The Flinstones characters' eyeballs

Why were Fred and Betty the only ones with normal-looking eyeballs? Wilma's creepy black eyes remind me of those black-eyed children that reportedly haunt some of the dataloungers, while Barney's eyes with those white pupils were equally scary.

It takes place in pre-history, the genes for normal eyes hadn't become fixed yet.

Verificatia of sizemeat of Fred and Barney?

Cut?

Those are the important questions.

Because they’re cartoon characters.

Did Fred and Barney ever hook up at the Quarry? Did they ever have a 3 way with Mr. Slate?

It’s because Barney and Wilma represent the duality of Fred’s nature. Barney represented the totality of pure, unrestrained ego, hence his open voids for eyes — total PRESENCE, whereas Wilma is the negation of that, as reflected in her black eyes — total ABSENCE.

The more bizarrre question I’ve ever seen in my life.

R5 Thank you.

Can you tell what the void I see in the mirror means?

Fred and Better are the most open and gregarious of the group. Wilma is the most reserve. Ergo, the eyes are the window to the soul.

Also, on a more practical level, animation back there was all done by hand, frame by frame. I actually met one of the creators when he was still alive. Animation was still very small industry back then. Things like the 5 o'clock shadow on Fred and Barney were a way to limit the amount of work done on each cell by just painting over that small area of the frame. Probably the same thinking with the eyes.

Ironically, money was so tight and they though so little of the longevity of their work, once the episode was put onto film, they would wash off all the artwork from the plastic film and reuse it over and over again. So for collectors of early artwork 60's cartoons, the only cells that remain are the ones people rescued from the trash at the time.