Other episodes show his eyes as being completely filled in with black, very similar to Wilma's eyes.
In several of the original episodes of the series, Barney can be seen with his eyes depicted as two ovals or (occasionally) circles shown only as dark circular outlines. Fred is often annoyed by Barney and his cheerful attitude, but he does truly care for him. He changed his mind after Fred apologized. The best example comes in "I Yabba-Dabba Do!": after losing his patience with Fred for ruining Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's wedding, he decided to leave Bedrock. He later became grandfather to Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm's children, Chip and Roxy.Īlthough Fred and he are best friends, even he lost his patience with Fred sometimes. Both characters were paired with the Shmoo from Li'l Abner. When Bamm-Bamm grew into a teenager, Barney joined the Bedrock police force with Fred for a period of time as part-time officers. In the fifth season, the family buys a pet hopparoo (a combination of a kangaroo and dinosaur) named Hoppy. For a number of episodes after Bamm-Bamm's debut, no sign of him is seen on the show. Barney and Betty were successful in their efforts to adopt Bamm-Bamm because the wealthy man gave up (after winning the case) upon learning his wife became pregnant, after which he became a staple character on the series. A court battle ensued between the couple and a wealthy man who also had wanted to adopt Bamm-Bamm.
In one episode, Barney's boss tells him to "put down his broom", which implies some sort of janitorial work is involved.ĭuring the fourth season of the original series, Betty and Barney found an abandoned infant on their doorstep, by the name of "Bamm-Bamm". It could also be possible that both Fred and Barney work at the quarry, but may work in different sections of it, under different bosses. When speaking to an upper-crust snob in another episode, Betty declares Barney is in "top-secret" work, but that might have been a cover for a low-level job or unemployment, or perhaps an in-joke meaning that Barney's job was unknown even to the show's writers.
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An early episode of the original series does have a brief scene of Barney working at the Granite Building. While the subject of Barney's occupation (or even if he had one) was never given during the original series, the majority of subsequent spinoffs suggest at some point after the original series, Barney went to work at the Slate Rock and Gravel Company quarry alongside Fred as a fellow dino-crane operator. Several episodes and spinoffs suggest that Barney, along with Fred, spent some time in the army early in their marriages, though said references may be to Barney and Fred's military service in the first-season episode "The Astr'nuts." Eventually, Barney married Betty (as Fred did Wilma). As young adults, Barney and Fred worked as bellhops at a resort, where they first met Wilma and Betty, who were working as cigarette girls.
Slate, though subsequent episodes and spinoffs do not seem to support this claim. The original series also suggested in one episode that Barney was the nephew of Fred's boss, Mr. It is suggested in the original series that Barney grew up at 142 Boulder Avenue in Granitetown. Still, the series' assertions that Barney has at least one younger brother, Dusty, was a childhood friend of Fred, and was the son of artist Flo Rubble and car dealer Robert "Honest Bob" Rubble might be taken as valid. While the mid-1980s spinoff series The Flintstone Kids depicts Barney as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Barney as a childhood friend of Wilma and Betty (versus the original series' assertion that they first met as young adults).
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