With the upcoming election, a lot of people are attempting to dig up dirt on the political candidates. However, it appears dirt has been dug up on a famous fellow who not only isn’t running for president, but apparently died thousands of years ago: Wilma Flintstone. A Candian website has pointed out that although most episodes of The Flintstones that refer to Wilma’s maiden name give it as Wilma Slaghoople, yet other episodes refer to her maiden name as Wilma Pebble. The implications are many: did Wilma have a failed marriage beforehand she kept secret from Fred? Is Wilma a criminal who changed her name and ran away to avoid the fuzz? Did Wilma’s mother simply divorce and remarry when she was still a child? Or is this just one of those examples of faulty Flintstones continuity that the Master once spoke about? The world may never know. But one things for sure- I’ll never look at those Post commercials the same way again. By stealing Fred’s Pebbles cereal, is Barney suggesting that he actually wants to steal Wilma away from Fred?
Obviously, “Slaghoople” is an alias. All last names in the Flintstone’s times were derived from rocks (Just like all Dinosaur last names are names of oil companies). “Slag” requires smelting, a technology too advanced for the time frame. (Volcanic slag existed, but there appear to be no volcanoes in the Flintstone’s neighborhood).
It’s clear that this was a name given by the Witness Protection Program. Most likely, the Pebble family fell into the bad graces of one of the organized crime families and had to change their name.
Either that, or Wilma was an international spy and was in deep cover.
All the young dudes, carry the news …
Wilma’s been used.
In an age when all of your household appliances can talk, you’d think this would have come out earlier (unless she killed them the same way Barney did).
