- Betty Rubble: Oh, but, Barney, it's not your fault you have more on the ball than Fred, so they made you Fred's boss.
- Barney Rubble: [chuckles] That's a laugh. I wouldn't have the job at all, except Mr. Slate discovered he's my uncle.
- Betty Rubble: Your uncle? And I thought you got the job because you were brilliant.
- Barney Rubble: Now you should know better than that.
- Wilma Flintstone: Oh, Fred.
- Fred Flintstone: Yeah? What is it, Wilma?
- Wilma Flintstone: This ball they gave me is no good. It's full of holes.
- Fred Flintstone: Full of holes? Those holes are supposed to be in it. You put your fingers in them, you numskull!
- Wilma Flintstone: Fred Flintstone!
- [drops the bowling ball]
- Fred Flintstone: Ow! You dropped that ball on my foot, you dimwit!
- Wilma Flintstone: Fred! I won't have you calling me names! I went out with you to be a companion to you, but I won't stand for that stuff.
- Fred Flintstone: [chuckles] I didn't mean anything, Wilma. It's just that when a guy's out with his buddy, he might call him names in fun.
- Wilma Flintstone: That's the buddy system, huh?
- Fred Flintstone: Yeah. Ah, some of the names I used to call Barney. Ha, ha! Oh, boy, but Barney never got mad.
- Wilma Flintstone: Okay, I get the idea. You were going to teach me to bowl.
- [pats Fred's stomach]
- Wilma Flintstone: Okay, fat stuff.
- Fred Flintstone: Fat stuff?
- Wilma Flintstone: Don't get mad... buddy.
- [Wilma and Betty suggest Fred try to get Barney a job at the quarry]
- Fred Flintstone: Well, I'd be glad to, but Barney doesn't know anything about the gravel pit business. They use only skilled professionals.
- Barney Rubble: Oh, oh, but I'd do anything, Fred. Sweep floors, run errands, I'd work hard. I'd advance myself. I wouldn't stop until I was running the big machine.
- Fred Flintstone: Running the big machine? That's MY job, you eager beaver! You heard that, Wilma? This guy's angling to steal my job!
- Fred Flintstone: Barney, I'd offer you some dough, only I know you're too proud to take it.
- Barney Rubble: Try me.
- Fred Flintstone: Okay, here's a ten spot, but I know you won't take it because I'm a student of human nature.
- [Barney takes the ten dollars]
- Barney Rubble: Thanks, Fred, but you're not a student of the unemployed, and you still owe me 40 bucks more from last year.
- Fred Flintstone: That's only because you won't bowl me double or nothing.
- Barney Rubble: But you beat me at bowling every time, Fred.
- Fred Flintstone: Oh, boy, what a cheapskate excuse.
- Fred Flintstone: Okay, now do like I told you. Try to let go of it this time. That's it! Let go of it!
- [Wilma bowls]
- Fred Flintstone: No! No!
- Wilma Flintstone: Fred! I knocked all the pins down!
- Fred Flintstone: [points to a man next to him] Yeah, you did, but on HIS alley. Now, watch closely and I'll show you how it's done.
- [Fred bowls, but his ball also knocks down all the pins in the other man's alley]
- Man: First game, huh?