The Flintstones (TV Series)

Once Upon a Coward (1963)

Jean Vander Pyl: Wilma Flintstone, Pebbles Flintstone

Quotes 

• Betty Rubble : As long as we're standing in front of the Rubble residence, would you like to come in for a while?

  Wilma Flintstone : Thanks, Betty, but it's sort of late. We told Mrs. Sitstone we'd be home early.

  Fred Flintstone : Yeah, and we can't get the babysitter mad. Well, good night, Barney.

  Barney Rubble : Good night, Fred.

  Fred Flintstone : Good night, Betty.

  Betty Rubble : Good night, Fred.

  Wilma Flintstone : Good night, Betty.

  Betty Rubble : Good night, Wilma.

  Wilma Flintstone : Good night, Barney.

  Barney Rubble : Good night, Wilma.

  Bird in Tree : Good night, already. Gee!

• Barney Rubble : I think you're doing Fred an injustice, Wilma. I mean, I know Fred, and he isn't a coward.

  Wilma Flintstone : I never said he was.

  Fred Flintstone : Not in so many words maybe, but you implied it, Wilma.

  Barney Rubble : And don't forget, this holdup man had a tremendous advantage, a gun.

  Fred Flintstone : Yeah, and he had it pointing right at my back. I-I'll show you exactly how it was, Barney. Uh, stand right here.

  [places Barney in front of him and makes a gun with his hand] 

  Fred Flintstone : Uh, pretend this is a gun, Barney.

  Barney Rubble : All right.

  Fred Flintstone : And you'll see that I didn't have a...

  [Barney flips Fred over] 

  Fred Flintstone : CHANCE!

• [while looking at a picture of Sonny Dempstone] 

  Fred Flintstone : Look at that monster. Anybody that fights him must be pretty brave, right, Wilma?

  Wilma Flintstone : Anybody that fights him ought to have his head examined.

  Barney Rubble : They do, they do.

  [laughs] 

  Barney Rubble : Right after the fight. Ha ha. In the hospital.

• 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!

• Gladys Schwartzquartz : Honestly, Wilma, I don't see how you can play bridge so soon after that holdup. After an experience like that, I'd still be trembling all over.

  Wilma Flintstone : I've got news for you, Gladys. You know when I was shaking that cup of cactus tea? Well, I wasn't doing it on purpose.

• [Fred is demonstrating the holdup to one of Wilma's friends] 

  Fred Flintstone : I'll show you exactly how it happened, Mrs. Schwartzquartz. Now... Now you be me, see?

  Wilma Flintstone : Fred.

  Fred Flintstone : And... And I'm the crook.

  [makes a gun with his hand] 

  Fred Flintstone : And I got a gun here and I say, "Stick'em up, see?" There's nothing you can do. You haven't got a cha...

  [Gladys Schwartzquartz flips Fred over. He crashes through the wall, and into a concrete pole] 

  Fred Flintstone : Why won't anybody believe me...

  [half of a roof falls on him] 

  Fred Flintstone : When I tell them I didn't have a chance?