The Flintstones

The Flintstones (1960)

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Other mistake: During the closing theme (early seasons), when Fred walks by to close the birdcage, Wilma is shown in the background sleeping and her entire mouth is missing.

Hot Lips Hannigan - S1-E3

Continuity mistake: When Fred and Barney arrive at the Rockland Club, they park their car right in front of the front door. When Betty and Wilma arrive, they park their car in front of the door and Fred and Barney's car has disappeared.

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No Help Wanted - S1-E5

Continuity mistake: When Fred and Barney are fighting over the television there are three knobs on the TV set, but when Wilma starts talking to Fred they have vanished, then they reappear.

The Split Personality - S1-E6

Continuity mistake: When Fred and Barney arrive at the bowling alley, they are seen standing in the doorway, but the very next shot shows Fred inside the bowling alley and Barney is nowhere in sight.

The Golf Champion - S1-E12

Continuity mistake: At the 18th hole, Fred's opponent Ben Boulder hits his tee shot on the fairway. But we see Boulder doing his second shot, he doesn't hit the ball from the fairway; he hits the ball from the same tee box on which he did his first shot.

The Drive - In - S1-E14

Continuity mistake: While sitting down at the celebration dinner, Wilma has a blue dress and Betty has a white dress. When they get up and walk away from the table, they've swapped colours.

Rooms for Rent - S1-E28

Continuity mistake: When Wilma is serving the two steaks for Fred at the dinner table, you can see there is steam coming out of the steaks, but when she places them in front of Fred the steam has disappeared.

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Bowling Ballet - S3-E4

Other mistake: At the start of the episode we're shown a preview of the episode's plot: while Fred stretches his leg on the ballet bar his leg gets stuck and when the ballet teacher pushes his leg down, the part of the ballet bar which Fred is leaning on is gone. What's odd is that during this scene within the episode the ballet bar is perfectly intact. (00:00:25 - 00:14:40)

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Dial S for Suspicion - S3-E14

Continuity mistake: When Fred is reading his letter about his position being accepted at the Stone Valley Inn, you can see Wilma is sitting in the chair next to him, but in the next shot the chair is empty and Wilma is nowhere to be seen, then she reappears in the chair.

Dial S for Suspicion - S3-E14

Continuity mistake: When Fred hands Barney the job advert he saw in the newspaper, Barney takes it with his right hand but a close-up of the advert shows him holding it with his left hand.

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Foxy Grandma - S3-E21

Revealing mistake: While Grandma Dynamite is on the roof sending smoke signals, Sonny is standing in the tree. When Sonny starts laughing we can see the bottom of his jagged clothing is now a mere straight line and his legs have vanished. (00:16:45)

Super Grover

Fred Flintstone: I love my dear sweet mother in-law. My mother in-law is a doll.
Attendant: Are you feeling all right, mister?
Fred Flintstone: Huh? Yeah. Yeah, I'm okay.
Attendant: Good. Good. You just stay in here and rest. That hot sun out there is a killer.
Fred Flintstone: Poor guy, he must have been standing in it for hours.

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Question: At the end of every episode, it shows Fred putting out the sabertooth tiger. Has this animal ever appeared in any of the episodes? If yes, what episodes was it in? If no, then why show Fred putting an animal he doesn't own outside?

Answer: The name of the pet is "Baby Puss." He has appeared in episodes, but only a very few. The first episode was probably "The X-Ray Story" from season 2.

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