In The Flintstones movie when Wilma is leaving Fred to live with her Mother, Fred shouts "Come back here Wilma Slaghoople". Slaghoople was Pearl's second husband and he adopted Wilma when they married. Flintstones' writer Earl Kress explained the discrepancy as such: "t's just as simple as (Hanna-Barbera) not caring about the continuity." Maybe Mr. However, later episodes and spin-offs also firmly state her maiden name was indeed "Slaghoople," based upon the name of Wilma's mother in the original series, Pearl Slaghoople. This wouldn't be illogical, due to the potential difficulty of pronouncing Slaghoople. Again, in "Dial S for Suspicion" (P-74), one of Wilma's old boyfriends Rodney Whetstone calls her "Wilma Pebble." It could be possible that Pebble is her middle name. Several early episodes in the original series clearly stated Wilma's maiden name was "Pebble." In the episode "The Entertainer" (P-44), Wilma's old friend Greta Gravel remembers her as "Wilma Pebble". Wilma's maiden name has been a source of dispute. Her best friends were her next door neighbors, Betty and Barney Rubble. Wilma would also often be the one to bail out Fred when one of his schemes landed him in trouble. 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. Her personality was based on that of Alice Kramden, wife of Ralph Kramden on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners. Later still, 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. While employed there, she shared various adventures with prehistoric superhero Captain Caveman, who (in a secret identity) also worked for the newspaper (à la Clark Kent). 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's Lou Grant). In the original series' third season, Wilma became pregnant, and gave birth to the couple's only child, Pebbles. Wilma also enjoyed volunteering for various charitable/women's organizations in Bedrock, shopping and (occasionally) getting to meet the celebrities of their world, including "Stony Curtis" and "Cary Granite". 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.Įventually, 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. There, they first met and fell in love with their future husbands, Fred and Barney (who were working there as bellhops). Wilma did mention having a married sister in the sixth season.Īs a young adult, Wilma worked with Betty as cigarette girls/waitresses at a resort. 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. 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. She wears a large white pearl necklace and a white mini dress with one strap on her left shoulder and a torn hemline. She has red hair that's worn in a bun at the back of her head and fair skin.
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