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The Worst Episodes of The Flintstones

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The misadventures of two modern-day Stone Age families, the Flintstones and the Rubbles.

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    The Flintstones Season 5 Episode 15 - Christmas Flintstone
    4.0/10(2 votes)

    #1 - Christmas Flintstone

    S5:E15

    After Fred takes a job as a department-store Santa, he proves so successful that the real Santa asks Fred to stand in for him and deliver presents on Christmas Eve.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  2. The Flintstones Season 6 Episode 8 - Rip Van Flintstone
    4.5/10(6 votes)

    #2 - Rip Van Flintstone

    S6:E8

    Bored by his company picnic, Fred slips away to take a nap, and awakens twenty years later to discover that Barney has become millionaire B.J. Rubble, and that Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm have gotten married. Upon entering Wilma who is now living alone through Barney's largesse, Fred really awakens and realizes it was all a dream.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  3. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 5 - Fred's Monkeyshines
    4.7/10(3 votes)

    #3 - Fred's Monkeyshines

    S4:E5

    After Wilma insists that Fred have his eyes examined, he mistakenly puts on the wrong pair of prescription lenses. As a result of his temporarily faulty eyesight, he ends up taking a performing monkey to the circus, believing it is Pebbles.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  4. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 2 - Groom Gloom
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #4 - Groom Gloom

    S4:E2

    Frustrated that paperboy (and part-time babysitter) Arnold always beats him at table-tennis, Fred has a nightmare in which an older Arnold elopes with his grown-up daughter Pebbles.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  5. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 4 - Dino Disappears
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - Dino Disappears

    S4:E4

    Upset that Fred has forgotten the anniversary of his joining the household, Dino runs away in a sulk. The next morning Fred and Barney seach for him, bringing home a look-alike pet that they assume to be Dino.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  6. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 6 - The Flintstone Canaries
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #6 - The Flintstone Canaries

    S4:E6

    Fred forms a barbershop quartet to compete on the ""Hum Along With Herman"" television show, and in the process discovers that Barney is a natural lead tenor. The catch is that Barney can sing only when he's in the bathtub.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 8 - Big League Freddie
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #7 - Big League Freddie

    S4:E8

    When Fred's performance for the Bedrock Quarry baseball team flounders, he is replaced by Roger who attracts the attention of Big League scouts, but since he is wearing Fred's uniform, the scouts try to sign up Fred.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  8. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 9 - Old Lady Betty
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #8 - Old Lady Betty

    S4:E9

    To earn enough money to buy Barney a surprise gift, Betty answers an ad for a job which specifies an elderly lady. Disguising herself, Betty gets the job, but discovers that her employers are counterfeiters.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 10 - Sleep On, Sweet Fred
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #9 - Sleep On, Sweet Fred

    S4:E10

    Betty and Wilma employ a ""sleep-teaching"" method to try and turn Fred and Barney into perfect spouses. The plan goes awry, and the foursome are ultimately arrested as thieves. After pleading their cases in court, the wives are sentenced by the judge to twenty days of serving their ""victimized spouses"" breakfast in bed.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  10. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 11 - Kleptomaniac Pebbles
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #10 - Kleptomaniac Pebbles

    S4:E11

    In a jewelry store to buy a birthday gift for Wilma, Fred and Pebbles unknowingly encounter jewel thief Baffles Gravel, who plants a priceless diamond bracelet on Pebbles. After finding the hot ice, Fred and Wilma try to get it back to the store before Pebbles ""crime"" is discovered.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  11. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 12 - Daddy's Little Beauty
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #11 - Daddy's Little Beauty

    S4:E12

    Fred misconstrues an overheard conversation and enters Pebbles in a beauty contest, only to find out that the contest is for somewhat older ""babes"" instead of ""babies."" Overcoming the resistance of the contest coordinator, Fred enters Pebbles anyway, with surprising results.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 13 - Daddies Anonymous
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #12 - Daddies Anonymous

    S4:E13

    Fred and Barney join an exclusive ""fathers club,"" which offers hen-pecked husbands the chance to play poker under the guise of taking their children for afternoon walks. Fred has to do some fancy switching, though, when he rushes home one day with the wrong infant.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  13. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 14 - Peek-a-Boo Camera
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #13 - Peek-a-Boo Camera

    S4:E14

    Attending a premarital bachelor party for a Lodge buddy, rowdy Fred and Barney start dancing with the chorus girls in a nightclub, unaware that they are being filmed for television's ""Peek-A-Boo Camera."" The boys do everything possible to keep their wives from seeing the show when it airs on television, and almost succeed.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  14. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 15 - Once Upon a Coward
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #14 - Once Upon a Coward

    S4:E15

    After being robbed without putting up a fight, Fred tries to prove that he is not a coward. Later, while bowling, he recognizes the voice of the robber and bowls him over, thus restoring his male pride.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 16 - Ten Little Flintstones
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Ten Little Flintstones

    S4:E16

    Chaos reigns supreme when ten androids from another planet--all whom are dead-ringers for Fred--land in Bedrock causing havoc in an attempt to conquer the earth. When the alien master admits failure and recalls the androids, Fred is left to explain his odd behavior.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Tony Benedict

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  16. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 17 - Fred el Terrifico
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Fred el Terrifico

    S4:E17

    Vacationing in Rockapulco, Fred encounters international jewel thieves who plant a million dollars' worth of stolen diamonds on him to carry across the border. The deception is detected and Fred is offered a reward, and is subsequently arrested back home for failing to declare the reward money!

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  17. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 19 - Flintstone and the Lion
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Flintstone and the Lion

    S4:E19

    Fred befriends a kitten while on a fishing trip and decides to make a house pet of it, not realizing that the tiny kitten will grow up to be a full-sized lion, which begins eating the family out of house and home.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Tony Benedict

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  18. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 20 - Cave Scout Jamboree
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Cave Scout Jamboree

    S4:E20

    After stumbling upon an international gathering of scouts during a camping trip, Fred and Barney become the hit of the scout encampment, much to the dismay of Wilma and Betty when the boys visit them later in Bedrock.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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  19. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 21 - Room for Two
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Room for Two

    S4:E21

    After building a new room onto the Flintstone home, Fred and Barney start feuding. Fueling the rift is the fact that Barney cast the deciding vote against Fred for Water Buffalo of the Year, and Barney's discovery that half of Fred's new room is on his property.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Tony Benedict

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  20. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 22 - Ladies' Night at the Lodge
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #20 - Ladies' Night at the Lodge

    S4:E22

    Disguising themselves to gain entry into the all-male Water Buffalo Lodge meeting, Wilma and Betty argue that wives should be allowed to attend the meetings. But after going through painful initiation ceremonies as new members, they decide they are better off staying home.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 23 - Reel Trouble
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #21 - Reel Trouble

    S4:E23

    Proud papa Fred shows his home movies of Pebbles to everyone, including two criminals who discover that he has captured them on film. But rather than sit through the films again, the criminals turn themselves in!

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  22. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 24 - Son of Rockzilla
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #22 - Son of Rockzilla

    S4:E24

    Thinking he will be discovered, Fred takes a job wearing a monster costume in a publicity stunt for a new horror movie. He creates the desired effect, frightens the townspeople, and falls into his own monstrous dilemma.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 25 - Bachelor Daze
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #23 - Bachelor Daze

    S4:E25

    The razing of the Honeyrock Hotel reminds Wilma and Betty of their courtships while working as hotel waitresses, at which time they mistook hellhops Fred and Barney for young millionaires.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. The Flintstones Season 4 Episode 26 - Operation Switchover
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #24 - Operation Switchover

    S4:E26

    After mocking Wilma's housekeeping efforts, Fred accepts her challenge to swap jobs for one day. He soon learns that a housewife's labors are tougher than he thought.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Joanna Lee

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  25. The Flintstones Season 5 Episode 1 - Hop Happy
    5.0/10(3 votes)

    #25 - Hop Happy

    S5:E1

    Barney and Betty decide to get Bamm-Bamm a pet of his own, deciding on a stone-age kangaroo.

    Director:William Hanna
    Writer:Warren Foster

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Worst Episodes Summary

"Christmas Flintstone" is the worst rated episode of "The Flintstones". It scored 4/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by William Hanna and written by Warren Foster, it aired on 12/25/1964. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Rip Van Flintstone".