I Yabba-Dabba Do!

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{{Infobox television
| genre = [[Comedy film|Comedy]]
| image = I Yabba-Dabba Do!.jpg
| caption =
| director = [[William Hanna]]
| writer = [[Rich Fogel]] Mark Seidenberg
| executive_producer = [[William Hanna]] [[Joseph Barbera]]
| producer = [[Iwao Takamoto]]
| composer = [[John Debney]]
| voices = [[Henry Corden]] [[Jean Vander Pyl]] [[Megan Mullally]] [[Frank Welker]] [[B. J. Ward (actress)|B.J. Ward]] [[Jerry Houser]] [[Janet Waldo]] [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]]
| runtime = 92 minutes
| company = [[Hanna-Barbera Productions|H-B Production Co.]]
| country = United States
| network = [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]]
| released = {{Start date|1993|02|07}}
| related = {{Plainlist|
* ''[[The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special]]''
* ''[[Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby]]''
}}
}}

'''''I Yabba-Dabba Do!''''' is a 1993 American animated [[television film|made-for-television film]] based on the 1960s animated series, ''[[The Flintstones]]'' and is a continuation of the series’ spin-off, ''[[The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show]]''.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lenburg |first1=Jeff |title=The Encyclopedia of Animated Cartoons |date=1999 |publisher=Checkmark Books |isbn=0-8160-3831-7 |access-date=6 June 2020 |url=https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780816038312/page/280/mode/2up |page=280}}</ref> It premiered on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] on February 7, 1993.<ref>{{cite news|title= Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm Plan Stone Age Wedding in Bedrock |newspaper= LA Times|date=1993-02-06|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1993-02-06-ca-892-story.html|access-date=2010-08-24 | first=Charles | last=Solomon}}</ref>

==Plot==
[[Pebbles Flintstone|Pebbles]], who now works for an ad agency and [[Bamm-Bamm Rubble|Bamm-Bamm]], who works in a car repair shop, decide to get married after Bamm-Bamm proposes with a poem, in the middle of the street (after Pebbles mistakenly thinks he was trying to dump her when Bamm-Bamm read her a letter that started "Dear Pebbles"). However, [[Fred Flintstone|Fred]] loses the family savings when he bets it on his team, the Bedrock Brontos, who go on to lose. Fred tries asking for a raise from Mr. Slate, but is dismissed from his job because of his violent temper.

Fred enlists [[Barney Rubble|Barney]]'s help in earning more money for the [[wedding]], but they fail, losing Barney's money to a real estate con artist and becoming more in debt than before. Meanwhile, [[Wilma Flintstone|Wilma]]'s mother [[Pearl Slaghoople]] arrives to help with the wedding. Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm decide to [[elopement|elope]] in Rock Vegas because of their parents' arguing and fighting. Barney angrily reveals the truth about Fred and Wilma’s nest egg. Wilma, livid at Fred, forces him out of the house. After seeing that even Dino’s mad at him, Fred finally realizes the error of his ways and decides to fix his mistakes. Reconciling with Barney, Wilma, Betty and Pearl, Fred asks Barney to help search for Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.

Fred and Barney travel to Rock Vegas looking for Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. They stop at a casino where Barney wins more money. They are attacked by the Wedding Whackers gang after mistaking them for Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm getting married and took a photo of them robbing a newlywed couple. Shortly afterwards they are rescued by Bamm-Bamm for Pebbles. During the chase, the photo of the Wedding Whackers is destroyed, so the four are captured as [[suspect]]s of being the marriage whackers, along with the real marriage whackers.

While in detainment, Fred reveals all the trouble he has gone through to try to help Pebbles with her wedding ceremony which leads the marriage whackers to confess to their crimes, to the dismay of the Whackers' mother. Since Barney made a lot of money on his casino wins on the big wheel, they can use it to pay for the wedding, replace their nest eggs and pay off their debts. Fred, Barney, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm finally reunite with Wilma, Betty and the others. Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm get married, with Fred, Barney, Dino, Wilma and Betty as the happy ones seeing them getting married. Fred gets his job back from Mr Slate and is given a raise after being invited to the wedding. At the end, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm reveal they are moving to Hollyrock with Barney paying their way with his share of the Rock Vegas winnings, at which Fred gets angry with Barney and they start to fight again.

==Voice cast==
* [[Henry Corden]] as [[Fred Flintstone]]
* [[Frank Welker]] as [[Barney Rubble]] and [[Dino (The Flintstones)|Dino]]
* [[Jean Vander Pyl]] as [[Wilma Flintstone]] and Martha Slate
* [[B. J. Ward (actress)|B.J. Ward]] as [[Betty Rubble]]
* [[Janet Waldo]] as Pearl Slaghoople & Additional Voices
* [[Megan Mullally]] as [[Pebbles Flintstone]]-Rubble
* [[Jerry Houser]] as [[Bamm-Bamm Rubble]]
* [[John Stephenson (actor)|John Stephenson]] as [[Mr. Slate]]
* [[Joseph Barbera]] as Himself
* [[William Hanna]] as Himself
* Darryl Phinnessee as Wedding Reception Singer/Piano Player singing "I Yabba Dabba Do"
* Randy Crenshaw as The Lodge Patron #2, The Mammoth
* [[Henry Polic II]] as the Seagull Writer

==Nielsen ratings==
The film brought in a 12.4/19 rating/share in its original airing and was watched by 22 million viewers. The film came in second place in its timeslot, and ranking 35th out of 94 programs that week.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.americanradiohistory.com/Archive-BC/BC-1993/BC-1993-02-15.pdf|title=Broadcasting|date=1993-02-15|website=Americanradiohistory.com|access-date=2022-01-24}}</ref>

==Home media==
Cartoon Network, in association with Turner Home Video, released the movie on VHS on January 14, 1997. Then [[Warner Home Video]] released it on April 21, 1998, and again in 1999 and 2000, but they are now out of print.<ref>{{cite book |title=Flintstones:I Yabba Dabba Do [VHS] : Alan Reed, Mel Blanc, Jean Vander Pyl, Bea Benaderet, Don Messick, John Stephenson, Gerry Johnson, Hal Smith, Doug Young, Howard Morris, Daws Butler, Henry Corden, Joseph Barbera, William Hanna: Movies & TV|asin=6304821867 }}</ref> On October 9, 2012, [[Warner Archive Collection|Warner Archive]] released ''The Flintstones- I Yabba-Dabba Do!'' on [[DVD]] in region 1 as part of their [[Hanna–Barbera Classics Collection]]. This is a Manufacture-on-Demand (MOD) release, available through Warner's online store, Amazon.com and Wal-Mart.com.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Flintstones-The-Prime-Time-Specials-Collections/17586 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2016-07-28 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160315121821/http://tvshowsondvd.com/news/Flintstones-The-Prime-Time-Specials-Collections/17586 |archive-date=2016-03-15 }}</ref>

On August 4, 2020, [[Warner Bros. Home Entertainment]] gave it its first wide release as part of the DVD collection ''The Flintstones: 2 Movies & 5 Specials.''

==Syndication==
This spinoff movie has aired on [[Cartoon Network]] in the 1990s, then ran on [[Boomerang (TV network)|Boomerang]] in the 2000s.

==Sequel==
''[[Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby]]'' was released in 1993. The sequel is considered very difficult to syndicate after its original broadcast and the attempt at releasing it on home media was delayed until 2012, mainly due to the involved suggestive material relating to [[child birth]]. However, it eventually aired on Cartoon Network and Boomerang usually as part of [[Mother's Day]] special programming in the early 2000s.<ref>{{cite news|title= Boomerang Has Wilma-Thon for Mom's Day |work= [[Animation Magazine]]|url= http://www.animationmagazine.net/tv/boomerang-has-wilma-thon-for-moms-day|access-date=2010-11-23}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Wikiquote}}
* {{IMDb title|0107180}}

{{The Flintstones}}
{{H-B films}}

[[Category:1993 television films]]
[[Category:1993 American animated films]]
[[Category:1990s American animated films]]
[[Category:The Flintstones films]]
[[Category:Hanna-Barbera animated films]]
[[Category:Films based on television series]]
[[Category:Animated films based on animated series]]
[[Category:Animated films set in the Stone Age]]
[[Category:American animated television films]]
[[Category:Films about weddings]]
[[Category:American animated comedy films]]
[[Category:Films scored by John Debney]]
[[Category:Television films based on television series]]
[[Category:Films directed by William Hanna]]
[[Category:Films about feuds]]

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