The Bedrock Hillbillies

The Bedrock Hillbillies
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	4
Episode number	106
Production number	P-100
Original airdate	January 16, 1964 (ABC)
Recording Date	June 11, 1963
Crew
Animated by	Jerry Hathcock Harry Holt
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Walt Clinton Jack Huber
Background	Fernando Montealegre (known as F. Montealegre)
Written by	Herbert Finn
Chronology
Previous	"Fred El Terrifico"
Next	"Flintstone and the Lion"

"The Bedrock Hillbillies" is the eighteenth episode of the fourth season and the one hundred and sixth overall episode of The Flintstones. It aired on January 16, 1964.

Synopsis

Fred inherits an estate, when he goes to claim it reignites a long time feud with a hillbilly family.

Plot

Zeke, the last of the Arkanstone Flintstones, dies, leaving the same state's Hatrock clan, which has been feuding joyously for generations with Zeke's family, desperate for more Flintstones to shoot at with their stone-firing rifles. Zeke's only known surviving relations are the Flintstones of Bedrock, and Fred is contacted by an Arkanstone lawyer and informed that he has inherited Zeke's "estate", San Cemente (known as Sandstone Cemente), which Fred believes to be the lavish bequest of wealthy kin.

The Flintstones and the Rubbles go to Arkanstone to view Zeke's legacy and are staggered to discover that San Cemente is a one-room, dilapidated house adorned only with a picture of the late Zeke. The Hatrocks commence rifle fire upon the confused Flintstones and Rubbles, and Fred and Barney are forced to defend their loved ones by combating the Hatrocks (with the stone-firing rifles that they have brought with them for hunting purposes), and the Hatrock-Flintstone feud continues, until Pebbles and Slab, the Hatrock baby, wander away from their respective folk and Fred risks his life to prevent the two toddlers from plummeting on a log down a waterfall, by dangling by his legs upside down from a branch directly above the top of the waterfall and grabbing the babies from the log.

A resultant truce between the Hatrocks and Flintstones is short-lived. Fred repeats the faux-pas of Rory Flintstone that first started the feud, by commenting that the artist of a portrait of Mona, the Hatrock matriarch, "...should have got life," in prison that is, for the unsightly painting. Hatrocks re-declare hostilities upon Flintstones, who scramble with the Rubbles to board their car and flee Arkanstone.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble (only mentioned)
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Dino
• Mr. Slate
• Zeke Flintstone (only appearance)
• Rory Flintstone (only mentioned)
• Sam Kettlequartz (only mentioned)
• Shystone (only appearance)
• Ms. Shelley (only appearance)

The Hatrocks

• Jethro Hatrock (first appearance)
• Granny Hatrock (first appearance)
• Mona Hatrock (only appearance)
• Gravella Hatrock (only appearance)
• Slab Hatrock (first appearance)
• Zack Hatrock (first appearance)
• Percy (first appearance)
• Benjy Hatrock (only appearance)
• Maybelle Hatrock (only mentioned)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Slate Rock and Gravel Company

Arkanstone (first appearance)

• Arkanstone Filling Station (only appearance)
• Arkanstone Cemetery (only appearance)
• Hatrock's house (only appearance)
• San Cemente (only appearance)

Other

• Tennestone (only appearance)

Objects

• Stone-firing rifles there are 2 types-one is a capapult and the other uses a slingshot

Food

• Cactus Cola
• Possum Pie (only appearance)

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Pigasaurus
• Brontosaurus (as Bronto-Cranes)
• Mammoth
• Monkeysaurus
• Possumsaurus (only appearance)
• Pterodactyl (as a Pterodactyl leg)

Vehicles

• Fred's vacation car (only appearance)

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone Zeke Flintstone Man #1 Worker
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Zack Hatrock Pigasaurus
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble Gravella Hatrock
Doug Young	Minister Benjy Hatrock Airmail Bird
Howard Morris	Percy Jethro Hatrock Slab Hatrock Possum Dinosaur #1 Attendant
John Stephenson	Mr. Slate Shystone Fish
June Foray	Granny Hatrock Old Woman Ms. Shelley Dinosaur #2 Monkey

Notes/Trivia

• Tennestone and Arkanstone are spoofs of the states, Tennessee and Arkansas.
  • Tennestone is "wet" state and Arkanstone is a "dry" state. The reference has nothing to do with the weather; it had to do with the fact that liquor was not sold in certain states in the 1960s. Actually, Tennessee was a dry state for a long time. Bedrock is a thousand miles from Arkanstone.
• The Hatrocks are Mona; her granddaughter Granny; Clem/Pa (Jethro); Clem's wife Gravella (Ma); an unnamed red-haired male who is named Zack in the other episode, "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes"; and their cousins Benjy and Maybelle.
• This is the only episode where Wilma threatens to spank Pebbles.
• Bamm-Bamm does not appear in this episode.

Allusions

• The title of this episode is most likely an allusion to the megahit (at the time) and comedy series, The Beverly Hillbillies.

Errors

• None known.