The Flintstones (TV Series)

Once Upon a Coward (1963)

Don Messick: Bamm-Bamm Rubble, Arnold, News Reader

Quotes 

• Arnold : Say, have the police caught the man who held up up?

  Fred Flintstone : Not that I know of, Arnold, but they will.

  Arnold : Sure. My dad says it's a good thing for that robber he didn't hold him up. My dad says he'd have tossed him for a loop.

  Fred Flintstone : Oh, yeah? Well, you tell your father there was nothing he or anybody else could've done. The guy had a gun.

  Arnold : Uh, but...

  Fred Flintstone : No buts. He had a gun pointed right at my back. If I'd so much as said "Boo", he'd have plugged me.

  Arnold : Gee, I guess Dad isn't aware of the actual circumstances.

  Fred Flintstone : He sure isn't. Here, I'll show you exactly how it was. Now... Now you be me.

  [makes a gun with his hand] 

  Fred Flintstone : You pretend I'm holding a gun on you. I've just sneaked up on you, and you're caught by surprise. What can you do? You haven't got a cha...

  [Arnold flips Fred over and Fred goes down the slide, lands in a wagon, and crashes into the mailbox] 

  Wilma Flintstone : Fred! We got those toys for Pebbles! Now stop playing with them before you break something!