goes to the Bronto Burgers and Ribs Drive-in Restaurant and a waitress serves them some huge Brontosaurus ribs, causing the Flintmobile to tilt. When Fred tries to put Baby Puss outside for the night after Wilma, Pebbles and Dino are in the house, the saber-toothed cat shuts the door on him. After that, Fred furiously and angrily pounds on the front door so many times, shouting, "**WILMA!**"

## Lyrics

* Original Album Version
* Opening Version
* Closing Version

**Chorus:** Flintstones, meet the Flintstones

They're the modern stone age family

Hello, Fred and Wilma

They're a couple just like you and me

**Fred:** Dino is our little dinosaur

He's good, but nobody knows what for

**Chorus:** When you meet the Flintstones

Have a...

**Fred:** Yabba-Dabba-Doo time

A Dabba-Doo time

**Chorus:** You'll have a gay old time!

(*instrumental break*)

**Chorus:** Rubbles, meet the Rubbles

That's the other stone age family

Barney, and his Betty

They're as neighborly as they can be

**Barney:** Barney, I'm Fred's bosom buddy friend

**Betty:** As long as he has a buck to lend

**Chorus:** When you're with the Rubbles

Have a...

**Barney:** Scooba-Dooba-Doo time

A Dooba-Doo time

**Chorus:** You'll have a gay old time!

**Fred Flintstone:** Yabba-Dabba-Doo!

**The Randy Van Horne Singers:**

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones

There the modern stone age family

From the town of Bedrock

There a page right out of history

Let's ride with the family down the street

Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet

When you're with the Flintstones

Have a yabba-dabba-doo time, a dabba-doo time

You'll have a gay old time

**The Randy Van Horne Singers:**

Flintstones, meet the Flintstones

There the modern stone age family

From the town of Bedrock

There a page right out of history

Someday, maybe Fred will win the fight

Then the cat will stay out for the night

When you're with the Flintstones

Have a yabba-dabba-doo time, a dabba-doo time

You'll have a gay old time

You'll have a gay old time

**Fred Flintstone:** **WILMA!**

## Notes/Trivia

* This song with the sing-along lyrics also appeared in the teaser trailer of the 1994 live-action film, *The Flintstones*.
* Due to its controversies over the word "gay" in the lyrics, which it was drawn for its perceived intolerance and insensitivity towards homosexuals and their LGBTQ lifestyles, it was replaced with a new word, "great" in *The New Fred and Barney Show* and other releases.
* In addition to the 1961 album, *Songs of the Flintstones*, it also featured a version of the song with completely different lyrics.