The Flintstones

The Flintstones (1960)

178 mistakes - chronological order

(11 votes)

Disorder in the Court - S6-E4

Continuity mistake: When Fred and Wilma are in their beds, you can see that the holes in the dial of the phone are in a diagonal position, but when we see a close-up of the phone, the holes are now straight.

Circus Business - S6-E5

Continuity mistake: When Fred, Wilma, Barney and Betty arrive at the Ferris Wheel, there is a queue of people behind them. When the circus owner listens in on Fred and Barney's conversation, the queue has disappeared.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Continuity mistake: When Sandy puts the cigar into Fred's mouth, he lights the cigar and it explodes, leaving Fred's face covered in black marks. In the next shot, the marks have disappeared.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Continuity mistake: During Fred's dream sequence, Fred tells Barney that he missed watching Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm grow up and behind Barney there is a table and a painting on the wall. In a close-up of Barney in the next shot, both the table and painting have disappeared.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Other mistake: When the shopkeeper takes the magazine away from Fred in the supermarket, Fred says he was just looking at the pictures. But when the shopkeeper takes the magazine, you can see that the page Fred was reading is completely blank.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Continuity mistake: When the man playing pool says "Try the old folks' home, pops!" and Fred leaves the pool hall, Fred's walking stick changes from his right hand to left hand between shots.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Continuity mistake: Before Mr. Slate takes a picture of his employees, Sandy (the one that Fred gives a hot foot to) is standing by two other men. When Fred gives Sandy a hot foot, the men have disappeared, and when we see the photo that Mr. Slate has taken, they are back again.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Continuity mistake: When the hunter hits Fred on the head with a small rock, Fred falls down on the ground and there are some plants and rocks next to him, but when the hunter goes to see Fred, the plants and rocks are no longer in sight.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Continuity mistake: When Wilma is speaking to Fred outside her house during the dream sequence, you can see she is holding an ear trumpet in her right hand, but later on in the scene it disappears.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Continuity mistake: In the scene where Mr. Slate asks his employees to gather round for a group photo, Fred decides to liven up the situation by giving Sandy a 'hot foot'. When Mr. Slate takes the photo, Fred is lighting the match on Sandy's foot, but the picture that comes out of the camera shows him not lighting the match at all.

Rip Van Flintstone - S6-E8

Audio problem: When the man living in Barney's house says, "Yeah, struck it rich in oil years ago!" to Fred, his voice is completely different to the one heard when he opens the door.

Shinrock-A-Go-Go - S6-E12

Continuity mistake: When Wilma and Betty are watching "Shinrock" on the TV, the camera cuts to Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm and the rug they are sitting on is covered with building blocks. Later on, when the two are trying to dance the "Pterodactyl", the rug is completely clear.

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.

More quotes from The Flintstones
More trivia for The Flintstones

Show generally

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.

Bishop73

More questions & answers from The Flintstones

Join the mailing list

Separate from membership, this is to get updates about mistakes in recent releases. Addresses are not passed on to any third party, and are used solely for direct communication from this site. You can unsubscribe at any time.

Check out the mistake & trivia books, on Kindle and in paperback.