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.
#1 - 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.
#2 - 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.
#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.
#4 - 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.
#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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#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.
#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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Operation Barney
Season 2 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/16/1962
While driving to work, the boys decide to play hookey and go instead to the ballpark. They call in sick to their bosses and Barney is promptly ordered to report to the company nurse for a check-up. Fred then concocts an elaborate ruse that does indeed get Barney out of work - and into the hospital.
#17 - 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.
#18 - 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.
#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.
#20 - The House Guest
Season 2 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/22/1961
While plumbers at the Rubble home try to unfix Fred's attempted repair job, Betty and Barney move in temporarily with the Flintstones. The wives are convinced the forced togetherness will cause problems between Fred and Barney and they are right, although the husbands go to extreme measures to try to hide their bickering.
#21 - 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.
#22 - The Picnic
Season 2 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/15/1961
Coveting the trophy collection of Lodge brother Joe Rockhead, Fred realizes that dumping Barney as his partner will improve his chances of winning during the annual field day games. This plan causes resentment from both Barney and Rockhead.
#23 - Droop Along Flintstone
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/22/1961
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.
#24 - The Beauty Contest
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/1/1961
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.
#25 - Feudin' and Fussin'
Season 2 - Episode 20 - Aired 2/2/1962
While Fred is napping away his pre-golf tournament tensions, Barney interrupts his pal's dreams with a practice shot. Temperamental Fred explodes at Barney, which results in the Flintstones almost finding themselves without neighbors, when the Rubbles put their house up for sale.