# Has any show's promotional product out lasted Flintstones Gummies? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** commercials-ads\ **Created:** [March 31, 2026, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906 "2026-03-31T13:32:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![ricepad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b38774/32.png) [@ricepad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ricepad)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/43 "2026-03-31T16:12:41Z")
Yeah, you got that right. There are few canned vegetables that I buy, and I have never even looked for canned spinach! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/44 "2026-03-31T16:25:28Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Peter Pan peanut butter was named in 1928. That’s sort of a reverse situation of the one(s) presented in this thread: the peanut butter previously existed under different names and had its name changed to capitalize on the character’s popularity. ETA: [J. M. Barrie reportedly wasn’t even aware of the renaming.](https://www.madeinchicagomuseum.com/single-post/e-k-pond-peter-pan/) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/45 "2026-03-31T16:30:45Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Peter Pan peanut butter was named in 1928. And Peter Pan Bus Lines was named in 1933. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/46 "2026-03-31T16:53:41Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > That’s sort of a reverse situation of the one(s) presented in this thread: the peanut butter previously existed under different names and had its name changed to capitalize on the character’s popularity. I’m not sure how that’s much different: Miles Laboratories had a chewable vitamin called Chocks that predated Flintstones Vitamins (which were clearly named to capitalize on the popularity of the Flintstones which was already off the air by 1968). > **[Miles Laboratories](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Laboratories)** > > Miles Laboratories (originally the Dr. Miles Medical Company) was a pharmaceutical company founded in Elkhart, Indiana, in 1884 by Dr. Franklin L. Miles, a specialist in the treatment of eye and ear disorders, with an interest in the connection of the nervous system to overall health. The company is known for inventing products such as Alka-Seltzer and One-A-Day vitamins. > Miles operated as an independent firm from 1884 until 1979 and as a wholly owned subsidiary of Bayer AG from 1979 until 1995.... ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/47 "2026-03-31T17:06:58Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > Miles Laboratories had a chewable vitamin called Chocks that predated Flintstones Vitamins [Chocks and Flintstones existed concurrently](https://www.bionicdisco.com/2017/04/13/70s-spots-chocks-bugs-bunny-1974-rexall-vitamins-1975/) whereas Peter Pan was a direct renaming with virtually nothing to do with the progenitor. In short: [the vitamins are a licensed product](https://www.stitchedinsights.com/blog/2018/12/18/how-decades-of-product-launches-reveal-the-role-imagination-plays-in-success-and-why-businesses-cant-afford-to-ignore-it) whereas the peanut butter isn’t (or at least didn’t originate as one). ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/48 "2026-03-31T18:26:05Z")
Pluto has a Lamb Chop toy that he enjoys tossing in the air and catching. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/49 "2026-03-31T19:02:58Z")
“Lamb chop” as in a plastic piece of meat & bone, or “Lamb Chop” as in a plush toy lamb animal. Either would be great fun for a dog. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/50 "2026-03-31T19:13:12Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > “Lamb chop” as in a plastic piece of meat & bone, or “Lamb Chop” as in a plush toy lamb animal. The latter. Googling “lamb chop dog toy” returns lots and lots of things that look like this: [![](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-yivsuh2/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/5404/15284/Lamb-Chop-10.5in-Original-Website_NEW-1024x731__00414.1747265007.png?c=2) ](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-yivsuh2/images/stencil/1280x1280/products/5404/15284/Lamb-Chop-10.5in-Original-Website_NEW-1024x731__00414.1747265007.png?c=2) ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/51 "2026-03-31T19:53:59Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > chewable vitamin called Chocks Lol, that’s a terrible/ific name for the chalkiest thing a kid eats all day. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/52 "2026-03-31T19:59:11Z")
They could have just called them mini Necco wafers. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/53 "2026-03-31T20:36:05Z")
My first thought was Popeyes Spinach. My favorite canned spinach. ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/54 "2026-03-31T20:41:15Z")
I see those all the time, and I never made the connection; I only vaguely knew that at some point in the past there had been a TV character called “Lambchop!” ---
**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:** [April 1, 2026, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/55 "2026-04-01T00:55:07Z")
The _Buster Brown_ comic strip ran in 1902, and Buster Brown Shoes date from 1904. They seem to be still around. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/56 "2026-04-01T02:10:43Z")
That’s the winner in my book. _Buster Brown_ and _The Yellow Kid_ cartoonist, Richard F. Outcault was raking in $75,000 a year in merchandising in 1905! That’s almost $3 million in 2026 dollars. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/57 "2026-04-01T10:24:47Z")
Per Wiki the Buster Brown comics were published until 1923. So the shoes’ production has now outlasted the comics by 103 years. AIUI that’s the measure of merit the OP is asking for: years from end of media property production to end of spinoff product production (or to today for spinoffs still in production). The corresponding numbers for Flintstones vitamins are 1966 to now equals 60 years. Not even close. I agree w @Elmer_J.Fudd that we’re real unlikely to find anything to defeat Buster Brown. Great find there @RealityChuck! Media to promo product tie-ins were fairly new ideas in the early 20th century. Maybe the very earliest in the 1880s. So to beat Buster Brown we’d need to find something that is still in production now based off a media property that ended before 1923. Or assuming my 1880 cut-off is legit, some media property that ended then whose spin-off product lasted beyond 103 years later; so 1984 or later. Or something in between those two edge cases. Tall order IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 10:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/58 "2026-04-01T10:42:48Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > I’m not sure how that’s much different: Miles Laboratories had a chewable vitamin called Chocks that predated Flintstones Vitamins (which were clearly named to capitalize on the popularity of the Flintstones which was already off the air by 1968). I remember Chocks. The advertisements anyway. Must have been the same thing as Flintstones; as I recall (and I could be wrong), Chocks vitamins disappeared at about the same time as Flintstones vitamins appeared. Same thing, different packaging? ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/59 "2026-04-01T11:24:54Z")
> [@hogarth](#): > > a chewable vitamin called Chocks… Wow. Now _there’s_ a product I have not thought of in 50+ years. I recall Chocks being packaged in a glass bottle with a rubber stopper-type cap. mmm ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/60 "2026-04-01T11:27:17Z")
There’s FAB and ZOOM iced lollies in the UK. Zoom was originally a tie-in to the show _Fireball XL5_. FAB was originally a tie-in to _Thunderbirds_. > **[Fab (brand)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fab_(brand))** > > Fab is a strawberry, vanilla and chocolate flavoured ice lolly made by Froneri. Like its precursor, Zoom, it was introduced by J. Lyons and Co. in the 1960s to capitalise on the popularity of the children's television series of Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, principally Thunderbirds. > Zoom was launched first, in April to May 1963, to tie into the Andersons' space series Fireball XL5. Fab followed in May 1967. Zoom was rocket-themed and marketed at boys, leaving a niche for girls. This was filled b... ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/61 "2026-04-01T11:54:51Z")
Chocks apparently existed for a number of years back into the 1950s. So before my time. I don’t remember what brand Mom fed us as kids, but it wasn’t Chocks. I can still “see” the shape and colors of the pills & remember getting the “These aren’t candy” briefing. I must have been ~4. Try this link for a real nostalgia hit: **[Chocks vitamins - Google Image Search](https://www.google.com/search?q=Chocks+vitamins&hl=en&source=hp&oq=Chocks+vitamins&sclient=img&udm=2)**. ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2026, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906/62 "2026-04-01T12:03:18Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Per Wiki the Buster Brown comics were published until 1923. So the shoes’ production has now outlasted the comics by 103 years. My internet search for Buster Brown shoes has come up basically empty; all I see is Etsy pages or people selling reproductions. Does the Caleres company actually still make them? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-any-shows-promotional-product-out-lasted-flintstones-gummies/1028906.md?page=4)