Later, she and Barney were married, presumably not long after Fred and Wilma.Īround 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 in which they defeated noted lawyer "Perry Masonry", the couple were allowed to adopt Bamm-Bamm legally and permanently. As a child, she lived with her parents, Brad and Jean who ran a convenience store and her brother Brick and sister Sissy. In the 1980's spin-off series, The Flintstone Kids, Betty is a friend of Fred, Barney and Wilma since their childhood. Later still, after Bamm-Bamm grew up and left home in I Yabba-Dabba Do! and Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby, Betty started a successful catering business, "Bone-Appetite" with her partner Wilma.īetty's pre-marriage name is either McBricker or O'Shale, depending on the source. While employed there, she shared various adventures with prehistoric superhero Captain Caveman, who (in a secret identity as Chester) also works for the newspaper. When Bamm-Bamm was a teenager, Betty gained employment as a reporter for one of Bedrock's newspapers (or, more accurately, news-slabs), the Daily Granite (presumably a parody of the Daily Planet of Superman fame), under the editorial guidance of Lou Granite. At various times, she has been seen playing sports like tennis, polo, softball and bowling. The occasions when Betty leads the action are extremely scarce: one episode centers around her working undercover as a gentle old lady who uses her to pass "counterfeit" money to buy a present for Barney, and on another occasion the plot for her and Wilma was led by her suspicions of Barney being involved with another woman (which turns out to be Fred in a disguise contrived in order to attend a ball game free of charge).īetty, much like Wilma, also enjoys volunteering for various charitable/women's organizations in Bedrock, shopping, and (occasionally) getting to meet the celebrities of their world, including Stony Curtis, Cary Granite, and Ann-Margrock. In a plan surprise Fred and Barney, the girls donned swimsuits and heels and showed themselves more gorgeous than the other contestants. In the episode, " The Beauty Contest", Betty alongside Wilma proved themselves the two most beautiful women of the Stone Age. She also wears a trademark blue ribbon in her hair. She wears a blue loincloth/tube dress with a torn hemline, black straps that tie around the back of her neck, a decorative stone sewn onto the front of the chest and a jagged bottom. Her jealous streak is also played up.īetty is a beautiful, slim and slender young woman with fair skin and black hair in a bob and she's considerably taller than her husband, Barney. In later depictions, she is portrayed as being more stubborn and headstrong than Wilma, and considerably smarter than her husband. She gets mad and frustrated when Barney is not behaving and she feels sad sometimes and starts sobbing when something goes wrong, one example is after making a phone call about being sent to the Fireman's Ball. In addition to her attractiveness and beauty, Betty can also be quite emotional. This lack of focus and character development (almost as background-set as supporting characters such as Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, or Dino, except for her more continuous presence) makes Betty less of a main character as is implied by the general concept of the show and more like a filler character. In spite of this, Betty is shown to have a distinctly emotional marriage with Barney, which more often included pet names and a more obvious affection, as opposed to the more dynamic and energetic interaction between Fred and Wilma. Much like Trixie spent a lot of her time socializing with Alice Kramden, Betty mostly spends a lot of her time socializing with Wilma, and the two will often end up working together to bail their husbands out of whatever scheme of Fred's has landed them in trouble.īetty can be considered the least developed character in the show, as she is rarely seen not following the lead of either Barney or Wilma, the latter of whom she often seems merely an echo of, generally. 5.1 Television shows, films and specialsīetty's personality was based on that of Trixie Norton, wife of Ed Norton on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners each of the four of the series' principal adult characters is an analogue of a Honeymooners character.
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