I'm glad they haven't yet resorted to lie detectors. I'm sure many of us had parents who pulled the same thing. "Remember- you're not 12, you're 10!" Anyways, this review is for The Long, Long, Long Weekend from Season 6 (not to be confused with The Long, Long Weekend from Season 1). It was written by Herbert Finn and Alan Dinhart. Guest voices include Don Messick, John Stephenson, Harvey Korman and Janet Waldo, who plays Mrs. Slaghoopple.
Plot summary: Fred borrows $4 from his boss Mr. Slate and is looking forward to his extra long weekend, "a long, long, long weekend" as Barney calls it on their commute home. Fred and Barney enjoy a nice game of crochet with Barney's pet Hoppy juggling the balls, much to Fred's annoyance. Mrs. Slaghoopple lovingly babysits Pebbles and Bamm Bamm. So after a nice barbecue, the Flintstones and Rubbles decide to take a ride. Fred claims the highways will be empty because everyone is our of town. Betty sarcastically quips "Every car is out of town!" Gazoo shows up and offers to take the 4 of them for a ride into the 21st century. So the Flintmobile, now a spaceship, takes them to Bedrock. They learn they don't need cash- they sign for everything and will pay later- "much later," as the front doorman tells them. They eat at a restaurant and are served capsules! Wilma and Betty go shopping and need to borrow their husbands' pens! Fred and Barney get a haircut which is a machine that throws them our before they have a chance to tip the barber! Wilma and Betty suggest they take a rocket ship trip to Mars. They arrive and are creeped out by all the flying objects. Most frightening is a three-headed monster. They catch the next spaceship and head back home to Earth. They stop by Fred's office in the future. Mr. Slate's great, great, great x 800 grandson (who looks like his ancestor) assists them and looks up information about Fred, "one of the founder's most valued employees." The records show Fred borrowed $4 from Mr. Slate without paying him back, which added up to an astronomical amount of interest. Fred runs away as he's afraid he'll be spotted as a relative of the "dead beat!" Finally, they come home to the stone age and Gazoo previously predicted, Wilma and Betty have no memory of their trip. Fred vows to pay back the $4 he borrowed from Mr. Slate. Gazoo can't decide whether Fred is not ready for the future or the future is not ready for Flintstone!
Trivia: There's plenty of backgrounds and animation originally from the show The Jetsons, as well as music from that show and Johnny Quest. Mrs. Slaghoopple is actually pretty nice as she has no mean-spirited or smart-allecky comments for his son in law Fred! Peyrock Place is a pun on Peyton Place, a soap opera from the 1970's.
What I liked: I liked the lie detector which exposed the youngster's true age. The characters from Mars were pretty funny and I remember as a kid the 3-headed monster scared me as a kid! 9 spaceships out of 10!
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