User reviews

Like many of the HB shows I've reviewed, I saw this on Cartoon Network's "Boomerang" block. This show can be easily described with one word: BAD!!! That's what I think about this show. Anyways, here's the scoop: This show was still "Fred and Barney Meet The Thing"(Even then, it was bad), but they added another sketch with this bell shaped glob called "The Shmoo" (Okay....That's REALLY insane!) who solved crimes with these reporters(How many times has HB used the "Solving Mysteries" concept over the years?). This show was so utterly painful. I had to turn it off not too long into it.

Overall, this show is an atrocity, and continues to show how Hanna-Barbera beats their creations to the ground. Avoid this show at all costs! It's a disgrace to see our beloved "Flinstones" characters become mockeries with this awful show.

This gets no stars.

This was, without question, the most unexpected cartoon series of all time. Fred and Barney had been through the ringer with a few short lived FLINTSTONES spinoff shows, but their nadir came when some genius decided to partner them with a mostly forgotten peripheral character from the "Lil' Abner" comics of the late 40s/early 50's...a strangely phallic entity called a "Shmoo". What exactly a Shmoo *IS* has been a topic of debate for decades...a bowling pin with legs and whiskers? A walking bartlett pear? Nobody knows for certain, but the bigger mystery is how it ended up in the stone age, sleuthing mysteries with the beloved Flintstone characters.

Ill-conceived, flatly animated series which perfectly demonstrates how workaday and lazily produced Saturday morning fare had become by the late 70s.