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Five years after The Flintstones ended, a Saturday Morning Cartoon spin-off was created for CBS with the two toddlers, Pebbles Flintstone and Bamm-Bamm Rubble, as teenagers. Fred and Barney were relegated to supporting roles, as were Wilma and Betty. Many new characters were introduced, most of them teens who served as friends or foils to Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.

The voice cast included Sally Struthers as Pebbles and Jay North as Bamm-Bamm.

Tropes used in The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show include:

All Bikers Are Hells Angels/Badass Bikers: What the Bronto Bunch are trying to be.
Alpha Bitch/Rich Bitch: Cindy.
Blinding Bangs: Schleprock's eyes are hidden by his hat.
Blondes Are Evil: Cindy.
Catch Phrase: "Yabba Dabba Doozie!" (Usually an indication that Pebbles has picked up the Idiot Ball again - and often lampshaded by Bamm-Bamm with a Here We Go Again.)
Cool Car: Bamm-Bamm's station wagon.
Demoted to Extra: Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's parents.
Does Not Like Shoes: As usual for the Flintstones franchise, the entire cast is constantly barefoot.
- Foot Focus: The show has occasional closeups of the characters' feet.
Expository Theme Tune
Fake Band: Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and their friends have one called the Bedrock Rockers.
Forgotten Phlebotinum: As a baby Bamm-Bamm had super strength, but in The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show he never used it. It could be explained that he lost it as he grew up, except it later came back in the 1993 TV movies.
Gadgeteer Genius: Moonrock.
Genki Girl: Pebbles.
Hair Decorations: Pebbles wears a bone in her hair.
Idiot Ball: Pebbles usually holds it, so much so that Ed Liu of Toonzone mentions (and links to) the trope in his review of the series.
Jerkass: Cindy and her equally snobby boyfriend Fabian.
The Jinx: Badluck Schleprock.
Laugh Track: H-B abandoned the standard prime time laugh track used at the time and created a cheesy synthetic laugh track for this series as well as companion CBS show Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!
Mr. Fanservice: One episode had them entering Bamm-Bamm in a singing competition. But he can only sing in the shower, so they solved this by having him singing while wearing a small green Speedo and soaking himself in water in front of all his classmates. Sadly it wasn't nearly as hot as it sounds though.
- Said episode was also a Recycled Script of Flintstones episode with Barney having a similar singing problem/solution to such.
Nerd Glasses: Moonrock wears them.
New Age Retro Hippie: The astrology-obsessed Wiggy is an early example.
Nice Hat: Bamm-Bamm, Schleprock and Zonk all wear one.
No Celebrities Were Harmed: "Pebbles' Big Boast" has an appearance by Mick Jagged and the Rolling Jadestones.
Only Sane Man: Bamm-Bamm.
The Rival: Cindy, to Pebbles.
Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: Moonrock often talks this way.
Spin Offspring
Time Skip
Two Shorts: The Pebbles & Bamm-Bamm series were single episodes. The next season's Flintstone Comedy Hour featured two shorts with Fred and Barney (the kids would make fleeting appearances), a short with Pebbles & Bamm and friends, and two songs by the Bedrock Rockers.
The Ugly Guy's Hot Daughter: Pebbles in this series.
White-Haired Pretty Boy: Bamm-Bamm, although his personality is very atypical for the trope.
X Meets Y: The Flintstones meets The Archie Show.
- Captain Ersatz: In particular, Moonrock looks and acts like the Archie Comics character Dilton Doiley.
Zany Scheme: Pebbles comes up with "a crazy, hair-brained scheme" Once an Episode.

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 * [[Expository Theme Tune]]
 * [[Fake Band]]: Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and their friends have one called the Bedrock Rockers.
+* [[Forgotten Phlebotinum]]: As a baby Bamm-Bamm had super strength, but in ''The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show'' he never used it. It could be explained that he lost it as he grew up, except it later came back in the 1993 TV movies.
 * [[Gadgeteer Genius]]: Moonrock.
 * [[Genki Girl]]: Pebbles.
 * [[Hair Decorations]]: Pebbles wears a bone in her hair.
-* [[Idiot Ball]]: Pebbles usually holds it, so much so that Ed Liu of Toonzone mentions (and links to) the trope in [http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/22845/the-pebbles-and-bamm-bamm-show-the-modern-stone-age-hannah-montana his review] of the series.
+* [[Idiot Ball]]: Pebbles usually holds it, so much so that Ed Liu of Toonzone mentions (and links to) the trope in [https://web.archive.org/web/20100823113054/http://www.toonzone.net/news/articles/22845/the-pebbles-and-bamm-bamm-show-the-modern-stone-age-hannah-montana his review] of the series.
 * [[Jerkass]]: Cindy and her equally snobby boyfriend Fabian.
 * [[The Jinx]]: Badluck Schleprock.
 * [[Laugh Track]]: H-B abandoned the standard prime time laugh track used at the time and created a cheesy synthetic laugh track for this series as well as companion CBS show ''[[The Hair Bear Bunch|Help! It's The Hair Bear Bunch!]]''
+* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: One episode had them entering Bamm-Bamm in a singing competition. But he can only sing in the shower, so they solved this by having him singing while wearing a small green Speedo and soaking himself in water in front of all his classmates. Sadly it wasn't nearly as hot as it sounds though.
+** Said episode was also a [[Recycled Script]] of ''[[The Flintstones|Flintstones]]'' episode with Barney having a similar singing problem/solution to such.
 * [[Nerd Glasses]]: Moonrock wears them.
 * [[New Age Retro Hippie]]: The [[Western Zodiac|astrology]]-obsessed Wiggy is an early example.