Bamm-Bamm Rubble is a main character in The Flintstones and the adopted son of fictitious married characters Barney and Betty Rubble. He is most famous in his infant form on the animated series The Flintstones, but has also appeared at various other ages, including as a teenager on the early 1970s spinoff The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show and as an adult in three made-for-television movies.
Bamm-Bamm lived in the fictional prehistoric city of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexisted with barefoot cavepeople. The cavepeople enjoyed "primitive" versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles and washing machines, often utilizing the prehistoric animals.
Biography[]
About Bamm-Bamm[]
Bamm Bamm has short white hair with fringes and black eyes with white scalarae. He also wears a small orange cap with black spots. He wears baby clothes where he wears only a brown strap adorned in a bone clip within his orange kilt with black spots and wields a club.
In his live-action appearance . He was initially seen had a long ragged brown hair and only wears a green leafy kilt and his entire body was messy. Later after being groomed nicely by both Barney and Betty, he now resembles his animation counterpart with short platinum blond hair in a bowl cut style with full fringes. His baby clothes remained the same only his kilt being brown.
In the Cave Kids spin-off, Bamm-Bamm was grown into a toddler along with Pebbles until he regressed back to an infant, he wears cave clothes worn by toddlers.
In The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm show through Hollyrock-a- Bye Baby, Bamm-Bamm appears as a young adult with short-length white hair in a full fringe.
During high school, he wears a yellow turtleneck with the sleeves are ripped to make it sleeveless and an olive green kilt with black spot designs. He also wears a green turtle beret on his head.
During his marriage with Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm was wearing cave formal outfit and later his casual cave outfit in a shades of green: A light green ripped short sleeved jacket with a black tiger stripe designs, a green loose sleeveless shirt with a rip at the edge of the hem adorned with a black belt to his waist.
Bamm-Bamm was adopted by Barney and Betty Rubble. After meeting his next-door neighbor Pebbles, the two became lifelong playmates. Bamm-Bamm was named by the orphanage, who left a note with his name in the basket, causing Barney and Betty confusion over the strange name. This was explained when Bamm-Bamm yelled the phrase "bamm, bamm! Bam! Bam!" and swung his club (and in the process, shook the room he was in). Bamm-Bamm's excessive (and sometimes misused) strength was often a source of humor in the episodes the toddler version of Bamm-Bamm appeared in. Unlike Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm was past the crawling stage and could be seen in a few episodes trying to help Pebbles walk.
Years later, as a teenager, Bamm-Bamm attended Bedrock High School along with Pebbles and their friends, Wiggy, Penny, and Moonrock. In this version Bamm-Bamm's super strength was not actively mentioned and was only shown on occasion. He became more passive and sensible in his manner and tended to be dominated by Pebbles' more aggressive personality. He also was the owner of a "cave buggy," a prehistoric version of a dune buggy.
As an adult, Bamm-Bamm became a mechanic, soon fell in love with and married Pebbles. The two soon moved to Hollyrock (a fictional prehistoric version of Hollywood, California) so Bamm-Bamm could pursue his true goal of becoming a screenwriter. Later the couple had twins, Roxy and Chip.
Film[]
In the 1994 live-action Flintstones movie, Bamm-Bamm was adopted by the Rubbles and was seen with long brown hair and wearing only a leaf loincloth. He was mentioned to have been raised by wild mastodons, a parody of various examples of interspecies adoption. Bamm-Bamm soon started to look like his cartoon counterpart after a bath, a haircut, and some new clothes. Bamm-Bamm was played by twins Hlynur Sigurðsson and Marinó Sigurðsson and voiced by actress E.G. Daily (who returned to the role of Bamm-Bamm in a Pebbles cereal commercial).
Appearances[]
Through the various Flintstones incarnations, the age of Bamm-Bamm (and Pebbles) has varied wildly from spinoff to spinoff---appearing as an adolescent in one spinoff and as an infant again in the next. Arranged roughly in chronological order, the Flintstones incarnations Bamm-Bamm has made appearances in are as follows:
As an infant/toddler[]
- The Flintstones
- The Man Called Flintstone
- The New Fred and Barney Show
- The Flintstones' New Neighbors
- The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling
- The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma
- The Flintstones: Jogging Fever
- A Flintstones Christmas Carol
- Cave Kids
- The Flintstones & WWE Stone Age Smackdown!
- Fruity Pebbles, Post commercials
As a child[]
As a tween[]
As a teenager[]
As an adult[]
Voice actor[]
- Bamm-Bamm's voice over the years was provided by Jay North, Don Messick, Lucille Bliss, Frank Welker, Christine Cavanaugh, Michael Sheehan, E.G. Daily, Jerry Houser and Eric Bauza.
- Bamm-Bamm (in his conventional toddler incarnation) sometimes appears in the various commercials for Pebbles cereals that have been produced over the years.
Trivia[]
- Although Bamm-Bamm possessed incredible strength as an infant, in his appearances as a teenager (as seen in The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show), his strength was either downplayed or not shown, though it reappeared in Bamm-Bamm's adult appearances.
- After his debut episode on The Flintstones, a few episodes afterward did not feature Bamm-Bamm.
- In the 1994 film, his full name is Bamm-Bamm-Bamm.
References[]
- ↑ "Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm Plan Stone Age Wedding in Bedrock". The Los Angeles Times. http://articles.latimes.com/1993-02-06/entertainment/ca-892_1_modern-stone-age. Retrieved 2010-09-10.
