Do you believe Fred Flintstone hits his wife?

[Anonymous]

On several episodes, he does seem to yell and lose his temper on trivial stuffs and Wilma ends up calming him down. That must probably be one of the reasons his mother in-law hates him.

Though he's never seen physically abusing or hitting his wife, do you think he probably he did off screen? I know it's a cartoon but just asking. Base on this episode, I think he does:

Yes

No

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+1 y

I think they don't show him actually going physical on her just for the reason that it's a cartoon and the directors and creators didn't want to ruin everyone's childhood.

[meatballs21]

Fred is based on Ralph Kramden from the Honeymooners who was a similar working class blowhard who'd make much more overt and ridiculous threats smack his wife right to the moon if she crossed him.

Thing is, he and Fred are both big softies and neither would lay a hand on Alice or Wilma respectively. Alice and Wilma in turn don't tolerate any crap from their loudmouth hubbies and wouldn't stick around for any abuse either (the common refrain in shows of the day was "I'm going home to mother!")

[cavmanier]

Right there he seems like it but I remember both Fred and Wilma would get angry fairly often at each other and I think the writers used the other person looking scared to accentuate the anger.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUsbhUpP190

His mother in law hates his because the "funny" (humor was much different back then) stereotype back then was that men don't get along with their mother in laws.

[EmpatheticLady]

It's possible, but not necessarily. He could be emotionally abusing her as well. Of course, times were different then and women didn't have the freedoms they do now. I'm not saying it's right, but things have changed thankfully.

[Asker]

Yes, that's a great news. I wouldn't ever tolerate a man talking to me in that manner nor telling me women are suppose to be at home. Thanks goodness times changed.

[DizzyDesii]

Nahhh but BamBam gone grow up to beat Pebbles. Damn. Like come on, his name is BamBam 😂

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[cavmanier]

His name could be for the other kind of bam bam

[vishna]

No, but lady was banging and a good wife, she could have done way better for herself. : P sowwy Fred.

[rubyrose83]

Yep, it's like the cartoon Honeymooners

[Asker]

Indeed. In real life, base on how scared Wilma seemed when he yelled at her, a man like that would probably already move on towards getting physical and not leave things as just words.

[rubyrose83]

Yeah & I'm sure back then it was totally acceptable

[TheRebelReturns]

Yep, he sent her to the moon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSKDNKI0--s

[DooMguy]

Well yeah. . . He's a caveman isn't he? That's just how things where back then

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Boy meets girl, boy has club. The end

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[DooMguy]

*were

[jacquesvol]

Aah, the Golden Era of Patriarchy!

[DooMguy]

@jacquesvol That's right, those were the days. You spent your time eating meat, watching girls in skimpy clothes dance around the fire but then a sabre tooth tiger comes out of nowhere, drags you into the bushes, just like that it's all over. But you still had fun

[llorando]

No I don't, but Wilma does hit Fred sometime when he loses his temper.
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[CyberToothTiger]

Yeah Fred Flintstone pointed like he was about to hit her
but i do believe there could be possibility on one of the
episodes that he does hit her but hard to really say.

[madhatters4]

i'm not going to project anything about a fictional tv show

[kaazikin]

It was in the sixties that this show aired, I would be surprised if he didn't hit her.

[lazermazer]

ROUND 2. ARE YOU AGAIN SURPRISED BY THE FACT THAT THIS QUESTION WAS ASKED BY UNDER 18 PINKY?

[Anonymous]

I'm glad people are still asking the important questions here on GAG!

[Teenwolf18]

am I the only one laughing?

[Eugene]

Now that's a proper education!

[WhereAmI]

What are you smoking? I'll have some.

[Jrossetti]

That's just how it was done in the caveman times

[Anonymous]

Our holy GRAND DAD would never do that.

[Anonymous]

how old are you little girl lmao

[ADFSDF1996]

Nope.

[Blitzkrieger]

Its a cartoon dude.

[Asker]

I know it is (I wrote that it's a cartoon on my post) but base on what was shown, don't you think that would be the type of man that more than likely hits his wife?

[Blitzkrieger]

No its not.

[Dred1614returns]

Nopw

[Dred1614returns]

*nope