Wilma Flintstone (maiden name Pebble or Slaghoople—see below) is a fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones. She is the beautiful red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, mother of Pebbles Flintstone and grandmother to Roxy and Chip Rubble. Her best friends were her next door neighbors, Betty and Barney Rubble.
Wilma's personality was based on that of Alice Kramden, wife of Ralph Kramden on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners. Thus, much like Alice, Wilma played the strong-willed, level-headed person in her marriage, often criticizing Fred for pursuing his various ill-fated schemes. Wilma would also often be the one to bail out Fred when one of his schemes landed him in trouble.
While the mid-1980s spin-off series The Flintstone Kids depicts Wilma as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Wilma as a childhood friend of Fred and Barney (the original series asserted that they met as young adults) as well as using the last name Slaghoople instead of the original Pebbles. Still, the series' depictions that Wilma had younger sisters and that her father—who apparently died by the time Wilma reached adulthood—ran a prehistoric computer business might be taken as valid. Wilma did mention having a married sister in the sixth season.
As a young adult, Wilma worked with Betty as cigarette girls/waitresses at a resort. They first met and fell in love with their future husbands, Fred and Barney (who were working there as bellhops). Wilma's mother, Pearl Pebbles Slaghoople, also met her future son-in-law and took a disliking toward Fred (and vice-versa), starting a long-lasting rivalry between the two.
Eventually, Wilma and Fred were married, and Wilma became a homemaker, keeping house with such prehistoric aids as a baby elephant vacuum cleaner, pelican washing machine, and so forth. She was also a good cook. One of her specialties was Gravelberry Pie - the recipe for which she eventually sold to the Safestone supermarket chain. Wilma also enjoyed volunteering for various charitable and women's organizations in Bedrock, shopping, and (occasionally) getting to meet the celebrities of their world, including "Tony Curtis", Rock Quarry and Cary Grant. By Noyan Deniz Yalçınkaya
Wilma became pregnant in the original series' third season and gave birth to the couple's only child, Pebbles.
When Pebbles was a teenager, Wilma (along with Betty) gained employment as a reporter for one of Bedrock's newspapers, the Daily Granite (a spoof of the Daily Planet of Superman fame), under the editorial guidance of Lou Granite (a parody of The Mary Tyler Moore Show'sLou Grant). While employed there, she shared various adventures with prehistoric superhero Captain Caveman, who (in a secret identity) also worked for the newspaper (a la Clark Kent).
Later, after Pebbles grew up and left home, Wilma started a successful catering business with her neighbor and friend Betty before becoming a grandmother to Pebbles' twin children, Chip and Roxy.
Maiden name[]
Wilma's maiden name is the subject of a continuity error. Several early episodes in the original series clearly stated Wilma's maiden name was "Pebble." In the second season episode "The Entertainer", Wilma's old friend Greta Gravel remembers her as "Wilma Pebble", and in the third season episode "Dial S for Suspicion", one of Wilma's old boyfriends, calls her "Wilma Pebble."
However, later episodes and spin-offs firmly state her maiden name is "Slaghoople", based upon the name of Wilma's mother in the original series, Pearl Slaghoople. Flintstones' writer Earl Kress explained the discrepancy as such: "Unfortunately, it's just as simple as [Hanna-Barbera] not caring about the continuity."
Mariage[]
In the first few episodes of the series, particularly the series' first episode, "The Flintstone Flyer," Wilma is portrayed as a domestically abusive and domineering wife, almost to the point of outright sadism, throwing a tantrum and physically assaulting her husband (or at least attempting to do so) upon discovering that he and Barney had fooled her and Betty so that they could go bowling instead of going to the opera, even though Fred had a bandaged head injury. This is also presumably the reason why Fred and Barney could not muster up the courage to simply tell their wives outright that the opera coincided with the bowling championship. Also, in the same episode, she and Betty are shown to be willing to assault their husbands violently in public without second thoughts, demonstrated when they bash Fred and Barney over the heads with their heavy handbags in the bowling alley, in front of other players. At the end of the episode, when Fred and Barney are forced to flee their violent wives on Barney's flying machine, Wilma and Betty wait patiently in the garden for Barney to tire, and even six hours later, they show no remorse for their actions and still look forward to hurting their husbands more when they land. In subsequent episodes, she gets angry but never harms Fred seriously, often lecturing him or slapping him for his exceptionally bad behavior. For example, in the twenty-third episode of season 2, Wilma bites Fred's finger when he points at her.
While generally a foil to Fred's poor behavior, Wilma is not immune to it herself. She, usually along with Betty Rubble, will occasionally rack up large bills on a charge account or spend the family's money with reckless abandon. Wilma and Betty will also occasionally plot acts of revenge on their husbands for their oafishness.
She and Fred often argue because of Fred's behavior and because Fred sometimes flirts with other women. In the 2001 TV movie The Flintstones: On the Rocks, the marriage is not working out, and they consider divorce, but they reconcile at the end.
Personality[]
Her personality was based on that of Alice Kramden, wife of Ralph Kramden on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners. Thus, much like Alice, Wilma played the strong-willed, level-headed person in her marriage, often criticizing Fred for pursuing his various ill-fated schemes. Wilma would also often be the one to bail out Fred when one of his schemes landed him in trouble.
Physical Appearance[]
Wilma is a beautiful cavewoman. She has swirly orange hair, wears a white loin cloth/dress, a pearl necklace, and red lipstick (in some specials and shows it's pink). Another notable thing about Wilma is that she has black dots for her eyes.
The Flintstones Season 1:The Flintstone Flyer | Hot Lips Hannigan | The Swimming Pool | No Help Wanted | The Split Personality | The Monster from the Tar Pits | The Babysitters | At the Races | The Engagement Ring | Hollyrock, Here I Come | The Golf Champion | The Sweepstakes Ticket | The Drive-In | The Prowler | The Girls' Night Out | Arthur Quarry's Dance Class | The Big Bank Robbery | The Snorkasaurus Hunter | The Hot Piano | The Hypnotist | Love Letters on the Rocks | The Tycoon | The Astra' Nuts | The Long, Long Weekend | In the Dough | The Good Scout | Rooms for Rent | Fred Flintstone: Before and After
The Flintstones Season 2:The Hit Songwriters | Droop-Along Flintstone | The Missing Bus | Alvin Brickrock Presents | Fred Flintstone Woos Again | The Rock Quarry Story | The Soft Touchables | Flintstone of Prinstone | The Little White Lie | Social Climbers | The Beauty Contest | The Masquerade Ball | The Picnic | The House Guest | The X-Ray Story | The Gambler | A Star is Almost Born | The Entertainer | Wilma's Vanishing Money | Feudin' and Fussin' | Impractical Joker | Operation Barney | The Happy Household | Fred Strikes Out | This is Your Lifesaver | Trouble-in-Law | The Mailman Cometh | The Rock Vegas Story | Divided We Sail | Kleptomaniac Caper | Latin Lover | Take Me Out to the Ball Game The Flintstones Season 3:Dino Goes Hollyrock | Fred's New Boss | Barney the Invisible | Bowling Ballet | The Twitch | Here's Snow in Your Eyes | The Buffalo Convention | The Little Stranger | Baby Barney | Hawaiian Escapade | Ladies' Day | Nuthin' But the Tooth | High School Fred | Dial 'S' for Suspicion | Flash Gun Freddie | The Kissing Burglar | Wilma the Maid | The Hero | The Surprise | Mother-in-Law's Visit | Foxy Grandma | Fred's New Job | The Dress Rehearsal | Carry On, Nurse Fred | Ventriloquist Barney | The Big Move | Swedish Visitors | The Birthday Party The Flintstones Season 4:Ann-Margrock Presents | Groom Gloom | Little Bamm-Bamm | Dino Disappears | Fred's Monkeyshines | The Flintstone Canaries | Glue for Two | Big League Freddie | Old Lady Betty | Sleep On, Sweet Fred | Kleptomaniac Pebbles | Daddy's Little Beauty | Daddies Anonymous | Peek-a-Boo Camera | Once Upon a Coward | Ten Little Flintstones | Fred El Terrifico | The Bedrock Hillbillies | Flintstone and the Lion | Cave Scout Jamboree | Room for Two | Ladies' Night at the Lodge | Reel Trouble | Son of Rockzilla | Bachelor Daze | Operation Switchover The Flintstones Season 5:Hop Happy | Monster Fred | Itty Bitty Fred | Pebbles' Birthday Party | Bedrock Rodeo Round-Up | Cinderellastone | A Haunted House is Not a Home | Dr. Sinister | The Gruesomes | The Most Beautiful Baby in Bedrock | Dino and Juliet | King for a Night | Indianrockolis 500 | Adobe Dick | Christmas Flintstone | Fred's Flying Lesson | Fred's Second Car | Time Machine | The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes | Moonlight and Maintenance | Sheriff for a Day | Deep in the Heart of Texarock | The Rolls Rock Caper | Superstone | Fred Meets Hercurock | Surfin' Fred The Flintstones Season 6:No Biz Like Show Biz | The House That Fred Built | The Return of Stony Curtis | Disorder in the Court | Circus Business | Samantha | The Great Gazoo | Rip Van Flintstone | The Gravelberry Pie King | The Stonefinger Caper | The Masquerade Party | Shinrock A Go-Go | Royal Rubble | Seeing Doubles | How to Pick a Fight with Your Wife Without Really Trying | Fred Goes Ape | The Long, Long, Long Weekend | Two Men on a Dinosaur | The Treasure of Sierra Madrock | Curtain Call at Bedrock | Boss for a Day | Fred's Island | Jealousy | Dripper | My Fair Freddy | The Story of Rocky's Raiders
Locations
Bedrock | Flintstone home | Rubble home | Bedrock Bowl | Slate Rock and Gravel Company | Water Buffalo Lodge | Bedrock Drive-In Theater | Grand Canyon
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