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{{Character
|name= Fred Flintstone
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|name = Fred Flintstone
|image= [[File:Fred Flintstone.png|220px]]
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|image = The Flintstones - Character Profile Image - Fred Flintstone.png
|gender= Male
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|gender = Male
|hair= Black
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|hair = Black
|age= 41 (Season 1) 43 (Seasons 2-5) 44 (Season 6 and TV specials)
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|age = 41 <small>(Season 1)</small><br>43 <small>(Seasons 2-5)</small><br>44 <small>(Season 6 and TV specials)</small>
|job= Crane operator
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|job = Crane operator
|family= [[Jed Flintstone]] (great-grandfather)<br>[[Zeke Flintstone]] (great-uncle)<br>[[Rocky Flintstone]] (grandfather)<br>[[Giggles Flintsone]] (uncle)<br>[[Tex Hardrock]] (uncle)<br>[[Hatrock]] (uncle)<br>[[Tumbleweed]] (cousin)<br>[[Mary Lou Jim Hardrock]] (cousin)<br>[[Ed Flintstone]] (father)<br>[[Edna Flintstone]] (maid ame Hardrock) (mother)<br>[[Wilma Flintstone]] (wife)<br>[[Ricky Slaghoople]] (father-in-law)<br>[[Pearl Slaghoople]] (mother-in-law)<br>[[Mica Slaghoople]] (sister-in-law)<br>[[Mickey Slaghoople]] (sister-in-law)<br>[[Jerry Slaghoople]] (brother-in-law)<br>[[Pebbles Flintstone]] (daughter)<br>[[Stoney Flintstone]] (adoptive son)<br>[[Bamm-Bamm Rubble]] (son-in-law)<br>[[Roxy Rubble]] (granddaughter)<br>[[Chip Rubble]] (grandson)<br>[[George Jetson]] (far descendent)<br>[[Montague Jetson]](far descendent)<br>[[Judy Jetson]] (far descendent)<br>[[Elroy Jetson]] (far descendent, possible last descendent)<br>[[George Jetwest]] (possible descendent)
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|family = {{Scroll|Jed Flintstone <small>(great-grandfather)</small><br>[[Zeke Flintstone]] <small>(great-great-uncle)</small><br>[[Stoney Flintstone (The Flintstone Kids)|Stoney Flintstone]] <small>(grandfather)</small><br>[[Rockbottom Flintstone|Rocky Flintstone]] <small>(grandfather)</small><br>[[Giggles Flintstone]] <small>(uncle)</small><br>[[Tex Hardrock|Hatrock]] <small>(uncle)</small><br>[[Tex Hardrock]] <small>(uncle)</small><br>[[Tumbleweed Hardrock]] <small>(cousin)</small><br>[[Mary Lou Jim Hardrock]] <small>(cousin)</small><br>Davey Crockery <small>(meternal great-grandfather)</small><br>[[Ed Flintstone|Ed "Pops" Flintstone]] <small>(father)</small><br>[[Edna Flintstone|Eithne "Edna" Flintstone]] <small>(maid name Hardrock) (mother)</small><br>[[Wilma Flintstone]] <small>(wife)</small><br>[[Ricky Slaghoople]] <small>(father-in-law)</small><br>[[Pearl Slaghoople]] <small>(mother-in-law)</small><br>[[Mica Slaghoople]] <small>(sister-in-law)</small><br>[[Micky Slaghoople]] <small>(sister-in-law)</small><br>Jerry Slaghoople <small>(brother-in-law)</small><br>[[Pebbles Flintstone]] <small>(daughter)</small><br>[[Stoney Flintstone]] <small>(adoptive son)</small><br>[[Bamm-Bamm Rubble]] <small>(son-in-law)</small><br>[[Roxy Rubble]] <small>(granddaughter)</small><br>[[Chip Rubble]] <small>(grandson)</small>}}
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|pet = [[Dino]] <small>([[Snorkasaurus|snorkasaurus]])</small><br>[[Baby Puss]] <small>(saber-toothed cat)</small><br>[[Shmoo]] <small>(briefly)</small>
|appearance= "''[[The Flintstone Flyer]]''"
 
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|appearance = ''[[The Flagstones]]'' <small>(Pilot)</small>
|voice= See [[Fred Flintstone#Voice actors|below]]
 
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|voice = [[Fred Flintstone#Portrayals|See below]]
}}'''Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone''', once known as '''Fred W. Flintstone''', is the main character of ''[[The Flintstones (TV series)|The Flintstones]]'', as well as the husband of [[Wilma]] and father of [[Pebbles]]. He is best friends with [[Barney Rubble]], his next-door neighbor.
 
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{{Quote|'''[[Yabba-Dabba-Doo!]]'''|Fred Flintstone}}
   
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'''Frederick Joseph '''"'''Fred'''" '''Flintstone''', once known as '''Fred W. Flintstone''', is a fictional character of the original series, ''[[The Flintstones (TV series)|The Flintstones]]'' and the rest of the franchise.
Fred lives in the fictional prehistoric town of [[Bedrock]], at 345 Cave Stone Road (in some episodes, 1313 Cobblestone Way or 222 Rocky Way), an anachronistic world where dinosaurs coexist with modernized barefoot cavemen and the cavemen enjoy "primitive" versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles, and washing machines. Fred Flintstone's catchphrase is "'''YABBA DABBA DOO!'''", which is also heard at the beginning of the theme song and the [[The Flintstones (film)|film]].
 
   
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==Background==
Fred has since appeared in various other cartoon spin-offs, live action adaptations and commercials.
 
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Fred is the handsome husband of [[Wilma Flintstone|Wilma]], father of [[Pebbles Flintstone|Pebbles]] and best friend of [[Barney Rubble]], who lives at [[Flintstone home|his house]] in [[Bedrock]], at 345 Cave Stone Road (in some episodes, 1313 Cobblestone Way or 222 Rocky Way).
   
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Fred Flintstone's most famous and iconic catchphrase is "'''[[Yabba-Dabba-Doo!]]'''", which is also heard at the beginning of the theme song, "[[Meet the Flintstones]]" and the [[The Flintstones (film)|film]] plus the rest of the franchise.
==Personality and occupation==
 
[[File:The-flintstones-in-viva-rock-vegas-6.jpg|thumb|Fred and Barney in Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.]]
 
Fred's personality was based on that of Ralph Kramden of the 1950s television series ''The Honeymooners'' and Chester A. Riley from ''The Life of Riley''. Thus, much like Ralph, Fred tends to be loud-mouthed, offensive, and constantly scheming ways to improve his family's working class lot in life, often with unintended results. Archie Bunker of ''All in the Family'' & ''Archie Bunker's Place'' and George Jefferson of ''The Jeffersons'' also have similar personalities based on Fred Flintstone.
 
   
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==='''Personality'''===
Fred is a typical blue-collar worker, who works as a "bronto crane operator" at Slate Rock and Gravel Company (also known as Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company in the earliest episodes). However, when their children become teenagers, Fred and Barney join the Bedrock police force. Fred and Barney even coached two baseball teams as well.
 
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[[File:The-flintstones-in-viva-rock-vegas-6.jpg|thumb|Fred and [[Barney Rubble|Barney]] in ''[[The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas]]''.]]
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Fred's personality was based on that of Ralph Kramden of the 1950s television series ''[[Wikipedia:The Honeymooners|The Honeymooners]]'' and Chester A. Riley from ''[[Wikipedia:The Life of Riley|The Life of Riley]]''. Thus, much like Ralph, Fred tends to be loud-mouthed, offensive, and constantly scheming ways to improve his family's working class lot in life, often with unintended results. Archie Bunker of ''[[Wikipedia:All in the Family|All in the Family]]'' & ''[[Wikipedia:Archie Bunker's Place|Archie Bunker's Place]]'' and George Jefferson of ''[[Wikipedia:The Jeffersons|The Jeffersons]]'' also have similar personalities based on Fred Flintstone.
   
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Due to his impulsive, aggressive, immature, childish and ill-tempered behavior and obstinate and naive nature, Fred Flintstone seems to be accident-prone. He is able to create the biggest confusion, even with the most innocent and mundane action.
The Flintstone family came from "Arkenstone" where they had been engaged in a feud with the "Hatrock" family which had been caused by an ancestor of Fred's making a wisecrack of a Hatrock family portrait ("I don't know what the artist got for doing that painting but he should have gotten life"). In "[[The Bedrock Hillbillies]]", the feud is ended when Fred helps rescue a Hatrock baby (and Pebbles) from going over a waterfall only to start up again when Fred makes the very same wisecrack. In "[[The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes]]", when the "Hatrock" family visited the Flintstone family and being friends, until when Bug Music was played & the Hatrocks can't stand the Bug Music. The last of the Arkenstone Flintstones was Fred's Great-uncle Zeke Flintstone. Other Flintstone relatives were Giggles Flintstone - a rich eccentric practical joker whose jokes drive Fred into a mad rage; an "Uncle Tex" and his sister "Aunt Jamima".[[File:01-Fred-Flintstone.png|thumb|Fred in Flintstones the Movie.]]
 
   
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Fred is mainly a kind and generous man, although he gets mad and angry quite a lot, usually when his immature friend Barney pesters and teases Fred, or even laughs at him by going. Other than that, Fred can have other emotions too. His laugh is "Ho, heh, he, he, he, he". He starts crying in some episodes, like "''[[The Babysitters]]''", when Barney tears up the tickets, in "''[[Dino Disappears]]''", when Dino runs away, and "''[[The House That Fred Built]]''", when Fred discovers that 1,000 [[Currency|bucks]] down the drain wasn't funny anymore.
Fred's interests include bowling, playing pool, poker and lounging around the house, and playing golf. At the first two of these, he is very skilled, as seen in one of the episodes where he plays against Wilma's unsuspecting mother. Fred has won championships with his incredible bowling skills. In "[[Bowling Ballet]]", he goes so far as to take ballet lessons in order to improve his game which led to his nickname "Twinkletoes". The nickname of "Twinkletoes" stuck with him when Fred attended a local college and became eligible to play on their football team, and it became his call sign. Fred is also an excellent golfer. In "[[The Golf Champion]]", he wins the championship only to have Barney repossess the winning trophy cup because Fred is behind in his dues. Fred, like Barney, was also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos Lodge (named "the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs" in an early episode). Fred also has a serious gambling problem; the mere mention of the word "bet" causes Fred to stammer "bet" over and over again and go on gambling binges.
 
   
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==='''Positive Qualities'''===
The original series had several stories regarding TV with Fred as a dupe. In one, Fred makes a fool of himself trying to give Wilma acting lessons after she wins a TV appearance – only for the only part of her to appear on TV is her hands. In another, when Fred wins a TV appearance he tries to act like a "Stage parent" - until he comes down with stage fright. A third time Fred appears on a TV commercial in a non speaking role as a "before" picture of a person before going on a diet. Once, Fred even appeared in a movie, but merely as a stunt double.
 
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Despite his apparently anti-social character, Fred's actions are shown to be usually free of any malice. And, although he almost constantly screams and irritates the people around him, Fred proves to be a friendly person; often going out of his way to help someone.
   
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Although Fred often bugs Wilma with his immaturity, he proves to be a very caring and loving husband and father. Flintstone is even known to go to great lengths to please his family or owe somebody an apology when he goes too far.
Fred's catchphrase "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" (originally derived from the Brylcreem advertising jingle motto "A Little Dab'll Do Ya!"), becomes the subject of a song by [[wikipedia:Hoagy Carmichael|Hoagy Carmichael]] that the singer-songwriter performs in an episode of ''The Flintstones.'' Fred's ability to carry a tune was quite good in his younger years. One early episode was where he did a jam with his musician friend "[[Hot Lips Hannigan]]", (with Barney, who is apparently a skilled drummer) where his singing caused teenage girls to swoon over him. In fact, in one of the earliest episodes, "[[The Girls Night Out]]", he recorded a demo record at a carnival of the song "Listen to the Mockingbird", which ended up making him a star whereupon he took the stage name of "Hi Fye" and toured for two weeks with Wilma, Barney, and Betty. Fred, as Hi Fye, was a hit until Wilma and Betty tired of road life and told teenagers the truth, that Fred was actually a square. As the series progressed, however, his voice became worse and worse, eventually to the point that his housekeeper quit rather than having to hear Fred sing. It was also referenced in the refrain of the 1989 [[wikipedia:George Jones|George Jones]] song, "The King is Gone (And So are You)."
 
   
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Fred is also devoted to [[Pebbles Flintstone|his daughter]] and cares for her more than Wilma herself. He is fatherly and can be overprotective with her at times though.
Also in the Flintstones show credits, Fred would beat on the door and yell, "WILMA!"
 
   
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==='''Physical Appearance'''===
Due to his impulsive and ill-tempered behavior and obstinate and naive nature, Fred Flintstone seems to be accident-prone. He is able to create the biggest confusion, even with the most innocent and mundane action.
 
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Fred is a stout but handsome caveman with fair skin, tan beard stubbles, black hair, thick black eyebrows and a large nose. He wears a raggedy, a deep sky blue or an aqua teal-green necktie and a sleeveless, orange and black-spotted loin cloth with a torn hemline.
   
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==Occupations and Interests==
Fred is mainly a kind man, although he gets mad quite a lot, usually when Barney pesters and teases Fred, or even laughs at him by going. Ah heh heh heh heh heh heh. Other than that, Fred can have other emotions too. His laugh is Ho heh he he he he. He starts crying in some episodes, like The Babysitters, when Barney tears up the tickets, in Dino Dissappears, when Dino runs away, and The House that Fred Built, when Fred discovers that 1,000 bucks down the drain wasn't funny anymore. And so Fred Flintstone is fatherly, reverent, earnest, determined, fussy, lovable, immature, nice, temperamental, sturdy, tough, obnoxious, no-nonsense and emotional.
 
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Fred is a typical blue-collar worker, who works as a "bronto-crane operator" at [[Slate Rock and Gravel Company]] (a.k.a. Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company in the earliest episodes). However, when their [[The Flintstone Comedy Show|children became teenagers]], Fred and Barney joined the Bedrock police force, but when they [[I Yabba-Dabba Do!|went into adulthood and moved away]], Fred went back to working for Mr. Slate alongside Barney.
   
===Positive Qualities===
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==='''Water Buffaloes'''===
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Fred, like Barney, was also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos Lodge (named "the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs" in an early episode), and both Fred and Barney were rather popular with the other members and even had some degree of influence over the Lodge's events, with Fred briefly even becoming Grand Poobah on one occasion.
Despite his apparently anti-social character, Fred's actions are shown to be usually free of any malice. And, although he almost constantly screams and irritates the people around him, Fred proves to be a friendly person; often going out of his way to help someone.
 
   
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==='''Bowling and other sports'''===
Although Fred often bugs Wilma with his immaturity, he proves to be a very caring and loving husband and father. Flintstone is even known to go to great lengths to please his family or owe somebody an apology when he goes too far.
 
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Fred's interests include bowling, playing pool, poker, lounging around the house, playing golf, and both Fred and Barney even coached several baseball teams as well. At the first two of these sports, Fred is very skilled, as seen in "''[[Mother-in-Law's Visit]]''", where he plays against Wilma's unsuspecting mother and beats her effortlessly despite her claims of being the best bowler in Arkanstone. Fred has won championships with his incredible bowling skills.
   
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In fact the only person Fred could never fairly best in bowling was [[Blowhard Sandstone]], an obnoxiously boastful man who had never lost a game in his life and who seemed to have some sort of bad luck "hex" over Fred, as whenever Fred challenged him to a game something bad would usually follow, such as Fred tripping, falling on his back or his ball falling to the way side, all in an unusually uncharacteristic streak of poor performance that was highly unusual for a bowler of Fred's impressive skills.
Fred is also devoted to [[Pebbles Flintstone|his daughter]] and cares for her more than Wilma herself. He can be overprotective with her at times though.
 
   
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Although Fred's failures against Blowhard may have only been due to the latter using his demeaning and insulting banter to lower Fred's self-esteem and focus. The streak of bad luck against Blowhard finally ended in "''[[Barney the Invisible]]''", when Fred used an invisible Barney to help him cheat, thus crushing Blowhard's arrogance and pride. Despite this crooked victory, Fred was still the best bowler in town and would go on to win championships on his own skill and merit.
===Family===
 
[[File:Ed Edna fred.JPG|thumb|220x220px|Young Fred with his own parents, Ed and Edna Flintstone.]]
 
According to "''[[The Flintstone Kids]]''" (which is non-canon), he is shown to be the son of [[Ed Flintstone|Ed]] and [[Edna Flintstone]]. In its TV special, it is shown that he has a cool cousin from HollyRock who has a band of his own and not only ''doesn't'' use drugs, he is in a "Just Say No" club, eventually inspiring Wilma to start one of her own.
 
   
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In "''[[Bowling Ballet]]''", he goes so far as to take ballet lessons in order to improve his game which led to his nickname "Twinkletoes". The nickname of "Twinkletoes" stuck with him when Fred attended a local college and became eligible to play on their football team, and it became his call sign.
===Love Interests===
 
Fred mainly has been shown to be faithful to his wife, Wilma, but this has not stopped him from pursuing other women. Examples of this include [[Miss Stone]], his gorgeous secretary in ''[[The Flintstones (film)|The Flintstones]]'' film, who often seduced him in order to distract him while she and his boss, Cliff, framed him for embezzlement. Fred very clearly enjoyed being seduced by the beautiful woman, and was even caught in the middle of a very "intimate" moment with her by his furious wife.
 
   
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Fred is also an excellent golfer and occasionally goes to the golf course with Barney to show off his skills. Both also own their own sets of golf clubs which they happily show off. In "''[[The Golf Champion]]''", he wins the championship only to have Barney repossess the winning trophy cup because Fred is behind in his dues.
Other examples include Maggie, Fred's beautiful co-star in Bedrock's production of ''A Christmas Carol'' in ''[[A Flintstones Christmas Carol]]''. The two often enjoyed rehearsing their love scene together, which included a passionate kiss. As well as the "[[Mystery Woman]]" from ''[[The Flintstones: On the Rocks]]'', who was staying at the same resort as Fred and Wilma while the couple was on their second honeymoon, but Fred spent most of his time fantasizing about her.
 
   
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==='''Gambling'''===
==Physical Appearance==
 
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Fred also has a serious gambling problem; the mere mention of the word "bet" causes Fred to stammer "bet" over and over again and go on gambling binges. Unlike his other skills, Fred is not a particularly good gambler and whenever he goes on a gambling streak, he always gets a losing streak and bets off more than he can offer.
Fred is a stout caveman. He has black hair and a large nose. He wears an orange loin cloth with black spots and a blue tie. 
 
   
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==='''Inventing'''===
==Appearances==
 
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[[File:Fred's_Laboratory.png|thumb|250px|Fred inventing a new soft drink in his garage turned laboratory.]]
===[[The Flintstones (1960 TV series)|The Flintstones]]===
 
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In "''[[Barney the Invisible]]''", Fred is revealed to have started developing an interest in inventing, going so far as to convert his garage into a pseudo-laboratory full of tools, mechanical parts, bottled chemicals, tubes, beakers and cauldrons. Fred claimed he was inspired into this pursuit after reading about brilliant inventors like Thomas Edistone (the inventor of the candle) and Albert Einstone, but its clear that his primary motivation is his desire to invent a new soft drink, miracle formula or revolutionary machine that will make him rich overnight, with Wilma outright revealing to Betty that Fred only started pursuing chemistry simply to create a new kind of soft drink to outmatch Cactus Cola and make a fortune.
In this series, Fred is a bronto-crane operator at [[Mr. Slate]]'s construction quarry, husband of [[Wilma Flintstone]], and neighbor of his co-worker [[Barney Rubble]].
 
   
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His streak as a wannabe "mad scientist" would continue for the rest of the show's run and in the majority of subsequent sequel media, like ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Hour]]'', ''[[The New Fred and Barney Show]]'', ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Show]]'' and many comics. By the time of "''Barney the Invisible''" Fred claims that he had already made 411 attempts at creating a new soft drink, showing that he had been pursuing this goal for quite a while, and by the time of "''[[Glue for Two]]''", Wilma indicates that Fred had invented 778 failed soft drink formulas. Fred tends to name each new soft drink based on the numerical order of their creation, such as naming his 411th failed soda "411up" but he named his 778th soda "777up" (which were obvious spoofs of the ''7up'' brand of soda).
He lives in the anachronistic town of [[Bedrock]]. He wants to invent new things so he can end the Stone Age. In [[The Snorkasaurus Hunter]], he adopts a talking dinosaur named "Dino" (with Wilma's persuasion). However, despite being able to talk in his debut, Dino instantly loses his ability to talk and becomes the dog-like pet we know and love.
 
   
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===='''Inventions'''====
Later in the series, Fred became a father to [[Pebbles Flintstone]], which helped die down his bad temper a bit, as he loves his daughter very much. Barney and Betty frequently visit Pebbles in a few episodes, but when Fred gets annoyed, he tells them to stay away from her.
 
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Despite not being the most intellectually inclined caveman around, Fred has proven to be at least somewhat competent at inventing, creating all manner of "soft drinks" with unpredictable effects as well as other things (although even his most successful inventions always tend to backfire):
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*"'''The Fred Flintstone Hiccup Cure'''", Fred's first invention which is just a paper bag (first appeared in "''[[Barney the Invisible]]''").
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*"'''The Hair Grower'''", hair growth formula that only grew hair on dodo bird eggs (first mentioned in "''Barney the Invisible''").
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*"'''411up'''", a horrible soft drink which causes spasms (first appeared in "''Barney the Invisible''").
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*"'''412up'''", a horrible soft drink that was intended to cure hiccups but instead caused invisibility (first appeared in "''Barney the Invisible''").
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*"'''777up'''", a horrible soft drink which Fred accidentally turned into a glue after pouring glue into it (first appeared in "''[[Glue for Two]]''").
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*"'''Fred-O-Cal'''", a weight reducing formula that only worked as a temporary shrinking potion (first appeared in "''[[Itty Bitty Fred]]''").
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*"'''The Flintstone Rockuzzi'''", essentially solar power and wind-power harnessed for the creation of a solar-powered hot tub, and is probably Fred's most successful invention and created during Pebbles' teen years. It was a small building with a hot tub that on its roof had a windmill that was used to pump water from the ground which was then collected into a trough that was then boiled by a "solar energy lens" that collected and amplified the sun's rays and the water was then poured into the hot tub. The invention and its discovery of wind and solar power proved so revolutionary for the Stone Age that Fred even appeared in the news and dubbed his creation as the ultimate way to "Lick the Energy Crisis", and he was to have a major public event in his honor to reveal it. However a windstorm botched his invention, causing it to go out of control and flood part of Bedrock, resulting in his most successful invention becoming another dud that put him in debt (first appeared in "''[[Fred vs. the Energy Crisis]]''").
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*"'''Invisibility Spray'''", a more effective version of 412up that doesn't need to be consumed and only sprayed on to turn invisible (first appeared in "''[[Invisible Mouse]]''").
   
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==Biography==
Soon, Barney and Betty find a young boy named [[Bamm-Bamm Rubble|Bamm-Bamm]] on their doorstep and adopt him, which causes Fred to make amends with Barney.
 
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[[File:Baby_Fred.png|thumb|left|Fred as an infant.]]
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Not much of Fred's life growing up is known, and while the mid-1980s spin-off series ''[[The Flintstone Kids]]'' depicts Fred as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Fred as a childhood friend of Wilma and Betty and several other issues that put the show in a continuity all its own. In official media, Fred was born to two loving parents, a very affectionate mother who loved taking pictures of him on a bear rug as a baby and making him seaweed fricassee and a playful father who loved spending time with his son and playing with his son's toys. Fred has known Barney since at least high school, with them even being on sports teams together back in the day and getting into all sorts of shenanigans even back then.
   
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[[File:The_Flintstones_-_Bachelor_Daze_-_Fred,_Wilma,_Barney,_Betty_in_the_Cinderama.jpg|thumb|250px|Fred with [[Wilma Flintstone|Wilma]], [[Betty Rubble|Betty]] and [[Barney Rubble|Barney]] seeing a movie in the Cinderama on their first date.]]Fred and Barney would first meet their future wives Betty and Wilma in their teenage years at the Honeyrock Hotel sixteen years prior to the episode "''[[Bachelor Daze]]''". There Fred and Barney had just started working as bellboys and it was also the day when Fred had received his first razor blade from his father. One day they were goofing off and pretending to be millionaires in a fancy car they were watching when they first met Wilma and Betty (who also worked at the hotel as maids) who were also goofing off and pretending to be rich girls while hanging out in a fancy car that wasn't theirs.
===Older Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm===
 
Fred is also a major character in the (non-canon) spin-offs starring older versions of Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm. He resumes his bumbling parent and hothead role from the original series.
 
   
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It was essentially love at first sight for the youths, but both parties were too afraid to pursue their relationships further out of fear that they would be exposed as lowly hotel workers. In the end though, the truth was revealed at the hotel party that night and both parties were greatly relieved to find out they weren't rich, and after being fired for goofing off, they were picked up and taken home by Wilma's mother [[Pearl Slaghoople]] who was less than pleased with her daughter's new boyfriend, Fred, as Fred and her had briefly met at the hotel and got off to a very rocky start which would unsure Fred a very unhappy relationship with his future mother-in-law.
===[[The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show]]===
 
In this series, Pebbles grows into a beautiful teenager and becomes Bamm-Bamm's girlfriend. In this series, Fred and Barney are reduced to secondary characters and only appear a few times.
 
   
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[[File:The Flintstones - The Astra' Nuts - Barney and Fred in a Log Rocket.png|thumb|left|Fred and Barney about to be launched in a rocket as part of their mistaken military duty.]]
===[[I Yabba-Dabba Do!]]===
 
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Fred proposed to Wilma and married her six and a half years after their first meeting with Barney and Betty presumably following shortly after. Fred's wedding day proved to be a hectic one when his mother-in-law threw him out of the house after he made a crude comment about her hat, forcing Fred and Wilma to elope and get married in Rock Vegas. They would then spend their honey moon touring across the country and visiting every race track they could find, where Fred gave into his gambling fever over and over, winning big at the Hialeah Race Track but then losing all of his winnings at the Hollyrock Park Race Track. Wilma then had Fred "cured" of his gambling addiction by betting against him in a Poker game and winning, forcing Fred to go see a psychiatrist after losing (as explained by Wilma in "''[[The Gambler]]''"). Fred and Wilma then moved from Arkanstone to the town of Bedrock and it would remain their home ever since. Several episodes and spinoffs suggest that Fred, along with Barney, spent some time in the army early in their marriages, though said references may be to Fred and Barney's military service in the episode "''[[The Astra' Nuts]]''" which was very short lived and ended with them being unsuccessfully launched to the moon.
Fred and Barney start feuding and stop being friends. Upon finding out that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm are going to be married, they decide to end their feud and raise money for the wedding. However, things go from bad to worse when Wilma and her mother kick Fred out of his house and is fired from his job at the quarry. He and Barney decide to go to Rock Vegas to find Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm.
 
   
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After marriage and moving into Bedrock, Fred got a job at Slate Rock and Gravel Company thirteen years prior to the episode, "''[[The Missing Bus]]''", where he would begrudgingly remain from then on. With their new home and jobs in place, Fred and Barney would spend most of their lives going through many shenanigans and trials, while Fred also tried to balance out his married life, often trying to avoid Wilma's scrutiny or trying to keep her pleased while also getting his needs met. Fred's job would be even more troublesome, as Fred was constantly getting fired and re-hired by his disgruntled and hot-tempered boss [[Mr. Slate]], and although Fred was often able to get a raise, a bonus, or even a promotion to foreman, it would usually become undone eventually due to his own failings or Mr. Slate's own foul disposition.
They locate Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm at a casino where Barney wins lots of money. However, the four are mistaken for thieves and are sent to jail. However, they are then proven innocent.
 
   
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The most eventful day of Fred and Wilma's lives after marriage came on the day that Wilma announced to Fred that she would be having a baby, much to Fred's unparalleled joy. For the next 9 months, Fred would spend every waking moment preparing for the arrival of his baby, buying all manner of toys and doing all he could to make as much money as possible and raise the standard of living for his family. He even attempted to hire housekeepers and nursemaids to help Wilma which met with very mixed success, especially due to constant interference by his mother-in-law Pearl, who briefly stayed with the Flintstones during this time to help her daughter and to also make Fred's life a constant nightmare.
Fred, Barney, Pebbles and Bamm Bamm finally return to Wilma, Betty and the others. Mr. Slate rehires Fred, Pearl and Wilma apologize to Fred for the mistake they made and the abuse they gave him and Pebbles and Bamm Bamm get married. At the end Pebbles and Bamm Bamm reveal they are moving to Hollyrock with Barney paying their way with his Rock Vegas winnings, at which Fred gets angry with Barney and they start to argue as the film ends.
 
   
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In the end though, it would all pay off on the eventful day when Wilma finally gave birth to their newborn baby daughter, a day that Fred would never forget, for it was just as hectic as it was a blessing. The couple would then name their daughter [[Pebbles Flintstone]] after Fred and Barney remarked that she was a "pebble off the old Flintstone" rather than a "chip off the old block".
===[[Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby]]===
 
Pebbles becomes pregnant and Fred is abotu to become a grandfather. However, as soon as they arrive, Fred, Barney, Wilma, and Betty start telling the kids what to do and how to do it.
 
   
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[[File:The_Flintstones_-_The_Great_Gazoo_-_Fred,_Barney_and_the_Great_Gazoo.jpg|thumb|left|Fred and Barney meet [[The Great Gazoo (character)|The Great Gazoo]].]]
After running into some trouble with the law, Pebbles gives birth to twin babies, Chip and Roxy. Fred and the others return home and decide to leave Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm to take care of their children themselves.
 
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Fred's life from there continued to be a hectic one with many more shenanigans alongside Barney while also knowing the joys of fatherhood and getting to see his best friend Barney also become a father after the unexpected delivery of his adopted son [[Bamm-Bamm Rubble]]. Fred and Barney would get to go on even more fantastic adventures after meeting the mysterious alien known as [[The Great Gazoo (character)|The Great Gazoo]], and although their time together was short, it would prove to be a very troubling but exciting time for everyone.
   
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From then on Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty would still be inseparable as the years rolled by, and Fred's tiring occupation would become more bearable when his best friend Barney finally joined him at his workplace. Their greatest joy though was watching their children grow up to become teenagers and a lovely couple, who would fittingly enough become much like their parents, with Pebbles often acting as the scheming and adventurous planner, much like her father before her and much to her father's mixed feelings, while Bamm-Bamm would act as the unwilling but loyal sidekick in all her schemes, much like his father before him and much to his father's amusement.
===[[A Flintstone Family Christmas]]===
 
Fred gets into the Christmas spirit by hanging up decorations and being altogether joyful while awaiting the arrival of his daughter Pebbles, her husband Bamm-Bamm and their twin children, daughter Roxy and son Chip. After learning that they will arrive at 4pm, Fred and Barney leave to get their turkyssaurus for dinner. However, on the way back home they are mugged by a Santa. Fred hands over his wallet and watch and orders Barney to give him the bird, but while tossing the turkyssaurus the Santa "breaks" in half. Seizing the opportunity, the two run away from the mugger.
 
   
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Eventually, Fred and Barney decided to pursue a new career path for themselves by joining the Bedrock Police as part-time officers. It was there that Fred and Barney would first meet the mysterious [[Shmoo]], who proved to be a loving and faithful police partner and pet to the duo both on and off duty, with the creature even briefly living with Fred.
When Fred and Barney get to the police station, they identify the thief, who turns out to be a "caveless" abandoned child named Stoney. According to the social worker, Stoney used to be the horror of foster homes because of his stealing habits. Feeling sympathy for Stoney, Wilma decides to adopt him, despite Fred's initial reluctance. They try to show Stoney that they trust him and attempt to teach him that stealing is wrong.
 
   
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Many more years passed and now the Flintstones' and the Rubbles' children had grown to adulthood with the lives of their own, with Fred's daughter Pebbles becoming an ambitious secretary at the Pyrite Advertising Agency. However, the Flintstones and the Rubbles would receive some life changing news that when Bamm-Bamm announced that he and Pebbles had finally become engaged, a union which would finally seal the Flintstones and the Rubbles together as family forever more.
However, things get slightly bleaker when Pebbles and her family get stuck in an airport because of a blizzard. The Rubbles and The Flintstones then go Christmas tree shopping, but can't afford any that aren't "smaller than their grandchildren". Stoney attempts to help by convincing people to bet on him as he plays a game in order to earn enough money for the Flintstones to buy the tree. When a man loses, he chases Stoney, who runs for cover near Fred. The man claims that Stoney cheated him, and Fred asks if this is true. Stoney then truthfully replies "no", and when Fred believes him, he gets hit in the head with a tree by the man.
 
   
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==Relationships==
Fred then goes to the hospital, but his boss informs him that he can't participate in the Christmas parade (which is something Fred is quite eager to do since the beginning of the movie) and when he tries to protest, his boss finalizes his "no". To make it up to Fred, Stoney poses as his boss's driver and locks him up in the Flintstone's bathroom, which will allow Fred to participate in the parade. Instead, Fred saves his boss and ends up in jail, where he eventually bonds with Stoney. Fred even consoles Stoney that cutting corners to get what you want is not the solution. However, the social worker then takes Stoney away, and meanwhile Fred's boss makes him go to the parade. While there, Fred saves Stoney.
 
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==='''Family'''===
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[[File:Ed Edna fred.JPG|thumb|220x220px|Young Fred with his own parents, Ed and Edna Flintstone.]]
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According to ''[[The Flintstone Kids]]'' (which is non-canon as the show is more 80s-centric and features all the characters knowing each other as kids, but still features the accurate names of the parents of characters such as Wilma's), he is shown to be the son of [[Ed Flintstone|Ed]] and [[Edna Flintstone]]. In the special, ''[[The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special]]'', it is shown that he has a cool cousin from Hollyrock who has a band of his own and not only ''doesn't'' use drugs, he is in a "Just Say No" club, eventually inspiring Wilma to start one of her own.
   
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What is known is that Fred was the grandson of famed Stone War I hero [[Rockbottom Flintstone|Rockbottom "Rocky" Flintstone]]. Fred also had a good relationship with his [[Ed Flintstone|father]], sharing his toys with him as a child and even receiving his first razor from him.
At home Fred sees Pebbles and her family, and Stoney bonds with the twins. Fred says that the new addition to the family gets to put the star on the Christmas tree. Stoney thinks Fred is referring to Roxy and Chip, but it turns out it is him and he becomes a Flintstone. Bamm-Bamm helps him put on the star and they all have a happy Christmas.  
 
   
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The Flintstone family came from "Arkanstone" where they had been engaged in a feud with the "Hatrock" family which had been caused by an ancestor of Fred's making a wisecrack of a Hatrock family portrait ("I don't know what the artist got for doing that painting but he should have gotten life"). In "''[[The Bedrock Hillbillies]]''", the feud ended when Fred helped rescue Slab (and Pebbles) from going over a waterfall only to start up again when Fred made the very same wisecrack.
==Gallery==
 
Click [[Fred Flintstone/Gallery|here]] for the Gallery
 
   
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In "''[[The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes]]''", when the "Hatrock" family visited the Flintstone family and being friends, until when Bug Music was played and the Hatrocks couldn't stand the Bug Music. The last of the Arkanstone Flintstones was Fred's great-uncle [[Zeke Flintstone]]. Other Flintstone relatives were [[Giggles Flintstone]] - a rich eccentric practical joker who drove Fred into a mad rage with his jokes; an "Uncle Tex" and his sister "Aunt Jamima".
==Pebbles Cereal==
 
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[[File:Fruity-and-Cocoa-Pebbles.jpg|right|200px]]
 
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==='''Love Interests'''===
Fred and Barney are the mascots for Fruity and Cocoa Pebbles Cereal. In these commercials, Barney would try to steal his cereal using cheap disguises that Fred would easily fall for, despite being obvious it was Barney. Sometimes, there would be commercials that feature Fred and Barney as their normal, best buddy selves. 
 
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Fred mainly has been shown to be faithful to his wife, Wilma, but this has not stopped him from pursuing other women. Examples of this include [[Sharon Stone]], his gorgeous secretary in the 1994 film, ''[[The Flintstones (film)|The Flintstones]]'', who often seduced him in order to distract him while she and his villainous boss, [[Cliff Vandercave|Cliff]], framed him for embezzlement. Fred very clearly enjoyed being seduced by the beautiful woman, and was even caught in the middle of a very "intimate" moment with her by his furious wife.
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Other examples include Maggie, Fred's beautiful co-star in Bedrock's production of ''A Christmas Carol'' in ''[[A Flintstones Christmas Carol]]''. The two often enjoyed rehearsing their love scene together, which included a passionate kiss. As well as the "[[Mystery Woman]]" from ''[[The Flintstones - On the Rocks|The Flintstones: On the Rocks]]'', who was staying at the same resort as Fred and Wilma while the couple was on their second honeymoon, but Fred spent most of his time fantasizing about her.
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==Appearances==
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==='''Television shows'''===
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* ''[[The Flagstones]]'' (1959)
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* ''[[The Flintstones (TV series)|The Flintstones]]'' (1960–1966)
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* ''[[The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show]]'' (1971–1972)
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* ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Hour]]'' (1972–1974)
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* ''Scooby's All-Star Laff-A-Lympics'' (1977–1978)
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* ''[[Fred Flintstone and Friends]]'' (1977–1978)
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* ''[[The New Fred and Barney Show]]'' (1979)
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* ''[[Fred and Barney Meet the Thing]]'' (1979)
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* ''[[Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo]]'' (1979–1980)
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* ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Show]]'' (known as ''The Flintstone Frolics'') (1980–1982)
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* ''[[The Flintstone Funnies]]'' (1982–1984)
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* ''[[The Flintstone Kids]]'' (1986–1988)
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* ''[[Wikipedia:What a Cartoon!|What a Cartoon!]]'' – ''[[Dino: Stay Out!]]'' (1995)
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* ''[[The Rubbles]]'' (2002)
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* ''[[Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs]]'' (2020)
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==='''Films and specials'''===
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* ''Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This?'' (1966)
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* ''[[The Man Called Flintstone]]'' (1966)
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* ''The Flintstones on Ice'' (1973)
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* ''[[Energy: A National Issue]]'' (1977)
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* ''[[A Flintstone Christmas]]'' (1977)
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* ''[[Hanna-Barbera's All-Star Comedy Ice Revue]]'' (1978)
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* ''[[The Flintstones - Little Big League|The Flintstones: Little Big League]]'' (1978)
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* ''[[Wikipedia:Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips|Hanna-Barbera Educational Filmstrips]]'' (1980) – ''A Weighty Problem'', ''Fire Alarm'', ''Fire Escape'' and ''Driving Guide''
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* ''[[The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone]]'' (1980)
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* ''[[The Flintstone Primetime Specials]]''
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** ''[[The Flintstones' New Neighbors]]'' (1980)
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** ''[[The Flintstones - Fred's Final Fling|The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling]]'' (1980)
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** ''[[The Flintstones - Wind-Up Wilma|The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma]]'' (1981)
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** ''[[The Flintstones - Jogging Fever|The Flintstones: Jogging Fever]]'' (1981)
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* ''[[The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration]]'' (1986)
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* ''[[The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones]]'' (1987)
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* ''[[The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special]]'' (1988)
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* ''[[The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera]]'' (1990)
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* ''[[I Yabba-Dabba Do!]]'' (1993)
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* ''[[Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby]]'' (1993)
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* ''[[A Flintstone Family Christmas]]'' (1993)
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* ''[[The Flintstones (film)|The Flintstones]]'' (1994)
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* ''[[A Flintstones Christmas Carol]]'' (1994)
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* ''[[The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas]]'' (2000)
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* ''[[The Flintstones - On the Rocks|The Flintstones: On the Rocks]]'' (2001)
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* ''[[The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!|The Flintstones &amp; WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!]]'' (2015)
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==='''Video games'''===
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* ''[[The Flintstones - The Rescue of Dino & Hoppy|The Flintstones: The Rescue of Dino &amp; Hoppy]]''
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* ''[[The Flintstones (1993 video game)|The Flintstones]]''
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* ''[[The Flintstones - The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak|The Flintstones: The Surprise at Dinosaur Peak]]''
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* ''[[The Flintstones - The Treasure of Sierra Madrock|The Flintstones: The Treasure of Sierra Madrock]]''
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* ''[[The Flintstones - Bedrock Bowling|The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling]]''
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* ''[[The Flintstones - BurgerTime in Bedrock|The Flintstones: BurgerTime in Bedrock]]''
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* ''The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas''
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* ''[[The Flintstones - Big Trouble in Bedrock|The Flintstones: Big Trouble in Bedrock]]''
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*''[[The Flintstones - Bring Back Bedrock|The Flintstones: Bring Back Bedrock]]''
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==Portrayals==
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* [[Daws Butler]] - ''[[The Flagstones]]'' (1959)
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* '''[[Alan Reed]]'''
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** ''[[The Flintstones (TV series)|The Flintstones]]'' (1960–1966)
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** ''[[The Man Called Flintstone]]'' (1966)
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** ''[[The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show]]'' (1971–1972)
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** ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Hour]]'' (1972–1974)
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** ''[[Energy: A National Issue]]'' (1977)
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* '''[[Henry Corden]]'''
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** ''[[The Man Called Flintstone]]'' (1966, singing voice)
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** ''[[A Flintstone Christmas]]'' (1977)
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** ''[[Fred Flintstone and Friends]]'' (1977–1978)
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** ''[[The Flintstones - Little Big League|The Flintstones: Little Big League]]'' (1978)
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** ''[[The New Fred and Barney Show]]'' (1979)
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** ''[[Fred and Barney Meet the Thing]]'' (1979)
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** ''[[Fred and Barney Meet the Shmoo]]'' (1979–1980)
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** ''[[The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone]]'' (1980)
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** ''[[The Flintstone Comedy Show]]'' (known as ''The Flintstone Frolics'') (1980–1982)
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** ''[[The Flintstone Primetime Specials]]''
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*** ''[[The Flintstones' New Neighbors]]'' (1980)
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*** ''[[The Flintstones - Fred's Final Fling|The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling]]'' (1980)
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*** ''[[The Flintstones - Wind-Up Wilma|The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma]]'' (1981)
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*** ''[[The Flintstones - Jogging Fever|The Flintstones: Jogging Fever]]'' (1981)
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** ''[[The Flintstone Funnies]]'' (1982–1984)
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** ''[[The Flintstone Kids]]'' (1986–1988)
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** ''[[The Flintstones' 25th Anniversary Celebration]]'' (1986)
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** ''[[The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones]]'' (1987)
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** ''[[The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera]]'' (1990)
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** ''[[I Yabba-Dabba Do!]]'' (1993)
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** ''[[Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby]]'' (1993)
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** ''[[A Flintstone Family Christmas]]'' (1993)
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** ''[[A Flintstones Christmas Carol]]'' (1994)
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** ''[[Wikipedia:What a Cartoon!|What a Cartoon!]]'' – ''[[Dino: Stay Out!]]'' (1995)
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** ''[[Wikipedia:The Weird Al Show|The Weird Al Show]]'' - "Talent Show" (1997)
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** ''[[The Flintstones - Bedrock Bowling|The Flintstones: Bedrock Bowling]]'' (2000)
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* '''[[Jeff Bergman]]'''
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**''[[The Flintstones - On the Rocks|The Flintstones: On the Rocks]]'' (2001)
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**''[[The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!]]'' (2015)
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** ''[[Yabba-Dabba Dinosaurs]]'' (2020)
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==='''Other'''===
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* John Goodman - ''[[The Flintstones (film)|The Flintstones]]'' (1994)
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* Mark Addy - ''[[The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas]]'' (2000)
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* James Arnold Taylor - [[Pebbles Cereal]] commercials
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==Gallery==
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==Notes/Trivia==
In the stop-motion commercials, Barney no longer tries to steal Fred's pebbles. A running gag in the stop-motion commercials is that Barney doesn't add 64 pieces of Pebbles cereal to his spoon, he breifly turns into either a bird or a wooly mammoth. 
 
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*Fred appeared as a supporting character in the 1995 series, ''[[w:c:johnnybravo:Johnny Bravo (series)|Johnny Bravo]]'', in the 2004 episode "''A Page Right Out of History''".
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*A more primitive and hostile but non-canon version of Fred appeared in the 2000 series, ''[[w:c:grimadventures:The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy|The Grim Adventures of Billy &amp; Mandy]]'', in the 2006 episode "''[[w:c:grimadventures:Modern Primitives|Modern Primitives]]''" as an unfrozen caveman that went on a rampage. Aside from being Fred's last supporting role in a Cartoon Network show, 2006 would also be the year that [[Joseph Barbera]] passed away.
   
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==See also==
Recently, Fred and Barney have been replaced by sports stars and are just featured on the boxes. Their kids also hve become co-mascots with them.  
 
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* [[Flintstones Chewable Vitamins]]
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* [[Pebbles Cereal]]
   
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Yabba-Dabba-Doo!
―Fred Flintstone


Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone, once known as Fred W. Flintstone, is a fictional character of the original series, The Flintstones and the rest of the franchise.

Background

Fred is the handsome husband of Wilma, father of Pebbles and best friend of Barney Rubble, who lives at his house in Bedrock, at 345 Cave Stone Road (in some episodes, 1313 Cobblestone Way or 222 Rocky Way).

Fred Flintstone's most famous and iconic catchphrase is "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!", which is also heard at the beginning of the theme song, "Meet the Flintstones" and the film plus the rest of the franchise.

Personality

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Fred and Barney in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas.

Fred's personality was based on that of Ralph Kramden of the 1950s television series The Honeymooners and Chester A. Riley from The Life of Riley. Thus, much like Ralph, Fred tends to be loud-mouthed, offensive, and constantly scheming ways to improve his family's working class lot in life, often with unintended results. Archie Bunker of All in the Family & Archie Bunker's Place and George Jefferson of The Jeffersons also have similar personalities based on Fred Flintstone.

Due to his impulsive, aggressive, immature, childish and ill-tempered behavior and obstinate and naive nature, Fred Flintstone seems to be accident-prone. He is able to create the biggest confusion, even with the most innocent and mundane action.

Fred is mainly a kind and generous man, although he gets mad and angry quite a lot, usually when his immature friend Barney pesters and teases Fred, or even laughs at him by going. Other than that, Fred can have other emotions too. His laugh is "Ho, heh, he, he, he, he". He starts crying in some episodes, like "The Babysitters", when Barney tears up the tickets, in "Dino Disappears", when Dino runs away, and "The House That Fred Built", when Fred discovers that 1,000 bucks down the drain wasn't funny anymore.

Positive Qualities

Despite his apparently anti-social character, Fred's actions are shown to be usually free of any malice. And, although he almost constantly screams and irritates the people around him, Fred proves to be a friendly person; often going out of his way to help someone.

Although Fred often bugs Wilma with his immaturity, he proves to be a very caring and loving husband and father. Flintstone is even known to go to great lengths to please his family or owe somebody an apology when he goes too far.

Fred is also devoted to his daughter and cares for her more than Wilma herself. He is fatherly and can be overprotective with her at times though.

Physical Appearance

Fred is a stout but handsome caveman with fair skin, tan beard stubbles, black hair, thick black eyebrows and a large nose. He wears a raggedy, a deep sky blue or an aqua teal-green necktie and a sleeveless, orange and black-spotted loin cloth with a torn hemline.

Occupations and Interests

Fred is a typical blue-collar worker, who works as a "bronto-crane operator" at Slate Rock and Gravel Company (a.k.a. Rockhead and Quarry Cave Construction Company in the earliest episodes). However, when their children became teenagers, Fred and Barney joined the Bedrock police force, but when they went into adulthood and moved away, Fred went back to working for Mr. Slate alongside Barney.

Water Buffaloes

Fred, like Barney, was also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos Lodge (named "the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs" in an early episode), and both Fred and Barney were rather popular with the other members and even had some degree of influence over the Lodge's events, with Fred briefly even becoming Grand Poobah on one occasion.

Bowling and other sports

Fred's interests include bowling, playing pool, poker, lounging around the house, playing golf, and both Fred and Barney even coached several baseball teams as well. At the first two of these sports, Fred is very skilled, as seen in "Mother-in-Law's Visit", where he plays against Wilma's unsuspecting mother and beats her effortlessly despite her claims of being the best bowler in Arkanstone. Fred has won championships with his incredible bowling skills.

In fact the only person Fred could never fairly best in bowling was Blowhard Sandstone, an obnoxiously boastful man who had never lost a game in his life and who seemed to have some sort of bad luck "hex" over Fred, as whenever Fred challenged him to a game something bad would usually follow, such as Fred tripping, falling on his back or his ball falling to the way side, all in an unusually uncharacteristic streak of poor performance that was highly unusual for a bowler of Fred's impressive skills.

Although Fred's failures against Blowhard may have only been due to the latter using his demeaning and insulting banter to lower Fred's self-esteem and focus. The streak of bad luck against Blowhard finally ended in "Barney the Invisible", when Fred used an invisible Barney to help him cheat, thus crushing Blowhard's arrogance and pride. Despite this crooked victory, Fred was still the best bowler in town and would go on to win championships on his own skill and merit.

In "Bowling Ballet", he goes so far as to take ballet lessons in order to improve his game which led to his nickname "Twinkletoes". The nickname of "Twinkletoes" stuck with him when Fred attended a local college and became eligible to play on their football team, and it became his call sign.

Fred is also an excellent golfer and occasionally goes to the golf course with Barney to show off his skills. Both also own their own sets of golf clubs which they happily show off. In "The Golf Champion", he wins the championship only to have Barney repossess the winning trophy cup because Fred is behind in his dues.

Gambling

Fred also has a serious gambling problem; the mere mention of the word "bet" causes Fred to stammer "bet" over and over again and go on gambling binges. Unlike his other skills, Fred is not a particularly good gambler and whenever he goes on a gambling streak, he always gets a losing streak and bets off more than he can offer.

Inventing

Fred's Laboratory

Fred inventing a new soft drink in his garage turned laboratory.

In "Barney the Invisible", Fred is revealed to have started developing an interest in inventing, going so far as to convert his garage into a pseudo-laboratory full of tools, mechanical parts, bottled chemicals, tubes, beakers and cauldrons. Fred claimed he was inspired into this pursuit after reading about brilliant inventors like Thomas Edistone (the inventor of the candle) and Albert Einstone, but its clear that his primary motivation is his desire to invent a new soft drink, miracle formula or revolutionary machine that will make him rich overnight, with Wilma outright revealing to Betty that Fred only started pursuing chemistry simply to create a new kind of soft drink to outmatch Cactus Cola and make a fortune.

His streak as a wannabe "mad scientist" would continue for the rest of the show's run and in the majority of subsequent sequel media, like The Flintstone Comedy Hour, The New Fred and Barney Show, The Flintstone Comedy Show and many comics. By the time of "Barney the Invisible" Fred claims that he had already made 411 attempts at creating a new soft drink, showing that he had been pursuing this goal for quite a while, and by the time of "Glue for Two", Wilma indicates that Fred had invented 778 failed soft drink formulas. Fred tends to name each new soft drink based on the numerical order of their creation, such as naming his 411th failed soda "411up" but he named his 778th soda "777up" (which were obvious spoofs of the 7up brand of soda).

Inventions

Despite not being the most intellectually inclined caveman around, Fred has proven to be at least somewhat competent at inventing, creating all manner of "soft drinks" with unpredictable effects as well as other things (although even his most successful inventions always tend to backfire):

  • "The Fred Flintstone Hiccup Cure", Fred's first invention which is just a paper bag (first appeared in "Barney the Invisible").
  • "The Hair Grower", hair growth formula that only grew hair on dodo bird eggs (first mentioned in "Barney the Invisible").
  • "411up", a horrible soft drink which causes spasms (first appeared in "Barney the Invisible").
  • "412up", a horrible soft drink that was intended to cure hiccups but instead caused invisibility (first appeared in "Barney the Invisible").
  • "777up", a horrible soft drink which Fred accidentally turned into a glue after pouring glue into it (first appeared in "Glue for Two").
  • "Fred-O-Cal", a weight reducing formula that only worked as a temporary shrinking potion (first appeared in "Itty Bitty Fred").
  • "The Flintstone Rockuzzi", essentially solar power and wind-power harnessed for the creation of a solar-powered hot tub, and is probably Fred's most successful invention and created during Pebbles' teen years. It was a small building with a hot tub that on its roof had a windmill that was used to pump water from the ground which was then collected into a trough that was then boiled by a "solar energy lens" that collected and amplified the sun's rays and the water was then poured into the hot tub. The invention and its discovery of wind and solar power proved so revolutionary for the Stone Age that Fred even appeared in the news and dubbed his creation as the ultimate way to "Lick the Energy Crisis", and he was to have a major public event in his honor to reveal it. However a windstorm botched his invention, causing it to go out of control and flood part of Bedrock, resulting in his most successful invention becoming another dud that put him in debt (first appeared in "Fred vs. the Energy Crisis").
  • "Invisibility Spray", a more effective version of 412up that doesn't need to be consumed and only sprayed on to turn invisible (first appeared in "Invisible Mouse").

Biography

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Fred as an infant.

Not much of Fred's life growing up is known, and while the mid-1980s spin-off series The Flintstone Kids depicts Fred as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Fred as a childhood friend of Wilma and Betty and several other issues that put the show in a continuity all its own. In official media, Fred was born to two loving parents, a very affectionate mother who loved taking pictures of him on a bear rug as a baby and making him seaweed fricassee and a playful father who loved spending time with his son and playing with his son's toys. Fred has known Barney since at least high school, with them even being on sports teams together back in the day and getting into all sorts of shenanigans even back then.

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Fred with Wilma, Betty and Barney seeing a movie in the Cinderama on their first date.

Fred and Barney would first meet their future wives Betty and Wilma in their teenage years at the Honeyrock Hotel sixteen years prior to the episode "Bachelor Daze". There Fred and Barney had just started working as bellboys and it was also the day when Fred had received his first razor blade from his father. One day they were goofing off and pretending to be millionaires in a fancy car they were watching when they first met Wilma and Betty (who also worked at the hotel as maids) who were also goofing off and pretending to be rich girls while hanging out in a fancy car that wasn't theirs.

It was essentially love at first sight for the youths, but both parties were too afraid to pursue their relationships further out of fear that they would be exposed as lowly hotel workers. In the end though, the truth was revealed at the hotel party that night and both parties were greatly relieved to find out they weren't rich, and after being fired for goofing off, they were picked up and taken home by Wilma's mother Pearl Slaghoople who was less than pleased with her daughter's new boyfriend, Fred, as Fred and her had briefly met at the hotel and got off to a very rocky start which would unsure Fred a very unhappy relationship with his future mother-in-law.

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Fred and Barney about to be launched in a rocket as part of their mistaken military duty.

Fred proposed to Wilma and married her six and a half years after their first meeting with Barney and Betty presumably following shortly after. Fred's wedding day proved to be a hectic one when his mother-in-law threw him out of the house after he made a crude comment about her hat, forcing Fred and Wilma to elope and get married in Rock Vegas. They would then spend their honey moon touring across the country and visiting every race track they could find, where Fred gave into his gambling fever over and over, winning big at the Hialeah Race Track but then losing all of his winnings at the Hollyrock Park Race Track. Wilma then had Fred "cured" of his gambling addiction by betting against him in a Poker game and winning, forcing Fred to go see a psychiatrist after losing (as explained by Wilma in "The Gambler"). Fred and Wilma then moved from Arkanstone to the town of Bedrock and it would remain their home ever since. Several episodes and spinoffs suggest that Fred, along with Barney, spent some time in the army early in their marriages, though said references may be to Fred and Barney's military service in the episode "The Astra' Nuts" which was very short lived and ended with them being unsuccessfully launched to the moon.

After marriage and moving into Bedrock, Fred got a job at Slate Rock and Gravel Company thirteen years prior to the episode, "The Missing Bus", where he would begrudgingly remain from then on. With their new home and jobs in place, Fred and Barney would spend most of their lives going through many shenanigans and trials, while Fred also tried to balance out his married life, often trying to avoid Wilma's scrutiny or trying to keep her pleased while also getting his needs met. Fred's job would be even more troublesome, as Fred was constantly getting fired and re-hired by his disgruntled and hot-tempered boss Mr. Slate, and although Fred was often able to get a raise, a bonus, or even a promotion to foreman, it would usually become undone eventually due to his own failings or Mr. Slate's own foul disposition.

The most eventful day of Fred and Wilma's lives after marriage came on the day that Wilma announced to Fred that she would be having a baby, much to Fred's unparalleled joy. For the next 9 months, Fred would spend every waking moment preparing for the arrival of his baby, buying all manner of toys and doing all he could to make as much money as possible and raise the standard of living for his family. He even attempted to hire housekeepers and nursemaids to help Wilma which met with very mixed success, especially due to constant interference by his mother-in-law Pearl, who briefly stayed with the Flintstones during this time to help her daughter and to also make Fred's life a constant nightmare.

In the end though, it would all pay off on the eventful day when Wilma finally gave birth to their newborn baby daughter, a day that Fred would never forget, for it was just as hectic as it was a blessing. The couple would then name their daughter Pebbles Flintstone after Fred and Barney remarked that she was a "pebble off the old Flintstone" rather than a "chip off the old block".

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Fred and Barney meet The Great Gazoo.

Fred's life from there continued to be a hectic one with many more shenanigans alongside Barney while also knowing the joys of fatherhood and getting to see his best friend Barney also become a father after the unexpected delivery of his adopted son Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Fred and Barney would get to go on even more fantastic adventures after meeting the mysterious alien known as The Great Gazoo, and although their time together was short, it would prove to be a very troubling but exciting time for everyone.

From then on Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty would still be inseparable as the years rolled by, and Fred's tiring occupation would become more bearable when his best friend Barney finally joined him at his workplace. Their greatest joy though was watching their children grow up to become teenagers and a lovely couple, who would fittingly enough become much like their parents, with Pebbles often acting as the scheming and adventurous planner, much like her father before her and much to her father's mixed feelings, while Bamm-Bamm would act as the unwilling but loyal sidekick in all her schemes, much like his father before him and much to his father's amusement.

Eventually, Fred and Barney decided to pursue a new career path for themselves by joining the Bedrock Police as part-time officers. It was there that Fred and Barney would first meet the mysterious Shmoo, who proved to be a loving and faithful police partner and pet to the duo both on and off duty, with the creature even briefly living with Fred.

Many more years passed and now the Flintstones' and the Rubbles' children had grown to adulthood with the lives of their own, with Fred's daughter Pebbles becoming an ambitious secretary at the Pyrite Advertising Agency. However, the Flintstones and the Rubbles would receive some life changing news that when Bamm-Bamm announced that he and Pebbles had finally become engaged, a union which would finally seal the Flintstones and the Rubbles together as family forever more.

Relationships

Family

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Young Fred with his own parents, Ed and Edna Flintstone.

According to The Flintstone Kids (which is non-canon as the show is more 80s-centric and features all the characters knowing each other as kids, but still features the accurate names of the parents of characters such as Wilma's), he is shown to be the son of Ed and Edna Flintstone. In the special, The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special, it is shown that he has a cool cousin from Hollyrock who has a band of his own and not only doesn't use drugs, he is in a "Just Say No" club, eventually inspiring Wilma to start one of her own.

What is known is that Fred was the grandson of famed Stone War I hero Rockbottom "Rocky" Flintstone. Fred also had a good relationship with his father, sharing his toys with him as a child and even receiving his first razor from him.

The Flintstone family came from "Arkanstone" where they had been engaged in a feud with the "Hatrock" family which had been caused by an ancestor of Fred's making a wisecrack of a Hatrock family portrait ("I don't know what the artist got for doing that painting but he should have gotten life"). In "The Bedrock Hillbillies", the feud ended when Fred helped rescue Slab (and Pebbles) from going over a waterfall only to start up again when Fred made the very same wisecrack.

In "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes", when the "Hatrock" family visited the Flintstone family and being friends, until when Bug Music was played and the Hatrocks couldn't stand the Bug Music. The last of the Arkanstone Flintstones was Fred's great-uncle Zeke Flintstone. Other Flintstone relatives were Giggles Flintstone - a rich eccentric practical joker who drove Fred into a mad rage with his jokes; an "Uncle Tex" and his sister "Aunt Jamima".

Love Interests

Fred mainly has been shown to be faithful to his wife, Wilma, but this has not stopped him from pursuing other women. Examples of this include Sharon Stone, his gorgeous secretary in the 1994 film, The Flintstones, who often seduced him in order to distract him while she and his villainous boss, Cliff, framed him for embezzlement. Fred very clearly enjoyed being seduced by the beautiful woman, and was even caught in the middle of a very "intimate" moment with her by his furious wife.

Other examples include Maggie, Fred's beautiful co-star in Bedrock's production of A Christmas Carol in A Flintstones Christmas Carol. The two often enjoyed rehearsing their love scene together, which included a passionate kiss. As well as the "Mystery Woman" from The Flintstones: On the Rocks, who was staying at the same resort as Fred and Wilma while the couple was on their second honeymoon, but Fred spent most of his time fantasizing about her.

Appearances

Television shows

Films and specials

Video games

Portrayals

Television shows, films and specials

Other

Gallery

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Notes/Trivia

  • Fred appeared as a supporting character in the 1995 series, Johnny Bravo, in the 2004 episode "A Page Right Out of History".
  • A more primitive and hostile but non-canon version of Fred appeared in the 2000 series, The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, in the 2006 episode "Modern Primitives" as an unfrozen caveman that went on a rampage. Aside from being Fred's last supporting role in a Cartoon Network show, 2006 would also be the year that Joseph Barbera passed away.

See also