Pebbles Flintstone
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Pebbles Flintstone (also known as Pebbles Flintstone-Rubble as an adult) is a fictional character, the red-haired daughter of Fred and Wilma Flintstone. She is most famous in her infant form on the long-running animated TV show The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spinoff The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in two made-for-television movies. She spent most of her time with her best friend and later husband Bamm-Bamm Rubble whom she affectionately nicknames "Bammer."
Pebbles dwelled in the fictional prehistoric city of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexisted with barefoot cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoyed "primitive" versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles and washing machines.
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Pebbles was born at the Bedrock Rockapedic Hospital on February 22, 10,000 B.C. (according to the series' producers, though that particular year was never actually cited within the show itself; most versions of the show put the Flintstones' era as circa 1,000,000 B.C.).
While an infant, the Flintstones' next-door neighbors the Rubbles adopted the super-strength possessing infant Bamm-Bamm; Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm quickly became lifelong play mates.
As a pre-teen, Pebbles was an excellent baseball player, which of course led to a misadventure involving her father Fred (as seen in the primetime special The Flintstones: Little Big League).
By the time she was a teenager, Pebbles was noted for getting her cohort Bamm-Bamm and their friends, Wiggy, Moonrock and Penny, into various misadventures, mostly due to sharing her father'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). She and her friends attended Bedrock High School and she also had a catchphrase similar to Fred's: "Yabba-Dabba-Doosie!"
As an adult, Pebbles pursued a career in advertising and married Bamm-Bamm. After this, the newly-married couple moved to Hollyrock (a fictional prehistoric version of Hollywood, California). They eventually have twin infants, son Chip and daughter Roxy.
[edit] Chronology
Through the various Flintstones incarnations, the age of Pebbles (and Bamm-Bamm) has varied wildly from spinoff to spinoff---appearing as an adolescent in one spinoff and as an infant again in the next. Arranged roughly in chronological order, the Flintstones incarnations Pebbles has made appearances in are as follows:
[edit] Infant/toddler
- The Flintstones
- The Man Called Flintstone
- The New Fred and Barney Show
- The Flintstones' New Neighbors
- The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling
- The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma
- The Flintstones: Jogging Fever
- A Flintstones Christmas Carol
- Cave Kids
[edit] Pre-teen
[edit] Teenager
[edit] Adult
[edit] Character Marketing
In 1963, when Hanna Barbera decided to add a baby to the show, their first choice was a boy. 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. Hanna Barbera agreed.[citation needed]
Pebbles (in her conventional toddler incarnation) is sometimes seen in the various Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles cereal commercials that have been produced over the years.
[edit] Portrayal
- Pebbles as a baby was voiced by Jean Vander Pyl who also played her mother.
- Pebbles has been voiced over the years by Sally Struthers, Mickey Stevens, Pamela Anderson, Russi Taylor, Megan Mullally and Kath Soucie.
- Pebbles appeared in the 1994 live-action Flintstones movie, where she was played by twins Elaine and Melanie Silver.
[edit] Cultural references
- Pebbles (the pop singer) was given the nickname since she resembled Pebbles Flintstone.
- Pebbles was referred to in the Simpsons episode "Lady Bouvier's Lover," where Mr. Burns, on a visit to the Simpsons household, mistakenly believes Maggie to be Pebbles.
- In an episode of Freakazoid!, when an alien asks for the name of Barbie's little sister, Bill Clinton mentions to Freakazoid that he always thought it was Pebbles.
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