The Honeymooners (1955): 15 Weird Facts You Didn’t Know

[TMC]

Remember when a sitcom only needed three chairs, an icebox, and one very loud bus driver? Jackie Gleason’s The Honeymooners only ran for 39 episodes, but it reshaped TV comedy forever.

From CBS panicking over the show’s working-class grit to the Hucklebuck dance that defies explanation, these 15 weird facts show how The Honeymooners went from throwaway sketch to sitcom blueprint.

The Honeymooners (1955): 15 Weird Facts You Didn’t Know

Chapters:

• 00:00 - Intro
• 01:12 - #15: The Adelphi Theater — Jackie Gleason
• 02:53 - #14: Winning the Role of Alice — Audrey Meadows
• 04:35 - #13: The Catchphrase Debate
• 06:06 - #12: The Syndication Surprise
• 07:52 - #11: Immortalized in New York
• 09:02 - #10: A Set That Told a Story
• 10:13 - #9: Too Real for the 50s
• 11:45 - #8: The 2005 Remake — Cedric the Entertainer
• 13:27 - #7: Characters Pulled From Real Life — Art Carney
• 15:10 - #6: A New Way to Film TV
• 16:39 - #5: How It All Started
• 18:02 - #4: No Warm-Up Required
• 18:54 - #3: The Hucklebuck
• 20:19 - #2: A Blueprint for Modern Sitcoms
• 22:40 - #1: No Rehearsals, No Problem

[stevea]

This is a series of videos that seems to be destined for every sitcom. A lot of this fans probably know--but here it is, just recently issued:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpGHFosRShI