 The Flintstones and the Rubbles are modern stone-age families. Fred and Barney work at Slate and Company, mining rock. Fred gives Barney some money so he and Betty can adopt a baby. When Fred and Barney take a test to determine who should become the new associate vice president, Barney returns the favor by switching his test answers for Fred s, whose answers aren t very good. Fred gets the executive position, but little realizes that he s being manipulated by Cliff Vandercave to be the fall guy for an embezzlement scheme.