Monster Fred

Monster Fred
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	5
Episode number	116
Production number	P-118
Original airdate	September 24, 1964 (ABC)
Recording Date	April 3, 1964
Crew
Animated by	Carlo Vinci Kenneth Muse Fred Wolf
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Jack Huber Willie Ito
Background	Fernando Montealegre (known as F. Montealegre) Rene Garcia
Written by	Barry E. Blitzer
Chronology
Previous	"Hop Happy"
Next	"Itty Bitty Fred"

"Monster Fred" is the second episode of the fifth season and the one hundred and sixteenth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on September 24, 1964.

Synopsis

Conked on the head by a bowling ball, Fred awakens believing he is a baby. Barney then takes Fred to see Dr. Frankenstone, who has been experimenting with switching personalities in animals.

Plot

Accompanied by Dino, Fred and Barney go bowling one night, and superstitious Barney cannot help but notice the omens in the black cat that crosses their path, in Fred's walk beneath a ladder, and in the thirteenth lane allocated to them at the Bedrock Bowling Alley.

Sure enough, misfortune "strikes" when Fred is hit on the head by an out-of-control bowling ball. Barney brings the semi-conscious and baby-babbling Fred to Dr. Len Frankenstone, a mad scientist attended by a constantly chastising, Sam Jaffe-like elder doctor. Wilma and Betty arrive at Frankenstone's clinic at Barney's summons, and Frankenstone uses a mind-transfer machine to attempt to cure Fred's amnesiac stupor.

A series of personality transfers occur, with Fred and Dino swapping psyches, then Fred and Barney, then Fred and Wilma and Barney and Betty. Frankenstone finally puts everyone's mind into proper body, and Fred, fully recovered, urges his companions to flee the mad scientist. They also evade the overtures of a vampire who offers to treat Fred's foot that was run over by the wheel of the vampire's car and bad luck persists for him.

While chasing Barney, whose ventriloquism has again enraged Fred, Fred throws his bowling ball, which ricochets onto his head, rendering him delirious again - and Barney suggests a visit to a Dr. Jekyllrock.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Dino
• Wilma Flintstone
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Hoppy

Other Characters

• The Beagles (mentioned)

Doctors

• Dr. Sigrock Freep (only appearance)
• Dr. Len Frankenstone (only appearance)
• Dr. Zero (only appearance)
• Dr. Dracuslab (only appearance)
• Charlie the Bat (only appearance)
• Dr. Boulderheimer (only mentioned)
• Dr. Kilarock (only mentioned)
• Dr. Sigmund Fraudstone (only mentioned)
• Dr. Jekyllrock (only mentioned)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Bedrock Bowl

Doctor's Offices

• Dr. Sigrock Freep's office (only appearance)
• Dr. Len Frankenstone's office (only appearance)
• Dr. Kilarock's office (only mentioned)
• Dr. Boulderheimer's office (only mentioned)

Objects

• Fred's bowling ball
• Hammer
• Saw
• Sugar cube bowl
• X-Ray Machine
• Pilot light (only appearance)
• Personality Transfer Machine (only appearance)
• Rock Bell Phone

Food

• Sweet and Sour Pterodactyl
• Bronto-Suey

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Cannibal fish
• Catasaurus
• Dragonsaurus
• Turtlesaurus
• Unnamed dinosaur
• Batasauruses
• Pterodactyl (as sweet and sour Pterodactyl)
• Brontosaurus (as Bronto-Suey)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile
• Dracuslab's car (only appearance)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Guy #2 Charlie the Bat
Gerry Johnson	Betty Rubble
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Hoppy Turtle Cat
Allan Melvin	Dr. Len Frankenstone
Doug Young	Dr. Dracuslab Guy #1 Dr. Zero Pterodactyl
Howard Morris	Dr. Sigrock Freep

Notes/Trivia

• One of the guys in the episode is called Mac and one of the bats is called Charlie.
• Dr. Sigrock Freep is a spoof of Sigmund Freud.

Allusions

• The characters of Len Frankenstone and his mentor, Dr. Zero are parodies of Ben Casey (Vince Edwards) and Doctor Zorba (Sam Jaffee) from the 1961 TV show Ben Casey.
• The Beagles are a parody of The Beatles.

Errors

• None known.