Deep in the Heart of Texarock

Deep in the Heart of Texarock
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	5
Episode number	136
Production number	P-136
Original airdate	February 12, 1965 (ABC)
Recording Date	August 4, 1964
Crew
Animated by	Ed Love Larry Silverman Hicks Lokey John Gentilella
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Willie Ito Nick Panesis Lin Larsen
Background	Phil Lewis Rene Garcia John Park Augusto Salazar
Written by	Barry E. Blitzer
Chronology
Previous	"Sheriff for a Day"
Next	"The Rolls Rock Caper"

"Deep in the Heart of Texarock" is the twenty-second episode of the fifth season and the one hundred and thirty-sixth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on February 12, 1965.

Synopsis

Fred visits his Uncle Tex's ranch in Texarock and has to stop a bunch of cowasaurus thieves.

Plot

The Flintstones and the Rubbles with Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, Dino and Hoppy, arrive in a cramped taxi car at the Bedrock airport for flight to Texarock to visit with Fred's Uncle Tex. Fred and Barney ride economy class on the TransWorld TransPterodactyl airliner, that is outside of the passenger carriage, and they shiver with cold before being invited by stewardess Ms. Brickhouse to enter the carriage to watch a Bridget Bardoozie movie.

As the feathered "aeroplane" commences descent to Texarock, Fred fastens his crab seat belt too tightly and faints, later awakened by Barney and by Wilma once the Flintstones and Rubbles have disembarked the landed "jet". Tex uses his elongated car to collect his visitors and transport them to his impressive ranch homestead, the Rockadollar, on the shore to the Gulf of Mexirock.

While the wives, children, and pets luxuriate in Tex's lavish house, Tex, in the process of showing to Fred and Barney his "spread", is informed by his hired help, a cowboy named Blister (so-called because he has a splinter in his foot and is afraid to remove it), that Billy the Kidder, notorious cattle rustler, has swiped some of Tex's cowasauruses. Tex obliges his Bedrock guests (i.e. Fred and Barney) to assist in protecting the remainder of the Rockadollar cattle herd from Billy by disguising themselves as a bull cowasaurus and signalling Tex and Blister with a particular "mooing" sound when Billy acts on another raid of Tex's livestock.

Fred occupies the front of the bull cowasaurus costume, and Barney is the rear. Billy ambushes Tex's beefy herd while Fred and Barney are preoccupied with avoiding the attentions of an amorous cowasaurus named Carmen, who falls in love with Fred in costume. Carmen takes pleasure in kissing Fred's masked face repeatedly. Before Fred and Barney are able to summon Tex, one of Billy's men brands the Fred-and-Barney bull cowasaurus (with considerable pain to Barney's butt), and the frightened Bedrockers unsuccessfully try to fool Billy into believing that they are a bona fide bull cowasaurus.

Carmen, who recognizes Fred out of costume and is still in love with him rescues Fred and Barney from Billy's wrath. She stampedes through the Kidder's outlaw group. She closes her eyes and starts smacking her lips expecting Fred to congratulate her with a kiss, which of course he does not. Tex and Blister, with a posse, then surround Billy and company. Carmen eventually settles for kissing Fred on his actual cheek several times. Tex promises to reward Fred on and Barney for their help in thwarting Billy, and to Fred's utter dismay, the reward- arriving in a crate at Fred's Bedrock home, is Carmen! Carmen starts kissing Fred like crazy hoping he'll return her affections. When he rejects her, Carmen gets angry and chases after him to beat him up!

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Dino
• Hoppy
• Tex Hardrock

Other Characters

• Davey Crockery (only mentioned)
• Miss Brickhouse (only appearance)
• Billy the Kidder (only appearance)
• Carmen (only appearance)
• Blister (only appearance)
• Jesse (only appearance)
• Sladestone (only appearance)

Longhorn cowasauruses

• Rock (only appearance)
• Red (only appearance)
• Reg (only appearance)
• Crash (only appearance)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Bedrock Airport

Texarock

• Rockadollar Ranch (only appearance)
• Bunkhouse (only appearance)

Objects

• Luggage
• Barbell
• Newsrock Magazine (only appearance)

Animals

• Brontosauruses (as a control tower and stairs)
• Pterodactyls (as plane engines)
• Crabasaurus (as a seat belt)
• Cowasauruses
• Ichthyosaurus (as milk)
• Ponysaurus
• Bullasaurus

Vehicles

• Taxi cab (only appearance)
• Tex Hardrock's limousine

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Billy the Kidder
Gerry Johnson	Betty Rubble Miss Brickhouse
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Hoppy Control Clerk Tortoise Blister
Hal Smith	Tex Hardrock Carmen Dinosaur Pilot Cowasaurus
Doug Young	Crab Elephant

Notes/Trivia

• Tex's chauffeur is called Jesse, the flight attendant is Miss Brickhouse, and one of the cattle thieves is named Sladestone.
• The title is a spoof of the 1941 song "Deep in the Heart of Texas".
• Tex's grandfather, Davy Crockery is a spoof of Davy Crockett.
• Sand-and-Stony-o is a spoof of San Antonio.
• Alarock is a spoof of the Alamo.
• Brigitte Bardoozie is a spoof of French activist and model, Brigitte Bardot.

Errors

• None known.