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Brad Garrett also starred in a biopic about Jackie Gleason. IMDB link The King of Queens also pays homage to The Honeymooners. | |||
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"Explaining the humor" - thread drift I haven’t watched The Honeymooners, but I’ve seen I Love Lucy. I think they’re still showing reruns. When I walk into a friend’s home I sometimes announce [impersonating Ricky Ricardo] “Honey, I’m home.“ Some people get it. My cat ignores it.  | |||
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Iconic show. Hard to believe it was only one season. When we were kids, my brother and I watched the Odd Couple and the Honeymooners back to back every night. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ | |||
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Gleason was great but Art Carney stole just about every scene he was in. How many remember he won a Best Actor Oscar in 1975 for Harry & Tonto beating out Hoffman, Pacino, Nicholson and Finney! Truth: The New Hate Speech | |||
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 When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. - George Bernard Shaw | |||
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Hellooooo ball! | |||
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"You're a regular riot, Alice" Place your clothes and weapons where you can find them in the dark. “If in winning a race, you lose the respect of your fellow competitors, then you have won nothing” - Paul Elvstrom "The Great Dane" 1928 - 2016 | |||
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Yep. Whenever Ralph would get worked up, Alice wouldn't even flinch. Instead, she would just lay that icy glare on him.  Some of the best television ever made. _____________________________________________________________________ “Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." - Will Durant | |||
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| More persistent than capable |
My first thought when I saw this thread. Lick the lollipop of mediocrity once and you suck forever. | |||
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I loved the show and probably watched every episode as a kid. I was born in 1961 so not sure what cycle of re-runs it was by then. One of the funniest scenes that I can recall is when Ralph and Norton came up with one of their ‘million dollar ideas’, and this one happened to be the ‘Easy Apple Peeler & Corer’. When they were running either a live commercial or maybe filming one and Norton peeled and cored the apple lickity-split, but when Ralph tried he couldn't even do it, even after Norton showed him a couple of times. On other live tv events to peddle their gadgets Ralph would always freeze, stutter and completely forget his lines. So FUNNY!! __________ "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal labotomy." | |||
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LOL, you and I were probably watching some of the same episodes simultaneously, between Harlem Furniture, First Metropolitan Builders, Bert Weinman Ford, Lincoln Carpeting commercials ...and back when Son of Svengoolie was on for the first time around. If you like religion, laws or sausage, then you shouldn't watch them being made. | |||
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Absolutely loved that show. I think it still resonates today, as several have mentioned many can relate it to their lives or people they knew. Tony | |||
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Remember sitting with my Dad in the 50's watching it and I'm still watching today. | |||
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Oh my gosh. Burt Weinman Ford. What a blast from the past! _____________________________________________________________________ “Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again." - Will Durant | |||
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My dad used to watch reruns when we were kids. I get the humor. Mrs. Mike would not, she was born a decade later.. "Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.” Robert A. Heinlein “You may beat me, but you will never win.” sigmonkey-2020 “A single round of buckshot to the torso almost always results in an immediate change of behavior.” Chris Baker | |||
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incredible show. to the moon alice | |||
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Alea iacta est |
She was incredibly hot. I totally had a crush on her. I just didn’t realize she was 52 years older than I am. The “lol” thread | |||
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Any guesses yet on the first Trixie Norton who appeared only in the first episode? | |||
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Me, too. I love that cartoon; have copies that I have passed on to friends. Not everybody gets it. I loved the show; saw it as a child, but probably not first run; I was born in 1953. | |||
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