Timeline

## Pre-The Flintstones Kids

* **0 years old -** Fredrick Joseph Flintstone is born in Bedrock. His best friend Barney Rubble is born around the same time as well.
* Wilma Slaghoppie and Betty McBricker are born.
* **1 years old -** Fred’s mom takes a picture of Fred and Barney in their stroller.
* **7 years old -** Fred Flinstone and Barney Rubble join the Boy Scouts. Fred learns woodcraft and survival there.

## The Flintstone Kids

* **10 years old -** Fred Flintstone creates a magic act for the talent show where he meets his future wife Wilma Slaghoppie.
* Fred embodies the characters of Dr. Frankenstone.
* Fred and Barney compete for each other by opening their own protection agencies.
* Fred tests a mechanical dog washer.
* Fred and the gang try to turn of their losing basketball game with a game against their fierce rival.
* **11 years old -** Fred is forced to take Barney’s brother Dusty to the local carnival. However he loses him in the meelee.
* Fred pretends to be ill when he is forced to compete his school science project.
* Shades Stones takes advantage of Bedrock; Captain Caveman and Cavey help Godzilla.
* Wilma tries to nurse a rare egg until it hatches. Barney accidentally takes one of Philo’s secret potions and becomes a mean bully.
* Fred and Betty find Halloween costumes. Cavey is asked to teach Butch the bully lesson.

## Pre-Flintstones

* **12 to 13 years old** **-** Fred and Barney attend middle school. They lose contact with Wilma and Betty, around that time. (The two would forget about each other and would not meet again til years later)
* **15 years old -** Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble attend high school. Fred attends music class, and is taught by his music teacher, “Hot Lips” Hannigan.
* **18 years old -** Fred Flintstone is a star of his high school football team (nicknamed “Twinkletoes” Flintstones) . Fred is sick on his graduation day. (thus not being able to graduate high school)
* **25 years old -** Fred served as a sergeant in the army and that he only had a desk job involving paper clip injuries (which could conceivably have taken place during *"The Astra' Nuts"*)
* **28 years old -** Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble begin working as bellboys in the Honeyrock Hotel. They reunite with Wilma and Betty. (though the pair do not recognize each other) It was love at first sight for the youths, but both parties were too afraid to pursue their relationships further out of fear that they would be exposed as lowly hotel workers. In the end though, the truth was revealed at the hotel party that night and both parties were greatly relieved to find out they weren't rich, and after being fired for goofing off, they were picked up and taken home by Wilma's mother, Pearl Slaghoople who was less than pleased with her daughter's new boyfriend, Fred, as Fred and her had briefly met at the hotel and got off to a very rocky start which would unsure Fred a very unhappy relationship with his future mother-in-law, but a very happy future for himself and Wilma.
* **35 years old -** Fred proposed to Wilma and married her several years after their first meeting, Fred's wedding day proved to be a hectic one when his mother-in-law threw him out of the house after he made a crude comment about her hat, forcing Fred and Wilma to elope and get married in Rock Vegas. They would then spend their honeymoon touring across the country and visiting every race track they could find where Fred gave into his gambling fever over and over, winning big at the Hialeah Race Track but then losing all of his winnings at the Hollyrock Race Track. Wilma then had Fred "cured" of his gambling addiction by betting against him in a poker game and winning, forcing Fred to go see a psychiatrist after losing (as explained by Wilma in "*The Gambler*"). Fred and Wilma then moved from Arkanstone to the town of Bedrock and it would remain their home ever since.