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As many know, The Honeymooners inspired The Flintstones, but more specifically, the cartoon was a hybrid of the classic Jackie Gleason sitcom and popular newspaper comic strip.In his memoir Lou Scheimer: Creating the Filmation Generation, Scheimer, one of the creators of the Filmation animation studio, remembers the moment the light bulb went off over somebody's head. He was working for Hanna-Barbera at the time.
"I was doing layouts in a little closet next to where the writers were," Scheimer recalled. "One day a writer named Charlie Shows came in…. He said, 'I've got a great idea! You take The Honeymooners, and you take Alley Oop, and you put them together, and you've got a great story!'"
Launched in 1932, Alley Oop revolved around a caveman named Alley Oop living in a prehistoric kingdom of Moo. He wore a loincloth and owned a pet dinosaur named Dinny. Sound a little familiar?Check Out:
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