Henry Corden, the voice of Fred Flintstone since 1977(Alan Reed was the original “Fred”), died Thursday night.
He was also the landlord in a few episodes of “The Monkees”. I guess I’ll have to drag out my old video tapes and say goodbye to him.
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Charley the Tuna, perhaps, or at least a fishy friend of Charley.
Wow, that is kinda sad. I have some friends who do voice-over work for video games, cartoons, commercials - you never see their faces, but I always smile when I recognize their voice on TV. There are people behind the voices! (so far, at least, who knows when everything will become computer-generated). I always loved the Flinstones, and of course yabba dabba do was the best part.
[the far side]
FIRST GORGED CROCODILE TO SECOND GORGED CROCODILE: I’ve heard a lot of weird sounds out of those things, but that’s the first one that ever went “Yabba Dabba Doo”!
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I thought of posting the info with that title, but then I thought, nah, too tasteless. 
I’m going to hell for this one, I’m sure, but since Corden did the voice mainly in ads towards the end of his career:
SCENE: EXT. HEAVEN
FRED FLINTSTONE pops out of nowhere, wearing wings and a halo along with his standard caveshirt and tie. He is holding a bowl of cereal.
FRED: What’s this? I’m dead? (walks towards granite gates) Ah, well. (Eyeing bowl of cereal) This’ll give me more time for my favorite hobbies!
ST. PETER: You’ve been a bad man, Fred!
FRED (nervous): I-I-I-I didn’t do nothin’ wrong. Gimme a second chance! Whaddya want from me?
ST. PETER: How about some of those delicious Fruity Pebbles™?
FRED (nervously handing over bowl): All right…
ST. PETER takes a bite, and a rainbow and fruit shapes shoot from out of the bowl.
ST. PETER: Mmm! Heavenly fruit flavors!
CUT TO: A shot of a box of cereal, toast, milk, and orange juice.
FRED (V.O.): Post Fruity Pebbles™ cereal- part of this good breakfast!
CUT TO: EXT. HEAVEN
The stone pedestal ST. PETER is standing at falls over, revealing that he is really a stick puppet being operated by BARNEY RUBBLE who is standing underneath.
FRED: Barney! My Pebbles™!
BARNEY pulls a lever, causing a cloud underneath FRED to open like a trap door. FRED falls in, and a few flames come out from the door.
BARNEY (chuckling): The devil made me do it!