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Fictional character in the television animated series The Flintstones
the character from The Flintstones

Barney's personality was based on that of Ed Norton on the 1950s television series The Honeymooners, played by Art Carney. Like Ralph Kramden on The Honeymooners, Fred was constantly on the lookout for get rich quick schemes, while Barney, like Norton, found life satisfactory as it was, but participated in said schemes because Fred was his friend. Usually, after Fred had hatched one of his plans, Barney showed his agreement by laughing and saying, "Uh hee hee hee OK, Fred!" or "Hee hee hee whatever you say, Fred!" In the early episodes, Barney had a New Jersey accent. It was soon changed to a deeper, more chuckle like American voice. In "On the Rocks" and the late 2000s, his New Jersey accent returns. 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. Another time Barney actually built an advanced sports car racer; which almost but did not win a $50,000 race because the car's stone wheels crumbled at the last minute. Although 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.

Barney grew up at 142 Boulder Avenue in Granitetown (north of Bedrock). He was acknowledged to be the maternal nephew of Fred Flintstone's boss, Mr. George Slate. 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). 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." An early episode of the original series does have a brief scene of Barney working at the Granite Building for a Mr. H. Granite. He was fired from his job during the first season episode "No Help Wanted" (due to Fred's misguided attempt to negotiate a raise for Barney) and takes a new job as a repo man. His employment is never addressed over the remainder of the series. The majority of subsequent spinoffs suggest at some point after the original series, Barney went to work at the Slate Rock and Gravel Company quarry alongside Fred as a fellow dino crane operator. When speaking to an upper crust snob in another episode, Betty declares Barney is in "top secret" work, but that might have been a cover for a low level job or unemployment, or perhaps an in joke meaning that Barney's job was unknown even to the show's writers. It could also be possible that both Fred and Barney work at the quarry, but may work in different sections of it, under different bosses. In one episode, Barney's boss tells him to "put down his broom", which implies some sort of janitorial work is involved. Nevertheless, since Barney's occupation was never made explicitly clear, inebriated fans of the show would call Hanna Barbera Studios afterhours to ask about Barney's occupation. For the next nine episodes (though Bamm Bamm aired on "Kleptomaniac Pebbles" in the opening scene teaser but not in the body of the episode but would return two episodes later) after Bamm Bamm's debut, no sign of him is seen on the show. This was because, while "Little Bamm Bamm" was made after these episodes, it aired before. Once more episodes were made Bamm Bamm aired regularly. In the fifth season, the family buys a pet hopparoo (a combination of a kangaroo and dinosaur) named Hoppy. When Bamm Bamm grew into a teenager, Barney joined the Bedrock police force with Fred for a period of time as part time officers. Both characters were paired with the Shmoo from Li'l Abner. Butler also occasionally voiced Barney on records throughout the 1960s and 1970s. John Stephenson also voiced Barney on two occasions. Since Blanc's death, Frank Welker, Jeff Bergman, Joe Alaskey, Keith Scott, Stephen Stanton, Kevin Michael Richardson, Scott Innes, Dave Coulier, Marc Silk, Brad Abrell, Wally Wingert, and Paul F. Tompkins have all performed the role. Hamilton Camp voiced Barney in The Flintstone Kids. In the upcoming series Bedrock, Barney will be voiced by Joe Lo Truglio. In the 1994 live action Flintstones movie, Barney was portrayed by Rick Moranis, who also provided his voice for the film's pinball adaptation. In the 2000 prequel, The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, he was portrayed by Stephen Baldwin.