Pebbles Flintstone

Pebbles Flintstone
The Flintstones character
Pebbles Flintstone (left) and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, as infants.
First appearance	The Blessed Event
Created by	Hanna Barbera
Portrayed by	See here
Information
Gender	Female
Family	Fred Flintstone (father) Wilma Flintstone (mother) Ed Flintstone (grandfather) Edna Flintstone (grandmother) Pearl Slaghoople (grandmother) Ricky Slaghoople (grandfather) Jerry (uncle) Mica (aunt) Mickey (aunt) Barney Rubble (godfather/father-in-law) Betty Rubble (godmother/mother-in-law)
Spouse(s)	Bamm-Bamm Rubble (husband)
Children	Chip Rubble (son) Roxy Rubble (daughter)

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 animated TV show The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spin-off The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in three 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.

Fictional character biography

Pebbles was born at the Bedrock Rockapedic Hospital on February 22, 10,000 B.C. weighing 6 pounds (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 she was still an infant, the Flintstones' next-door neighbors the Rubbles adopted the super-strength possessing infant Bamm-Bamm; Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm quickly became lifelong best friends.

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 sweetheart Bamm-Bamm and their friends, Wiggy, Moonrock, and Penny, into various misadventures, mostly due to sharing her dad'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 her father's: "Yabba-Dabba-Doozie!"

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 baby twins, son Chip and daughter Roxy.

Chronology

Pebbles is also known for her cereal which is also called Pebbles. Through the various Flintstones incarnations, the age of Pebbles (and Bamm-Bamm) has varied widely, appearing as an adolescent in one spin-off and as an infant again in the next. Arranged roughly in chronological order, the Flintstones incarnations in which Pebbles has made appearances are as follows:

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

Pre-teen

• A Flintstone Christmas
• The Flintstones: Little Big League

Teenage

• The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
• The Flintstone Comedy Hour
• The Flintstone Comedy Show

Adult

• I Yabba-Dabba Do!^[1]
• Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby
• A Flintstone Family Christmas

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, and 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.

Portrayal

• Pebbles as a baby was voiced by Jean Vander Pyl who also played her mother.^[2]
• Pebbles has been voiced over the years by Sally Struthers, Mickey Stevens, Russi Taylor, Megan Mullally, Kath Soucie, Pamela Anderson, Aria Curzon, and Grey DeLisle.
• Pebbles appeared in the 1994 live-action Flintstones movie, where she was played by twins Elaine and Melanie Silver.
• Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm appeared in a cameo as background characters in the 2010 series Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, in the episode "Revenge of the Crab Man". They were portrayed in their teen age design.

References

1. ^ "Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm Plan Stone Age Wedding in Bedrock". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-06/entertainment/ca-892_1_modern-stone-age. Retrieved 2010-09-10. 
2. ^ "Jean Vander Pyl; Cartoon Voice of Wilma Flintstone". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1999/apr/15/news/mn-27591/2. Retrieved 2010-09-10.