Nuthin' But the Tooth

Nuthin' But the Tooth
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	3
Episode number	72
Production number	P-72
Original airdate	November 30, 1962 (ABC)
Recording Date	June 29, 1962
Crew
Animated by	Ed Love Carlo Vinci Dick Lundy Don Patterson
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Lance Nolley Dan Noonan
Background	Richard H. Thomas
Written by	Tony Benedict
Chronology
Previous	"Ladies' Day"
Next	"High School Fred"

"Nuthin' But the Tooth" is the twelfth episode of the third season and the seventy-second overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on November 30, 1962.

Synopsis

Barney has a terrible toothache, so Fred promises to take him to the dentist. But on the way to the dentist, Fred spots a sign for a Championship boxing match.

Plot

Barney, with an excruciating toothache, moans at night, and Betty appoints Barney with his dentist on "D-for-dentist-day," the expected cost of tooth extraction being $10. Fred consents to use his nimble feet to chauffeur Barney by car to Barney's dentist's office, and while the pair are travelling there, they see a billboard announcing a Rocky Granite and Floyd Patterstone championship fight. Fred is without any funds, and all of the money that Barney has is the ten dollars intended to pay his dentist for the tooth extraction procedure. Fred calculates that ten dollars would finance two ring-side seat tickets to the fight.

Therefore, despite Barney's objection, Fred endeavors to do the dentist's job and to relieve Barney's gratis of the aching tooth. Attempts to do so by attaching the tooth to a string connected to Fred's car and Dino while Dino is chasing a cat are painful for Fred, who careens into a street sign when his car abruptly stops at the maximum tension of the string- and Barney's stubborn tooth- and then is dragged by Dino through the humps of a large dinosaur after Barney unexpectedly passes the string to Fred.

Fred next decides to bring Barney to a dinosaur dentist, whistle-voiced Dr. Smiley Molar, who only charges $5 to pull teeth, thus enabling Fred and Barney to purchase two generic tickets to the fight. Molar is willing to extract a human's tooth and pumps an anaesthetic gas into Barney that levitates Barney while Molar is distracted by a telephone call from Molar's wife. Fred sees the sleeping Barney float out of Molar's clinic and pursues his friend, eventually gaining hold of Barney's foot and moving skyward with the now-awake Barney. The duo drift into the airspace of the Bedrock National Guard headquarters, and boulder and tree branch "missiles" are launched in interception of the "UFO".

Barney catches one of the rocks, and he and Fred plummet to the ground, with Barney's agonizing tooth falling out of his mouth in the impact. Fred secures Barney inside his car, which levitates with the two buddies therein, and Fred drops a fishing anchor to Earth so that he and Barney do not helplessly drift again. Betty and Wilma find their husbands in their "up in the air" predicament, and Betty contacts Molar by telephone to enquire about the duration of the gas' "light-weighted" effect, and the response is indeterminate, only that the gas will later "wear off." Fred ties a plank to floating Barney so that he and Barney can enjoy a free sky seat at the fight.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Dino
• Baby Puss
• Smiley Molar (only appearance)
• Hector (only appearance)
• Rocky Granite (only named in a billboard)
• Floyd Patterstone (only named in a billboard)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Rubble home
• Dr. Smiley Molar's office (only appearance)
• Bedrock National Guard (only appearance)

Objects

• Rock Bell Phone

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Brontosaurus
• Mammoth
• Pterodactyl (as an airplane and a pilot plane)
• Parrotsaurus

Vehicles

• Flintmobile

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Woman
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Hector Parrotsaurus Solider #2 Bird Army Pilot Man Bird #2
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble Woman
Don Messick	Kid/Co-Pilot
Howard Morris	Smiley Molar Boy Pilot Soldier #1 Sergeant Cop Bird #1

Notes/Trivia

• The Stone Age names of two popular boxers, Rocky Marciano and Floyd Patterson, are on a billboard. Floyd Patterson's name appears as Floyd Patterstone.
• In a rare appearance by Baby Puss in this episode, Dino is chasing him.
• This is the first episode to feature incidental voices from Howard Morris.

Errors

• When Fred and Barney are driving away in Fred's car before they float up in the air, the side of Fred's car is the same color as the roadway instead of red. Then, as the car starts to float up, it turns red, which is the normal color.