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Pebbles Flintstone

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Pebbles Flintstone
The Flintstones character
Pebbles Flintstone as a baby
First appearance
Created byHanna-Barbera
Voiced byBaby
Jean Vander Pyl (1963–1994)
Rebecca Page (1965)[1]
Lucille Bliss (Strong Kids, Safe Kids)
Robyn Moore (Green's commercials)
Russi Taylor (1993–2019)
Aria Curzon (Cave Kids)
Kath Soucie (The All-New Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show)
Tress MacNeille (Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law)
Child
Jean Vander Pyl (A Flintstone Christmas)
Pamela Anderson (The Flintstones: Little Big League)
Jessica DiCicco (Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs)
Teenager
Sally Struthers (1971–1972, 1976)
Mickey Stevens (1972)
Janet Waldo (1976; Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips)[2]
Patricia Parris (1979, 1980, 1982; Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips)
Russi Taylor (1980–2019)
Grey DeLisle (Johnny Bravo)
Adult
Megan Mullally (I Yabba-Dabba Do! and A Flintstone Family Christmas)
Kath Soucie (Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby)
Elizabeth Banks (Bedrock)
Portrayed byElaine Silver & Melanie Silver (1994 film)
In-universe information
SpeciesCavewoman
GenderFemale
OccupationNone (as a baby/child/teenager)
Advertising agency executive (I Yabba-Dabba Do!)[3]
FamilyFred Flintstone (father)
Wilma Flintstone (mother)
Ed Flintstone (paternal grandfather)[4]
Edna Flintstone (paternal grandmother)[4]
Pearl Slaghoople (maternal grandmother)
Ricky Slaghoople (maternal grandfather)[4]
Mica Slaghoople (maternal aunt)[4]
Mickey Slaghoople (maternal aunt)[4]
Jerry Slaghoople (maternal uncle)[5]
Barney Rubble (godfather/father-in-law)
Betty Rubble (godmother/mother-in-law)
Stony Flintstone (adopted brother; A Flintstone Family Christmas)[6]
SpouseBamm-Bamm Rubble (husband)[3]
ChildrenChip Rubble (son; Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby)[7]
Roxy Rubble (daughter; Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby)[7]

Pebbles Flintstone-Rubble is a fictional character in the Flintstones franchise. The red-haired daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles was born near the end of the third season. She is most famous in her infant form on The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in three television films. She spent most of her time with Bamm-Bamm Rubble, her childhood best friend whom she eventually marries.[7]

Fictional character biography

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According to the February 22, 1963, edition of TV Guide, Pebbles was born at the Bedrock Rockapedic Hospital on February 22, 10,000 BC. That particular year was never actually cited within the show itself; most versions of the show put the Flintstones' era as around 1,000,000 BC.[citation needed]

As an infant, Pebbles quickly became lifelong best friends with her next-door neighbor, Bamm-Bamm Rubble.[8]

As a pre-teen, Pebbles was an excellent baseball player, which led to a misadventure involving her father, as seen in the 1978 primetime special The Flintstones: Little Big League.[9]

By the time she was a teenager, Pebbles began dating Bamm-Bamm and was noted for getting their friends into various misadventures, mostly due to sharing her dad's penchant for schemes that would inevitably backfire (such as causing a strike by Bedrock's city employees when she was elected honorary mayor for a week[10]). Her friends and she attended Bedrock High School; Pebbles had a catchphrase similar to her father's: "Yabba-Dabba-Doozie!"[11]

As an adult, Pebbles pursued a career in advertising and married Bamm-Bamm.[3] After this, the newly married couple moved to Hollyrock, a fictional, prehistoric version of Hollywood, California. They eventually had a son named Chip and a daughter named Roxy, who were fraternal twins.[7]

Chronology

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Throughout the different iterations of the Flintstones series, Pebbles' age has varied significantly, depicted as an adolescent in one spin-off and reverting to an infant in the next. Listed approximately in order of release, Pebbles has appeared in the following Flintstones incarnations:

Infant/toddler

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Child/preteen

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Teenager

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Adult

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Character marketing

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In 1963, when Hanna-Barbera decided to add a baby to the show, their first choice was a boy named Fred Junior. When Ideal Toy Company heard this, company executives approached Hanna-Barbera with a proposal to change the baby character to a girl for which the toymaker could create a doll, and Hanna-Barbera agreed.[citation needed]

Pebbles, in her conventional toddler incarnation, is sometimes seen in the various Post Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles cereal commercials that have been produced over the years. Pebbles also appears on the packages of "Flintstones" children's vitamins and with Bamm-Bamm on the packages of "Flintstones" toddler vitamins, which are manufactured by Bayer Healthcare (formerly Miles Laboratories).

Portrayal

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References

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  1. ^ "Hanna-Barbera "HBR" Christmas Records". cartoonresearch.com. Retrieved 11 November 2020.
  2. ^ FLINTSTONES FILMSTRIP SOUNDTRACK Barney Borrows a Book ALAN REED MEL BLANC and SALLY STRUTHERS
  3. ^ a b c I Yabba Dabba Do, 1993, ABC
  4. ^ a b c d e The Flintstone Kids, 1986-1988, ABC
  5. ^ The Flintstones (1994 live-action movie)
  6. ^ A Flintstone Family Christmas, 1993, ABC
  7. ^ a b c d Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby, 1993, ABC
  8. ^ "Little Bamm Bamm," The Flintstones, season 4
  9. ^ Woolery, George W. (1989). Animated TV Specials: The Complete Directory to the First Twenty-Five Years, 1962-1987. Scarecrow Press. pp. 155–156. ISBN 0-8108-2198-2. Retrieved 27 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Mayor May Not," The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, CBS
  11. ^ The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show, 1971-1972, CBS
  12. ^ Solomon, Charles (1993-02-06). "Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm Plan Stone Age Wedding in Bedrock". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
  13. ^ "Jean Vander Pyl; Cartoon Voice of Wilma Flintstone". The Los Angeles Times. 1999-04-15. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
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