Betty Rubble

Betty Rubble is a cavewoman and the fourth main character of the Flintstones animated franchise. She is the wife of Barney and lives next to the Flintstones at the town of Bedrock. Her voice was originated by Bea Benaderet in the first four seasons of the original series (not counting June Foray in the pilot pitch). From seasons 5-6, she was instead voiced by Gerry Johnson.

Her relationship is somewhat more easy-going with Barney than it is between her best friend Wilma and her husband, Fred, who are always at odds with their money and what she can do. Not much of Betty's personality has been known apart from her limited screen presence in the original series, as it was written as a classic domestic sitcom in mind. Unable to conceive children, both she and Barney later adopted a son called Bamm-Bamm.

Character description
Betty is a beautiful, slim woman with fair skin and black hair combed into a bob. She wears a blue dress with black straps attached around her neck, and a decorative stone sewn onto the front. She also wears a blue hair ribbon on top of her head.

As mentioned above, Betty is the wife of Barney Rubble. She is a sweet lady who spends most of the time socializing with Wilma, and the two often make amends to bail their husbands out of whatever scheme Fred gets in trouble with. Betty is (unfortunately) the least developed character in the original show, as she is rarely seen not following the lead of either Barney or Wilma. In the latter's case, she often agrees with whatever feelings Wilma has in any situation.

In addition to her attractiveness and beauty, Betty can also be emotional at times. She gets mad when Barney acts up and she sometimes feels sad when something goes into the wrong hands. In later depictions, she is portrayed as being a bit more stubborn than Wilma, and considerably smarter than her husband.

TV series

 * The Flintstones
 * The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show
 * The Flintstone Comedy Hour
 * The New Fred and Barney Show
 * The Flintstone Comedy Show
 * The Flintstone Kids
 * Dexter's Laboratory
 * 2.31A "Dad Is Disturbed" (no lines)
 * I Am Weasel
 * 2.7 "I Am My Lifetime"
 * Johnny Bravo
 * 4.11B "A Page Right Out of History" (no lines)
 * The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy
 * 5.4A "Modern Primitives"
 * Yabba Dabba Dinosaurs

Movies

 * The Man Called Flintstone
 * The Jetsons Meet the Flintstones
 * I Yabba-Dabba Do!
 * Hollyrock-a-Bye Baby
 * The Flintstones
 * A Flintstones Christmas Carol
 * The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
 * The Flintstones: On the Rocks
 * The Flintstones & WWE: Stone Age SmackDown!

Specials

 * The Flintstones: Little Big League
 * The Flintstones Meet Rockula and Frankenstone
 * The Flintstones Primetime Specials
 * 1.1 The Flinstones' New Neighbors
 * 1.2 The Flintstones: Fred's Final Fling
 * 1.3 The Flintstones: Wind-Up Wilma
 * 1.4 The Flintstones: Jogging Fever
 * The Flintstone Kids' "Just Say No" Special
 * A Flintstone Family Christmas
 * The 1st 13th Annual Fancy Anvil Awards Show Program Special: Live in Stereo (no lines)

Shorts

 * D.A.R.E. Yogi Bear

Theme park rides

 * The Funtastic World of Hanna-Barbera

Comics

 * The Flintstones (Dell Comics)
 * The Flintstones (Gold Key Comics)
 * The Flintstones (Charlton Comics)
 * Barney & Betty Rubble
 * The Flintstones (Marvel Comics)
 * The Flintstones (Harvey Comics)
 * Yogi Bear D.A.R.E.
 * The Flintstones (Archie Comics)
 * Cartoon Network Christmas Spectacular
 * #1B "It's a Gift"
 * The Flintstones and the Jetsons
 * Scooby-Doo! Team-Up
 * #7 "Scooby-Doo, When Are You?"
 * #8 "Future Shocked" (no lines)
 * The Flintstones (DC Comics)

I Am Cameo
Having become old and retired, Betty lived a life at the Old Cartoon Sidekicks Retirement Home.

Betty Sells Out
Betty appeared in a 2005 Dove shampoo commercial, with Wilma and Velma Dinkley.

Development
Betty's personality was based on that of the archetypal wife of a lead character's best friend, commonly seen in 1950s television shows; specifically Trixie Norton from the sitcom The Honeymooners. Like Betty, Trixie did not appear in every episode and had a less developed character, though she is shown at times to be bossy towards her husband, Ed Norton.

In popular culture

 * In the Moesha episode "The Ditch Party," Moesha refers to Kim and Neicy as Betty and Wilma when she tells them to relax after they believe she's gone to the wild side in joining them in a ditch party, which is actually a story for the school newspaper.
 * In the According to Jim episode "The Truck," a hustling bar patron repeatedly makes jokes about Jim looking like Fred, and when his wife and sister-in-law show up, he calls them Wilma and Betty, respectively.
 * In The Fairly OddParents TV movie Channel Chasers, Timmy zaps himself and his fairies into the world of The Meatflints, where Wanda is dressed like Betty, but in Wanda's signature yellow.
 * In the Family Guy episode "Believe It or Not, Joe's Walking on Air," Fred and Barney attend the inaugural ball of the Quahog Men's Club, where Fred reveals to Barney that he accidentally caught sight of Betty undressing, who saw Fred, but continued anyway, giving way to Fred's e-rock-tion.
 * In The Drawn Together Movie: The Movie!, Barney cheated on Betty with Toot. She is voiced by Tara Strong.