Bringing It On: The Honeymooners

Leave It To Beaver Theme Song 1957-1963

See earlier post about this Classic TV sitcom

Keeping Up With the Joneses in the U.K.

"Keeping Up Appearances" was a 1990's British sitcom starring Patricia Routledge as Hyacinth Bucket (which she insisted on pronouncing "Bouquet"), a lunatic housewife from hell and social climber who commandeered her husband, family, neighbors and friends into unwilling participation in her ultimate quest for middle-class snobbery.

Set in Southwest London, this weekly half-hour comedy might have been a laugh a minute for English viewers but her frenetic search for a trivial and meaningless social pedestal made America's Lucy Ricardo of 1950's fame look like a Girl Scout in comparison.

At least "Keeping Up Appearances" held more entertainment value for many Americans than the British sitcom "Are You Being Served?". In that farcical sitcom, store clerks and management of a London clothing store served absolutely no one because they were too busy putting on preposterously stupid theatrical shows and skits. Now that's more like "I Love Lucy".

"All in the Family" in 25 Words or Less

American television producer Norman Lear's unbridled 1970's attack on WASP America, using situation comedy, stereotypes, social issues and hatred to make money for corporate America.

"The Andy Griffith Show" in 50 Words

A popular 1960's sitcom — and the best TV show ever made — about a competent but know-it-all southern sheriff who was stubborn and resistant to change, an incompetent know-it-all deputy, a town filled with stupid gossips, a cute but troublesome freckle-faced boy and the touchy, defensive aunt who helped raise him.

“I Love Lucy” in 25 Words or Less

Movie star and pin-up, Lucille Ball, played a 1950's TV housewife from hell trying to get into her husband’s nightclub act, over and over again.