What is it about some shows that sustain them thru the ages? I can just about literally recite every episode but I still laugh out loud. That's some wonderful shit.
I've wondered if this particular phenomonon is a New York thing? Is it easier to relate to (like Seinfeld, I gather) if you live in the city?
― roger adultery (roger adultery), Thursday, 12 February 2004 08:05 (twenty-two years ago)
i liked it because it was warm and funny as opposed to cold and funny like so much british humour. we do have warm and funny (morecambe and wise!) but our classic sit coms tend to be cold/nasty/sarchastic/edgy etc.
the influence for the flintstones wasnt it?
wasn't gleason a singer aswell?
― piscesboy, Thursday, 12 February 2004 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― the surface noise (electricsound), Thursday, 12 February 2004 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)
I did, though the Honeymooners keeping me up is to blame for my twisted frame of mind. Showing again? Tis the "Wonderful Life" of nighttime TV programming.
― Nichole Graham (Nichole Graham), Thursday, 12 February 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)
soo good -- amazing that this stuff is STILL hilarious, 50 years later. jackie gleason was a comic genius.
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 07:14 (eighteen years ago)
seriously, some dude uploaded just about every honeymooners episode onto youtube and i've been hooked. even the ones that have played like a zillion times on TV, it's still all good.
p.s.: and i bet that ralph and alice's "apartment" is going for at least $300K nowadays :lol:
― Eisbaer, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)
The Honeymooners always scared me when I was little because I didn't like all the yelling. Also, it's 11:30pm start time conflicted with Twilight Zone and Groucho's You Bet Your Life (both of which were required viewing for little CKB.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 10 July 2007 08:21 (eighteen years ago)
omg i am so youtubing that shit. this might be the greatest sitcom ever.
― J.D., Wednesday, 11 July 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)
apparently, EVERYTHING honeymooners related is up on youtube. including the skits that were part of jackie gleason's show, pre- and post-honeymooners as an actual TV series (and that TV series was on for only 1 year, amazingly enough).
as i said before, it's really amazing just how funny this stuff is even 50+ years after the fact -- i guess that comes down to a mixture of strong ensemble acting and good scriptwriting, plus gleason's gifts as a physical comedian/actor. i bust a gut laughing over just some of his facial expressions (like when he was screaming "BLABBERMOUTH!!!" at his mother-in-law).
― Eisbaer, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)
as an adult, I found that Gleason pushed too hard, and that Carney is the comic genius of the show. (As a wee kid I watched him doing the new skits on his variety show, and I never wondered why Ralph Kramden had a deep Miami tan.)
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)
the barney rubble-esque neighbour
DOOOOOHHHH! Flintstones = total H'mooners rip.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)
Except for Betty being hotter than Wilma.
― nabisco, Wednesday, 11 July 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)
I bet you liked Betty over Veronica, too!
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 July 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)
Gleason's people really are video police; you can't find any footage of Sheila MacRae as Alice on YT.
― images of war violence and historical smoking (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 03:51 (twelve years ago)