The Big Move

Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: March 22, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:

In ‘The Big Move’ young Pebbles triggers the action. When her first words turn out to be ‘scooby dooby doo’, ‘shoot pool’ and ‘play poker’, thanks to Barney, Fred wants to move to a more upper class neighborhood, so Pebbles can get a proper influence.

Soon he and Wilma move upon hill to a land leased house in the snubbiest neighborhood imaginable. Fred immediately starts lying about his car, his ‘personnel’ and his work, much to Wilma’s chagrin. But of course he misses Barney before soon, and with an unlikely scheme (with Barney and Betty posing as some hillbilly family) things are soon back to normal.

‘The Big Move’ is very predictable, and Fred behaves absolutely detestably in this episode. Most interesting is his bedtime story to Pebbles, with which the episode starts and the expression ‘scooby dooby doo’ six years before Hanna-Barbera launched the series featuring the famous hound and mystery solving team.

Watch an excerpt from ‘The Big Move’ yourself and tell me what you think:

This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 26
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Ventriloquist Barney
To the next Flintstones episode: Swedish Visitors

‘The Big Move’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’