Which classic 50s show is better? I'll take Lucy any day.

The Honeymooners

NOTHING tops Lucy!

I liked both but, Lucy by a hair since her show lasted longer than the Honeymooners.

I liked both but, Lucy by a hair since her show lasted longer than the Honeymooners.
Yea I agree. Both shows are classics though.

Lucy

their both my favorite I seen them over and over aging so many times my favorite I guess is I love Lucy I seen them almost 100 hundred times and over I also enjoy the honey mooners I watch them all the time I also seen them hundreds time over and over aging . I go with I love Lucy

No comparison

HoneyMooners was way ahead of it's time and I Love Lucy was not on the same level

I Love Lucy was a 50's version of the Brady Bunch and the HoneyMooners was a 50's version of All in the Family

I Love Lucy = classy and sophisticated.

No comparison

HoneyMooners was way ahead of it's time and I Love Lucy was not on the same level

I Love Lucy was a 50's version of the Brady Bunch and the HoneyMooners was a 50's version of All in the Family
I Love Lucy is much better than The Brady Bunch. The only comparison I see is how cartoonish these shows were at times.

The Honeymooners was more of an adult show, dealing with more serious topics. It does almost feel like a 70's sitcom. Lucy Ricardo was fantastic, but Ralph Kramden is one of my favorite characters ever. Lucy was always trying to break into show business. She performed endless physical comedy. Ralph was always coming up with ideas to better life for him and Alice. The Honeymooners was more realistic, and full of heart.

I grew up on reruns of both I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners. I've always loved The Honeymooners more. It's still one of my top ten shows of all time.

No contest. I Love Lucy.

The HoneymoonersDef agree :)

I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners.:) :cool:

I Love Lucy was geared more toward women

Honeymooners was geared more toward men

Between I love Lucy and The Honeymoners both are good sitcoms but which is more better then the other ???

Between I love Lucy and The Honeymoners both are good sitcoms but which is more better then the other ???
I like Lucy but I LOVE The Honeymooners. I can watch them over and over and never tre of them.

Both I Love Lucy and The Honeymooners are great. I enjoy watching both shows equally.:) :cool:

The Honeymoners couple are just like Carl and Harriet from Family Matters lol.

i seen mostly all the episodes of both the honey mooners and i love lucy i own both complete series of the hoony mooners and i love lucy. the hooney mooners is more realistic then i love lucy was more funny un realistic i think i enjoy i love lucy more because it was more funny but the hooney mooners was funny too. but they had serious moments s too my favorite episodes when raplh dreses up as man form space i like the episodes were rpalh does a tv commercial he gets nervous then he forget his words i like i love lucy were she does Vitameatavegamin. the one were they do tv commercial SHE Find out it wasn't rick's idea then she tresses up like a slob. then the one were Ricky and Lucy switch jobs. mine would be I love Lucy.

I like The Honeymooners but LOVE LOVE LOVE I Love Lucy. Also, as talented as Jackie Gleason was, Lucy was the more gifted physical comedienne - and she did it first!

Between I love Lucy and The Honeymoners both are good sitcoms but which is more better then the other ???

"More better?"

Outside of the fact that both shows have endured since the 50's they are not comparable. I Love Lucy is the mother of the modern sitcom, while the Honeymooners is a glorified skit. Gleason was fully capable of developing the Honeymooners into a full sitcom, but I don't believe he wanted that. The Honeymooners was a skit on Gleason's variety show in the early 50's he spun it off for one season (giving birth to the classic 39), and then merged it back into a variety show format. I think this is what makes it so funny. The plots are paper thin so you can get right into the comedy material. It's unfortunate to a certain extent that the body of Jackie s work in the 50's isn't fully appreciated.

I Love Lucy in my opinion is in the mix of any discussion of the greatest shows of all time. The show is almost a documentary of the hopes, desires and the experiences of the American public of the early 50's. Everything from having a baby, to driving across country, to moving to the suburbs is there.

The Honeymooners is similar to Family Matters i wonder why Ralph has the same personality as Carl and Alice has the same sassy personality as Harriet lol.

I can see that somewhat. However, that's a popular mold and the same could be said for other shows- "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air" comes to mind. And there's a similar dynamic with "Gimme A Break" to some degree. "The Flintstones" of course. And perhaps "Home Improvement" as well.
(Of course, this mold does get inverted at times too of course. Not every sitcom follows that structure- but there are a number of ones that have used it well.)

I love Lucy by a Mile.

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You didn't like Ralphie?:lol:

I love Lucy SMOKES The Honeymooners! :thumbsup:

I Love Lucy ran for 6 seasons and 180 episodes. I think The Honeymooners would be mostly an afterthought today, if not for that one season with the classic 39 half hour episodes. So to me, it's unfair to compare these two shows. However, since the question was presented, I'll go with The Honeymooners. I was never really that fond of I Love Lucy. Some episodes are OK, but I prefer The Lucy Show.

You didn't like Ralphie?:lol:


Yes , as a TV character I liked him! Jackie Gleason was cool! But poor Alice, as a husband, NO I didn't like old Ralphie! IDK how she put up with his cheap ,fat ,loud mouthed a**!!!! :confused: Lucy had the better husband that was for sure!


OMG!!!! What if Lucy was married to Ralph Cramden and Alice to Ricky Ricardo? :eek: Could you imagine?????? I couldn't see that at all!!!! :eek: :lol:

Yes , as a TV character I liked him! Jackie Gleason was cool! But poor Alice, as a husband, NO I didn't like old Ralphie! IDK how she put up with his cheap ,fat ,loud mouthed a**!!!! :confused: Lucy had the better husband that was for sure!


OMG!!!! What if Lucy was married to Ralph Cramden and Alice to Ricky Ricardo? :eek: Could you imagine?????? I couldn't see that at all!!!! :eek: :lol:


I always called the Honeymooners a 1970's sitcom in black and white:lol:

I Love Lucy...hands-down!

I Love Lucy HANDS DOWN. While The Honeymooners is an endearing vintage show I Love Lucy is a MASTERPIECE!

No comparison

HoneyMooners was way ahead of it's time and I Love Lucy was not on the same level

I Love Lucy was a 50's version of the Brady Bunch and the HoneyMooners was a 50's version of All in the Family


87,000 posts leads to this?

87,000 posts leads to this?

YUP, I will take REAL over GOOFY any day of the week

without a doubt, THE HONEYMOONERS

YUP, I will take REAL over GOOFY any day of the week


That's why you have 87,000 posts on a sitcom website?

That's why you have 87,000 posts on a sitcom website?


Shut the f*ck up and log out. BabaLOO

That's why you have 87,000 posts on a sitcom website?

And for your information MONGO, I have 87,000 because I been a member of the site since 2002, years before you middle school

I Love Lucy ran for 6 seasons and 180 episodes. I think The Honeymooners would be mostly an afterthought today, if not for that one season with the classic 39 half hour episodes.

Going with this logic, I'll give to Lucy based on quality over a longer period of time. But this is a good heavyweight fight.

In that case, Ralph wins.



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id go with the hooney mooners. their more serious sometimes their funny i think i watch the honny mooners more then i do i love Lucy both are great shows!! what gets me is why is Ralph fat? if their poor you think he be skinny!! then i like i love lucy it did lasted a long time then the hooney mooners i read before Jackie Gleason they were going to make more epsiodes of the hoony mooner but he died he did saw he said they were going to make more but he didn't see if he could come up with more stories for the hoony mooners. if your looking for good show i highly roecmmend court ship of eddies father now i like that show more then the hoony mooners. they did make color episodes of the hoony mooners i brought it one time it had different wifes but ed and Jackie Gleason was in them. they were mostly musical episodes but if you can find them i highly roecmmend the color hooney mooners did you know that the flistones was based off the hoony mooners TV show? i just learned that couple years ago.

id go with the hooney mooners. their more serious sometimes their funny i think i watch the honny mooners more then i do i love Lucy both are great shows!! what gets me is why is Ralph fat? if their poor you think he be skinny!! then i like i love lucy it did lasted a long time then the hooney mooners i read before Jackie Gleason they were going to make more epsiodes of the hoony mooner but he died he did saw he said they were going to make more but he didn't see if he could come up with more stories for the hoony mooners. if your looking for good show i highly roecmmend court ship of eddies father now i like that show more then the hoony mooners. they did make color episodes of the hoony mooners i brought it one time it had different wifes but ed and Jackie Gleason was in them. they were mostly musical episodes but if you can find them i highly roecmmend the color hooney mooners did you know that the flistones was based off the hoony mooners TV show? i just learned that couple years ago.
and when Jackie found out, he wanted to sue Hanna-Barbera but his lawyer talked him out of it.

I Love Lucy definitely! Funny humor, excellent chemistry (on screen at least), Lucy's hair- brained schemes. That made for some excellent comedy!

The Honeymooners, on the other hand, weren't funny to me. It had a more realistic portrayal of life and what it brings. That's why I didn't like it.

Sorry, but I like Tv that allows me to escape reality for 30 minutes or an 1 hour.

Lucy Ricardo was an annoying parasite and shameless attention-seeker, who, to my mind, tried way too hard for her laughs (including a lot of gimmicks, like the trip to California), and never got them (from me, anyway). Fred Mertz was occasionally amusing, but all played the "straight man" to Lucy's lame hi-jinx. Her enduring popularity escapes me.

Ralph Kramden, like Lucy, was always either scheming or completely misunderstanding what was really going on, but seeing him regularly fail was comedy gold, due to Gleason's amazing facial expressions and body language... plus, there were the equally-amusing antics of his pal, Ed Norton, so you got double the laughs.

Seeing Ralph clumsily hurt himself (and the pain dance that would follow), chew out Alice or Ed, trade barbs with his mother-in-law, have his eyes pop out in surprise, pantomime a stroke and faint, seethe with anger or wither in embarrassment, was funnier than anything in Lucille Ball's long, dull career (though I do like her in some serious movies she made before she entered television, like FIVE CAME BACK (1939) and LURED (1947), and I'm glad Desilu produced a lot of good shows in the 1950s and 1960s).

So--

Advantage: Honeymooners.

I Love Lucy definitely. Haven't really watched much Honeymooners but from what I've seen of it, it looks good too, although it didn't have that many episodes.

Both shows are great. But I give the edge to "The Honeymooners." I just love the comedy duo of Kramden and Norton.

Lucy!!!!

I Love Lucy was geared more toward women

Honeymooners was geared more toward men

I DON'T think this is true. Both genders like both shows.

I DON'T think this is true. Both genders like both shows.

Not saying that men didn't like Lucy or women didnt like ralph, just that when the shows was created they were geared toward a certain gender.

I believe the honeymooners have more male fans and Lucy has more women fans

I Love Lucy definitely. Haven't really watched much Honeymooners but from what I've seen of it, it looks good too, although it didn't have that many episodes.true, but don't forget THE HONEYMOONERS was a series of sketches for a long time before and after the series (and was revived 3 times-twice in the 60s and once in the 70s)

did you guys catch the honeymooners movie? it was with an black cast it had Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Kramden i didn't like it!! the guy who played norton Mike Epps didn't look like ART CARNY the original norton if they ever decided to remake or make another hooney mooners movie my pick would be john good man as Ralph Kramden & jIM CARRY AS ED Norton!!

did you guys catch the honeymooners movie? it was with an black cast it had Cedric the Entertainer as Ralph Kramden i didn't like it!! the guy who played norton Mike Epps didn't look like ART CARNY the original norton if they ever decided to remake or make another hooney mooners movie my pick would be john good man as Ralph Kramden & jIM CARRY AS ED Norton!!
I didn't see it but I heard it was HORRIBLE.

I Love Lucy was geared more toward women

Honeymooners was geared more toward men

I agree. You could also say The Honeymooners was from the male perspective while I Love Lucy was from the female.

The honeymooners is my favorite the show always makes me laugh and the acting is on point!

I like l love Lucy too but its not as funny as the honeymooners

The Honeymooners by a mile. I know Lucy is a classic and all, but I never could much get into it. While in general I like Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance I didn't care for Desi Arnaz or William Frawley. And I'm only an occassional fan of slapstick type comedy. If I had to pick I'd rather watch the Lucy Show than I Love Lucy.

Both shows are top tier but Lucy had more variety. I choose Lucy.

I TOTALLY choose Lucy!!!;):)

That's a tough choice! Lucy's first season wasn't very good (with a few exceptions), but all the Honeymooners episodes are LOL funny. So I'll pick that.

BTW I don't know how many saw the King of Queens takeoff on the Honeymooners, but it's great.

The Honeymooners easily. Almost every episode of I Love Lucy is not only the same, but it's just over the top highjinks and shortcuts (countless celebrity guests).

my pick would be honeymooners!! i liked almost every episodes of the honeymooners!! i only liked few faovirte episodes of i love lucy!! now i think i love lucy show is bit over rated but if you guys never seen it i higly recommend the lucy show!! i think the lucy show is more under rated then i love lucy! the first seaon is in black & white but the rest of the lucy show are in color!! ! i also reocmmend here's lucy but its not as good as the lucy show or i love lucy!! !!

The Honeymooners were funnier and dug deeper.

I'm one in a million the does NOT love Lucy

I'm one in a million the does NOT love Lucy

Me too

I love honeymooners more it's more charming

If I could only watch one of these shows ever again I'd have to choose I Love Lucy. I'd miss The Honeymooners but I'd survive.

Lucy seems Forced Humor - to me +-