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 Flintstones [by whom? citation]. As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative plots. Despite the mixed critical reviews at first, "The Flintstones" has generally been considered a television classic and was rerun continuously for five decades after its end. In 1961, "The Flintstones" became the first animated series to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, but lost out to "The Jack Benny Program". In January 2009, IGN named "The Flintstones" as the ninth-best in its "Top 100 Animated TV Shows". Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a film based upon