Hawaiian Escapade

Hawaiian Escapade
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	3
Episode number	70
Production number	P-71
Original airdate	November 16, 1962 (ABC)
Recording Date	June 21, 1962
Crew
Animated by	Ralph Somerville Edwin Parks Emil Carle Amby Paliwoda
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Walter Clinton
Background	Richard H. Thomas
Written by	Joanna Lee
Chronology
Previous	"Baby Barney"
Next	"Ladies' Day"

"Hawaiian Escapade" is the tenth episode of the third season and the seventieth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on November 16, 1962.

Synopsis

In order to win a trip to visit her idol on the set of his show, Wilma submits a contest entry that depicts Fred as a superhero of sorts.

Plot

Wilma and Betty are so captivated by Larry Lava as television's Hawaiian Spy that they forget about a barbecuing brontosaurus steak, which has burned to an "old shoe" cinder once Fred and Barney arrive at cave Flintstone and extinguish the barbecue blaze. While Barney and the girls are impressed with Larry Lava Fred is scornful of him both because he knows everything that happens on his show is just make believe and because he regards Larry as a phony playboy who needs someone to do all the work for him. The wives are later also engrossed by mention on television of a contest offered by the Hawaiian Spy sponsor, the C. W. Crater Company and Rock Toasties, and a cactus berry pie a la mode burns in Wilma's oven while Wilma and Betty are entering their husbands in the contest, which involves the selection of the most athletic contestant for an all-expenses-paid sojourn for two in Hawaii and a guest appearance on Hawaiian Spy.

Wilma and Betty amalgamate their husbands into the fictitious person of Barney V. I. Flintstone, champion water skier, mountain-climber, alligator-wrestler, and "all-round athlete", who wins the contest. Accompanied by Wilma and by Betty and Barney, who use saved money to finance their Hawaiian jaunt, Fred goes to Hawaii as Barney V. I. Flintstone and is incensed when informed by the Hawaiian Spy director that his role is only that of a vacationing hick who says, "Pass the poi."

When Fred insists upon a more important part on the television show, the director, producer, and sponsor decide, on the belief that Fred is the athlete described by Wilma and Betty in their contest-entry letter, to use Fred as a stuntman for Larry Lava on a perilous, tree-colliding surfboard and in a contretemps with a large dinosaur. As usual, Fred is not sufficiently endowed to be an actor's "double", however the whole ordeal shows Barney and the girls, when they discover that Larry and the crew for Hawaiian Spy are making Fred be Larry’s stunt double, that Fred was right about Larry Lava and his show all along and Barney and Betty become scornful of Larry for making Fred do all the work for him especially the work that involved facing real danger and Wilma, disgusted by Larry Lava and the television programme's crew for placing her husband in danger, punches the dinosaur chasing Fred and announces that the Flintstones and Rubbles are going home.

C.W. Crater is impressed by Wilma's angry strength in her dinosaur-combating heroism and telephones her once she is back in Bedrock and unsuccessfully invites her to appear extensively on Hawaiian Spy, distracting her long enough for another steak to be consumed in a barbecue inferno. Fred puts it out and brings it to Wilma in time to overhear her phone call and he is touched by her choosing him over being a star that he takes her out to eat.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Dino
• Larry Lava (only appearance)
• C.W. Crater (only appearance)
• Goldrock (only appearance)
• Stoneheart (only appearance)
• Joe (only appearance)
• Pearl Slaghoople (mentioned)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Hawaiian Spy Productions (only appearance)

Other

• Hawaiirock (only appearance)
• Rockiki Beach (only appearance)
• Trans-Pterodactyl Airlines (only appearance)
• Hollyrock (mentioned)

Objects

• Telegram (only appearance)
• Rock Bell Phone

Food

• Cactus Berries (only appearance)
• Cactus Berry Pie a la Mode (only appearance)
• Rock Toasties Cereal (only mentioned)

Animals

• Brontosaurus (as a Bronto-Steak and a beast)
• Snorkasaurus
• Gatorsaurus
• Mammoth (as a hose)
• Tunasaurus (mentioned)
• Turtlesaurus

Vehicles

• Flintmobile
• Hawaiian Clipper airplane (only appearance)

Media

• Hawaiian Spy (a TV show)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Stewardess
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Bird Lizard Beast
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble
John Stephenson	Larry Lava C.W. Crater Goldrock Joe
Don Messick	Stoneheart TV Announcer Boy

Notes/Trivia

• Rock Toasties cereal is a take-off of Post Toasties.
• C.W. Crater is a nod to both C.W. Post the founder of Post Cereal which make both Fruity Pebbles and Cocoa Pebbles and C.W. Cook the President of Post Cereal at the time both the latter cereals were invented.
• Hawaiian Spy is a take-off and spoof of the 1959 TV show, Hawaiian Eye.
• Rockiki Beach is a spoof of Wakiki Beach.

Errors

• The DVD has an odd mistake in it. At the end, when the producers are watching the footage of Wilma hitting the dinosaur, her comment of "Beat it, buster!" is supposed to have an echo. The echo sound is missing on the DVD.