THE FLINTSTONES

    "Flintstones. Meet the Flintstones.
    They're the modern Stone Age family.
    From the town of Bedrock, they're a page right out of history.
    Let's ride with the family down the street.
    Through the courtesy of Fred's two feet.
    When you're with the Flinstones.
    We'll have a yabba-dabba-doo time.
    A-dabba-doo time.
    We'll have a gay ol' time."

The inspiration for the television series and for its characters seems to have been two-fold. A pair of Warner Brothers cartoons, "Pre-Hysterical Hare" (1958) and "Wild Wild World" (1960), in which a filmic record of prehistoric life is discovered and in the case of "Wild Wild World" is played to show Stone Age people having a fairly modern way of life by cleverly using the primitive materials at their disposal, provided one set of ideas, and the popular mid-1950s situation comedy series, The Honeymooners, contained the other. Rock quarry worker, fat Freddy Flintstone was patterned after Jackie Gleason's overweight, overbearing, scheming but loyal Brooklyn bus driver, Ralph Kramden, and Fred's neighbor and buddy, the light-hearted, vivacious Barney Rubble, bears distinct similarity to Art Carney as Kramden's chum, sewer worker Ed Norton. Fred's feisty, quick-witted, and sharp-tongued wife, Wilma, is a close comparison to Kramden's spouse, Alice (Audrey Meadows), and Wilma and Alice have in common a propensity to laugh, gossip, and commiserate with their husband's buddy's wife, Betty Rubble in The Flintstones and Trixie Norton (Joyce Randolph) in The Honeymooners.

Ralph is an easily flattered boor who enjoys his pleasure, his sport, and his brotherhood with his fellow men, and he is always seeking financial advancement, succumbing to many an ill-advised plot, and incuring the wrath of spousal tongue-lashing. This describes Fred Flintstone to a tee. So too does Kramden's quick temper.

Cartoon parody of The Honeymooners was also an inspiration at Warner Brothers. Director Robert McKimson fashioned two couples of mice after the Kramdens and Nortons, in a trilogy of animated short films, "The Honey-Mousers" (1956), "Cheese It- the Cat!" (1957), and "Mice Follies" (1960), and these cartoons were doubtless influential to the decision by Hanna and Barbera to adapt The Honeymooners for their prehistoric-time cartoon television show.

Much of the appeal of The Flintstones can be found not only in the every man nature of Fred Flintstone but in the wit with which prehistoric gadgets are portrayed: a baby mastodon that functions as a vacuum cleaner, a full size mastodon that discharges water from its trunk to give to Fred a morning shower, bees in a seashell acting as a razor, a bird's beak that plays "vinyl" records or etches photographs inside of a camera, a monkey within a vending machine, birds that fly to "transmit" messages from one intercom to another, and a beastly garbage disposal. Most noteworthy is the Flintstones' car, essentially two stone logs linked together under a carriage with an animal skin canopy and powered by Fred's two feet. Similarly, buses attain mobility by the foot power of all their occupants.

Stone Age society should be small indeed, in as much as every time that a Hollyrock studio chooses to shoot a film on location, Bedrock is the selected site; Wilma and Betty win every contest that they enter; the Flintstones and Rubbles constantly meet Hollyrock celebrities; and Fred never fails to encounter old friends. And yet, Bedrock alone is a sprawling community of seemingly endless, look-alike houses and other buildings, as seen in the backgrounds as Fred and Barney drive their cars, and freeways are invariably jammed with traffic. Other aspects of the Flintstone world are addle-brained doctors, pompous sales clerks with an Ed Nelson way of speaking, poker-faced, frequently befuddled policemen, dimwit thugs, and snobbish, sycophantic movie studio personnel.

Providing the voices for the Stone Age personages populating the world of The Flintstones were Alan Reed as Fred, Jean Vander Pyl as Wilma, Mel Blanc as Barney and Dino (the Flintstones' lively, loyal, and very affectionate pet dinosaur), and Bea Benaderet as Betty for Seasons 1 to 4 and Gerry Johnson as Mrs. Rubble for Seasons 5 and 6, Don Messick as baby Bamm-Bamm, Verna Felton as Wilma's mother, and Harvey Korman as Fred and Barney's extraterrestrial benefactor (or malefactor, depending on their point of view at any given time), the Great Gazoo. Reed died in 1977, Vander Pyl in 1999, Blanc in 1989, Benaderet in 1968, Messick in 1997, and Felton in 1966.

Other voice artists who contributed their talent to Flintstones characters were Daws Butler, who substituted as Barney for Mel Blanc at the start of Season 2 after Blanc's near-fatal car accident in 1961, Hal Smith, Dick Beals, and Henry Corden, who voiced Fred for various latter-day Flintstones revivals after Alan Reed's death. Ann Margaret, James Darren, Tony Curtis, Elizabeth Montgomery, and Dick York vocally guest starred as prehistoric versions of themselves or of their popular television personalities in certain episodes.

The following is a complete episode for The Flintstones.

Season 1

"The Flintstone Flyer"
Fred's leisurely Saturday afternoon is disrupted by Barney, who golfs a ball directly into the face of a hammock-prone 
Fred. Barney then annoys Fred with hammering of bolts in construction of a peddle-operated, eggbeater-like flying machine.
Although Flintstone irately scoffs at Rubble's contraption, he is enticed into performing a test-flight, the result being
a crash that requires bandages to Fred's head. When Fred learns that Barney inadvertently bought four tickets to an opera
performance on the same night as a major bowling tournament in which Fred and Barney are slated participants, he uses his
head injury as an excuse to avoid going to the opera with Wilma. Barney volunteers to remain at the Flintstone home as
caretaker for the "ailing" Fred, and Wilma and Betty agree to attend the opera by themselves. After the wives have 
departed cave Flintstone, Fred and Barney hasten to go to the Bedrock Bowling Alley, but to their dismay, they realize 
that Wilma and Betty are driving the only operable car among the two couples. So, the men board Barney's flying machine,
named by Fred as the Flintstone Flyer, to speedily travel to the bowling alley, which is directly across the street from
the opera theatre! Wilma is worried about Fred and wants to contact him at home, and as she and Betty enter the bowling 
alley in search of a telephone, they see Fred and Barney and furiously hit the men with their purses. However, Fred and
Barney noticed their wives coming into the bowling alley and used black broom bristles to construct fake mustaches, and
fool their wives into thinking that they are two inanely chattering Germans. When the apologetic but still suspicious 
Wilma and Betty leave the bowling alley, Fred and Barney race to return to Fred's home in advance of the wives, and the 
Flintstone Flyer is a success in this respect. But Barney fails to remove his false mustache and does his bogus German 
prattle when the wives arrive at the Flintstone abode to see Barney at Fred's bedside, and Wilma and Betty, in a violent
rage at their spouses' deception, chase Fred and Barney, who frantically ascend to sky in the Flintstone Flyer. They must
lose peddle-power and come down to Earth eventually- and the awaiting Wilma and Betty play cards.

"Hotlips Hannigan"
Fred wants be the most impressive participant at a talent show, and after a disastrous trampoline experiment outside of 
the window of a hairdressing parlor where Wilma is a patron, during which Fred cannot stop bouncing and embarrasses Wilma,
Fred decides to do a magic act. In practice, he falters with a "disappearing" egg trick and is also inept in tablecloth-
pulling, but hopes to redeem himself with a disappearance cabinet. Wilma is more than annoyed with Fred's foolery, and 
when Barney and Betty are visiting the Flintstones and Fred invites Wilma and Betty to enter the cabinet and vanish as per
his magician "prowess", Wilma decides to teach to Fred a lesson. She and Betty agree to be his magical subjects, exit the
cabinet through a rear trick door, and hide in a closet so that Fred and Barney believe their wives to have truly 
disappeared. Rather than immediately "re-materialize" Wilma and Betty, Fred proposes that he and Barney have a rollicking
time at a night club with Fred's old chum, Hotlips Hannigan. Wilma and Betty disguise themselves as man-crazed, teenaged 
girls and follow their husbands to the night club, where they terrorize the unwitting Fred and Barney, performers in a 
"When the Saints Come Marching in" song, with "groupie" attentions. Fred and Barney flee the night club and return to the
Flintstone house, where Wilma and Betty remove their disguises and step back into the cabinet. They emerge from it on cue
by Fred and speak in the addled manner of their teenaged alter-egos, causing Fred and Barney to feel distinctly unwell.

"The Swimming Pool"
Fred and Barney may be best buddies, but they quarrel almost constantly, and the day that Fred arrives home from work,
carrying a bag full of groceries and two 10-inch-thick New York sirloin steaks, is a prime example of the volatile 
friendship between the two cavemen. Fred accidently drops the steaks at the fence to his house and suspects Barney of 
swiping them when he smells steaks being cooked on Barney's barbeque and is told by Barney that the steaks are of the 
exact grade and proportions as Fred's missing meat. Fred becomes violent, demanding that Barney relinquish the "stolen"
steaks, before Wilma informs Fred that she found Fred's steaks where Fred left them. Fred refuses to apologize to Barney;
so, Barney repossesses Fred's ladder and is chased by a ballistic Fred, who falls into the hole that Barney is digging to
form a swimming pool. Fred's disposition mellows immediately as he sweet-talks Barney into sharing a swimming pool, with
Barney doing all of the maintenance on the pretense of having a "free" half on Fred's property. The results are 
disastrous, with Fred and Barney diving simultaneously off of opposing boards and colliding in mid-air, Fred leaping into
the pool emptied by Barney, and Barney's personal pool party that raises Fred's ire. Fred constructs a fence across the
property boundary to separate his side of the pool from Barney's, but Wilma angrily orders Fred to remove it. To strike 
against his erstwhile pool pal, Fred arranges to ruin Barney's next planned party by having a disguised friend impersonate
a police officer raiding the revels. But Barney's party is really a birthday celebration in Fred's honor, and Fred joins
in the festivities, which become noisy enough for a neighbor to call the police. Fred mistakes the true constable for his
friend and brazenly offends and drops the policeman into the pool! Arrested and jailed, Fred is visited by Barney, who 
gives to Fred a slice of birthday cake and "bails" Fred out of police custody. Amiable relations are short-lived, however,
when Barney again removes the water from the pool without informing a nose-diving Flintstone.

"No Help Wanted" 
Barney has lost his job, and Fred, feeling sorry (and guilty too, in that it was Fred's demands as Barney's "agent" that 
Barney be given a substantial increase in pay which caused Barney's boss to terminate Barney's situation) for his friend,
arranges to find employment for Barney with the help of an influential, golf-playing acquaintance named Boulder. 
Unbeknownst to Fred, Barney's new employer is Rocky Stone, a creditor who assigns Barney to re-possess furniture and other
material- and Barney's first mission involves confiscating Fred's television! Barney spends hours on a hill agonizing over
his task and decides to proposition Fred about sending the overdue payment on the television to relieve Barney of the 
unpleasant chore of divesting Fred of the television. Barney is unable to persuade Fred to make the payment because Fred
lost the money for the payment by losing in a wagered golf game with Boulder (the game that resulted in Barney's hiring by
Stone). Fred unwittingly preaches to Barney about the necessity of ruthlessly doing one's duty, thus emboldening Barney to
re-possess the television, resulting in a fiery clash between the duo. Barney ultimately decides to resolve the problem by
supplying money for Fred's television payment so that Fred can have his television back- and writes a tear-jerking letter
to Fred, saying that he does not want to lose Fred's friendship. Fred and Barney reconcile, before Barney reveals that his
next assignment is the re-possession of Fred's golfing equipment!

"The Split Personality"
Fred is in a foul mood one afternoon. Furious with Barney for drinking Fred's last bottle of Cactus Coola, Fred confronts
Barney and drinks what he thinks is the Cactus Coola in a bottle sitting on Barney's car. But Barney tells to Fred that 
the bottle contained car polish. Fred panics and throws the bottle upward, and it falls on his head, rendering him 
unconscious. Wilma telephones a doctor, who proves to be a quack and utterly unhelpful in reviving Fred. Mention of a 
hamburger does the trick, but the awakened Fred is nothing like his old self. He has become a mannered sophisticate named
Frederick, who, though initially generous and ingratiating to Wilma, quickly irritates all around him with his exclusively
highbrow tastes for opera and spelling bees, use of proper names, and Captain Bligh-like intolerance of "insubordination"
on Fred's bowling team. Frederick's inability to bowl and his condescending air infuriates the bowling team members, and 
husbands all over Bedrock- including Barney- are incensed at their wives' demands that they "measure up" to Frederick. 
Wilma and the Rubbles endeavor to reverse Fred's personality transformation by re-administering the hit to the head that
first changed him. They position a rock atop an ajar door, and when Frederick passes through the doorway, the rock falls 
upon his head, bringing back the cheapskate, selfish, brusque, often angry, lovable Fred Flintstone.

"The Monster From the Tar Pits"
Miracle Pictures- "If it's a good picture, it's a miracle"- plans to make a low-budget horror film, The Monster From the
Tar Pits, starring Hollyrock heartthrobs Gary Granite, Rock Pile, and Wednesday Tuesday (or is it Tuesday Wednesday?). A 
bespectacled, beatnik director is commissioned my a mogul named Sandstone to find a real town in which to produce the 
"flick", and from a map is Bedrock the selection, of course! Bedrock folk flock to audition for roles as extras in the 
movie, and while Fred berates his fellow citizens for their easily bedazzled furor over the production, he secretly 
attends the final casting session and is given the job of doubling for Gary Granite as the title creature. His ego 
inflated at the prospect of outdoing Granite and becoming a superior movie celebrity, Fred goes home in his monster suit
and brags to Wilma, Barney, and Betty. On the set of the production, Fred undergoes the grueling indignities of being 
bombarded by real boulders (fake ones are beyond budget), whacked by an authentic club (a padded club is also too 
expensive), and walking into a tar pit with only his waving hand remaining un-submerged. The film crew quickly departs 
Bedrock, leaving Fred still in the tar pit, where Barney finds him. Despite the disappointment at not being anything more
than Granite's "fall guy", Fred is excited when news of a coming sequel- also to be shot in Bedrock- is heard on the 
radio, and he rushes to find his tarry monster costume.

"The Babysitters"
Barney's boss has obtained two rare tickets to a no-holds-barred, evening fight to be transmitted on television, but is 
not permitted by his wife to use them and decides to give them to a delighted Barney. However, Wilma and Betty believe 
that their husbands will be watching the fight on television, and Wilma promises to a friend named Edna, with whom she and
Betty will be playing bridge at someone else's house, that Fred will be home to babysit Edna's baby, Egbert, on this 
fateful fight night. Wilma shames Fred to forsake going to the fight with Barney and to remain home to take care of 
Egbert, and Betty morally obliges Barney to help Fred in this task. Just when Fred and Barney accept their fate and admit
that it is better to watch the fight on television in the comfort of Fred's own home, the television announcer says that
the fight is blacked-out in most of Bedrock, including Fred's area. Fred furiously throws a vase at his television when he
sees that the substitute program is Alice Blue-Jean and Her Magic Banjo, and when he proposes going to the fight, with 
Egbert accompanying, he is told by Barney that Barney tore the tickets into shreds! Fred then realizes that Joe Rockhead's
house is beyond the black-out range and hastens with Barney and baby to Rockhead's residence, but nobody is home there, 
and Fred and Barney force entry. While Fred and Barney are watching the fight on Rockhead's television, Egbert puts his 
bonnet onto the head of Rockhead's little pet dinosaur, which leads Fred and Barney on a chase to a tree. Rockhead arrives
home from a party, discovers Egbert still in his house, and carries the infant to police headquarters, to where Fred and
Barney are brought too, after police and fire departments retrieve the bonneted pet dinosaur from the tree and the police
apprehend Fred and Barney on a mischief charge. Wilma, Betty, and Edna see the news report to this effect on television,
Edna collects her infant son, and Wilma and Betty angrily confront their jailed husbands.

"At the Races"
The owner of Boulder Dan's Billiards is retiring and selling his pool hall for a cash payment of 2,000 dollars, and Fred
and Barney hope to be the buyers. Not only is the pool hall a "gold mine" in profit potential, but Fred and Barney, as 
their own bosses, would be able to play pool every day for free! The obstacle to this aim is obtaining the needed capital,
and when Barney suggests that they follow the example of Barney's tightwad boss and place a 50-dollars-at-40-to-1 wager on
a nimble dinosaur named Sabretooth, which is virtually assured of winning at the Bedrock Racing Track, Fred replies that 
he would have to siphon the 50 dollars from his pay, and Wilma would never permit that. Thus, Fred and Barney seize upon 
the idea of a bogus robbery. After giving his wallet to Barney, Fred acts as though he has been violently victimized, the
wallet stolen. Wilma is not convinced of the story until Barney, when Wilma is not looking, hits Fred on the head with a
vase, producing a large lump on Fred's head. Later, with Wilma gone to a store for groceries, bedridden Fred leaps into 
action to join Barney on a jaunt by bus to place the bet and watch the action at the racing track. Discovered there by his
employer, Fred, believing his gamble on Sabretooth to be "a sure thing", tactlessly quits his job- and learns immediately
hence that Sabretooth's owner, a Southern Colonel, has bet on another dinosaur! Fred and Barney pray that Sabretooth, 
jockeyed by a monkey, emerges victorious, which he does! Fred and Barney, en route back to Fred's home, decide to hide 
their 2,000 dollar winnings beneath a rock, in case Wilma, in her anger at Fred's false-robbery deception, forbids Fred 
to invest the money in Boulder Dan's Billiards. However, Wilma is happy to support her husband's purchase of the "gold
mine", and Fred and Barney return to the rock to retrieve the money, and are robbed for real! Fred is pummeled by the 
burly, masked thief, and like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf", is unable to persuade Wilma to believe that this time the robbery
is true!

"The Engagement Ring"
Fred agrees to do a favor for Barney by hiding the belated diamond engagement ring that Barney has purchased for Betty on
a 420-payment credit plan from the Buddy-Buddy Broker Jewelers, until the appropriate time comes for Barney to surprise 
Betty with the ring. Fred strives to keep the ring secret from Wilma. Concealing the ring in a flour jar, on the belief 
that, because of the ease of buying frozen confections, Wilma never bakes anything anymore, Fred is staggered to discover
that Wilma has decided to make a cake and is unable to retrieve the ring from the cake batter without being caught in the
act by Wilma. After opening the oven door and ruining the baking cake, Fred races to "hijack" the garbage truck, when the
garbage man is far too prompt in collecting the Flintstones' can of trash containing the discarded cake and the ring 
therein. Fred places the retrieved ring in one of the finger holes of his bowling ball, which later rolls off of a closet
shelf. Wilma lifts the bowling ball, the ring falls out of it, and Wilma naturally believes that the ring was bought for
her by Fred. Fred is unable to tell to Wilma that the ring is not hers, because Wilma has wanted one ever since she and 
Fred were courting, and Fred and Barney must raise money to buy another ring for Barney to give to Betty. Fred pressures
Barney to attempt to withstand three minutes in a boxing fight with the Champ, the prize for which being 500 dollars. 
Betty and Wilma learn from a friend about Barney really being the buyer of the first ring and are told by the Buddy-Buddy
jeweler about Fred and Barney's desperate plan to obtain money for the second ring. Not telling Barney and Fred that they
know about this situation, the wives pay the champion boxer 500 dollars of Betty's savings not to hit the agile Barney and
let Barney win the same 500 dollars, but they are double-crossed by the star boxer and the boxer's manager, when the Champ
strikes Barney unconscious. After Fred carries the prone body of his friend out of the boxing fight building, Wilma 
angrily punches the Champ and wins $500! The Champ's manager is forced by an equally fiery Betty to return Betty's 500
dollars, and the clever ladies cajole the Champ's manager into giving 500 of the total 1,000 dollars to Barney on the 
premise that Barney finished his allotted three minutes with the Champ before he was hit. Barney buys the second 
engagement ring to give to Betty, and Betty and Wilma both feign complete surprise. 

"Hollyrock, Here I Come" 
Wilma and Betty win a slogan contest with, "Mother McGuire's Meatballs don't bounce." The prize is an all-expenses-paid
vacation for two in Hollyrock. Fred and Barney consent to their spouses' Hollyrock lark and plan to enjoy unlimited 
recreation (bowling, pool, roller skating) for the duration of Wilma and Betty's absence. However, the pair soon miss 
their wives and decide to join them by flying economy-class to Hollyrock. Once there, Fred and Barney find Wilma and Betty
in a theatre, where Wilma has been hired to play the long-suffering wife to an overbearing, deceitful husband, the title 
character of "The Frogmouth", a stage production to be broadcast live to 60 million homes. After the original tall and 
muscular "Frogmouth" proves to have an unsuitably wimpy voice, the uptight producer hears Fred yelling at Wilma for 
lurking with strangers in a darkened theatre, and is overjoyed to have discovered the perfect "Frogmouth" in Flintstone. 
Never one to sneer at a chance for fame and fortune, Fred is happy to essay the "Frogmouth" role, and his ego becomes 
insufferable to the producer, who negates his contract with the bona fide "Frogmouth" Fred by telling Fred about the size
of the audience and instilling stage fright to such an extent that Fred's speech is reduced to squeaks. It requires a 
statement by Wilma, once the Flintstones and Rubbles have returned to Bedrock, that she has bought a $5,000 fur coat on 
credit, to restore Fred's hot-tempered bombast.

"The Golf Champion" 
Fred defeats Ben Boulder in the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs' Golf Tournament but is denied entitlement to the prize trophy by
Barney, who is treasurer of the L.O.D.. Barney withholds the trophy from Fred until Fred pays overdue month's dues and 
again is a L.O.D. member in good standing, and Fred proudly proclaims that his modest endorsement had resulted in Barney 
becoming L.O.D. treasurer and that Barney is an ingrate for not returning the favor to his buddy by letting Fred have the
trophy. Animosity between the two cavemen escalates as Barney acts to reclaim property borrowed by Fred, including a water
bucket, golfing gear, and a hammock. Barney thwarts Fred's furious retaliation by releasing his new, vicious watchdog, 
Buzzsaw, upon the buttocks of Flintstone. Fred's attempt to lure Barney on bended knees back into his good graces with a
rollicking party runs afoul when he learns that Barney is away from home. Wilma and Betty finally decide to pay Fred's 
L.O.D. dues and give the trophy to Fred on the pretext that Fred and Barney both relented and themselves did these deeds 
so that they could be pals again.

"The Sweepstakes Ticket" 
Fred buys a sweepstakes ticket and is persuaded by his conscience (an angel-winged, tiny Flintstone) to share the ticket 
and its potential yield with Barney, who promises to hide the ticket so that Wilma and Betty cannot find it. The wives 
would squander the winnings on extravagant garments, and Fred and Barney are adamant that this not happen. Meanwhile, 
Wilma and Betty have obtained their own sweepstakes ticket and are also determined to keep the ticket secret from their 
husbands, who would spend the won money on sporting paraphernalia. On the same kitchen shelf in the Rubble household are
the coincident hiding places for both tickets. Barney conceals his and Fred's ticket in a cookie jar, and Betty and Wilma
hide theirs in a red coffee pot. At night, Fred's evil "conscience" (a little, horned, Devil-tailed Fred holding a 
pitchfork) prods Fred to sneak into the Rubbles' house and locate and confiscate his and Barney's ticket to guard on his
own turf. Fred finds not his and Barney's ticket but Wilma and Betty's, and as luck would have it, the wives' ticket is 
the winner. Fred inadvertently admits to filching Wilma and Betty's ticket from the coffee pot. The wives reclaim their
property, and with a cry of, "Charge it," they rush to a department store to buy some expensive clothing, with their 
winning sweepstakes ticket as collateral.

"The Drive-in"
Fred and Barney again attempt to go into business for themselves, this time acquiring a drive-in restaurant, with no down
payment required, from a business opportunities agent who wilfully neglects to inform them that the eatery's earlier 
proprietor was unsuccessful because of a dubiously optimum location. Flintstone and Rubble quit their menial jobs without
Wilma and Betty's knowledge and decline to inform the wives of their status as beginner restauranteurs, because they do 
not want Wilma and Betty to worry about their chosen career path until it reaps dividends. A pair of bubbly though 
unemployed, singing waitresses- a pair of "live wires"- learn that Fred and Barney are seeking help in their area of 
expertise and telephone Fred, while Fred is not at home, to request an interview. Wilma receives the telephone call, in 
which the waitresses do not specify their interest in assisting Fred and Barney, and is highly suspicious of Fred's 
importance to the girls, who come to the Flintstone home to sing their slogan ("Here we come on the run with a burger on a
bun, and a dab of coleslaw on the side...") for Fred and Barney, who feign complete confusion. Nevertheless, on the sly,
Fred and Barney hire the waitresses and commence business, with them doing the cooking and the girls serving the drive-in
restaurant's customers. Wilma and Betty telephone their husbands' former employers, learn of Fred and Barney's 
simultaneous act of quitting, and go in the Rubbles' car in search of their presumably errant cavemen. Stopping at Fred
and Barney's drive-in for a meal, the wives recognize the waitresses and see Fred and Barney at work in the kitchen. The
waitresses have tired of attending to patrons and are resigning, and Wilma and Betty substitute for them and shock Fred 
and Barney speechless, persuading the husbands to retire from food service with only a 50% loss on their investment and 
regain their prior jobs. 

"The Prowler"
When he learns that Wilma wants to join Betty at judo lessons offered for a fee by an Oriental named Rockimoto, Fred is
furious, in that the implication is that Wilma will use her judo prowess to protect her husband from home intruders. 
Liberal-minded Barney is pleased that his wife is learning judo and refuses to adhere to Fred's directive that he forbid
Betty to continue her lessons. Fred makes a bet with Barney that despite her new self-defense techniques, Betty will 
scream for help from Barney and hide under her bed when a prowler (Fred with a mask) invades the Rubble home by night.
Should this happen, Betty must cease her judo lessons. If Betty does not cower fearfully; if Betty uses judo to fight the
prowler (Fred), Fred pledges to pay for Betty's further lessons. What Fred does not realize is that a real prowler is 
targeting the Rubble and Flintstone homes on the same night as his fakery. Barney helps "burglar" Fred to enter the 
Rubbles' house to scare Betty, who although screaming and asking for Barney's aid in subduing the interloper, successfully
judo-fights Fred, who flees for home- and there encounters the real prowler, who forcefully expels his presumed 
competition from the place! After Barney admits to Betty that Fred was pretending to be the prowler to scare her, Betty
telephones Wilma to inform her of Fred's plot, and Wilma uses some of the judo techniques taught to her by Betty to throw
the real prowler, whom she believes to be Fred, through a wall. Wilma then sees Fred and the prowler side-by-side, becomes
frightened, and hides under her bed. Barney and Betty join Fred, and they all hide under the bed with Wilma- and the 
prowler decides to flee from his unusual victims. At Fred's expense, Flintstones and Rubbles all attend Rockimoto's judo
school- and so too (privately) does the prowler!

"The Girls' Night Out" 
Fred and Barney respond to Wilma and Betty's complaint that Flintstone and Rubble wives are constantly housebound by 
escorting them to an amusement park, where Fred leisurely produces a vinyl record of his voice as a souvenir of the 
occasion. On the record is Fred's acappella rendition of "Listen to the Rocking Bird". Wilma scolds Fred for his self-
indulgence and demands an end to the tiresome amusement park visit, with Fred leaving his vinyl record in the booth where
it was pressed (by a bird's beak). A teenager discovers the record, plays it for his friends, to whom Fred's tuneful 
prattle in the song appeals, and soon it is played on the radio with a plea for the "unknown troubadour" to reveal himself
to his legions of admirers. Wilma telephones Keen-Teen Records as per the company's request, and a Southern Colonel (Keen-
Teen's talent promoter) bestows to Fred a "make-over" to a hair and dress style that causes youth to swoon with irrational
adoration at "the world's oldest teenager", "Hi-Fye". Long travels in a tour bus on bumpy roads with Fred and the Colonel
cause Wilma and Betty to despair of Fred's fame, which inflates Fred's ego, and the wives decide to scuttle Fred's singing
career by spreading an ugly rumor that, "Hi-Fye is really a square." Teenagers cannot abide the thought of their idol
being a stodgy, four-sided bore, and it is back to Bedrock for the disgraced and abandoned "Hi-Fye".

"Arthur Quarry's Dance Class" 
A wealthy childhood friend bestows gratis to Wilma four tickets to "the swankiest social event of the year"- a dance at 
the Rockadero Tilton, but Fred and Barney both refuse to go thereto, because neither of them knows how to dance- and both
are too ashamed of this fact to admit it to the wives. Yet, Fred and Barney are determined to learn dancing technique, and
when a book with foot diagrams is not particularly helpful, the pair decide to enroll at Arthur Quarry's Dancing School. 
With only a week to go until the Rockadero Tilton's event, Fred and Barney are required to enlist in a "crash course" of
four lessons per every evening. In order to excuse themselves from home without revealing their dance tutorage to Wilma 
and Betty, the husbands join Joe Rockhead's Volunteer Fire Department, which is really a ploy for the males of Bedrock to
regularly leave their homes for leisurely purposes. Whenever the fire bell rings- always at 7:30 P.M., the intrepid 
volunteer firefighters leave their houses to battle non-existent blazes (Bedrock's buildings are all built from stone and
cannot burn). Fred and Barney use their Volunteer Fire Department membership to enable them to attend dance class without
Wilma and Betty's knowledge, intending to surprise the women with their newly acquired talent on the Rockadero Tilton
dance floor. However, Wilma and Betty are suspicious and summon the Volunteer Fire Department- minus Fred and Barney- on
the pretense of a real fire. They demand, with threat of revealing the deceptive nature of Rockhead's civic mindedness, to
know the true whereabouts of Fred and Barney. Rockhead divulges Flintstone and Rubble's location, and Wilma and Betty 
replace the ravishing dancing teachers to surprise Fred and Barney at Arthur Quarry's School. Fred, Wilma, Barney, and
Betty go to the Rockadero Tilton dance, where Fred and Barney "trip the light fantastic" with an unvarying two-step.

"The Big Bank Robbery" 
Two bank robbers named Benny and Fingers are closely pursued by police and decide to discard their 86,000 dollar "haul" 
and collect it at a later time. Unable to discriminate about the place for this desperate action, Fingers throws the sack
of money out off his and Benny's speeding car and over the fence to Barney's backyard, in which Fred is idling in Barney's
hammock. The loot descends atop of Fred precisely as Fred is wishing aloud for a monetary windfall. Wilma and Betty urge 
Fred and Barney to deliver the money to the authorities, and Fred and Barney put the hefty sack of dollars in the trunk of
Fred's car in honest intention of doing as their wives instruct. However, the pair learn from Fred's car radio that the 
Rockville Bank is offering a reward for the money's return to its vault and opt to bring the money to this bank, stopping
first at a gasoline station so that Fred's car can be replenished with "fuel". The station attendant knows from his own
radio about the robbery and unbeknownst to Fred and Barney finds the sack of riches in Fred's car trunk. After Fred and 
Barney leave the gasoline station, the attendant calls the police and reports Fred and Barney as perpetrators of the 
heist. Fred and Barney hear a radio update on the crime clearly describing them as the culprits- and panic, escaping a 
police chase and returning to home to tell Wilma and Betty that they must now flee Bedrock, leaving their wives to fend 
for themselves. After Fred and Barney have departed to hide in a wilderness, Wilma and Betty deduce that capture of the 
robbers is Fred and Barney's only hope to have a normal, settled life and, pretending to be the girl-friends of thugs, go
to every disreputable eatery in Bedrock and speak about the 86,000 dollars being "stashed" at Fred's address. As the wives
have hoped, Benny and Fingers overhear their talk of the loot and hasten to collect it. Also, Fred has come home with 
Barney to obtain the stolen money so that the police will not find it on Fred's premises, and in the ensuing commotion, 
Fred inadvertently vanquishes Benny and Fingers by abruptly opening the door to his house with them painfully on the other
side of the sideways crashing portal. Summoned by Wilma and Betty, the police apprehend the crooks, and Fred is rewarded 
but as usual brags about his accidental heroics being intentional, so that Wilma, Betty, and Barney are able to 
"blackmail" him into letting them spend the reward money lest they tell Bedrock that Fred is not being truthful.

"The Snorkasaurus Hunter" 
Exasperated with inflated butcher's meat costs, Fred resolves that Flintstone and Rubble households obtain sustenance in a
hunting expedition that could also serve as a vacation. Mishaps include the couples' trailer being wedged in the 
Flintstone garage, which is dragged several feet by Fred's car before Flintstones and Rubbles discover that they have a 
garage in tow, the faultily fastened trailer coming loose from Fred's car and obstructing freeway traffic (with Fred being
ticketed by a policeman for several violations of law), Barney felling a tree directly on top of the trailer, Fred in a 
makeshift tent snoring to blow neighboring tent's occupant Barney, also snoozing, off of a cliff, and Barney being 
swallowed from head to knees by a large fish. Fred and Barney, clubs in hand, hunt for a snorkasaurus and encounter one 
(that looks like Dino) with superior intelligence and ability to speak in an obsequious voice. The snorkasaurus outwits
his greenhorn foes by appealing to Wilma and Betty's compassion for animals (and to their vanity with praises of their 
beauty) so that the wives forbid Fred and Barney from harming the charming creature, which accompanies the Flintstones 
and Rubbles, their hunting expedition a failure, back to Bedrock with their rejuvenated trailer.

"The Hot Piano" 
Feigning forgetfulness regarding his wedding anniversary, Fred intends to buy something more substantial for Wilma than 
the usual flowers. He wishes to surprise Wilma with a genuine Stoneway piano but requires 100 times the 50 dollars that he
has saved for the purchase from a music store. Fred believes it to be his lucky day when a man on a street corner offers 
to sell a Stoneway to Fred for a mere $50. The vendor, 88 Fingers Louie, says that he is able to sell at so extreme a 
discount because he has no store, hence no rent, no "overheads". All he has is a truck parked in an alley- and declines 
Fred's request to assist in delivering the piano to the Flintstone home, a task to which Fred assigns Barney. Flintstone 
and Rubble hide the piano in Fred's garage, and at midnight, the men endeavor to insert the heavy and cumbersome piano 
through a doorway, with Fred applying too much force, and the musical instrument careens through the Flintstone residence,
rolls outside via another passageway, and menaces the streets of Bedrock. Fred leaps atop the speeding object and is 
arrested by a sardonic policeman for recklessly driving a piano. Brought to police headquarters, Fred is assumed by the 
duty Sergeant to be 88 Fingers Louie, specialist in selling stolen property. Fred pleads innocence, says that all he 
wanted was to surprise his wife with the piano as a wedding anniversary gift, and the Sergeant sympathizes and orders his
constables to aid Fred in this endeavor. After Wilma awakes to see her piano present, being played by Barney with the
policemen singing, "Happy Anniversary", the authorities confiscate the "hot" musical instrument and are about to escort 
Fred to jail, before a report is radioed from police headquarters that the real 88 Fingers has been caught. Fred is 
released and hurries to a flower shop for the standard and cheap wedding anniversary gift!

"The Hypnotist"
Fred boasts that he is as adept with the supernatural as the Great Mesmo, the hypnotist on a popular television series. 
With Barney observing behind Fred's back, Wilma and Betty humor Fred, as Wilma pretends to undergo Fred's "infallible" 
mesmerism by the swinging of a rock attached to a string. Fred commands Wilma to bark like a dog, and although Wilma tries
to comply, Betty's laughter is contagious, and Wilma cannot continue the ruse. The wives go to a market, leaving disgraced
Fred to brood about his humiliation, but Fred discovers that Barney has succumbed to his hypnotic suggestion and has 
become canine in every behavior! Fred cannot reverse Barney's condition and opts to transport his slobbering friend to a
veterinarian, who tests Barney's canine reflexes by releasing a cat from a box, and Barney chases his feline foe out of
the veterinarian's office. After Barney is caught and impounded by a dog catcher, Fred goes to Bedrock's television 
studio to ask for Mesmo's help in correcting what Fred has done to Barney; in a roundabout way, Mesmo is responsible for
it. Mesmo accompanies Fred to the dog pound and uses his mesmeric power to restore Barney to normal. After Fred, Barney,
and Mesmo leave the premises, however, the dog catcher is astonished to discover that all of the dogs in his charge have
been inadvertently endowed with human awareness and speech and are demanding release from his custody.

"Love Letters On the Rocks" 
Wilma has discovered a box full of souvenirs from her days at Boulder High, among them roller skates and an amorous poem,
written by a 16-year-old Fred, describing her physical features in infatuatedly flowery manner (e.g. "eyes as black as
frying pans"). Wilma places the poem in a drawer and leaves house to visit a jeweler from whom she is buying a surprise
birthday wristwatch for Fred, and Fred comes home from work while Wilma is gone, finds the poem, forgets that he wrote it,
and assumes that Wilma has a "goop-writing", home wrecking suitor. Barney tries to reassure Fred about Wilma's fidelity 
while riding Wilma's roller skates and infuriating Fred by free-wheeling during a time of emotional distress for 
Flintstone. Wilma's secrecy about the wristwatch gives Fred further cause for suspicion, and when he partially overhears
Wilma on the telephone ordering an engraved, romantic message on the wristwatch and concludes that Wilma is talking with
her illicit lover, Fred hires a suave, Cary Grant-like private detective named Perry Gunite to at all times monitor 
Wilma's activities. Barney sits with Wilma on a couch, holds her hand, and pleads with her that if she is being 
unfaithful to Fred, to reconsider her "affair" and not betray Fred. At this point, Gunite snapshoots an etched photograph
of Barney holding Wilma's hand and shows the picture to Fred- and Fred furiously confronts Barney and Wilma, who inform 
him that he was the true author of the "goop", thereby un-fogging Fred's memory, and Wilma gives the wristwatch to an 
undeserving Fred, who then redeems himself by reiterating his appreciation of Wilma's "frying pan eyes".

"The Tycoon" 
Everyone has a look-alike, and Fred's double is pompous industrialist J. L. Gotrocks. During a day on which Wilma plans to
travel away from Bedrock to visit her ill mother, Fred goes to work as usual. Meanwhile, Gotrocks, exasperated with 
incessant telephone calls and demands from his "battle-axe" wife to buy liver and hair curlers, resolves to leave his 
responsibilities and experience a care-free life. After Gotrocks has escaped his business building by means of a back 
door, his two executives, fearing for their jobs should Gotrocks' disappearance cause his corporate empire to crumble, 
look high and low for their employer. They discover Fred at the rock quarry, and once satisfied that Fred is not really
their company's founder, they proposition Fred to assume Gotrocks' place until Gotrocks is found. Promise of hefty 
remuneration entices Fred to cooperate with them, and Fred asks for and is granted a leave of absence by his boss. At the
Gotrocks office, Fred is instructed by the executives to say, "Whose baby is that? What's your angle? I'll buy that," to 
each contract proposal. By telephone, Wilma's mother reports to Wilma that she is recovering and does not require Wilma's
visit, and Wilma agrees to stay in Bedrock. When she tries to contact Fred at the rock quarry to relay the good news, 
Wilma learns of Fred's leave of absence- for unspecified reasons- and is joined by Barney and Betty on an angry search for
her errant husband. In downtown Bedrock, they find not Fred but Gotrocks and mistake him for Fred. The abrasive tycoon 
offends Wilma with his "battle-axe" wife description, body-slams Barney, denies knowing any of them, and spends a wad of
money on a pinball machine and extravagant tips for bowling alley personnel, and Wilma, Betty, and Barney later 
furiously confront a thoroughly confused Fred after Fred has quit his substitution for Gotrocks and Gotrocks has willingly
returned to his job, free from the harassment of Fred's folk.

"The Astronuts" 
Wilma convinces Fred to have a physical examination, really for an insurance policy but believed by Fred (because Wilma 
knows that Fred would never consent to anything that suggests his mortality) to be for a contest, and whatever Fred does,
Barney must do also. Betty confuses 57 Main Street (the address of the insurance agency's clinic) with 75 Main Street, and
Fred and Barney go to the latter, where they join a procession of applicants for a physical examination. Of course 
believing that they are at the correct location, they undergo the physical examination and "sign" their names to a slate,
soon learning hereafter that they are in a military recruitment office and have inadvertently enlisted in the Army! Wilma
and Betty are aghast to learn of their spouses' misfortune as obligated-by-contract servicemen in the Armed Forces for 
three years at Camp Millstone, and all that Wilma and Betty can do is pray that their mates survive the gruelling regimen
of leg-numbing exercise. Fred and Barney are rapidly eager to volunteer for anything offering a swift exit from the 
United States Infantry, and they are easily persuaded to be test-pilots of a scientist's log-carved, two-seat vehicle that
will guarantee their departure from the Army. They are not yet aware that the objective is the catapulting of them to the
Moon. Once inside the log-"rocket", Fred and Barney are told of their brave venture and honor-bound not to decline. Sealed
inside the "space vessel", they are sling-shot by a huge elastic into the stratosphere, then pulled by gravity to crash-
land in Camp Millstone's Artillary Range, whose craters resemble those of the Moon as pictured in Stone Age books. 
Disembarking the "rocket", Fred and Barney believe that they are on the Lunar surface, until Wilma and Betty, having seen
the "rocket" launch of their husbands on television, arrive on the artillary range with the Camp Millstone commandant, who
grants military discharge to the heroic duo; despite not reaching the Moon, Fred and Barney have championed the cause of
space exploration for millennia to come.

"The Long, Long Weekend"
Fred discovers in his mail an advertisement personally addressed to him by seaside hotel owner Gus Gravel, "old Smoo", a 
buddy from his teenage years. Fred telephones Gravel to ask if Flintstones and Rubbles could stay for a leisurely three-
day weekend at Gravel Hotel at a discount price. Gravel has gambled and lost the payroll for his hotel staff, and is 
therefore unable to remunerate his bellhop, chef, and maids, who quit their jobs, leaving Gravel desperate for help in 
accommodating a 200-people Water Buffalo convention due to patronize his hotel on the same three-day weekend. Gravel 
regards Fred's request for lodging on that weekend as fortuitous in that he will oblige Fred, for friendship's sake, along
with Wilma and the Rubbles, to assist him. Wilfully neglecting to mention the circumstances to Fred, Gravel replies that 
he would be delighted to inexpensively host Fred and company, who come to Gravel Hotel and are greeted with compliments 
and grace by "old Smoo". After Fred and Barney indulge in swimming (complicated by Fred's premature dive- into beach mud),
fishing (thwarted by a most unexpected sea monster catch and panicky Fred and Barney careening from atop the monster in
their airborne boat to a crash into one of the Gravel Hotel's occupied rooms), and snorkeling (foiled breathlessly by a
pesky bird alternately sitting atop their air tubes), Gravel expresses his no-employee problem to Fred, and Flintstones 
and Rubbles offer obligatory aid, thinking that "old Smoo" will decline their offer. But accept it he does, and Fred is
appointed chef, Barney is the bellhop, and Wilma and Betty are the maids. Gravel still does not refer to the convention,
which arrives minutes later, and Flintstones and Rubbles refuse to serve the 200 guests and prepare to depart Gravel Hotel
in haste. The Grand Poobah of the Water Buffalos tries to command the accompanying wives of his members to do the work of
chef and maids, and Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty flee the ensuing riot at the hotel.

"In the Dough"
Wilma and Betty combine their marble-cake-baking talent to confect the Upside Down Flint-Rubble Bubble Cake as an entry 
into Tasty Pastry Flour's cake contest, the winners to receive a $10,000 prize announced on television. Wilma and Betty's 
product impresses the contest judges enough for them to be invited to Tasty Pastry Flour headquarters for a competition
with other ladies in preparing their cake on live television, and Fred and Barney have high hopes for their wives' 
success. Yet, when the time comes for Wilma and Betty to be flown by "airplane" to the Tasty Pastry "bake-off", they have
contracted measles and quarantine themselves to the Flintstone home. Fred and Barney must stay at the Rubbles' place 
until Wilma and Betty recover from the malady. Refusing to allow the wives' affliction to foil his and Barney's desire for
a large sum of cash, Fred decides that he and Barney, without the permission of their spouses, will wear wigs and women's
dresses and assume the identities of Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble for the competition. Although less than attractive
in feminine garb, Fred and Barney convince the contest organizers that they are ladies, albeit homely ones, so that they
are allowed to participate in the "bake-off", following Wilma and Betty's recipe in every aspect but one: Barney uses a
rival Brand B's flour rather than Tasty Pastry, and when Fred and Barney are the declared victors, Barney indicates the
flour used in baking the winning cake and disqualifies him and Fred- and therefore also Wilma and Betty- from the contest.
Furious Fred unwittingly removes his wig, and he and Barney are forcefully ejected from Tasty Pastry premises. They return
in disgrace to Wilma and Betty, who witnessed the fiasco on television.

"The Good Scout" 
Fred discovers that Barney is assuming the responsibility of guiding the Sabretooth Tiger Patrol in lieu of the Boy Scout
organization's ill leader, and one of Barney's commitments is chaperoning of the polite and keen group of boys on a 
camping expedition in a wilderness. Fred affirms prodigious abilities in woodcraft and survival in the forest and is 
asked by Barney to accompany him and the boys on their march into a Stone Age hinterland. Yet, Fred is unable to start a 
campfire by rubbing sticks together, and the boys solve the problem with the flint-lighter that they gave brought with
them. Under Fred's direction, Barney and the Boy Scouts establish a tent atop some logs fastened together to form a 
waterproof floor. While Fred, Barney, and the boys sleep in the tent, flood waters carry it on its base of logs into a
river, and when Barney awakens and steps out of the tent, he falls into the water. Barney's shouts for assistance rouse 
Fred and the boys to immediate action. Seeing that the river flow is in the direction of a waterfall, Fred commands the
boys to tie the tent's ends together to form a parachute, which they and Barney use as the logs go over the waterfall. The
parachute is caught on a branch, causing Fred, Barney, and the Boy Scouts to dangle above the falling water until they are
rescued by forest rangers. Fred receives a plaque from the boys and is given the title of honorary Scout master.

"Rooms For Rent"
Woeful finances for both Flintstone and Rubble households prompt the two couples to lease the spare room in their 
respective homes to boarders, and while Fred and Barney are at work, Wilma and Betty are visited by 2 amiable scholars of
music, one a tall bongo drummer, the other a diminutive piano player, who, while learning their trade at Bedrock College,
need a place to stay and have seen the "room for rent" shingle above the Flintstones' door. Unfortunately, they are 
without funds for rent payment. Wilma and Betty feel sorry for the two young men and offer to accommodate them for no 
fee, provided that they help Wilma and Betty to develop a victorious act for an upcoming annual musical competition at 
the Dinosaur Lodge, the prize for best performance being $500. Wilma and Betty know that their husbands would disapprove
of this arrangement, their winning of the prize not necessarily being guaranteed. So, without mentioning the particulars
of the room-rental agreement, they promise to Fred and Barney $500 at the end of the musicians' two-week stay. Fred's 
blood pressure rises when he must share his food with his hungry guest, and he is annoyed by the seemingly incessant 
drumming of the first music student, while Barney is provoked to attempting to throttle the aspiring pianist. When the 
time comes for the boarders to part company with their hosts, after having taught Wilma and Betty to dance to piano and
bongo drum music, Wilma and Betty must explain the rent arrangement with the young men to Fred and Barney, who are quite
displeased by it. However, Wilma and Betty do win the $500 with their learned dancing techniques, and Fred and Barney 
zealously commence practice on bongo drum and piano in hope of winning the Dinosaur Lodge's $500 prize for the next year's
musical competition.

"Fred Flintstone, Before or After?"
Fred euphorically announces that he will be on television, and Wilma, the Rubbles, and all of Fred's other friends gather
at the Flintstone home to watch The Happy Hour on which Fred will appear, in one of the advertisements for Fat-Off 
Reducing Method. Fred was led to believe by B. J., president of Bedrock Television Studios, that he will represent the
figure of a man who completed the weight-decreasing procedure, when, in fact, he is the flabby, corpulent image of a man 
needing purging of body fat. Rather than being the man standing proudly under the "after" label, Fred is the undesirable
tub-of-lard positioned beneath "before". All of Fred's friends are ashamed for him and hastily exit from Fred's disgraced
presence, and Wilma furiously accompanies Fred to Bedrock's television studio and confronts B. J. about his shameless 
exploitation of Fred's waist size. B. J. responds with a challenge to Fred. If Fred can lose 25 pounds in one month 
through the weight-reduction method, Fred will be awarded 1,000 dollars on live television. Although the monetary prospect
is sufficient persuasion for Fred to agree to the challenge, he quickly realizes that his new diet is lacking in all of 
the pleasurable foods to which he is accustomed. A stick of celery is insufficient to satisfy Fred's tremendous appetite 
while he lunches at work, and a co-worker's submarine sandwich is "accidentally" catapulted into Fred's eager mouth. Wilma
attaches an explosive to the Flintstone "icebox" to deter Fred from a nighttime raid thereof, and Fred's attempt to 
besiege the Rubbles' "icebox" is thwarted by identical means. To curtail his yearning for feed, Fred joins a club called
Food Anonymous, in which members restrict each other from eating by confiscating food- and then uttering a "Goink, goink,
goink," with a thumbs-in-ears salute, and Bedrock's restauranteurs are under strict orders by Wilma not to serve calorie-
rich food to Fred. When Fred completely loses control of his urge to feast, between Wilma's minions and the members of 
Food Anonymous, he cannot close his teeth on any of his desired victuals, not even on Dino's bone, and almost mentally 
collapses with frustration. Come the end of his Fat-Off ordeal, Fred has succeeded in eliminating 25 pounds from his body
and receives the $1,000, but when he tries to celebrate his triumph with a large repast, the Food Anonymous people will 
not accept his resignation from their club and continue snatching his food from him.

Season 2 

"The Hit Songwriter"
Barney's proficiency at poem-writing stirs ever-ambitious Fred to seek fame and fortune by writing songs, with Barney 
supplying lyrics. The pair go to a library to read Popular Songs People Prefer, and using the statistics therein, Fred and
Barney brainstorm by night until they assemble incredibly banal lyrics incorporating motherhood, brotherhood, and love. 
They then bring their masterwork to SCAT Von Rocktoven (Music Written to Your Lyrics), and, with "sheet" music in hand,
next visit top music publisher Roland Rockwell, and Fred is confident that their composition will be a number one seller
to the people of the Stone Age. Enter Hoagy Carmichael, debonaire and famous songwriter, whom Fred and Barney do not 
immediately recognize. Fred's self-assurance impresses Carmichael, who urges the skeptical, impatient, and easily angered
Rockwell to allow Fred to sing for them the lyrics to Fred and Barney's song, with Carmichael playing an accompanying 
piano. "Could it be love that makes me feel the way I do," croons Fred, with reference to mother and several ring-a-ding-
a-lings. The song has no tune, no rhyme, no rhythm, and, of course, it is not original! Rockwell orders Fred and Barney
to exit from his office, and the flustered pair do as they are commanded, leaving behind their briefcase containing the 
words to a composition by Fred and Barney, "Yabba-Dabba-Dabba-Dabba-Do". Carmichael perceives immense potential in it,
adapts it to music, and, with credit to Fred and Barney, introduces the completed work, an ode to Yabba-Dabba-Do involving
a "magical" and tuneful rearranging of the letters in Fred's favorite expression, at the Piltdown Hotel to a receptive 
audience. However, Carmichael emphasizes to Fred that only one in 5,000 songs ever earns any money, and Wilma deters Fred
from aspiring to continue song-writing.

"Droop-Along Flintstone"
Into Bedrock in their extended car comes Fred's wealthy Texan cousins Tumbleweed and Mary Lou Jim, who bankroll a dinner
for the Flintstones and Rubbles at Bedrock's costliest restaurant, the Rockadero. When a Rockadero waiter refuses to serve
informally-dressed Tumbleweed, the ornery Texan buys the pretentious "eatery" and delights in terminating the waiter's
employment! Tumbleweed and Mary Lou Jim are planning a month-long ocean excursion and need caretakers for their ranch 
while they are enjoying their seagoing exploits, their desired candidates for this generously-remunerated task being Fred
and company. So, Flintstones and Rubbles "go West" to Tumbleweed Ranch, with Fred and Barney donning bibs and white cowboy
hats, singing Western songs, and trying to ride bronco-dinosaurs, the only one onto which they are able to mount being a
squat, white variety of bronco-dinosaur that reacts with lightning speed when Barney "spurs" it to increase pace. After a
prolonged junket across the frontier, Fred and Barney free themselves from their speedy conveyor by pulling on its reigns
while it is in the process of leaping over a canyon. The greenhorn cavemen fall into water at the canyon's bottom. Lost in
an expanse of nothingness walk Fred and Barney, until they come upon a deserted Western town. Weary from their foot-
numbing lack of progress in rejoining their wives at Tumbleweed Ranch, Fred and Barney nap on cots in the town's Last
Chance Saloon's storeroom. A Hollyrock production crew, having rented the town for a rapid, three-hour episodic television
"shoot", arrives at the saloon with its actors, none of whom wanting to wear black, villains' hats. During an enacted 
brawl in the saloon, Fred and Barney awaken and, not knowing about the television project and believing the fighters to be
real cowboys, request from the rowdy performers the directions to Tumbleweed Ranch- and are hit with a vase and chair. The
director of the television production pretends to be a sheriff and orders Fred and Barney to wear the black hats and, to
avoid being lynched for trying to disrupt the pleasure of the rambunctious saloon patrons, to combat the angry cowboys to
free themselves from death-by-hanging. While a camera films the action, Fred and Barney succeed in incapacitating every 
one of their opponents and flee the town, outside of which the director's phoney Indians attack Fred and Barney and tie
the Bedrock men to stakes. Exasperated with their husbands' absence for hours from the ranch, Wilma and Betty- in Fred's
car- commence a search for Fred and Barney, encounter the "Indian" marauders, and relentlessly engage the startled 
"savages" in tomahawk-seizing and rock-throwing combat, before the camera of the delighted director, who never does tell
the Flintstones and Rubbles that their antagonists are really actors in a ridiculous Western television series. The wives
release their spouses from the stakes and scold them for their frontier misadventures. Tumbleweed and Mary Lou Jim's
return from their vacation cannot be soon enough for Wilma and Betty, and after the Flintstones and Rubbles depart the
ranch to go home, the "Indians" besiege Tumbleweed and Mary Lou Jim with arrows and war chants. 

"Fred Flintstone Woos Again"
Fred's decision to enjoy some after-work golfing, with expectation that Wilma will gladly keep his dinner warm for him
until he comes home from his fun "on the green", prompts Wilma to complain that Fred has forgotten his appreciation of her
household labors and has become inconsiderate of her needs as a wife, among them ability to see the Stone Age world. Fred
responds to Wilma's grievance by going with Wilma and the Rubbles to Rock Mountain Inn, where Fred and Wilma honeymooned.
Naturally, Fred has an ulterior motive for choosing to patronize this honeymoon hotel for a second time. He has remembered
very successful fishing during his and Wilma's first Rock Mountain Inn stay and wishes to repeat the sport there. Wilma
coaxes Fred into a renewal of marriage vows, with Rock Mountain's Justice of the Peace officiating at the ceremony. Upon
arriving at the Justice of the Peace's building, Fred and Wilma learn from a Mr. Stonewall that Judge Wedrock, who 
presided at their first wedding, never had a licence to practice marriages, meaning that Fred and Wilma are not really
spouses! Before Fred can rectify this situation by marrying Wilma in a bona fide ceremony, Wilma chooses to test his 
commitment to her by requiring that he come to her with flowers and rock candy as he did during their first courtship, pay
for a dinner with her at Bedrock's Paradise Night Club, and affectionately propose marriage to her. Fred refuses to 
condescend to such boyish amorousness, and a battle of nerves ensues between him and Wilma. The couples return to Bedrock,
and Fred and Wilma reside separately, with Fred staying with the Rubbles and Wilma acting ever-so-coy ("Do I know a 
Fred?") when Fred telephones to ask to see her! Eventually, Fred concedes defeat, admits that he has not been sufficiently
considerate of Wilma, and appeals to her to wed him at Rock Mountain Inn, where Mr. Stonewall confesses to joking about
Judge Wedrock's entitlement to marry Fred and Wilma initially; Fred and Wilma were really husband and wife, and they 
repeat the nuptials in loving grace.

"The Little, White Lie"
Fred, claiming to be too fatigued to do anything but read the newspaper, shower, and retire early to bed, spurns Wilma's
request that he and she go to an evening movie performance at Bedrock's cinema, but minutes later, Barney informs Fred of
a lucrative poker game at the home of Sam Quartz, lucrative in that Stanley Stonebruise, whom Fred always easily defeats
at the game, will be there. To excuse himself from home without antagonizing Wilma, Fred lies about Stanley being ill and
wanting to "hold" Fred's "hand". Fred wins 200 "clams" when Stanley has another unlucky night at the poker table but 
realizes that Wilma will know about his falsehood if he arrives home with the $200. So, he spins another lie, about
finding the money on the street in a disheveled, empty wallet provided by Barney, and the web of deception becomes 
increasingly complex as Fred is obliged to submit an advertisement to the local newspaper about the wallet, with the 
"rightful owner" to identify the exact amount of money in order to claim it. He cajoles Barney to telephone Wilma and pose
as Tilly Schimlestone, a poor, old widow too sick with a broken leg from a skiing accident, to collect the money (her 
life's savings) in person and having no address of her own to which to deliver it. Wilma agrees to send the wallet to 
"Tilly" through General Delivery at the Bedrock Post Office. When Fred, as the widow's mustached nephew, wheels "Tilly"
into the Post Office to obtain the $200 package, they are approached by Daisy Kilgranite of the newspaper and her staff of
photographers, who want to do a news story about Schimlestone's plight! Fred and Barney flee the minions of the press, 
with Barney's "Tilly" wig flying off of his head, and the pair are confronted at the door to the Post Office by Wilma and
Betty, who are accompanying Wilma's friend, reporter Kilgranite. Wilma and Betty, in a taxi cab, chase Fred and Barney,
Fred running and pushing Barney on the wheelchair, onto a dead-end street, where Fred and Barney collide with a brick
wall. When Wilma demands the truth from Fred about the money, he fibs about it belonging to Barney, who gleefully spends
it by treating Betty and the Flintstones to an expensive dinner, and Fred's frustration is excruciating!

"The Rock Quarry Story"
Hollyrock celebrity Rock Quarry is tired of incessant public attention and desires to return to the simplicity of being a
"nobody" named Gus Schultz, Rock's original identity as a gas station attendant. While in Central City near Bedrock, on 
one of Lemon Studios' "personal appearance bushwhacking junkets", Quarry opts to quit his hotel suite and to, "...drive to
some small town and lose (himself)." His Hollyrock agents invent a story about him needing to return to Hollyrock so that
some scenes of his latest movie can be "re-shot", and his admirers, including Wilma and Betty, believe it. While steering
a modest car on the streets of Bedrock, Quarry collides in an intersection with the Flintstone car, after Fred drives past
a boulevard stop sign without bringing his vehicle to the obligatory halt. Fred argues with Quarry about who is 
responsible for the accident, and Fred's passenger, "disinterested bystander" Barney, confirms that the person in error
was Fred, who apologizes to Quarry and extends the hand of friendship. Gratified that Fred and Barney do not recognize 
him as a famous actor, Quarry graciously accepts Fred's apology, introduces himself as Gus Schultz, and is invited by Fred
to dine at the Flintstone home. When Wilma and Betty see Quarry, both go into a star-struck frenzy, before the two are 
told that the man in their midst is not Quarry but mundane Schultz. Having been told by Quarry's agents that Quarry is in
Hollyrock, Wilma and Betty are sufficiently persuaded that Schultz is not Quarry. But Quarry soon tires of being an 
unremarkable commoner and decides to tell his hosts the truth about who he is, and they do not believe him, even as he 
reenacts some of his greatest roles. And they laugh at him. Fred and Barney forcefully remove Quarry from the Flintstone
premises, and the Flintstones and Rubbles, from a window, then watch as Quarry is collected by Lemon Studios executives
and swarmed by adorers. Quarry really was in Bedrock- and in their company, only to be treated as a charlatan.

"The Soft Touchables"
Printed on a sign on a door in the Granite Building: Fred Flintstone, Part-Time Private Eye. Barney Rubble Likewise. 
Office Hours: After Dinner. The office of the amateur detectives is without furniture, which has been confiscated by a 
finance company until the two are able to earn money to redeem it, by attaining their first client. Opportunity knocks in
the ravishing form of a white-haired bombshell who says that she represents a bank offering Fred and Barney a $500 per-day
contract. The duo must meet the president of Bedrock's Third National Bank to learn the nature of their duties. 
Unbeknownst to the "eager beaver" gumshoes, the woman is really Dagmar the Peroxide Kid, member of a gang of bank robbers,
the leader of which, a short, sharp-tongued man named Boss, intends to use Fred and Barney as unwitting stooges in his 
next planned heist- at the Third National Bank. Posing as the bank president in the gentlemen's restroom (and placing a
"Bank President" sign on over the restroom designation on the door), Boss recommends that Fred and Barney accompany him to
a park to discuss the particulars of their assigned task because spies are everywhere and his "office" is probably 
"wired"! Because bank robberies are increasing, Boss expresses banker's concern that "his" establishment will be the 
robbers' next target and that he and "Vice-President" P. J. Knuckles (his lame-brained accomplice) plan to covertly 
extract the money from the Third National Bank by night for transfer to a "safe place". Barney inquires as to what place
could be safer for money than a bank, but Fred, not wanting to alienate a client, quashes his friend's legitimate 
skepticism. Boss wants for his detective hirees to be guards (lookouts) during the procedure and informs Fred and Barney
that any trouble is likely to come from robbers disguised as policemen, so that Fred and Barney will use force against 
the police officers to facilitate escape from the robbery site by Boss and Knuckles. Wilma and Betty are displeased that
their husbands have been contracted to this "job" (they were hoping that Fred and Barney would abandon their P.I. 
ambitions when its monetary yield was nil) and insist that Fred and Barney go with them to a Leonard Bernstone concert one
hour after their nocturnal assignment with Boss commences. Fred and Barney still do not suspect a crooked deception when
Boss and Knuckles use dynamite to gain entry into the bank (P. J. left his key to the bank in his "other suit"). While the
criminals load bags of money onto a truck, a police car siren is heard, and Boss orders Fred and Barney to fight the 
coming police-garbed hoodlums while he and Knuckles abscond with the fortune. Fred and Barney realize that they have 
assaulted a bona fide police officer (who earlier ticketed Fred for driving his car too fast) and are ordered by the men
at the Police Department to report there on the next morning to identify Boss and Knuckles from a series of "mug shots".
But Boss and Knuckles pose as taxi drivers, with Fred and Barney as initially ignorant passengers (Fred's car is still at
the bank), and overhear Flintstone and Rubble's talk of planning to assist in jailing their swindlers. Once they have 
revealed themselves to the flabbergasted wannabe P.I.s, Boss and Knuckles plan to drop Fred and Barney into a cement 
mixer, but a broken tire of the stolen taxi cab stalls arrival at the cement mixer destination. Enter Wilma and Betty,
furious with Fred and Barney for being late to go to the concert and en route thereto in Betty's compact car. While Wilma
and Betty distract Boss and Knuckles, Barney kicks the detached taxi cab tire to trip the nefarious pair, and the wives 
use their purses to knock the villains into a stupor. Police arrest Boss, Knuckles, and Dagmar, and Rockville Times' 
first-page story is that Flintstone and Rubble capture bank robbers. Fred and Barney abandon their private detective 
agency.

"Flintstone of Prinstone"
Fred's awareness of his woeful education peaks when he plays Scrabble with Arnold the boy newspaper carrier and resorts to
inventing a "word" like "zarf" in a feeble attempt to use the last of his letter blocks. Arnold, of course, excels at the
game with a vocabulary that includes "cataclysm" and "polopony". Fred explains to Wilma what happened to him in high 
school, that he aspired to majoring in public accounting in college but spent most of his high school time as 
"Twinkletoes" Flintstone on a football field and was "too musclebound" from his exploits as a running back to qualify for
a diploma. When Fred discovers a newspaper advertisement for Prinstone University's Night School program, he resolves to 
improve himself by enrolling in public accounting at P.U., where he- a beanie-capped freshman- is bullied by a squat, 
bespectacled upperclassman who commands him to call himself Mr. Simplesoul, compare himself to a wiggly worm, for there is
no other form of life that is as "low" as a P.U. freshman, and carry the upperclassman's books. When Mr. Slate learns that
Fred is a student at his own alma mater, he telephones Rockwell Quartz, Director of Sports at P.U., to recruit "able-
bodied" Fred as a player on P.U.'s football team. Fred is willing to endure the rigor of a renewed football regiment 
because it enables him to be in the same "league" as the upperclassmen. He strives- without much success- to stay awake as
he juggles his responsibilities at the rock quarry, in the P.U. classrooms, and on the football field with his gigantic 
teammates. In a crucial game against Shale University, Fred's muddling of his football signals and his accounting-problem
figures confuses the opposition, enabling him to score a touchdown, and he literally travels with the football in a field
goal. P.U. is victorious, and although Fred earns his diploma, the most that Slate will reward to Fred is a place on the
rock quarry's football team!

"The Social Climbers"     
Fred and Barney are the proud recipients of two tickets to a Saturday night romp, Joe Rockhead's Volunteer Fire Department
ball, what they consider to be "the biggest social event of the year". For the riffraff, this may be so, but the "upper
crust" of Bedrock society are going to an Ambassador's Reception on the same night, and they naturally believe their 
"swank affair" to be the ultimate annual occasion. While browsing a Bedrock shopping centre's high-class garments, Wilma
and Betty encounter a friend from their school days, Emmy Glutzrock, who married a wealthy industrialist and is now
insufferably pretentious. Therefore, Wilma and Betty lie about their spouses being construction and top-secret information
magnates and are granted by Emmy invitations to the Ambassador's Reception. Hence begins a process of convincing the 
husbands to forego the Volunteer Fire Department night of merriment and accompany Wilma and Betty to the Ambassador's 
Reception- and to oblige the men to go to the Bedrock Charm School to learn the etiquette befitting the hioty-toity elite.
Fred and Barney become chair-holding, door-opening gentlemen but at the Reception are nevertheless out-of-place with their
propensity to joke about statements by businessmen being "in oil" and "in ladies' corsets". Wilma and Betty are quickly
alienated by the pomposity surrounding them and suggest to Fred and Barney that the "dead" party be "livened up" with some
brisk piano-and-strings music, performed by Fred and Barney and danced-to by Wilma and Betty. Before the not-amused snobs
can act to remove the lower-class purveyors of "raucous racket", two waiters, named Spike and Rocky, attempt to steal the
Reception folk's money and jewels. With fist and fury, Fred and Barney foil the scheme of the crooked pair and are honored
as heroes by the affluent crowd, who condescend to join Flintstones and Rubbles for a truly fun night at the Volunteer 
Fire Department ball.

"The Beauty Contest" 
A Water Buffalo Lodge beauty contest is Fred and Barney's latest adventure. Theirs were the only two names placed inside
of the King Buffalo's hat to be picked "at random" as the judges in the contest; no other Lodge brothers would be stupid
enough to agree to judge feminine pulchritude in their home town! Not only must Fred and Barney endeavor to keep their
pivotal role in the contest a secret from Wilma and Betty- who would never allow them to participate in that capacity in
the event, but they are also intimidated, Fred by Mr. Slate, who wants homely daughter Bessie Slate to be the contest
victor, and Barney by a gangster named Big Louie, who desires his bimbo girl-friend, Cookie, to be "in the winner's 
circle or else", to base their decision on their own personal welfare. They decide to tie Bessie and Cookie so that both
win. Wilma and Betty are extremely suspicious that Fred and Barney are hiding something, when Wilma receives telephone 
calls from girls wanting to give "measurements" to Fred and Betty is visited by sexy, young women wishing to meet Barney.
Wilma and Betty follow Fred and Barney to the Water Buffalo Lodge on the night of the beauty contest and peek through the
rear door of the building to see a bevy of bathing-suited beauties preparing to show their ample bodies to the judges- and
Wilma and Betty soon learn who the judges are! Deciding to dress in bathing suits and walk onto stage with the other
girls, the Flintstone and Rubble wives surprise their men, who have no choice but to declare their marital partners as the
beauty contest Queens, and the four must flee the wrath of everyone else inside the Lodge- including Slate and Big Louie.
Wilma and Betty are disqualified from winning because they are married to the judges, but Fred and Barney ought never to
forget that the women whom they married are, to them, the most beautiful females in the Stone Age world.

"The Missing Bus"
Frustrated with his boss' steadfast refusal to increase his salary, Fred resigns from the rock quarry and searches for a
new job. He reads in his newspaper about an employment opportunity whose benefits include long coffee breaks and applies
for this supposedly excellent job prospect, and in an aptitude test which Fred is required to undergo, Fred demonstrates
ingenuity by putting square pegs in round holes- and vice versa. He is therefore hired by A. A. Carborundum, a gravel-
voiced, white-bearded Southerner, who peptalks Fred with a statement that the future of the country and the destiny of 
half-a-hundred souls depend upon Fred, and that it is Fred's patriotic duty to be the most efficient school bus driver 
possible! Fred perseveres in his effort to deliver children to the Red Rock School House and to return them in safety to
their homes, despite demanding parents, fighting or insolent boys (including Carborundum's son, Alvin), and a stop for 
lunch at Rocky's Diner, wherein fellow bus-drivers, nervous wrecks, laugh hysterically, walk on the ceiling, or run like
monkeys. Fred's grueling afternoon transfer of the children to each of their domiciles is a disaster in that he deposits
several of them to the wrong houses, and angry parents inundate Carborundum with telephone calls. When Fred successfully
assists one of the mothers of his charges in a search for her missing boy, she goes into labor and requires immediate 
transport on Fred's bus to hospital, where she gives birth to triplets, and Fred is a hero. Carborundum and Fred's rock
quarry boss vie to employ Fred, who agrees to return to work for the latter, with a higher salary than that which he had
previously earned as dinosaur-lift operator.

"Alvin Brickrock Presents"
Alfred Hitchcock, Stone Age style. Fred and Barney seat themselves in chairs to watch through the Flintstones' Rear Window
another in a series of violent squabbles between a mysterious, new neighbor and his shrewish wife. The wife is now unseen
and unheard, and the man, vocation unknown, of the "big, old, gloomy" house situated behind the abodes of Flintstone and
Rubble is diminutive and monocled, and has a bandaged cut on his forehead and a propensity for uttering, "Good evening,"
with an exaggerated English accent. Coming to the Flintstones' door and introducing himself as Alvin Brickrock, he asks to
borrow a spade from Fred and declares that he has again, "been transferred to a new territory," and will thus be moving 
away from Bedrock. He declares that he has already dispatched his wife, Agatha, to his next community in advance of him.
"She fights moving." She, "...goes all to pieces," and Alvin must, "...do all the packing," and laments that it will,
"...take a week to clean up everything." The double entendres in Brickrock's statements- and his request for a spade- 
cause Fred to conclude that Brickrock is, in fact, Albert Bonehart, who is described in Fred's Weird Detective Magazine as
being suspected of mortally disposing of three wives and, though not physically resembling Brickrock, having a English-
accented fetish for saying, "Good evening." Fred convinces Barney of the veracity of his suspicion that Brickrock/
Bonehart has killed Agatha and is intent on burying her remains with use of the spade, and together, Fred and Barney 
investigate Brickrock, spying upon the strange, little man's bizarre possessions, among them a mastodon skeleton. 
Brickrock discovers Fred and Barney in his "study" and confesses- to being an archaeologist in Bedrock to excavate (with 
the spade) rare treasures of scientific interest. Already in Brickrock's collection are a mummy and a man-eating, flying 
fish- a piranha-keet. Fred and Barney still think that Brickrock is Bonehart, and when they see a trunk with the initials
of A.B., Fred and Barney assume the trunk to be the container for Agatha Brickrock's corpse (a la Rope). Brickrock,
although not privy to any of Fred and Barney's macabre beliefs about him, admits that the trunk is for Agatha's body! He
opens the trunk to reveal Agatha's body-building materials (weights, barbells, etc.), then talks by telephone to his 
"pussycat", Agatha, and Fred and Barney's suspicions are finally quashed. But in a monologue to the audience, Brickrock 
hints that his man-eating fish is quite capable of consuming a "pussycat". "Good evening."

"The Masquerade Ball"
"Think big, and be big," is Fred's new motto. When Fred braves a visit to the office of his boss, Mr. Slate (called Mr. 
Rockhead in this episode), to request a promotion, Slate is in the process of trying to sell four surplus $25 charity 
masquerade party tickets to the appropriate "chump". Of course, Fred is delighted to buy them, while under the mistaken 
impression that $25 is the total price for the four, and after Slate has committed Fred to this purchase, he informs Fred
of the true, $100 fee and says that he will deduct the money from Fred's salary. Fred sells two of the tickets to Barney 
for $50, and the Flintstones and Rubbles prepare to attend the party, with Betty dressing like Robin Hood and Wilma in 
Rockette garb. Fred and Barney visit the store of snobby costume-provider Mortimer Stoneface to obtain a body-concealing 
outfit, and Stoneface rents to them a rubber dinosaur skin into which Fred and Barney confine themselves, with Fred as the
head and Barney as the tail. Fred learns from Stoneface that Slate will be wearing a turtle's mask, and Stoneface will 
also be at the party, as a bird. Everyone at the party is required to keep secret his/her identity, to heighten the fun,
and because Slate will not know that Fred knows which costume conceals Slate, Fred hopes to "butter up" his boss- while
pretending that he does not recognize Slate as the turtle- with compliments to Slate and accolades for his own work 
performance and loyalty to Slate's company. What Fred does not expect is a switching of masks between Slate and Stoneface
because Slate intensely dislikes the turtle guise. Fred showers Stoneface with praises and self-affirmations intended for
Slate and offends Slate by colliding with him during a dance and bragging to him about how he ingratiated himself with
whom he thought was Slate and that he often goes home for supper before the five o'clock quitting-time whistle, and calls
Slate a penny-pinching birdbrain from the moron section of the Bedrock knucklehead club. Slate does not reveal himself to
Fred until the next workday, allowing Fred to believe in the interim that Fred's "mission" to impress his employer for a
promotion has been a success. He invites Fred into his office, provides Fred with a cigar, and shows to Fred the mask that
he truly wore at the party. Fred shrinks to thumb-size as Slate browbeats him. "Oh, boy! Me and my big mouth."

"The Picnic"
While playing bridge with Wilma at the home of Joe and Rita Rockhead, Fred peruses Joe's treasures, large, first-place 
trophies assembled on a multi-shelf, and covets Joe's atheletic success. Joe, with a partner, has been the recurring 
victor in the annual Water Buffalo Lodge picnic competitions, while the prize cups won by partners Fred and Barney are so
small that Wilma uses them for sewing thimbles! Fred says that Barney is "a nice guy who finishes last", and once, just 
once, Fred would like to be the first-place recipient of the largest trophy, even if it means being dispicible. When Fred
learns that Joe has not yet selected a partner for the next picnic, he acts to secure this position, by telephoning 
Rockhead at 3:45 A.M. and proposing partnership to the half-asleep, groggy champion. Wanting to return to bed and willing
to agree to anything that Fred says so that Fred ends the nocturnal conversation, Joe commits himself to Fred's 
suggestion, a mistake that he regrets almost immediately! Barney is naturally displeased by Fred's rejection of him and
punches Fred in the eye. At the picnic, Fred is unable to control his enthusiasm at being partner with the expected 
repeat-champion and collides during a premature victory-cheer with a tree branch while being carried by Joe in the 
piggyback race. A sprinting event with partners' legs tied together is also a disaster for Fred and Joe when Fred diverts
his team into a river and emerges from the water without Rockhead but with a purple crocodile. Fred then fouls the tug-of-
war when he releases his grip on his and Joe's side of the rope to rub his hands together, and Rockhead dissolves his 
association with Fred as he is sinking into the mud. Barney, having not chosen a replacement partner, volunteers to be
Fred's teammate in the decisive wheelbarrow race. Fred becomes exhausted of energy halfway through the event and cannot
push Barney in the wheelbarrow any further, and Barney acts to remedy the situation by trading positions with Fred. When
their wheelbarrow falls apart, they persevere, with Fred acting as a human wheelbarrow! Fred and Barney pass Rockhead and
Rockhead's new partner and win the race and the overall competition, largely by Barney's determination to be the true, 
first-place chum to Flintstone. 

"The Houseguest"
A fissure in the Rubbles' kitchen sink pipe should require the expensive labor of a plumber, but Fred forbids his friends
to appeal to a tradesman for help and offers to correct the problem himself, by sticking an ice pick into the hole from
which water is spewing onto the Rubbles' kitchen floor. All this does is to cause a leak elsewhere in the pipe. More 
improvisation by Fred- spoons, an umbrella, and a broom inserted into the subsequent pipe holes- results in the pipe 
bursting open and water flooding the Rubbles' house. A plumber estimates pipe and valve replacement and installation to
cost $200, and he will need to drain the domicile of the overabundant moisture and renovate the floor, a job of 4 to 5
days, during which time Barney and Betty must reside elsewhere. Fred feels responsible for the Rubbles' troublesome 
situation and offers to accommodate them for 5 days. Wilma and Betty are both dubious about this, saying that the surest
way for one to lose a friend is to have him/her co-habit one's home, but Fred and Barney insist that they will be able to
live with each other under the same roof and whole-heartedly maintain their singing of, "My bosom buddy and life-long 
pal." Barney grates upon Fred's nerves by grabbing and eating the larger of two pieces of layer cake without first being
offered that cake slice by Fred, who must eat the small-sized serving, then by claiming the living room sofa as sleep site
and requiring Fred to doze on a pair of chairs that have a habit of collapsing into each other- and into Fred- like a 
mousetrap, and again by removing Fred's telephone from its hook for the purpose of concentration while reading- when Fred
is anxiously awaiting an important telephone call from Mr. Slate. Fred strains to smile and not exhibit animosity toward
his houseguest from hell, but Barney exhausts Fred's ability to feign amicable placidity when he eats an entire pizza put
by Wilma into the refrigerator for the two families to eat in celebration of their last night as co-residents. Fred 
announces that he will walk to a delicatessen with Barney for food to replace the pizza, and once beyond the edge of his
yard, Fred proclaims his vehement disdain for Barney's conduct and prepares to fist-assail Rubble, before Wilma and Betty
are heard arguing bitterly about Barney's solitary pizza-repast. Fred and Barney laugh at the quarreling women and easily
reconcile their own differences.

"The X-Ray Story"
Dino has not eaten his Shlump food for two days and has been sleeping almost incessantly during this time. Wilma is 
worried about Dino's condition and telephones Fred, who is at work at the rock quarry, to ask that Fred bring Dino to a
veterinarian for examination. A German-accented, slightly dotty doctor of animals X-rays Dino and discovers a dinopeptic
germ in the dinosaur's stomach. He prescribes a few days of rest so that Dino's body can defeat the germ. After Fred and
Dino exit the Teutonic veterinary practitioner's office, the veterinarian's secretary writes Fred's name and address on 
the X-ray picture, which is blown by a gust of wind out of a "window" and into the hand of a policeman, who shows it to a
doctor at the Bedrock P.D.'s forensics laboratory. The doctor, Sandstone, assumes the X-ray photograph to be a 
representation of Fred's stomach- and dinopeptitus to be an affliction of Fred. Dinopeptic germs are fatal to humans 
unless the host thereof is kept awake and active for 72 hours, and Sandstone visits Wilma and informs her of Fred's 
"condition". Fred must not be told about it because, "The shock could kill him." Together with the Rubbles, who are also
privy to the details of Fred's "illness", Wilma strives to prevent a weary Flinstone from falling asleep. Wilma, Barney,
and Betty relentlessly prod Fred into dancing at the Rockadero, Rolling 20s, and Rock and Bop night clubs, drinking 
gallons of black coffee, ice skating until the early hours of the next morning, and walking with Wilma and the Rubbles
back to his abode, where he is subjected to a cold shower, toothpicks in his eyes, and a New Year's eve horn in his ear.
When not even these methods are sufficient to arrest the onset of sleep, Wilma decides to share her knowledge of Fred's
"malady" with Fred in the hope that he will force himself to stay awake. After some panicky moments, Fred suspects a 
misunderstanding and demands to see the X-ray photograph evidence of dinopeptitus, identifies the stomach in the picture
to be that of Dino, and falls to floor and goes to sleep beside his slumbering pet dinosaur. 

"The Gambler"
"Betting Freddie" was Fred's childhood nickname. Whenever someone would utter, "bet," Fred would hear bells and whistles
and would quiver and roll his eyes and repeat the word over and over like a clucking chicken. In his first years of 
relationship with Wilma, compulsive gambler Fred bet on dinosaur-horses at various races, lost all of the money that he
had, and used his possessions as collateral for further wagers in a vain effort to restore his finances. After defeating
Fred in another of Fred's gambles, Wilma decreed that he visit a psychiatrist, who disgnosed Fred's condition and urged
Fred to summon the necessary will-power to quit betting. However, Fred was not really "cured" of his vice. When he 
announces to Arnold, the precocious journal-delivering juvenile, that he is canceling his "newspaper" subscription due to
chronic lateness on Arnold's part, Arnold is in the process of playing marbles and bets 5 cents that he can win against
Fred in knocking a marble out of a circle. Fred hears those familiar bells and whistles and proposes a double-or-nothing
gamble on the $22.12 accumulated journal fees that Fred owes to Arnold. Fred loses the game and bets double-or-nothing
again and again with Arnold, and each time, Arnold is the victor. Fred is honor-bound not to "welch" on his woebegone 
wagers and allows Arnold to possess his television and living room furniture for Arnold's boys' clubhouse until Fred can
pay Arnold the large sum of dollars specified in the final gamble; Wilma had "found" Fred's stashed savings inside of his
bowling ball and used them to pay a man who was going to repossess the Flintstones' television. Wilma eventually suspects
that Fred has again succumbed to his inclination. Once informed by Fred that Fred loaned the television and furniture to
Arnold's boys' club, she is unable to demand the return to Flintstone house of the television and furniture because the 
boys all hail Fred as their hero. So, she and Betty use Barney's monetary cache in Barney's bowling ball, to buy new
furniture and a new television to transform ultra-modern the abode of the Flintstones. Now in debt to the Rubbles for the
new living room items, Fred vows to again abstain from betting.

"A Star is Almost Born"
The Showbiz Drug Store in downtown Bedrock is a place where aspiring actors and actress congregate in hope of being 
discovered by Hollyrock film and television producers. Wilma and Betty decide in fun to eat at Showbiz Drug Store but are
informed by an employee there that none of Showbiz' denizens actually order food and no dinners are served. The pair are
about to leave the bizarre establishment when Wilma collides with impresario Norman Rockbind, famous producer, director,
writer (also cameraman- "Rockbind trusts nobody."). Rockbind is instantly impressed by Wilma's beauty and implores Wilma
to come at 3 P.M. on the next Saturday to a rehersal at the Bedrock television studio for Rockbind's latest television 
project. Wilma and Betty believe Rockbind's discovery of Wilma to be a certain route to fame and fortune because all of
Rockbind's productions- even the weather reports- win Emmys. Fred is ecstatic when told of Wilma's good fortune and 
envisions mansions, swimming pools, and a private chef. He entices the Rubbles into financing Wilma's costly ($200) 
training to be a charming entertainer, by promising to Barney 50% of Wilma's celebrity earnings. He quits his position at
the rock quarry and in the process insults Mr. Slate ("Who needs your two-bit job?"). Fred does not at this juncture know
what Rockbind's true interest in Wilma is. Come the highly anticipated rehersal, Rockbind tells Wilma, Fred, and the 
Rubbles that he wants to use Wilma's hands for his sponsor's lotion advertisements. Fred furiously objects to this in that
he expected that "all" of Wilma would be seen in an extensive television program and removes his wife from the television
studio. Minutes later, in their car, Wilma educates Fred about the opportunities and monetary harvests (as much as 
$50,000 per year) of commercial roles, and Fred hurries to telephone Rockbind to apologize for his outburst and ask for
another chance for Wilma to serve as Rockbind's elegant palm-turner, only to learn that another woman was selected to 
replace Wilma. That woman is Betty! Wilma visits Slate to successfully repair the damage of Fred's overzealous, short-
sighted resignation.

"The Entertainer"
Wilma is visiting her mother, and during her absence from him, Fred has been working on evenings to try to impress Mr. 
Slate into raising his salary so that he can buy more household appliances for Wilma. Slate is expecting the arrival in
Bedrock of the buyer for Cave Construction Inc.'s largest account but is unavailable to entertain his very important 
client because of a prior commitment to attend his wife's charity theatre party. So, Slate delegates the duty to chaperon
his client for a night at Bedrock's most impressive night club, the Copa Cave, to Fred, with the promise of a pay increase
if Fred is a pleasing enough companion for the buyer. Fred is aghast when he learns that the buyer is a woman, Greta
Gravel, but is persuaded by Slate to proceed in his accompaniment of the unmarried Greta, in that it is only for one 
evening, and he is doing it for Wilma's benefit. Fred dresses in his new tie, pretends to be a free-spirited bachelor as 
per Slate's instructions, and brings Ms. Gravel to the Copa Cave as planned, but he does not know that Wilma has chosen to
return home early because she misses her dear husband and has been invited by Barney and Betty to the Copa Cave on the
same evening to celebrate Barney's two-dollar pay raise. Wilma and Greta, friends from their school days, inevitably meet
at the Copa Cave, and Fred scurries under his and Greta's dinner table as he listens to Wilma and Greta describing their
romantic conquest- him in both cases! He crawls out of the Copa Cave and retains the same style of movement until he is
"safely" in his own bed. However, fate remains unkind to Fred, for Wilma invites Greta to her home to meet her spouse!
Despite Fred's attempt to conceal himself under his bed sheet with the pretense of a sudden affliction of mumps, Ms. 
Gravel sees his face and instantly scolds him for deceiving her and for abandoning her at the Copa Cave, and Wilma accuses
Fred of infidelity. Greta then defends Fred's dedication to his boss, understands that Fred escorted her to the Copa Cave
as a favor to Slate, and shames Wilma into being a less suspecting and accusatory wife, because Wilma should consider
herself fortunate to have a husband who is willing to sacrifice his evenings to earn more money for Wilma.

"Wilma's Vanishing Money"
What a tangled web Fred weaves! One morning, Wilma and Betty are en route to a store to buy some clothes, and Wilma 
declares her intent to be thrifty on this occasion because she is saving dollars to buy a magnificent, new bowling ball 
for Fred's birthday. Meanwhile, Fred decides to attempt to fix a stubborn toaster with use of one of Wilma's hairpins, 
and while searching Wilma's dresser-drawer for a hairpin, he discovers the sum of money that Wilma has been accumulating,
believes Wilma guilty of hoarding the cash for selfish reasons, and decides to teach a lesson to Wilma by using the roll
of money "big enough to choke a brontosaurus" to himself purchase the desired bowling ball, with a money-back guarantee,
from a pompous, irreverent clerk at a sporting goods store. Fred and companion Barney return from the bowling ball 
acquisition to find Wilma at home and conferring with a police officer about the presumed robbed money. Arnold is also 
present at the "scene of the crime" and discovers a clue as to the culprit, a goat skin thread with coffee and scrambled
egg stains from Fred's breakfast. Fred contends that the suspicious piece of clothing indicates nothing, claims that the
bowling ball that he is holding in its bag is pumpernickel, and shows complete surprise at Wilma's woe after she says that
the missing money was intended for a bowling ball gift to Fred. Wilma's avowed wish that the thief be punished to the 
fullest extent of the law and Arnold's amateur gumshoe skills leave Fred with no alternative but to return the bowling 
ball to the sporting goods store for a full refund and to somehow return the dollars to where Wilma ensconced them. He 
pays a bona fide robber $10 to enter the Flintstone home by stealth, while Flintstones and Rubbles are at a movie theatre,
and put the money into Wilma's dresser-drawer, along with a soppy note apologizing for having stolen it to fund his 
poverty-stricken family's meals. However, Arnold captures Fred's hiree and ties and gags him to be found by Fred and
Wilma in their bedroom! Fred improvises by reading the "burglar's" scrawling and affirming his household's duty of helping
the needy by not prosecuting the wretched petty criminal. He is too successful, for Wilma insists that the poor man have
all of the money! 
   
"Feudin' and Fussin'"
Barney's attempt to learn to play golf disturbs Fred's sleep, during which Fred has been dreaming of championship in a 
golf tournament. Irate at Barney for ruining his sweet dream, Fred's patience is limited, and when he discovers that he is
ten minutes behind schedule to go to the Bedrock Golf Club for a game "on the green" with Charlie Pulmerstone, Fred 
collects his golf clubs and scurries to his car. Seconds after Fred's departure from his driveway, his telephone rings, 
and Barney receives the comminication from Charlie, who wants to inform Fred that he cannot play golf with Fred on this
day. Barney, on foot, chases a hurrying-and-refusing-to-listen Fred all of the way to the golf course to relay Charlie's
disappointing news to his eager opponent, and Fred blames messenger Rubble for not revealing the unavailability of Charlie
before Fred's arrival at the golf tee. Brusquely dismissing Barney as stupid, Fred drives his car back to his home and
refuses to allow an again-running Barney to sit in the passenger seat. When Barney urges atonement from Fred for the 
abrasive remark, Fred says that he is sorry that Barney is stupid, which is insulting to Barney, and the Rubbles decline
to join Fred and Wilma for a weekly bridge game. Fred's pride prevents him from apologizing to Barney "from his heart (and
not only) from his mouth." So, for 9 days, Fred lives without his best friend, playing gin and badminton with himself 
quite effectively, until Wilma shows to Fred an old photograph album containing childhood and wartime pictures of Fred 
and Barney, and Fred's sentimentality for his life-long pal conquers his insufferable pride. When he goes to Barney's 
door, however, he hears that Barney is in the process, through Quickstone Real Estate, of selling the Rubble home to a 
wealthy Texan, Yippy Ye O'Rock, for $20,000! Determined to prevent the transaction, Fred disguises himself in a mustache
and workman's hat as a Freeway Commission representative to falsely announce to the Texan that a road will be built
through the Rubbles' for-sale house, and O'Rock refuses to buy the property. After O'Rock and Mr. Quickstone have departed
the Flintstone-Rubble neighborhood, Fred apologizes wholeheartedly to Barney with a humility that surprises even Fred!

"Impractical Joker"
Practical joker Fred targets his favorite victim, Barney, by stepping on and blocking Barney's water hose, creating a 
build-up of H20 that, when finally released, torrentially ruins Barney's day. Barney has had enough of his friend's 
unfunny foolery and plans the ultimate retaliation. After winning 500 newly minted dollar bills, "fresh from the 
government printing press", in the Sudsy-Wudsy Soap slogan contest ("If you scrub with Sudsy-Wudsy, you wash away the 
mudsy-wudsy."), Barney seizes upon the perfect practical joke to confound Fred. He requests Betty's cooperation, and Betty
obliges. She tells Wilma while Fred is within earshot that Barney is being secretive in his cellar with a new hobby. 
Fred's curiosity is piqued, and he investigates to find Barney's money- of which Fred does not know the real source- wet
and hanging on clothes lines, and more of it is beside a bizarre contraption that Barney ever-so-coyly confesses is a 
printer for counterfeit money. Barney proclaims his intent to spend and to spread his "counterfeit currency" in Bedrock,
and Fred pleads with Barney, to no avail, to cease the illegality before he is caught. Fred follows and stops Barney from
paying for items with the "phoney money" by insisting that he himself pay for Barney's purchases. Despite Betty and 
Wilma's urging for Barney to stop the practical joke, Barney persists, and they decide to teach a lesson to both men by 
arranging for Joe Rockhead to mask himself as a thug and to pretend to escort at gunpoint Fred and Barney, with Barney's
machine, to a criminal mastermind, Max the Knife. Fred and Barney are forced by Rockhead to enter a room, lights are 
switched off, and Fred and Barney beg on bended knees for mercy from Max. Then, lights come on, and Wilma, Betty, and 
several of Barney and Fred's friends wish Barney a happy birthday in a surprise party. Barney and Fred both faint. They 
are cured of practical joking.

"Operation Barney" 
"Spring fever", for Fred and Barney, involves an all-consuming urge to attend a baseball game on a work day. En route in
Fred's car to their daily jobs, Fred and Barney decide to call their respective employers and lie about being sick so that
they can go to the baseball game. Fred succeeds at hoodwinking Mr. Slate, but Barney's boss orders Barney to visit the 
company nurse for an examination. Barney has no option but to report to the nurse, and Fred, lurking outside the 
examination room's "window", uses a flint-lighter to raise the temperature on Barney's mouth thermometer after the nurse
temporarily leaves Barney. When the nurse returns with a bizarre "needle" to extract a blood sample, Barney faints. The
nurse looks at the reading on the thermometer- 312 degrees- and diagnoses Barney with an astronomical fever. Barney is put
on a stretcher and rushed by orderlies to an ambulance, before Fred's flustered eyes! Fred follows the ambulance to a 
hospital, whose cantankerous desk nurse refuses to allow Fred to join Barney. Betty and Wilma are summoned to the 
hospital, and Fred's efforts to find Barney and flee with him from the hospital are foiled by the arrival there of the
wives. Fred disguises himself as a cranky German doctor, Dr. Schliprock, and pretends to operate upon Barney, "curing" 
Rubble of the fevered affliction. He succeeds in fooling all of the nurses and other doctors, and Barney is released. By
this time, it is late afternoon, and Fred and Barney believe that they have missed the baseball game and must tell Wilma
and Betty about their woebegone scheme. They then learn that the desired baseball game is actually scheduled for the 
evening! Their "ill"-fated deception was unnecessary.

"The Happy Household"
Fred lives every husband's nightmare: his wife is not at home in the afternoons to cook his supper! In yet another 
argument about household finances, Fred lambastes Wilma for her spending habits on such frivolous items as clothing, and
she retorts that she wants to have pride in her appearance, to be as beautiful as possible for her husband- and that, if
necessary, she will find a job to earn her own money. Fred laughs at the idea of Wilma leaving her "cushy" housewife life
to trudge and toil as an employee, and he intensifies Wilma's resolve to enter the Stone Age labor force. Together with 
Betty, who also desires her own income, Wilma visits the Bedrock Employment Agency to apply for work. Betty demonstrates
her ability to type fast (but with many errors), and she and Wilma are sent to the Bedrock Radio and Television 
Corporation to audition for what they believe will be file clerk duties, and Wilma is confused but obliges when asked by a
typical Hollyrock television producer to sing. Her vocals immediately impress an affluent German (Hanna-Barbera's favorite
ethnic group) named Rockinspiel, sponsor of daytime programming on the largest prehistoric television network, and, 
without reading the small print, she signs a contract and minutes later learns that she has obligated herself to appear on
national television every day as The Happy Housewife for 39 weeks! Betty is not hired as a typist, and Wilma asks that she
leave for Fred on the Flintstone dining room table a frozen dinner and a note saying that Wilma will explain everything- 
later. Upon her return home from her first day as provider of music, songs, and helpful dinner preparation hints on her
2-hour-long show, Wilma faces the wrath of her spouse, whose frozen dinner crumbled to ice crystals in his mouth and who
has been growling like a lion since discovering Wilma absent from her daily, dinner-serving position chez Flintstone. 
Wilma recounts the full story of her hiring by Rockinspiel, and Fred storms into the television studio to unsuccessfully 
demand dissolution of Wilma's contract. Betty agrees to feed to Fred his desired "home-cooked" meals, before Fred's 
tactless criticisms infuriate her, requiring Fred to patronize Mother's Restaurant- hairy, gravel-voiced Sam Mother 
proprietor. Mother serves to Fred a hot brontosaurus sandwich (no gravy), the contents of which are like leather, and when
Mother activates his television set and Fred hears Wilma singing and demonstrating tantalizing suppers on The Happy
Housewife, Fred demolishes Mother's "eatery" and is jailed. His ordeal comes to an end when a rival television network
propositions him to appear opposite The Happy Housewife as Neglected Husband and Rockinspiel and the executives of the
network that employs Wilma quickly pull the proverbial plug on Wilma's television career.

"Fred Strikes Out"
Wilma volunteers to answer inquiries asked by Betty from a magazine quiz, "How Much Do You Know About Your Husband?", and
bristles at the quiz's concluding analysis of Fred's personality pattern: Mr. Flintstone is a cross between a sabertooth
tiger and Hela monster, an inconsiderate, unreliable, and selfish spouse. Fred exhibits some such demerits when he arrives
at home from work and demands the usual gastronomic bounty after forgetting to buy groceries and to mail a birthday card
to Wilma's mother. After Wilma confronts Fred about the findings of the magazine questionnaire and Fred is apologetic and
vowing to improve himself, Wilma shames Fred into agreeing to go with her to view a drive-in theatre movie on the eighth
anniversary of his marriage proposal to her, an anniversary that happens to be on the same evening as a Water Buffalo
Lodge bowling championship game that Fred is committed to play. Therefore, Fred tries to be in two places at once: at the
bowling alley with Barney and his other fellow Water Buffalos and at the drive-in theatre's performance of Pterodactyls
From Outer Space with Wilma. Each time that he is due to bowl, Fred excuses himself from Wilma on the pretense of going to
the drive-in theatre's concession stand for candy, peanuts, and popcorn. On one of Fred's hurried departures from his car,
Wilma accidently closes the car door onto Fred's thumb. The thumb swells and becomes stuck within one of the holes of 
Fred's bowling ball, and although Fred's team wins the championship with Wilma not suspecting Fred's duplicity, Fred's
thumb cannot be dislodged from the bowling ball hole, and once Fred and Wilma are back at home and have been joined by the
Rubbles in a celebration of their special anniversary, Barney endeavors, out-of-doors, to assist Fred by using a tree 
branch as leverage for yanking the incriminating bowling ball free from Fred's swollen thumb. However, the bowling ball
will not budge from Fred's hand, and the tree acts as a slingshot, propelling Fred through the Flintstone house to collide
with a door. Wilma sees the bowling ball, and Fred's ruse has been exposed. Barney chisels the bowling ball off of Fred's
thumb, and Wilma forgives Fred's deception- because she quizzed herself with the same questions in the magazine and (quite
unbelievably) fared poorer than did Fred in the character analysis.

"This is Your Lifesaver"
Fred and Barney are in Fred's car, crossing the New George Washingstone Toll Bridge, when they encounter a hippie-like but
debonaire, bespectacled man of the loafing profession with a rock strategically tied around his neck. The ingratiating 
tramp identifies himself as J. Montague Gypsum, asks that Fred apply a flint-lighter to his final cigarette before his 
pretended planned suicide, and reads a poetic last will and testament, bequeathing his meager property to the needy people
of the world. Fred is disinclined to persuade Gypsum not to throw himself over the side of the bridge- until Gypsum 
proudly proclaims that in addition to being a former psychiatrist and medical doctor, he is a chef of unusual culinary 
delights. By extending an invitation to Gypsum to teach Wilma to prepare uncommon repasts, Fred "prevents" Gypsum from
drowning himself and is, Gypsum maintains, obligated to "confidence man" Gypsum for Gypsum's continued life- and must 
accommodate Gypsum indefinitely as a houseguest! The sundial turns, and Fred's ire mounts as Gypsum borrows Fred's 
magazines and newspapers (before Fred has had occasion to read them), razor, after-shaving lotion, bathrobe, and slippers;
sings in the bathroom shower like "a happy, steamed clam coming out of its shell"; commandeers Wilma's larder and kitchen
to cook his finicky meals only for himself; and, because Wilma feels sorry for him and offers that he sleep on both her
and Fred's beds when he complains of sacroiliac strain, requires Fred to sleep in a chair. Eventually, Wilma tires of 
Gypsum and is in agreement with Fred's wish to be rid of the obligating nuisance. Fred arranges for Gypsum to rescue him
from a "mishap" at the rock quarry and thereby "even the score". Gypsum accompanies Barney to the rock quarry to observe
his "meal ticket's" labors and diverts a large boulder barreling down a hill from hitting Fred, a rock which Barney has
"accidentally" pushed off of the hilltop as per Fred's instructions. Injured after falling with the boulder into a ravine
and completely bandaged, Gypsum has won the respect of Mr. Slate by his deed of saving the life of Slate's valued 
employee, and Slate hires Gypsum to be rock quarry foreman and Fred's superior!

"Trouble-in-Law"
Wilma sprains her ankle in advance of her mother's arrival for a two-week-long stay with her and fretting Fred, who can
scarcely tolerate his mother-in-law's constant criticisms, demands, and terrible health food. Fred's suffering is 
prolonged when the battle-axe informs him that she has sold her house and has come to live permanently with the 
Flintstones. As Wilma's mother's furniture is delivered and loaded into the Flintstone home, Fred and mother-in-law agree
that the house is not large enough for 3 persons. So, after Fred has strained to install chairs, tables, sofas, and a bed
into the garage, his unloved in-law announces that she will join Wilma in the house, relegating Fred to the garage! While
commiserating with Barney at the Bedrock Golf Club, Fred is introduced by Joe Rockhead to Melville J. Muchrocks, who says
that he owns a 50,000 acre ranch in Gold Nugget, Texas, on which is situated a riverbed of gold nuggets and several oil
wells, and is now seeking a wife to "take charge and manage things" and cook health food. Fred is delighted to act as
matchmaker between his mother-in-law and Melville, and the two are immediately smitten with each other. Melville convinces
Wilma's mother to invest her assets in one of Melville's expected oil strikes, and Wilma suspects Melville of being a "con
man". Wilma and Betty then, at Andre's Beauty Salon, overhear gossip about a widow-swindling man now in Bedrock who poses
as a Texas millionaire to marry, "fleece", and then abandon his targeted victims, and Wilma is frantic that Melville, 
whom she suspects is the scoundrel, not be permitted to propose marriage to her mother. Disguised as an uncomely mother
with her son are Fred and Barney, who pursue mother-in-law and Melville to Rocky Island Amusement Park, and Barney sticks
a lollipop into Melville's mouth before Muchrocks can mention wedded bliss to mother-in-law. Next, as a cantankerous, 
mustached German chef at a restaurant, Fred challenges Melville to an outdoors fisticuffs concerning a bowl of soup thrown
by waiter Barney into Melville's face. Fred and Barney tie Melville and throw him into the baggage car of a train 
departing Bedrock. Some time later, as her mother is sobbing at the loss of her suitor, Wilma learns from Bedrock's
journal that the notorious, widow-victimizing "con artist" now captured by police was not Melville. Muchrocks was a 
legitimate magnate. Mother-in-law's investment in Melville's oil venture has reaped hearty dividends, and she decides to
travel the world with her earnings and attempt to find Melville. These plans are halted, however, after Fred twists a
ligament in his back and needs "tender, loving care"- of his insufferable in-law.

"The Mailman Cometh"
Fred writes a nasty letter to Mr. Slate when he thinks that he has not been given a deserved raise in salary. While Fred,
letter in hand, and Barney are walking to a mailbox, Slate visits the Flintstone home and informs Wilma that a bookkeeping
error was the cause of Fred's frustration and that Fred indeed qualifies for and will receive the increase in pay. After
Slate departs the home of Flintstone, Fred and Barney return from the letter-sending excursion. Wilma relays Slate's 
message about the pay raise, and Fred realizes that he must intercept the vitriolic letter before Slate reads it! A 
policeman prevents Fred and Barney from raiding the mailbox to find the letter, and Fred cannot persuade the postman 
collecting all of the mail from the box to allow him to reclaim his diatribe. Resigning himself to the situation, Fred 
feigns illness on the next day to avoid going to work and facing Slate's wrath after Slate has read what Fred wrote, and 
Wilma suspects that Fred has done something wrong and demands to know what it is. Fred discloses the full story of the 
letter to Wilma, who hurries on Fred's behalf to State's office and learns upon arriving there that Slate has received but
not yet read Fred's letter. So, Wilma's improvised solution is to "accidentally" drop Slate's only office pair of eye-
glasses and to offer to read Fred's correspondence to Slate, changing all of Fred's invective to praise on the premise 
that the letter is really in thanks for the salary increase. Wilma then also "butter-fingers" the letter so that it 
crumbles to pieces on the floor to Slate's office. Fred is relieved to learn that Wilma has not only saved him from losing
his job but has improved his relationship with a tenderly impressed Slate. 

"The Rock Vegas Caper"
Fred and Barney eat at the Bedrock Rock-o-Mat (automat), with Barney literally chipping at a slab of "marble cake" and 
Fred feasting on an elongated brontosaurus rib that hits the head of another customer of the automat and causes that 
person's face to drop into a bowl of soup. To his delight, Fred recognizes the man to whom he is apologizing to be an old
friend, Sherman "Sherm" Carblehead. Sherm now owns a casino-hotel, the Golden Cactus, in Rock Vegas, and, saying that he
would "treat (Fred) right", invites Fred to stay there whenever Fred and his wife are in the casino city. Fred assumes
that Sherm will favor Fred in Fred's quest for lucky monetary gains. Flintstones and Rubbles are due for a vacation, and a
leisurely two weeks in Rock Vegas is agreed and embarked upon (with Wilma and Betty not privy to Fred's gambling agenda)
by way of the Flintstone car. Flintstones and Rubbles have problem-wrought travel, with freeway traffic jams, loss of 
direction, a bumpy short cut, necessity of manually pushing the car up a steep hill- and the vehicle then falling down a
cliff so that Fred and Barney must build another car from a log, a hazardous crossing of Rock Canyon via a footbridge, and
an outdoor campsite on the back of a huge dinosaur mistaken by Fred for a mountain. In Rock Vegas, compulsive gambler Fred
loses all of both couples' money in a slot machine, and Sherm offers to accommodate the Flintstones and Rubbles for the
duration of their stay at the Golden Cactus in return for their help in attending to dinner tables, selling cigarettes,
and performing in the Rock Vegas Revue, with Barney and Betty singing and dancing "When You're Smiling" to the music of a
piano whose inner wires are struck by a bird. Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty finish their planned stay in Rock Vegas and
bid a warm good-bye to Sherm, who admits that he envies their ordinary Stone Age life.

"Divided We Sail"
Barney substitutes for a camera-shy Fred at a television game show, The Prize is Priced, and wins a houseboat, which the
Flintstones and Rubbles try, with immense difficulty, to share. The problem is the squabbling between Fred and Barney over
entilement to the "captaincy" of the vessel, Fred arguing that the ticket to The Prize is Priced was in his name and 
Barney maintaining that he won the houseboat. Wilma and Betty insist that Barney and Fred both don Captain hats and split
among the two of them the Captain duties, and the name of the houseboat, Nau-Sea, is the product of a compromise between
the first three and last three letters of Barney and Fred's chosen designations (Barney's choice being Nautical Lady and
Fred's, Queen of the Sea). Once the houseboat is launched- by Wilma with a thermos containing Rocky Cola, and Flintstones
and Rubbles board it, Betty rushes to drop anchor to prevent a drift into a cluster of rocks while Fred and Barney bicker
about who should give the order to do so, and the couples' picnic basket becomes accidentally caught by the anchor and
falls into the water with it. A sea dinosaur smells the brontosaurus beef in the basket, bites into basket and Nau-Sea
anchor, and speedily moves far from shore, dragging the houseboat at 60 knots to a gutting collision with a large rock. As
the Nau-Sea sinks, Fred and Barney cannot decide about which Captain should "go down with the ship", while Wilma and Betty
use an inflatable lifeboat to escape the doomed Nau-Sea. The quarrel between Fred and Barney descends into the deep, blue
sea with the houseboat.

"Kleptomaniac Caper"
Without telling Fred, Wilma confiscates Fred's high school football shirt to add to a box of materials to be donated to a
ladies auxiliary rummage sale. She believes that Fred will never notice that the shirt is gone, but Fred, watching a 
televised football game, decides to pull his football attire from storage, discovers the shirt gone, suspects theft, and
calls the police. Officer O'Rockery of Car 34 theorizes that the robber was very selective and is someone who knows Fred
and where Fred's possessions are located- and speculates that the culprit is a sick, compulsive, involuntary thief. A 
kleptomaniac. The policeman then discovers Fred's shirt in the box of rummaged articles that Betty and Wilma placed in 
Barney's car for transport to the sale. Though Fred, concerned for his pal, denies ownership of the shirt in the box to
protect Barney from criminal charges, he jumps to the conclusion that Barney is a kleptomaniac. On the pretense of himself
having a headache and needing to visit a "head doctor", Fred persuades Barney to accompany him so that Dr. Stonewall, an
addle-brained, hypochondriac psychiatrist, can observe Barney's behavior. Watching Barney's holding of and admiration for
Stonewall's lighter, Fred and the doctor believe that Fred's suspicions are justified. While Barney is at the Bedrock 
Department Store to, "...pick up a few things," for Betty, has payed for the varied merchandise, and is about to leave the
store, Fred appears there and attempts to reshelve the items which he believes that Barney shoplifted, arousing the 
suspicion of a store detective, who chases Fred and Barney into the sporting goods and toy departments and eventually 
catches them. Wilma and Betty release their husbands from jail, and Wilma confesses to being the cause of the 
misunderstanding.

"Latin Lover"
Yet another one of those days on which Fred arrives home after a long day of work, expecting a greeting kiss and a hearty
meal from his wife and being frustrated by Wilma's preoccupation with something else, in this episode a television movie
starring debonaire Casanova Roberto Rockalini. While Roberto with his curly hair, white teeth, filtered cigarette, and
adorable mustache nibbles the ears of his feminine conquests, Fred must gobble flowers as substitute for brontosaurus
fricassee. Wilma is so captivated by the suavity of her Latin-lover idol that she fantasizes Fred with a mustache and 
mannerisms identical to those of Rockalini. Showering Fred with flattery about how his romantic appeal would be enhanced
by Rockalini-like facial hair and refined Latin vocabulary, Wilma succeeds in convincing Fred to change his look and 
behavior to emulate the ravishing Roberto. Fred grows a mustache, grooms his hair into sophisticated waves and curls, dons
an ascot and a carnation, smokes filtered cigarettes, and walks the walk and talks the talk of Wilma's heartthrob, and 
Wilma is for awhile pleased with her "make-over" of her spouse- until Betty wonders aloud to Wilma if Fred may have become
irresistibly attractive to other women. A female representative of Caveman Cosmetics is at the Flintstones' door when Dino
darts past her so invisibly fast that she spins around like a top and faints into Fred's arms. Wilma sees only the sales-
lady's tumble into the tender hold of Romeo Fred and believes that it was Fred's sex appeal that induced the fainting. 
Later, while Fred is at a bus stop with three ladies and must run to meet the bus at another juncture, he leads the 
procession of female public-transit customers in the rush to reach the speedy bus, and Wilma sees this and believes that
Fred is being amorously pursued by the ladies. She dreams that Fred is in Italy in a gondola with one of his admirers of 
the opposite sex and desired and pursued by three more vivacious females on a "lolo brigeda" and on the following day 
misunderstands Fred's telephoned assignment by Mr. Slate to transport Mrs. Slate to Bedrock Airport for an "airplane" 
flight to Rockapulco to be a tryst-excursion with a woman for whom Fred is abandoning her (Wilma). Wilma intercepts Fred
and Mrs. Slate at the airport and is informed of her mistake by Fred and by Slate, who arrives at the airport after 
important company business to join his wife on the "airplane" flight to Mexico. Fred decides to abandon his pretentious
airs and be his plain self again.

"Take Me Out of the Ball Game"
Fred hears thumps, from his house's roof, of what he believes is hail- in July. Actually, impact of baseballs on the roof
is the source of the sound, baseballs batted from the street by practicing youngsters of the Stone Age Pee-Wee League. 
Their coach: Barney. Their team name: the Giants, despite their minuscule size. Arnold the rock-newspaper delivery boy and
Mr. Slate's son, Eugene, are some of the Giants, and Fred is persuaded to umpire their practice game, proving with his 
"big mouth" and overbearing manner to be an excellent umpire prospect for the Bug Leagues. Barney introduces Fred to a
Major League Baseball representative, who will hire Fred to officiate in the Major Leagues pending Fred's performance as
umpire at a Pee-Wee League game upon which the fathers of Bedrock, including Mr. Slate, base their respect of their sons
and which Fred is urged to officiate with favoritism to the home team. The Major League representative pep-talks Fred to
be without bias, unwavering, abrasive, and eager to be hated if that is the result of his unquestionable honesty, and in
the Pee-Wee League game against the Gritsburgh Pirates, Fred's crucial decision in a runner/catcher "close call" at home
plate is honest and true- and contrary to the Giants, who lose the game. Fred is bombarded by soda pop bottles by the 
irate fathers of the Giants, and an anonymous person throws a note attached to a rock through a Flintstone home window,
saying, "Reverse your decision-- or else." The Giants march to Fred's door to apologize for their fathers' poor 
sportsmanship, and Fred joins the boys in appearing before the