Fred Flintstone

Frederick Flintstone (usually called Fred) is a fictional character who originated in the popular television animated series The Flintstones. Fred has since appeared in various other cartoon spinoffs and commercials. He is the caveman husband of Wilma Flintstone and father of Pebbles Flintstone. His best friends were his next door neighbors, Betty and Barney Rubble.

Biography

While the mid-1980s spinoff series The Flintstone Kids depicts Fred as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Fred as a childhood friend of Wilma and Betty (vs. the original series' assertion that they first met as young adults). Still, the series' assertions that Fred was the only child of mechanic Ed and homemaker Edna Flintstone, and was a childhood friend of Barney, might be taken as valid.

Related Topics:
1980s - Spinoff - Apocryphal - Mechanic - Homemaker

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As a teenager in high school, Fred became Bedrock High School's star quarterback (and was nicknamed "Twinkletoes Flintstone") for its football team; however, paying more attention to football instead of his studies caused Fred to fail to graduate (and drop out), which he eventually rectified years later.

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As a young adult, Fred worked with Barney as bellhops at a resort. There, they first met, and fell in love, with their future wives, Wilma and Betty (who were working there as cigarette girls/waitresses). Wilma's mother, Mrs. Slaghoople, also met her future son-in-law, and immediately took a disliking toward Fred (and vice-versa) starting a years-long rivalry between the two. Eventually, Fred and Wilma were married.

Related Topics:
Bellhops - Cigarette - Mrs. Slaghoople

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Several episodes of the original series plus a few of the spinoffs assert that Fred spent some time in the army early in his marriage.

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In the original series' third season, Wilma became pregnant, and gave birth to the couple's only child, Pebbles.

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When Pebbles was a teenager, Fred became a part-time police officer for Bedrock's police force, where along with Barney, he was teamed up on cases with the Shmoo (of Lil Abner comic strip fame).

Related Topics:
Shmoo - Lil Abner

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Later still, Fred became a grandfather when Pebbles and the Rubbles' son Bamm-Bamm (both of who had grown to adulthood and married) became parents of twins, Chip and Roxy.

Related Topics:
Grandfather - Bamm-Bamm

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