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I was searching through old posts and noticed that no one ever responded to this. I know back in the 50's they probably didn't bother to make everything 100% perfect but I was kind of hoping somebody had a theory on how it could work.

I dunno, just trying to keep the board alive. :)

Bill. I think you answered your own question. The writers were not too concerned with making sure things flowed logically. It was more of what they thought was funny. Although I can't think of any specific shows at the moment, there have been many shows over time, that when you look at them as a whole over a period of years, you scratch your head and wonder why things happened the way they did. For instance, a particular scene might take a couple of days to shoot. A character might comb his/her hair differently on each day, but when in its in final form, viewers will notice this. It's all supposed to have happened at the same time, but it was not shot that way. I guess that's called a goof. I'm not sure if that's a good analogy or not.

...that those scripts for the LIVE Gleason variety show were hammered out within a week's time- from idea right up to show time. The writers were working under a deadline...they certainly couldn't remember "little details"
that were mentioned or demonstrated one week, and remember them a few weeks or months later. Okay, let's say...MAYBE 'Ralph Kramden' had a brother named 'Denny' who visits him and makes a nuisance of himself and the entire household before he gets Ralph hauled off to jail for something HE was responsible for....and a few weeks or months later, YOU NEVER HEAR OF 'DENNY KRAMDEN' AGAIN.* Well, that's how the writers worked under a deadline.


*this fictional plotline NEVER occured in ANY "Honeymooners" episode, so don't even try asking me why YOU never saw it...it's just an example!


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then that would also explain why, in the "lost" episodes (which were never really "lost"-Jackie knew they existed, but he was planning to anounce their "discovery" "when the time was right". Right, TV KNOWLEDGE FAN? I'm sure you also know this!) sometimes, the Kramdens door opens from the right, sometimes from the left and sometimes they have a sliding bolt lock on it, other times they don't.

I'm not sure if this is in any of the "classic 39" though.