Seeing Doubles

Seeing Doubles
Details
Show	The Flintstones
Season	6
Episode number	154
Production number	P-154
Original airdate	December 17, 1965 (ABC)
Recording Date	August 3, 1965
Crew
Animated by	Hugh Fraser Carlo Vinci John Sparey Michael Webster
Layout	Dick Bickenbach Jack Huber Alex Ignatiev
Background	Fernando Montealegre (known as F. Montealegre) Fernando Arce Rene Garcia
Written by	George O'Hanlon
Chronology
Previous	"Royal Rubble"
Next	"How to Pick a Fight with Your Wife Without Really Trying"

"Seeing Doubles" is the fourteenth episode of the sixth season and the one hundred and fifty-fourth overall episode of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on December 17, 1965.

Synopsis

Fred and Barney ask Gazoo to create doubles of themselves, so they can keep their dinner date with their wives, while also competing in a bowling tournament.

Plot

Gazoo creates replicas of Fred and Barney to accompany Wilma and Betty to a restaurant while Fred and Barney go bowling. Wilma and Betty are quite fooled by the duplicate Flintstone and Rubble and Fred and Barney, after bowling, arrive at the restaurant to where the "Fred and Barney Nothings" have brought Wilma and Betty and find that the replicas, which only say yes and no respectively, are pampering the wives with extravagant purchases, including champagne! Gazoo has told Fred and Barney to return their doubles to him at a bench near Fred's home so that he can dispose of them and the cavemen cannot remove the Nothings from the restaurant while they are in view of the wives and Mr. and Mrs. Slate are also at the restaurant and have met the Nothings and invited them to sit at the private Slate dinner table. Veritable Fred and Barney disguise themselves as Beatles-haired waiters and "accidentally" drop hot minestrone soup on the heads of the Nothings and rush to remove the victims of the "accident" from the Slates. Leaving Wilma and Betty at the restaurant, Fred and Barney act to deliver the Nothings to the prearranged meeting place with Gazoo but the Nothings gain control of Fred's car (while Fred and Barney are not aboard it) and Barney's replica drives it fast and recklessly so that a police officer tickets him! Perceiving the limited speech of the Nothings and thinking them to be ill, the policeman, knowing Fred personally, decides to escort them to the Flintstone residence. On their way home in the Rubbles' vehicle, Wilma and Betty find the real Fred and Barney hitchhiking on the side of the road believing their husbands to be disoriented from the "accident" with the soup, having been told about it by Slate. Feeling sorry for what he believed were the soup-drenched Fred and Barney, Mr. Slate paid for the Flintstone and Rubble dinner, with a plan to procure the money from Fred's salary! It is not until the policeman brings the replicas and Fred's car to Wilma and Betty (who again attribute their spouses' errant behavior to the soup incident) and Fred and Barney, pretending to be prowlers, lure the Nothings outside of Fred's domicile that Fred and Barney are able to subdue the Nothings so that Gazoo can finger-snap them into non-existence.

Characters

• Fred Flintstone
• Wilma Flintstone
• Barney Rubble
• Betty Rubble
• Pebbles Flintstone
• Bamm-Bamm Rubble
• Dino
• The Great Gazoo
• Mr. Slate
• Mrs. Slate
• Waiter (only appearance)
• Bowling Game Commentator (only appearance)
• Police officer

Locations

Bedrock

• Flintstone home
• Bedrock Bowl
• Maison La Rock (only appearance)

Objects

• Fred's bowling ball

Food

• Champagne
• Soup

Animals

• Snorkasaurus
• Rabbitsaurus (as a face powder)
• Foxasauruses (as a fur shawl)

Vehicles

• Flintmobile
• Loggin Continental

Cast

Alan Reed	Fred Flintstone
Jean Vander Pyl	Wilma Flintstone Pebbles Flintstone Mrs. Slate
Mel Blanc	Barney Rubble Dino
Gerry Johnson	Betty Rubble
Don Messick	Bamm-Bamm Rubble Bowling Game Commentator
John Stephenson	Mr. Slate Police officer
Harvey Korman	The Great Gazoo

Notes/Trivia

• Fred's car license number is 26537.
• This episode is the first of the only two episodes written by George O'Hanlon, who was the voice of George Jetson from The Jetsons and also the Hanna-Barbera Superstars 10 crossover film, The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones.

Errors

• The location of the park bench appears to be different throughout the episode. In the middle of the episode, Fred says it is six miles from home, but then at the end, he and Barney get there very quickly from the house, and they don't appear to have driven there.