Pebbles' Birthday Party

Pebbles' Birthday Party
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	5
Episode number	118
Production number	P-115
Original airdate	October 8, 1964 (ABC)
Recording Date	March 3, 1964
Crew
Animated by	Grant Simmons Ray Patterson Ed Love Kenneth Muse Carlo Vinci
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Iwao Takamoto Jerry Eisenberg
Background	Robert Gentle
Written by	Tony Benedict
Chronology
Previous	"Itty Bitty Fred"
Next	"Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up"

"Pebbles' Birthday Party" is the fourth episode of the fifth season and the one hundred and eighteenth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on October 8, 1964.

Synopsis

When Fred tries to organize a birthday party for his daughter, Pebbles, and a Lodge party on the same night, the caterer mixes things up. As a result, Rocko the Clown shows up to the Lodge party, while the Boulderettes arrive at the Flintstones' home to entertain the tots.

Plot

A bumbling caterer hired by Fred to provide same-night entertainment at Pebbles' birthday party and at the Water Buffalo Lodge incorrectly sends soda pop and Rocko the Clown to the Lodge and cactus juice and dancing girls (the ravishing Boulderettes) to Pebbles' party at the Flintstone residence. The scapegoat is, of course, Fred, for Wilma and Fred's brother Buffalos. Wilma is furious with Fred, who strives to prevent illicit juvenile revels at home and to stop a riot at the Lodge.

While at the Lodge, Fred is attacked by his irritable Lodge brothers, who have already humiliated Rocko by pinning a donkey's tail on his rear. After one of the Flintstones' neighbors telephones the Bedrock P.D., everyone at both parties is arrested, and the caterer is summoned to account for his disastrous confusion. He readily admits to his mistake, for he is the only caterer in town and, thus, apparently in no danger of losing clientele.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Dino
• Baby Puss
• Sam Slagheap
• The Boulderettes (only appearance, no lines)
• Rocko the Clown (only appearance)
• Harriet and Harry (only appearance)
• Alligators Ragtime Band Plus Two (only appearance)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Rubble home
• Water Buffalo Lodge
• Cobblestone Caterers (only appearance)
• Bedrock Police Station
• Service station (only appearance)

Objects

• Poker cards
• Funnel
• Hose
• Spare tire
• Rock Bell Phone
• Cuckoo Clock

Food

• 2-Day Hard-Boiled Pterodactyl Egg
• Orange
• Cactus Juice
• Soda Pop

Animals

• Saber-Toothed Cat (as Baby Puss)
• Snorkasaurus
• Pterodactyl (as a hard-boiled Pterodactyl egg)
• Brontosaurus (as a Paddy Wagon)
• Turtlesaurus (as a tire jack)
• Gophersaurus
• Mammoths (as regular and Hi-Test gas pumps)
• Gatorsaurus (as part of the Alligators Ragtime Band Plus Two)
• Donkeysaurus (as a tail with a pin)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Attendant
Gerry Johnson	Betty Rubble Wife
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Baby Puss Harry Guy Kid #1 Kid #3 Musician
John Stephenson	Sam Slagheap Bird Rocko the Clown Kid #2 Neighbor Sarge Guy #1
Doug Young	Guy #3 Clerk/Musician/Dispatcher

Notes/Trivia

• The working title for this episode was "The Trouble With a Two Parties".
• The turtlesaurus is named Jack, the brontosaurus is Elsie, and two gophersauruses are named Harriet and Harry.
• This episode features a rare appearance by the Flintstones' pet saber-toothed cat, Baby Puss, who throws Fred out of the house during the closing credits of each episode. Not only that but in this episode, the cat himself actually talks, claiming that he will move out to get away from Fred’s snoring. Amusingly, this is his last appearance in the series.
• This episode was used as a major plot device from the episode of the fourth season, "Sixteen Candles and 400-Pound Men" on Boy Meets World in 1996.

Errors

• The quick, high, leg-kicking blonde dancing girls [on the floor] are six. When they popped out of Pebbles' extra-large birthday cake, there were ten blonde dancing girls. They came out of a disguised cardboard box that looked like an extra large cake extremely quickly before their quick high leg kicks and continuous dancing, throughout the remainder of the mistakes, by the short-memory caterer.

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