The Masquerade Party

The Masquerade Party
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	6
Episode number	151
Production number	P-151
Original airdate	November 26, 1965 (ABC)
Recording Date	July 15, 1965
Crew
Animated by	Ed Barge Jerry Hathcock Ed Parks
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Lance Nolley Walt Clinton
Background	Fernando Montealegre (known as F. Montealegre) Fernando Arce Rene Garcia
Written by	Warren Foster
Chronology
Previous	"The Stonefinger Caper"
Next	"Shinrock A Go-Go"

"The Masquerade Party" is the eleventh episode of the sixth season and the one hundred and fifty-first overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on November 26, 1965.

Synopsis

After the Fred and Barney was fighting and arrested, when they have the same costume for a masquerade party. Fred decides to get another costume but causes panic with his realistic alien mask.

Plot

Fred and Barney are rivals for the new bowling ball prize for best costume at the Water Buffalo Lodge's masquerade party. Both choose the same red Devil costume (pitchfork and all) and fight over who selected the costume first. Fred decides to try another costume, which he intends to keep secret until he arrives at the party.

His spaceman costume coincides with Flippo Records and radio station KNBD's promotion of a musical group, the sandwich-like Way-Outs, in which a bogus report of an alien invasion is transmitted, and everyone thinks that Fred, solo-driving his car to the party and beset with a flat tire, is one of the invaders! Fred meets the Way-Outs, rides with them on their tour bus, and invites them to join him at the masquerade party.

But the masquerade party attendees react violently to the arrival of the presumed hostile "space aliens", before Fred's exasperated growl from inside of his costume is recognized by Wilma. Fred and the Way-Outs perform a song at the party.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Dino
• Hoppy
• Sam Slagheap
• Jamie (only appearance)
• The Beasties (only appearance)
• The Way-Outs (only appearance)
• Eddie (only appearance)
• Sam Sandstone (only appearance)
• Liberocki (only appearance, no lines)
• Jack and Jill (only appearance)
• Scoop (only appearance)
• Boss (only appearance)

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Water Buffalo Lodge
• Bedrock Police Station
• Flippo Record Company (only appearance)
• Radio Station

Objects

• Devil costumes (only appearance)
• Pitchforks (only appearance)
• Rock Bell Phones

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Hopparoo
• Beeasaurus
• Duckasaurus (as a costume)
• Saber-Toothed Tigersaurus (as a costume)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile
• Taxi cab

Songs

• The Water Buffalo Song
• My Broken Heart Will Never Mend
• Way Out

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone Guy #1 Crowd #2
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone Dame #1 Voice #1 Dame #2
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino Bird Boss
Gerry Johnson	Betty Rubble Voice #3 Jill Girl
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Hoppy Eddie Jack Way-Out #1 Cop #1 Man Beeasaurus Scoop Way-Out #4
Allan Melvin	Sam Sandstone Cop #2 Beast Leader Man #1 Cabbie Chef Guy #2 Way-Out #2 Sports Announcer Guard Crowd #1
John Stephenson	Sam Slagheap Sergeant Man #2 Voice #2 Way-Out #3 Crowd #3
Janet Waldo	Jamie Woman

Notes/Trivia

• The working title for this episode was "The Costume Party".
• The storyline was inspired by Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast of 1938.
• This time, the Flintstones' address is 342 Gravelpit Terrace, and they have a huge front gate and address marker.
• Liberocki is a spoof of American pianist, Liberace.

Allusions

• This episode is a remake of The Honeymooners episode, "The Man from Space".

Errors

• When we first see Eddie, the radio announcer, his hair is blond. But in the second shot of him, a minute later, his hair is a reddish color.
• Outside the windows of the house of Julia's friend it is daytime, but outside her front door it is night.
• When the Way-Outs arrive at the radio station, their manager states that the station name is 'KFWB' while the sign above the door clearly shows the letters 'KNBD'.