The Trumpton Riots EP There, the title of the second song is given as "Architecture and Morality Ted and Alice". In a 2001 appreciation of the band, music writer and novelist Kevin Sampson described the EP as "utterly marvellous". In May 2016, "The Guardian" newspaper reported that Gordon Murray's family were contemplating suing the band Radiohead for infringing the copyright of the idea of Trumptonshire in the video for their single "Burn the Witch". The same report noted that Half Man Half Biscuit's 1980s song "The Trumpton Riots" had "portrayed Trumptonshire as a place of striking firemen, militant socialism, and military coups". The following
Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, the Thing and Shmoo were only featured together in brief bumpers between segments, and the original half-hour episodes of "The New Shmoo" were now split into two-parters, allowing more mingling and mixing of the program's individual segments. In 1980, the Shmoo joined Fred and Barney as part-time police officers on the "Bedrock Cops" segment of "The Flintstone Comedy Show". Like many animated series created by Hanna-Barbera in the 1970s, the show contained a laugh track, one of their last productions to do so. Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo is