The Flintstones (TV Series) Impractical Joker (1962) User Reviews

You, Barney Rubble, are a counterfieter!

[williamlangan-22870 · 8/10 · 23 May 2020]

Happy Memorial Day weekend, everyone! Today, I'm going to review The Impractical Joker, from Season 2 of The Flintstones. It was written by Warren Foster, Mike Maltese and Arthur Phillips. Don Messick plays the Soap Sweepstakes man and the Diner owner. Joe Rockhead plays a masked burglar. t Barney's house, Fred pulls a practical joke on Barney with his hose. Barney is not at all amused and seeks revenge. Then a person from a soap company visits Barney and tells him if he can recite it. So recite it, Barney does. "If you scrub with Sudsy Wudsy, you'll wash away the Mudsy Wudsy!" So the man gives the Rubbles' $500 as a cash prize. Betty plans to use her share of the money for Barney's birthday present. Barney uses his share to play a practical joke on Fred. Betty goes over to Wilma's house and acts paranoid. She says Barney has been in the basement and asks Fred to go over there to see what's the problem. He tries peaking through the window but Barney pulls down the shade! So Fred knocks and Barney tells him to lock up behind him. He shows Fred some kind of gadget which he claims makes dollar bills. Fred exclaims loudly "You, Barney Rubble, are a counterfieter!" Barney hushes him! So Fred tells Wilma and Betty that Barney was making money. "Oh, that's good!," they reply. Then he adds "Phoney money!" and they reply "Oh, that's bad!" The next day, Fred takes the day off and catches Barney in a diner eating breakfast. Just as it's time to pay, Fred insists on treating! The waiter is surprised at Fred's generosity! He follows Barney around and charges anything Barney wants. So Betty agrees to send back all the stuff Barney made Fred pay for. Then Fred decides to bury the "money maker" and "phony money" in a gully in a park. While there, he runs into a masked burglar who demands the money and the "money maker." Fred tells the burglar it's not his money or money maker but his friend Barney's. So the burglar demands Fred take him to Barney's house. There, Barney admits it was a practical joke against Fred. "Just for a joke, make some more!," says the burglar. Then Barney says he can't so the burglar has them drive downtown to the hideout of Max the Knife to explain to him. When they get there, the burglar turns off the lights. Both Fred and Barney are begging for their lives to "Max." Then the lights are turned on and Wilma and Betty shout "Happy birthday, Barney!" Then the "burglar" removes his mask and reveals to Fred and Barney he's really their friend Joe Rockhead! What I liked: As a kid, the "burglar" scared me. I liked Betty's "scared" act at the beginning. "Was that a police siren?!" I also liked when Fred says he thinks he'll get 10 years just for knowing Barney. Wilma just calmly says "I'll visit you Fred, and bake a cake with a file in it!" I give this cartoon 8 cakes with files in them out of 10!