Sleep On, Sweet Fred

Sleep On, Sweet Fred is an episode of The Flintstones.
Fred Flintstone comes home, and smears mud all over the house without wiping his freaking feet. That was seen as annoying, understandably. Later, Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble see a demonstration of sleep-teaching on TV, and decide to try it out on their husbands. Before long, Fred and Barney are doing whatever Wilma and Betty want, and have given up their old pastimes, such as bowling and watching the fights on TV. At one point, Wilma tells Pebbles that being sneaky is all part of being a girl. Among other things, Fred acts like a tiger when demanding a raise from Mr. Slate, and takes Wilma to a lecture.
The girls go too far when they decide they want expensive mink coats. Fred and Barney eavesdrop on their chat, and realize they've been brainwashed. They decide to teach their wives a lesson, and pretend to be sleep-taught into getting them mink coats. Later, Wilma and Betty walk by the garage, and overhear the men planning to get the coats by stealing them. After Fred and Barney leave the garage, they go in, and see that the men have drawn a map of the mink warehouse downtown. All the windows and doors have been marked, and, to the wives' shock, they've put an X through the night watchman. "Betty, we haven't made puppy dogs! We've created Frankenstones!" Wilma cries maturely. They try to prevent Fred and Barney from leaving, but to no avail. So they and Pebbles go after them, and Wilma tells Pebbles that being sneaky isn't cute or girlish, but just wrong and sneaky.
At the warehouse, the boys wait for witnessing wives. Barney is holding a brick to break the window, and Fred sees the women coming. They go into their act, and Betty decides to break the window herself. Fred snatches it from her, stating that she'll break something. The wives admit their mistake, and the men forgive them. However, Pebbles gets a hold on the brick, throws it hard, and breaks the window, setting off the burglar alarm. "PEBBLES!" all four adults shout in unison. The police arrive, and determine incorrectly that they're a notorious fur mob gang, and that Pebbles is a midget, the brains of the operation.
At the police station, after the couples try to explain everything, the judge sentences Pebbles to a five day suspended sentence for breaking the big window. He then sentences Wilma and Betty to twenty days of serving their husbands breakfast in bed. Wilma tells him honestly it'll be a pleasure.
Fred tries sleep-teaching on Wilma, asking her what she wants more than anything, and she tells him she wants a mink coat. Of course, she's only kidding, and when Fred asks her if she's awake, she replies, "Nope. Sound asleep."
== Quotes== 
Fred Flintstone: "That was your mate, my little tigress."
Betty Rubble: "Wilma, I don't want a puppy dog. I want a husband."
== Goofs ==
* The Flintstones and Rubbles knew the night watchman would be at the mink warehouse. So where was he when Pebbles threw the brick and smashed the window?
== Trivia ==
* The name "Frankenstone" would be used several more times in various installments of The Flintstones after this episode.
* The couples are happy afterward.
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