In The Flintstones comic strips (which ran for 37 years) Mr.Slate appeared as a supporting character in the 1995 series, Johnny Bravo, in the 2004 episode " A Page Right Out of History". Slate only had a white tuft of hair on the back and two long hair strands on the top of his head and didn't wear his black trademark glasses. Slate has only two large tufts of brown hair behind his ears. In the episode, " Moonlight and Maintenance", Mr. The only change of appearance was that his hair color could be seen.It was either a continuity error or a running gag that in each episode where Slate's first name was mentioned, it was different: Sylvester, Nate, Oscar or George.Slate accepts, and his last line is "There goes the best executive I ever had."įred, Barney and Mr. Slate's reaction to this is unknown, and it is also not known whether it is he who calls the police to pursue Fred.Īt the end, when Cliff is defeated and trapped in concrete, Slate congratulates Fred for "ending the Stone Age" and attempts to promote him to President of the company's concrete division, but Fred, happy with his own job, politely declines, and requests his old job back, along with two weeks holiday. Cliff makes Fred Flintstone the Vice President of the company and tricks him into firing all the workers, framing him for embezzlement. His villainous Executive Vice President, Cliff Vandercave, concocts a plan to build faulty machinery to quadruple the company's profits but which will fall apart after Cliff has stolen Slate's money and fled the country. Slate is still the owner of the company, but has a minor role in the film. When he was a kid, known as Nate Slate from The Flintstone Kids, he had yellow hair. He wears a loincloth with a torn hemline and a tie in various colors which hangs down to his knees. He is a tall and stout caveman with fair skin, tan stubbles, black beady eyes and is nearly bald, having only two hair strands on his head, and wears a pair of black glasses with circular lenses. He often is not impressed by Fred's antics and amateurish blunders and often fires him only to give him his job back in the end. Slate is austere, strict, no-nonsense, serious, negative and hot-tempered. Right next door at 142 Boulder Avenue lived his sister, Flo Slate Rubble, mother of Barney Rubble. Slate was born in Granite Town and lived at 140 Boulder Avenue. When the Way-Outs arrive at the radio station, their manager states that the station name is 'KFWB' while the sign above the door clearly shows the letters 'KNBD'.Mr.Outside the windows of the house of Julia's friend it is daytime, but outside her front door it is night.But in the second shot of him, a minute later, his hair is a reddish color. When we first see Eddie, the radio announcer, his hair is blond.This episode is a remake of The Honeymooners episode, " The Man from Space".Liberocki is a spoof of American pianist, Liberace.This time, the Flintstones' address is 342 Gravelpit Terrace, and they have a huge front gate and address marker.The storyline was inspired by Orson Welles' infamous War of the Worlds radio broadcast of 1938.
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