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"Peek-a-Boo Camera" is the fourteenth episode of the fourth season and the one hundred and second overall episode of The Flintstones. It aired on December 19, 1963.

Synopsis

Fred and Barney lie to their wives so that they can attend a bachelor party unaware that their antics are being secretly filmed for a comedy show.

Plot

Another "little, white lie and deception" causes no end of trouble for Fred and Barney. The original, after-supper plan on Fred and Wilma's wedding anniversary is for Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty to excite themselves in the Bedrock theaters and night clubs.

However, the Water Buffalo Lodge's Grand Poobah, Sam Slagheap orders a special Water Buffalo meeting on that precise evening, to celebrate the impending marriage of brother Buffalo Shelly Shale with the standard bachelor party. Fred and Barney mention with deliberate obliqueness that Shelly has "reached the end of the line" and that his Water Buffalo brethren will be "paying their last respects", and Wilma and Betty, of course assuming that Shelly is dying in a hospital, graciously permit their husbands to cancel the Flintstone and Rubble couples' intended evening of fun so that Fred and Barney can attend to their "expiring" friend.

At the bachelor party, located at the Copacaboulder Club, Fred and Barney's shenanigans are most outrageous, with Fred pretending to be a matador and Barney, in his horned Water Buffalo hat, playing bull, and Fred and Barney both donning wigs to dance alongside a string of can-can girls. All of this is captured on film by Rocky Genial of television's Peek-A-Boo Camera, the popular show that, "...catches people unaware," every week in a new hiding place (this time in a Copacaboulder floral arrangement).

Fred and Barney are overwhelmed with Genial's revelation that they will be seen on national television in the next Peek-A-Boo Camera episode and eagerly sign the "paper" granting to Genial permission to use his footage of them, minutes later comprehending the disaster that they have willfully wrought, for Peek-A-Boo Camera is Wilma and Betty's favorite television attraction, and they are sure to be watching the next episode wherein Fred and Barney's deception will be exposed!

So, Fred and Barney engineer convenient accidents to both the Flintstone and Rubble televisions, and Fred wields a lasso to "round up" antennae from atop every Bedrock home- in order to prevent any of Wilma and Betty's friends from viewing the dreaded Peek-A-Boo Camera episode. But a police officer discovers Fred's "cowboy" antennae-gathering tactic and demands that Fred, with Barney's aid, restore all of the antennae to their owners' roofs, but the laborious procedure is slow enough for the forbidden revels on Peek-A-Boo Camera to be unseen in most of Bedrock, and Fred and Barney breathe easy.

Until the following Peek-A-Boo Camera broadcast, on which, while Flintstones and Rubbles are watching, Genial announces that national audience response to the prior episode was so enthusiastic that the episode will now be repeated! Wilma and Betty behold their husbands' bachelor party antics, and Fred and Barney run for their life into a tree's pterodactyl nest.

Characters

Fred Flintstone
Wilma Flintstone
Barney Rubble
Betty Rubble
Pebbles Flintstone (no lines)
Bamm-Bamm Rubble (no lines)
Dino
Sam Slagheap
Police Officer
Mrs. Slagheap (only appearance)
Rocky Genial (only appearance)
Shelly Shale (only appearance)
Rose Sweetslab (only appearance)
Copacaboulder Girls (only appearance, no lines)
Mr. Rock Boulder (only appearance)
Mickey Marble (only appearance)
Sir Stanford Slab (only appearance; TV screen)

Locations

Bedrock

Flintstone home
Water Buffalo Lodge
Dr. Stonebone's Animal Clinic (only appearance)
Copacaboulder Club (only appearance)
Bedrock Plaza Hotel (only appearance)
Stove Oven Steak Cafe (only mentioned)
Contingency Bedrock TV Service (only mentioned)

Objects

TV's
TV antennas (only appearance)
Potato chips (only appearance)
Grape juice
Club sandwiches (only appearance)

Animals

Snorkasaurus
Saber-Tooth Tigersaurus
Pterodactyls
Turtlesaurus
Monkeysaurus
Tyrannosaurus (as Tyrannosaurus fillets)

Vehicles

Flintmobile

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Mrs. Slagheap
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Tiger
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble Rose Sweetslab
Hal Smith	Rocky Genial Water Buffalo #2 Water Buffalo #4 Shelly Shale Baseball Fan Bird #2
Howard Morris	TV Announcer/Monkey Cat 3rd Buffalo Emcee Bird #1
Doug Young	Sam Slagheap Tortoise Cop
Allan Melvin	Quartz Owner Sportscaster Sleuth Doorman Water Buffalo #1

Notes/Trivia

The episode title is a spoof of the then-popular show, Candid Camera.
This is the third episode about the Flintstones' anniversary.
Two other characters in this episode are Rose Sweetslab and Shelly Shale.
It was later adapted into a Buzz Book, "Caught in the Act", that was based on the episode.

Errors

None known.

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-|airdate= December 19, [[1963]]
+|airdate = December 19, [[1963]]
-|animator= [[George Goepper]]<br/>[[Kenneth Muse]]<br/>[[Harvey Toombs]]<br/>[[Hicks Lokey]]
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+|previous = "''[[Daddies Anonymous]]''"
-"'''Peek-a-Boo Camera'''" is the fourteenth episode of the [[Season 4 (The Flintstones (1960))|fourth season]] of [[The Flintstones (1960 TV series)|''The Flintstones'']]. It first aired on December 19, [[1963]].
+|next = "''[[Once Upon a Coward]]''"
+}}"'''Peek-a-Boo Camera'''" is the fourteenth episode of the [[The Flintstones episode list|fourth season]] and the one hundred and second overall episode of [[The Flintstones (TV series)|''The Flintstones'']]. It aired on December 19, [[1963]].
+==Synopsis==
+Fred and Barney lie to their wives so that they can attend a bachelor party unaware that their antics are being secretly filmed for a comedy show.
 ==Plot==
+Another "little, white lie and deception" causes no end of trouble for Fred and Barney. The original, after-supper plan on Fred and Wilma's wedding anniversary is for Fred, Wilma, Barney, and Betty to excite themselves in the Bedrock theaters and night clubs.
-While attending a premarital bachelor party for a Lodge buddy, rowdy [[Fred]] and [[Barney]] start dancing with the chorus girls in a nightclub, unaware that they are being filmed for television's "Peek-A-Boo Camera." The boys do everything possible to keep their wives from seeing the show when it airs on television because the bachelor party was on the night of Fred and [[Wilma Flintstone|Wilma]]'s anniversary. So they plan to take out of all the antennas from the whole neighborhood so no one would watch the show, only to be force to return then back to their home. When the Flintstones and the Rubbles start to watch an new episode of Peek a Boo Camera, the host told the audiences and viewers that last week episode was so funny they were given thousand of fan letters to show the episode again, in which it showed the bachelor party of where Fred and Barney dance crazy like. Upon seeing how it happen, both Fred and Barney ran away from Wilma and [[Betty Rubble|Betty]], who use [[Dino]] to sniff and track them out and club them with a huge club. At first Wilma thought Dino found them up a tree, only to see it was just two baby pterodactyls in a nest and began to search for them, However it was revealed that Fred and Barney were really hiding in the nest and had to wait till Wilma and Betty stop haunting them.
+However, the Water Buffalo Lodge's Grand Poobah, Sam Slagheap orders a special Water Buffalo meeting on that precise evening, to celebrate the impending marriage of brother Buffalo Shelly Shale with the standard bachelor party. Fred and Barney mention with deliberate obliqueness that Shelly has "reached the end of the line" and that his Water Buffalo brethren will be "paying their last respects", and Wilma and Betty, of course assuming that Shelly is dying in a hospital, graciously permit their husbands to cancel the Flintstone and Rubble couples' intended evening of fun so that Fred and Barney can attend to their "expiring" friend.
+At the bachelor party, located at the Copacaboulder Club, Fred and Barney's shenanigans are most
+outrageous, with Fred pretending to be a matador and Barney, in his horned Water Buffalo hat, playing bull, and Fred and Barney both donning wigs to dance alongside a string of can-can girls. All of this is captured on film by Rocky Genial of television's ''Peek-A-Boo Camera'', the popular show that, "...catches people unaware," every week in a new hiding place (this time in a Copacaboulder floral arrangement).
+Fred and Barney are overwhelmed with Genial's revelation that they will be seen on national television in the next ''Peek-A-Boo Camera'' episode and eagerly sign the "paper" granting to Genial permission to use his footage of them, minutes later comprehending the disaster that they have willfully wrought, for ''Peek-A-Boo Camera'' is Wilma and Betty's favorite television attraction, and they are sure to be watching the next episode wherein Fred and Barney's deception will be exposed!
+So, Fred and Barney engineer convenient accidents to both the Flintstone and Rubble televisions, and Fred wields a lasso to "round up" antennae from atop every Bedrock home- in order to prevent any of Wilma and Betty's friends from viewing the dreaded Peek-A-Boo Camera episode. But a police officer discovers Fred's "cowboy" antennae-gathering tactic and demands that Fred, with Barney's aid, restore all of the antennae to their owners' roofs, but the laborious procedure is slow enough for the forbidden revels on Peek-A-Boo Camera to be unseen in most of Bedrock, and Fred and Barney breathe easy.
+Until the following Peek-A-Boo Camera broadcast, on which, while Flintstones and Rubbles are watching, Genial announces that national audience response to the prior episode was so enthusiastic that the episode will now be repeated! Wilma and Betty behold their husbands' bachelor party antics, and Fred and Barney run for their life into a tree's pterodactyl nest.
+==Characters==
+*[[Fred Flintstone]]
+*[[Wilma Flintstone]]
+*[[Barney Rubble]]
+*[[Betty Rubble]]
+*[[Pebbles Flintstone]] <small>(no lines)</small>
+*[[Bamm-Bamm Rubble]] <small>(no lines)</small>
+*[[Dino]]
+*Sam Slagheap
+*Police Officer
+*Mrs. Slagheap <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Rocky Genial <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Shelly Shale <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Rose Sweetslab <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Copacaboulder Girls <small>(only appearance, no lines)</small>
+*Mr. Rock Boulder <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Mickey Marble <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Sir Stanford Slab <small>(only appearance; TV screen)</small>
+==Locations==
+==='''[[Bedrock]]'''===
+*[[Flintstone home]]
+*Water Buffalo Lodge
+*Dr. Stonebone's Animal Clinic <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Copacaboulder Club <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Bedrock Plaza Hotel <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Stove Oven Steak Cafe <small>(only mentioned)</small>
+*Contingency Bedrock TV Service <small>(only mentioned)</small>
+==Objects==
+*TV's
+*TV antennas <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Potato chips <small>(only appearance)</small>
+*Grape juice
+*Club sandwiches <small>(only appearance)</small>
+==Animals==
+*[[Snorkasaurus]]
+*[[Saber-Toothed Cat|Saber-Tooth Tigersaurus]]
+*[[Pterodactyl]]s
+*[[Turtlesaurus]]
+*[[Monkeysaurus]]
+*[[Tyrannosaurus]] <small>(as Tyrannosaurus fillets)</small>
+==Vehicles==
+*[[Flintmobile]]
+==Cast==
+{| class="wikitable"
+! [[Alan Reed]]
+| [[Fred Flintstone]]
+|-
+! [[Jean Vander Pyl]]
+| [[Wilma Flintstone]]<br />Mrs. Slagheap
+|-
+! [[Mel Blanc]]
+| [[Barney Rubble]]<br />[[Dino]]<br />Tiger
+|-
+! [[Bea Benaderet]]
+| [[Betty Rubble]]<br />Rose Sweetslab
+|-
+! [[Hal Smith]]
+| Rocky Genial<br />Water Buffalo #2<br />Water Buffalo #4<br />Shelly Shale<br />Baseball Fan<br />Bird #2
+|-
+! [[Howard Morris]]
+| TV Announcer/Monkey<br />Cat<br />3rd Buffalo<br />Emcee<br />Bird #1
+|-
+! [[Doug Young]]
+| Sam Slagheap<br />Tortoise<br />Cop
+|-
+! [[Allan Melvin]]
+|Quartz<br />Owner<br />Sportscaster<br />Sleuth<br />Doorman<br />Water Buffalo #1
+|}
+==Notes/Trivia==
+*The episode title is a spoof of the then-popular show, ''[[Wikipedia:Candid Camera|Candid Camera]]''.
+*This is the third episode about the Flintstones' anniversary.
+*Two other characters in this episode are Rose Sweetslab and Shelly Shale.
+*It was later adapted into a [[Buzz Books|Buzz Book]], "''Caught in the Act''", that was based on the episode.
+==='''Errors'''===
+*None known.
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+[[Category:Episodes]]
+[[Category:The Flintstones episodes]]