The BEST episodes of The Flintstones season 2

Every episode of The Flintstones season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Flintstones season 2!

The Flintstones is about a modern stone-age family, set in the prehistoric times. There's Fred, the meat-loving, bowling-playing fat man, Wilma, his wife who loves to cook and Pebbles, their cute baby daughter. Their next door neighbors are Barney, Fred's best friend, Betty, Barney's wife who always loves to hang out with Wilma, and their baby son Bamm-Bamm who is incredibly strong. The two families risk prehistoric danger or wild antics as they struggle to live normal lives.

Last Updated: 8/18/2024Network: ABC (US)Status: Ended
Share:
The Rock Vegas Story
star
8.00
29 votes

#1 - The Rock Vegas Story

Season 2 - Episode 28 - Aired 3/30/1962

Fred and Barney run into old friend Sherman Cobblehead, owner of The Golden Cactus Hotel in Rock Vegas, at an eatery. Cobblehead's casual promise to "take care of" Fred should he ever come to Vegas is misinterpreted as a guarantee that Fred will be a big winner in the casino.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Alvin Brickrock Presents
star
7.98
49 votes

#2 - Alvin Brickrock Presents

Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/6/1961

When his neighbors' domestic fights suddenly end with the disappearance of the wife, Fred suspects Alvin Brickrock of foul play. After reading a detective magazine, he becomes convinced that Brickrock is really Albert Bonehart, wife-murderer.

Writer: Larry Markes
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
This Is Your Lifesaver
star
7.97
30 votes

#3 - This Is Your Lifesaver

Season 2 - Episode 25 - Aired 3/9/1962

Fred and Barney encounter the penniless J. Montague Gypsum, who is threatening to jump from a bridge. Fred takes the man home and learns too late how responsible he is for the life he saved.

Writer: Larry Markes
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Mailman Cometh
star
7.90
29 votes

#4 - The Mailman Cometh

Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/23/1962

Fuming that he is the only employee of the quarry not to received a raise in the mail, Fred writes a blistering letter to his boss, Mr. Slate, then Wilma frantically tries to retrieve it after Mr. Slate apologizes for the oversight.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Wilma's Vanishing Money
star
7.88
34 votes

#5 - Wilma's Vanishing Money

Season 2 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/26/1962

While searching for a hairpin to fix the toaster, Fred finds a secret stash of cash that has been hidden by Wilma. To teach her a lesson, he uses the money to buy a new bowling ball, unaware that Wilma has been saving up to buy him the same ball as a birthday present.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Social Climbers
star
7.79
39 votes

#6 - Social Climbers

Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/17/1961

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.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Kleptomaniac Caper
star
7.79
29 votes

#7 - Kleptomaniac Caper

Season 2 - Episode 30 - Aired 4/13/1962

Wilma secretly empties Fred's closet of mementos for a rummage sale, including his old football uniform. But when Fred finds the goods in the Rubbles' car, where Wilma put them, he suspects Barney of being a thief.

Writer: Joanna Lee
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Fred Strikes Out
star
7.74
27 votes

#8 - Fred Strikes Out

Season 2 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/2/1962

Once more, Fred forgets the anniversary of the night he proposed to Wilma. After being chastised by Wilma, he agrees to take her on a date to the movies, but she wants to go on the same night he is supposed to be captaining his bowling team in the bowling alley, Fred tries to do both.

Writer: Joanna Lee
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Flintstone of Prinstone
star
7.74
38 votes

#9 - Flintstone of Prinstone

Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/3/1961

Determined to rise above manual labor, Fred attends night class at Prinstone University and is drafted as a quarterback on the varsity team. But during the big game against Shale U., an exhausted Fred creates problems when he confuses his football signals with his accounting course figures.

Writer: Larry Markes
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Little White Lie
star
7.71
42 votes

#10 - The Little White Lie

Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/10/1961

After telling Wilma that he is going to visit a sick friend, Fred runs off to a poker game, where he wins $200. To explain the money, he tells Wilma that he found the cash, and is dismayed when she places an ad in the newspaper to locate the owner.

Writer: Herbert Finn
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Fred Flintstone Woos Again
star
7.70
44 votes

#11 - Fred Flintstone Woos Again

Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/13/1961

Needled by Wilma about his lack of romanticism, Fred takes his wife on a second honeymoon to Rock Mountain Inn, accompanied by the Rubbles. When the Flintstones learn that the official, Judge Wedrock, who married them was never licensed, Wilma takes advantage of the situation by making Fred court her all over again.

Writer: Jack Raymond
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Trouble-in-Law
star
7.64
33 votes

#12 - Trouble-in-Law

Season 2 - Episode 26 - Aired 3/16/1962

Having sold her home, Fred's antagonistic mother-in-law arrives at the Flintstone cave, and Fred tries to play cupid after meeting a rich Texan who is looking for an elderly wife. He invites the man home for dinner, but Wilma becomes suspicious of the would-be suitor.

Writer: Joanna Lee
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The X-Ray Story
star
7.62
69 votes

#13 - The X-Ray Story

Season 2 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/29/1961

Ailing Dino is taken to the vet, who diagnoses him as having a "dinopeptic germ," which is common to dinosaurs but lethal in humans. But when Dino's x-rays are mistaken as Fred's, Wilma is alerted and told to prepare the only known cure: keeping the patient awake for seventy-two hours, without telling him why.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Missing Bus
star
7.61
56 votes

#14 - The Missing Bus

Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/29/1961

Receiving a pay cut after thirteen years at the quarry, Fred decides to quit and become a bus driver. With Barney as co-pilot, Fred delivers fifty kids to school, a nerve-shattering experience. Not wanting to let the job get the better of him, he dutifully picks them up again but mis-delivers them home.

Writer: Larry Markes
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Happy Household
star
7.56
25 votes

#15 - The Happy Household

Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 2/23/1962

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.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Soft Touchables
star
7.53
45 votes

#16 - The Soft Touchables

Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/27/1961

Part-time detectives Fred and Barney take their first case from Dagmar, The Peroxide Kid, who is really working for Boss Rockhead, a crook posing as a bank president. Rockhead stations Fred and Barney as bank guards while he and his gang transport the money to a "safe place."

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Impractical Joker
star
7.53
32 votes

#17 - Impractical Joker

Season 2 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/9/1962

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.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
A Star Is Almost Born
star
7.53
34 votes

#18 - A Star Is Almost Born

Season 2 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/12/1962

While shopping in a Bedrock drugstore with Betty, Wilma is discovered by a famous television producer. As a result, Fred borrows money from Barney to pay for acting lessons a quits his job in order to manage his wife's career.

Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
The Hit Song Writers
star
7.49
71 votes

#19 - The Hit Song Writers

Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/15/1961

After discovering that Barney is a closet poet, Fred manages to link him up with songwriter Hoagy Carmichael and the three set out to write a hit song. The resultant tune garners the boys a moment of fame as songwriters.

Writer: Jack Raymond
Watch Now:AmazonApple TV
Take Me Out to the Ball Game
star
7.46
28 votes

#20 - Take Me Out to the Ball Game

Season 2 - Episode 32 - Aired 4/30/1962

Fred is chosen by PeeWee League players (including Arnold and Mr. Slate's son) to umpire a playoff game. His troubles mount when he must call the game honestly despite the pressures from friends, employers, and big league baseball scouts, who are observing Fred in action.

Writer: Larry Markes
Watch Now:Apple TV
Divided We Sail
star
7.43
30 votes

#21 - Divided We Sail

Season 2 - Episode 29 - Aired 4/6/1962

Fred receives a ticket to a television game show that offers big prizes, but succumbs to stage fright before the show. Barney subs for him and wins a house boat, which Fred then tries to claim as his.

Writer: Larry Markes
Watch Now:Apple TV
The Entertainer
star
7.42
33 votes

#22 - The Entertainer

Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/19/1962

Fred works overtime to earn extra money for a surprise gift for Wilma, and is ultimately tapped by Mr. Slate to entertain an important female client at the Copa Cave night club. Unfortunately, the Rubbles and Wilma show up at the club that same night.

Watch Now:Apple TV
Latin Lover
star
7.42
31 votes

#23 - Latin Lover

Season 2 - Episode 31 - Aired 4/20/1962

Impressed by actor Roberto Rocketing, Wilma tries to turn Fred into a reasonable facsimile, and is surprisingly successful - ultimately a little too successful, as the dashing, mustachioed Fred now causes women to swoon in his arms.

Watch Now:Apple TV
The Gambler
star
7.41
41 votes

#24 - The Gambler

Season 2 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/5/1962

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.

Watch Now:Apple TV
The Rock Quarry Story
star
7.35
75 votes

#25 - The Rock Quarry Story

Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/20/1961

Movie star Rock Quarry has had enough of Hollyrock, and decides to move to Bedrock, where he is stalked by star-struck Wilma and Betty for an autograph. Meanwhile, Fred has an auto collision with the actor and invites him home to dinner, where he is recognized by Wilma despite his insistence that he is not Rock Quarry.

Watch Now:Apple TV