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{{trope}}
'''Flintstone Theming''' is when a single pervasive concept that is basic to the show is used repeatedly for as many jokes as it can possibly yield, especially with [[Punny Name|character names]]. Some shows shoot for the moon and try to make a pun out of ''everything''.
[[World Building]] is sometimes hard. Coming up with an [[Hurricane of Puns|endless string of bad puns]] based on the concept of your show, on the other hand, is usually pretty easy. At least at first. It gets progressively harder to come up with decent, original puns the longer and longer your show is on the air and the more puns you’ve already used up.
Compare [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]]. See also [["Mister Sandman" Sequence]], which is similar - only abusing [[Popular History]] instead of the English language.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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* ''Marvel Apes'' and its simian-themed naming.
== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''Rudolph The Nasally-Empowered Reindeer'', a story in James Finn Garner's ''Politically Correct Holiday Stories'', some older reindeer scold Rudolph for "rocking the kayak." (Because they're in the Arctic.)
* In ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (novel)|How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]'', Who-ville does this with the word "who". For example, their Christmas feasts involve "Who-pudding" and "Who-roast-beast".
* There's a reason ''[[Harry Potter]]'' is the [[Trope Namer]] for [[Hold Your Hippogriffs]].
== [[Live
* The "new" version of ''[[The Mickey Mouse Club]]'' (the one from the late 1980s and early '90s) [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this trope in a reunion special that brought back Annette Funicello and several other alumni from the original 1950s series. [[Retraux|A black-and-white vintage skit]] "shows" that the Mouseketeers became so universally popular when the show first aired that ''everyone'' was putting a "Mouseke-" in front of every third or fourth word. Typical dialog:
{{quote|'''Mother:''' Finish your Mouseke-peas.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Explained (and used) in [https://web.archive.org/web/20151106124912/http://dvariano.livejournal.com/2009/06/29/ this comic].
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* The characters in ''[[Miss Spider's Sunny Patch Friends]]'' replaced the –body suffix with –buggy (anybuggy, somebuggy, busybuggy, and so on).
* The ''[[Geronimo Stilton]]'' series lives and breathes puns related to rodents and cheese.
* ''[[My Little Pony:
** Trottingham eventually became [[Ascended Fanon|canon]] as the birthplace of Pipsqeak, one of the series' minor characters.
* ''[[Birdz]]'', with an entirely avian (except one) cast, was up to its beak in bird puns. These usually manifested themselves in the names of celebrities (e.g. "Whippoorwill Smith"), but also in the setting of Birdland and the occasional "anybird".
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[[Category:Naming Conventions]]
[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
[[Category:Punny Stuff]]
[[Category:Saturday Morning Cartoon]]
▲[[Category:Flintstone Theming]]
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