Divided We Sail

Divided We Sail
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	2
Episode number	57
Production number	P-57
Original airdate	April 6, 1962 (ABC)
Recording Date	December 13, 1961
Crew
Animated by	Jerry Hathcock Dick Lundy Kenneth Muse
Written by	Larry Markes
Chronology
Previous	"The Rock Vegas Story"
Next	"Kleptomaniac Caper"

"Divided We Sail" is the twenty-ninth episode of the second season and the fifty-seventh overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on April 6, 1962.

Synopsis

Fred receives tickets to a game show but when he falls victim to stage fright Barney takes his place, winning the star prize, which Fred claims for himself.

Plot

Barney substitutes for a camera-shy Fred at a television game show, The Prize is Priced, and wins a houseboat, which the Flintstones and Rubbles try, with immense difficulty, to share. The problem is the squabbling between Fred and Barney over entitlement to the "captaincy" of the sea vessel, Fred arguing that the ticket to The Prize is Priced was in his name and Barney maintaining that he won the houseboat. Wilma and Betty insist that Barney and Fred both don Captain hats and split among the two of them the Captain duties, and the name of the houseboat, Nau-Sea, is the product of a compromise between the first three and last three letters of Barney and Fred's chosen designations (Barney's choice being Nautical Lady and Fred's, Queen of the Sea).

Once the houseboat is launched- by Wilma with a thermos containing Rocky Cola, and Flintstones and Rubbles board it, Betty rushes to drop anchor to prevent a drift into a cluster of rocks while Fred and Barney bicker about who should give the order to do so, and the couples' picnic basket becomes accidentally caught by the anchor and falls into the water with it. A sea dinosaur smells the brontosaurus beef in the basket, bites into basket and Nau-Sea anchor, and speedily moves far from shore, dragging the houseboat at 60 knots to a gutting collision with a large rock.

As the Nau-Sea sinks, Fred and Barney cannot decide about which Captain should "go down with the ship", while Wilma and Betty use an inflatable lifeboat to escape the doomed Nau-Sea. The quarrel between Fred and Barney descends into the deep, blue sea with the houseboat.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Mr. Emery (only appearance)
• Aunt Glitterock (only mentioned)
• Will Carson (only appearance)
• Agatha Agate (only appearance)
• John Sludge (only appearance)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home

Objects

• Circular slab (only appearance)
• Ticket
• Captain's hat
• Safety tube

Food

• Roast Bronto-Beef

Animals

• Triceratops
• Turtlesaurus
• Sea Serpent
• Brontosaurus (as Roast Bronto-Beef)
• Seahorseasaurus (as motors)
• Seagullasaurus

Vehicles

• Flintmobile
• Loggin Continental
• Nau-Sea (only appearance)

Media

• The Price is Prized (television game show)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Turtlesaurus Driver Sea Serpent
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble Agatha Agate
John Stephenson	Mr. Emery John Sludge Announcer
Hal Smith	Will Carson Cop

Notes/Trivia

• Agatha Agate mentions the New Rock Yankees.
• Mr. Emery is exactly the same as Mr. Wilcox from "The Mailman Cometh".
• In a roundabout way (Barney says it), we learn that Fred's job title is geological engineer.
• The boat is from Clayafornia, the motor is by Johnstone and the trailer is by Shaylor. Fred's nautical cap was made in Japan.

Allusions

• "The Prize is Priced" is obviously a parody of The Price Is Right. Host Will Carson is also a parody of the original "Price" host Bill Cullen.
• The title of the episode is a spoof on the famous saying, "Divided we Fall."
• The signs attached to the buoys on the lake while the sea serpent is dragging the houseboat are displayed in a manner similar to the Burma-Shave advertising billboards.

Errors

• None known.