"The Gravelberry Pie King" is the ninth episode of the sixth season and the one hundred and forty-ninth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on November 12, 1965.
Synopsis[]
Fred loses his job, when he complains to his boss, Mr. Slate. Trying to hide the news from Wilma, he strikes a deal.
Plot[]
Following Gazoo's advice to represent his co-workers in requesting a raise in salary from Slate, Fred is dismissed when Slate decides to increase the pay of the other workers by reallocating funds- with Fred's defunct payroll.
Unable to tell Wilma about losing his job, Fred loiters in a park and readies to eat the lunch prepared for him by Wilma- including a slice of Gravelberry Pie, which impresses P. J. Safestone, a businessman visiting the park. Safestone, owner of a supermarket chain, establishes a deal with Fred to sell bulk numbers of the pies, with the Flintstones and Rubbles providing the confection for 40 cents each. Fred coronates himself as the Gravelberry Pie King, using his first paycheck from the prominent grocer to buy a king's costume, and is happy- with Wilma, the Rubbles, babies, and pets as his help- to assembly-line manufacture Gravelberry Pies, until Wilma reveals that her gravelberry pies each cost 52 cents to make and that because Fred is selling them to PJ Safestone for 40 cents each Fred and Wilma are losing 12 cents per pie. Because of this instead of making money off the 50 pies Fred sold for 40 cents each they lost $6 and that if Fred sells the 500 pies PJ Safestone ordered for 40 cents each he and Wilma will lose $60, a loss that makes Barney tell Fred “If you ask me the Gravelberry Pie King oughta abdicate.”
Gazoo advices Fred to simply ask Mr. Safestone to let him raise the prices on the pies to 64 cents per pie so that instead of losing 12 cents per pie Fred will make 12 cents per pie starting with the 500 pies so that instead of losing $60 Fred will make $60. Barney is against this because Fred promised he would sell the pies for 40 cents each but Fred becomes greedy and proposes selling the pies for 75 cents each, an increase in his pay far above what is needed, Safestone opts out of the deal, leaving Fred with 500 pies that he is unable to sell, even at a low price, on a roadside. Wilma rescues Fred from this predicament by visiting Safestone and tactfully selling to him the 500 pies along with the recipe, then by visiting and persuading Mr. Slate to rehire Fred.
Characters[]
- Fred Flintstone
- Wilma Flintstone
- Barney Rubble
- Betty Rubble
- Pebbles Flintstone
- Bamm-Bamm Rubble
- Dino
- Hoppy (silent)
- Mr. Slate
- The Great Gazoo
- P.J. Safestone (only appearance)
- Hilary (only appearance)
- Police Officer
Locations[]
Bedrock[]
- Flintstone home
- Slate Rock and Gravel Company
- Costume Shop (only appearance)
- Glacier Ice Company (only labeled in an ice delivery truck)
- Icebox (only appearance)
Objects[]
Food[]
- Gravelberries (only appearance)
- Gravelberry Pie (only appearance)
- Rockshire Pudding (covered by a news-slab)
- Brontosaurus Liver (covered by a news-slab)
Animals[]
- Snorkasaurus
- Hopparoo
- Turtlesaurus
- Brontosaurus (as a Bronto-Bridge, an Ice Delivery Truck and Brontosaurus Liver)
- Gatorsaurus (as a time card puncher)
Vehicles[]
- Flintmobile
- Safestone's limousine
- Pie trailer (only appearance)
- Paint Car (only appearance)
- Posies van (only appearance)
Cast[]
Notes/Trivia[]
- The newspaper this time is called the Daily Slab.
- Rockshire pudding is a spoof of Yorkshire pudding.
- Safestone is a spoof of Safeway.
Errors[]
- None known.
| Season 6 of The Flintstones |
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| "No Biz Like Show Biz" • "The House That Fred Built" • "The Return of Stony Curtis" • "Disorder in the Court" • "Circus Business" • "Samantha" • "The Great Gazoo" • "Rip Van Flintstone" • "The Gravelberry Pie King" • "The Stonefinger Caper" • "The Masquerade Party" • "Shinrock A Go-Go" • "Royal Rubble" • "Seeing Doubles" • "How to Pick a Fight with Your Wife Without Really Trying" • "Fred Goes Ape" • "The Long, Long, Long Weekend" • "Two Men on a Dinosaur" • "The Treasure of Sierra Madrock" • "Curtain Call at Bedrock" • "Boss for a Day" • "Fred's Island" • "Jealousy" • "Dripper" • "My Fair Freddy" • "The Story of Rocky's Raiders" |