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He spoke to Carol Keis of Hanna-Barbera’s public relations department. They anxiously ask for Barney Rubble’s vocation before they nod off for the evening.įeldman did call back, this time during regular hours.

But why don’t you call back after opening hours?” The security guard went on to explain to the amazed Feldman that he received many calls from inebriated and drunken Flintstones fans in the middle of the night. “I know why you’re calling”, the security guard said, “you want to know what Barney Rubble did for a living.

BARNEY FLINTSTONES SERIES

In research for his book series Imponderables, author David Feldman made a direct call to Hanna-Barbera studios, the studio that produced The Flintstones TV show in its original run from 1960 to 1966.īefore Feldman could even ask the question, he was surprised at the security guard’s opening statement. The people who ponder about “imponderables” weren’t the only ones who asked the question. What exactly did Barney Rubble do for a living?Įven self-professed Flintstones fanatics can’t agree on an answer. And Barney was… er, well, umm …you see, Barney’s job was… Ed Norton had a job working as a city sewer worker. Fred’s counterpart was the affable and always loyal Barney Rubble. On The Honeymooners, Ralph’s happy-go-lucky, easygoing best friend was Ed Norton. Both Alice and Wilma put up with the childish, ridiculous antics of their respective husbands because they had the characteristic wisdom of all great women, and also because they knew that underneath their husbands' bluster and foolhardiness, their husbands loved them very much and were trying to succeed mainly for their wives, to give them a better life. Wilma was strong and wise-cracking, more or less patterned after Ralph’s tough but caring wife, Alice. But he somehow had a fun and lovable side to him, exactly like Jackie Gleason’s brilliant Honeymooners lead character, Ralph Kramden.įred’s long-suffering wife, Wilma, was familiar with her husband’s many and frequent flaws and foibles. The similarities of the main characters were all-too-easy to spot.įred Flintstone, the show’s central character, was a blustery, quick-tempered, loud-mouthed, blowhard. The Flintstones was, pretty obviously, a blatant, albeit animated, take-off (read rip-off) of the legendary TV series The Honeymooners. In 1960, the first ever prime-time animated TV series took to the air. One of these curious and irritatingly persistent questions is, 'What did Barney Rubble do for a living?' George Carlin made a career of spotting these and pontificating about them. There is a great series of questions everyone asks or thinks about but no one has ever really solved. Visit Eddie at his website or at Facebook. Neatorama presents a guest post from actor, comedian, and voiceover artist Eddie Deezen.

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