Barney Rubble
| Barney Rubble | |
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| The Flintstones character | |
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| First appearance | The Flagstones (1959) |
| Created by | Hanna-Barbera |
| Portrayed by |
Rick Moranis (1994 film) Stephen Baldwin (2000 film) |
| Voiced by |
Daws Butler (Pilot, 1959, 1961) Mel Blanc (1960–1989) Hamilton Camp (The Flintstone Kids) Frank Welker (1990–2006) Jeff Bergman (1990–2009) Kevin Michael Richardson (The Flintstones: On the Rocks and The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!, 2001–present) Scott Innes (Toshiba commercial) Brad Abrell (2011 commercials) Stephen Stanton/Dave Coulier (Robot Chicken) |
| Information | |
| Species | Caveman |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Unknown (original series) Police officer Crane operator |
| Family | Robert "Bob" Rubble (father) Flo Rubble (mother) Mr. Slate (uncle [?]) Roxy Rubble (granddaughter) Chip Rubble (grandson) Dusty Rubble (brother) Pebbles Flintstone (goddaughter/daughter-in-law) |
| Spouse(s) | Betty Rubble (wife) |
| Children | Bamm-Bamm Rubble (adopted son) |
Bernard "Barney" Rubble is a cartoon character who appears in the television animated series The Flintstones. He is the diminutive, blond-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and adoptive father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. His best friends are his next door neighbors, Fred and Wilma Flintstone.
Barney's personality was based on that of Ed Norton on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners, played by Art Carney. Like Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners, Fred was constantly on the lookout for get-rich-quick schemes, while Barney, like Norton, found life satisfactory as it was, but participated in said schemes because Fred was his friend. Usually after Fred had hatched one of his plans, Barney showed his agreement by laughing and saying, "uh hee hee hee... OK, Fred!" or "hee hee hee... whatever you say, Fred!"
In early episodes, Barney had a "joisey" accent, but when Barney's accent was getting too annoying, it was changed to a deeper, more chuckle-like voice. In "On the Rocks" and "Stone-Age Smackdown", his Jersey accent returns.
Barney's interests included bowling, playing pool, poker, tinkering around in Fred's garage, and playing golf (though in some episodes, Barney did not know how to play golf). He, like Fred, was also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes lodge and its predecessor in earlier episodes, the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs. He is also a talented pianist and drummer. In the first episode of the original series, he was an inventor of a human-powered helicopter. Though clearly depicted as being in better shape than Fred, he is not shown to be quite as enthusiastic a sportsman as Fred is. This distinction can be attributed to Fred's fondness for food, though Barney is shown to be almost as capable of excessive appetite on a number of occasions.
While the mid-1980s spinoff series The Flintstone Kids depicts Barney as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Barney as a childhood friend of Wilma and Betty (versus the original series' assertion that they first met as young adults). Still, the series' assertions that Barney has at least one younger brother, Dusty, was a childhood friend of Fred, and was the son of artist Flo Rubble and car dealer Robert "Honest Bob" Rubble might be taken as valid. It is suggested in the original series that Barney grew up at 142 Boulder Avenue in Granitetown. The original series also suggested in one episode that Barney was the nephew of Fred's boss, Mr. Slate, though subsequent episodes and spinoffs do not seem to support this claim. As young adults, Barney and Fred worked as bellhops at a resort, where they first met Wilma and Betty, who were working as cigarette girls. Eventually, Barney married Betty (as Fred did Wilma).
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