Actually after Pebbles is born Wilma becomes a journalist for the Daily Granite, then becomes a caterer with Betty. Get your Flintstones lore right
she also occasionally worked as a Cigarette Girl. “Cigars! Cigarettes! … Cigars! Cigarettes! …”
That was before she married Fred. In fact, that’s how they meet, he was a bellhop at the same resort.
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Was he actually illiterate? That might have went over my head when I watched it as a kid.
Plus being able to drive implies at least some degree of literacy
Unless Fred was raised by some of those middle of the woods car wizard redneck types that are dangerously close to keeping their vehicles together and running through Waagh energy
do remember that Reaganomics hadn’t been invented yet, so wages, income, and all that were MUCH better
Flintstones was based upon 1950 suburban US culture
On the one hand, you can read it as a parody of late 20th century life - like, haha imagine a caveman clocking into work
but on the other hand, Flinstones and its far future counterpart Jestsons kinda suggest an inability to imagine anything different. Automobile-ized suburban development frequently gets presented an the human ‘default’. As though we just default to this, rather than it being one of many ways cities and society could be organized.
