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Hanna-Barbera. The Flintstones. To commemorate his 10th wedding anniversary, Fred wants to buy Wilma a Stoneway piano. He finds a hot deal ultimately too hot from a shady, cash-only businessman named "88 Fingers Louie." Daws Butler provides additional voices.
With Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet. Fred would love to give Wilma a real stunner of an anniversary gift--a baby grand piano--but its cost is way out of his league, until "Eighty-Eight Fingers Louie" offers him a real steal of a deal.
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- Animation, Adventure, Comedy
- Joseph Barbera, William Hanna
- 1961-02-03
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"The Hot Piano" is the nineteenth episode of the first season of the original series, The Flintstones. It aired on February 3, 1961.
Fred buys a cheap piano from a shady businessman, but has a lot of trouble trying to get it into the house without Wilma knowing.
Feigning forgetfulness regarding his wedding anniversary, Fred intends to buy something more substantial for Wilma than the usual flowers. He wishes to surprise Wilma with a genuine Stoneway piano but requires 100 times the 50 dollars that he has saved for the purchase from a music store. Fred believes it to be his lucky day when a man on a street corner offers to sell a Stoneway to Fred for a mere $50.
The vendor, Eighty-Eight Fingers Louie, says that he is able to sell at so extreme a discount because he has no store, hence no rent, no "overheads". All he has is a truck parked in an alley- and declines Fred's request to assist in delivering the piano to the Flintstone home, a task to which Fred assigns Barney. Flintstone and Rubble hide the piano in Fred's garage, and at midnight, the men endeavor to insert the heavy and cumbersome piano through a doorway, with Fred applying too much force, and the musical instrument careens through the Flintstone residence, rolls outside via another passageway, and menaces the streets of Bedrock.
Fred leaps atop the speeding object and is arrested by a sardonic policeman for recklessly driving a piano. Brought to police headquarters, Fred is assumed by the duty Sergeant to be 88 Fingers Louie, specialist in selling stolen property. Fred pleads innocence, says that all he wanted was to surprise his wife with the piano as a wedding anniversary gift, and the Sergeant sympathizes and orders his constables to aid Fred in this endeavor.
After Wilma awakes to see her piano present, being played by Barney with the policemen singing, "Happy Anniversary", the authorities confiscate the "hot" musical instrument and are about to escort Fred to jail, before a report is radioed from police headquarters that the real Eighty-Eight Fingers has been caught. Fred is released and hurries to a flower shop for the standard and cheap wedding anniversary gift!
•Wilma Flintstone
•Fred Flintstone
•Betty Rubble
•Barney Rubble
•Music shop seller (only appearance)
•Eighty-Eight Fingers Louie (only appearance)
Bedrock
•Flintstone home •Music shop (only appearance) •Precinct
•Music to Calm a Volcano By (only appearance)
•Stoneway Piano
- 3 min
Watch this episode on YouTube. Best of Warner Bros. 25 Cartoon Collection - Hanna Barbera S1 • E15. This full-length episode is available for purchase. The Flintstones: Season 1 Episode 19 The...
"The Hot Piano" is the nineteenth episode of The Flintstones season one. It aired on February 3, 1961 on ABC. It was written by Michael Maltese, and produced and directed by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, the creators of the series and the founders of Hanna-Barbera Productions.
Synopsis. Fred Flintstone's wedding anniversary is coming up. He asks Barney to meet him at a music store where he reveals his plan to buy Wilma a very special gift: a new "Stoneway" piano. Fred's friends often tease him about forgetting his anniversary every year and the salesman in the music store is no exception.
The Flintstones: The Hot Piano. Available on iTunes. Fred would love to give Wilma a real stunner of an anniversary gift--a baby grand piano--but its cost is way out of his league, until "Eighty-Eight Fingers Louie" offers him a real steal of a deal. Animation Feb 3, 1961 26 min. Information. Genre. Animation. Released. 1961. Run Time. 26 min.
