The Swanson brand, of TV dinner fame, is owned by Campbell’s, but they spun off the frozen dinner business in 1998 to the company that is now Pinnacle Foods. Pinnacle eventually phased the Swanson name out in favor of Hungry Man, but they still use the name for pot pies, while Campbell’s retains the rights to use the Swanson name for broths and gravies.
Not exactly the same thing but I always found it funny that The Flintstones was a 60s TV show that last had any real relevance in the 90s and hasn’t had any major cultural products hit big since then and is now best known as a brand of chewable vitamins where the majority of its consumers are too young to have any awareness that it was ever a TV show in the first place.
Off topic, but I think that Fruity Pebbles is still around.
This may deserve its own thread.
Yes, Fruity Pebbles, Cocoa Pebbles, and even Berry Pebbles; I saw them all yesterday. That’s why I mentioned them in this thread; sugary cereals aimed at children, with mascots that no one under 50 will recognize.
And they’re Post, not Kellogg’s.
Under 50?! Under 30, perhaps.
Still around. Available either in chewable tablets, or as gummies. Walmart, Walgreens, and Target all carry them. They were originally made by Miles Laboratories, which was bought out by Bayer.
I’m 58, and I remember seeing episodes of The Flintstones when I was a kid, but they were reruns even then. Seems as though they were gone from the airwaves by about when i was in high school.
Interesting question; how old do you have to be to recognize Fred and Barney?
I’m 43 and have watched a large number of hours of the Flintstones.
I don’t know about my kids’ familiarity though, I’ll have to ask; I would assume they would have knowledge through cultural osmosis at least… But I don’t recall ever watching any Flintstones episodes with them.
I’m 44 and I definitely remember watching Flintstones reruns as a kid (I probably wasn’t even aware that they were reruns at the time; it was the first time I had seen them).
I also remember in the early 1990s Hardee’s had a promotional tie-in to celebrate The Flintstones turning 30. They had collectible glasses depicting different milestones in the show, like the birth of Bam-Bam. I think each glass was a few dollars with purchase of a meal, and they had a different one each week. I’m pretty sure my parents still have a few of them. So it seems like The Flintstones were still culturally relevant into 90s.
Come to think of it, wasn’t there a live action Flintstones movie in the late 1990s? Checks Google Yes, there was (although it was actually slightly longer ago than I remembered). It’s got a terrible rating on Rotten Tomatoes.
The Sears Catalog permanently shut its doors in 1993, but Sears licensed the name, and brochures called the Sears Catalog continued to appear in people’s mailboxes for years afterwards.
I guess The Flintstones ran loner than I thought. I’d forgotten there were live-action movies, too.
I stand corrected; been doing that a lot lately.
Wasn’t Bam-Bam left on the Rubbles’ porch when Betty was jealous of Wilma having a baby? Dear God, why do I remember that?
I just checked, and he was left on their doorstep. Apparently the correct spelling is “Bamm-Bamm”.
You’re right. It looks like the four glasses were:
- “Snorkasaurus Story” – The first appearance of Dino.
- “Blessed Event” – The birth of Pebbles.
- “Little Bamm-Bamm” – Bamm-Bamm gets left on the Rubbles’ doorstep.
- “Going to the Drive-In” – Depicts the drive-in from the credits.
Jeeps havent been made by Jeep- aka Willys/Overland since 1970. AMC bought them out, and like you said now Stellantis.
I cant remember that name- but there are two fashion stores for young adults- one started as surplus and the other as high end fishing gear.
American Eagle used to be an outdoor store. I remember when it changed over to a fashion brand store for teens and twenty somethings, I was pissed.
Likewise Abercrombie & Fitch.
speaking of which … Nakamichi is no longer the great high-end audio company it once was …
Neither is Onkyo
And IIRC, Nokia has little to nothing to do with Nokia from 20 years ago
Montgomery Ward started off as a strictly catalogue business before moving into brick & mortar locations. It was an anchor store of the prototypical American mall for decades. However, the decline of the mall, plus the decline of brick & mortar retail, has spelled doom for the company and now they exist more or less in name only as an online retailer. Sort of the pixels-on-a-screen version of the ink-and-paper catalogue that started the whole thing.
Bed Bath & Beyond did more than spin off; it spun right into bankruptcy. The company was then bought by Overstock.com, which immediately changed its company name and website to Bed Bath and Beyond. Less than two months later, the company changed its name to “Beyond, Inc.” but kept the BB&B website. Five months after that, it revived Overstock.com website, with different merchandise than BB&B.
MeTV shows Flintstones on Sunday mornings, check your local listings.
Not quite. Andersen (note the second ‘e’) Consulting was a subsidiary of Arthur Andersen, LLP (AALLP) - one of the original “Big 5” accounting firms. Before the Enron event became public, Andersen Consulting split from Arthur Andersen in a particularly nasty divorce and renamed itself Accenture. AALLP then collapsed in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals (although interestingly, all of its convictions were later overturned). Andersen is now sort of back as Andersen Tax, but is a result of former partners buying the name to brand a firm they founded after the collapse, not as a direct descendant.
My best friend in college worked for AC and was there during the divorce.