![]() 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. Barney's voice sounds similar to his dry Season 1 voice, but a little higher-pitched and sillier. Barney's snout is also slightly shorter, and his feet are rounder. The Antron Fleece used here is fuzzier (Possibly not shaved as much as the final suit.). ![]() 1992-1994: In season two of Barney & Friends, the costume went through several tummy tucks and even had Barney's green belly replaced due to the green fabric yellowing at the armpits.In some episodes, especially the earliest ones in production for the television series, Barney's voice sounds similar to his dry Backyard Gang voice. The bottom of Barney's stomach comes to a triangular point at the bottom, matching up with the seams at the top of the hips. 1991-1992: This costume would undergo repairs for seasons one and two of Barney & Friends, the eyelids have been lowered midway, which included having a blinking mechanism.Now, Barney is performed by David Joyner, who implemented the "bite bar" method, which is the costume performer biting down on a bar padded with a sponge attached to the inside of Barney's bottom jaw to nod his head, while giving access to both arms of the costume to move simultaneously. His feet are given a redesign, appearing boxier, allowing for better movement for the actor inside, and the top of his head is lifted even more. Barney's stomach has no foam base near the bottom, and his tail gets a little shorter. Unlike the previous two suits, Barney no longer has a tongue. The mouth mechanism is rare here, almost not present. Internally dubbed as B-1, this costume is now made out of Antron Fleece. This costume would also have several public appearances up until 1990, when it started to fall apart. Barney is performed by David Voss and voiced by Bob West. This costume appeared at public libraries and parties. He has eight spots on his back and three on his tail, the eyes and eyelids are also able to move and blink in some scenes. Barney also has a red tongue and a floppy snout. This Barney costume was operated in a similar way to Big Bird from Sesame Street (one hand controlling his bottom jaw with a lever attached inside, and the other in an arm (although if both arms were required, the performer would simply bob the head)). Due to the fabric of the foam, it made the costume not pleasant to touch, which made it have the same feeling as sandpaper, as described by Brian Eppes, the actor of " Michael", in Purple Tales Podcast. Resembling more of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, the body was made with reticulated foam and sprayed with a royal purple dye. Dubbed as the "blue dog" costume, and internally dubbed as B-001, this is Barney's first design, which is a far departure from later Barney designs.
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