I’m happy to inform you that after hours and hours of research, the ‘No Bettys’ myth has been busted. In my 60-tablet jar of Flintstones vitamins, there were:
- 3 Space guys
- 11 Dinos
- 6 Wilmas
- 12 Bettys
- 12 Barneys
- 6 Freds
- 5 Bam Bams
- 4 Pebbles
It is really hard to tell Bam Bam and Pebbles apart. Their hair/cap is almost identical, so the arm is the defining characteristic. Bam Bam’s arm is up, Pebbles’ is down. I think it’s sweet that the spouse numbers matched up. Regarding the numbers, we must take into account that I have already consumed two, and have also sprinkled one into Lloyd’s fish.  Did I eat Freds? Barneys? Who is that weird space guy? Geeky math types will notice that the total is 62. Do I owe the good people at Bayer Healthcare more money?
 
The space guy is Kazoo (sp.?)! Apparently you weren’t a faithful watcher of the Flintstones 🙁
Glad to hear they’ve added Bettys to the bottle.
I didn’t much care for Kazoo. Episodes that included him frustrated me because no one else could see him. But then there were many things about cartoons that frustrated me.
What about Superman? How did you overcome the frustration of no one knowing his alter identity?
It wasn’t the invisibility itself that bothered me. What was so frustrating about Kazoo was that he would cause so many problems and Fred would get blamed. I got so mad when people caused problems and were never sorry. Kazoo was never sorry. Neither was Scrappy Doo. But Tigger was the worst!
You forgot Road Runner. He has to be in at least the top 3 most un-remorseful hoodlums! (never watched Winnie the Pooh--could not STAND his voice or the name Winnie)
Tell me you were wearing latex gloves when touching all those vitamins……
No, I licked each one to make the lines stand out well enough to see them clearly. You can’t tell anything from a dry vitamin.
It’s probably good that you said that you licked them. I can’t imagine what Annette would do if she knew that you had the cats lick them. Hey, that could be a new advertising campaign, “Good for you, good for your cats”. Or maybe not.
Hey, in my defense, there were SIXTY of those things! I couldn’t ever lick them myself and get all that work done. Good kitties.