6/14/16

Kramdens and Bunkers


Premise:
  Sometimes there is more or less historical data.  Unlike most, I live in a real world.  In the real world there is real information.  As always, there's too much data to look at today.  Instead, the time era that I'm talking about today are things that I witnessed so the following chapter is just based on my opinions.
  I have heard some old people say the same thing that I think about now too.  We see the newest very popular movie and TV comedy series and I say, “Yeah, those are pretty good.”


This was a real TV
  But these are just remakes of some great older ones.  The say the same thing about people who suddenly discovered these newest modern “progressions”.
  If you're older than 25 then you know what I'm referring to.  You've still seen those “remakes” too.
  When I thought of doing this blog I looked at a list of the top rated sitcoms for the last fifty years and it is amazing at just how many of those shows I have seen but only two or three times.  There are a few that a lot of people do remember too.  What made them better than the rest?
  Of course I'm “thirty” but my father's job as a kid was to clean the kerosene lamps because everyone still didn't have their electricity installed.  Gee, what else do you suppose that they might not have had either?

The Honeymooners:

Good actresses are used to playing a character.
She used this face expression a lot.

He said,"To the Moon". She had that
same same Hidden-LOL expression


New York Honeymooners
  The television (CRT) was invented a long time ago[1][2] and,as I recall, most average Americans didn't own one until the 60's.  A little while later color was added which my family couldn't afford.  There was only one TV in Most American homes and children did not get a choice of what to watch (ABC,CBS or NBC) because there wasn't anything on for kids except Saturday mornings.  While my parents watched Perry Mason I learned what really went on in America in other
people's opinions.
  When I was six, everyone thought of me as a child.  On the other hand I watched these dumb shows and I thought, "Here's the future's television that will be 'comedy sitcoms.'" I was right.  Do you agree by naming at least three hundred similar that followed?[3]
  I learned other American styles through just a few memorable junky comedy sitcoms.
  We don't necessarily live with that inconvenience continuously but we can empathize with their employees' methods for producing entertainment.   The so-called comedy-variety were some of the most popular episode shows.  I think these series began about 1950.[4] Then Jackie Gleason added his own shows in 1952.[5]
  Art Carney has always been a sidekick of Gleason's show comparable with Johnny Carson's Ed_McMahon.  In those days Friendly-Joe the Bartender was always Jackie's major-problem-handler from his bar in Miami.  Jackie was always in the bar either before or after the episode that was later added to his show.
  The Honeymooners[6] was one of the first U.S.  television shows to portray working-class married couples which was primarily intended to encompass most of the America's

The Kramdens All Together
population.
  In an indigently-built-quality Brooklyn apartment set in the Kramden's kitchen.  Beside the obvious, most lower-middle-class kindreds in that era didn't have refrigerators[7+] or televisions.  These episodes were actually performed on a live stage about full-time bickering about this couple's quarrel. 
  This Honeymoon show did not follow the dream life's incidental schedule.  It was a more-like a non-idyllic plot.
  I wonder, do I get to miss their lives and have a better one or simply laugh at myself? Life always has the same plan.  Exactly.  Anyone that defers from this plan is a definition of entertainment.

The Bunkers --- All in the Family

Lifestyle: This is his Smile
Carroll O'Connor[8]
Archie Bunker “Bigot”


Jean Stapleton
Edith Bunker


Rob Reiner
Michael 'Meathead'


Sally Struthers
Gloria Bunker Stivic

The set: Same as Gleason

Archie and Sherman Hemsley

  Dumbest      Dumber
Meathead     Bigot

Archie made the local media
  People referred to as bigots are natural.  They have always been there and there always will be.  I don't think there was a TV comedy about these theologies until Archie Bunker arrived along with his family or kindred as the above did too.  This show would never have existed without Carroll O'Connor.  Archie only needed his wife Edith, Jean Stapleton.
  Do you recognize the similarity in these two shows?
  As I mentioned, everyone are bigots.  They stereotype everyone else not in your club.  That's why Bunker was so successful.  Everyone thought he was naive and stupid and bigoted. He was also a tragic man and his character was the funniest classic actor I've ever seen.  Carroll O'Conner has the same reason for being successful, The character he was playing was YOU.[9]
  If you're innocent then you can throw the first rock.  Plenty in America.  Yes, they are innocent – and liars.[10]



These are the stairs to nowhere
with the crappy wallpaper

P.S.

Flintstones
  The Honeymooners Kramdens never had a bedroom but, according to these two admitted connections, they did reproduce.
Simpsons



References:
[1] Television - 1897 history
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television#Electronic_television
[2] TV came to America when
http://www.lib.niu.edu/1993/ihy930341.html
[3] best tv comedy series'
http://nowthatsnifty.blogspot.com/2011/03/100-greatest-american-sitcoms-of-all.html
http://www.100topseries.com/comedy/
[4] In 1950 the most popular form of television comedy was the comedy-variety show
http://public.wsu.edu/~taflinge/comhist.html
[5] Jackie Gleason's Show
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jackie_Gleason_Show
[6] When The Honeymooners first came out
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Honeymooners
[7] refrigerator by 1923 Frigidaire; Our family had one natural gas flame powered cooling refrigerator
.(Yep, really)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refrigerator
[7½] Some really old people call this an ice box

[8] All in the family – full cast
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066626/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
[9] who won awards? Everyone. Stivic got a better job.
http://www.goldenglobes.com/tv-show/all-family
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066626/awards
[10] let him who is without sin cast the first stone
This is the one phrase from the bible that I appreciated. Maybe there are others. I don't know.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/let_him_who_is_without_sin_cast_the_first_stone
http://www.capalert.com/judgenot.htm

1 comment:

  1. I saw this on facebook from Geoffrey Nimmo.

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