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* In "Droop Along Flintstone", Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty are all traveling out to a dude ranch, but on the way, the see that they're near the Grand Canyon, and decide to go and check it out. Cut to them staring at the Grand Canyon, which is only a tiny stream of water.
-->'''Wilma:''' So that's the Grand Canyon, huh?
-->'''Fred:''' That's it.
-->'''Wilma:''' Huh... well, doesn't look like much to me.
-->'''Fred:''' Not now, but they expect it to be a big thing someday.
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* There's a small running gag with chimpanzees appearing at points. Including at the adoption agency, where Barney and Betty mistake a baby chimp for their baby, and another at the quarry that apparently scored 65 on the executive aptitude test.

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* There's a small running gag with chimpanzees appearing at points. Including at the adoption agency, where Barney and Betty mistake a baby chimp for their baby, and another at the quarry that apparently scored 65 on the executive aptitude test. And in the sequel, one plays the piano at the Colonel's birthday.

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* Barney says eating too much red meat is bad for you. Fred calls that statement bunk, insisting that his dad ate red meat every day of his life and lived to the ripe old age of 48. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course they are cavemen...]]

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* Barney says eating too much red meat is bad for you. Fred calls that statement bunk, insisting that his dad ate red meat every day of his life and lived to the ripe old age of 48.38. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course they are cavemen...]]]]
* There's a small running gag with chimpanzees appearing at points. Including at the adoption agency, where Barney and Betty mistake a baby chimp for their baby, and another at the quarry that apparently scored 65 on the executive aptitude test.

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** The ending as Fred and Barney find Madam Yes showing up at the door and immediately slam it and start nailing boards over it.

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** The ending as Fred and Barney find Madam Yes showing up at the door and immediately slam it and [[BerserkBoardBarricade start nailing boards over it]].
-->'''Wilma:''' Fred, where are your manners? That poor woman is in trouble.
-->'''Barney:''' (''helps Fred barricade'') Leave him alone, Wilma! He knows what he's doing!
* The episode "Reel Trouble" starts off with Fred boring Barney with photographs of Pebbles. When suggested that he should give up the camera, he moves from taking pictures of Pebbles to making home movies of Pebbles.
-->'''Barney''': (''while watching Fred's home movies'') You got a real clever kid there, Fred (''whispers to Betty'') Now I know what they mean by a captive audience.
** Later in the episode, two thieves are stealing paintings from a museum. When they see a Mona Lisa painting:
-->'''Fingers:''' Duh, hey, Boss, how about this one? Uh, Da Vinci.
-->'''Boss:''' Leave
it. It'll never be worth anything.
** Fred later captures the thieves. When the police arrive, they find the crooks tied up, being forced to watch Fred's home movies.
-->'''Fred:''' And this is Pebbles when she was only two months old. Cootchie, cootchie, coo! Isn't she something, fellas?\\
'''Boss:''' (''distressed'') Yeah, I've never seen anything like it.\\
'''Fingers:''' Duh, yeah, you can say that again.\\
'''Fred:''' Look, look, look, there she is crawling up some...\\
'''Policeman:''' Say, what is this? A midnight matinee?\\
'''Boss:''' The cops! Thank goodness!\\
'''Policeman:''' What did he say?\\
'''Fingers:''' Oh, please take us away! Duh, no more home movies!\\
'''Boss:''' We'll confess! We'll return the painting!\\
'''Fingers:''' Yeah, put us in solitary! Give us bread and water! Anything!\\
'''Boss:''' Just get us ''out'' of here! ''We're cracking up''!\\
'''Fred:''' (''still playing his home movies'') Just look at that, Pebbles is counting her fingers. One, two, three little fingers. Four, five.\\
(''the police start taking the thieves away'')\\
'''Boss:''' (''sobs'') Oh, thank goodness! Thank goodness you came for us!\\
'''Policeman:''' Take'em away, boys. And be gentle. They've suffered enough already.\\
'''Fred:''' (''still playing his home movies'') Nine, ten. Oh, the little darling!\\
'''Policeman:''' Oh, no.\\
'''Fred:''' Now she's counting her chubby little toes! One, two, three...
** The episode ends with Fred giving up making home movies. He trades his movie camera for... a tape recorder! And he immediately starts recording everything Pebbles says, much to everyone's dismay.
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-->'''Fred''': Oh, Barney, you lunkhead!

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-->'''Fred''': --->'''Fred''': Oh, Barney, you lunkhead!



* Barney says eating too much red meat is bad for you. Fred calls that statement bunk, insisting that his dad ate red meat every day of his life and lived to the rip old age of 48. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course they are cavemen...]]

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* Barney says eating too much red meat is bad for you. Fred calls that statement bunk, insisting that his dad ate red meat every day of his life and lived to the rip ripe old age of 48. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course they are cavemen...]]
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* In "A Haunted House is Not a Home", Fred's not-all-there uncle, Giggles, has passed away and he leaves his inheritance to his nephew. [[OnOneCondition However, there is a catch:]] Fred has to spend the night in his uncle's haunted estate. On top of that, if anything were to happen to Fred, the inheritance will be divided up between the uncle's staff, including his butler, his cook and his gardener. As you would expect, in this haunted house, the staff all try to get Fred (and Barney, who is spending the night with him) killed so they can claim the inheritance. But the real kicker is that Uncle Giggles never died at all; he had faked his own death as a prank. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUCDtcOj1o Fred's reaction has to be seen to be believed.]] It doubles as a MomentOfAwesome for Fred, with ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''-sounding music to boot (that incidentally had just recently debuted at the time of this episode).

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* In "A Haunted House is Not a Home", Fred's not-all-there uncle, Giggles, has passed away and he leaves his inheritance to his nephew. [[OnOneCondition However, there is a catch:]] Fred has to spend the night in his uncle's haunted estate. On top of that, if anything were to happen to Fred, the inheritance will be divided up between the uncle's staff, including his butler, his cook and his gardener. As you would expect, in this haunted house, the staff all try to get Fred (and Barney, who is spending the night with him) killed so they can claim the inheritance. But the real kicker is that Uncle Giggles never died at all; he had faked his own death as a prank. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUCDtcOj1o Fred's reaction has to be seen to be believed.]] It doubles as a MomentOfAwesome SugarWiki/AwesomeMoment for Fred, with ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''-sounding music to boot (that incidentally had just recently debuted at the time of this episode).
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* Barney says eating too much red meat is bad for you. Fred replies his dad lived to the rip old age of 48. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course they are cavemen...]]

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* Barney says eating too much red meat is bad for you. Fred replies calls that statement bunk, insisting that his dad ate red meat every day of his life and lived to the rip old age of 48. [[FridgeBrilliance Of course they are cavemen...]]

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* In "The Beauty Contest", Fred and Barney are selected to be the judges for the The Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes' beauty competition. Both are reluctant as they (accurately) expect Wilma and Betty to be jealous. That moment comes when a girl calls and gives a message to Wilma to pass along to Fred listing her measurements.
-->'''Fred:''' Oh, Wilma! I'm home! Sweetheart, was there any mail for me today?
-->'''Wilma:''' (audibly seething) No, just a phone call.
-->'''Fred:''' Oh, who from?
-->'''Wilma:''' Some girl.
-->'''Fred:''' [[OhCrap Some girl?]]
-->'''Wilma:''' Her measurements are [[ImpossibleHourglassFigure 45-23-34.]]
-->'''Fred:''' That's some girl, all right!
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* Fred is presented with his godchildren, who he says are all named "Fred." Wilma asks if that would get confusing. Fred says, "Not really, seeing as they're all girls."

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* Fred is presented with his godchildren, who he says are all named "Fred." Wilma asks if that would get confusing. Fred says, "Not really, seeing as "Yes, considering that they're all girls."
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** "Wilma Flintstone, a [[spoiler: natural redhead]]?"

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** "Wilma Flintstone, a [[spoiler: natural redhead]]?"redhead?"



* In "A Haunted House is Not a Home", Fred's not-all-there uncle, Giggles, has passed away and he leaves his inheritance to his nephew. [[OnOneCondition However, there is a catch:]] Fred has to spend the night in his uncle's haunted estate. On top of that, if anything were to happen to Fred, the inheritance will be divided up between the uncle's staff, including his butler, his cook and his gardener. As you would expect, in this haunted house, the staff all try to get Fred (and Barney, who is spending the night with him) killed so they can claim the inheritance. [[spoiler:But the real kicker is that Uncle Giggles never died at all; he had faked his own death as a prank. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUCDtcOj1o Fred's reaction has to be seen to be believed.]] It doubles as a MomentOfAwesome for Fred, with ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''-sounding music to boot (that incidentally had just recently debuted at the time of this episode).]]

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* In "A Haunted House is Not a Home", Fred's not-all-there uncle, Giggles, has passed away and he leaves his inheritance to his nephew. [[OnOneCondition However, there is a catch:]] Fred has to spend the night in his uncle's haunted estate. On top of that, if anything were to happen to Fred, the inheritance will be divided up between the uncle's staff, including his butler, his cook and his gardener. As you would expect, in this haunted house, the staff all try to get Fred (and Barney, who is spending the night with him) killed so they can claim the inheritance. [[spoiler:But But the real kicker is that Uncle Giggles never died at all; he had faked his own death as a prank. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcUCDtcOj1o Fred's reaction has to be seen to be believed.]] It doubles as a MomentOfAwesome for Fred, with ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuest''-sounding music to boot (that incidentally had just recently debuted at the time of this episode).]]
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*A scene in "Dino Goes Hollyrock" sees Fred and Barney watching a wrestling match on TV. At one point during the fight:
-->''(several loud blows are heard in rapid succession)''
-->'''Wrestling commentator:''' Wow. I think the Champ is hurt.
-->''(One of the wrestlers starts [[InelegantBlubbering utterly bawling.]] The entire fight stops for about 30 seconds. Fred and Barney watch speechlessly as the man wails, and Barney shoots Fred a confused glance.)''
-->'''Wrestling commentator:''' Yes, he does seem to be hurt. The Kid caught him with a good blow to the nose.
-->''(The Kid hands the Champ a handkerchief, which he promptly blows his nose into.)''
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* "I hate to bust your bubble, but [[OnlyAModel if you build houses this small]], who's gonna live in them?" It's Fred's utter smarminess in thinking he's spotted some kind of critical flaw that really clinches it.
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* After Wilma and Betty steal Fred's Dictabird, which has evidence of Cliff's embezzlement scheme, Cliff goes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and [[WouldHurtAChild kidnaps Pebbles and Bam-Bam]] for a ransom. When the adults arrive home, they find Dino and Pearl, Wilma's mother, tied up and gagged. While the others go off to search the house, Fred immediately begins remarking what a horrible thing has happened, and how it's so cruel to treat someone this way...[[BaitAndSwitch then immediately unties Dino]] while [[ObnoxiousInLaws ignoring Pearl]]. Even better is that Pearl angrily grunts through her gag as Fred soothes Dino.

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* After Wilma and Betty steal Fred's Dictabird, which has evidence of Cliff's embezzlement scheme, Cliff goes JumpingOffTheSlipperySlope and [[WouldHurtAChild kidnaps Pebbles and Bam-Bam]] for a ransom. When the adults arrive home, they find Dino and Pearl, Wilma's mother, tied up and gagged. While the others go off to search the house, Fred immediately begins remarking what a horrible thing has happened, and how it's so cruel to treat someone this way...[[BaitAndSwitch then immediately unties Dino]] while [[ObnoxiousInLaws ignoring Pearl]]. Even better is that Pearl he goes to get a knife and comes back, stepping over her ''twice'' while she angrily grunts through her gag as Fred soothes Dino.gag.

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