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To: Pollard
The same concept has been made nonstop and continues to this day.

The premise? Blue collar white guy = fool; their wives = wise.

It's also been expanded to white = fool; black = wise.

All in the Family and Sanford and Son had those plus; old = fool; young = wise.

The Jeffersons. White collar black guy = successful fool; wife = wise

And on and on with various twists with white guy, especially blue collar, being the bottom of the wisdom/intelligence rung and/or evil.

In your face today but considered comedy in B&W TV days when it started.

All true. The big difference is The Honeymooners are actually funny.

30 posted on 01/14/2024 10:18:56 AM PST by CrosscutSaw
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To: CrosscutSaw; Pollard

One of Jackie Gleason’s last TV appearances was on the Today Show where he explained how Amos n Andy gave him the inspiration for the Honeymooners. Similar plot, but with a couple of White working stiffs from, as Norton called it “the Garden spot of the woild, Brooklyn, USA”😀😀


33 posted on 01/14/2024 10:59:46 AM PST by Impala64ssa (EVERY TIME A HEMI STARTS, AN EV DIES!)
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