Dino Goes Hollyrock

For the title of this episode from The Flintstone Kids, see Dino Goes Hollyrock.

Dino Goes Hollyrock
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	3
Episode number	61
Production number	P-62
Original airdate	September 14, 1962 (ABC)
Recording Date	January 30, 1962
Crew
Animated by	George Nicholas George Goepper William Keil Harry Holt Ed Parks
Layout	Ed Benedict Dick Bickenbach Walt Clinton
Background	Robert Gentle Art Lozzi Fernando Montealegre (known as Montealegre) Richard H. Thomas
Written by	Harvey Bullock
Chronology
Previous	"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
Next	"Fred's New Boss"

"Dino Goes Hollyrock" is the first episode of the third season and the sixty-first overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on September 14, 1962.

Synopsis

A crush on a lady snorkasaurus, Sassie who's the star of her own television show may lead to TV stardom for Dino, and to the loss of their pet for the Flintstones.

Plot

Fred's patience with his pet is strained when Dino complicates Fred's plan to watch a televised fight so that Dino can enjoy his favorite television program, The Adventures of Sassie, on a different channel. Dino is infatuated with the title character, a female dinosaur, of the televised melodrama and when the television show's sponsor promises an autographed picture of Sassie in exchange for six proofs of purchase of Dino Gro Pet Food, Dino grabs his leash, seizes hold of Fred and relentlessly drags his confounded master all of the way to a supermarket, where he loads a shopping cart with six cans of Dino Gro, obliging Fred to buy them to appease the supermarket cashier. Fred is furious with Dino and is about to disown his dinosaur best friend when he reads on one of the Dino Gro cans a request for a talented animal to audition for a lucrative part on the Sassie television series. Of course, Fred, anticipating a fortune in entertainment royalties, brings Dino to Screen Rocks Television Productions to perform in competition for the role, which is revealed to be that of Sassie's lover on The Adventures of Sassie. Dino dances vaudevillian-style and enacts a prolonged and appropriately overwrought death in his zealous and successful determination to be Sassie's consort. For Dino's "screen test", Fred and Dino meet the stars of The Adventures of Sassie, snobs all but utterly professional thespians and with Sassie encumbered by three broken legs and his young master and master's mother's legs in bear traps, Dino is entrusted to transport a sack of money to a bank in sufficient time for Sassie's beleaguered family to retain their happy home and defeats a stereotypical villain intent upon stopping him from completing the mission. Dino's brilliant portrayal of scripted heroism so impresses the television show's director that he is hired for regular appearances on The Adventures of Sassie. A pushy agent contracts with Fred to act as Dino's guardian during the dinosaur's stardom and promises weekly $30 payments if Fred renounces responsibility for Dino and goes home. Within minutes of returning to his house, Fred's eyes fill with tears (in perhaps the most emotional moment on The Flintstones) as he realizes that Dino may be lost to him forever. He puts his first payment from the agent into the flames in his fireplace and one of his tears extinguishes a candle that he places on a window sill in lonely vigil for Dino's unlikely return. At the television studio, Dino hears the agent and director discussing changes to his appearance, including a cutting of his overlong tail and glimpses Sassie in her dressing room sans wig and false eyelashes. Sassie is repulsive and Dino sneaks out of Screen Rocks Television Productions to reunite with Fred in a scene that must bring a lump to any viewer's throat.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Dino
• Mr. Slate (mentioned)
• Sassie (only appearance)
• Kid Rocko (only appearance)
• The Champ (only appearance)
• Junior (only appearance)
• Belle (only appearance)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Rubble home
• Supermarket

Hollyrock

• Screen Rocks Productions (only appearance)
• Coco-Rock Grove (only mentioned)

Objects

• TV
• Dino Gro Pet Food (only appearance)
• Movie script (only appearance)
• Contract (only appearance)
• Movie roll camera

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Sheepasaurus
• Monkeysaurus
• Brontosaurus (as Brontosaurus soup)
• Saber-Toothed Lionsaurus
• Pterodactyl (as part of a movie roll camera)
• Stegosaurus (as part of a movie roll camera)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile

Media

• The Adventures of Sassie (television show, only appearance)
• The Fights (club fight broadcast)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Belle Sassie
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Checker Monkey Sheepasaurus
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble Switchboard Operator
John Stephenson	Director Announcer
Hal Smith	Sportscaster Champ
Don Messick	Junior
Herschel Bernardi	Villain Agent

Notes/Trivia

• The studio, Screen Rocks Productions, is a parody of Screen Gems, which was responsible for The Flintstones originally.

Allusions

• The characters of super intelligent and lovable dinosaur Sassie and her impoverished mother and son owners are a spoof on the 1954 TV series, Lassie, more specifically the period featuring Jon Provost and June Lockhart in the early '60's.

Errors

• As Barney is wearing a watch, but when the camera pans back to him, the watch is gone.