Modern Primitives

Modern Primitives
Premiere date	January 27, 2006
Run time	22:51
Starring	Richard Horvitz Grey DeLisle Greg Eagles James Arnold Taylor Vanessa Marshall Jennifer Hale Renee Raudman Chris Cox Frank Welker
Music composed by	Gregory Hinde Drew Neumann
Writer(s)	Maxwell Atoms Alex Almaguer
Storyboard artist(s)	Alex Almaguer
Director(s)	Shaun Cashman Kris Zimmerman (voices)
Animation director(s)	Robert Alvarez
Art director(s)	Rae McCarson
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"Modern Primitives" is the first part of episode four of The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy season four, and the hundred and twenty-first episode overall. It aired on January 27, 2006. It was written series creator, Maxwell Atoms, and Alex Almaguer, directed by Shaun Cashman, and voice directed by Kris Zimmerman.

Billy discovers a caveman while trying to dig up the center of the earth, which happens to be none other than Fred Flintstone. Chaos abrupts immediately when Fred gets overwhelmed with the ways of modern life.

Memorable quotes

Billy: Welcome to the 21st century. My name is Billy, and I'll be your role model. And you would be?
Fred: Yabba-Dabba?
Billy: No, no. Me Billy, you...
Fred: Oh! Fred.
Billy: Okay! Since you don't speak American, I'll call you Jake Steel.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Mandy	Grey DeLisle
The Grim Reaper	Greg Eagles
Billy	Richard Horwitz
Fred Flintstone	James Arnold Taylor
Harold	Richard Horwitz
Gladys	Jennifer Hale
Pud'n	Jane Carr
Captain Deadwood
Ms. Butterbean	Renee Raudman
Irwin	Vanessa Marshall
Hector Con Carne	N/A
Boskov	N/A
Principal Goodvibes	Chris Cox
Irwin's grandmother
Betty Rubble	Grey DeLisle
Barney Rubble	Frank Welker

Locations

• Earth
  • United States
    • Endsville
      • Billy's residence
      • Endsville Elementary School
    • Bedrock
      • Rubble residence
• The Moon

Objects

• Grim's scythe
• Irwin's bicycle

Vehicles

• Harold's car
• Principal Goodvibe's car
• Ice cream truck

Production

Filming

It was copyrighted in 2005.

Music

The main title theme and music were composed by Gregory Hinde and Drew Neumann.

Crew credits

• Supervising director: Juli Hashiguchi
• Supervising producer: Shaun Cashman
• Producer: Louis J. Cuck
• Production manager: Laura A. Dalesandro
• Production coordinator: James Silverman
• Production assistant: Zena Wyss
• Character designers: Marc Perry, Maxwell Atoms
• Prop designers: Serapio Calm, Anna Chambers
• Model clean up designers: Frank Homiski, Eva Wu
• Storyboard revisionist: Ian Wasseluk
• Background designers: Bill Flores, Cliff Voorhees
• Background painters: Joe Binggeli, Don Watson
• Casting director: Kris Zimmerman
• Recording studio manager: Karie Gima Pham
• Recording engineer: Robert Serda
• Color stylist: Brian Smith
• Animation checker: Sandy Benenanti
• Track reader: Slightly Off Track
• Overseas animation studio: eMation
• Picture editor: Illya Cano
• Dialogue editor: Jim Hearn
• Sound editorial: Glenn E. Oyabe, Jess Arruda, Glenwood Editorial
• Re-recording mixers: Tim Garrity, Brad Brock, Erik Serqueira
• Post production coordinator: Alicia Parkinson
• Production accountant: Shalonda Ware
• Machine room operator: Chris Hoetger
• Executive producer for Cartoon Network Studios: Brian A. Miller
• Supervising producer for Cartoon Network Studios: Jennifer Pelphrey
• Executive in charge of production for Cartoon Network: Jay Bastian
• Executive producer: Maxwell Atoms

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: January 27, 2006 on Cartoon Network

Behind the scenes

• The block of ice Fred is in lands on Grim the same way Dorothy Gale's house lands on the Wicked Witch of the East in the MGM 1939 film The Wizard of Oz.
• Fred is protrayed slightly different than in The Flintstones and its respective media, in that he could only say his catchphrase, "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", throughout the episode.
  • Despite this, the only other word he ever says in it is his own name, when he introduces himself to Billy.
• When Fred succumbs to future shock, one of the futuristic objects that twirls around Fred's head is a laptop with Hector Con Carne and Boskov the bear from the Evil Con Carne segments, which aired along with Grim Adventures when it originally shared a half hour block called Grim & Evil.
• One of the clothes drying in Principal Goodvibes's car is a shirt resembling the one worn by Charlie Brown from the Peanuts comic strips.
• As the gang flies Irwin's bike in the air to find Fred, Billy refers to the time E.T. did the same thing for Elliot and his friends in the 1982 film E.T., the Extra-Terrestial, and also that Grim always cries at the end.

In other languages

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Home availability

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