Eithne "Edna" Flintstone (née Hardrock) is a fictional character of the franchise of The Flintstones.
Background[]
She first appeared in the January 18, 1985 installment of Gene Hazelton's The Flintstones comic strip, in a flashback of her husband, Pops Flintstone. She was seen with a flowered hat and jet black hair like her son.
A different incarnation of the character later appeared in the The Flintstone Kids, a spin-off of the original series, The Flintstones. Here, she is portrayed as the wife of caveman Ed Flintstone, mother of the protagonist of the show, Freddy Flintstone, the mother-in-law of Wilma, the grandmother of Pebbles, the great-grandmother of Chip and Roxy and her best friends were her next door neighbors are Flo and Bob Rubble.
Physical Appearance[]
Edna appeared was heavy, similar in build to the men of Bedrock rather than the shapelier Flo (Barney's mother) and Jean (Betty's mother). Edna wore a red loincloth dress to the knee, a necklace with three rocks in the middle and a turquoise strap around her neck and a bone on her hair (just like Pebbles), created a ball on the edge.
Biography[]
While the mid-1980s spin-off series The Flintstone Kids depicts Edna as a forty-year-old mother of a ten-year-old son, Freddy. Edna is a dynamic, caring, loving and devoted wife, although she can be tough with both her husband and son. One time when Fred's baseball coach abandoned the team, the kids looked to different fathers to take the job, all of whom declined due to different duties. Ed Flintstone was then approached, who also declined and got an earful from Edna about how parents need to be involved as possible, to which Ed agreed. Trapped by her own tirade, Edna then agreed to become the kids' new baseball coach and worked to turnaround their losing streak.
Relationships[]
Edna's family was the Hardrocks from Arkanstone, she had a little sister named Jemina and a big brother named Tex who had two children, Tumbleweed and Mary Lou Jim. Edna's mother was Lucile Fangstone-Hardrock, and her father was James Hardrock.
Appearances[]
- The Flintstones (comic strips) (January 18, 1985, only comic strip appearance)
- The Flintstone Kids
- 101. "The Great Freddini" (first animated appearance)
- 103. "Heroes for Hire"
- 104(c). "Invasion of the Mommy Snatchers"
- 105. "The Bad News Brontos"
- 109. "Poor Little Rich Girl"
- 110(b). "Freddy in the Big House"
- 110(c). "Grime and Punishment"
- 111. "The Rock Concert That Rocked Freddy"
- 112(a). "Bedrock P.I.s"
- 114(a). "Princess Wilma" (fantasy)
- 118(a). "The Twilight Stone"
- 118(b). "The Terror Within"
- 117. "The Fugitives"
- 119. "Freddy's Rocky Road to Karate"
- 120(a). "Betty's Big Break" (no lines)
- 121. "Barney's Moving Experience"
- 122(b). "The Chocolate Chip Catastrophe"
- 123(a). "The Little Visitor"
- 123(b). "Grandpa for Loan" (flashback, no lines)
- 124(b). "Watchdog Blues"
- 124(c). "Leave It to Mother"
- 125. "Freddy's First Crush"
- 126(a). "Bedrock'n Roll"
- 126(c). "Greed It and Weep"
- 201(a). "The Flintstone Fake Ache"
- 201(b). "Killer Kitty" (no lines)
- 205(a). "Camper Scamper"
- 205(b). "Bone Voyage"
- 207(b). "A Midnight Pet Peeve"
- 208(b). "The Birthday Shuffle"
- The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special (last animated appearance)
Notes/Trivia[]
- Although she never appeared in the original series or any media outside of The Flintstone Kids, she was occasionally alluded to, such as in "Dial 'S' for Suspicion" where Wilma reveals that she still keeps in contact with her and that she even taught Wilma how to make Fred's favorite dish from when he was younger, seaweed fricassee.