The Flintstones as children, and yet others featuring Fred and Barney encountering Marvel Comics superhero The Thing and Al Capp's comic strip character The Shmoo – have appeared over the years. The original show also was adapted into a live-action film in 1994, and a prequel, "The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas", which followed in 2000. Unlike its sister show "The Jetsons" (the two shows appeared in a made-for-TV crossover movie in 1987), the revival programs were not widely syndicated or rerun alongside the original series. In 2011, it was announced "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane would be reviving "The Flintstones" for
The Flintstone Kids Rocky's dog Stalagbite. The premise of "The Flintstone Kids", which depicts Fred and Barney as childhood friends with Wilma and Betty, contradicts the continuity of the original "Flintstones" series, which established in the episode "Bachelor Daze" that the two men did not meet their wives until they were young adults. Despite this, the character of Philo Quartz, who was created for this show, would later appear as an adult in the TV special "A Flintstones Christmas Carol". Reruns aired on Cartoon Network in the United States from 1994 until 2003. This series featured the following segments: In 1988, Mary Jo