Was it ever funny?

[Lord Jim]

"The Honeymooners"? WTF is that?

I'm going to pretend you didn't say that...

[RayThom]

"The Honeymooners"? WTF is that?

I may be wrong but I think they call these people "Honeymooners."

[Bicycle Bill]

Well, I guess they do call a truck like that a 'honey wagon'.

-"BB"-

[Gob]

Another take...

The clear crowning achievement of the National Lampoon comedy madhouse, this slobs v snobs frat-off violated every available standard of decency in a boozy, anarchic stupor. Take your pick: the gay panic undertones roiling over at the spank-happy Omega house, the set piece in which the lovable louts of Delta house bring some ladies to an Otis Day show only to scamper away yelping that “the Negroes stole our dates”, John Belushi’s conspiratorial eyebrow waggle through the fourth wall as he peeps on a half-naked sorority girl. Not to mention one particularly queasy sequence in which meek Pinto (Thomas Hulce) debates with the angel and devil on his shoulders over whether he should rape a passed-out teenybopper. He ultimately decides against it, but it’s a pretty close call.

Forty years out from the initial release, it would seem that the chronicle of Faber College’s most hilariously chaotic year on the books just wasn’t made for these times, to crib a phrase. But there’s a lucid, fully-formed ideology behind all the liquor-soused antics, and it’s surprisingly well-suited to the bitter, fractious, jaded America of the present. Beneath every historical interlude of hedonism lies a foundation of nihilism, and the Deltas’ gleeful anti-everything ethic looks frightfully familiar in a modernity reaching a critical mass of disgusted cynicism. It’s easy to point at the film’s transgressions and conclude that Animal House has not “aged well,” but in the meanwhile, its attitude has curdled back into relevance. If anything hasn’t aged well, it’s morale in the United States



continues here....

[RayThom]

Tonight -- coming to a theater near me...

On the 40th anniversary of 'Animal House,' there will be a screening and toga party Colonial Theatre in Phoenixville to celebrate the comedy classic:
https://thecolonialtheatre.com/programs ... ouse-2018/



This is the theater where the movie "The Blob" was filmed, featuring a cast of thousands... including Steve McQueen.

[Scooter]

"The Honeymooners"? WTF is that?

[Crackpot]

it was the live action version of "the Flintstones"

[Scooter]

Hrrrummph!

[Lord Jim]

it was the live action version of "the Flintstones"

Actually, The Flintstones were an animated ripoff of The Honeymooners....

[Crackpot]

Wow can’t get anything past you.

[Guinevere]

it was the live action version of "the Flintstones"

Actually, The Flintstones were an animated ripoff of The Honeymooners....

Hated them both...

[dales]

YABBA-DABBA-DOO!

[Scooter]

I wasn't a great fan of either, but considering it was conceived of and written by men, The Honeymooners made a pretty strong feminist statement for its time (cf. the above episode). The female leads were plain spoken, independent thinking women who, despite fulfilling traditional roles, were more intelligent and resourceful than their husbands, and not about to let a man dictate to them.

Contrast that with I Love Lucy, another "home and family" show of the same era, to which a woman contributed significant creative input, where the recurring theme was that of a hapless female who continually tried to get one over on her husband using connivance and feminine wiles, who never succeeded in doing so and who time and again needed to be rescued by him from the messes she created for herself.

[Burning Petard]

I have always been fascinated by 'the Honeymooners'. Look at the scenery and furnishings in the apartment. The show was NOT about poverty.
Compare it with the home of Dr. Huxtable. IMNSHO, this change is a reflection of the change in attitude about what is 'enough' to live a good life in America.

By the way, at the time is was broadcast NOBODY thought the Ozzie and Harriet show reflected the ideal American family. Who wanted an unemployed husband hanging around the kitchen all day?

snailgate.

[rubato]

I wasn't a great fan of either, but considering it was conceived of and written by men, The Honeymooners made a pretty strong feminist statement for its time (cf. the above episode). The female leads were plain spoken, independent thinking women who, despite fulfilling traditional roles, were more intelligent and resourceful than their husbands, and not about to let a man dictate to them.

Contrast that with I Love Lucy, another "home and family" show of the same era, to which a woman contributed significant creative input, where the recurring theme was that of a hapless female who continually tried to get one over on her husband using connivance and feminine wiles, who never succeeded in doing so and who time and again needed to be rescued by him from the messes she created for herself.

Lucille Balls list of accomplishments and 'fists' as a woman in Hollywood is so long that is a mere detail.


yrs,
rubato

[Scooter]

I have nothing but respect for Lucille Ball's accomplishments, merely pointing out that The Honeymooners was far ahead of its time in the way it portrayed women.

[MajGenl.Meade]

Lucille Balls list of accomplishments and 'fists' as a woman ...

I had no idea. Must account for some of her expressions.

[Gob]

[MGMcAnick]

"The Honeymooners"? WTF is that?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCBa-bvJeqk

Ralph Kramden repeatedly threatened "knock Alice Kramden straight to the moon"

http://pictandpicture.org/alice-kramden ... n-cartoon/

It must have been an era when wife beating was considered funny.


About the only things I remember about Animal House are the yellow MGA (Not an original MGA color, but then neither is mine) and the cow that they led upstairs and shot.

My BIL swears that members of his father's fraternity pledge class did that to their pledge master before leaving town for several days. They were a group who joined a frat after serving in the south Pacific during WWII. They were not likely to take any BS (or cow S) from anyone.

[dales]

About the only things I remember about Animal House are the yellow MGA (Not an original MGA color, but then neither is mine) and the cow that they led upstairs and shot.

I don't recall a yellow MGA and it was a horse that met its untimely demise.

But what do I know?