Did Barney have a job ??
He always seems to be home during the day & Berry saying he was laid-off his job of building a catapult to the moon. But I don't think I ever saw him go to work or have a regular 9-5 job.
shareHe did have a job, and there is an episode in the first season, that Fred reveled to Wilma that he acted as Barney's agent, spoke to his boss and he called him into the office, which was a week before and hadn't heard from since so he thought he got a raise, but Wilma informed him that his boss fired Barney, and wasn't making any money and was so mad at Fred she served him like a little fish. And theaterned that in less he got Barney a new job, that is what he will be eating, so Fred took him on a gold outing where he caddied for somebody that he knew could get him one, and mentioned to him after the game that Barney need a job, and he wrote done the name and address of a guy in a store that hired him right away no application or nothing, and his new job was taking back stuff that people couldn't afford to pay, and his first job was to take back or collect payment from Fred on a tv, that he lost money on in bets in the golf game, and had no extra hidden money around the house. I had just recently watched the episode, and sorry for the life of me I can't remember the name of the episode.
shareI had just recently watched the episode, and sorry for the life of me I can't remember the name of the episode.
It's the episode titled "No Help Wanted" from season 1. From wikipedia:
Fred uses his influence with a business friend to obtain a job for Barney, who becomes a furniture repossessor. To the dismay of both, Barney's first assignment is to repossess Fred's television set! Unwilling to betray his friend, Barney pays off Fred's delinquent television bill with his first paycheck
That was one of the great questions ever posed:
What does Barney do for a living?
I mean, more often than not, Barney would get a ride to "work" with Fred. Barney would get dropped off at a street corner, and Fred would be where he needed to be in a matter of minutes.
I always thought they both worked at the quarry. Barney worked in the office (white collar), while Fred was in construction (blue collar).
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Barney didn't work with Fred.
If you remember the episode the OP is talking about....they ask Fred to get Barney at job with Mr. Slate.
Then Slate winds up being his uncle I believe and he gets hired.
But then quits to go back to his original job.
Barney's job was seemingly always a step out of frame. In one episode we see his boss. But unless the plot of episode resolved around a new job, Barney's career is never stated.
However I assume because of this several of the later specials just had him work at the quarry with Fred.
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In the movie they DID both work at the Quarry, but yeah it could be Barney worked in another department at the quarry.
shareYeah because it did look like he was working at a different job then Fred, even through we know that Fred gets prompted up to the offices, and has to fire Barney, even through it was he that really would have had the lowest score.
shareWatching episodes from 1961 on Boomerang in the ones they've shown Barney is always in the car when Fred is going to work an goes with him to the quarry an stays there
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