Rock Roll plays The Twitch

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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That’s either the chubbiest George Jetson or the slimmest Fred Flintstone I’ve ever seen.
kiptw

Had this tune going through my head since the first airing of the show. So I went and downloaded it from YouTube last year. If it’s not in this clip, “The Twitch” was a dance craze that started from the gyrations Fred went through when he ate pickled dodo eggs.

Don’t forget Jet Screamer doing “Eep! Opp! Ork! Ah Ah!” while you’re at it.
- rrh
  
  Between the Jetsons, Flinstones, and the Flintstones’ monstrous neighbours, The Gruesomes, they accidentally started dozens of Rock and Roll fads.
- Ambiguity
  
  Had this tune going through my head since the first airing of the show.
  
  Exactly. So…I…refuse…to…click…on…link. That mind virus has already ripped too much time from my life.
  
  Don’t forget Jet Screamer doing “Eep! Opp! Ork! Ah Ah!” while you’re at it.
  
  Damn you to hell for that. I had managed to forget that one…
http://profile.yahoo.com/O5B3KSIUGOHQ6KKNT6KHATXAXY Helen

Rock is so much better than his brother Rick.
- howaboutthisdangit
  
  Rock-rolling, now that’s old.
Robert Holmen

Network TV was still resisting Rock then. Whenever “Rock” music made some appearance on a 60′s TV sitcom it was invariably caricatured as a three chord song with the most annoying electric guitar sound possible. It seems like the old line Big Band musicians were still running the music decisions and they always took the opportunity ridicule this new “Rock and Roll” thing.
- Boundegar
  
  You may think that, but this song ain’t bad.
- VibroCount
  
  Mostly, but the Flintones also featured the Beau Brummels singing Laugh Laugh (not a three-chord song) in one episode. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIo-hIYPklU
BarBarSeven

So when will they reboot “Rock Roll” & show him as a dark, brooding, tortured artist with a drug and/or alcohol problem?
Wild Rumpus

Thanks, David – I had no idea would enjoy this clip as much as I did!

Links like this keeps the “boing” in Boingboing :)
http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/KHUGSYMRDZ635QMFO5P6UA5MTM nunya

Theres a website I know where the hipsters go called Boing-Boing,
Twitch twitch
http://www.aarongilliland.com/ Aaron Gilliland

So let the Sun shine in.
robdobbs

What no remix?

And where’s the Way-outs? That’s where the fun is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obyuyajrz9g
SpongeBorg

A few years ago I was hired by Warner Bros. Online division to do this little edit of Flintstones clips to a cover of “Bedrock Twitch”. Don’t know what band is doing the track:

https://vimeo.com/46440786
Nadreck

Always loved the B-52s cover of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9FnFxoXBmg
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  I hope that they were paid a lot for that.