The Terrible Catsafterme

SEASON 1 – ABC

Created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera

Theme song: “Rise and Shine” by Hoyt Curting

• 000. The Flagstones – UNAIRED DEMONSTRATION FILM 1960
  • This was a 90-second demonstration film sent to potential sponsors, which showed a scene of Wilma taking Fred his lunch while he floats in the pool. Barney appears in his spear-fishing garb and punctures Fred’s flotation device. Barney manages to save Fred’s sandwich and eats it. The scene is later re-created in the episode The Swimming Pool. Daws Butler voices both Fred and Barney. Jean Vander Pyl voices Wilma. June Foray voices Betty. 11/30/14

• 001. The Flintstone Flyer – 9/30/1960
  • Fred Flintsone (Alan Reed) and his wife Wilma (Jean Vander Pyl) live in the town of Bedrock during prehistoric times where Fred works at the Slate Rock and Gravel Company as a bronto-crane operator. His best friend and neighbor is Barney Rubble (Mel Blanc) who is married to Betty (Bea Benederet). It is Sunday and Fred hopes for some peace in quiet but it is interrupted by Barney practicing golf and then building his own helicopter. Fred is anxious to use it and christen in the Flintstone Flyer, but ends up crashing it because he is too fat. He and Barney plan to participate in the bowling championship that night, but Barney has unwittingly purchased tickets for the opera that night. Fred uses his injury to feign illness and get out of going to the opera. Fred and Barney use the helicopter to to go bowling, but Wilma feels guilty and tries to phone home…at the bowling alley. The boys disguise themselves with fake broom mustaches, and then race home in the helicopter. The ruse works except for the fact that Barney is still wearing his fake mustache. NOTE: The Flintstone family pet Snorkasaurus Dino makes his first appearance in this episode, although later episode #18 would briefly re-define him as a highly intelligent pet who could talk. 11/17/14
• 002. Hot Lips Hannigan – 10/7/1960
  • Fred and Barney each need to come up with a solo act for the annual benefit show put on by their lodge, the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs. Fred initially wants to sing, but when he hits the high notes, he breaks everything fragile in the house. While Barney works on a trampoline act, Fred works on a magic act. When he tries to make Wilma and Betty disappear in a box, they sneak out hte back. Fred gets the idea to hit the Rockland dance club where Fred’s old friend Hot Lips Hannigan (Jerry Mann) is playing. Betty and Wilma dress up as hippies to attend the club, where Fred and Barney join Hot Lips on stage with Barney playing drums and Fred singing When the Saints Go Marching In. They are then pursued by the local girls, including Wilma and Betty in disguise, but the boys reject their advances. Fred is confused when the ‘hippy girls’ show up at his house, and then faints when the wives the appear. 11/17/14
• 003. The Swimming Pool – 10/14/1960
  • Fred mistakenly accuses Barney of stealing his dinosaur steaks, which causes a fight between them that irritates the wives. They soon make amends when Fred finds out that Barney is building a swimming pool, and Fred talks him into building half of it on Fred’s property. Things go awry again when Barney keeps inviting friends over to use the pool, and Fred is even more irritated when he isn’t invited to Barney’s party…which turns out to be a surprise birthday party for Fred. Fred arranges to have his friend Charlie (Michael Rye) pose as a cop and tell Barney that his party is disturbing the peace, but when the live band really does bother the neighbor (Hal Smith), a real policeman (Daws Butler) shows up. Fred thinks it is Charlie in disguise and pushes him in the pool, causing him to be arrested. Fred is touched when Barney brings him cake and bails him out…but Fred is irritated once again when he jumps into an empty pool that Barney has drained in order to clean. 11/26/14
• 004. No Help Wanted – 10/21/1960
  • When Fred gets Barney fired from his jobs by making salary demands on his behalf, he invites Barney to be the caddy in his golf game with his influential friend Edgar Boulder (Frank Nelson). Fred usually cleans out Boulder by betting on the game, but thanks to Barney’s ill advice as Boulder’s caddy, somehow Boulder wins all of Fred’s money…which he had saved to make the payment on his TV. Pleased with Barney, Boulder sends him to his friend Rocky Stone (Frank Nelson) for a job, which turns out to be to repossess furniture – namely Fred’s TV. Barney wants to quit, but Fred urges him to keep the job, until he finds out that Barney is taking his TV. After a chase ensues – with Barney inside the TV – Wilma forces Fred to give the TV to Barney. Fred is bitter, until Barney gets an advance on his first check to pay off the TV for Fred. All is well until Barney shows up to repossess Fred’s golf clubs. 11/27/14
• 005. The Split Personality – 10/28/1960
  • When Barney drinks Fred’s last bottle of Cactus Coola on a particularly hot day, Fred storms over and confronts Barney inadvertently drinking Barney’s car polish, tossing the bottle in the air, and knocking himself out. After Barney calls a doctor (Howard McNear) who turns out to be a veterinarian fails, Fred wakes up on his own…now with a new personality: a sophisticated gentleman who refers to himself as ‘Frederick.’ Fred goes overboard in doing things for Wilma and buying her a new fur. ‘Frederick’ starts to make the other neighborhood husbands look bad, and Wilma gets frankly tired of Frederick’s opera singing and spelling bees. Barney convinces Fred to go bowling, but when Fred reveals that it is he who is Frederick to the other guys, he and Barney are forced to flee. In an effort to bring the real Fred back, Barney rigs a giant rock to fall on his head. It works and the original Fred returns in all his glory. 1/8/15
• 006. The Monster from the Tar Pits – 11/4/1960
  • Miracle Pictures in Hollyrock is getting ready to film a one-day low budget film called The Monster from the Tar Pits, and the producer Mr. Sandstone (Bob Hopkins) orders the director (Jerry Mann) to find a real town with free extras where they can film. They randomly choose Bedrock and head off with their three stars Wednesday Tuesday, Rock Pile, and Gary Granite (Bob Hopkins). Wilma and Betty are excited to see the stars and both attempt to try out for the picture. Fred however claims apathy, but still shows up to see the stars arrive in town. Barney wants to watch the auditions, but Fred decides to skip it. however, the director asks him if he’d be interesting in ‘sharing’ the picture with the star Granite. Fred jumps at the chance, but his job merely entails him acting inside the monster suit and taking the brunt of all harm that befalls the monster, including returning to the tar pit. After the film has wrapped, it is screened immediately and is a rousing success. It is announced that Miracle Pictures will return to film Son of the Monster from the Tar Pits. Wilma has had her fill of the Hollyrock hype, but Fred digs out his costume and is ready to reprise his role. 1/8/15
• 007. The Babysitters – 11/11/1960
  • Despite being late for work because he and Fred were in a traffic jam, Barney is given two tickets to the fights from his boss Mr. Granite at the Granite Building. However Wilma and Betty have volunteered Fred and Barney to babysit little Egbert for Edna Boulder so that they can all compete in their bridge tournament. The boys are made to feel like heels for refusing, so they agree to watch the fight from home. The fight ends up being blacked out and they forced to watch Alice Bluejean and Her Magic Banjo. They decide to take Egbert and go their buddy Joe Rockhead’s house since he is outside the blackout area. He is not home so they break in and put Egbert to bed, but he soon puts his bonnet on top of  Joe’s brontosaurus, which then jumps out the window and runs up a tree. The boys think the ‘pooch’ is Egbert and chase it around the house. Meanwhile Joe comes home and calls the police thinking the baby is an intruder. Joe, Fred, and Barney are all thrown in jail for perpetrating a hoax by sending a fireman up the tree to retrieve the dinosaur. Wilma, Betty, and Edna all see this on the news, and Edna has to go to the police station to retrieve her baby, while Wilma and Betty demand an explanation out of the boys. 3/1/15
• 008. At the Races – 11/18/1960
  • Fred becomes interested in purchasing Boulder Dan’s Billiards parlor, but will need $2000 in cash to buy it. When Barney tells Fred that his boss is putting a lot of money on Sabertooth at the dinosaur races. Thinking Wilma would never let him bet his paycheck, he pretends he is robbed. Wilma is skeptical but when Barney hits him over the head with a vase, Wilma becomes sympathetic… but confines Fred to his bed for a week. Fred and Barney sneak off to the races and place their money on Sabertooth. Fred runs into his boss at the races and quits his job. Fred becomes nervous when he hears Sabertooth’s owner put all his money on Gravel-Pit. Sabertooth ends up winning in a photo finish and they collect their money, which they hide under a rock on the way home. When Fred confesses everything and finds out that Wilma is on board with his plans, he goes to retrieve the money and is robbed by a bandit. Wilma naturally doesn’t believe that he was really robbed this time. Hal Smith provides several voices including the race announcer and Sabertooth’s owner The Colonel. 3/2/15
• 009. The Engagement Ring – 11/25/1960
  • Barney buys an engagement ring for Betty since he never gave one to her before they got married, and asks Fred to hide it for him until he gives it to her. After Fred’s first hiding places lead to the ring getting baked into a cake and then thrown into a garbage truck that he has to hijack, he ends up hiding it in his bowling ball. Wilma finds the ring and thinks it’s for her, and Fred doesn’t have the heart to tell her that it isn’t for her so he lets her keep it. Fred offers to buy a replacement ring for Betty, but his credit is so bad he is refused. Fred then enters Barney into a boxing match in which he will get $500 if he survives fifteen minutes with a champion boxer. Wilma and Betty find out about the scheme, and Betty gives the Champ’s manager money for him to take a dive. During the fight, the Champ knocks out Barney anyway. This ticks off the girls and Wilma punches out the champ and gets $500, while Betty gets the money back from the manager. They have the manager pretend that Barney had actually won and presents him with the money, so the boys can carry out their ruse as planned. Frank Nelson is the ring store clerk and Bill Thompson is a customer. 4/12/15
• 010. Hollyrock, Here I Come – 12/2/1960
  • Wilma and Betty have entered a contest for a slogan for Mother’s McGuire’s Meatballs, and end up winning a trip to Hollyrock. Thinking their husbands won’t let them go alone, they agree to flip a coin and the winning couple would go. Fred tries to cheat, but when neither can bear the thought of the other couple losing, Fred and Barney end up letting the wives go alone. Fred thinks that he and Barney will have fun staying out all night with the wives gone, but they end up missing them so much they head out to Hollyrock for their own vacation. Meanwhile, Wilma and Betty tour the Ponderous TV Productions, and Wilma ends up getting cast by a producer named J.B. (Jerry Mann) in a TV should called The Frogmouth. Wilma is supposed to be married to a loudmouth husband, but the actor playing him has an extremely wimpy demeanor. Fred happens upon the rehearsal and ends up taking the road of Bill, the frogmouth. When Fred starts getting pompous and demanding, J.B. sabotages Fred by making him too nervous to talk. A week later the couples are home and Fred still is unable to speak. Wilma breaks his silence by telling him that she charged a $5000 coat. 4/12/15
• 011. The Golf Champion – 12/9/1960
  • Fred narrowly wins the annual golf tournament of the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs over his competition Ben Boulder, despite landing his ball on top of one dinosaur and in the belly of another. As Fred is presented with his trophy, Barney attempts to confiscate it from him. An audience member tells a reporter that the fight started when Fred bowed out of the lodge’s election for president and allowed Barney to take the position, even though Barney’s platform was collecting lodge dues that were in arrears. Barney maintains that no Dinosaur is permitted to accept a trophy while he owes dues. This escalates into a war between Fred and Barney, where Fred tries to take back everything that Barney has borrowed, which only boils down to a can opener. Barney retaliates by taking back a great deal of items that Fred has borrowed, and by getting a watchdog named Buzzsaw that attacks Fred whenever he enters Barney’s property. Fred tries to throw a party to make Barney jealous, but then finds out that Barney is out of town. Finally Wilma and Betty intervene and submit Fred’s dues, and in turn he receives his trophy, but each wife encourages their husband not to discuss it with the other. Soon the two are friends again and have returned to their ‘normal’ level of bickering. John Stephenson makes his voice debut as the golf commentator, a lodge member, and Left-Foot Charlie. 7/7/15
• 012. The Sweepstakes Ticket – 12/16/1960
  • Fred has to contend with his conscience – manifested as a miniature Fred-angel and Fred-devil – when he buys a sweepstakes ticket, that he ends up sharing with Barney who is short on cash. Because he thinks that Wilma will begin charging purchases if she finds out, he allows Barney to hide the ticket, but this goes bad when Betty donates the old coat in which Barney hid it. They are arrested, but manage to retrieve the ticket after being released to Betty. Meanwhile Wilma and Betty have also purchased a ticket and have hidden it in the coffee pot in Betty’s kitchen. Barney ends up re-hiding the ticket in a cookie jar right next to it. Fred’s bad conscience convinces him to take back the ticket for safe-keeping, but he ends up taking the wives’ ticket… which ends up winning the sweepstakes. The wives head out to CHARGE! – and Fred’s bad conscience convinces him to do the same. 7/8/15
• 013. The Drive-In – 12/23/1960
  • Fed up with their jobs and looking to go into business for themselves, Fred and Barney are swindled into buying an old drive-in restaurant. They don’t want to tell their wives about it until they get it going, which puts them in a precarious situations when two would-be waitresses Gwendolyn (Nancy Wible) and Daisy (Ginny Tyler) – who Fred refers to as Charlie and Irving – hound them for jobs by singing their waitressing jingle Burger on a Bun (The Car Hop Song). When Wilma and Betty find out that the boys have quit their jobs, they go searching for them and stop at the drive-in to get something to eat. Wilma and Betty borrow the clothes of the waitresses and surprise them and force them to quit and get their jobs back. Fred and Barney are surprised how forgiving their wives are… until they go out to eat and the girls ‘surprise’ them by singing the waitressing jingle to them publicly, indicating that they are still on the hook after all. Nancy Wible voices Gwendolyn. 9/6/15 
• 014. The Prowler – 12/30/1960
  • With a prowler on the loose, Betty takes Judo lessons from instructor Mr. Rockimoto (Mel Blanc), but Fred refuses to allow Wilma the lessons, so Betty teaches her lessons to Wilma. Fred tries to prove that Betty would actually cower if faced by the prowler, so he dresses up as a burglar and breaks into the Rubble house, only to be immediately ejected by Betty using her Judo. He then realizes that the real prowler (Alan Reed) has broken into his house. After Barney tells Betty that Fred is disguised as the prowler, Betty tells Wilma, who has the courage to eject both Fred and the real prowler out of the house. However when they all realize that there is a real prowler in the house, they all hide under the bed. Later they all join the Judo classes together… and so does the prowler after the beatings he has taken. 9/6/15
• 015. The Girls’ Night Out – 1/6/1961
  • After Wilma and Betty complain that their husbands never take them out, Fred and Barney decide to take them to the Joyland Amusement Park, where the wives quickly get worn out from the adventure. While the girls rest, Fred records his own record as a souvenir on which he sings Listen to the Rocking Bird. Wilma thinks it is terrible and Fred ends up leaving it behind at the recording booth, where two teens (Jerry Mann, Nancy Russell) find it and play it for their friends. Soon the record has caught on and a Keen-Teen Records executive tracks down Fred and assigns him “The Colonel” to accompany him on a concert tour where he will perform under the name Hi-Fye. Wilma and Betty think that the tour will satisfy their urge to travel, but they quickly tire of the frantic pace and Fred’s poor singing. In order to end his run, they spread the rumor among the teens at his shows that Hi-Fye is a square. Soon the teens have lost interest and Fred and Barney return to their jobs, convinced that this experienced has cured Wilma and Betty’s desire to go out… but soon they are arguing again when the girls want their husbands to take them out. 12/4/15
• 016. Arthur Quarry’s Dance Class – 1/13/1961
  • Wilma gets free tickets to an otherwise-expensive charity ball at the Rockadero Tilton, but Fred and Barney still refuse to go and privately tell each other it is because they can not dance. They decide to teach themselves by using the book How to Dance with Diagrams, but then decide they will get better results by taking lessons at the Arthur Quarry Dance School. When they see that their teachers will be beautiful women, they agree not to tell the wives. In order to account for leaving home every night at 7:30, they join the volunteer fire department who notoriously ring their bell every night so their men can get out of their houses. After the fifth night, Wilma and Betty start to get suspicious, so they call and report a fire at the Flintstone house. When the fire chief Joe Rockhead (John Stephenson) shows up for their false alarm, he is forced to tell the girls where their husbands are. All is well that ends well as Fred and Barney are now able to take their wives to the charity dance. 12/5/15
• 017. The Big Bank Robbery – 1/20/1961
  • While in the midst of dreaming about being rich, Fred is hit on the head by a bag of money containing $86,000 that is thrown out by two bank robbers named Benny (John Stephenson) and Fingers (Mel Blanc), who have knocked off the Rockville National Bank and are being chased by the police. Fred and Barney initially argue on whose money it is since it was Fred’s ‘wish’ to get the money, while sleeping in Barney’s hammock. Wilma and Betty however both agree that the boys need to return it. On the way to return it, they are spotted by a gas station attendant who reports them as being the robbers. The boys return home and drop of the money before going on the lam, hiding high in a tree. Wilma and Betty get an idea to save their husbands, and visit the seedy bar the Poiple Dinosaur dressed as molls Myrt and Shirl, espousing that their husbands knocked off the bank for $86,000. They return home to wait for the robbers to show up to retrieve their money and call the police. Fred and Barney have decided to return home and hide the money to keep their wives out of trouble. Barney goes in to get it and is knocked out by the wives who mistake him for a robber. After the real robbers show up, Fred enters and knocks out the robbers with the door, inadvertently becoming a hero. Wilma, Fred, and Barney force Fred to buy them everything they want from the store with his reward money under threat of them telling the whole truth about how Fred captured the robbers. 2/2/16
• 018. The Snorkasaurus Hunter – 1/27/1961
  • Fred is ready to take Wilma to the beach for vacation, and Barney is taking Betty to the mountains. The wives ask the husbands to pick up 30 pounds of ribs each on the way home from work. Fred becomes so disgusted by the rising costs of meat that he talks the wives into going on a hunting trip together instead of their planned trips, so that they can catch their own meat and save money. Along the way their run afoul of a police officer when their trailer comes loose from their car on the Super Hi-Way. While Wilma and Betty fight the insects during their picnic, Fred and Barney go hunting for a Snorkasaurus, zeroing in one that is a snarky fast-talker with a sense of humor. The Snorkasaurus winds up hiding in the tent of the girls, and ends up charming them by referring to them as Miss Universes. They end up taking pity on the animal, and Wilma talks Fred into taking the dinosaur – Dino (Jerry Mann) – home to be the family pet. Wilma is thrilled to have Dino as around the house as he does all of the chores for her. 2/2/16
• 019. The Hot Piano – 2/3/1961
  • Wilma is irritated that Fred seems to have forgotten their tenth wedding anniversary, despite the fact that she has dropped multiple hints. Fred however is only faking and has saved fifty dollars and plans on buying her the Stoneway Piano that she has always wanted. After enduring the piano store clerk (Frank Nelson) and Barney performing a duet of While Strolling Through the Park One Day on the piano, Fred finds out that the instrument costs $1500 and sulks out of the store. He then encounters 88 Fingers Louie (Daws Butler) who offers to sell him a Stoneway for $50 with the stipulation that Fred take the piano now and transport it home himself. He and Barney clumsily try to sneak it into the house after Wilma goes to sleep, but ends up getting arrested for ‘driving’ the piano through a red light. The sergeant nearly throws the book at Fred, thinking that he is 88 Fingers Louie, but then gives Fred a break when Fred reminds the sergeant that it is his anniversary as well. The policemen assist Fred in bringing the piano home and serenading Wilma with a rendition of Happy Anniversary… ad nauseam. Once Fred has presented Wilma with the gift, the police return to pick him up, but elsewhere Louie is arrested which clears Fred. With the piano taken as evidence, Fred heads out to get Wilma some flowers. 4/28/16
• 020. The Hypnotist – 2/10/1961
  • When Fred damages Barney’s TV antenna, they try to finish watching the baseball game at Fred’s house, only to find Wilma and Betty glued to the set watching hypnotist The Great Mesmo (Ed Wynn). Fred mocks the hypnotist and says that he could hypnotize Wilma just as successfully. He tries his hand at putting her in a trance and making her bark like a dog… which she does. However it turns out she’s faking, but soon Fred realizes he actually has hypnotized Barney into thinking he is a dog. Barney exhibits all the behaviors as a canine, so Fred takes him to a veterinarian (Howard McNear), who refuses to believe that Barney is actually human. Barney ends up getting picked up by a dog catcher and thrown into the pound. Fred has no choice but to go to Mesmo and bring him to the pound to see if he can break the spell. Mesmo is successful in turning Barney back to a human, but in the process convinces two dogs that they are human as well. All is back to normal…or seemingly so until Barney carries Betty’s steak home from the grocery store in his mouth while crawling. 4/28/16
• 021. Love Letters on the Rocks – 2/17/1961
  • Wilma goes through her box of stuff from her high school days including some old roller skates and love letters from Fred. Wilma heads off to the jeweler’s to pick up a watch for Fred’s birthday, while Fred comes home and tries the skates, crashing into a drawer, and finding one of his old letters. Assuming that it was written by another man, Fred questions Wilma as to where she was. She makes up a flimsy excuse, and it is made worse when he goes to question Betty and intercepts a frantic call from Wilma telling her to back up her story. Fred seeks the help of private detective Perry Gunite (John Stephenson), who takes a picture of Wilma and Barney, who has gone to try and to talk her out of seeing the other man. Fred rushes home resigned to throttling Barney, and nearly does when he finds Barney under the bed, where he is trying to retrieve the watch that he dropped. Fred feels silly and begs for forgiveness when Wilma tells him the truth and presents him with his new birthday watch. 8/3/16
• 022. The Tycoon – 2/24/1961
  • A narrator (John Stephenson) tells the story of Fred Flintstone who has a most unusual day when he comes home and finds Wilma, Barney, and Betty all over his case. Through flashback, it is told how it began when Fred headed off to work before Wilma took off to visit her mother for a couple of days. Meanwhile Fred’s look-alike, a business tycoon named J.L. Gotrocks (Alan Reed) tires of his busy life, and decides to leave work and live among the common men. J.L.’s associates G.W. (Mel Blanc) and F.M. (John Stephenson) spot Fred and think that he is Gotrocks. When they find out he isn’t, they engage him to act in Gotrocks’ stead in some business meetings to keep the economy from collapsing. Fred wants to help and sees the fact that Wilma is gone as the perfect opportunity. When Wilma’s plans fall through with her mother, she calls his work and finds out that Fred told his boss he wouldn’t be available for a couple of days. When Wilma catches wind that ‘Fred’ is spending money all over town and talking ill of his ‘wife’, she and the Rubbles set out to find him. When they find Gotrocks, he is rude to them and throws Barney. The real Fred is up to his ears in stress working as Gotrocks, and tries to leave, with G.W. and F.M. hot on his trail. As both Fred and Gotrocks are being chased, Gotrocks ends up caught by his associates who think he is Fred, and Gotrocks fires them. Fred returns home and is happy to see Wilma and his friends… but they attack him for the deeds they think he performed. 8/4/16
• 023. The Astra’ Nuts – 3/3/1961
  • Wilma signs Fred up for an insurance policy but leads him to believe that it for a contest that the company is holding to find a perfect physical specimen. However she sends him to the wrong address and he and Barney end up enlisting in the army for three years. They get a three-day pass to deliver the news to the wives, who feel terrible for the mistake and because they’ll miss them. When they return to Camp Millstone they are put through their paces and promoted to the cavalry. Meanwhile Professor Von Pebbleschmidt (Alan Reed) is working on sending a man to space, but can’t get any volunteers. The General (John Stephenson) demands that Sgt. Magilla (Jerry Mann) get two men into orbit, and naturally Fred and Barney are chosen when they ask to transfer out of the cavalry. Their reaction to gravity centrifugal force, and rapid acceleration is conducted and they pass the test. After a send-off playing of Taps,  the boys are launched toward the moon without their knowledge. Betty and Wilma hear of the event on TV and rush to the camp. Fred and Barney land on the camp’s artillery range, but believe they are on the moon. The General is just pleased they got off the ground and allows them to be dismissed from the army. The wives march them back home. 10/12/16
• 024. The Long, Long Weekend – 3/10/1961
  • Fred comes home from work, and after being pounced on by a loving Dino, starts talking to Wilma about how he never hears from his old friends. Then when he gets a letter from his old friend Gus “Smoothy” Gravel (Willard Waterman), he decides to call him and try to get a deal on a weekend getaway at the seaside hotel he’s running. Meanwhile at the Gravel Hotel, Gus’s staff quits on him when Gus can’t pay them. With a convention heading toward the hotel that weekend, he sees Fred’s call as a blessing and plans on conning Fred and Barney and the wives into helping him run the hotel by inviting them there for free. The couples live it up for while with the wives relaxing seaside, and Fred and Barney swimming, fishing – and catching a giant seas serpent, and skin diving. Gus then mopes to Fred about his situation until Fred volunteers their help, with Fred as the chef, Barney as the bellboy, and the girls as maids. When the Loyal Water Buffalos convention arrives at the hotel, everyone has had enough and run out on Gus. The Grand Poobah (Mel Blanc) turns over the duties to Women’s Auxiliary, but they rebel and run out on their husbands. Wilma and Betty demand to be taken to a nicer hotel, and the boys comply. 10/12/16
• 025. In the Dough – 3/17/1961
  • Wilma and Betty decide to jointly enter their special cake – which they dub the Upside-Down Flint Rubble Double Bubble Cake – in the televised Tasty Pastry Program contest for the grand prize of $10,000. Their recipe ends up winning, along with several other women’s recipes, so they have to fly to the city for a bake-off. However just before they are supposed to leave, Wilma and Betty both come down with a case of the measles. Fred hatches the plot that he and Barney will go to the contest disguised as their wives. The boys, as the girls, end up winning the grand prize, while the wives watch from home incredulously. However when Barney fails to promote the Tasty Pastry flour, the judges quickly change their mind. Fred wants to report the fraud, but his wig falls off, revealing their own fraud. The wives threaten to tell the men’s friends about what they’ve done if they don’t wait on them hand and foot, so the boys try to catch the measles too. Hal Smith voices the announcer. 1/13/17
• 026. The Good Scout – 3/24/1961
  • Fred gets free tickets to the ball game but is disappointed when Barney can’t go because he has other plans. Fred has plans to snub Barney, but then finds out that Barney is volunteering to fill in as a Sabertooth Tiger Patrol boy scoutmaster. Fred decides to get in on the act and assist, with his first assignment to head up their camping trip. Fred faces challenges when he oversleeps for the first morning, gets chased by a sabertooth bear and tossed over a cliff when he plays dead, gets smashed by a boulder when trying to clear the area, and struggles to make a fire, while the boys do it with the use of a lighter. During a rainstorm, Fred supervises erecting their tent on some bundled logs, but they wind up in the river headed for a waterfall. Fred helps save them by turning the tent into a parachute… but they are caught in a tree until rescued. Fred is surprised when the kids present him with an award for his bravery. Lucille Smith is Hugo. Hal Smith is the TV announcer. 1/13/17
• 027. Rooms for Rent – 3/31/1961
  • When Fred takes a look at the checking account, he hits the roof when he sees how much Wilma is spending, and soon Barney joins in with berating Betty as well. The wives get the idea to rent rooms in their house, and no sooner do they put up their signs than a pair of jazz musicians from the Granite Club downtown make an offer to give the wives music lessons in exchange for the rooms. The ladies take pity and agree to let them teach them so that they can potentially win $500 for a contest at the Dinosaur Lodge. Meanwhile Fred and Barney get the same idea to rent out rooms. Fred and Wilma agree on the boarder, but Fred doesn’t realize that they’ve already taken one in. Fred likes the notion of receiving $500, although he assumes it is the rent money. When they find out about the contest, Fred is furious, and after taking the ladies to the show, they refuse to watch. When they hear that the girls have one, they take off immediately without explanation. When an angry Wilma and Betty arrive home, they find the boys rehearsing their instruments to try and win the next year’s show. 4/27/17
• 028. Fred Flintstone: Before and After – 4/7/1961
  • TV commercial producer B.J. is looking for a fat man to use as the ‘before’ image of a diet program the Fat-Off Reducing Method. The first man he comes across is Fred, who readily accepts the job thinking that he is the ‘after’ image. Thinking he was now a famous actor, he throws a big premiere party for himself, but everyone leaves when they see the commercial. Wilma takes Fred to see B.J. and demand that the commercial is pulled from the air, and the producers offer Fred $1000 if he can lose 25 pounds in one month as part of their promotion on The Happy Hour TV program. Fred thinks he can maintain the diet on willpower, but Barney convinces him to join an over-eaters group, who foil his every attempt at sneaking food. When it comes time for the weigh-in, Fred weighs in at 200 pounds and wins the money. He takes the money, resigns from Food Anonymous, and heads home for a giant dinner… but the leader of the group snags his cooked pterodactyl before Fred gets a chance at the first bite. Bern Bennett voices the announcer. 4/27/17

SEASON 2

• 029. The Hit Song Writers – 9/15/1961
  • Wilma gets irritated that Fred comes up grumpy, while Barney writes Betty poetry. Fred gets angry at Barney, but then has the idea to use Barney’s poetry to created some hit songs by getting someone else to write the music to go with it. Fred does some research and decides to write a song that will appeal to all of the masses, and stays up all night trying to do it. Once it is written, the boys visit Scat Von Roctoven (John Stephenson) to pay him to write the music, and then they take it to Rockwell Music Publishers. Singer Hoagy Carmichael (himself) also visits Rockwell, and when he befriends the boys, he agrees to play the music for their song for Rockwell (John Stephenson), but it turns out to be the music from his own song Stardust. Combined with Fred’s terrible lyrics, the song is a flop and Rockwell throws them out. However he then finds Fred’s briefcase, and the written lyrics Yabba Dabba Dabba Dabba Doo. Rockwell thinks this will be a great gimmick song, and orders Carmichael to write the music. He performs it in a local nightclub with the Rubbles and Flinstones assisting. Wilma decides that Fred needs to give up songwriting after this one hit. NOTE: Daws Butler fills in for Mel Blanc’s Barney Rubble voice-over, while Blanc was recovering from a car accident. 12/17/17
• 030. Droop Along Flintstone – 9/22/1961
  • Fred gets his visit from his rich southern cousins Tumbleweed (Hal Smith) and Marylou Jim (Bea Benaderet). Tumbleweed is so rich that when he doesn’t like a restaurant’s dress code, he simply buys the place. Tumbleweed also insists that Fred and Barney take care of their dude ranch while they vacation in Eurock, buying up Fred’s company so they will let them take the vacation. The families drive for several days until they arrive at the ranch, where the boys become instant cowboys. While attempting to bust a brontosaurus, the boys fall off a cliff and wonder into a ghost town where they take a nap in an old hotel and wake up to the sound of a film director and his crew of actors shooting a TV show. The stumble into the fake bar fight and get knocked out. The director decides to write them into the show as bad guys, even though Fred and Barney have no idea that they’re creating a show. The girls spot the boys being chased and tied to stakes by the Indian actors and spring into action to rescue them. The director is happy because he has enough footage for several shows. Fred and Barney then have a great time on the ranch singing cowboy songs, much to the wives’ chagrin. Cousin Tumbleweed returns, and the wives immediately whisk their husbands away. The Indians then begin to chase Tumbleweed and Marylou Jim while the director and his assistant Chester shoot more footage. 12/18/17
• 031. The Missing Bus – 9/29/1961
  • It is Fred’s 13th anniversary at the quarry and he is expecting a promotion and raise, but instead he gets a pay cut. He wants to bash his boss and to quit, but Wilma reminds him that he has bills to pay. Fred checks the want ads, and goes to visit a job agency and interviews with Mr. Pebbles, and moves on to be interviewed by Mr. Carborundum (Hal Smith) as a school bus driver. He works with Barney learns the ins and outs of driving, and then takes Bus 9 out to pick up the kids, where he picks up the kids of Mrs. Gypsum (Sandra Gould), Mrs. Gabbystone (Jean Vander Pyl), and Mrs. Carborundum (Bea Benederet). After his first trip, his nerves are shot, but he presses on and takes Barney to work before he has to make the return school visit. He stops at Rocky’s Diner where all of the other skittish bus drivers have stopped. The diner owner (Mel Blanc) tells him that the guys’ nerves are all shot from bus-driving. Fred decides to quit, but Carborundum gives him a pep talk to stick around. Unfortunately, Fred ends up dropping the kids off at the wrong houses and then disappears with the bus. Carborundum is ready to fire Fred, and fire Pebbles for hiring him. Wilma is also worried, but gets a call from a nurse (Pattie Champman) who tells her that Fred is at the hospital under sedatives. They arrive at the hospital to find that Fred is surrounded by reporters, and Mr. Granite (John Stephenson) offers Fred a raise to return to the rockpile. I turns out that Fred is a hero because he had taken a pregnant woman to the hospital and she delivered three female sisters Fred, Fred, and Fred. Don Messick is the voice of Robby, Alvin, and a photographer. 8/22/18
• 032. Alvin Brickrock Presents – 10/6/1961
  • Fred and Barney have been enjoying the frequent fights between their new neighbors Alvin (Elliot Field) and Agatha Brickrock. One night after Mr. Brickrock visits Fred, asks to borrow a shovel, and tells him that they are moving – and that Agatha has gone ahead of him – Fred reads an article in one of his mystery magazines about a notorious wife-killer named Albert Bonehart. Despite evidence to the contrary, Fred thinks that Alvin is actually Albert, mostly from the Hitchcockian way he pronounces the phrase “Good Evening.” Fred enlist Barney to investigate and they break into Brickrock’s house, only to find bones and a mummy. When they confront him, he tells them that he is an archaeologist and that he has possession of the world’s only flying man-eater, a Piranhakeet. Later Alvin drops off a trunk that he says will be picked up by the movers. Fred assumes that Agatha’s body is inside and proves that it can be done by getting inside their similar trunk… only to get locked inside. Wilma helps him out, and then laughs at his notion, but when Alvin comes over to return the shovel, he admits that the trunk is for Agatha’s body. Actually what is inside is barbells that she uses to tone her body. He proves that Agatha is alive and well by calling him up, only to get nagged. Albert later confesses to the audience that his Piranhakeet would be perfect for eating his wife. Don Messick is the voice of Arnold the paper boy. 8/22/18
• 033. Fred Flintstone Woos Again – 10/13/1961
  • Fred has been taking Wilma for granted and spending evenings away with Barney. When Fred gets wind from Barney how upset Wilma is, he decides to take Wilma for a second honeymoon at Rock Mountain Inn, thinking that if he takes Barney and Betty along, the guys will be able to fish. When they arrive, Wilma manages to talk Fred into having a second marriage ceremony, but when they visit the Justice of the Peace that their original Justice Judge Wedrock was in jail for marrying people without a license, meaning that Fred and Wilma’s marriage of fifteen years was a sham. Wilma decides to play hard-to-get when they decides to go through another ceremony, and stubbornly refuses to ask Wilma on a date. When he finally caves in, he expects her to do the cooking, and ultimately threatens to move into a motel. Wilma counteracts by having a delivery man bring her flowers, ostensibly from another suitor. When Fred gets punched out by the delivery many for trying to stop him, Fred decide’s he’s been beaten. Wilma too decides to finally cave in, but before she can apologize, Fred says he’s sorry and asks her to marry him. They return to the Rock Mountain Inn, but are told by the desk clerk (Frank Nelson) that the Justice they met the day before is actually hotel busboy Stonewall, who was just having a joke by telling them that his brother-in-law Judge Wedlock was in jail when he was in fact just in the back taking a nap. 4/14/19
• 034. The Rock Quarry Story – 10/20/1961
  • Wilma and Betty are excited that movie star Rock Quarry (John Stephenson) is coming to nearby Central City on a promotional tour and plan to go see him. Meanwhile Rock has become fed up with the constant adulation and tells his manager B.L. (Bob Roberts) that he seeks a more quiet life where nobody known him. When Fred runs a stop sign and runs into Rock, the two become fast friends even though Fred has no idea who he is. Rock uses his original name Gus Schultz, and Wilma gives Fred a hard time about bringing his new friend home. Both Wilma and Betty recognize him and nearly melt down until Fred convinces them that their idea is ridiculous. Fred and Barney take Rock bowling, and then offer to take him to their lodge meeting. Wilma and Betty join the other fans in Central City, but are told by B.L. that he has flown back to Hollyrock. Rock suddenly realizes that he can’t stand this mundane lifestyle and then tries to convince the Flintstones and the Rubbles that he is the real Rock Quarry. Even when he recreates scenes from his pictures, he can’t convince them.  They eventually throw him out, and his manager picks him up. The Flintstones and Rubbles finally realize the truth, as he drives away. Later when actor Gary Granite stops by looking for Rock, the girls tie him up so they can spend some time with at least one movie star. 4/21/19
• 035. The Soft Touchables – 10/27/1961
  • Fred and Barney begin their own private investigating business, but after several weeks they haven’t had any cases. One day they are visited by a voluptuous and mysterious woman (Sandra Gould) who offers them some work at the Third National Bank at a rate of $500 a day. Meanwhile Betty and Wilma see the very same woman on TV, where it is noted that she is the wanted and dangerous criminal Dagmar the Peroxide Kid. Dagmar reports back to Boss Rockhead (John Stephenson) and his henchman Knuckles (Daws Butler) to let them know that she’s hired a couple of numbskulls. The next day Fred and Barney report to the bank, where Rockhead comes out of the president’s office and tells them to wait for him in the park. After they leave, he reveals that he’s put the president’s sign on the restroom door. He meets up with them to tell them that he’s concerned about robberies and plans to move their money to another bank, and that robbers dressed as cops may show up. Fred and Barney fall for it hook, line, and sinker and go along for the robbery. Rockhead and Knuckles make off with the money, and leave Fred and Barney behind, where they are confronted by the police and knock them out thinking they are robbers disguised as criminals. Fortunately the police believe them and have them help identify the mug shots of the robbers and then send them on their way in a taxi… which is being driven by the robbers who plan on burying them in cement. When Wilma and Betty get impatient waiting for the boys to get home and go to the Leonard Bernstone concert, they decide to go without them… and find them on the way repairing a wheel that fell off the taxi. The gals attempt to retrieve their husbands, but the crooks pull guns on them. Barney knocks them over with the car wheel and the wives knock them out with their purses. Fred and Barney make the capture and make the headlines, which Fred sees as terrific promotion for their detective business. Wilma and Betty claim however that they are going to become the private investigators, so Fred and Barney agree that they will all give up the business. 2/4/20
• 036. Flintstone of Prinstone – 11/3/1961
  • When the paperboy Arnold (Don Messick) beats Fred at a game of Scrabble, and then Fred sees his old yearbook when his former self Frederick “Twinkletoes” Flintstone sees that it was predicted that he would become a superstar accountant. He explains that he primarily focused on football and never graduated from school. He sees an ad for Prinstone University and decides to go back to night school to get his diploma and advance in his company. Wilma starts to get concerned that Fred might be attracted to some of the younger teenage girls, but they have a good laugh at that notion. Upon arrival, Fred is humiliated by a pipsqueak upperclassman. The next day Fred is so exhausted he can barely keep his eyes open and falls asleep on the job, and the change that Mr. Slate (John Stephenson) notices in Fred are all for the worse, so he promotes a young college boy who happens to be Slate’s nephew. However when Slate finds out that Fred is attending Prinstone – his alma mater – his attitude toward Fred takes an upturn. Slate seems more interested in getting Fred onto the football team, so he makes a call to the Director of Sports Rockwell Quartz (Mel Blanc) and pushes him to recruit Fred. He agrees to play and meets the gigantic players who tower over him. Between school, football practice, and work, Fred can’t keep anyone or anything straight, much less stay awake. Although he sleeps through most of the game, Fred manages to score and tackle with the best of them, and manages to walk in the game-tying touchdown. He then coaches a player into kicking the extra point, and even though he kicks Fred along with the ball through the goal post, Prinstone gets the win. Slate shows his appreciation by forming a work football team, the Gravel Pit Packers, and makes Fred the quarterback. Wilma however carries a sleeping Fred home and tells Slate to get someone else. 2/5/20
• 037. The Little White Lie – 11/10/1961
  • After dinner one night Wilma asks Fred to take her to the movies, but Fred claims that he is too tired to do anything and plans to turn in early. However when Barney comes over and asks him to go play poker with their friends, one of whom is Stanley Stonebruise (John Stephenson) from whom Fred always wins money. He tells Wilma that Stanley is sick on his deathbed and that he needs to go see him. Fred does well at poker and wins $200, but has no way to explain the windfall of money to Wilma, so he borrows Barney’s wallet and tells her that he found the money in the wallet. Barney ‘helpfully’ suggests that they put an ad in the paper to try and find the rightful owner so Wilma places the ad with columnist Daisy Kilgranite (Sandra Gould). Concerned that someone will guess the correct amount and attempt to claim the money, Fred has Barney disguise his voice as a woman named Tilly Schimlestone and claim the money. Fred thinks that Wilma will give him the money to mail, but she sends it through the post herself. Fred tries to claim the money at the post office but the clerk (Daws Butler) will only let Tilly claim it, so he has Barney dress up as a woman. Meanwhile Daisy wants to capture the moment in a photo for the newspaper, but shen Fred and Barney see her, they flee. Wilma and Betty show up as well and although the boys run from them, they ultimately get caught. Fred then switches gears and tells the ladies that the money has been saved up by Barney for Betty’s birthday. Barney enjoys the opportunity to then take everyone out for dinner and spend every bit of it on lavish food and drinks. 5/12/20
• 038. Social Climbers – 11/17/1961
  • While shopping at the department store, Wilma and Betty run into their old classmate Emmy Glutsrock (Paula Winslowe), a snobby rich society woman who constantly brags about her wealth. They decide to pose as rich women also, and this earns them an invitation to the high society Ambassador’s Reception. Lamenting that they never get to dress up and go out, they agree to the invitation. Meanwhile Fred and Barney have secured tickets to the Volunteer Firemen’s Ball for the same night. The wives not only convince them to go – by crying – but also to attend Charm School so they will be ready for it. Initially they try to go down to class to get a refund, but htey are talked into staying the pass the class with flying colors. On the night of the ball, no ones seems to fit in, as Fred and Barney begin telling jokes and Wilma and Betty can’t stand all of the gossip. The boys meet a rich oil man named Mr. Hardrock, but he is unimpressed with them and walks away. Finally the girls have had enough and want to leave, but the boys pull out what they’ve learned and try to charm the crowd by playing some jazz music for them while the wives dance. Two waiters who are serving the guests turn out to be robbers and begin stealing money and jewelry from the guests, but when they get to Wilma and Betty, Fred and Barney intervene and get into a fight with them. The police come and arrest all involved including Fred and Barney, but Mr. Hardrock (Hal Smith) comes to their defense and tells the police that they are ‘one of us.’ The Flintstones and Rubbles head over to the Firemen’s Ball, and bring their haughty guests with them, who appear to be having a better time cutting loose. 5/12/20
• 039. The Beauty Contest – 12/1/1961
  • Fred and Barney head out to their Water Buffalo lodge meeting, after Fred is attacked by Dino when he puts on the headgear that Dino never recognizes. At the meeting a drawing is held to see who will be the judge of the annual beauty contest. Fred and Barney are declared ‘winners’ although the lodge members secretly laugh because their names were the only ones in the hat, because they would be dumb enough to want the job. As they are driving home, they realize that their wives might be angry about them judging the contest so they decide not to tell them. At work the next day, Fred drops a boulder on top of Mr. Slate and is fired but Slate quickly retrieves him and alludes to the fact that he can keep his job if his ugly daughter Bessie wins the contest. Similarly Barney is approached by the gangster Big Louie (Leo DeLyon), who tries to strong-arm Barney to picking his girl Cookie as the winner. On the way home, Fred and Barney argue over who they will choose. The wives start to become suspicious when a woman calls Fred to give him her measurements, and then both Fred and Barney are visited by beautiful women… but they ultimately give them the benefit of the doubt. On the night of the contest, the boys try to get the girls involved in watching TV so they can sneak out, but Wilma catches Fred leaving when Dino tries to attack him again. Fred tells her that there is an extra Saturday night meeting, but the girls are skeptical so they follow them to Water Buffalo Hall. The are temporarily redeemed, until the girls realize there is a beauty contest going on. Not knowing that the boys are judging, they decides to sneak into the contest themselves. Fred and Barney and Wilma and Betty spot each other at the same time. The girls are surprised to see them as judges, but the boys win them over by choosing their wives as the winners. They are happy with Fred and Barney, but the other members chase them home. 8/27/20
• 040. The Masquerade Ball – 12/8/1961
  • Fred trudges and grumbles through another morning, while Barney is more productive and thinks that the road to success begins with a good mood. Fred however maintains that success comes from who you know and vows only to mingle with the upper crust. When Fred’s big boss Mr. Rockhead is forced by his wife to get rid of some expensive high society masquerade tickets, Rockhead pawns four of them off on Fred at $25 a pop… although Fred initially thinks they are 25 cents each. Fred tries to trick Barney to buy two of them by making them think they are a quarter each, but Barney buys them knowing full well how much they are. The boys then go to the costume shop and meet the snooty proprietor Mortimer Stoneface (Don Messick), who only has one costume to offer, that of a two-man dinosuar. He also reveals that he will be at the party dressed as a bird, while Mr. Rockhead will be there as a turtle. Fred thinks that is valuable information in that he can flatter his boss, while pretending not to know who he is. On the night of the party, Rockhead doesn’t like his turtle costume and forces Stoneface to trade with him. Throughout the party, Fred keeps saying flattering things about Rockhead, while he is actually in the presence of Stoneface. He also keeps insulting the real Rockhead, thinking he is Stoneface. Barney gets tired of being in the rear of the dinosaur costume, so they all leave. The next day Fred thinks he will be getting a raise after his performance at the party, but when he gets to work, Rockhead reveals that he had been dressed as the bird… making Fred feel about a foot tall after all of the insults he delivered to his boss. 8/27/20
• 041. The Picnic – 12/15/1961
  • While playing cards with Joe and Rita Rockhead (Bea Benaderet), Fred ‘forgets’ to pay Joe the debts from his loss while admiring all of the trophies that Joe has received over the years at events of the Water Buffalos, blaming his partner Barney for the loses. That night he dreams of yet another loss and calls Joe in the middle of the night to see if he’ll team up with him instead of Mr. Slate at this year’s picnic. Joe is so groggy that he agrees, but quickly regrets it. The next day, the Flintstones run into the Rockheads at the grocery store, and Fred tries to assure Joe that he is perfectly fit by having Joe punch him in the stomach… and finding out that he wasn’t as fit as he thought. Barney is devastated when he finds out that Fred has chose another partner and gives Fred a black eye and then sulks his way through the picnic, refusing to get another partner. Due to Fred’s ineptness, he and Joe lose the relay and three-legged race events, and Joe returns to Mr. Slate for the final wheelbarrow race event. Fred turns to Barney to be his partner, and through teamwork when Fred gets exhausted and the wheelbarrow falls apart, they come out the victors and take home the trophy. Fred decides to let Barney keep the trophy, but Barney insists that Fred wanted it more. The two get into a fight over it, and Fred winds up with another black eye. 12/12/20
• 042. The House Guest – 12/22/1961
  • When the Rubble household springs a leak in one of its pipes, Fred dissuades Barney from calling a plumber and decides they can fix it themselves. Despite plugging up multiple leaks with various household objects, the pipe explodes and floods the house. The plumber (Mel Blanc) tells them that it require days to fix it and they should get a hotel room. Fred offers to let them stay with them, even though both Wilma and Betty see it as a bad idea, as Fred and Barney are sure to be at each other’s throats. Fred and Barney make a pact to never let the wives see them argue so they can prove them wrong. However it becomes a struggle when Barney eats the larger slice of cake, gets up at 5am, and makes lots of noise gargling in the bathroom. Fred also does his share of annoying things, like accidentally putting Barney outside instead of the cat. They make it through an entire week, and Fred is in a jovial mood on their last night together. Wilma buys a large pizza to celebrate, but when Barney finds it in the icebox, he eats the entire thing. Fred composes himself and asks Barney to come with him to the deli to pick up some cold cuts, but once they are gone, he tries to unleash days of anger via a fistfight. Back at the house, Wilma and Betty begin to bicker when Wilma blames Barney for eating the pizza and compliments how well Fred composed themselves. Fred and Barney stop their fight to listen to the wives fight, finding the whole thing amusing. Fred forgets his anger and suggest they all go out for dino-burgers. 12/12/20
• 043. The X-Ray Story – 12/29/1961
  • Dino has been sleeping a lot and refuses to eat his Shlump dinosaur food, so Wilma has Fred take him to the vet. An X-Ray reveals that Dino has a dinopeptic germ that is relatively harmless and will go away if he gets plenty of sleep. The nurse puts Fred’s name on Dino’s x-ray to be filed, but it flies out the window and is picked up by a police officer. He thinks that the x-ray is indicating that Fred has the dinopeptic germ, which can be very dangerous to humans. The policeman takes it to a doctor (John Stephenson), who says that the only way to cure it in humans is to stay awake for 72 hours, and also that it is important not to notify the person as the undue stress can make it worse. The doctor visits Wilma and tells her the importance of keeping Fred awake. She enlists Barney and Betty to go out for a night on the town, even though Fred is ready to hit the hay. The go out for dinner and dancing and Fred can barely keep his eyes open, and soon Barney starts to get tired too. Barney fills Fred up with cup after cup of black coffee. When it seems Fred can take no more, the others take him to an ice skating rink, where Wilma and Betty get some rest while Barney tries to teach Barney how to skate. Barney siphons the gas out of the car, so they are forced to walk home. When they arrive, Fred rushes to the bed, so they throw him in a cold shower. After using toothpicks to hold his eyes open fails, Barney tries blowing a noisemaker in his ear. At this point, Wilma tells Fred about the x-rays, which finally sinks in and inspires him to start drinking coffee like mad… until he realizes that the x-rays she saw belonged to Dino. Fed immediately falls asleep on the floor next to Dino’s bed. 4/6/21
• 044. The Gambler – 1/5/1962
  • Wilma and Betty are looking through Wilma’s photo albums, and they run across photos of Fred gambling while on their honeymoon. Wilma flashes back to when she sent Fred to see a psychiatrist (John Stephenson) to cure him of his addiction, which had worked up until now. Meanwhile, Fred is told by his paperboy Arnold (Don Messick) that he owes him $22 in back payments, so Fred challenges him to a game of marbles… double or nothing. By the time they are done, Fred owes Arnold $88, and when he tries to pay it with money he had had hidden in his bowling ball, he is told by Wilma that she used the money to pay off their TV. In order to not welch on the bet, Fred gives Arnold their TV for his boys’ club as collateral. Fred’s plan is to practice at marbles so that he can go double or nothing once again. Wilma is baffled as to why Fred is playing marbles in their bedroom, so she and Betty send Barney to check on him. Fred ends up betting with Barney until he has won Barney’s TV, but Wilma won’t let him keep it. Fred tries to beat Arnold again for the TV and ends up losing their furniture. Wilma is then sure that Fred is betting again and goes to see Arnold about getting their TV back. When she arrives, she realize they have her furniture as well, but doesn’t have the heart to take it from the boys. Instead, Betty offers to loan Wilma the money that Barney keeps in his bowling ball so she can buy all new furniture. In the meantime, Barney feels responsible for starting Fred on gambling again, so he offers up the money in the bowling ball… which is no longer there. In the end, Fred gets new furniture and a new TV, and the boys decide to dust up the furniture and hope they find as much money while dusting as their wives had. 4/6/21
• 045. A Star Is Almost Born – 1/12/1962
  • After doing some shopping, Wilma and Betty stop in at the Show Biz Drugstore, where hopeful actors often hangout in attempt to be discovered. Wilma happens to be spotted by superstar producer Norman Rockbind (Frank Nelson) who begs Wilma to be on his next television program. The initially think it is a gag, but when he tells them who he is, she accepts the offer. When she gets home, she interrupts Fred’s TV wrestling match to tell him the big news. Fred is thrilled because he thinks it will make him rich to manage her. He borrows money from Barney in order to get her ready for her role, promising Barney a cut of her money. They take her to a Professor (John Stephenson), who trains her in enunciation, balance, and how to enter a room. When Mr. Slate gives Fred trouble about getting off early to drive Wilma to the studios, Fred quits his job. When they get there, Fred finds out that Rockbind only wants her to do a skin cream commercial because she has perfect knuckles. Fred wants no part of that since he has told everyone she is going to be a big star. Fred takes Wilma home, but he starts to have regrets when she tells him how much she could have gotten with a career in hand modeling. Fred now has no idea how he will pay Barney back since he has quit his job. Wilma goes and talks to Mr. Slate, and he agrees to give Fred his job back. Fred thinks it is because Slate needs him so bad, so he starts to play hardball… until Wilma whisks him away from Slate. Barney then announces that when Wilma left the studio, Rockbind had Betty step in for her and be the hand model. The only good news for Fred is that the payment Betty got covered the money that Fred owed him. Fred thinks that Betty should’ve gotten more money, but when he starts to head to the studio, Barney and Wilma sit on him so he can’t speak to anyone. John Stephenson is the cowboy actor, parodying Dennis Weaver from Gunsmoke. 8/2/21
• 046. The Entertainer – 1/19/1962
  • While Wilma is away out of town with her sick mother, Fred has been working late nights in order to impress his boss Mr. Slate, so he can get a promotion and be able buy Wilma the finer things in life. Meanwhile, Mr. Slate is told by his wife to cancel an appointment with a client buyer so he can attend a benefit with her. Slate appoints Fred to entertain the client at the Copa Cave, but doesn’t realize until he’s headed out that he realizes that the client is a female named Greta Gravel (Paula Winslowe). Fred returns to Slate to tell him that as a married man, he can’t go through with it. Slate convinces him that it is only business and could lead to a big promotion. He tells Fred to ask Wilma to come along, but thinks it is even better when Fred tells him that she’s out of town. Fred decides to go through with it so that he can ultimately make Wilma happier. Barney and Betty are also celebrating because Barney got a raise, and they invite Fred to go to the Copa Cave with them. Fred says he’s working so he can’t make it. After Fred leaves, Wilma returns home early, she agrees to go with Barney and Betty, and when Fred sees her show up, he hides under the table. Greta actually knows Wilma – as Wilma Pebble – from their high school days, and laments that she was always too picky about men and never got married. She starts telling Wilma about her date Freddy, as Fred crawls out of the restaurant. Barney, Betty, and Wilma give Greta a ride home, but Wilma insists on stopping at the house so she can meet Fred. Fred feigns illness, but Greta finally sees him and reads him the riot act about abandoning her. However, when Wilma starts to pack her things to leave, Greta tells both Wilma and Betty that they should be ashamed for not appreciating their hard-working men. Wilma and Betty see it her way, and begins pampering their husbands. 8/3/21
• 047. Wilma’s Vanishing Money – 1/26/1962
  • Wilma has been getting money from Fred for various things and then saving the extra to buy a new bowling ball for Fred for his birthday. When Barney comes over that morning, he asks for some toast, so Fred goes to look for a hairpin to fix the toaster, and happens upon Wilma’s hiding place for cash. He realizes that Wilma has been tricking him, so he decides to take the money and go buy himself the bowling ball he’s been wanting. After buying the ball from the snarky clerk (Frank Nelson) in the sporting good department at the store, he returns home find that Wilma has a policeman there and has reported the missing money. She is beside herself, and tells Fred that she had planned to buy him the ball. He tries to disguise the ball he’s brought home as a loaf of pumpernickel. He starts to get panicked when the nosy neighbor boy Arnold (Don Messick) decides he’s going to follow the detective shows he watches, by investigating the robbery. Fred decides to tell Wilma the truth, but when she starts expressing how she is going to hurt the robber when they find him, he backs off. Instead he returns the bowling ball to the store and gets his money back. Wilma catches him putting the money back, but won’t be convinced by Fred that he had taken it in the first place. She thinks he is just being kind and planting his own money there so she won’t lose hers. That night Fred and Barney go bowling, and while leaving they encounter a robber named Silky (Herschel Bernardi) who wants to rob them. Fred won’t give him the money, but offers to pay him to break into their house and return the money the next night at 11pm. Fred and Barney take the wives out, but they finish earlier than expected and have to spend the next 30 minutes changing all four wheels on the car to kill time. When they get back, they find that Arnold has caught the robber with the money on him. Wilma is furious and wants to throw him in jail, but Fred convinces her that he only took the money because had to feed his large family. Wilma ends up feeling so bad for him that she gives him all of the money for his family, leaving Fred without his bowling ball. 1/31/22
• 048. Feudin’ and Fussin’ – 2/2/1962
  • Fred has become obsessed with winning the golf tournament at the lodge, and he’s come upon the day of the finals. Barney is practicing to get as good as Fred, but hits his ball into Fred’s window and wakes him up just in time for the playoff game. Fred realizes he’s late and hightails it to the game, with Barney slowing him down by telling him ‘good luck’ and gives him a ‘gesundheit.’ Fred gets a last minute phone call from his golf partner Charlie, which Barney answers and the tries to get the message to Fred by running behind Fred’s car. When Barney finally catches up with him at the golf course and give him the message, Fred tells Barney how stupid he is for taking so long to give him the message. Barney gets offended and asks for an apology, but Fred can only be flippant with him. That night Barney and Betty don’t show up for cards with the Flintstones. Wilma tells him how offended Barney was, Fred agrees to go apologize to him. Betty thinks the apology was insincere, but Barney wants to forget about it. Betty convinces Barney to hold fast to demanding a sincere apology. Fred’s pride won’t allow him to apologizes for a second time, so he walks out on them. A week and a half go by, and Fred has no intention of apologizing, even resorting to playing Gin and Badmitton by himself. Fred won’t cave in, and Barney gets tired of the cold shoulder, so he decides to sell the house and move away. The Rubbles hire real estate agent Sam Quickstone (John Stephenson) to sell the house for them. They wind up with promising buyer Tex from Texas (Hal Smith), who drives their price down from $20,00 to $500. Across the street, Fred is lamenting how much he misses Barney, so he heads over to apologize. When he realizing they are trying to sell the house, Fred pretends to be an annoying neighbor who plays drum in a marching band all night. Tex thinks this is great because he’s like to play his tuba and join the band. Fred then disguises himself as someone from the traffic commission and tells him that the freeway is going to run directly through the house. Barney and Betty return from a walk and catch Fred ruining their chances with the buyer, but all is forgiven when Fred apologizes for being so stubborn and for not apologizing earlier. Everyone, including Fred, is surprised that he was able to summon such a heartfelt apology. 1/31/22
• 049. Impractical Joker – 2/9/1962
  • While Barney is using a hose to water his yard so he won’t have to cut the grass, Fred steps on it to let the water pressure build up and then releases it when Barney tries to blow on the hose to clear it’s pathway, all resulting in Barney filling up with water. This is only the latest in Fred’s non-stop practical jokes on Barney, who is getting tired of it. Wilma warns Fred that he better ease up, but Fred argues that if Barney had any imagination, he could play a joke back on Fred. Meanwhile, Barney wins a jingle contest from Sudsy-Wudsy and he is present his prize money in cash. He decides to use the bills to play his own practical joke on Fred. He has Betty visit the Flintstone house and act as if she is nervous that the police will be showing up for Barney, because he has been doing something illegal in the basement, but she doesn’t know what. Wilma sends Fred over to check on Barney, and Barney tells Fred that he’s invented a money making machine, then shows him his bills hung all over the basement. Fred is incredulous that Barney is counterfeiting money, and becomes scared for not only Barney, but for himself, thinking he might be arrested for not turning him in. As Barney goes on a spending spree, Fred follows him behind and pays for all of the merchandise so that he doesn’t get caught with the money. Barney takes advantages of this and buys several high ticket items. Wilma complains to Betty that Fred has gone into debt, and Betty assures her that she will send everything back. Both wives want the boys to stop with the jokes, but agree that if they tell Fred it was all a joke, they will wind up in an escalating feud. Fred decides to get rid of the money-making machine once and for all, but when he sets out to bury it along with the money, he is robbed at gunpoint. He tries to tell the robber that the money is counterfeit, so the robber insists that he make some more money. When Fred says it was Barney who did it, the robber goes back to Barney’s place and holds them both at gunpoint, and then telling them that he is taking them to the head of the gang Max the Knife to force them to make more money. They are scared to death, but when they arrive in the darkened house, they find that it is Wilma and Betty who instigated the practical joke, and that the robber is actually Joe Rockhead. It is actually a party for Barney’s birthday, much to the boys’ relief and delight. 6/8/22
• 050. Operation Barney – 2/16/1962
  • As Fred and Barney drive into work on Spring morning, Fred is stricken by baseball fever and decides that he and Barney should play hooky from work to go to the day’s double-header. He calls in and plays sick to his boss Mr. Slate, then has Barney do the same with his boss Mr. Pebble. However, Barney makes the mistake of telling Pebble that he was on his way to work when he was stricken ill, so Pebble suggests that he come on in and see the nurse. She thinks that Barney is probably faking, an in order to show a fever, Fred uses his cigarette lighter to raise the thermometer temperature… to 312 degrees! She sends him immediately to the emergency room, and Fred follows his to the hospital. The desk nurse (Jean Vander Pyl) won’t let Fred into his room, so he sneaks in behind an incoming patient, disguises himself as a nurse and tries to sneak him out. Wilma gets a call from Mr. Pebble informing her of Barney’s illness, so she and Wilma head to the hospital. When Fred and Barney see the wives coming, Fred attempts to sneak Barney back into the hospital. When Barney realizes that the German doctor (John Stephenson) plans to operate on him, Fred escorts him into the janitor’s close and poses as the doctor himself. They manage to escape again, this time in full view of Betty and Wilma. That night at home, the fully admit what they attempted to the wives. Mr. Pebble calls to check on Barney and tells Betty that the double-header is actually that night and that he had planned to offer Barney two tickets to the game… until he got sick. Fred and Barney vow never to play hooky again, and the wives give them permission to go to the game with them after all. 6/9/22
• 051. The Happy Household – 2/23/1962
  • Fred and Barney come home from work and expect an early dinner, but the wives are out shopping. Fred is furious when Wilma gets home, and even more so when he sees how many packages she can shove into the trunk of her compact car. When he complains about how much she spent, Wilma suggests that she is going to look for a job. Fred laughs this off, but Wilma recruits Betty and they head to the Bedrock Employment Agency the lady (Bea Benderet) there. She sends them to the personnel manager at the Bedrock Radio and Television Corporation, and he auditions them to the station manager Mr. Rockenschpeel (Paul Frees). Although Betty can’t sing, Wilma (B.J. Baker – singing voice) has a voice that Rockenschpeel loves, so they quickly sign her to do 39 episodes of The Rockenschpeel show. It happens so fast that Wilma thinks she has signed for a job as a filing clerk. The personnel manager (John Stephenson) tells Wilma that she can’t break the contract or they will sue, and tells her that she will be hosting Rockenschpeel’s Happy Housewife Show. That night Fred expects to have a big meal, thinking that Wilma will feel bad about their argument, but instead he finds a frozen dinner and a note from Wilma. Fred is furious already, but when he flips on the TV and sees Wilma as the Happy Housewives teaching housewives to cook a huge meal, he becomes even more livid. When Wilma comes home, she explains the situation to Fred, and he marches down to the station to rip up her contract, but makes no headway. Wilma arranges for Fred to have dinner with the Rubbles, but when he is too demanding, Betty throws him out. Fred winds up at Mother’s Place for dinner, but winds up in a fight with Sam Mother when Fred insists on turning off the TV when Wilma’s segment comes on. When the station president Ed Bedrock (Paul Frees) finds out about The Happy Housewife‘s high ratings, he calls his competitor Sam Rockbound (John Stephenson) from the Rockbound Network to needle him. Rockboud retaliates with creating a show that interviews The Happy Housewife‘s discontent husband… Fred. Rockbound threatens to air Fred in a new show The Neglected Husband, causing Mr. Bedrock to pull The Happy Housewife from the network. Fred is thrilled that Wilma is back for dinner, and she prepares him a giant brontosaurus steak. 9/30/22
• 052. Fred Strikes Out – 3/2/1962
  • Betty has Wilma take a magazine quiz designed to show how well she knows her husband. With Fred’s history, the quiz answers determine that Fred is unreliable, demanding, and immature, and that chances of happiness with his is very slim. This gets Wilma wondering if she’s happy with Fred after all. Wilma serves Fred a special dinner that night, but becomes very upset when Fred doesn’t remember that it is the eighth anniversary of the night he proposed to her. She threatens to go home to her mother if he doesn’t keep his promise to take her out to the movies to see Pterodactyls from Outer Space. Even though his bowling championship match is that night, Fred promises he’ll take her to the movie. He confides to Barney that his plan is to start the movie, and then make frequent visits to the concession stand, during which time, he will round the corner to the bowling alley and bowl his frame. As he goes back and forth, Fred winds up slamming his thumb in the car door. When he gets to the alley, he bowls his final strike and wins the championship. Barney places the ball into his hand for the newspaper photo, and winds up getting the ball stuck on his swollen finger. He can’t get it off no matter what he does, so he finishes the movie and drives home hiding the ball that is stuck on his finger. When they get home, Barney and Betty meet them at their house to continue their celebration, and Barney tries everything to help him get the ball off his finger, including wedging it between the branches of a tree and trying to pull it off. Barney pulls back the tree and lets go, causing Fred to fly through out and through the walls of the house. At this point, the ball becomes obvious to Wilma. However, since she has taken the magazine quiz herself and scored even lower than he did, she realizes that Fred isn’t so bad after all, and forgives him for his lie and is proud of him for winning the bowling trophy. Barney continues to hammer away at the ball through the night trying to get it off his thumb. Once he succeeds. Wilma has him soak it in ice, and they profess their love for each other. 9/30/22
• 053. This Is Your Lifesaver – 3/9/1962
  • As Fred and Barney are driving home, Fred says that he has advised Wilma how to save money on the grocery bill by staving off the annual visit of Wilma’s mother. As they cross the George Washingstone Bridge, they come across a con artist named J. Montague “Monty” Gypsum (Walker Edmiston). He stops them and asks for a light for his ‘last’ cigarette before he commits suicide by diving into the river. Fred thinks he might be on a hidden-camera show, but then Monty shows them his last will and testament. Fred and Barney how beautiful his writing is, and Monty puts it into Fred’s head to invite him home to show Wilma how to cook. Before they leave for home, Fred accidentally knocks Monty and Barney into the river before saving them. When they all get home, Fred tries to warm up with his feet in the warm water while Monty monopolizes the bathtub. For the next several, Monty parks himself at the Flintstone house until Fred gets tired of Monty using all of his things. Because he claims he has a back injury, Monty has to use both Fred and Wilma’s beds pushed together, so Wilma sleeps on the couch, and Fred tries to sleep in a rocking chair. Furthermore, Monty puts into into Wilma and Betty’s head that their husbands should be taking them out more often. The girls get angrier and angrier at them, so they decide to go out on their own. Fred finally lets Monty have it for all of the inconveniences he’s caused. Monty tells Fred that he owes him since he saved his life and now has to take care of him. Fred and Barney go out that night as well, and briefly considers getting a man-eating fish to take care of Monty. When he gets home, Wilma has cooled off, and now thinks that Monty is a con man. Wilma suggests that Fred has Monty save his life so that they are even, so Fred sets up a wheel-shaped boulder that Barney will push down a hill toward Fred and believes that Monty will see his meal ticket in danger and will yell out and ‘save’ Fred. When the time comes, Barney had trouble pushing the giant wheel at first, and he winds up sneezing to send it down the hill, but by this time, Monty is walking down the hill himself and winds up atop the boulder. Since this all takes place at their workplace, Mr. Slate offers to ensure that Gypsum has a place to live… which turns out to be at the Flintstone house. Wilma tells Slate that they can’t keep there because they are expecting an addition to the house, and they will be another mouth to feed. After Slate takes Gypsum to stay with him, Wilma tells Fred that she was referring to her mother. Fred says he’s rather have her there than Gypsum anyway. 1/26/23
• 054. Trouble-in-Law – 3/16/1962
  • Wilma has a sprained ankle so Fred is left doing the chores around the house until her mother Pearl Slaghoople (Verna Felton) can come and help out. Fred makes an honest effort to get along with her, but after five minutes she gets on his nerves so badly that he yells for her to sit down and shut up. Things go from bad to worse as she starts serving him health food, and then has him fix up the garages as a spare room… and sends him out to live in it. Fred takes a respite to go golfing with Barney, and they run into their friend Joe, who has another friend with him named Melville J. Muchrock (Hal Smith), a wealthy visitor from Gold Nugget, Texas, who claims to have both gold and oil on his property. He tells the guys that he’s traveling to look for a wife to help manage things back at his ranch. Fred invites him over for dinner so that he can meet his mother-in-law. The plan works like a charm and soon Muchrock and Pearl have been dating for two weeks. Fred is ecstatic that she has let him move back in the house and is no longer barking orders at him. Wilma thinks that it is too soon for them to get married, as she doesn’t know enough about Muchrock. Then while she and Betty in the beauty parlor, they hear two women talking about a swindler from Texas who is in town swindling women out of their money. The ladies come home crying to Fred and Barney about the situation, so they disguise themselves as mother and son and follow Muchrock and Pearl to the Rocky Island Amusement Park. They track them all over the park and interrupt every one of Muchrock’s marriage proposals. They then disguise themselves as waiter and chef at the restaurant they go to after the park. Again, Barney spills soup on Muchrook when he is about to propose again. Fred, dressed as the chef, challenges Muchrock to a fight outside, then Fred and Barney tie him up and toss him onto the next train out of town. That night, Pearl bawls at the fact that Muchrock walked out on her, and also starts barking more orders at Fred. Wilma then brings home the newspaper that had a front-page article about the real con artist from Texas who was caught. Fred and Wilma acknowledge that they will now owe her for the rest of their lives. Fred’s endless work finally comes to an end when Pearl gets a dividend check from the stock that she invested in with Muchrock making her a rich woman. She decides to travel the work to look for Muchrock. As Fred scrambles to get her luggage ready, he trips and sprain a ligament. Pearl decides to stay and help nurse Fred back to health since she doesn’t want to leave her daughter with a helpless invalid. 1/28/23
• 055. The Mailman Cometh – 3/23/1962
  • Fred is up in arms because all of his fellow workers have gotten notes from Mr. Slate notifying them of their wage increases, but Fred’s has yet to come. He keeps checking with the mailman (John Stephenson) every day, and he finally gives up and accepts the fact that he’s not getting one. Wilma accuses him of possibly losing his temper with Mr. Slate at some point during the year, but Fred forcefully argues that he never loses his temper. He runs by Barney his idea of quitting and sending a nasty note to Slate to boot. He writes the note and calls Slate every name in the book before dropping it in the mailbox. While he is out doing that, Mr. Slate is visiting with Wilma in hopes of telling Fred that there was a clerical error, and he will in fact be getting the raise he was expecting. Once Fred gets home and finds this out, he is initially happy, but then remembers the note he wrote. Fred tries to retrieve the note from the mailbox, but a cop (Herb Vigran) catches him and tells him to scram. When the cop leaves, they return, and this time Fred drops Barney inside the mailbox. When he also drops in a burning stick so that Barney can see, the cop spies the mailbox billowing out smoke. Fred never does find the letter, so he returns home, too scared to tell Wilma what he did. The next morning, he decides to play sick since he thinks he doesn’t have his job anymore anyway. While he is in bed, the mailman comes to the house and says that Fred sent the letter without enough postage. Barney gives Wilma the pennies that she needs to send the letter back on its way. Fred initially thinks he is in the clear until he realizes that Barney paid the postage after all. At this point, he admits what he did to Wilma. She decides to go see Mr. Slate and try to explain Fred’s action. When she gets there, he hasn’t yet read the letter but pulls it out, thinking that it is likely a thank you note for the raise. Wilma offers to clean off his glasses, and then drops them and shatters them. She then offers to read the letter, but ‘reads’ a glowing review of Mr. Slate, which impresses him greatly. Fred shows up at the office and is clued in by Wilma what had just happened. When Mr. Slate asks to keep the letter so that he can frame it, Wilma then ‘accidentally’ drops and shatters it as well. 7/8/23
• 056. The Rock Vegas Story – 3/30/1962
  • Fred anxiously gets off of work one day and rushes home, hoping to save precious minutes by taking the freeway, only to get into a pile-up just as he enters it. When he gets home, ready for a home-cooked meal, he finds that Wilma and Betty have gone off to a women’s club meeting, so he and Barney go to the new Bedrock Rock-o-Mat Restaurant, an automat style dining experience. There he runs into an old friend named Sherman Cobblehead (Don Messick), who works in Rock Vegas where he runs the Golden Cactus casino. Sherman tells him that if he’s ever in Rock Vegas, he’ll take care of Fred right. Fred decides he would like to vacation there, but Barney reminds him that the girls are going to want to go to Pebble Beach. Fred is ready to put up a fight when they discuss vacations, but much to his surprise, Wilma says that she and Betty have now decided on Rock Vegas rather than Pebble Beach. As they head out on vacation, they run into a lot of trouble on the way: they drive into a moving truck, get into a huge traffic jam on the freeway, and find a shortcut that requires them to push their car up a giant hill and then over a cliff. After they repair the car, get into a fight and hammer each other on the head, they try to stop at a motel for the night, but when they arrive, they find that there are no vacancies. They end up camping outdoors, but realize they are sleeping on top of a huge dinosaur. Eventually they make it to the Golden Cactus in Rock Vegas. Sherman gets them a great suite, but Fred spends all of their money in the first few minutes there thanks to a slot machine that doesn’t hit until Fred has walked away and an old woman takes over. Sherman offers to allow them all to stay on as guests of the house, but when Fred suggests they couldn’t do that, Sherman allows them to stay and work for their residence. Fred and Barney become waiters in the Cactus Room, while Wilma becomes a cigarette girl and Wilma takes pictures of guests at the restaurant. Barney and Betty even perform on stage in the Rock Vegas Revue singing and dancing to When You’re Smiling (The Whole World Smiles with You). After two weeks, the Flintstones and the Rubbles start to head home and say their goodbyes to Sherman and three of the showgirls. The boys tell Sherman how lucky he is, but Sherman tells the boys that he’s always wanted the stability of their married lives. Fred admits he wouldn’t trade lives with Sherman, but Barney admits that it’s nice to think about. 7/8/23
• 057. Divided We Sail – 4/6/1962
  • While going through the mail, Wilma finds that Fred has received a ticket to go on the TV game show The Prize Is Priced hosted by Smiling Will Carson (Hal Smith), where he can guess the price of items to win prizes. Wilma tells Betty that she would do better to go on the show and could win more prizes. Fred won’t have it and insists on going himself. Barney goes along with him, but he winds up making Fred experience stage fright when he mentions how many people will be watching on TV and how many will be live in the studio. By the time they arrive, Fred has insisted that Barney go on the show in his place on the chance that he could get called to be a contestant. Sure enough, Fred is indeed picked to be a contestant, but it is Barney who goes up to take on contestants Agatha Agate (Bea Benederet) and John Sludge (John Stephenson) since Fred is so nervous. He gets the chance to win a stole, causing Wilma and Betty, who are watching live on TV, to argue about who the stole would belong to. They eventually agree to share any winnings that Barney might receive. Barney loses the stole by bidding over by one cent. The next prize is a fishing outfit, but they give no further details what it contains. Barney says he will put in his two cents for the guess, and that’s what the judges give him as his guess… two cents. The prize ends up being a cheap bamboo pole, and Barney wins. They then inform him that the prize also comes with a houseboat. Although Wilma and Betty have decided it belongs to everyone equally, so they plan a trip together. Fred and Barney argue over who is the actual owner, and thus the captain of the ship. They compromise on the name of the boat, which is christened as The Nau-Sea. On the way there, they rear-end another houseboat heading toward the ocean. Even though they can never declare which one of them is the actual captain of the ship, they both argue about which direction they should head. However, by the time they start to compromise, it is too late since the girls have thrown in the anchor, which accidentally latches onto their lunch basket and takes it to the bottom of the sea. A sea monster goes after the basket and winds up dragging the ship toward a big rock. The boat starts to sink so they blow up a life raft, which will only hold three. They agree that the women will go into the raft, but since the captain is supposed to go down with the ship, they both start handing the title off to each other. Before they can decide, the ship sinks, and they continue their argument under water. 11/4/23
• 058. Kleptomaniac Caper – 4/13/1962
  • Wilma has been cleaning out their closet and taking items from Fred’s stock of old souvenirs for weeks and donating them to the Ladies Auxiliary rummage sale, and so far, he hasn’t missed a thing. However, when he starts watching a football game on TV and ‘playing’ along with the game in the house, he tries to find his old high school football jersey to put on and panics when it is gone. Wilma plays dumb when he asks her about it, and then he calls police detective O’Rockery (Herschel Bernardi) to come and investigate. The detective suspects that the theft was an inside job executed by a kleptomaniac. Unbeknownst to Barney, he has all of Fred’s stuff in the back of his car ready to take to the rummage sales, so when he pulls up to visit Fred, the officer finds the items in his car. Fred realizes that kleptomania is a sickness and doesn’t want Barney to get in trouble, so he denies that the items are the things that he lost. He then takes Barney with to see Dr. Stonewall, pretending that he is there for his own headaches. When Barney tells the doctor how much he admires his cigarette lighter and then accidentally walks off with it, the doctor agrees that Barney must have kleptomania and instructs Fred to keep watch over Barney. When Barney heads to the Bedrock Department Store, Fred insists on going with him. Betty has purchased several items for Barney to pick up at Will Call and Barney goes to pick it up, while Fred has mistakenly grabbed a woman instead of Barney and is in the process of dragging her out of the store. When Fred returns and sees Barney with a bag full of items, he thinks Barney has stolen them. He tries to get Barney to hide from the store detective, even putting masks of a tiger and an elephant over their faces. The detective has now become suspicious and does indeed accuse them of shoplifting and puts them in jail. Wilma and Betty bail them out of jail, and Betty is able to produce the receipt for the ‘stolen’ items. After the wives sufficiently make fun of the situation, Wilma does in fact apologizes for taking Fred’s items for the rummage sale. They also tell Fred that they never gave the stuff to the rummage sale, but it turns out that they accidentally took the stuff belonging to one of the other husbands, Joe Rockhead. Detective O’Rockery shows up looking for the loot, so the women start with their long, convoluted story. 11/4/23
• 059. Latin Lover – 4/20/1962
  • Fred comes home from work one day, thinking that Wilma is dressing up for him and making him a nice dinner, but she and Betty are only getting dolled up in order to watch their favorite actor Roberto Rockolini (Jerry Mann) on television. She tries to fit in grabbing him a melon for dinner during the commercial, and then is back to swooning at the TV. Wilma later tells Fred that he was also very handsome in his day and that he can return to the same form if he loses a little weight, get some nice clothes, and grow a mustache. A week later, Fred has fully transformed his appearance, and additionally is now speaking in a variety of accents including Italian and French, exuding charisma toward everyone he meets. Betty asks Wilma if she is worried that Fred might suddenly have other women pursuing him. She isn’t worried, until she sees a cosmetics women pass out at the door when she sees Fred, not knowing it was actually Dino running into her that knocked her out. She also sees women chasing Fred, not knowing they are all just running to catch a bus at a different bus stop. Wilma starts to have dreams of women pursuing Frederico throughout Venice, and then sees a newspaper article about a man leaving his wife for a young cutie. Meanwhile, Mr. Slate calls Fred and asks him to pick up his wife (Paula Winslowe) and drive her to the airport where he will meet her and take her on a trip to Rockapulco. Wilma hears Fred talking to a woman about the trip and assumes the worst. She jumps on top of Fred’s car and follows him to pick her up and to the airport. She tries to get Mrs. Slate alone and tell her that Fred beats her in order to discourage their ‘affair’. However, when Mr. Slate shows up and says he’s taking his wife – and only his wife – to Rockapulco, Wilma feels foolish and apologetic. Fred decides that he’s not the Latin lover type and decides to abandon the persona. They go over to Barney’s so Fred can thank him for being so patient with him, only to find that Barney is now wearing a fake mustache. However, when he hears that Fred is shaving his off, he has no problem doing the same. 3/13/24
• 060. Take Me Out to the Ballgame – 4/27/1962
  • Fred finds out that Barney is coaching the local Bedrock Giants pee-wee baseball team when they start hitting balls against his house. Barney invites him to play along with them in practice, but when he is the last one picked for one of the teams, Arnold (Don Messick), their paperboy, suggests that he act as umpire. One of the kids on the team is Eugene “Slugger” Slate, the son of Fred’s boss. Fred does his best to make the calls as he sees them, but he does give a little advantage to Slugger. Before they are done playing, Wilma ‘calls’ Fred home for dinner by letting the smell of her Yabba Dabba Doo Berry Pie waft out the window. Later, Barney brings over one of the world’s foremost baseball scouts, J. Walter Amalgam (Hal Smith), who thinks Fred would make a great professional umpire. However, he wants him to umpire the upcoming Pee Wee game of the Giants vs. the Grittsburgh Pyrites. When Mr. Slate finds out that Fred will be umpiring, he gives him the day off and lavishes him with gifts, with the intention of bribing him to call the game for the Giants. As Fred prepares for his first game, the fathers around town all place the utmost emphasis on the game to their sons. Mr. Amalgam suggests that Fred throw Barney out of the game early to show everyone that he has no favorites. Mr. Slate agrees with every call that is in favor of the Giants, but gets angry at Fred whenever he calls one in favor of the Pyrites. Fred begins having trouble making the calls, arousing the anger of both teams. During one sprint from third to home, the player knocks Fred out, so Fred doesn’t see the play, but he calls it as being Safe for the Pyrites before he passes out and is put in the hospital. The guys around town all want Fred’s head and begin making threats toward him, demanding that he reverse the call. One mob that comes to his house are the Giants themselves, who aren’t angry at all, but want to tell Fred that he made the calls correctly and that they lost fair and square. They apologize for the conduct of their fathers. Fred makes a suggestion that they simply play for fun, so they donate all of their equipment to their fathers, and under Fred’s guidance, set up their own baseball games on a sandlot at an undisclosed location. 3/16/24

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