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WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

The Honeymooners

19 votes

I Love Lucy

10 votes

Frayed Knot Feb 07 2011 08:43 AM

Two 'fifties-era giants go head-to-head Both dominated their bracket in round 1, then took big hits in round 2 Only one early TV icon can move on ... which should it be? Voting closes late morning on Wednesday

Benjamin Grimm Feb 07 2011 08:46 AM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

The Honeymooners, which will get my vote every time, unless it comes up against All in the Family.

themetfairy Feb 07 2011 09:06 AM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

I went with Lucy. I used to watch the show when I was little. I never liked The Honeymooners. Gleason constantly threatening to send Alice to the moon frightened me when I was a kid, and I never really got past that.

Frayed Knot Feb 07 2011 09:21 AM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

Jackie G vote here - and it's not even close.

soupcan Feb 07 2011 09:27 AM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

I never 'got' the Honeymooners as much as every other male within 10 years of my age did. Lucy always made me laugh.

Ashie62 Feb 07 2011 09:56 AM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

Norton!

sharpie Feb 07 2011 09:57 AM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

Tough one. Two fine, classic shows. Better than many from other rounds. Went with Honeymooners but I'd gladly watch either one.

dgwphotography Feb 07 2011 12:14 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

Lucy annoyed me endlessly, and I fondly remember watching The Honeymooners with my grandfather in Brooklyn - this one's an easy one.

Edgy DC Feb 07 2011 12:41 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

themetfairy wrote: I went with Lucy. I used to watch the show when I was little. I never liked The Honeymooners. Gleason constantly threatening to send Alice to the moon frightened me when I was a kid, and I never really got past that. Ralph merely threatened domestic violence. Ricky got right down to business. [youtube]6Qup9lOPQfg[/youtube]

TheOldMole Feb 07 2011 02:01 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

I'm still predicting The Honeymooners to go all the way. It is so far out in a class by itself.

batmagadanleadoff Feb 07 2011 02:07 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

I voted Honeymooners, which is in my personal inner circle of favorite sitcoms. All in the Family's in there, too. Probably Arrested Development, too.

G-Fafif Feb 07 2011 05:26 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

39 episodes of gold, those Honeymooners. I went with Lucy, though. Caught an ep or two on Hallmark recently and even as wacky as it could get, it really held up from close to 60 years ago. Just defined the sitcom genre for so long. Tough call. Every New Year's Eve/Day marathon of The Honeymooners is a reminder of how world-class Jackie Gleason and Art Carney were.

Kong76 Feb 07 2011 06:12 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

Took Honeymooners, hard vote.

Benjamin Grimm Feb 07 2011 06:33 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

G-Fafif wrote: Every New Year's Eve/Day marathon of The Honeymooners is a reminder of how world-class Jackie Gleason and Art Carney were. Audrey Meadows was also very good. Joyce Randolph was lucky to be among that crowd.

Willets Point Feb 07 2011 06:45 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

Another difficult choice. I watched Lucy religiously when I was very young. Honeymooners was more of a stay-up-late treat on WPIX during my pre-teen years. I'll go with Honeymooners because Gleason & co. are more consistently funny. Another day I might vote the other way.

Fman99 Feb 07 2011 06:55 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

Easy choice, I went with The Honeymooners. If Fred Mertz had been the focal point of the Lucy Show then we'd have a whole new ballgame.

MFS62 Feb 07 2011 09:42 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

I guess that decade wasn't too good for feminists (If there was such a term back then.) This vote is betweeen a show in which the husband threatens to puch his wife ("To the moon, Alice") and a show in which the wife gets herself into dumb scrapes, then depends on her husband to get her out of them. Looking back on those shows, they were both horriffic. Later

batmagadanleadoff Feb 07 2011 09:51 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

Easy choice, I went with The Honeymooners. If Fred Mertz had been the focal point of the Lucy Show then we'd have a whole new ballgame. Wait a second. Didn't you write that The Honeymooners was before your time? MASH Taxi Family Ties News Radio The other shows were before my time, even in syndication. viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15483&hilit=old&start=0

Fman99 Feb 08 2011 04:17 AM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

batmagadanleadoff wrote: Fman99 wrote: Easy choice, I went with The Honeymooners. If Fred Mertz had been the focal point of the Lucy Show then we'd have a whole new ballgame. Wait a second. Didn't you write that The Honeymooners was before your time? Fman99 wrote: MASH Taxi Family Ties News Radio The other shows were before my time, even in syndication. I did. They were. Nicely researched.

RealityChuck Feb 08 2011 08:34 AM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

I never saw the appeal of Lucy. She grew very tiresome very quickly.

cooby Feb 08 2011 04:27 PM Re: WS of Sit-Coms -- #6 Honeymooners vs #11 L Love Lucy

maybe so, but Ricky was honking gorgeous.