Fred’s New Job

Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: February 15, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★½
Review:

In ‘Fred’s New Job’ Fred would love to get a raise, now he is going to have support a family. Barney conceives a plan that backfires, and soon Fred is looking for another job, e.g. in a drive-in restaurant, partly reprising the ‘The Drive-in‘ episode from season one.

‘Fred’s New Job’ seems to have been made by a B-team: the designs are often off, and the story contains a lot of silly and nonsensical elements. For starters, the episode starts with a silly boink bird, then there’s a corny steamed clam gag, and a Southern colonel who dislikes ‘yankees’ (in prehistory?!), one in a long line of Southern colonels swarming Warner bros. cartoons. But most absurd is watching Fred flying like a bird.

When compared to such episodes like the earlier ‘Dial S for Suspicion‘ or the following ‘The Dress Rehearsal’ this episode is just subpar, relying more on silly gags than on clever comedy.

Watch an excerpt from ‘Fred’s New Job’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 22
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Foxy Grandma
To the next Flintstones episode: The Dress Rehearsal

‘Fred’s New Job’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’