The Flintstones (TV Series)

A Star Is Almost Born (1962)

Alan Reed: Fred Flintstone

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Quotes 

• Fred Flintstone : Now will you stop with that losing complex, Wilma? If a genius like Norman Rockbind says you got it, you've got it. He's never wrong.

  Wilma Flintstone : Well, maybe he's wrong this time.

  Fred Flintstone : He can't be. It's in his contract.

• Barney Rubble : Fred, Wilma, I just dropped over to tell you...

  Fred Flintstone : Ssh! We want to see the Rockbind show.

  Wilma Flintstone : Just the commercial. We want to see whose hands they're using.

  Barney Rubble : But that's...

  Fred Flintstone : Ssh! Quiet! It's just starting.

  Spokesman : [on TV]  And now Playhouse Rockbind, brought to you by Softie Skin Lotion. The lotion that makes your hands so soft, they're almost mushy.

  [a pair of hands appear on TV] 

  Spokesman : Ladies, you, too, can have lovely hands like this.

  [the woman of the hands is revealed] 

  Wilma Flintstone : That's Betty!

  Barney Rubble : That's what I came to tell ya. When you wouldn't take the job, Rockbind saw Betty's hands and...

  Fred Flintstone : She's going to make all that dough?

  Wilma Flintstone : Well, that's one way of getting back the money that Barney put up for my TV debut... that didn't get to happen.

  Barney Rubble : Yeah, Fred, thanks. Thanks for everything. Uh, Betty's getting exactly what it cost me for, uh, you know, them French-ants-in-the-plants stuff.

  Fred Flintstone : [walks off]  You're kidding. Betty deserves twice that for filling in at the last minute and I'm going to get Rockbind to cough up or...

  Barney Rubble , Wilma Flintstone : No, you don't, Fred!

  [Fred is grabbed and Wilma and Barney have him pinned down] 

• Fred Flintstone : You know, honey, there's something I just discovered.

  Wilma Flintstone : Yes? What?

  Fred Flintstone : You do have nice knuckles.

• [Fred visits the Rubbles, hoping to borrow money] 

  Fred Flintstone : Betty? Barney? Oh, Betty?

  Betty Rubble : I'm taking a shower.

  Fred Flintstone : Hmm. I don't hear any water.

  Betty Rubble : You don... Oh, I forgot!

  [Betty turns the shower on] 

  Fred Flintstone : Betty, for just a little money...

  Betty Rubble : I can't hear you and we can't spare any!

• Rockbind : Well, what I want you to do, Mrs. Flintstone, for the commercial, our sponsor sells lotion. When I first saw your wife's hand, I knew my search was over. Oh, you're a lucky man, Mr. Flintstone. Your wife has perfect knuckles. Now, my dear, when the camera dollies up close on your hands, just turn your palms slowly, you know, for suspense.

  Fred Flintstone : Hold it. Hooold it! The deal's off, Rockbind! O-R-F, off!

  Rockbind : Off? Are you nuts?

  Fred Flintstone : I told my friends that my wife's going to be on TV. ALL of her, not just her hands.