<P> In early episodes, Barney had a "joisey" accent, but when Barney's accent began to get too annoying, it was changed to a deeper, more chuckle - like voice . In "On the Rocks" and "Stone - Age Smackdown," his Jersey accent returns . </P> <P> Barney's interests included bowling, playing pool, poker, tinkering around in Fred's garage, and playing golf (though in some episodes, Barney did not know how to play golf). He, like Fred, was also a member of the Loyal Order of Water Buffaloes lodge and its predecessor in earlier episodes, the Loyal Order of Dinosaurs . He is also a talented pianist and drummer . In the first episode of the original series, he was an inventor of a human - powered helicopter . Though clearly depicted as being in better shape than Fred, he is not shown to be quite as enthusiastic a sportsman as Fred is . This distinction can be attributed to Fred's fondness for food, though Barney is shown to be almost as capable of excessive appetite on a number of occasions . </P> <P> While the mid-1980s spinoff series The Flintstone Kids depicts Barney as a child, the series seems to be mostly apocryphal due to its presenting Barney as a childhood friend of Wilma and Betty (versus the original series' assertion that they first met as young adults). Still, the series' assertions that Barney has at least one younger brother, Dusty, was a childhood friend of Fred, and was the son of artist Flo Rubble and car dealer Robert "Honest Bob" Rubble might be taken as valid . It is suggested in the original series that Barney grew up at 142 Boulder Avenue in Granitetown . The original series also suggested in one episode that Barney was the nephew of Fred's boss, Mr. Slate, though subsequent episodes and spinoffs do not seem to support this claim . As young adults, Barney and Fred worked as bellhops at a resort, where they first met Wilma and Betty, who were working as cigarette girls . Eventually, Barney married Betty (as Fred did Wilma). </P> <P> Several episodes and spinoffs suggest that Barney, along with Fred, spent some time in the army early in their marriages, though said references may be to Barney and Fred's military service in the first - season episode "The Astr'nuts ." </P>

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