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  1. Paul F. Tompkins (Jellystone!) Barney Rubble is a fictional character who appears in the television animated series The Flintstones. He is the diminutive, blond-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and adoptive father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. His best friend is his next door neighbor, Fred Flintstone. [7] Barney's personality was based on that of ...

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    Personality

    Barney's personality was based on that of Ed Norton on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners, played by Art Carney. Like Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners, Fred was constantly on the lookout for get-rich-quick schemes, while Barney, like Norton, found life satisfactory as it was, but participated in said schemes because Fred was his friend. Usually, after Fred had hatched one of his plans, Barney showed his agreement by laughing and saying, "Uh hee hee hee... Ok, Fred." or "Hee hee hee...

    Physical Appearance

    Barney is a short and diminutive caveman with fair skin, tan beard stubbles, yellow hair, thick black eyebrows, and eyes that are depicted as two ovals or (occasionally) circles and shown only as dark circular outlines in the first through fifth seasons and later with black, very similar to Wilma's eyes in the sixth and final season of the original series. He also wears a brown loincloth with a black letter X-shaped shoelace on the top.

    Barney's interests included bowling, playing pool, poker, tinkering around in Fred's garage, and playing golf (though there were episodes where Barney did not know how to play golf). He, like Fred, was also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes and its predecessor in earlier episodes, the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs. He is also a talented pia...

    Not much of Barney's life growing up is known, and while the mid-1980s spin-off series The Flintstone Kids depicts Barney as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal. What is known is that Barney has known Fred since infancy, with them even being taken on strolls together as babies and being on the same sports teams together back in their ...

    Family

    In The Flintstone Kids, Barney had at least one younger brother, Dusty, who was a childhood friend of Fred and the son of artist Flo Slate Rubble and car dealer Robert "Honest Bob" Rubblemight be taken as valid. In at least one episode of the original series, it was implied that Mr. Slate was actually Barney's uncle (most likely Barney's mom's brother) -- but subsequent episodes of the original series (as well as subsequent Flinstones-media) don't seem to support this claim. He was later marr...

    Love Interests

    Unlike Fred, Barney has never been shown with any woman aside from his wife. However, an exception for this is made in The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas when he is invited to go to a buffet with Chip's secretary, Roxie, although he and Betty are just dating and not married at this point. After Barney accidentally knocks a cake onto Roxie and is helping her get cleaned up, Betty happens to witness this and (not realizing what happened) mistakes this for an intimate gesture between the two. An...

    As revealed in "The Flintstone Canaries", he is known to sing whilst having a bath.
    In the early episodes of the original series, Barney had a New Jersey accent but was soon changed to a deeper, more chuckle-like American voice. In On the Rocks, Stone Age SmackDown!, and Yabba-Dab...
    Barney has made cameo appearances on the shows Dexter's Laboratory, Family Guy, Robot Chicken and Saturday Night Live, and in the 1985 movie, Better Off Dead.
    Barney appeared as a supporting character in the 1995 series, Johnny Bravo, in the 2004 episode "A Page Right Out of History".
  2. The Flintstones. The Flintstones is an American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions, which takes place in a romanticized Stone Age setting and follows the titular family, the Flintstones, and their next-door neighbors, the Rubbles. It was originally broadcast on ABC from September 30, 1960, to April 1, 1966, and was the first ...

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    • ORIGINALLY, THE FLINTSTONES WERE THE FLAGSTONES. Joe Barbera thought about calling the show The Gladstones, then decided on The Flagstones until he realized there was a comic strip with the same name.
    • BARNEY AND FRED WERE DRAWN TO RESEMBLE CAVE PEOPLE. Ed Benedict was one of The Flintstones’s designers. He told Hogan’s Alley that he sketched the characters to look like “cave people wearing long beards, with scraggly, unkempt hair and in slightly distorted, hunched-over shapes.”
    • ALAN REED INVENTED “YABBA DABBA DOO.” Flintstones source WebRockOnline says the origin of Fred’s iconic “Yabba dabba doo” catchphrase came from Alan Reed, who voiced Fred, and reportedly used the line during a recording session.
    • THE FLINTSTONES DIDN’T COPY THE HONEYMOONERS. It’s true that Fred was based on Jackie Gleason’s Honeymooners character Ralph Kramden, but Joe Barbera made him different.
  3. Bernard Matthew "Barney" Rubble is the secondary main character who appears in the television animated series The Flintstones and the rest of the franchise. This handsome adult gentleman is married to Betty Rubble, with whom they adopted their son, Bamm-Bamm Rubble. His best friend is his next door neighbor, Fred. Barney's personality was based on that of Ed Norton on the 1950s television ...

  4. Catchphrase. "Yabba-Dabba-Doo!" Fred Flintstone is the main character of the animated sitcom The Flintstones, which aired during prime-time on ABC during the original series' run from 1960 to 1966. [ 16 ] Fred is the husband of Wilma Flintstone and father of Pebbles Flintstone and together the family live in their homely cave in the town of ...

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  6. Frederick Joseph "Fred" Flintstone, once known as Fred W. Flintstone, is the protagonist of the original series, The Flintstones and the rest of the franchise. Fred is the husband of Wilma, father of Pebbles, and best friend of Barney Rubble, who lives at his house in Bedrock, at 345 Cave Stone Road (in some episodes, 1313 Cobblestone Way or 222 Rocky Way). Fred Flintstone's most famous and ...