Hot Lips Hannigan

Hot Lips Hannigan
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	1
Episode number	2
Production number	P-9
Original airdate	October 7, 1960 (ABC)
Recording Date	May 2, 1960
Crew
Animated by	Kenneth Muse
Layout	Dick Bickenbach
Background	Robert Gentle
Written by	Warren Foster
Chronology
Previous	"The Flintstone Flyer"
Next	"The Swimming Pool"

"Hot Lips Hannigan" is the second episode of the first season of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on October 7, 1960.

Synopsis

It's Fred's responsibility this time around to assemble an act for Amateur Night at his and Barney's club.

Plot

Fred's looking for an act to do for the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs' annual talent show. He borrows Barney's trampoline so he can surprise Wilma while she's at the dress shop. Unfortunately, his prank backfires as he ends up scaring one of the models, and leaves Wilma feeling humiliated.

Then Fred tries to do some magic, but ends up smashing a pile of dishes. Then the noise brings Betty and Barney around, and then Fred offers to do the disappearing trick using a magic cabinet. Wilma and Betty volunteer and Fred apparently succeeds in making them disappear. When Barney tells him to bring them back, Fred refuses, saying they could have a night out and the wives wouldn't know about it, so they decide to go down to the Rockland Dance Hall.

However, unbeknownst to Fred and Barney, Wilma and Betty haven't really disappeared. Deciding to play along, they snuck out through a secret door in the back of the cabinet and hid in the bedroom where they overheard Fred and Barney's plans. Disguising themselves, Wilma and Betty go down to the Rockland Dance Hall to teach their wayward husbands a lesson.

While at Rockland, Fred and Barney meet up with Hot Lips Hannigan, who allows them to play a song. Fred sings When the Saints Go Marching In, with Barney on the drums. The crowd of teenagers, initially put off by two older dilettantes trying to play music for a younger crowd, gradually warms to the duo, to the point where they go into a frenzy and chase Fred and Barney. Wilma and Betty, still under disguise, help their husbands escape the crowds, but then they start to talk romantically to Fred and Barney, despite objections from the husbands.

Fred and Barney quickly flee Rockland and return home in an effort to bring their wives back from the magic cabinet, but the cabinet opens to reveal a disguised Wilma and Betty. Fred and Barney hide in the closet while Wilma and Betty return to normal, much to their relief. However, when Fred unknowingly mentions what happened in Rockland in front of Wilma and Betty, he promptly faints.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Wilma Flintstone
• Dressmaker (only appearance)
• Zsa-Zsa (only appearance)
• Betty Rubble
• Hot Lips Hannigan (first and only animated appearance)
• Shelly (only appearance)
• Teen audience (only appearance)
• Rockstone the Great (only mentioned)
• Hannigan's kids (only mentioned)

Locations

Bedrock

• Water Buffalo Lodge (first appearance, known as the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs Lodge)
• Flintstone home
• Rockland (only appearance)
• Rockville Center High School (mentioned)
• Hannigan's split-level house (only mentioned)

Objects

• Wilma's pottery (destroyed)
• Fred's lounge chair
• Trampoline
• Wilma's frying pan
• Rockstone's magic set (only appearance)
• Disappearing Cabinet (only appearance)
• Wilma and Betty's disguises
• Clam shell microphone
• Turtle shell cymbal
• Television
• Hannigan's trumpet

Animals

• Leopardsaurus (as a leopard-skin dress)
• Rabbitsaurus
• Clamasaurus (as a microphone)
• Turtlesaurus (as part of a drum set)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile (first appearance)
• Wilma's car
• Logrovers

Events

• Annual Benefit Show

Songs

• Three Itty Bitties (only mentioned)
• Want Some Seafood Mama (only mentioned)
• Red Hot Mamma (only mentioned)
• You Gotta Turn Your Damper Down (only mentioned)
• Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore (only mentioned)
• Mama Loves Papa (only mentioned)
• When the Saints Go Marching In

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Zsa-Zsa Girl #3
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Shelly Man #2
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble Dressmaker Girl #1 Girl #2
Jerry Mann	Hot Lips Hannigan Man #1

Notes/Trivia

• Hot Lips Hannigan's persona resembles that of the Beatniks.
• Hot Lips Hannigan would be used on The Flintstones 10 years before the M.A.S.H. franchise debuted a female character with a similar nickname, Hot Lips Houlihan.
• The Loyal Order of Dinosaurs is a precursor to the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes.
• Wilma drives a different car than in the previous episode.
• It was later adapted into a book called, "Fred and the Magic Cabinet" by Buzz Books.

Allusions

• Fred's nickname, "The Golden Smog," is a parody of Mel Tormé, who's known as "The Velvet Fog."
• The list of songs Fred and Hannigan mention is made up of both real songs and allusions to real song.
  • Three Itty Bitties is a reference to Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Pool) by Josephine Carringer, Bernice Idins and Saxie Dowell and popularized by Kay Kyser.
  • Want Some Seafood Mama is a reference to Hold Tight, Hold Tight (Want Some Seafood Mama) by Sidney Bechet and popularized by the Andrew Sisters.
  • Red Hot Mamma and You Gotta Turn Your Damper Down is a reference to the 1924 single Red Hot Mama sung by Sophie Tucker.
  • Annie Doesn't Live Here Anymore is a 1933 single sung by Ramona (Estrild Raymona Myers).
  • Mama Loves Papa is a 1923 single by Jane Green and popularized by Bing Crosby.
  • When the Saints Go Marching In is a classic hymn turned spiritual jazz song popularized by Louis Armstrong in 1938. This song is performed in the episode and is one of only a number of well-known songs featured in the show over the years.

Errors

• This is the first episode to say where Fred went to high school, which doesn't fit later on, such as a few episodes in "Love Letters on the Rocks", when Wilma says they both went to Boulder High.