Ten Little Flintstones

Ten Little Flintstones is an episode of The Flintstones.
Fred Flintstone sees a TV news report about flying saucers, and then asks Wilma Flintstone if she's heard about them. Wilma believes UFOs don't exist.
Shortly thereafter, a spaceship lands in the Flintstones' yard, and a mysterious alien seen only in shadow prepares his plans to conquer Earth. After Fred feeds Dino, and puts Baby Puss outside for the night, the alien sees Fred, and hears him singing a song containing the phrase "Yabba Dabba Doo," and immediately produces ten robotic clones of Fred. These clones have blank stares, and can only say "Yabba Dabba Doo." Dino sees all ten, sniffs his food, and immediately discards it. 
Each one goes off in a different direction. One dumps a basket of laundry on Wilma, and she, thinking Fred did it, pours water on him. Another goes to the Rubbles' house, steals a sandwich from their refrigerator, and conks Barney Rubble on the head with it. Wilma finds out about this from Betty Rubble, and berates Fred for it.
Come morning, another clone gets in the car with Barney, leaving the real Fred behind. After the clone arrives at the quarry, it walks into Mr. Slate's office, and walks on him. When Fred arrives to explain why he's late, his boss fires him on the spot, and leaves for a golf game. Then another clone comes to the golf course, but instead of hitting Slate with a golf club, scores a hole in one. As a result, Slate rehires Fred. Fred is still clueless.
Sometime later, Fred spots one of the clones, and says, "Hiya, Fred." Only then does he realize there's an impostor, and chases after it. Unfortunately, Wilma and Betty also see it whistle at a girl who walks by. Fred asks the women if they saw "him," and they confirm that they did. Eventually, Fred concludes that his brothers from the Water Buffalo Lodge are just pranking him, and chases all ten clones. He lassos them, whereupon the alien calls them back. Fred chases them into the spaceship, and Fred, still thinking the clones are playing a joke, identifies himself as the real Fred, and the villains throw him out and take off. Wilma and the Rubbles confront Fred about his 'mischief," and refuse to accept his explanation. Wilma figures the diet she put him on is making him hallucinate, and tells him he can forget the diet, which he's glad to hear.
== Quotes ==
* Alien: This is your leader speaking.
* Fred Flintstone: Another me!
* Fred Flintstone: Excuse me. Did you see me go by here? 
* Fred Flintstone: All right, spacemen. I'll go along with the gag. I'm the real Fred Flintstone. Which one of you is Barney?
== Trivia ==
* This is the first episode of The Flintstones to have a science fiction plot.
* Don Messick voices the alien leader using the voice he'd later use for Zorak from Space Ghost.
* This episode may have laid the groundwork for the later episodes with the Great Gazoo.
* Baby Puss is much smaller in this episode, is yellow instead of orange, and has no spots on his back.
* This is the first episode in which Fred sings, "Yabba dabba doo means I love you. Yabba dabba doo, you love me, too." He later tries singing it to Pebbles in the episode "Bedrock Rodeo Roundup".
* The plot of Flintstones character clones with a limited vocabulary was later used in the Season 6 episode "Seeing Doubles."
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