Television Crossover Universe

 I previously did the Flintstones in my Bongo/Offspring of Zed post, a long time ago, but it wasn't really a Flintstones post.   I was thinking it would be cool to look at the actual timeline of the Flintstones, which breaks down into a few time periods.   Note that the timeline of Bedrock is about 10,000 B.C.  Originally it was one million B.C. but in recent years it's been retconned to 10,000 B.C.  We're going to break down the timeline based on the ages of the characters as depicted in different periods, rather than doing a year by year breakdown. Cave Kids (Not Canon) Cave Kids (1996)--Fred and Barney as pre-schoolers.  This also features Dino, contradicting the original Flintstones series.  This may be in canon with Flinstone Kids but it is not canon with the original series.   Flintstone Kids (Not Canon) The Flintstone Kids (1986 - 1988)--Fred, Barney, Wilma and Betty as little kids.  This show kind of contradicts a story...

I first became aware of the fictional crossover/shared reality concept when I was five years old. As my family was about to embark on a drive from Massachusetts to California, my father gave me my first comic book to keep me occupied, and it was an issue of the Marvel Comics adaptation of Scooby’s All-Star Laff-A-Lympics. This is the first time I was able to comprehend what was going on here, on a significant level. All these characters from their own cartoons were appearing together, as part of the same reality, thus placing all their previous cartoons in the same reality. Chris Nigro adds, from this except from his foreword in TELEVISION CROSSOVER UNIVERSE: WORLDS AND MYTHOLOGY I: Nevertheless, it’s far from a new concept. It was simply a trope not commonly presented to the general public, save in a few popular fictional universes we are encouraged (quite unfortunately) to “forget” once we enter the esteemed status of adulthood. Relevant to some of the timelines presented in...