Banned Cartoon - The Flintstones and Winston Cigarettes

[TheAmberOwl]

"The Flintstones has been brought to you by Winston". Didn't see that coming. At. All.

[Madams1977]

Hmm.. in the 60's we get Fred Flintstone smoking. Then, 20 years later he starts pushing vitamins. Fred, you bastard, you are nothing more than a drug dealer. No wonder Barney and Wilma were doing it behind your back.

[PerrrfictKats]

I remember the Jingle for Winston; I used to sing in first grade: "Winston tastes bad like the cigarette I just had, No Filter, No Flavor, It tastes like toliet paper!'...it worked! I haven't smoked to this day!

[RayPointer]

The perspective on this is off. This commerical aired on television when I was eight years old. I saw this, and I never took up smoking. So it was never "banned" considering that it was produced to promote the sponsor's product. The idea is that cigarette advertising was banned from television by 1970. This ten years before. So to say this was "banned" is a distortion of facts. Perhaps the use of "banned", suggesting something forbidden is intended to attract viewers.

[ImpmonInThe90s]

Old ad or not. This ad got me to buy a pack of Winston 100s.

[nomiclas]

1954 they had a movie at school about the hazards of smoking and showed the lung of a 50 year old who died from it.full of tar,black and shriveled.then one of a farmer who died in his 80's who never smoked.it was pink and looked healthy.that's all it took to make me a liftime non-smoker.it's funny how much people believe from advertising.there was an anti-cigarette movement even then.i was 6 years old in 54

[haitipi]

Many of the younger viewers may not be aware that from the 1940s to the 1960s, the sponsors directly paid for the production of many of these shows and they would often dictate the content of the upcoming episodes. Often, they would require the characters either do a direct spot or use the product in the show. For example, the cigarette company may require that Lucy and Ricky smoke at least twice in each episode.

[jeffreyswiderski]

And soon we will have Marijuana Commercials! Not that there is anything wrong with Smoking weed!!!

[melgibsonsballs]

I'm going to smoke now

[sgreen4]

I hear that Winston tastes good

[Jessyleppert]

Winstone cigarettes.

[RenoCorona]

again, blame it on the times. what people are forgetting is that 99.9% of television in the 50s/60s was sponsored by big-ticket tobacco companies: "i love lucy" was funded by Phillip Morris, as was "the twilight zone." what we see today are edited versions of these shows, new openings and random closeups to cover cigarette ads. it was also before the public understood that tobacco was more of a danger than a luxury, so i can't say this surprises me.

[CCillustration]

Brilliant! :D

[bretyo95]

cigarettes were invented but pants werent yet???

lol

[spootboy123]

Fuck that, Marlboro is the REAL American cigarette

[hhscatfish05]

This just made me want a cigg, but I smoke camels.....camel crush baby

[williamskidfears]

And, years later, when Fred's in an oxygen tent dying from emphysema, Wilma asks him "do they still taste good, like a cigarette should?"

"Cough, y' damn right, cough," wheezes Fred. "Gimme, cough, another cigarette, and, cough, a brontosaurus burger too."

[oliviaw83]

@williamskidfears Mmmmm, drontosaurus burger.'oh baby'

lol

[williamskidfears]

@williamskidfears To which Wilma, holding Fred's Zippo, replies, "how 'bout I just give you a light instead, pendejo."

[Retro8bit]

Don't leave home without your Winstons, kids!

[Hauntzor]

"Billy, why are you smoking?"

"Because the cave people on the TV told me to, mommy."

[JeffroTV]

I smoked me a Winston after I got done with my Fruity Pebbles. That's when cigarette's tasted best, after breakfast!

[5tonyvvvv]

SMoke Cannabis a safe theriputic non toxic plant ,fuck tobacco

[JaNae052]

Goes best with Fruity Pebbles!

[SuperSkrull191]

joe the camel was way cooler

[yugal1994]

why do you banned them please dont bannned them

[noakogman]

today is 60 years to the flintstonens!!!

[ChrisandSimon]

@noakogman You mean 50 years.

[Szalas22]

Do not smoke you shall!

[jarodbaugh]

Rofl, awesome.

[HinatalovesNauto]

Omg u upload this video on my b-day. Even though u upload a bad video, but it showed how bad it was.

[DevinTClark]

Lets go around back where we can't see them.

[sfighter991]

Hanna-Barbara + Cigaretts = Controversy

[reegan01]

It's a damn shame that these days are over.

[TheLevelQ]

why didn't they just call them winstones

[SaturdayMorno86]

Yes! Someone finally got the message.The US was a free country.People care about people. The Flintstones were for adults only until Pebbles and Bam Bam were born on the show.

[cardinals3902]

this is a commercial

[Emannuelle2000]

so bad ass

[edtheranger]

It looks like a penis!

[Daxter609]

YA BA DABBA COUGH COUGH WEEZE!

[EricaYE6]

I didn't know Wilma smoked!

[MegaM00k]

OMG they shoved the message into our faces. They could had also said : Hey you fucking retarded kid ! buy our cigarettes so you can play the like you're a Flinstones like your friends and stop being a pussy

[NoNiCKN4ME]

i need those...

[fhury78dk]

winstons are without a doubt the worst tasting cigarette out there

Pall Malls by this sign you will achieve victory.

[MrLookatmenow]

DUNHILL anyone.

[feckadoodlethe2nd]

REAL MEN SMOKE MALBOROS

[roguecj310]

WINSTONS ARE FUCKIN NASTY newports are the shit

[WorldwideLogic]

thats so funny a woman cutting the grass that just don't happen,

[ToxicZombie8606]

Damn Barney sold that shit!

[kaakoo]

haha

[PureFutureBaran]

great times :D now everyone need to hide commercials in subliminal messages etc..

[Silencebound]

Very rare ads. We haven't seen it in Australia. Have you ?

[thisischadfoster]

If Barney smokes Winston's, I must smoke Winston's!

[yahir95]

this wasnt banned on mexico i saw it some years ago

[eagleofmiami]

The Flintstones Brought to you by Winston cigarettes Co-starring Barney & Betty Rubble. . . . And special guest star Joe Camel. .

[popeyecartoons]

If you like the 50s...Check out my channel for the 1st ever Popeye cartoon - featuring Betty Boop. Simply click on the link. lol

[rdsanchez1966]

Smoke to your health and be sure to start them young. Remember if one is good a whole pack is better.

[alxjolly22]

so be sure to smoke up kids

[sharky5921]

my mom said they stink like no tommorow and taste nasty thats y she does newport

[deathcore595]

Tell me this is fake..

[Tornado1994]

@deathcore595 no. It's not. In 1960 The Fintstones was originally not for children.

[5winston]

Laramie Jr.s spokesman is Menthol Moose!

[keosskillz]

went from cigarettes to selling cereal lol

[Eastleigh6]

haha funny how sexism was so normal lol " they sure work hard barnie "..." they sure do fred "... " lets go out back where we can't see them "

[khallex]

oh what money can do! lol

[BADSKP]

i dont get it whats wrong advitising cigarettes tell me 1 person who doesent enjoy a good smoke?

[thephysicwerewolf]

everyone in my family who has actully amounted to somthing and never hit on underaged girls (or sexually offended their own underaged niece)

[forthelulz87]

I love winstons.

[BADSKP]

yeah!!!!!!!!!!!

[ParallelWorlds3000]

Ah yes, a smoke between Fred and Barney after a good butt fuck!

[thomassumner]

LMAO that's funny

[ParallelWorlds3000]

Haha.. Thanks buddy, I'm sorry for the delay. Glad you liked it. It's true, just like Ernie and Bert! haha...

[coopedupinculture]

ha gold!!

[juan32913]

yeah back when United Statesused to be a free country

[evilunixuser1]

agree...this country needs a good swift kick in the pants for allowing morons taking over our lives.

[cyclos12]

@juan32913 Heck ya!

[kdc43]

@juan32913 Free for who? Not for blacks,asians,gays,women,child­ren,american indians,,,,,,just for old rich white angry guys.

[jastiksk8crw]

@kdc43 You can't mention gays because then you would have to mention zoophiles also, being gay is a choice, you're not born that way

[Eyes8577]

@jastiksk8crw Um unless you are gay, which I am assuming your not, than what right do you have saying you KNOW it is a choice. Does it make any sense at all that it is a choice?Enduring all the persecution, hate, shame, ostracization etc...yea..thats someones choice? Think about it! LOL Such arrogance and cruelty.

[jastiksk8crw]

@Eyes8577 It is a choice. Proof that it is a choice; you and I can both choose right now to endulge in anything "homosexual" (man on man, woman on woman), or anything "zoophilic" (man/woman and animal copulation). It is a choice. You have a choice to take pleasure in unrighteousness, temporary pleasure, as does anyone else, whether it be drugs, sex, theft, etc. All of those which are shameful. It is all the same. Good/bad, right/wrong, fallen angels/Creator of All Things. It's a choice, #1 or #2

[Eyes8577]

@jastiksk8crw First of all I do not believe in any of the fairytales you believe in so, I'm not scared of your threats of hell and all that spooky tripe you nuts spill out. Secondly, I am in the medical field and there is a great deal of evidence that homosexuality is biological in nature, be it genetic/hormonal deficiency in gestation/population control (the kindest form of population control I might add seeing as aggression (aka WARS) and disease are the other two.) Etc. You just hate gays.

[kdc43]

@jastiksk8crw You are obfuscating the two. A bestialty pervert chooses that. But a homosexual on an EMOTIONAL level is a type of eunuch and Jesus said the eunuchs are born that way from the womb. However thees a second type of eunuch like Saint Paul who made a chioce to abstaine from straight marriage well AFTER the womb while the other type of eunuch was made gay by Soveriegn God while in the womb. So where's the choice for gay people?

[kdc43]

@kdc43 Sorry, I had spelling errors,Again. You are obfuscating the two. A bestialty pervert chooses that. But a homosexual on an EMOTIONAL level is a type of eunuch and Jesus said the eunuchs are born that way from the womb. However there's a second type of eunuch like Saint Paul who made a choice to abstain from straight marriage well AFTER the womb while the other type of eunuch was made gay by Soveriegn God while in the womb. So where's the choice for gay people?

[BejnXander]

wasn't there an episode where Wilma sez "bollocks"?

[WhiteFlowerLei76]

Barney you filthy man!!

[AdvocateOfMadness]

Lolwtfcigarettes?

[Kalorifer133]

i am getting flitstoned even watching this cigarete

[DoubtfulGrace]

Flintstones sold out pretty hard for Winston ciggarettes.

[1952kid]

1960 The Flintstones first year, i believe it was on 8;30 pm , i was 8 then. We knew Fred didnt really smoke,he was doing a commercial . They never smoked on the cartoon show itself. We kids knew better then, and no kid wanted to be like Fred anyway , He was always doing dumb things and getting in trouble, not exactly a father figure in the early episodes. Growing up in the 1960's ,all i remember was smoking was bad ,it stunts your growth.

[Labtop215]

Lol, advert.

[hughestopchoice]

That is fuqqin awesome!!!!!!

[lookejr]

nah, this isn't offensive. It just makes them whores.

[agenerichuman]

everyone seems to forget that The Flintstones was a prime time cartoon aimed at adults. so while its bad that theres cartoon characters advertising cigarettes its nowhere near as bad its made out to be. it would be sorta like Family Guy or something having cigarette ads in it today.

im actually a little more offended by how sexist this commercial is...

[2Str0k3]

LOL what is with that Americans get offended by everything? Though this seems more of of an advertisment than a cartoon really.

[rpatrick100]

Two things I hate; sexism, and bitches that don't know their place.

[nstrunks]

holy shit, that is hillarious

[squeabert]

Its not sexist... the women hand them the shit at the end of the commercial so now the flintstone boys... fresh from their nice smoke break can work hard... everyone wins.

[peternoer]

as was the jetsons. george and a few others was seen smoking in ealy episodes.

[deaddoc]

@agenerichuman Not really, it was aimed at families. All the old cartoons, even Bugs Bunny was full of adult asides, so parents could tolerate sitting through them with their kids. The Flintstones showed initially on Friday nights, prime time. Everybody watched. Back then, there were no more than three or four channels, period. Tobacco was accepted and almost all adults smoked. A commercial like this was satire, with the boys getting one in on the girls for once. Different time.

[Flynn01979]

@agenerichuman That might be in part true, but you know a lot of kids were watching this show to.

[masgalaxy]

@agenerichuman well actually the show was intended to appease kids as well as adults but yeah this was obviously made towards adults lol also if there wasn't any sexist jokes it wouldn't be the flintstones lol

[chillaxin602]

what dirty mother fuckers.... they had no mercy

[madcat0149]

lol, rent and stimpy still owns this clip

[Velazquez283]

lesgo smoke.

[sperfearf64]

back then they didn't know cigerets were bad

[6Ski6tzo6]

If children grew up believing that Fred and Barney were they're heroes, then I fear for that generation...Oh good god! This explains the friggin 70's! LMAO!

[sammy13351335]

i love these clips =]

[musichider]

Can you imagine them advertising weed "Hey Fred have a Winstoned"

[live4marilyn]

OMG! What if children saw that and they were influenced by their heroes Fred and Barney to smoke cigarettes?

[xRIKTERx]

i think that logic is retarded...then they should die because they are weak minded and irresponsible...

[AAB1234BAA]

When the Flinstone series originally aired on US television the programme was sponsored by Winston cigarettes.

[keyedyourcar]

Josh Homme mentioned this cartoon once.

[womangirlman]

i wonder how many people went out and bought cigarettes after seeing this

[nokie2]

Way tooo funny. I so wish they would have included this clip in the Flinstones complete DVD collection. I guess they figured it would be a bad influence on the kidies.

[rustydog1236]

"Let's go around back where we cant see 'em!" LOL! 1:18 That is funee...

[PattyObrien616]

DAMN!!! I GOTTA GET ME SOME WINSTONS!!

[JakeSullyAvatar1]

anyways u know that disney is evil

go and check the video called disney is evil

[Muffincakeswithsugar]

smoking is for losers

[Chris242tt]

Actually its funny when someone who never smokes gets lung issues and a smoker stays healthy! HA HA

[xXfainarufantajiXx]

Sorry to say, but it is. In most every video I see of Mick Jagger, he was smoking, and he's alive, healthy, and touring!

[imrama]

@Muffincakeswithsugar I smoke and im a winner!!

[ometta7]

I brought this commercial up to my dad while trying to explain to him that his generation was as fucked up as mine, and he said that most cartoons in that era were targeted toward adults. I smoke, I smoke like a fucking frieght train, but I doubt television had anything to do with it. My dad's ranting about society and how everything affects everything that ensues after he passive-agressively turns off his tv after one word is interrupted might be a more likely reason.

[jazistica]

I just keep remembering those cereal commercials. lol Times sure have changed....

[ishigum]

Actually, a lot of cartoon characters back in the day would light up. I've seen Pink Panther and Bugs Bunny to name a couple, though they didn't advertise them, it was just the norm back then...

[metalWeirdo77]

until you die of prehistoric lung cancer!

[WhatItDoShamoo]

cigarettes... to children's vitamins and live action films.

ahh... got to love progress. hahaha

[charlesgein]

hahahahaha, "Let's go around back so we can't see them" hahahahaaha!!!!

[Saintnick90]

At 1:16, Bedrock citizens start dying of lung cancer.

[CaptainAndrew1991]

I loled.

[acdc1287]

people who smoke are retards!!

[vanrkid93]

agreed i can't stand the smell of it.

[EddyGriff]

Excuse me? My dad happens to smoke and so do my brothers and I'd thank you to keep your ignorant comments to yourself

[acdc1287]

sucks for them

[EddyGriff]

Not really. They smoke by choice,knowing the risks

[sombrax3531]

No no no they are boder line retarded

[EddyGriff]

No actually they have high IQs and are nowhere near the border of autism. It's hilarious how you guys try to take shots at my family while knowing nothing about them. Keep them coming I love a good laugh

[nurbSoldier]

Autism has nothing to do with IQ, anymore than heart disease

[YaKristina]

ну дела...

[wrangloctopus]

right, cause the whole world is going about their ways with your intentions and feelings on their minds'

[turduckenband]

omg does he!, you better dump him quick smart!!

[yesgirl12]

Well hey the company said

"We keep you on you advertise us."

[straightlikethat09]

sexist

[Dimefan91]

Like a wise man once said, Cartoons don't encourage kids to smoke, kids smoke for the same reasons adults do... BECAUSE IT RELIEVES STRESS AND DEPRESSION!!! George Carlin.

[conformistkiller666]

taste gooooooooooooooood

[HennoGarvey]

It ridiculous to suggest that advertising encourages people to smoke.

Here in Britain, tobacco advertising was banned years ago - guess what?

We now have more people smoking than ever before. Kids,adults...

They put the prices up, way more expensive than anywhere in USA or Europe, yet people STILL continue to smoke.

So they banned it everywhere, pubs, clubs, restraunts....

And the result? Well, just walk past a British school.

The kids don't even bother to hide and smoke these days.

[EddyGriff]

Wow lol Britain has some raw kids then lol! Smoking on campus in America gets you kicked out of school *which I'm sure you knew*.

[DimensionalMaster]

Smoking is shit

[huxlii]

Smoking is good for you!

Nicotine is a poision, it kills germs, and by the time it gets round to killing you, exhuast fumes and pollution will have already signed away your death warrant.

[ryudragon7]

OMG my life's a lie I cannever look at th flintstones the same way again. lol what a shock.

[Elite20001]

It's just another way the tabbacco companys target youths and it's affective. But it still is funny.

[yellowdart137]

you need to understand that the flintstones was watched by a fair number of adults too. the selection of broadcasting was nowhere near what it is today. tobacco was advertised just like everything else. not to mention the many other harmful products they had in those days.

//that made it fun.

[fatmanjumprope]

lol Cigarettes in the stone ages??? lol did I miss that factory while watching?

[invincibleironman3]

this isnt really controversial. There were characters that had cigarette holders, and I believe Mr. Spacely on Jetsons had a cigar.

[Perktube1]

I hate to see the girls work so hard.. Eh, let's go around back where we can't see'um.

[Perktube1]

Lol, if Flintstones were popular today they'd be doing Geico commercials lol.

[LegoWiiMan]

They already did that. :P

[gymbo88]

Should have been called "Winstone" cigarettes.

[FutileFreakX]

are those Cigarettes really that big?

there like the size of his head!

[EnflamedSilhouette]

Awesome

[xdickwhiskeyx]

ARE YOU SMOKING YET??

[LanguorousLass]

Just an early form of product placement. We've got stuff that's just as outrageous these days.

[QuebecoisWolf]

Yeah, but this is a particularly crude extreme. Aside from the fact that cavemen are smoking cigarettes, the cigarette artwork is so glaringly different from the cartoon that it sticks out like a bad photoshop. Something comparably outrageous would be Darth Vader driving around in the new 2010 Ford Explorer while monologuing about handling, safety features, and fuel mileage. Ideally, this scene would occur in the middle of the movie and have absolutely nothing to do with the plot.

[Lobstarbudy]

lol just like jeremy clarkson in a darth vader cpstume, lol

[Hiryu7777]

Damn, can you say Advertising whores?

[SteevDragon67]

shame on you fred and barney! one for being lazy slobs (wilma and betty do all the work) and two for promoting cigarettes! this from the guys who would later hawk fruity and cocoa pebbles, and flintstone vitamins (two kids products!)

[eggheadartist]

it's almost as if they have some type of hidden agenda, but what? lol

[nabnew]

a kids cartoon advertising a ciggerette? but then again they didnt know it was bad

[HereticMocculta]

i totally didn't see the ad campaign! how clever!

א____________א

[fstwrtr]

well i was going to put the wood to wilma, while fred was at the rock quarry. but now I see she is a smoker.. totally out of the question

[jordybeauala]

fuck winston

my grandpa used to smoke those

its all bout marlboro

!

[circamaniac11]

i uhh...didnt knwo they had cigarettes back inthe stone age....huh

[maj212212]

dont you know their theme song

their the MODERN stoneage family

[ronny2471]

I'm ashbarassed of all bupid stastards, not to mention emamed of you wuckfads, you fothermuckers and you shiece of pit sockcuckers. sheat my it! bick my lalls! If your not bicking my lalls you can ho to gell! you ho to gell and you ducking fie!!!!!! tritches be bippin'.

[tunifang]

what the hell kind of man makes his wife work in the sun like that? pushing a lawn. why does not he with his over weight self do it? all he does is sit on a dinosaur all day.

[davidls11]

Tunifang, that's why they called them "the good old days". :)