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Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs!

Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs! is an American animated television series, a spin-off of Hanna-Barbera's The Flintstones, that follows the two children of the Flintstone and Rubble households, Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, together with the pet dinosaur Dino.¹ The series was developed by Marly Halpern-Graser and Mark Marek, produced by Warner Bros. Animation with the Irish studio Salty Dog Pictures, and ran for 26 episodes.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Premise	The adventures of the two sole children of the Flintstones and the Rubbles, and pet Dino¹
Developed by	Marly Halpern-Graser and Mark Marek¹
Original run	26 episodes on Boomerang in 2020; final episode "The Point of a Friend" aired November 18, 2020¹
US streaming release	HBO Max, September 30, 2021; executive producer Sam Register³
Main voice cast	Jessica DiCicco (Pebbles), Ely Henry (Bamm-Bamm), Eric Bauza (Dino), Jeff Bergman (Fred), Tress MacNeille (Wilma), Kevin Michael Richardson (Barney), Grey DeLisle (Betty)⁴
Production	Warner Bros. Animation, Hanna-Barbera Productions, and Salty Dog Pictures⁵
Ratings	TV-Y7 (Apple TV listing) and TV-G (HBO Max listing)⁶^•³

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Premise and setting

The series centers on Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble as best friends growing up in the stone-age town of Bedrock. When they can, they head to the open wilderness outside town, a region called the Crags, where wild environments and many different dinosaurs live.⁴ According to Common Sense Media's review by Joly Herman, Pebbles is the curious one, ready to measure or take notes on a discovery, while Bamm-Bamm is driven to smash things with his club, which he carries in a harness like a sword; he is not malicious but breaks a lot of property.⁷

Modern conveniences are spoofed with stone-age equivalents: instead of smartphones, the families use "smart stones," complete with a Siri-type bird that pops out to provide information.⁷ Episodes include "Mistaking Sides," in which the pair are pulled into a feud between two rival dinosaur species at Crags Lake, "Rock Me, Plantasaurus," in which Bamm-Bamm brings home a rare plant, and "Yabba-Dabba-Dabba Kamma-Kamma Chameleon," in which Pebbles accidentally leads a shape-shifting dinosaur from the Crags back to Bedrock.⁶

Production

The show was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and the Irish studio Salty Dog Pictures as a spin-off of The Flintstones, the Hanna-Barbera series that ran for six seasons between 1960 and 1966.²^•⁸ In an interview with Vamers, producer Mark Marek explained that the series treats Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm as 8-to-10-year-olds, an age he described as a sweet spot the characters had never really been fleshed out in; in 1960s appearances they were toddlers, in the mid-1990s Cave Kids they were still toddlers, and at one point they were depicted as married young adults.² Marek told 8days.sg that redesigning Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm was the biggest challenge in taking on a familiar property, deciding how much to tweak without straying too far from the original.⁸ On animation style, Marek said the team did not lean on the original technically, since animation has changed considerably, but he wanted to avoid over-animating because he liked the simplicity and laugh track of the early Flintstones.²

Broadcast and release history

The series aired on Boomerang, with TVmaze listing a weekday 18:30 slot of 15-minute episodes in the United Kingdom in 2020, ending with episode 26 on November 18, 2020.¹ In the United States, the series was released on HBO Max with a release date of September 30, 2021, listed with a TV-G rating and Sam Register as executive producer.³ Rotten Tomatoes lists the show as running 2021 to present with two seasons, while TVmaze and FilmAffinity record a single 26-episode season that ended in 2020, with FilmAffinity stating it was canceled after its first season.³^•¹^•⁵ As of 2026, the season is available for digital purchase on Amazon Video, the Apple TV Store, and Fandango at Home in the United States.⁴

Reception

Common Sense Media rated the show suitable for ages 6 and up, summarizing it as "lots of destruction, some laughs in Flintstones remake," and noting heavy slapstick content of bonking, smashing, and chases by sharp-toothed animals, alongside positive messages about taking responsibility and apologizing.⁷ The review found the gags sometimes new and sometimes obvious, with stone-age gizmos running on pulleys or animal power likely to amuse children new to the franchise.⁷ On IMDb the series holds a user rating of about 4.0.⁴

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Scripted television and comedy series › Animated television series (individual series) › Children's animated adventure and fantasy series › Comedy and slice-of-life series

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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