# Question about a Flintstones episode **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-flintstones-episode/139010 "2002-11-27T01:14:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-flintstones-episode/139010/1 "2002-11-27T01:14:45Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![WortMeWorry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/df705f/32.png) [@WortMeWorry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WortMeWorry)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-flintstones-episode/139010/2 "2002-11-27T01:31:13Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![hajario](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hajario/32/171_2.png) [@hajario](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hajario)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-flintstones-episode/139010/3 "2002-11-27T01:56:46Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-flintstones-episode/139010/4 "2002-11-27T07:33:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by hajario \* > \*\*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._\*\* 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](http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/information/lyrics.php?song=carhop) ---
**Author:** ![AtomicDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ac91a4/32.png) [@AtomicDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AtomicDog)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-flintstones-episode/139010/5 "2002-11-27T10:47:59Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lumpy \* > \*\*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? \*\* 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. ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 11:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-flintstones-episode/139010/6 "2002-11-27T11:24:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sternvogel \* > \*\*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](http://bedrock.deadsquid.com/information/lyrics.php?song=carhop) \*\* 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 ---
**Author:** ![plnnr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ea924/32.png) [@plnnr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plnnr)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2002, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/question-about-a-flintstones-episode/139010/7 "2002-11-27T23:42:21Z")
Ann Margrock…grrrrrrrr