The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas (also known as The Flintstones 2 or The Flintstones 2: Viva Rock Vegas) is a 2000 American comedy film directed by Brian Levant, written by Jim Cash, Harry Elfont, Deborah Kaplan, and Jack Epps, Jr., and is the prequel to Levant's The Flintstones (1994), based on the 1960–2009 animated television series of the same name. It is set before the events of both the series and the first film, showing how Fred and Barney met Wilma and Betty.
Wilma: [sees Betty sitting alone at a table] Hi Betty. [Betty says nothing] Did I tell you that's a really pretty dress?
Betty: [quietly] Thank you.
Wilma: [sits down next to Betty] Betty, you aren't still mad at me, are you?
Betty: Mad? Just because you pretended to be poor? And I took you in and I felt sorry for you? [stands up] Why would that make me mad? [walks away]
Gazoo: I come from a planet too far for you to fathom and a civilization too advanced for you to comprehend.
Barney: Wait a minute, Fred. I bet, we get wishes!
Gazoo: Pardon?
Barney: Yeah. We let you out of the fancy bottle and now we get wishes, right?
Fred: Yeah, Barney's right. Let's get this started. What do we have to rub?
Gazoo: Nahan, I'm not some sort of friendly cartoon Genie. And that is not a bottle, it is a spacecraft. I'm of a highly evolved alien species. I don't do funny voices, I don't sing catchy songs and I do not possess a magic carpet for your big bloated behinds to float upon! I'm here to observe your species mating rituals. Ok, Dum-Dums?
Chip: Ladies and gentlemen! Ladies and gentlemen, I regret to inform you that there is a criminal in our midst... [Everybody gasps] But, before I expose him into the public. I'd like to give him a chance to step forward that admit his wrong doing only to take his first tiny step towards absolution.
Towel Confessor: [sobs] I stole all the towels in my room!
Dinosaur Confessor: I'm systematically poisoning the dinosaurs water supply! In a matter of decades, their entire species will be extinct! [Everybody laughs]
Chip Rockefeller: All right! This is obviously going nowhere. No, I was talking about a necklace. A very valuable necklace has been stolen from our hotel safe. A necklace belonging to my dear... dear friend, Wilma Slaghoople.
Wilma: My pearls?
Betty: Wilma!
Fred: All right, who did it? So, help me. If you don't step forward right now, I'll personally punch you in the...
Chip: I don't think violence would be necessary, Flintstone. Because, I know exactly, who stole Wilma's pearls... A desperate man drowning and gambling debts.
Fred: Low-life!
Dinosaur Confessor: Hey! Doesn't anybody care about this whole dinosaurs becoming extinct thing?
Everybody: NO! [Dinosaur Confessor walks away]
Barney: [defending Fred to everyone after he's been accused of robbery] Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute! You're all making a big mistake. Fred couldn't have stolen that necklace. It was locked up in a safe... Fred can't even remember the combination to his bowling locker. Look, he's gotta write it down on his hand, see? [lifts Fred's hand up in the air where the combination is written]
Fred: [jerks away] Aw, great. Now, everybody's seen it.
Barney: Huh. Crack a safe? He couldn't even crack his knuckles without my help. [laughs]
Chip: Thank you, Mr. Rubble, for confessing to being Mr. Flintstone's accomplice.
Barney: You're welcome. [pauses and realizes] What?
Chip: Take them both away!
[the officers takes Fred and Barney to jail, Everybody cheers]
John Stephenson as the Minister who marries Fred and Wilma / Showroom Announcer; Stephenson previously voiced a number of guest characters in the original series, most notably Mr. Slate and Count Rockula
