Bachelor Daze

Bachelor Daze
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	4
Episode number	113
Production number	P-112
Original airdate	March 5, 1964 (ABC)
Recording Date	September 26, 1963
Crew
Animated by	William Keil Dick Lundy Virgil Ross Bob Carr
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Willie Ito Jack Huber
Background	Richard H. Thomas
Written by	Ralph Goodman Herbet Finn (teleplay)
Chronology
Previous	"Son of Rockzilla"
Next	"Operation Switchover"

"Bachelor Daze" is the twenty-fifth episode of the fourth season and the one hundred and thirteenth overall episode of The Flintstones. It aired on March 5, 1964.

Synopsis

The razing of the Honeyrock Hotel reminds Wilma and Betty of their courtships while working as hotel waitresses, at which the time they mistook bellhops Fred and Barney for young millionaires.

Plot

Flintstone and Rubble husbands and wives recount their first meeting as courting couples at the soon-to-be-demolished Honeyrock Hotel. In the recollected scenario, as seen in flashback, of course, Fred and Barney are low-paid summer bellhops, Wilma and Betty equally minimum-wage waitresses and cigarette providers, all in the employ of snobby fussbudget hotel manager Mr. Stoneyface.

While Fred and Barney are on duty, parking the fancy car of hotel guest, millionaire Reggie Rocks-on-Rocks, for a fifty-dollar payment by said millionaire, they see Wilma and Betty reclining as a lark in another wealthy man's automobile. Fred and Barney believe Wilma and Betty to be affluent cave-girls, and vice versa when the "guys and gals" meet, none of them wanting to "own up" to being paupers for fear that they will be dismissed as unsuitable martial partners.

So, the mutual Fred/Barney, Wilma/Betty façade as lavishly propertied bachelors and maidens continues while they ride a bus (with Fred using the $50 remuneration from Rocks-on-Rocks for bus fare payment), as they partake in viewing a movie at the Cinderama, while Wilma's mother examines her prospective son-in-law, and during a masquerade party at Hotel Honeyrock, at which Wilma and Betty presume Fred and Barney's bellhop uniforms to be costumes for the occasion, and so do Fred and Barney think thus of Wilma and Betty's cigarette-girl "trappings".

Fred and Wilma are smitten with each other, and likewise is the case for Barney and Betty, such that when they are discovered by Stoneyface to be dancing when they are supposed to be working and are all together terminated from employment at the Honeyrock and exposed to be counterfeit millionaires, the two couples declare poverty to be inconsequential in bona fide mutual romantic feeling. Weddings soon follow- although Wilma's mother is displeased with Wilma's non-monied fiancé!

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Dino
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Pearl Slaghoople
• Arnold (last appearance)
• Ed Flintstone (mentioned)
• Mr. Stonyface (only appearance)
• Reggie Rocks-on-Rocks (only appearance)
• Doris (only appearance)
• Gloria (only appearance)
• Conrad Hilstone (only mentioned)
• Pamela (only heard and unseen)
• Bus driver

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Honeyrock Hotel (only appearance)
• Cinderama (only appearance)

Objects

• Pepstone Toothpaste (only appearance in a billboard)
• Cactus Cola (in a billboard)
• El Rocko cigar (only appearance, in a billboard)

Food

• Cactus Sherbet (only appearance)
• Stegosaurus rib

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Stegosaurus (as a Stego-Rib)
• Monkeysaurus (as a baggage holder)
• Pterodactyl (as car horns)
• Dragonsaurus (as an iron steamer)
• Gatorsaurus (as Pearl's bag)

Vehicles

• Reggie's car (only appearance)
• Rockway Bus (only appearance)

Media

• One Million B.C. (movie)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Mr. Stonyface
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Arnold Clock Bird 2nd Horn Bird Bus Driver
Howard Morris	Baggage Monkey Reggie Rocks-on-Rocks Horn Bird Actor Dragon Alligator
Janet Waldo	Pearl Slaghoople Doris Pamela

Notes/Trivia

• Any continuity suggested by this episode was completely destroyed twenty-two years later in the Saturday morning series, The Flintstone Kids, in which all four main characters were depicted as childhood friends.
  • Additionally, Betty's given name was Betty Jean McBricker.
• The couples met sixteen years ago. In the episode "The Birthday Party", from the third season, Fred was thirty-five years old. That meant that the couples were working at the Honeyrock Hotel when they were nineteen years old.
• Conrad Hilstone is a spoof of the Hilton Hotels founder, Conrad Hilton.
• Pepstone is a spoof of the toothpaste brand, Pepsodent.
• The Buzz Book "Mistaken Identities" is an adapted version of this episode.
• The first notes from the background music used during the scene in where Fred carries his mother-in-law's car, after one of the back wheels broke, are eerily similar to the ones presented in The Jetsons theme song.

Errors

• When Mr. Stoneyface fires Fred, Barney, Wilma, and Betty at the costume party, both the party guests and decorations suddenly disappear.
• In the three scenes featuring Bamm-Bamm (including, when he and Pebbles are eating peanut butter sandwiches together, when he lifts the kitchen's door for Betty and when Pebbles kisses him on the cheek at the end of the episode), his back hairs seemed to be missing.