Wilma Flintstone's Appliances

[rpm]

I was watching the Flintstone's with my niece today and she loved Wilma's help around the house.
I know she had an elephant for a vacuum,birds for clothes pins and a tall bird for a mop.
Did she have a beaver for a can opener?
There was that animal under the sink for a disposal, anything else thats missing?

 

[cehalstead]

Wilma's washer......

...was a pelican.

 

[cehalstead]

and don't forget the shower......

.....which was an elephant shooting water out of its trunk.

 

[rpm]

How did the pelican work?

 

[JerseyMike]

I seem to recall that their dishwasher was an octopus.

Mike

 

[toggleswitch]

~Did she have a beaver for a can opener?
I dont think they ever showed Wilma's be... can opener.

I thought the garbage disposal was a pelican/stork.

 

[SactoTeddyBear]

Re: Garbage Disposer:

was a Saber-Tooth Wart Hog, think that is what they are called...

Best of the Best Cartoon's Show. It was the 1st Show that we watched in 1962 when my parent's got our first Color TV, was the Flintstones. The TV was a Zenith 21-inch Oval Picture and it had a massive Cabinet. It was either just before or around the same time as the Remote Control TV's, but this on only had the On/Off Volumn Control and the Tuner Dial had the numbers on the center of the Dial Control.

Peace and Great Memories of growing up, Steve
SactoTeddyBear & SactoTeddyRanger...

 

[pulsator]

In the episodes I saw, Wilma's dishwasher was a monkey with a watering can and her washer was the pelican, she put the the laundry in its mouth and then it swished them around for a bit.

 

[phillygrl]

Cat dust mop

A fuzzy cat on its back was pushed around the floor with a stick. The sewing machine was a bird that sewed with its beak. Record player was a bird too. Versatile appliances those birds.

Didn't see the Flintstones in color until high school, around 1973 when my parents bought our first color tv. I was home sick and napping on the couch. When I woke up my parents were in the living room, both grinning like the cheshire cat, just waiting for me to notice the brand new television set. First thing I saw was Star Trek, it was on WKBS channel 48 every day.

Lisa

 

[spankomatic]

I wonder what she would have used for the microwave?

 

[mixguy]

Wilma's Mixer & knife

There was a bird, riding the egg beater like it was a tall unicycle going around the bowl. Usually preparing scrambled dinosaur eggs for breakfast. Seen a bird with a long serrated beak being used to slice Wilma holding the legs of the out stretched bird.

 

[toggleswitch]

~I wonder what she would have used for the microwave?

Kangaroo pouch?

 

[laundromat]

No,not a microwave.They used a Meaty O'Rite!!

 

[spankomatic]

Meaty O'Rite sounds like Smallville.... Oh,maybe they use Kryptonite there.

 

[rpm]

Fred's beaver

I was sure I saw Wilma's beaver... can opener
Now that I think about it, it was Fred that was using a beaver out in the garage.
Wasn't he stroking a piece of wood with it?
Or was it just a squirrel with long teeth?

 

[iheartmaytag]

I remember the vacuum being a wooly mammoth on wheels, and the radio was a bird that flew into the box and repeated what it had been told.

 

[perc-o-prince]

the radio was a bird that flew into the box and repeated wha

IIRC, that was the intercom in Mr. Slate's office.

Don't forget Fred's shaver... bees in a clamshell!

Chuck

 

[phillygrl]

There was also a swordfish she used to slice things too.

 

[spankomatic]

There was also a swordfish

That would be the electric knife. I just love power tools!

 

[laundromat]

I remember seeing some Bendix bolt down style washers on Tom & Jerry original cartoons!

 

[laundromat]

CE-this one's 4 u

"A curious beast is the pellican
His beak can hold more than his belly can.
Stretched wings like a dove
he flies high above
and I don't see how the hellican."

 

[fa_f3_20]

So that pelican would have been a Blackstone?

Trivia: The familiar "Meet the Flintstones" theme is not the original theme song. In the first season (when it was on in prime time) they used a song called "Rise and Shine". The ending was also a different animation; it still involves the cat putting Fred out, but most of it is a long "shot" of town with lights going out in the various homes as evening progresses. Occasionally the Cartoon Network runs some of the first-season episodes.

 

[laundromat]

yea but they went out of business because people took their name for granite!

 

[phillygrl]

First Seasons

I remember watching the original shows as a child, on prime time tv. The original beginning had Fred driving home, he even went under the stone age freeway. I can still hum that theme song. Want to see it? The link is below.

Lisa

 

[sdlee]

wilmas microwave

you guys it was fire breathing dragon that hung around outside the kitchen window.....

shed lift the leg of whatever animal Fred wanted for dinner (which by the way was always three times bigger than her) and
the dragon would breath fire on it. In two seconds it was done!

Also saw one where fred uses an automatic garage door opener.. It went like this...."Barney these new convienices are something every man should have"
from the dash he took a bird and set it free, it flew to a little hole in the wall and landed inside next to an animal that looked like a wholly something or other. The birds says ok mac lets go
next the wholly looking anmial starts walking on a tread mill device hooked up to a converyor built device that opens the garage door
next the bird looks at the camera and says the classic "its a living, aint it?" canned laughter follows

 

[nurdlinger]

I think I remember

that they had an instant camera, which was a camera-sized box with some small animal in it who would look out the lens, chisel the picture into a small piece of slate, and then shove the finished image out the side. Not sure if I saw this or made it up, though.

 

[DADoES]

Instant camera, yes.

 

[tolivac]

The Flintstone appliances I remember were the telephones that had what looked like a bull or cowhorn as the receiver and a rock like base with a dial.And for Freds Hi-fi stereo-it had the Bird and turtle turntable-sitting on a crude wood cabinet-wires went from the cabinet to 'speakers" that had a cowhorn on top-guess the "tweeter"and a large rocklike cabinet with a speaker grill in it for the "woofer"
Their lawnmowers had a crablike animal or a small dinosaur on a wood base with wheels and a handle-as it was pushed the crab claws or opening-closing dinosaur mouth "cut" the grass-and you saw the clippings fly.And I also vaguely remember an "automatic" side load trash truck(was a giant dinosaur with a bin on its back-)The trash truck driver mistook Fred as a trashcan and tried to "empty" him into the truck.I beleive it had an octopus like critter to serve as the automatic trashcan lifting-flipping arm.One arm emptied the can-the other banged the bottom to get the trash out.

 

[sdlee]

smoking.......

....anyone remeber the winston ads by the flintstones, Fred, Wilma, Barney and bettey all promoting lung cancer shame shame

What fun thread this is btw

 

[58limited]

Smoking commercial - shows the lawn mower.