The Flintstones/Winston Including Rocky (4 Part Video)

[brotherbear000]

Back then, all packs of cigarettes were sold already open, with a delicious cigarette sticking out of the box, ready for you to grab and enjoy!!

[JakeLL]

Winston does taste good like a cigarette should

[BONOBOS48]

The Flintstones for my new entrepreneurial endeavor, Acapulco Goldies!

[blackwingangel04]

Dude...He didn't pay for the fucking cigarettes!

[DarPower1]

Boy am i so fucking glad i grew up in the 21st century

[MsPokeyman]

The Flintstones were never actually a kid cartoon if you watch all of them now and get the meaning of all they said. I laughed as a kid as with the Jetsons.

Check them out and see! LOL

[MsPokeyman]

this is classic TV I love it 

[retrounderground1]

Shouldn't they be called WINSTONE Cigarettes? LOL

[busyhands94]

those were the good old days before liberals got to our cartoons.I used to roll my own cigarettes, i would have someone buy me some loose tobacco and papers. come to think of it as an ex smoker It was my fault i started smoking, not American Spirit's fault that i was a smoker. it was my fault i started, my fault i was addicted, and my fault i Quit. i was not influenced to smoke by commercials in magazines or anything like that, it was all me. people need to stop blaming innanament objects

[InfiniteMushroom]

It isn't the cigarettes themselves that make these videos a treasure. It's the glimpse into a time when America was free. When we weren't being plagued by all these lifestyle Nazis that seem to be everywhere.

I've learned to prefer the company of a Dead Head, who tokes up from time to time, over some anal health nut who is squeaky clean and wants everybody to know it.

[busyhands94]

i agree, i wish America was like it used to be.

[tbear4pa]

Actually, in early 1963, the sponsor for that show was switched from Winston cigarettes, to Welch's grape juice and that was when Pebbles was born, and then the show from that point on was primarily directed toward kids. Prior to that, it was actually directed toward adults in 1961 through 1962 with all of those cigarette commercials.

[UndercoverObserver]

Ahh life before the libs got to it. Fred hawking Winstons is classic Tv. I love these old ads. They are edited out even on the reguklation free Boomerang. I wish I was around to see these Tv cigarette ads when they were new. I watched this show only in reruns in the 1970s. I smoke and I enjoy it too much to quit.

[431516020205]

the thing is, they knew kids were watching these cartoons adult or not. i watched them when they came out too, and im a smoker.

[rayssonation]

In 1960,THE FLINTSTONES was telecast in black and white and it remained that way for its first 2 seasons until 1962. The earlier were filmed in color,but ABC telecast it in black and white. The series didn't made the color telecast until 1962.

[MrDemolitionMan]

Fred never paid Rocky for his cigarettes!

Was the Flintstones in b&w when it first started, or was it just these ads?

Did they ever smoke in the show itself?

[shadejford]

I've seen the men smoke cigars.//Fred probably had a credit set up at Rocky's store.

[JoakimOgami]

Thanks a bunch for uploading this ! =)

[moviedudeinc]

Winston,for a KIDS show???? please,come on!!!

[InfiniteMushroom]

Back then, the Flintstones were on in the evening. It was a cartoon version of The Honeymooners, hence it was great entertainment for the adults as well as the kids. Back then, we didn't fear cigarettes. We knew cigs and booze were bad for us but, we weren't stampeded into an Orwellian hate orgy against smokers like it is today. TV shows designed to stupefy kids is far more harmful than the cig commercials ever were.

[cmf281]

If you think stupid cartoons are worse than cigs. sind some time working in a cancer ward.

[hanniballecturer]

ever see what the cost of the diseases from cigarettes cost us each year? Is it really orwellian to consciously alter people's self destructive behaviors?

[johnp0729]

@InfiniteMushroom That last part of the comment is so true, my 7 year old sister is addicted to the disney channel and let me tell you, she's brainwashed with stupidity.

[InfiniteMushroom]

@johnp0729 I know the Disney Channel is a psy op created to turn kids minds into mush but, PBS Kids positively vacuums the mind!

Here's the cure for your sister... get some DVD's of the old Gong Show. It is brilliantly campy. A far cry from engineered stupidity of today's kids shows.

[ryan152342]

In the 60's primetime shows promoted cigarettes because that is what was making the most money back then and its was never intended for kids until later when it was taken off the air and turned into a afternoon cartoon in the late 60's

[summer4autumn]

Classic shit. America in 1960....gotta love it.

[66richardson]

God I'm glad smoking ads are illegal nowadays!

[BIKabballa]

Winston Tastes Good Like A, Cigarette Should! Back then maybe. They taste like shit now.

[busyhands94]

i agree, i am glad i stopped smoking cause cigs taste bad and make your cloths stink

[ilovepokemon1969]

now do it in color

[ilovepokemon1969]

my mom seen this!

[JustinaLynn]

LOL!!!! if it was today....

Fred: Winstons please?

Rocky: ok, let me see your ID please?

[ShelbyBeth25]

ginakjkj

[LtGiant]

The Flintstones Is The Only Cartoon That Had Winston Cigarettes As Their Sponsor!!!!!

I Miss Watching The Flintstones As Reruns Everyday!!!

[InfiniteMushroom]

OMG, I so remember the relative innocence of the times, when cig commercials were common and we were free to smoke. Yes, the gov't told us about lung cancer but, it just made us feel good that Uncle Sam was watching out for us. We didn't fear cigs or our gov't back then. I especially love the last minute of this clip because of the happy but soothing music and the comedy of the middle class experience in Old America.

[InfiniteMushroom]

OMG, I so remember the relative innocence of the times, when cig commercials were common and we were free to smoke without Orwellian social ostracizing. Yes, the gov't told us about lung cancer but, it just made us feel good knowing that Uncle Sam was watching out for us. We didn't fear cigs or our gov't back then. I especially love the last minute of this clip because of the happy music and the comedy of the middle class experience in the Old American Republic.

[HelmutHedd]

As a child in the 60's and 70's, I understood cigarettes (and the ads)were for adults, not children. When I started smoking, ads weren't what convinced me to continue. Tobacco companies weren't responsible for me smoking - I WAS. As an ex-smoker, if I die of lung cancer, it is my own fault, not big tobacco companies. Nobody has ever been forced to smoke to my knowledge.

[Forcemaster2000]

People always use commercials like these to say that tobacco companies try to get children to smoke...the fact is though that the Flintstones were made for adults, and showed during primetime when kids weren't supposed to be watching television. It wasn't until the Flintstones began showing in syndication during the day that kids started watching them.

[jbSoR]

This is incorrect. I was a kid when The Flintstones were on in the evenings, and not only watched routinely, but tons of kids in my gradeschool always watched as well. It was a popular show for children, even though it was one of those shows written with multiple layers (like The Simpsons today). To pretend that tobacco companies didn't want EVERYone to smoke, no matter the age, is naive.

[fromthesidelines]

There were "integrated commercials" [with sponsor I.D.'s and a closing credit featuring a "Winston" billboard] seen at the end of "FLINTSTONES" episodes that were sponsored by R.J. Reynolds {Winston} between 1960 and '62. At the time, it was the custom of the sponsor to have the star of the their show deliver a "pitch" for their product at the end of every episode- and "Fred Flintstone" was no exception...