# Fred And Barney Sell Beer **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** beer\ **Created:** [January 20, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143 "2012-01-20T16:30:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![AndyLee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/898d66/32.png) [@AndyLee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyLee)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/1 "2012-01-20T16:30:45Z")
And what beer do they sell? Busch Beer See link for answer [From You Tube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEZGaLlLfcY&feature=BFa&list=FL40ZGrK6ICLZiKkSzKy6VHw&lf=plpp_video) So what do you all think? Is this an acceptable product to sell? Does it make you like them more or less? And yes, I know it was for a promotional video not intended for the public but the company private use. Leeked only some 50 years later 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![MadTheSwine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9fc29f/32.png) [@MadTheSwine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MadTheSwine)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/2 "2012-01-20T17:12:14Z")
Along with Winston Cigs. [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdHSIquSHMw) ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/3 "2012-01-20T17:22:55Z")
It was a different time. It wouldn’t have fazed me to see the Flintstones in a beer commercial, any more than those cartoon bears hawking Hamm’s. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/4 "2012-01-20T17:29:20Z")
Cartoons are not solely kid material; Barney and Fred hawking beer was no different from a character from any of the 60s sitcoms doing it. The assumption that cartoons and comics are just for kids is balderdash of the most dangerous sort. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/5 "2012-01-20T17:41:20Z")
You do know Fred and Barney also used to hawk Winston Cigarettes? Winston, in fact, sponsored “The Flintstones” during its first two seasons before they switched to the more family-friendly Welch’s Grape Juice. (And I look down and see MadTheSwine mentioned Winston Cigarettes before I did.) ---
**Author:** ![Suburban\_Plankton](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suburban_plankton/32/219_2.png) [@Suburban\_Plankton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suburban_Plankton)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/6 "2012-01-20T19:13:37Z")
The Flintstones was not originally a Saturday morning or after-school cartoon; It was a prime time sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/7 "2012-01-20T19:31:41Z")
Sure, why not? Thanks, Andylee, that was cool. ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/8 "2012-01-20T20:17:21Z")
My favorite part of the video is that drinking beer makes a magic disembodied hand pat you on the head while a soothing woman’s voice tells you she’ll make it all better. Beer! Making sucky lives bearable since time immemorial. ---
**Author:** ![jz78817](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jz78817/32/1028_2.png) [@jz78817](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jz78817)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/9 "2012-01-20T20:18:05Z")
that’s far better than some of the Disney and Merrie Melodies cartoons that they won’t show anymore. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/10 "2012-01-20T20:21:39Z")
> [@bup](#): > > My favorite part of the video is that drinking beer makes a magic disembodied hand pat you on the head while a soothing woman’s voice tells you she’ll make it all better. Wait, that doesn’t happen for you? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![bup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/6bbea6/32.png) [@bup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bup)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/11 "2012-01-20T20:33:02Z")
> [@carnivorousplant](#): > > Wait, that doesn’t happen for you? 😕 I get Gary Busey. I should probably stop drinking. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/12 "2012-01-20T21:48:43Z")
> [@bup](#): > > I get Gary Busey. > > I should probably stop drinking. Good gad, man, you need to drink more! [LOTS](https://www.google.com/search?q=Gary+Busey&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=xON&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=imvnso&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=GOEZT8SqCcW02AWti5XXCw&ved=0CEkQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=600) more. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2012, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fred-and-barney-sell-beer/610143/13 "2012-01-20T22:01:19Z")
Next time you go to a bar, make sure you bang your fist on the bar and demand service, and when the bartender asks you what kind of beer you want, throw your arms in the air and shout “any kind, you lunkhead, _any kind!_” > [@bup](#): > > My favorite part of the video is that drinking beer makes a magic disembodied hand pat you on the head while a soothing woman’s voice tells you she’ll make it all better. Ten beers later that hand is pointing at some bikers and saying “Kick those pussies asses! You can take them! _Do it!_”