The Girls' Night Out

The Girls' Night Out
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	1
Episode number	15
Production number	P-13
Original airdate	January 6, 1961 (ABC)
Recording Date	May 31, 1960
Crew
Animated by	Don Patterson
Layout	Walt Clinton
Background	Richard Thomas
Written by	Warren Foster
Chronology
Previous	"The Prowler"
Next	"Arthur Quarry's Dance Class"

"The Girls' Night Out" is the fifteenth episode of the first season of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on January 6, 1961.

Synopsis

Wilma & Betty complain about never getting out of the house, but they get more than they bargained for when they follow Fred & Barney cross-country after Fred gets an unexpected record deal.

Plot

Fred and Barney respond to Wilma and Betty's complaint that Flintstone and Rubble wives are constantly housebound by escorting them to an amusement park, where Fred leisurely produces a vinyl record of his voice as a souvenir of the occasion. On the record is Fred's A-Capella rendition of "Listen to the Rocking Bird". Wilma scolds Fred for his self-indulgence and demands an end to the tiresome amusement park visit, with Fred leaving his vinyl record in the booth where it was pressed (by a bird's beak).

A teenager discovers the record, plays it for his friends, to whom Fred's tuneful prattle in the song appeals, and soon it is played on the radio with a plea for the "unknown troubadour" to reveal himself to his legions of admirers. Wilma telephones Keen-Teen Records as per the company's request, and a Southern Colonel (Keen-Teen's talent promoter) bestows to Fred a "make-over" to a hair and dress style that causes youth to swoon with irrational adoration at "the world's oldest teenager", "Hi-Fye".

Long travels in a tour bus on bumpy roads with Fred and the Colonel cause Wilma and Betty to despair of Fred's fame, which inflates Fred's ego, and the wives decide to scuttle Fred's singing career by spreading an ugly rumor that, "Hi-Fye is really a square." Teenagers cannot abide the thought of their idol being a stodgy, four-sided bore, and it is back to Bedrock for the disgraced and abandoned "Hi-Fye".

Characters

• Wilma Flintstone
• Fred Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Hot Lips Hannigan (mentioned)
• Colonel (only appearance)
• Colonel's boss (only appearance)
• Melvis (only appearance; photograph)
• Tony (only time mentioned)
• Automatic Photo booth operator (only appearance)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Keen-Teen Record Company (only appearance)
• Rockadero

Joyland (only appearance)

• Fun House
• Parachute Ride
• Racer Dips
• Pit
• Rocket to the Moon Ride

Other

• Boulder Beach (only mentioned)
• Georgia (only time mentioned)
• Foreign Legion (only time mentioned)

Objects

• News-slabs
• Record discs
• Automatic Photo booth (only appearance)
• "Make A Record of Your Voice" booth (only appearance)
• Rock Radio
• Rock Bell Phone
• Fred's guitar

Food

• Fred and Barney's dinner

Animals

• Pterodactyl (as a drumstick)
• Bird (as a record player)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile

Songs

• Rockin' Bird

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Colonel
Bea Benaderet	Betty Rubble Girl #2
Jerry Mann	Boss Announcer Boy #2
Nancy Russell	Girl #1 Girl #3 Kid Bird
Duke Mitchell	Fred Flintstone's "Hi-Fye" Singing Voice

Notes/Trivia

• Hot Lips Hannigan was mentioned from the episode of the same name.
• In this episode, people are described as being a square by drawing a four sided figure with index fingers and leaving a dotted line outline of a square hanging in midair. Uma Thurman later replicates this action in Quentin Tarantino's 1994 film Pulp Fiction.

Errors

• The Colonel frequently refers to a "Georgia boy" with long sideburns, but never mentions his name. This could be a veiled reference to Elvis Presley, however Elvis was from Mississippi, not Georgia.