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Alan Reed in The Flintstones (1960)

Quotes

A Haunted House Is Not a Home

The Flintstones

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  • Creepers: Dinner is served, sir.
  • Fred Flintstone: Eh, what is it, Creepers?
  • Creepers: Alphabet soup, sir, our cook's specialty.
  • Fred Flintstone: Alphabet soup?
  • Barney Rubble: Sure, Fred, you twirl it around and sometimes it makes words. Uh do you think we should eat it?
  • Fred Flintstone: Well, sure, why not?
  • Barney Rubble: Well, if anything happens to Flintstone, everything goes to the servants, remember?
  • Fred Flintstone: Yeah, yeah, I remember. Hey, Barney, look! The alphabet soup's trying to tell us something! Beware!
  • Barney Rubble: You better do what it says, Fred, look!
  • [Pot Rock charges at Fred with a cleaver]
  • [after J. Giggles Flintstone, who turns out to be alive and well, reveals he was merely testing Fred]
  • Fred Flintstone: You mean this was all a joke?
  • J. Giggles Flintstone: That's right, a great big joke!
  • [cackles]
  • J. Giggles Flintstone: Right, boys?
  • Creepers: You're a riot, sir.
  • Wormstone: What a practical joker, boss.
  • Potrock: Yeah, a real kook.
  • J. Giggles Flintstone: That's me, a kook!
  • [cackles]
  • J. Giggles Flintstone: But a rich kook. Ha, ha! Don't forget that!
  • [cackles]
  • J. Giggles Flintstone: You should've seen how funny you looked when you were scared!
  • [cackles]
  • J. Giggles Flintstone: Right, boys?
  • Servants: Yeah, boss.
  • [the servants all laugh]
  • Fred Flintstone: Well, I'm kind of a kook myself.
  • [pulls out a very large cleaver]
  • Fred Flintstone: Not rich, but still a kook.
  • [Fred laughs maniacally as his uncle runs in terror]
  • J. Giggles Flintstone: Look out! He's flipped his wheels! Run!
  • [the servants flee with Fred chasing after them and Giggles, Barney and the girls watch as Fred continues chasing them outside]
  • Barney Rubble: Good boy! Sic'em, Fred! Sic'em!
  • Betty Rubble: Go get'em, Fred!
  • [Fred continues his pursuit, laughing maniacally]
  • Wilma Flintstone: Well, back to the poorhouse.
  • Fred Flintstone: [about his uncle] I don't think I saw him more than twice in my whole life. He, uh, lived alone in a big mansion on Nightmare Hill. He, uh, was kind of a, uh, well, eh, he was a, uh...
  • Betty Rubble: You mean he was an eccentric.
  • Fred Flintstone: I mean he was a kook, that's what I mean.
  • Lawyer: You see, madam, the late Mr. Flintstone was a kind of, um, eh, that is, he, uh, uh...
  • Wilma Flintstone: You mean he was an eccentric.
  • Lawyer: No, I mean he was a kook, that's what I mean!
  • Barney Rubble: [looking at a picture on the wall] Hey, that must be a picture of your uncle, the late J. Giggles Flinstone.
  • Fred Flintstone: Yeah, yeah that's him alright.
  • Barney Rubble: Looks a lot like you!
  • [the eyes move in the picture]
  • Fred Flintstone: Hey Barney! That picture, I saw the eyes move!
  • Barney Rubble: Eyes move? Oh boy, uh Fred, you're a bundle of nerves!
  • Fred Flintstone: [hears thunder and laughter and jumps over to Barney's side of the table] Kind of, stormy tonight, isn't it, Barney?
  • Betty Rubble: Where's Barney?
  • Barney Rubble: [on the cuckoo clock's perch] Cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo, cuckoo.
  • [disappears back in the clock]
  • Betty Rubble: Barney, come out! What're you doing up there?
  • Barney Rubble: [comes out] Well, when you're in a cuckoo-type house, this is the safest place to be.
  • Betty Rubble: Is Pebbles asleep?
  • Wilma Flintstone: Uh-huh, sleeping like a little angel.
  • Fred Flintstone: [chuckles] She oughta, the lucky kid. After tomorrow, she's not gonna have a worry in the world.
  • Barney Rubble: Oh, I don't know, Fred. She'll still have you.

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