Ladies' Night at the Lodge

Ladies' Night at the Lodge
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	4
Episode number	110
Production number	P-109
Original airdate	February 13, 1964 (ABC)
Recording Date	August 16, 1963
Crew
Animated by	William Keil Dick Lundy Don Williams Bob Carr
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Willie Ito Jerry Eisenberg
Background	Robert Gentle
Written by	Herbert Finn
Chronology
Previous	"Room for Two"
Next	"Reel Trouble"

"Ladies' Night at the Lodge" is the twenty-second episode of the fourth season and the one hundred and tenth overall episode of The Flintstones. It aired on February 13, 1964.

Synopsis

Wilma and Betty battle their husbands to attend Lodge meetings, and when they refuse, they decide to disguise themselves as men to gain admittance.

Plot

Irked that Fred and Barney both squandered family finances on new Water Buffalo hats- when there was nothing wrong with prior such identical head adornments- and doubly exasperated by the increasing Fred and Barney habit of attending Water Buffalo Lodge assemblies instead of going to movie theaters and other pleasureful places with their work-weary women, Wilma and Betty insist that Fred suggest a change in Water Buffalo bylaw to permit wives to accompany Lodge brothers to the nightly meetings.

However, Fred is "beaten to the punch" in this task by fellow Water Buffalo Quartz, who is violently expelled from the Loyal Order of Water Buffalos for proposing such an insidious bylaw amendment! Fearing the same outcome for himself, Fred refrains from echoing Quartz's ill-fated recommendation and reports Quartz's painful experience and its cause to Wilma. Wives are not and will never be allowed at the Water Buffalo Lodge.

Curiosity about Water Buffalo procedures compels Wilma and Betty to dress in Fred's discarded clothing and in Fred and Barney's former Water Buffalo hats and don false mustaches- without either Fred or Barney's knowledge. Leaving Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm in the care of the regular Rubble babysitter, Wilma and Betty, as a pair of rather thin Water Buffalos named Smithstone and Jonesstone, gain access to the Water Buffalo Lodge to spy upon the foolery there on an evening in which many seldom-seen out-of-towners are expected to congregate with the Bedrock regulars.

Presumed by the Grand Poobah to be Water Buffalo neophytes, Wilma and Betty must endure initiation rituals: whacks on the backside by paddles wielded by all brother Buffalos, a tug-of-war ending with their submersion in tar, blasts by hosed water, and a wheelbarrow race, wherein Wilma and Betty dash out of the Lodge doors and scurry for home! Fred and Barney never suspected that their spouses were in disguise at the Water Buffalo meeting and are thereafter gratified to hear Wilma and Betty finally concede that the Water Buffalo "herd" is quite rightfully a domain of men only.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Dino
• Sam Slagheap
• James McFossil (only appearance)
• Brother Quartz (only appearance)
• Brother Shortstone (only appearance)
• Brother McBoulder (only appearance)
• Mrs. Sitstone (only appearance)
• Gina Lodabricks (only mentioned)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Rubble home
• Water Buffalo Lodge

Objects

• Rock salt shaker
• Water Buffalo Lodge hat
• Cactus Juice
• Picture book (only appearance)
• Mustaches
• Water Buffalo Lodge hats
• Paddles (only appearance)

Food

• Roast Loin of Stegosaurus
• Pterodactyl Drumstick
• Bread (as part of a shopping list)
• Bacon (as part of a shopping list)
• Rock Salt (as part of a shopping list)
• Corn on the Cob (only appearance)

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Pterodactyl (as a Pterodactyl drumstick)
• Stegosaurus (as Roast Loin of Stegosaurus and a Stego-sposal)
• Swordfish (as a saw from a picture book)
• Turtlesaurus (as a card table)
• Giant Butterfly (only appearance)
• Bird (as scissors)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile

Media

• The Monster from the Tarpits (movie)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone Mrs. Sitstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Big Guy
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Quartz Stego-sposal Member Voice #2
Howard Morris	Voice #3 Treasurer Turtle Bird McBoulder Timid Man
Doug Young	Sam Slagheap Doorman Voice #1

Notes/Trivia

• The movie at the theater is The Monster from the Tar Pits, the film in which Fred was a stuntman in the episode of the same name in the first season.
• Some of the lodge members are Brother Quartz, Brother Shortstone, and Brother McBoulder.

Errors

• None known.