[link=/name/nm6675440]Lily-Rose Depp[/link], [link=/name/nm2864252]Mason Gooding[/link], and more stars who are on the rise in 2025.

Top Stars to Watch in 2025

<a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm6675440?ref_=tturv_eds_right-3_lk">Lily-Rose Depp</a>, <a class="ipc-md-link" href="/name/nm2864252?ref_=tturv_eds_right-3_lk">Mason Gooding</a>, and more stars who are on the rise in 2025.

Take a look at the IMDb staff picks for the best movies and series coming to theaters and streaming.

Staff Picks: What to Watch in January

Fred stands to inherit a mansion, if he can pass a night there--and survive multiple attempts on his life.

"I'm kind of a kook, myself. Not rich, but still a kook!"

The usual plot inherit a fortune by spending the night in a haunted mansion. This mansion is the home of the departed Uncle Giggles. Wilma and Betty don&#39;t stick around but Barney doesn&#39;t escape with them and stays with Fred . There is of course also a thunderstorm and adds to the spookiness. Fred and Barney keep dodging the household staff who are pretty scary themselves. A constant scary , crazy laugh is unnerving as well. Everything from dinner to a game of cards provides it&#39;s own close calls for Fred and Barney. Finally morning comes and Wilma and Betty arrive . Fred has spent the night which is all he had to do . But we know there is a twist. Uncle Giggles is still alive! He jumps out of a picture that&#39;s seemed to be watching them. He was testing Fred to see if he has a sense of humor. He is indeed a kook just as Fred and the lawyer said. Fred turns the tables on Uncle Giggles and the staff chasing after them with a meat cleaver! A little out there but I think it was playing more like a horror movie not a regular episode.

tt0580138

A Haunted House Is Not a Home

An episode that will appeal to those who like this sort of thing. The story comes across like another attempt to take the show in a different direction. Despite having seen Uncle Giggles only two times, in his life, Fred inherits his &quot;late&quot; uncle&#39;s fortune. Of course, there is a catch. Fred must spend one night in his uncle&#39;s house, or he gets no money. Some amusing &quot;haunted house&quot; stuff happens. However, the three &quot;villains&quot; don&#39;t have much of a presence. They&#39;re all ugly enough, but not particularly scary. The biggest letdown is when Uncle Giggles jumps out of the picture. Surprise! He wasn&#39;t dead, after all! The character was too eccentric, and too weird, to have such a small part. The episode is good, but Fred and Barney deserve more credit than any of the &quot;villains.&quot; Also, what kind of a wife was Wilma, to refuse to stay with Fred, in the haunted house?!

10 Stars for being OUTRAGEOUS. One of the best written episodes, and with a spooky slant, for all us big kids who grew up on Fred and Barney. Always. Fred is notified that he must spend the night in the creepy mansion of his late Uncle Giggles in order to inherit his fortune! The mansion, shaped like a skull? -- should tell you something. If you&#39;re a movie buff, the plot is very similar to the LAUREL AND HARDY MURDER CASE (1930), which finds Stan and Ollie spending the night in a haunted house to inherit millions, replete with some insane characters. METV runs it a lot during their &quot;Comedy Classics&quot; segment at night. Fred and Barney go it alone, and for good reason. Should Fred NOT make it through the night, the estate is to be divided up by Giggle&#39;s homicidal staff; Creepers, the butler, Potrock and Wormstone, the gardner. By the way, the lawyer handling the estate is called Blackstone? These guys are a creative bunch, who keep Fred and Barney OCCUPIED? The crazy weapons are a must. Excellent writing on the part of Herbert Finn, who wrote a ton of episodes for the HONEYMOONERS, also JOHNNY QUEST. And don&#39;t Fred and Barney kinda&#39; remind you of Ralph and Norton? Creepers is voiced by noneother Hal Smith from the ANDY GRIFFTH SHOW. Classic TWIST ending.... and did you think it would end any other way? SEASON 5 EPISODE 8 remastered color. Big thank you to METV.

Happy Halloween, everyone! This episode, A Haunted House Is Not A Home from Season 5, written by Herbert Finn and Alan Dinehart, was actually broadcast around Halloween in 1964. There&#39;s lots of grim humor and a few truly creepy moments. Don Messick plays a cuckoo, a bird, the sneaky lawyer Blackstone and Wormstone the creepy gardner whose snippers are sharp! Hal Smith plays Uncle Giggles with the high-pitched cackle that drives Fred and Barney crazy all night long and the tall creepy butler Creepers with a large dagger. Mel Blanc plays the short, creepy baker Potrock carrying an axe 3 times his size!
Plot synopsis: Fred comes home and lands in a hole Dino made in the front yard to bury his bones! Wilma tells Fred about a telegram and Fred has just inherited an estate from his eccentric (if not kooky) Uncle J. Giggles Flintstone. He tells the Rubbles the good news and invites them and Wilma to the hearing of the will. J. Giggles&#39; house is a spooky mansion in the shape of a skull. The lawyer reads the will and tells Fred the condition for the inheritance is he must spend one night in the mansion. &quot;If anything happens to Mr. Flintstone, my estate shall be handed to my servants, Creepers, Potrock and Wormstone.&quot; The servants introduce themselves one by one and are handy with their prospective weapons! Wilma and Betty run for it and Fred captures Barney for company. They&#39;re served alphabet soup which spells out &quot;Beware!&quot; Just as Fred reads the message, Potrock scares Fred with an axe even bigger than he and uses it to cut a piece of bread for Fred. Fred politely declines. So Fred and Barney decide to go to bed for the night. Fred insists Barney spend the night in the same room. Barney reluctantly agrees. Barney gargles his water as he&#39;s brushing his teeth. At 1st, Fred thinks it&#39;s the ghost of J. Giggles! When he finds out it&#39;s Barney, he bonks him on the head. Barney asks &quot;So what&#39;s wrong with a little gargling?&quot; Barney complains about sleeping in a king-size bed. &quot;I&#39;m used to a twin bed.&quot; So Potrock splits the bed in two and they have twin beds! When Barney realizes the menacing servants are after them, they go up and down the stairs to be tormented by them and J. Giggles&#39; creepy cackle which makes both their hair stand up! The next morning, Wilma and Betty come for their husbands. They find Fred hiding as a mounted head and Barney inside a cuckoo clock. Fred and Barney tell their wives about how dreadful their night was. &quot;But worst of all was that awful laugh,&quot; says Fred. &quot;I wish I could describe it!&quot; And once again, they hear the laugh, which seems to have come from a picture of J. Giggles&#39; picture. Fred throws a vase at it and out of the picture pops Uncle J. Giggles! He reveals the whole death of him was a farce to see if Fred was worthy of his estate. Fred is so mad he chases after J. Giggles and his 3 servants with the hatchet he has somehow acquired by Potrock!
What I liked: I guess I liked best the element of suspense and surprise throughout this episode. Fred responds when he falls in Dino&#39;s bone holes when asked by Wilma what he&#39;s doing. &quot;Wilma, I always come home with a bone in my mouth!&quot; It&#39;s funny to see Barney&#39;s eyes change as he&#39;s clobbered ny Fred for gargling too loud. The mysterious moving knight seems to have been inspired by a Bug&#39;s Bunny cartoon entitled Hair Raising Hare. The knight later.shooota.an arrow.at Fred&#39;s backside as his back is turned. The eyes on the J. Giggles picture move and watch the arrow! J. Giggles is a hoot with that menacing cackle heard throughout the episode and Creepers, Potrock and Wormstone are creepily hilarious! I would&#39;ve loved to have seen them in another episode but at least you get to see the creepy mansion again in the episode Dripper. And as always, Hoyt Curtin&#39;s musical scores are perfect here, some taken from Jonny Quest and some from Season 1 of The Flintstones. 10 bowls of alphabet soup out of 10!

User reviews

A Haunted House Is Not a Home

The Flintstones

Halloween episode

"I'm kind of a kook, myself. Not rich, but still a kook!"

FROM THE DESK OF J. GIGGLES FLINTSTONE?

Would you care for a piece of bread?

More from this title

More to explore

Recently viewed