The Gruesomes (The Flintstones) Manor which is next door to the Flintstones. Trying to be neighborly, Fred and Barney agree to babysit Gobby, whose strange pets (including Schneider the spider and Occy the octopus) make for a tortuously eventful evening. After spending the evening at The Gruesomes' haunted mansion, Fred angrily tells Wilma that they are moving away from Bedrock. He then changes his mind when he sees Pebbles watching the "At Home With the Gruesomes" TV show. The family reappears in the episode "The Hatrocks and the Gruesomes". The Hatrocks, who are hillbilly friends of Fred, come to visit but soon become an
The Flintstones [by whom? citation]. As late as the 1980s, highbrow critics derided the show's limited animation and derivative plots. Despite the mixed critical reviews at first, "The Flintstones" has generally been considered a television classic and was rerun continuously for five decades after its end. In 1961, "The Flintstones" became the first animated series to be nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, but lost out to "The Jack Benny Program". In January 2009, IGN named "The Flintstones" as the ninth-best in its "Top 100 Animated TV Shows". Following the show's cancellation in 1966, a film based upon