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Its not to bad

A true American original. My favorite was Art Carney.

One of my favorite old shows. "One of these days, POW, right in the kisser!"

this show is ageless. though no too many in number the quality and storylines were perfect. I can see them over and over again and they still make me laugh. jackie gleason, baby you're the greatest!

hilarious and touching.
if not somewhat repetative.

For my money, next to Seinfeld, the funniest show ever in the history of television! Perfect casting, perfect timing..50+ years later it still makes you laugh out loud!

Jackie Gleason was a comidic genius. Art Carney was in a class all his own. Audrey Meadows was great as the object of Gleason's ranting and raving, and she was a babe as well. Joyce Randolph couldn't act her way out of an empty room. A great show!! Still funny!

There's bloopers from the Honeymooners at
www.oldiestelevision.com. What can you say? It's one of television's best, then and now.

These shows are still funny today!

Second only to "I Love Lucy".

Timeless comedy with a truly STELLAR cast.As funny as Gleason was,the rest of the cast was equally talented.Art Carney was amazing-not just as an actor,but also his physical stunts.That guy had athletic prowess coming out of his ears! Gleason had a veritable catalogue of expressions,each one funnier than the last.

Certainly one of the five or ten best shows in th history of television and owing none of it's success to elaborate scenery, editing or special effects. What is priceless here is the comedic timing, characterisation, and the ability to play off of one another exhibited by the show's three major stars. Audrey Meadows presentation of the long suffering Alice is made all the more anazing given the fact that she was only about twenty five years old at the beginning of the series. Art Carney as Ed Norton carries on in the tradition of Stan Laurel as the goofy comic twit, and the great Jackie Gleason is unparalleled as the over-bearing, ever scheming, and doomed to fail Ralph Kramden. Every show sees Ralph run the gamet of emotions as he swims against the tide in a futile effort to lift himself and Alice out of the drudgery of their daily lives, and every episode ends with him realizing that what is really important is the love that the two have for each other. Gleason is like the Orson Welles of comedy as he controls each episode with regard to casting, production, writing, direction, and playing the role of the star. We see his influence return again and again in the characters of Archie Bunker, Fred Sanford, Homer Simpson, and a host of others who have given us endless belly laughs by allowing us to look in on their somehow tragic, yet all too familiar lives. Peek behind the walls of many a home and you may see similar scenes being played out with similar results. When all is said and done the finest riches that we'll ever know are the abilities to understand, forgive, and love each other. Honey, you're the greatest.

Perhaps the greatest TV show ever. Much of a negative nature has been written about Gleason the man and I'm in no position to endorse or refute such allegations. What is undeniable is that he was a prolific comedic genius and was without peer in his heyday. I've seen these 30 or so episodes hundreds of times since I was a kid and I still laugh every time. What TV show currently being produced can make such claims? Is The Honeymooners dated and overly sentimental? In many ways...yes. But Gleason and his associates were able to overcome the conventions of 1950's-TV and create real flesh-and-blood characters that people today can still relate to. You always had the feeling that Ralph Kramden was going to die as he lived...a poor, chronically-embittered loser chasing after hopeless dreams. There was something always heart-wrenchingly sad about the whole series despite the slapstick humor and the sentimental veneer. The series also benefitted immeasurably by the inclusion of such stellar talents as Art Carney and Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph. God bless them all...

A single season basically and it became a cult classic. The set is minimalism to the ultimate degree. The characters are such great foils for each other. Ralph is everyman who is trapped in his job and surrounding but has a dream to move up. That was the way Americana felt in those days. Americans didn't moon around and gaze at their navels way back then. They dreamed. They thought that they too could succeed. Ralph didn't have the talent but he had the spirit!

To much yelling. I just wish that Ralph and Alice had both pulled out Smith and Wesson 357's and spontaneously killed each other. That would have stopped anymore episodes.

I have a like/dislike thing with this show. It can irritate the hell out of me, and it can amuse me as well.

One of thes days Alice, one of these days POW, to the moon Alice, to the moon. We knew he didn't mean it. One of the best shows to come out of the fifties. Classic old time comedy.

Incredibly irritating; I can't stand more than fifteen seconds of this atrocity. If life with a woman is this way, I'd rather be gay.

HaHaHaHa *sniffle* HaHaHaHa

Awesome show, Jackie Gleason was a genius. And I love Audrey Meadows and her wonderful sarcasm. I can't beleive they are making a movie of The Honeymooners - nothing can outdo the original.

One of the all time best TV shows ever!

Homina! Homina! Homina! This show is still funny 50 years after it first aired. Although much of the credit rightfully belongs to Jackie Gleason, it wouldn't have been the same without Art Carney and his comedic chemistry with Gleason. The show would have instead revolved around Ralph yelling at Alice all the time and who wants to watch that week after week? I miss Art Carney greatly and was very saddened by his death. At least he'll have died happily knowing that people like me still love Norton and still love the ways that he can make Ralph explode at a moment's notice. Now there's a real pal!

One of the shows that set the standard for future sitcoms and it is still as funny today as it was back then. The chemistry between Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph created pure magic and endless laughter. A true classic.

One of the most irritaing and annoying shows to come out of the 50's. All they did was scream and carry on like a bunch of alley cats. Hated it !

I grew up in a much different era, I guess, because I don't find anything remotely funny about this crap. Jokes about beating your wife just aren't funny to me, and threatening her if she doesn't have supper on when you get home. She has a bit of tongue on her as well. That idiot neighbour of theirs doesn't help matters much. I really hope that people didn't grow up thinking that this was how married couples should behave towards each other, because it's not.

Good cast makes this a great show.Jackie Gleason plays the always loud Ralph Kramden.He lives in a run down apartment building with his wife Alice.Their best buddies Ed Norton and his wife Trixie live upstairs.The apartment is depressing, which shows these are not well to do people,they are the working class stiffs just struggling to make ends meet. the chemistry between the cast is great.I know RAlph can be loud and angry always saying things like "one of these days Alice,pow, right to the moon" but then I see he really never means it. He is a devoted husband and friend and you can see his wife and friends know that.This must be one of the first shows that can say it got a cartoon that was copied after their characters { the Flintstones}.One of the better shows of the 50s

Simply,the best T.V. show ever made! It's timeless in that you can identify with the situations the characters find themselves dealing with and the emotions they exude.There is also the nostagia thing going on ,taking us back to a time when people had fewer distractions and escape possibilities like T.V.,computers, video games ,etc. Last but not least,I and many people I meet can quote The Honeymooners better than a Yale professor can quote Shakespeare or a clergyman can quote the BIBLE! The Honeymooners IS "THE KING OF THE CASTLE" when it comes to rating T.V. shows!

Great show. Jackie Gleason is great

One of the greatest comedies, if not the greatest comedy, of all time. This sitcom has become the blueprint of many other great shows over the years (i.e. Flinstones, All In The Family, even as recent as King Of Queens).

This particular show provides you with all the things that go on within a marriage without all the hollywood glamour. It's a great show and is funny for most ages. A true classic.

The honeymooners was a terrifically funny show. No one can play a more lovable character than Jackie Gleason, he has it all. Anger, bad attitude and yet the cuttest smile in the 50's age of television.

Pretty good show. Although I prefer I Love Lucy, this show was also a funny 50's franchise.

This show is probably the worst show i've ever seen. i don't see the big fuss about it. All i can say is "BORING, BORING, BORING!!!!!!"

I don't understand why people like this show. This show was obviously a very unhilarious show. I saw it and I thought that the main character, what's his name was very unfunny. I can't stand his rude comments and attitude. I watched it and couldn't find anything to laugh about. I Love Lucy was true comedy!!!! Everything, from head to toe was funny, unlike this IMITATION OF COMEDY.

THIS SHOW STINKS!!!!

This show worked because the characters were all well defined and their contrasting personalities created hilarious interaction. Jackie Gleson, Art Carney and Audrey Meadows were all above average performers. One interesting thing to me about the show is how Ralph was all bark but no bite. When he was getting uptight with Alice it would have made us very uncomfortable if we didn't know that he wouldn't hurt her for anything in the world. Alice knew it too and she fearlessly stood right up to him. Her silent reaction almost made her seem "tougher" than Ralph. And the barking dog would show his true heart at the end of an episode with, "Alice, you're the greatest." I love it.

The Honeymooners is a hilarious show. It doesn't use sophisticated, high-class humor, but it still is amazingly funny nonetheless.

Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph form the unforgettable comedy team of the Honeymooners! The show had lots of goofy character acting, amusing slapstick and off-the-wall arguments! But, of course, the families always made up in the end! Another great comedy from the fifties!

Not an original viewer of the 1950s, but it can still make you laugh now. I have a station in my town that plays a marathon of the reruns every New Year's Day. My father and I love to watch them every year, and we laugh every time. Art Carney is an excellent physical comedian, and he and Gleason had an amazing chemistry. And it was even more fun when Alice got in on some of the jokes. Man she would really let Ralph have it sometimes ('to the moon Ralph' LOL). Someone mentioned comparing this show to Seinfeld. In my opinion, this show and I Love Lucy are responsible for setting many comedic precidents later used in such shows as Dick van Dyke, Three's Company, Perfect Strangers, and to some extent Seinfeld.

Keep in mind this show was done live and generally the whole episode took place in that little apartment..i'd like to see them pull that off today...a classic

I know I'm in a minority, but I've always found The Honeymooners over-rated and Gleason a bore. (How sweet it ain't!) The only saving grace (in my opinion) is Carney, who is a genius.

I watched re-runs on Nick at Night w/ my kids. I really hate this show. Jackie Gleason is a swine of a husband.

I think this is maybe the only comedy on tv that was, in it's own way, not just entertaining but artistic. The set and the situations seemed sort of deep. I really enjoy it, and i just watched a full 48 hour marathon of it. I jsut love it. As for Callmetootie's comment, there aren't really too many similarities between the two, and I'm pretty sure the honeymooners came first. Quote: "How could anyone so round be so square?" Quote: "You fell in love with me for my uniform!"

The Honeymooners was a total rip-off of I LOve Lucy. The character of Ralph Kramden sounds extrem;y funny, but it is really goofy and silly, and very rarely amusing. Raplph was one annoying guy, and a lot different then you and me, and I guess that's what attracted him to the public, but to me he's one annoying guy who comes up with jokes that got outdated after the episode aired public.

I might have only given it a four but we just gotta get Perfect Strangers and Dukes of Hazzard outta those top spots! A great show.

I decided I was a bit hard on this old chestnut - must have been in a foul mood when I first rated it. I still believe there was a kind of depressing factor about the general atmosphere the sets projected; curtain-less windows, sparsely furnished with an overall gray dull feeling about the apartments. I'm sure that was all intentional, but I guess I just didn't care for it personally. However, the talent of the cast and the excellent writing far exceeded any bleakness there may have been in the set design. Among other things, Gleason was a genius of facial expressions and Carney was very adept at playing the loveable dim-bulb. Meadows and Randolph were also well suited to their respective roles as the wives of these two wacky guys.

NO FLASHY SETS. JUST ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES OF ENSEMBLE CHEMISTRY. LOOK FOR RALPH GETTING IN TO ALICE'S MOTHERS FACE AND CALLING HER A "BLABBERMOUTH". CLASSIC!!!

I remember watching this show, and liking it, when I was 9 years old! I would still watch it once in a while if It was on a channel I could get. "To the moon, Alice!" What I loved best about the Honeymooners at age 9 was Jackie Gleason, and the way he would hold up his coffee and say: "How sweet it is!" The interesting thing is my favorite cartoon show was always The Flintstones, and I remember hearing several times that the Flintstones was inspired by the Honeymooners. I don't know if its true but the personalities of the couples sure are similar if you think about it!

One of the few shows from the 50's to stand the test of time. The only flaw is the "lost' episodes that are not as funny as the original 39.

Fun all the way around!!! Alice is MY favorite!

One of TV's truly classic comedies. Like Dick Van Dyke, Mary Tyler Moore, All in the Family or Seinfeld, the Honeymooners depended on the wit, timing and relationships of an extremely tanlented ensemble cast. This ongoing tale of Ralph the big hearted dreamer with the quick temper and the dead end job, was good in it's day and even greater now that we still relate to it all these years later. Norton's a comic genius. Alice a brilliant foil. Even Trixie is top drawer. A great show.

Although a rather simple plot for most the shows run, Gleason & Carney created some of the most memorable scenes in TV histoy, which are still funny today. Ralph: "Address the ball" Norton: "Helooooo ball"

A great show. Every actor(ess) was very talented. I love it so much because it is one of the few good comedies that can still be seen which doesn't depend on sex and sexual tensions to carry its plot. This show has definatly passed the test of time and will still be considered a favorite in years to come.

a classic, especially when viewed through the eyes of a 1950's viewer.

don't you wish todays shows were a 1/100th as good as this and all in the family.even my kids love ralph.gleason was the funniest actor on the set then and now.nobody could deliver a line and a face expression together like he could.left you cracking up in the old recliner.art carney was the best actor to team with gleason.they both had the timing to let each other shine bright

This show should be higher on the list. A lot of times, Ralph's funniest lines weren't even the punch lines. His reactions and faces were classic. Definetly the best show until All In The Family.

one of the fifteen best shows ever made

Excellent series-just the original 39 episodes or the lost ones--not from the 60's variety series.

Funny, timeless, classic--a slice of Americana...a pleasure to watch from start to finish..you feel as if you are in that apartment! Magically, the show always seems fresh no matter how many times you watch them.

This show is very original but is not the best comedy there is