Marriage Counselor.

WAIT TILL YOUR FATHER GETS HOME, the only successful, animated sitcom in the 27 year gap between the FLINTSTONES and SIMPSONS, progresses to its 47th regular episode...

Fans of relatively short-lived programs often lament that their shows ended too soon. This penultimate episode of WTYFGH may demonstrate the opposite. In last week's installment, we saw the notion of chubby teen Alice's would-be exhibitionism (and subsequent chickening-out) recycled from Season 1, Ep 02. This week, the Boyles get pulled into the troubles of a newlywed couple, much as they did in S1, E24. A 'professional relationship expert' screws up the family dynamic, similar to S2, E01...

Not that the show has gone bad. There are some humorous 4th wall breaks, including a particularly subtle one (especially for animation). But, had the series continued much longer, it might've jumped the shark well before HAPPY DAYS (featuring Tom Bosley's more famous fatherly character) established the trope.

Note that Jamie's suggestion for babies to be made in a lab became reality just a few years later with the first known, successful "test tube baby" human birth.

From October, 1974.

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