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Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: March 29, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones, Yogi Bear & Boo-Boo
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
‘Swedish Visitors’ is the first episode since ‘The Surprise‘ that is not connected to (the coming of) young Pebbles. Instead, we follow Fred’s fruitless attempts to have some rest on his well-earned vacation.
The episode knows quite some plot twists, so I won’t reveal more, but the episode is noteworthy for Wilma’s dishonesty, a character trait mostly reserved for Fred, and it is a bit unsettling to see it in Fred’s normally so faithful wife.
‘Swedish Visitors’ also knows a great comedy routine at a bank, in which an unfortunate employee has to roll away three humongous stones to get into a vault. Yogi Bear and Boo-Boo also make a cameo appearance, but it’s the Swedes who make this episode special. Now, the very idea of ‘Swedes’ in prehistory is as preposterous as the yankee-hating colonel was in ‘Fred’s New Job‘, but one particular dumb one forms the direct inspiration for Cousin Svën in the Ren & Stimpy episode ‘Svën Høek’, with his repeated rendering of ‘he is Ole, you are Sven’, which was given to Svën as his opening line in the Ren & Stimpy episode.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Swedish Visitors’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 27
To the previous The Flintstones episode: The Big Move
To the next Flintstones episode: The Birthday Party
‘Swedish Visitors’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
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’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: March 8, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★
Review:
‘Ventriloquist Barney’ starts with Barney practicing and immediately mastering ventriloquism. He first fools Betty with his act, then Fred.
But the episode only really gains momentum when Barney has two tickets to a wrestling match, while Fred has to babysit Pebbles. Unfortunately, little is done with either idea, and the whole episode drags on, with the few gags falling flat after one other. Pebbles herself is cute, but little else, and this episode is so appallingly boring that one wonders if bringing her in was such a good idea in the first place.
Highlight may be the unexpected feminist message Barney delivers Fred to get him taking Pebbles with him to the wrestling match.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Ventriloquist Barney’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 25
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Carry on, Nurse Fred
To the next Flintstones episode: The Big Move
‘Ventriloquist Barney’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: February 22, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★★★ ♕
Review:
‘The Dress Rehearsal’ forms the pinnacle of the continuity that had started with ‘The Surprise‘ a month earlier. In fact, the episode is the best of the whole third season, and perhaps of the whole Flintstones series.
The episode starts inconspicuous enough, with Fred and Barney practicing at a gym, owned by a phony character, but when red and Barney decide to practice the day Wilma goes into labor some really fine comedy starts, with the writers pulling all comic registers, from slapstick, via lame jokes to a great comedy of errors.
Barney looks particularly silly posing as Fred’s wife, more looking like Little Red Riding Hood. But all this is topped by a remarkable speedy sequence of rushing back and forth to the hospital. The episode ends with the coming of Fred and Wilma’s baby Pebbles. Unfortunately, her arrival also heralds a sudden drop of quality of the series, as the subsequent episodes will show.
Note that ‘The Dress Rehearsal’ knows a rare appearance of the saber-tooth cat of the title sequences. In the hospital we also see two clear caricatures. These appear to be Vince Edwards and Sam Jaffe from the television series ‘Ben Casey’ (961-1966), which is set in a hospital.
Watch an excerpt from ‘The Dress Rehearsal’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 23
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Fred’s New Job
To the next Flintstones episode: Carry on, Nurse Fred
‘The Dress Rehearsal’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season
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’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: February 8, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★
Review:
‘Foxy Grandma’is the third episode of the ‘Flintstones are getting a baby’ continuum. It’s easily the weakest of the lot. Little is done with the pregnancy idea, even though the whole plot is based on the fact that Fred doesn’t want Wilma to do housework in her condition.
Wilma naturally wants to ring her mother to help her, but Fred insists on getting a housekeeper, which turns out to be a more difficult task than imagined. The episode takes a particularly silly turn when one ‘Grandma Dynamite ‘ turns up. There’s even a surreal road gag straight from a Tex Avery cartoon.
Unfortunately, all the antics are more tiresome than funny, and the slapstick feels tried and uninspired when compared with episodes focusing on the relationship between the four main protagonists. In this episode the Rubbles hardly have a role.
The stone age gags, too, are familiar: a lawnmower dino, a hedge trimmer bird, an intercom parrot, and a saw-billed bread knife bird. The water tap mammoth can be credited with being given the lamest gag of the whole episode.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Foxy Grandma’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 21
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Mother-in-Law’s Visit
To the next Flintstones episode: Fred’s New Job
‘Foxy Grandma’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: January 25, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:
‘The Surprise’ is the first episode in what was to become the first continuum in television animation. The show starts with Betty pushing a baby carriage. The carriage contains little Marblehead, her nephew.
Barney completely falls for the baby, and even forsakes the last game of the bowling tournament, making his team lose. Fred, of course, is not amused, and throughout the episode expresses a disliking of babies. Of course, he softens up as time progresses, and then Wilma indeed has some surprising news.
The whole episode is more gentle and cute than genuinely funny, but Fred’s doubletake when Barney and Betty catch him entertaining little Marblehead is priceless. The episode is also noteworthy for Fred addressing the public directly at the end.
The stone age gags, meanwhile, are modest: a crab and a bird used as scissors, and a mammoth as a water hose. None of these animals speaks, which spares us some lame gags.
Watch an excerpt from ‘The Surprise’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 19
To the previous The Flintstones episode: The Hero
To the next Flintstones episode: Mother-in-Law’s Visit
‘The Surprise’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: January 18, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★
Review:
In ‘The Hero’ Fred and Barney both are nominated for the election of ‘Grand Imperial Pooh Bah’ at the Royal Order of Water Buffaloes, but then one of them rescues a baby…
‘The Hero’ progresses in all too predictable strides, and is one of the most boring of the Flintstones episodes. The episode gets a little surreal when Fred’s ‘self’ materializes as a blue doppelganger, haunting our hero. The episode shows how mild the characters had become: Fred certainly behaves much less nasty than in the first series. but with that, some of the sharpness of the humor was also lost.
There are a few stone age gags: a tortoise as a jack, a mammoth as a tow and a porcupine as a hairbrush, but they cannot rescue this boring entry.
Watch an excerpt from ‘The Hero’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 18
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Wilma the Maid
To the next Flintstones episode: The Surprise
‘The Hero’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: January 11, 1963
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:
In this Flintstones episode Wilma would like to have a maid. The story takes some unexpected turns, however, and even a real maid shows up.
The maid has the telling name of Lollobrickida, but does not look like the stunning actress Gina Lollobrigida who was the inspiration of her name. How a maid can be Italian in a prehistoric world is never explained, but it doesn’t spoil the comedy, which is of a fine sort, even if things turn out well all too easily in the end.
The prehistory gags include long-billed birds as knitting needles and a huge dinosaur acting as a toll bridge.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Wilma the Maid’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 17
To the previous The Flintstones episode: The Kissing Burglar
To the next Flintstones episode: The Hero
‘Wilma the Maid’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
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’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: December 21, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:
The boys are having their vacation at home, and the episode starts with a long and superfluous slapstick routine of Fred trying to get Dino to the vet for a shot. Then another long scene at a store leads to the main story in which Fred and Barney take up photography.
The result is another slapstick episode with a story that never satisfies the story ideas to their full potential. The stone age gags are all in the beginning with one of those numerous mammoths functioning as a tap, a porcupine, and a little bird inside Fred and Barney’s camera.
The designs on Fred and Barney are erratic from one scene to the next and the background art is particularly dull in this episode, with its faint shades of gray and blue. Harvey Milstone and his wife look like stone age versions of George and Judy from The Jetsons, a series that had just started in September.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Flashgun Freddie’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 15
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Dial “S” for Suspicion
To the next Flintstones episode: The Kissing Burglar
‘Flashgun Freddie’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: December 14, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★★
Review:
‘Dial “S” for Suspicion’ starts with Fred having applied for a job at the exclusive Stone Valley Inn. As Fred has lied about his degrees and his ability to speak Spanish, one can guess where the episode will head to, but the story takes a surprise turn, in which Fred gets suspicious about his wife to downright paranoid.
It’s almost unbelievable that this sophisticated comedy of errors comes from the same writers as the silly slapstick from ‘Nuthin’ but the Tooth’. When the different characters are played against each other, the Flintstones episodes are so much finer. Fred’s paranoia is enhanced by the score, which features some eerie organ music in several scenes.
The stone age gags are less inspired and consist of a monkey and a mammoth functioning as a shower, a long-billed bird as a can opener, and a particularly silly checkerboard turtle. The designs, too, are erratic, and in some scenes, Fred’s design is downright poor.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Dial “S” for Suspicion’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 14
To the previous The Flintstones episode: High School Fred
To the next Flintstones episode: Flashgun Freddie
‘Dial “S” for Suspicion’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: December 7, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★½
Review:
In ‘High School Fred’ Fred’s employer calls in an efficiency expert who tells Fred that he will be ‘terminated’ because he hasn’t got a high school diploma. But Fred’s boss lets Fred finish his missed last two weeks in high school, so he can stay. When Fred tries to tell Wilma all this, she misunderstands and thinks Fred goes to an executive school to get promoted.
Unfortunately, the writers do little with the high school premise and mostly show Fred excelling at sports. The whole episode is low on gags, the most bizarre being a throwaway gag of a roast bird preparing itself, while Barney and Betty are talking. There’s also a mini-mammoth used as a spray gun, and the occasional bird acting like a record player needle.
Watch an excerpt from ‘High School Fred’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 13
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Nuthin’ but the Tooth
To the next Flintstones episode: Dial “S” for Suspicion
‘High School Fred’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: November 30, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:
This episode starts with some mysterious wailing in the night, which turns out to be Barney with a toothache. The next day Fred takes Barney to the dentist, but when Fred wants to save the necessary $10 to see a fight, he changes plans.
‘Nuthin’ but the Tooth’ is one of the silliest Flintstones episodes, full of nonsensical cartoon humor and slapstick scenes. Unfortunately, the writers milk the gas gag way too long, and there’s nothing of the more subtle character comedy of other episodes.
The best stone age gag is the parrot who functions as the dentist’s intercom. Notice the rare appearance of the sabretooth cat, so frequently seen during the titles, within an episode itself.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Nuthin’ but the Tooth’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 12
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Ladies’ Day
To the next Flintstones episode: High School Fred
‘Nuthin’ but the Tooth’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: November 23, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★★½
Review:
Until this point in the third season the Flintstones episodes were only mildly funny at best, and frankly more often than not dragged a little, but ‘Ladies Day’ is over before you know it.
The story starts rolling when Fred wants to go to the ball game, but he’s both flat broke and he has to work. When he learns from Barney it’s “ladies’ day” at the ball game he gets an idea. What follows is a comedy of errors that involves the wives, the police and Fred’s boss and the boss’s South American customer, who appears to be a ladies man.
For once the story stays surprising throughout and the writers play nicely around with the four main characters. Naturally, there’s less room for stone age gags, and we have to do with a single crocodile acting as Betty’s laundry machine. But it doesn’t matter, for ‘Ladies’Day’ is one of the best written Flintstones episodes of all.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Ladies’ Day’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 11
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Hawaiian Escapade
To the next Flintstones episode: Nuthin’ but the Tooth
‘Ladies’ Day’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: November 16, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:
Surprisingly many Flintstones episodes deal with the average viewer’s dream to become an actor. In the third season ‘Hawaiian Escapade’ is the second after ‘Dino Goes Hollyrock‘.
This episode feels mostly like a remake from ‘The Monster from the Tarpits‘ from the first series. In both episodes Fred ends up as a stunt double, and even the Hollywood star, Larry Lava, is a faint echo of the Gary Granite of the former episode. There’s also an echo from ‘Hollyrock, Here I Come‘, another episode from the first season, as in both episodes, fame goes to Fred’s head.
The rehash of earlier tried tropes make ‘Hawaiian Escapade’ rather dull and uninspired. Even the stone age gags fall flat. Much more interesting is the running gag of Wilma burning Fred’s steak, and the cute finale.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Hawaiian Escapade’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 10
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Baby Barney
To the next Flintstones episode: Ladies’ Day
‘Hawaiian Escapade’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: November 9, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:
After ‘The Little Stranger’ ‘Baby Barney’ is the second Flintstones episode trying out Fred’s attitude to fatherhood, anticipating the great continuity later in the series.
This time Fred’s fatherhood is triggered by the coming of a rich uncle Tex, whom he promised a ‘little Tex’. It’s the unfortunate Barney who has to pose as the improbable baby. This accounts for a lot of slapstick, but in the end it’s Fred acting like a father for the first time that stays most. Stone age gags, meanwhile, are rare, as I can only mention a lawnmower dinosaur.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Baby Barney’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 9
To the previous The Flintstones episode: The Little Stranger
To the next Flintstones episode: Hawaiian Escapade
‘Baby Barney’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: November 2, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:
‘The Little Stranger’ starts with a Fred so grumpy Wilma sends him to a doctor to get examined. On the way Fred and Barney repeatedly meet a paper delivering little boy called Arnold, who gets the better of Fred each time. However, we have to wait until the 11th minute before the story really begins.
As with some of the best Flintstones episodes ‘The Little Stranger’ is a comedy of errors, and it is a delight to watch Fred’s sweet side, as well as him running back and forth when he thinks Wilma is expecting a little baby any minute. The best sight gag however, is when the doctor makes Fred inhale and exhale, a breath so powerful it moves Barney, who’s reading on a chair, through the office.
‘The Little Stranger’ feels like a prequel to the continuous story of the Flintstones getting a baby, which makes the third season so unique. It’s the first episode in which the baby idea comes up, and Fred’s reaction indeed is inviting to make the character deal with the real thing.
The stone age gags, meanwhile, are modest, and include a dish washing pelican, the now almost regular mammoth vacuum cleaner, and a bizarre bag-crocodile. Notice that for once, one of the windows is glass-covered, to get a gag with Arnold along.
Watch an excerpt from ‘The Little Stranger’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 8
To the previous The Flintstones episode: The Buffalo Convention
To the next Flintstones episode: Baby Barney
‘The Little Stranger’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: October 5, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★
Review:
In this appallingly unfunny episode Fred secretly takes ballet lessons to restore his bowling skills.
This episode starts with a long morning routine in which Wilma tries to wake up Fred. This part contains two stone age gags: Fred shaving himself with a clam containing a bumble bee, and Wilma frying a humongous dinosaur egg. Later we watch Wilma and Betty trying to swap a giant fly, and Wilma’s gigantic Brontosaur ribs dinner for Fred.
These gags are fair, at best, but much better than the main story, which drags on, despite the deadline of a big game Fred hopes to win and its stakes being high. Why Fred doesn’t tell anyone he is taking ballet lessons in the first place is never explained, and this secrecy is as puzzling as discomforting, given the fact that Fred and Wilma are supposed to have a happy marriage.
Watch an excerpt from ‘Bowling Ballet’ yourself and tell me what you think:
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 4
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Barney the Invisible
To the next Flintstones episode: The Twitch
‘Bowling Ballet’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
Directors: William Hanna & Joseph Barbera
Airing date: September 21, 1962
Stars: The Flintstones
Rating: ★★★
Review:
Although this episode starts with Wilma and Betty watching an add on television and going to the barbers to get a new haircut, it is really centered on the friendship of Barney and Fred.
When Barney is laid off, Wilma forces Fred to ask his boss to get his friend a job. Fred fails, but does not to dare tell Barney. But when Barney reports himself at Fred’s Boss, Mr. Slate, he turns out to be the director’s nephew, and is promptly promoted to executive vice president. Unfortunately, this means he has become Fred’s boss, and this puts a strain on their relationship.
The best scene may be Wilma joining Fred in bowling to make up for Barney’s absence, even though this feels like a missed opportunity for more gags. Meanwhile Barney tries to blend in with other executives, in an all too short scene, which also fails to deliver on its potential.
In fact, the whole episode is low on gags, and the few prehistoric creatures that act as garbage bins and parking meters get some really lame lines. The animation, too, is sometime ridiculously poor. Watch for example the reaction of Barney, Betty and Wilma when Fred returns from his boss’s house. The trio looks more like a mechanical device than as human beings.
This is The Flintstones Season Three episode 2
To the previous The Flintstones episode: Dino Goes Hollyrock
To the next Flintstones episode: Barney the Invisible
‘Fred’s New Boss’ is available on the Blu-Ray ‘The Flintstones – The Complete Series’ and the DVD-box ‘The Flintstones Season 3’
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