The Honeymooners - Classic 39 Episodes
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Actor: Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, George Petrie, Jackie Gleason, Joyce RandolphBrand: Paramount
Cinematographer: Daniel Cavelli
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, Box set, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 1016 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-11-04
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
Movie Reviews of The Honeymooners - Classic 39 Episodes
Movie Review: Amazon Critic Marc Greilsamer is a Grouch!
Summary: 1 Stars
This review isn't about this The Honeymooners DVD set, it's about Amazon Critic Marc Greilsamer's bitterness about, well, everything in the world BUT The Honeymooners.
Read his review above and it'll be clear in no time that he's not interested in thinking too much about anything (doesn't care about symbolism or character or anything else those snooty know-it-all experts pontificate about on commentary tracks, though I doubt anyone's ever put a gun to his head and forced him to listen to one) and he's certainly not interested in any sit-coms produced after 1956, the year the last of these Honeymooner episodes last aired for the first time.
And what's his beef with Friends? It was hilarious and on the air for 10 years! And it could've gone on longer except that the cast knew when to quit.
Hey, I like The Honeymooners. The show was certainly much funnier than anything those stupid Three Stooges ever did. (What a waste of celluloid!) But I have to also admit that I've always been perplexed by guys like Marc Greilsamer who are simply gaga about a fat New York City bus driver.
Get a life, Greilsamer! And please try to take baby steps toward the 21st century by at least restricting your future television viewing to shows produced in the last quarter of the 20th century! (Sorry, no Star Trek TOS, you bitter old fart.)
Summary of The Honeymooners - Classic 39 Episodes
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 06/21/2005 Rating: NrGet the bag. As The Honeymooners continues to get bumped from late-night TV schedules across the nation--by laughably unfunny shows such as Friends and Murphy Brown no less--legions of Honeymoonies will need to get their fix in other ways. This set--the Honeymoonie's Holy Grail--contains all 39 episodes from the legendary 1955-1956 season. There's no commentary from some "expert" who compares Ralph to gods from Greek mythology or memories from some assistant producer--it's just the meat, and that's enough to make any fan salivate. This was the only season that The Honeymooners had a life of its own apart from the Jackie Gleason Show, and as much as we tried to welcome the "Lost Episodes" into our family, they very rarely matched the high quality of the classic 39. Rather than sequence them in order, the producers have decided to group them by eight different themes including Ralph's jealous nature, his life at the Gotham Bus Company, his friendship with Norton, domestic troubles, and financial woes. Sometimes this approach is a bit forced, but it does illustrate why The Honeymooners is the ultimate situation comedy: You can show them out of order. No matter what happens to the Bensonhurst foursome, Ralph will still work for the bus company, Norton in the sewer. They'll be struggling to get by, passing the time bowling, shooting pool, arguing with the wives, and dreaming of a better day. And it's in the mundanity of everyday life that The Honeymooners finds boundless humor. Even when the events were anything but mundane--bank robbers, counterfeiters, TV commercials, game shows, golf dates with The Boss--the real story and the best jokes were about the reality of their lives and the realization that, because of marriage and friendship, they didn't really have it so bad after all. The chemistry between Jackie Gleason and Art Carney still amazes after all these years. Audrey Meadows's Alice is the perfect foil for Ralph, stern but sympathetic. And Joyce Randolph's Trixie? Well, let's just call her "earnest." Still, for all of Norton's frenetic energy and Alice's wisdom, the show belongs to Ralph Kramden. Somehow, Gleason took a chauvinistic, paranoid, insensitive, scheming, bitter, loudmouth, underachieving bus driver and made him a hero to millions. --Marc Greilsamer
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