“The Flintstones” is a classic American animated sitcom produced by Hanna-Barbera Productions. The show first aired from 1960 to 1966 and was the first primetime animated television series, paving the way for other animated shows to enter the primetime slot.
Set in the prehistoric town of Bedrock, the show presents the lives of the Flintstone family and their neighbors, the Rubbles. Its primary characters include Fred Flintstone, his wife Wilma, their daughter Pebbles, and their pet dinosaur Dino. Their best friends and neighbors are Barney Rubble, his wife Betty, and their son, Bamm-Bamm.
Flintstones Quotes
1- “Yabba Dabba Doo!” – Fred Flintstone
2- “We’ll have a gay old time.” – Theme Song
3- “Wilma, I’m home!” – Fred Flintstone
4- “Betty, this is the happiest day of my life.” – Barney Rubble
5- “Oh, Fred…” – Wilma Flintstone
6- “Barney, my pebbles!” – Fred Flintstone
7- “What’s your hurry? They can’t start the movie without us.” – Fred Flintstone
8- “Fred, do you think we’ll ever find happiness?” – Barney Rubble
9- “Betty, where’s my clean loin cloth?” – Barney Rubble
10- “I ain’t gonna be the dummy anymore!” – Fred Flintstone
11- “Well, I always say, if you can’t beat ’em, join ’em.” – Barney Rubble
12- “Oh, Barney, isn’t it exciting?” – Betty Rubble
13- “When you’re with the Flintstones, have a yabba dabba doo time.” – Theme Song
14- “Well, ma’am. How do you like your buffalo cooked?” – Fred Flintstone
15- “Just like the old days, huh, Barney?” – Fred Flintstone
16- “Barney, you are the nicest, sweetest man in the whole world.” – Betty Rubble
17- “Mr. Slate works me to the bone.” – Fred Flintstone
18- “Alright, Fred, if you say so.” – Barney Rubble
18- “The important thing is, we’re all happy.” – Wilma Flintstone
20- “We’ll make new friends, there’s 4,000 other people in this world!” -Flintstones
21- “- Cliff Vandercave: I want you to fire Bernard Rubble.
– Fred Flintstone: Done! Wait, fire Barney, why?
– Cliff Vandercave: Well, he scored the lowest on the company aptitude test. He’s an imbecile. The company can’t afford to have dead weight like him on the payroll.
– Fred Flintstone: But Mr. Vandercave, he’s got a new kid, a mortgage, I’m his best friend, I can’t.
– Cliff Vandercave: Look, Fred, if you don’t fire him, I will, and then I’ll fire you.”-Flintstones
22. “- Wilma Flintstone: We have scrimped and saved for that money, and every time we get a little bit ahead, you have to go blow it on some hair-brained scheme!
– Fred Flintstone: Now see here, Wilma! In this cave, I am the king! And…
– Wilma Flintstone: And what, Fred?
– Fred Flintstone: And you have every right to know, my queen.” (the secret Fred is telling Wilma is about the fact he loaned his best friend Barney money so that he and his wife can adopt a child)-Flintstones
23 “Son of a Brachiosaurus!”-Flintstones
24. “- Barney Rubble: You know, Fred, I hear that eatin’ too much red meat is bad for you.
– Fred Flintstone: What a load of bunk! My father ate it every day of his life and he lived to the ripe old age of thirty-eight.”-Flintstones
25. ““Yabba dabba doo!”-Flintstones
26.“- Mr. Slate: Gentlemen, please, I can’t endorse this modernization if it means laying off all those workers. Some of them have been here since the beginning of time.
– Cliff Vandercave: What if I could quadruple your income?
– Mr. Slate: I’ll miss them. You were saying?”-Flintstones
27. ” “You know, Barney, life is funny. One minute people are your best friends, and the next you’re fantasizing they’re being ripped apart by a pack of rabid wolves.”-Flintstones
28. “- Fred Flintstone: I’m only one man.
– Barney Rubble: Not from the back.”-Flintstones
29. “- Cliff Vandercave: Look at those pathetic worms burrowing their lives away. Do you know why I’m up here and they’re down there, Miss Stone?
– Miss Stone: Because you lied on your résumé?
– Cliff Vandercave: No. Because I have vision, and right now I have a vision of you and me dripping with coconut oil on a beach in Rockapulco with Mr. Slate’s fortune to keep us company.
– Miss Stone: I’m glad we see eye to eye.
– Cliff Vandercave: And somewhere down there is the ignorant stooge who will make all my schemes come true.”-Flintstones
30. “I hate to bust your bubble, but if you build houses this small, who’s gonna live in them?” (holding a miniature model of houses the quarry plans to build) -Flintstones
31. “- Fred Flintstone: Sorry I’m late. Had car trouble, I picked up a nail.
– Mr. Slate: Thank you for sharing that with us, Mr. Flagstone. May we continue?” (Fred interrupts the working conversation showing everyone a bandaid on his dirty foot) -Flintstones
32. “- Wilma Flintstone: You two should be ashamed of yourselves!
– Pearl Slaghoople: I got my hands full just being ashamed of him.
– Fred Flintstone: You got your hands full when you scratch your neck!” (Fred and Pearl are arguing) -Flintstones
33. “- Fred Flintstone: This is my office? This is my chair?
– Cliff Vandercave: Yeah, not to throw too much at you on your first day, but this big thing here is your desk.
– Fred Flintstone: My desk?”-Flintstones
34.“- Miss Stone: I’m worried, Cliff, I think Mr. Flintstone is smarter than we thought.
– Cliff Vandercave: Ha. He’d have to be to get himself dressed in the morning.”-Flintstones
35.“- Cliff Vandercave: Do you know what we do up here?
– Fred Flintstone: Well, me and the guys have always wondered.
– Cliff Vandercave: We interface, Flintstone. We conceptualize, tenderize, prioritize.
– Fred Flintstone: When do we eat?”-Flintstones
36. “- Wilma Flintstone: I cannot believe you just sat there and let them walk out on us.
– Fred Flintstone: At least I can walk around the house in my underwear again.
– Wilma Flintstone: And that is more important to you than 20 years of friendship?
– Fred Flintstone: It is on a hot day.”-Flintstones
37. “Barney Rubble has been my neighbor, my lodge brother and my best friend since the first time I went through the fifth grade.”
38. “- Barney Rubble: So, Fred, what am I gonna call you now? Boss? Chief?
– Fred Flintstone: No, simply Your Highness will do.”(after Cliff has announced that Fred had won the executive job) -Flintstones
39. “- Fred Flintstone: I just want my old job back and my old life.
– Barney Rubble: Hey, Fred.
– Fred Flintstone: Oh, and two weeks paid vacation for all the men in the quarry, an annual cost-of-living increase, and those little packets of ketchup in the lunch room.”-Flintstones
40. “And in the words of my beloved mother: I’m taking the money and moving to a warmer climate.”-Flintstones
41. “- Barney Rubble: It’s like a dream come true. A son. Somebody to carry on the proudname of Rubble. Think I’ll be a good daddy, Fred?
– Fred Flintstone: Well, you’re bound to find something you’re good at.”-Flintstones
42. “Barney, do you have to do everything Fred does?”-Flintstones
43. “- Wilma Flintstone: This has gone far enough! After everything that we’ve done for you! We took you into our home!
– Betty Rubble: Oh, yeah, so you could show off every chance you got. You used to be such nice people but now… you’re just a couple of rich snobs! Hmph!”-Flintstones
44. “Oh, you poor, poor dear. You could have married Elliot Firestone, the man who invented the wheel. Instead you picked Fred Flintstone, the man who invented the excuse!” (talking to Wilma) -Flintstones
