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- Sep 10, 2016
Someone whining about muh sexism in a Flintstones episode:
- Baffle Blend: While this might be a tad unfair, one episode above all has showed me exactly how poorly this series has aged; "The Happy Housewife". The gist of it is that Wilma gets a job as a host on a TV show, where she gives housewives advice. Fred is upset because her working means she's not home to make elaborate dinners. Eventually, it turns into blackmail when a gossip column threatens to expose that the Happy Housewife's Happy Husband isn't so happy himself. Even if he didn't have such a terrible, selfish, and bratty reason to be unhappy in the first place (which he did have a terrible, selfish, and bratty reason; this can't be emphasized enough.), that alone would have crossed the Moral Event Horizon. So after Wilma is essentially forced to quit her job... the episode ends with her singing a she brings Fred a chunk of meat. Needless to say, this was the last episode of The Flintstones that I ever watched, because after seeing it, Fred was unlikable, unwatchable, and unforgivable.