Superstone

Superstone
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	5
Episode number	138
Production number	P-137
Original airdate	February 26, 1965 (ABC)
Recording Date	August 17, 1964
Crew
Animated by	Dick Lundy Allen Wilzbach Bob Carr Lou Kachivas
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Willie Ito Lin Larsen
Background	Phil Lewis Richard Khim Don Watson Rene Garcia
Written by	Barry E. Blitzer
Chronology
Previous	"The Rolls Rock Caper"
Next	"Fred Meets Hercurock"

"Superstone" is the twenty-fourth episode of the fifth season and the one hundred and thirty-eighth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on February 26, 1965.

Synopsis

Fred is hired to take the place of a TV superhero, Superstone, when he cancels out on an appearance he promised.

Plot

With the inducement of forty dollars for two days of work, Fred assumes the identity of a television super-hero, Superstone, when the beloved personage's original player, an actor named George, vacates the role in favor of a lead part in a lucrative film. For the two days, Fred acts as Superstone for crowds of children at the Bedrock Theater.

Prior to his second Superstone performance, Fred is alone in his dressing room. There, he is approached on the pretense of desired autograph and knocked unconscious by two criminals, one of whom, Bugsy, a bucktoothed man who says, "Yeah, yeah. I'm hip. I'm hip," dons Fred's Superstone costume and in this guise robs the theater cash box in front of the entire theater audience. He then dresses the prone figure of Fred in the costume before he and his accomplice escape the theater.

Fred is falsely implicated in the box-office heist, and to restore his and Superstone's reputation, Fred acts, with Barney's help, after audience member Barney has joined and revived Fred in the dressing room and informed Fred of what has happened, to bring the robbers to justice. Dressed as Superstone, Fred trails the goony malefactors to their hideout and distracts them with his dive into their lair through a skylight, while Barney moves toward them from behind their backs and pretends with his index fingers to double-gunpoint.

With bravado, Fred persuades the pair of thugs to surrender into police custody without a fight. After they're arrested, the sergeant makes Fred a hero once again, restoring the faith of kids around Bedrock, and congratulates him.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Dino
• Hoppy
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• George (as Superstone, only appearance)
• Otto Pebblejar (only mentioned)
• Sam (only appearance)
• Bugsy (only appearance)
• Paper boy (only appearance)
• Sergeant
• Police officers

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Bedrock Theater
• The Golden Pterodactyl (only appearance)

Other

• Hollyrock (mentioned)

Objects

• Telegram
• Superstone's suit (only appearance)
• Weights
• Flowers
• Cash box (only appearance)
• Money

Food

• Ketchup bottle (only appearance)
• Cactus Juice (mentioned)

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Hopparoo
• Unnamed bird (as a face powder)

Vehicles

• Loggin Continental
• Police car
• Mugsy's car (only appearance)

Media

• Superstone (TV show)
• Bedrock News (news broadcast)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Mugsy
Gerry Johnson	Betty Rubble
Allan Melvin	George (as Superstone) Bugsy Bartender Sergeant
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Hoppy
Elliot Field	Thug #2 Manager TV Announcer Thug #3

Notes/Trivia

• Superstone is a spoof of DC's Superman but what's not so obvious is that the actor who's playing Superstone has the first name of George. This is obviously a reference to George Reeves, the 1950s Superman.
• The studio executive is called Sam and the movie director that Superstone mentions is Otto Pebblejar (Otto Preminger).