The Flintstone Canaries

The Flintstone Canaries is an episode of The Flintstones.
== Summary ==
While watching The Hum Along with Herman Show on TV, Fred Flintstone decides to form his own barbershop quartet. He recruits two co-workers from the quarry, and finds the fourth man easily when he hears Barney Rubble singing while taking a bath. Barney demonstrates his singing prowess by hitting high H, and then singing so loud that only dogs can hear him.
Unfortunately, there's a problem. Barney can sing flawlessly only when he's in the tub bathing. Outside the tub, he sings off key, and is simply terrible. Fred figures it won't hurt to bring the tub to public performances. However, the tub suddenly goes downhill with Fred in it, goes through a military parade route, and into the supermarket, where Fred goes by Wilma and Pebbles with enough groceries to last the whole year. Fred has the cashier put it all on his bill.
On the night of their performance, the Flintstone Canaries arrive at the studio with Barney in the tub, singing a prehistoric version of "Swanee River". Later, at the end of the evening's broadcast, Wilma Flintstone and Betty Rubble see all four men in a tub, singing the Softsoap jingle.
== Trivia ==
* The Hum Along with Herman Show is a parody of Sing Along with Mitch, an early 1960s TV show hosted by Mitch Miller.
* The plot of this episode was reused for The Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm Show episode "The Golden Voice".
* The song sung by a barbershop quartet at the beginning of the episode is part of The Jetsons' underscore, which later became the theme songs for Josie and the Pussy Cats and Josie and the Pussy Cats in Outer Space.
* Softsoap is an actual brand of hand soap and body wash, first marketed in 1980, and owned by Colgate-Palmolive since 1987.
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