A.A. Carborundum is the owner of A.A. Carborundum and Company and a one-time character of the episode, "The Missing Bus", featured in the second season of the original series, The Flintstones.
Background[]
A.A. Carborundum is the Southern-accented owner of A.A. Carborundum and Company with a fleet of school buses known as Car Barns who hires temporary bus driver, Fred along with his partner, Barney to pick up children on the way to the Red Rock School House in Bedrock.
Physical Appearance[]
A.A. Carborundum is a tall and slender caveman with fair skin, a long nose, black eyes, black eyebrows, white mustache and beard and a bald head with two white tufts of hair. He wears a dark plum purple and black spotted loincloth and an inside lavender purple with a large collar and a black bowtie.
Role in the episode[]
He owned a fleet of school buses and hired Fred as a driver when Fred temporarily lost his job at the quarry. He assigned Fred the route from Bedrock to the Red Rock School House, which had been assigned to several other drivers. What he didn't mention was that all those other drivers had abruptly quit after losing their minds. Later, he received calls from concerned parents, claiming that Fred had left their kids stranded instead of dropping them off at their homes. He went ballistic when he found out one of the stranded kids was his own son, Alvin. Later, when Fred brought a woman in labor to the hospital, A.A. was there along with Wilma, Betty, Barney, and J.J. Granite.
Appearances[]
- "The Missing Bus" - (only appearance)