Yep. Back then it was prime time. I was born in 77 so it was a few years before my time. This made my day it was so funny. Btw Busch beer is nasty 😜

@@christineferreira2181 - Ha! I was born in 1958, grew up when television was King, and watched more than my share of television and the Flintstones (NY Metro Market), and never saw this commercial. My "Go To" beer when I turned 18 (1976) was "The King of Beers" (Budweiser) , and i was loyal to to the Brand back then, but if i had seen Fred and Barney shilling for Busch, i prolly woulda wasted a six-pack just to support the effort!🍺

@cmans79tr7 Well now I have an excuse for my Fruity/Cocoa Pebbles vice 🙂

@@christineferreira2181 Busch lite fan here , it’s better .

@SS I think I’ll take your word for it. I prefer wine anyway. Especially red. And no sweet wine. I want to see a wine commercial now with cartoon characters. Like Beth Smith who’s a big wine drinker in a prime time show.

Worked then and it works now

You know any other way?

Get them high as well

Seeing an ad of Fred and Barney promoting a dispensary would be amazing

@@ThrilloVanHouten The XXX-rated Flintbones movie was pretty great, too! With wives Reddy & Willing (and lots of "Busch"!), plus adult children Puddles & Gang Bang, boss Mr. Straight and hot alien babe the Grand Wazoo! I asked Ron "Red Flintbone" Jeremy about it and he said it's where they learned how to do comedy in porn! (Hint: don't do jokes during the sex scenes!) But you're right -- who else would be better at getting people "stoned"? (And maybe help them get off of "rock" before they enter a lethal "ice age"!)

Even weirder, a beer ad showing someone hallucinating from the product!?!

R U still drunk 🥴 🤪 🙃?

@@galewinds7696 Legend has it, he's still drunk!

I'm mad that the bird didn't say "It's a living."

ba dum tss

*throws you out like Dino throwing out Fred*

Rolling Rock on the Roll 'n' Rocker

@@ExtremeWreckYe-heah! Rolling rock ON the Rollin’ Rocker! I’m driving tonight, Barn. Give me a Mowden Dew.

They never got drunk -- just stoned...

AllHailTheAnimeLover That's something people from my generation forward never would have known. Turns out, That was true of many cartoons from before the 90s.

+AllHailTheAnimeLover youre right the cerators even said so themselves

The Flintstones is pretty clean for a TV-MA show.

+Josh Montemayor It was on TV well before the modern ratings system came into effect. It would probably be rated Y or Y7 if it were on today.

+AllHailTheAnimeLover Back in those days, most cartoons WERE made primarily for adults, which is part of why it annoys me so to hear people say that cartoons and animation are "for kids." And even the kid's cartoons are made primarily by adults too. And obviously, there is still a market for adult cartoons, as demonstrated by the success of shows like The Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Beavis & Butthead, and South Park.

Hahahahaha I thought 💭 the same thing

ROTFLMAO

Yup,the good 'ol unhealthy days,sure miss 'em.

Indeed it is

@@ericbeaulieu4843 And now idiots smoke weed because of dumb hollywood movies :)

I'd love to see a Fred & Barney video where they are using/selling recreational marijuana.

Darn tootin'.

LordQuadros Why did I just think the same thing.

LMFAO

LOL

LordQuadros Oh shit ! LOL

The animators, the ad team, and the clients - drunk out of their minds too!

Hyes

Cactus juice'll quench ya. It's the quenchiest!

Lean

I think one of them is implied being alcohol?. I assume its the Rock Cola, which is why Fred freaked out when he went to the party and it got served cactus juice rather than Rock Cola. Because in context that would mean the children's party got the Rock Cola instead of Cactus Juice

Wouldn't cactus juice be tequila?

Surprising it would've been shown at ANY, unless it was one of those industrials that got such a reputation that exhibitors asked for it. You can see it's made not for consumers but for the trade. Once in a while such a thing does happen. Another example I know of was the in-house parody of a Calgon Bubble Bath TV commercial (the child actor's part taken by a brand manager and using the original sound track) that slipped out onto TV, where it was invited back due to popular demand.

I didn't know that. Maybe that's why I don't remember it from tv.

Wow so this ad is pretty rare

It wouldn't be the first time they've switched voices. Betty and Wilma have done it to.

@@dezeraejames7934 its common in cartoons to do that

@@dezeraejames7934 In several early episodes, Barney had a more Whitney nasally sounding voice.

*1:05

Dunno who is the worse boss, Mr. Slate or Spacely Sprocket

Unions can be as bad or worse than an abusive boss. The UCFW is ran like a socialist dictatorship. They treat everyone equally without regard for experience , education or work ethic while the union big shots rake in dues to fatten their own wallets.

This is funny to me. My husband works for a company that’s union (Teamsters to be exact). My husband is against unions, but he needs his job and pays the dues, but we rarely go to the gatherings they have. The last one was maybe 3 years ago.

Lol, this is actually pretty clever when you think about it.

@@ccricers Spacely by a landslide.

Durrrrrr ..... thanks for stating the obvious Cartoon King.

So says Wendy. Go lap a dog's dart.

I have a pussy, does that count?

I do! what do you call yours?

Yaba daba doooo!

And Welch's grape juice

I would bet you're wrong. So many cartoon characters or series were used to advertise one or the other, I would think chances are great there'd've been some to advertise both. Barney Google would be my guess.

And vitamins

Jonny Quest advertised sneakers (PF Flyers, if I recall correctly). Winchester or Remington could have used Race to sell ammo.

You didn't see the earlier part, where their bartender friend had to go an errand, and asked Fred and Barney to watch the place for them (and earn a few bucks doing that little favor).

Flintstones are gay

no habría sido mala idea.

Four Zero Four Error Fred and Barney were happily married and did not stray. Betty couldn't have kids that's why they adopted Bam-Bam. And it took awhile for Wilma to finally get pregnant. It wouldn't make sense for Fred and Barney to do a condom commercial. However, I can see them now doing a Viagra one.

Knowing the show, maybe it wasn't Betty who was incapable but BARNEY for not having biological kids.

Four Zero Four Error your a few years early for that.

One of their other sponsors must've been crack cocaine.

The Flintstones advertised Winston cigarettes, not cigars.

I also herd condoms in the comments

Was he a budwiser guy

What was the reason?

Terrence Nowicki, Hell yeah, Some men prefer heavy construction and do not want to listen to someone's BS problems....LOL!

It was a conservative show made by Republican leaning writers and animators. The show was a way to make people feel like there problems don't matter in the long run and that they should just get back to working for there corrupt business overlords. Luckily shows like that aren't as popular today. Even if they were, Millenials wouldn't fall for it. However GenZ has brought about a group of new wave adults who don't seem to understand that time is valuable. They are undoubtedly going to become obedient puppies like this in the coming decade. Sure they say "YOLO" now, but they will fall into place when they're no longer able to afford there phones and cars.

Jason, I was around when these were made and you couldn't be further from the truth, You are such a tool it's cringe...

@@jasonmnosaj Republicans ! lol what a tool. lol

@@jasonmnosaj Sad how if you even say the word "Republican", the right-wingers automatically take the offensive, without even investigating your point. America celebrates entrepreneurship and capitalism. This entire segment of the famous cartoon clearly flies in the face of the individual spirit which should be every American's dream, and instead encourages them to not trouble their lives in pursuit of individual wealth, no, please leave that to the corporate owners. Settle for menial work and accept your lot in life. Which in short, has long been the conservative mantra.

Well the designs look more like the '70s ones when the Flintstones started to be marketed more for kids.

Pacifica Northwest that's the best type of bush tho

@@Mr.Obongo LOL!!!

😂😂😂

The problem is, today the ad would be for some "craft" Alfalfa pale ale; not anything actually resembling beer. Also, Fred & Barney would have to be............ VERY different, to reflect the current political and cultural insanity prevalent now.

“The Grove Tavern-Type Inn Bar Grill Lounge Pub Saloon”, to be exact.

Not to mention that this was after Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm arrived.

Can I please go to a Flintstones-related video without SiIvaGunner memes? I guess this is what I get for going on TV Tropes…

The born of memes cannot be controlled

Ben O'Connor n

Barney: The only one who'll hang out with me, is my dear ol' GRAND DAD! 'cause I drink alone!

Ben O'Connor Ikr. Its so anoyying. I like Silvia but stfu pls...also we talked before.

Too long to go into here, but look up Mark Twain's story about a man who couldn't say "Sasparila" after having "enough" whiskey to drink .

Ikr even the 80s one would do

Well, Barney DID say one of those beers was on the house.

Gazllll

He....put it on the Slate.

Wait a minute! 1:39 Izzat Slate coming into the bar for a morning drink? 😱

or an Old Milrockee

He's supposed to be a "bartender" (like Jackie Gleason's "Joe the Bartender").

+William true Excuse me? uptight right wing? i think you mean all the left wing soccer moms.......

+William true You mean LEFT wing! They are sensitive about everything and the reason why America is so PC this decade

+Dean O I think the reasoning is that the left wing have always said parents are responsible for their children, therefore showing this does not make children drink beer so who cares. Left wing does not equal uptight by the way, it equals traditional values. In traditional values people were held accountable for their own acctions. Right wing, however, are the ones who day 'we can't offend anyone', 'we can't expect those poor parents out there to raise their kids ;_:' and 'we can't expect kids to ever pick the right thing!' However, I think the real lesson here is this... left wing, right wing, really they are the same thing. They don't actually adhere to any values in and of themselves, but are designed to change in accordance to whatever the culture is so that they can ever be at the opposite ends. IE if culture tells us alcohol is okay left will attack censorship of the industry, right will complain about how some minority religions don't like alcohol and we should be sensitive. If our culture says that alcohol is bad, the left will be all 'it's a sign of corruption!' and the right will be all 'it's suppressing our rights' That's why all this left and right nonsense needs to be put to rest, with each subject being evaluated on its own merit. There are some cases where we should be more liberal and some cases where we should be more conservative, as we understand the terms at this moment.

Right-wing? Don't you mean left-wing?

Cigarette commercials haven't been allowed on tv for decades so it's a moot point. Plenty of folks on all sides of the political spectrum would be against propaganda for such a deadly product.

I wanna see that

more markup

That's not a commercial, it's a short shown internally at Busch Beer as a thank you present for the employees

You traded your freedom to corporations to drown in advertisements. How else would you have sat through a 4 minute commercial?

@@BishtrainerTai16 I think you are missing the point.

What is meant to do lol

Barney invented cactus coola or cooler...forget but it's something like that.

In Season 5 episode 4 Fred specifically mentions “Cactus Juice” (And yeah I know I have too much time on my hands)

They weren't allowed to drink in the show, so it was Cactus Juice for non-alcoholic, and Cactus Cola for "adult beverage"

Yup. Notice nobody cares?

He was emulating Jackie Gleason as a bartender. He changes it back at the end. :)

+GhostAnjo Hi Mabel

icecream hero Hi Bart

GhostAnjo where is Waddles

+icecream hero SEEMPSONS!?!

Melon Scumpthin I'm Bart Simpson who the He** are you

How so?

Yes sir

Yes, they did produce a number of sales and promotional films during the 1960's- including another appearance by Fred and Barney in a 1968 Aurora Toys sales film.

@@fromthesidelines The Flintstones promoted a beverage mixer called Yabba Dabba Dew back in the late 70s and early 80s.

Except kids can watch The Flintstones with no problem, even the pre-Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm episodes.

THANK GOD for youtube huh lol

I thought they only advertise cigarrettes only.

no they just made being cogs in the machine sound good

Originally it was not aired for kids...

Why not both? You'll gamble better that way. Or at least more.

It's a wonder he's alive today.

He changed his ways, got clean, and sold vitamins.