Question about a Flintstones episode

Cafe Society
1

It’s the one where Fred and Barney decide (why I can’t recall) to open a fast-food drive-in. They put out a call for carhops to apply and get two respondants who do a song and dance number.
Now my question is, at a certain point in the song the view cuts to the onlookers who are literally bowled over in their chairs. What’s that all about? Are the carhop girls flashing or something?

2

If I remember correctly. Fred & Barney try to open the place on the sly. Wilma & Betty don’t like them throwing away money on hair brained schemes. Also, Wilma & Betty think Fred & Barney are cheating on them with said carhops.
That’s all I remember.

3

I haven’t seen that episode (or the show for that matter) in probably 20 years but now, thanks to you, I have this stuck in my head:

Here we come on the run
with a burger on a bun…
etc.

Damn you!

Haj

4

Just in case anyone’s interested in the full lyrics (plus those of such immortal ditties as “Bedrock Twitch” and “Soft Soap Jingle”):

http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/information/lyrics.php?song=carhop

5

My guess, after looking at the lyrics site referenced:

“Cause we grind our own meat,
Grind, grind, grind, grind, grind,”

The two carhops were probably doing a “bump-and-grind”, the way strippers will do a pelvic thrust in time to the music, with the whammy coming at the last “grind”, or drumbeat.

In old TV shows like Red Skelton, a properly executed bump-and-grind would make an entire audience of men’s hats fly off their heads.

6

Weirdly, the site had the lyrics to every Flintstones song I could think of, except the one that no-one remembers (although it’s on the CD linked on the page), the one that Hoagy Carmichael sang:

Boy, do we know how to bust Monte-Carlo
And to never be blue
It’s a lot like prayin’
Just keep a’ sayin’
Yabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-do!
If ya think your sweetie’s
Left for Tahiti
We can give you a clue
There’s no need for cryin’
Roar like a lion
Yabba-dabba-dabba-dabba-do!
Badda means “bad”
Dabba means “good”
Oh what magic in a word we’ve found
By switchin’ the letters around!
etc
I loved that song as a kid and spent like three months obsessivly watching The Flintstones with a Radio Shack tape-recorder in hopes of getting it on tape.

Fenris

7

Ann Margrock…grrrrrrrr