The Best Episodes Written By Warren Foster

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   7.0/10(1 votes)

   #1 - Little Bamm-Bamm

   S4:E310/3/1963

   Betty and Barney discover a foundling named Bamm-Bamm on their doorstep and become smitten with the child. They set out to adopt him, but discover that the Welfare Bureau has promised the boy to wealthy Pronto Berger, who is being represented by attorney Perry Masonry. When Berger learns that his wife is pregnant, however, the Rubbles are free to adopt the baby.

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   6.7/10(7 votes)

   #2 - Hot Lips Hannigan

   S1:E210/7/1960

   Believing he has made Wilma and Betty disappear through magic, Fred capitalizes on his newfound freedom by taking Barney to a nightclub, the Rockland, where an old friend, trumpeter Hot Lips Hannigan, is performing. The jazz is cool until the wives show up to teach their wayward husbands a lesson.

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   6.7/10(7 votes)

   #3 - The Swimming Pool

   S1:E310/14/1960

   Fred and Barney jointly build a swimming pool, but Barney hogs the pool time, angering Fred. To get even, Fred hires a pal to pose as a police officer and break up one of his neighbor's pool parties.

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   6.6/10(5 votes)

   #4 - High School Fred

   S3:E1312/7/1962

   An efficiency expert hired by Mr. Slate informs Fred that he will be fired unless he gets a high school diploma. Slate offers to send Fred to school, and Wilma mistakenly assumes that Fred is being groomed for an executive position.

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   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #5 - Fred's New Boss

   S3:E29/21/1962

   When Barney loses his job, Fred approaches Mr. Slate about hiring his friend for the quarry. He is mortified, however, when Barney lands the position of vice president, and becomes Fred's boss!

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   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #6 - Bowling Ballet

   S3:E410/5/1962

   Fred discovers he is off his game right before the big bowling match. After hearing in a television commercial that rhythm is ""the secret of success in many activities, including bowling,"" he rushes off to the Bedrock Dance Academy to sign up for ballet lessons.

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   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #7 - Fred's New Job

   S3:E222/15/1963

   With the baby coming, Fred asks Mr. Slate for a raise. Slate, however, is tired of such demands from expectant fathers, so he plans to head Fred off with ""Operation Cringe.""

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   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #8 - Social Climbers

   S2:E1011/17/1961

   Wilma and Betty wrangle tickets to the upper-crust Ambassador's Reception and convince their husbands to go with them, sending Fred and Barney to charm school to prepare for the event. But the middle-class foursome ultimately discover that trying to play ""stuffy"" is no fun.

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   6.4/10(5 votes)

   #9 - The Happy Household

   S2:E232/23/1962

   After a squabble about finances, Wilma seeks employment of her own. She applies for an office job at the Bedrock Radio & Television Corporation, but instead becomes the hostess of the ""Happy Housewife Show,"" a situation that makes things less than happy back at the cave.

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    6.3/10(4 votes)

    #10 - The Long, Long Weekend

    S1:E243/10/1961

    Friend Gus Gravel invites the Flintstones and the Rubbles to his seaside hotel for an all-expense-paid vacation. But upon arriving, the four find that the hotel's planned ""activities"" seem more like work. Gus finally confesses that his entire hotel staff has just resigned on the eve of a huge convention.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #11 - The Girls' Night Out

    S1:E151/6/1961

    Fred and Barney decide to treat their wives to a night out, at an amusement park. Fred cuts a song at a recording booth as a souvenir but misplaces the record. It is later discovered by a group of teens who pass it along to a deejay, and Fred is suddenly transformed into unwitting rock star ""Hi-Fye.""

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #12 - Fred Flintstone: Before and After

    S1:E284/7/1961

    Fred agrees to appear in a before-and-after weight reduction commercial, but is humiliated to learn that he is the before example. An offer of $1,000 if he can drop twenty-five pounds in a month fails miserably, as does every other diet plan, until an overeaters group takes him on as a challenge.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #13 - The Tycoon

    S1:E222/24/1961

    When industrial tycoon J.L. Gotrocks decides he wants to rub shoulders with the common people, dead-ringer Fred is hired to fill in for him in the board room. Fred savors his new lifestyle at the country club, but the plan begins to unravel when J.L. demonstrates little tolerance for the common folk.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #14 - The Good Scout

    S1:E263/24/1961

    Assuming the command of a Boy Scout troop, Fred quickly learns the hazards of a ""routine"" camping trip. Fred blunders his way through until an overnight flood leaves him and the troop hanging on a tree limb over a treacherous waterfall, hoping a ranger will rescue them.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #15 - The Astra' Nuts

    S1:E233/3/1961

    Thinking they are undergoing an examination for a physical contest, Fred and Barney mistakenly sign up for a three-year stint in the Army! After a tearful goodbye to their wives they enter into the service, where they quickly blunder their way into volunteering for the first lunar landing mission.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #16 - Barney the Invisible

    S3:E39/28/1962

    In an attempt to cure Barney's hiccups, Fred offers his friend a swig from an experimental soft drink he has formulated. The brew turns Barney invisible, and Fred's elaborate attempts to hide the fact make Wilma wonder about her husband's sanity.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #17 - Hawaiian Escapade

    S3:E1011/16/1962

    Wilma and Betty enter a television contest and win first prize, a trip for two to Rockiki Beach and a role on the television show ""Hawaiian Spy."" The two families journey to Hawaii, where Fred ends up working as a stunt man on the show.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #18 - The Buffalo Convention

    S3:E710/26/1962

    The talking dodo bird that Fred gives Wilma for her birthday turns snitch, informing her that Fred and Barney are plotting to sneak away for a Water Buffalo Convention in Frantic City. Wilma, Betty, and the wives of Bedrock plan a surprise of their own at the convention.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #19 - Baby Barney

    S3:E911/9/1962

    With his eye on an inheritance, Fred tells his rich Uncle Tex that he has named his child after him. Fred, of course, has no son, which means that he has to find a baby now that Uncle Tex is coming to visit! Unable to borrow a real baby, desperate Fred cons Barney into playing ""Baby Tex.""

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #20 - The Surprise

    S3:E191/25/1963

    The appearance of Barney's nephew, baby Marblehead, causes a rift between him and Fred. Fred just can't understand Barney's devotion to the visiting baby, but his attitude changes when Wilma informs him that they are going to have a baby of their own.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #21 - Mother-In-Law's Visit

    S3:E202/1/1963

    With fatherhood impending, Fred promises to become more kind, considerate, and thoughtful. His willingness to change is strechted practically beyond endurance when his mother-in-law shows up to help Wilma during her pregnancy.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Droop Along Flintstone

    S2:E29/22/1961

    The Flintstones and the Rubbles take up Fred's rich cousins, Tumbleweed and Mary Lou Jim, on their offer to take care of their ranch while they go on an ocean cruise. Having gotten lost on the ranch, Fred and Barney stumble onto a nearby film location, where they are chased by cowboys and Indians.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #23 - The Beauty Contest

    S2:E1112/1/1961

    Fred and Barney are appointed judges for the Loyal Order of Water Buffalo's beauty contest. But complicating matters are Wilma's and Betty's suspicions, pressure from Mr. Slate, whose daughter is the competition, and threats from a racketeer who wants his girlfriend to be named Miss Water Buffalo.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #24 - The Gambler

    S2:E161/5/1962

    A compulsive gambler in his younger days, Fred has been cured through psychiatric consultation--until paperboy Arnold tempts him with a bet. When the Flintstones' furniture begins to mysteriously disappear, Barney is dispatched to investigate Fred's marble games behind locked doors.

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    6.2/10(5 votes)

    #25 - Impractical Joker

    S2:E212/9/1962

    Fed up with Fred's practical jokes, Barney decides to give him a taste of his own medicine. Barney sets up the gag with a stack of five, crisp $100 bills, his prize from the Sudsy-Wudsy jingle contest.

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