It seems that Fred and Barney have an eccentric neighbor who collects strange objects and fights with his wife constantly. When the fighting stops the two stone age sleuths deduce that eerily strange behaving Alvin Brickrock has chopped up his wife and hidden her remains in an old trunk.
This 1961 classic episode of The Flintstones barrows it's title from the late 50s television program Alfred Hitchcock Presents and parodies the plot of on of the Hitchcock's most famous films Rear Window (1954). Just like Jimmy Stewart's character L.B. Jefferies in the film Fred and Barney spend the majority of the episode trying to convince their wives Wilma and Betty that they aren't crazy and that Brickrock had indeed done away with his wife.
In the end, of course, it is revealed that Brickrock had really killed his wife but not in the way Fred and Barney thought he did.
Indeed having a trained Piranha-keet is a very effective murder weapon if you want to dispose of an disagreeing spouse. Very neat and tidy indeed. No messy body to hide somewhere.
Good evening.
Here is the full plot from The Flintstones Wiki:
Coming to the Flintstones' door and introducing himself as Alvin Brickrock, he asks to borrow a spade from Fred and declares that he has again, "been transferred to a new territory," and will thus be moving away from Bedrock. He declares that he has already dispatched his wife, Agatha, to his next community in advance of him. "She fights moving." She, "...goes all to pieces," and Alvin must, "...do all the packing," and laments that it will, "...take a week to clean up everything." The double entendres in Brickrock's statements- and his request for a spade- cause Fred to conclude that Brickrock is, in fact, Albert Bonehart, who is described in Fred's Weird Detective Magazine as being suspected of mortally disposing of three wives and, though not physically resembling Brickrock, having an English-accented fetish for saying, "Good evening." Fred convinces Barney of the veracity of his suspicion that Brickrock/Bonehart has killed Agatha and is intent on burying her remains with use of the spade, and together, Fred and Barney investigate Brickrock, spying upon the strange, little man's bizarre possessions, among them a mastodon skeleton.
Brickrock discovers Fred and Barney in his "study" and confesses- to being an archaeologist in Bedrock to excavate (with the spade) rare treasures of scientific interest. Already in Brickrock's collection are a mummy and a man-eating, flying fish- a piranha-keet. Fred and Barney still think that Brickrock is Bonehart, and when they see a trunk with the initials of A.B., Fred and Barney assume the trunk to be the container for Agatha Brickrock's corpse (a la Rope). Brickrock, although not privy to any of Fred and Barney's macabre beliefs about him, admits that the trunk is for Agatha's body! He opens the trunk to reveal Agatha's body-building materials (weights, barbells, etc.), then talks by telephone to his "pussycat", Agatha, and Fred and Barney's suspicions are finally quashed.
But in a monologue to the audience, Brickrock hints that his man-eating fish is quite capable of consuming a "pussycat". "Good evening."
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