WFLD Channel 32 - Super Cartoon Sunrise - "The Flintstones" (Bumper #2 with Theme Song, 1984)

This is the one a lot of people have been waiting for...

Here is a second bumper for The Flintstones on Super Cartoon Sunrise on WFLD Channel 32. This dates to August of 1984. This version has no voiceover and instead plays a slightly longer snippet of the SCS Theme Song.

This one's also a little different from the Jetsons and Woody bumpers because it has the newer Metromedia 32 logo but also has "WFLD TV" added which the others do not.

In any case - Finally, we can put this theme song controversy to rest:

1) It's not "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da" by the Beatles, as someone once claimed.

2) It's not "a funky version of Zip-a-Dee Doo-Dah" as I once thought.

It is in fact, a jazzy, funky, disco-fied, Hammond B3 organ-heavy instrumental arrangement (with a bank of trumpets at the end) of "Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here". (anyone know where it came from or who played on it?)

Kind of makes sense when you think about it too - the "gang" of Super Cartoon Sunrise lineup is here to brighten up your morning!

Hey kids, don't be late for school staring at Fred and his magical clock all day! ;-)

(Note: The black box was for showing the clock displaying the current time in the morning. It is not included in these clips because they were not recorded off-air, but from studio master tapes)

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