Posted on 06/08/2011 4:10:45 PM PDT by Borges
First show to make spousal abuse funny.
That was a hell of a career. I loved Get Smart as a kid.
Bang-Zoom!!!
There are unconfirmed reports he suffered from Arterial Monachromia, a rare disease that mainly affects boxers.
“To the moon, Alice, to the moon!”
>> Not funny here. My dad occasionally knocked my mom around; he was glued to the TV when the Honeymooners came on.
May the creator of this vile series spend eternity in the burning dumps of Gehenna.
If I’m not mistaken, I believe that the cartoon ‘The Flintstones’ was based on the Honeymooners.
Are you being sarcastic? Ralph never actually hit her. The show was based on Gleason’s childhood where lots of men behaved that way.
It was a rip off that Gleason considered suing about. It’s only fitting since The Honeymooners bore a number of simmilarities to a 1940s radio show called ‘The Bickersons’ with Don Ameche and Frances Langford being the couple.
Not familiar with the radio show, but in the case of 'The Flintstones', it does seem like an outright rip job.
No, I’m not being sarcastic. The underlying precursor to violence was enough.
Except that Alice was never scared of Ralph. She knows she could have taken him in a fight.
You’re right. When Ralph would rant and rave and shake his fist and shout “to the moon,” Alice didn’t bat an eyelash. She KNEW he wouldn’t hit her. Lucy Ricardo, on the other hand, would cower in fear and repeat “yes, sir, yes, sir,” when Ricky got real mad. If any 1950s TV housewife ever got hit, I think it was Lucy.
Mom was never scared of dad, either. She had the scars and stitches to prove it.
I think Ricky spanked her once but I doubt he was ever abusive outside of the hilarious cuban sterotype.
I’m reading Ben Shapiro’s Primetime Propaganda. This guy was a big disgusting lib.
Where in his work did that come out? The Honeymooners? Get Smart?
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