TV Series · 1960 · TV Series · 1960s
The Flintstones
Scored from 50 calibrated IMDb reviewers, each re-centered on their own rating baseline before the title is ranked. Cohort: TV Series · 1960s (154 peers).
Summary
Fred Flintstone operates a bronto-crane at the Slate Rock and Gravel Company in Bedrock, a Stone Age town where dinosaurs double as household appliances and cars run on foot power. He and his wife Wilma live next door to their best friends Barney and Betty Rubble, and Fred's get-rich schemes, his lodge nights with the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes and his bowling obsession routinely collapse into domestic trouble. Later seasons add the Flintstones' daughter Pebbles and the Rubbles' adopted son Bamm-Bamm. Hanna-Barbera's animated sitcom, the first cartoon series to air in American prime time, built its comedy on the working-class marriage template of The Honeymooners.
The Flintstones is a 1960 adventure, animation and comedy television series. It was made in the United States. It is rated TV-Y7. A typical episode runs 30 minutes.
A second review pool sits behind it as well: 11 Rotten Tomatoes reviewers clear the same calibration test, and Rankquant scores them separately. Its in-cohort standing is measured against the other 153 1960s television series, not against the whole corpus. Only 50 of its IMDb reviewers rate with enough spread for a personal baseline to be measured, so the calibrated figure rests on a thin sample; a broader pool of 51 reviewers with at least two reviews feeds the raw-average track.
How the score was built
We compare the reviewers of this title against every other title those same people reviewed. Each review is scored relative to the reviewer's own baseline — a 7/10 from a hard grader sits well above their average, while a 7/10 from a generous grader sits below theirs. Every reviewer then counts the same, so the result is a calibrated consensus rather than a raw average.
- Global percentile
- Where The Flintstones lands against every title we rank.
- In-cohort percentile
- The same comparison narrowed to its cohort — titles of the same format released in the same decade. A 1970s film is judged against 1970s films, not against last year's streaming series. Ranked against TV Series · 1960s (154 titles).
- AI-adjusted percentile
- The same reviewer-normalized score, corrected for how much confidence the sample supports: thin samples are pulled toward the corpus average. Each title keeps the share n / (n + 53) of its measured distance from the average, where n is its calibrated-reviewer count, and the result is ranked on the same scale as the global percentile.53 is the median sample size across everything we rank. Here n is 50.
Cohort: TV Series · 1960s
