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Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: January 4, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★½
Review:
‘The Kissing Burglar’ is literally about a kissing burglar, a crook with apparently a romantic side to him. Wilma and Betty are all excited about meeting him, so Fred decides to teach Wilma a lesson.
The kissing burglar is a pretty silly character, especially because he’s shown to have a jealous wife, and there are some cartoony antics. But in the end the episode turns out to be a nice play on Fred and Wilma’s relationship to each other. Especially the end scene is a beauty, in that respect.
The stone age gags meanwhile are scarce. They makers don’t even show how the night lamps work, but the typewriter is well done.
Watch an excerpt from ‘The Kissing Burglar’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 16
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Flashgun Freddie
To the next Flintstones episode: Wilma the Maid
‘The Kissing Burglar’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Director: Norton Virgien
Stars: Duckman
Airing Date: May 21, 1994
Rating: ★★★½
‘Cellar Beware’ is another episode exploring Duckman’s role as a “responsible” father.
This time Aunt Bernice decides to ask some visitors over, and drills the men of the house to behave. She also invites some speaker about home security, and after a lecture full of apparently horrifying slides, the once so skeptical Duckman buys the “Interloper Führer 2000” security system, which soon turns against the family itself.
It’s hard to sympathize with Duckman in this episode, even though he acts surprisingly heroically in the end. The party sequence is probably the highlight of the episode, which is entertaining mostly because of Ajax’s brainless remarks, and because of a bizarre reference to ‘The Sound of Music’. Note Mambo’s very Paul Driessen-like double take ten minutes into the episode.
Watch ‘Cellar Beware’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is Duckman episode no. 10
To the previous Duckman episode: It’s the Thing of the Principal
To the next Duckman episode: American Dicks
‘Cellar Beware’ is available on the DVD-box ‘Duckman – The Complete Series’
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