The Great Gazoo (The Flintstones)



The Great Gazoo is a character from the sixth and final season of The Flintstones. He is a friend of Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble who appears from time to time.

Why He's Loathsome

 * 1) His character and overall concept doesn't fit in with the show's prehistoric, stone age setting which relied on realism up to this point. He's basically a living "Jump the Shark" moment.
 * 2) Apparently he had been banished from his home planet because he invented a weapon of mass destruction. How he was able to get ahold of any of that stuff is beyond our reasoning.
 * 3) The script tries to make us feel sympathy for him for said banishment, but he's too irritating and annoying to like. He spent his time on Earth being a jerk to Fred, calling him a "dum-dum," getting him into sticky and dangerous situations, and then disappearing when things got tough.
 * 4) There's no reason why Fred, Barney and the kids should be the only ones who can see him, if anything, it makes things worse for the characters.
 * 5) Apart from that, his storyline off him trying to return to Earth never even gets resolved by the time the show got cancelled (spoiler alert), which only makes him even more pointless to the show.
 * 6) He's one of the main contributions to the show getting cancelled.

Redeeming Quality

 * 1) Thankfully, he only appeared in 11 episodes.