The Honeymooners

68Worth an evening.

Alice is the adult, the schemes fail, and his temper is still the joke.

The review

Alice is the reason the apartment works. A bus driver, his wife, and the neighbor upstairs live in a small place. Ralph's schemes to get rich fail. His temper is part of the joke. The friendship with Norton is real. I am not going to hand you the lines people recite.

The honest part is the job and the failed scheme. The part I will not clap for is the temper, which the show treats as funny because he is the husband. A house can watch it. Talk about who keeps the marriage adult, and about the friend who stays upstairs when the money idea collapses. They do not get rich. They still have the marriage and the neighbor, which is more than the scheme was worth.

Journal

Keep The Honeymooners in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 68. Yours can differ.

The glance

Courage is the thin one.

Does anyone risk something they would miss, or is it only noise?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

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Bluey

78 instead of 68

Bluey is still a comedy show, and it scores 78 instead of 68. What you gain is courage: The brave thing is usually a parent admitting he was short, or a child trying again.

The eight

8
Industry
He drives a bus, the schemes fail, and the paycheck is the real life.
9
Household
The marriage is the life, and Alice is the adult who keeps it.
6
Piety
Alice is the brake on the scheme, and his temper is still played as a joke.
4
Courage
The schemes risk money a bus paycheck has to cover, and the nerve is bluster.
7
Republic
Norton upstairs is a real friend, and the two households owe each other.
6
Temperance
Every plan to get rich fails, so the want is shown and then dropped.
7
Truth
The easy fortune never arrives, and Alice will not pretend that it will.
7
Stewardship
What they keep is the apartment, the bus job, and the friend upstairs.

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Series · NBC · 1959

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Bonanza

68Worth an evening.

Number one for years of this decade. The ranch is a household, and that is why it lasted.

The review

For several seasons of this decade it was the number one show in the country, and the reason is plainer than the horses. A widower and three sons live on a ranch, and the episode is a problem that arrives at the door: a stranger, a claim, a son who is wrong, a neighbor who is scared. The father is not a joke and not a tyrant. The sons are different from each other without the difference being the whole character.

It is a western, so a gun is sometimes the answer, and a house should say so. The gun is not the premise. The premise is that these men come back to the same table. I would put an early episode on before a later one that has started to repeat the ride. Ask which son did the hard thing that was not the shooting. The country's Sunday night for years. The number is the table, not the rating.