![]() It is unknown if this was due to a medical reason or simply bad luck, though after adopting Bamm-Bamm they never tried again. The story depicted Betty as despondent over their inability to conceive, which was a surprisingly serious topic for any cartoon. ![]() The Rubbles never had biological children. In the fourth season of the original series, Betty and Barney found an abandoned infant on their doorstep, by the name of "Bamm-Bamm." After a court battle for possession of Bamm-Bamm (in which the Rubbles faced the opposition's noted prehistoric lawyer " Perry Masonry"), the couple were allowed to adopt Bamm-Bamm. Despite her cheerful nature, she has occasions to be angry at Barney and once knocked out crooks with her stone purse who tried to kill Barney Betty at one time also had a job working for an 'old lady' who turned out to be a young lady in disguise and who was using Betty to pass counterfeit money this was the only episode centered principally around Betty. Betty, much like Wilma, also enjoyed volunteering for various charitable/women's organizations in Bedrock, shopping, and (occasionally) meeting the celebrities of their world, including " Stony Curtis", " Cary Granite", and " Ann-Margrock". ![]() īetty became a homemaker, keeping house with such prehistoric aids as a baby mammoth vacuum cleaner, pelican washing machine, and so forth. Eventually, Betty and Barney were married, presumably not long after Fred and Wilma. ![]() There, they first met and fell in love with their future husbands, Fred and Barney. Īs young adults, Betty and Wilma were employed as cigarette girls/waitresses at a resort. She also has a married sister with a baby son named Marblehead Sandstone. As a child, she lived with her parents who ran a convenience store and her older brother, Brad. This lack of protagonism (her continuous presence almost becoming a backdrop for supporting characters Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm and Dino) makes Betty less of the lead than the show's general concept might imply.īetty is a friend of Wilma since their childhood. Occasions when Betty leads the action are extremely scarce: one episode centers around her working undercover as a gentle old lady to earn money for a present for Barney in another, the plot focuses on her and Wilma's suspicions of Barney being involved with another woman (who turns out to be Fred in a disguise in order to attend a ball game free of charge). In spite of this, Betty is portrayed as having a distinctly emotional marriage with Barney, which often includes pet names and more obvious affection than the dynamic and energetic interaction between Fred and Wilma. Much like Trixie or Ethel, Betty spent a lot of her time socializing with Wilma, and the two would often end up working together to bail their husbands out of whatever scheme of Fred's had landed them in trouble, sometimes scheming with each other.īetty typically follows the lead of Barney or Wilma, so may appear to be the least developed character in the show. She speaks with a Midwestern accent.īetty's personality was based on the stock character of the lead character's best friend's wife, commonly seen in 1950s television (other prominent examples including Trixie Norton of The Honeymooners, which by conflicting accounts was a major inspiration for The Flintstones, and Ethel Mertz of I Love Lucy). Her best friend is her next-door neighbor Wilma Flintstone.īetty lives in the fictional prehistoric town of Bedrock, a world where dinosaurs coexist with cavepeople and the cavepeople enjoy primitive versions of modern conveniences such as telephones, automobiles and washing machines. She is the black-haired wife of caveman Barney Rubble and the adoptive mother of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. Pebbles Flintstone (goddaughter/daughter-in-law/niece)īetty Rubble is a fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones and its spin-offs and live-action motion pictures.
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