Boomerang Nov 29, 2009 The Flintstones S5 Ep 7 A Haunted House Is Not A Home

Fred receives a letter from a lawyer reporting the death of Fred's "kooky" uncle, J. Giggles Flintstone, the bachelor-recluse occupant of a Nightmare Hill mansion. Fred's presence at the reading at said mansion of Giggles' last will and testament is required by the lawyer, and naturally, Fred, believing that Giggles has bequeathed an extravagant inheritance to him, eagerly journeys to the Manor of Giggles with Wilma, Barney, and Betty on the prescribed thunder-stormy, Halloween-like evening to listen to the lawyer's reading of Giggles' final wishes. Fred will inherit Giggles' entire estate, but a codicil "to wit" of Giggles' will stipulates that Fred must stay at Giggles' mansion for one night, lest the bequest be null and void. In the event that Fred dies or does not fulfill the requirement of the codicil, Giggles' wealth will be divided equally among his three morbid servants: Creepers, the butler, who carries a long and sharp knife; Potrock, the cook, diminutive but wielding a huge cleaver; and gardener Wormstone, whose clippers can snip through stone. This is the stage set for a paranoiac night of terror for Fred, who believes that the three servants want him dead. Nonetheless, he is determined to qualify for Giggles' legacy and obliges Barney to join him in the none-too-pleasant task of nightly habitation in the creepy mansion. As though the servants are not daunting enough, an ear-piercing laugh reverberates through the mansion chambers and causes Fred and Barney's hair to stand on end, the eyes move on Giggles' portrait above the dinner table, and a phantom figure animates a knight costume and slings an arrow from a statue directly into Fred's butt. Alphabet soup served to Fred and Barney by Potrock spells "beware," and the frightened pair forgo their meal, thinking that the soup is poisoned. Neither Fred nor Barney can sleep on a large bed, and when Barney says he desires twin beds, Potrock appears behind them from an opening in the wall and uses his cleaver to slice the bed in two. Fred and Barney flee the bedroom down the handrail of a stairwell and are attacked at the base of the stairs by the clippers operated by Wormstone. And so it goes. Fred and Barney survive the night by hiding respectively in a stuffed animal wall ornament and large cuckoo clock, but when Fred rejoices at now being a worthy heir to Giggles' property, Giggles steps out of the portrait, very much alive, the source of the laughing through the night. He says that with the help of Creepers, Potrock, and Wormstone, he was testing Fred by the nocturnal frenzy of fright to determine if Fred has a sense of humor- a bona fide condition of his inheritance. Fred loses composure and, in a demented, chuckling rage, chases him with a cleaver and his servants out of the mansion. Wilma, Betty, and Barney were behind him to go after them, and then Wilma said, "Well, back to the poorhouse," and then they laughed in the end.