[estheticianI]

Pure clean comedy. This NYC sitcom captures what NYC was like in the 30's 40's with its lovable goofball tempestuous Ralph Kramden and his tolerant smart mouthed wife Alice. The hilarious improvised dialogs in the show provide one of the most everlasting relics of that era. A website devoted to NYC has to have some space devoted to this classic. Name your favorite shows or share your favorite scenes and videos of Ralph, Alice, Norton and Tixie.

[AlissBart]

I own the whole collection and pray that one days those lost episodes are found. A couple of my all time favorites...

"Your mother is a BLABBERMOUTH" episode

Ralph decides to start selling vaccum cleaners

Ralph wants to start learning how to play golf

Ralph and Norton go to the Racoon Convention.

[cut sifted ephedra sinica]

This NYC sitcom captures what NYC was like in the 30's 40's

Not to nit-pick or anything... but the show was set in the 1950's.

And like the other NY comedy from the same era, "I Love Lucy"... it was actually filmed in Los Angeles.

[markkisil]

At least it was the only sit-com that realistically showed the size of a NYC apartment!

[TubOppomo]

Not in the 1950s.

[sportsbettinge]

Correction: "The Honeymooners" was filmed in NYC. Lucy in LA. Sorry about that.

[BqTyG9eS]

Not in the 1950s.

Was that for me?

All I know is they had a kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. That was it. The kitchen was about as big as an old "1 car" garage (I put that in quotes because I have seen many that would never be able to fit a car of any kind....). The bedroom was never shown (heaven forbid) but I did not imagine that any bigger. The place looked like it was >500sf....


Then you get shows like Seinfeld and Friends that show comedians and unemployed 30 year olds affording places that you KNOW would run several G's a month (if you were LUCKY). And they were not the only ones.

The fire escape out their only window was another nice touch.

[agildeta]

At least it was the only sit-com that realistically showed the size of a NYC apartment!

There were a number of situation comedies from the 1950s set in NYC apartments and the apartments were all small.... Lucy, Danny Thomas, the Goldbergs (were the characters lived in a tenement and talked to one another across the building's air shaft).

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The great Gertrude Berg:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwtJh...eature=related

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[Roamsaffots]

Was that for me?

All I know is they had a kitchen, bathroom and bedroom. That was it.

Average apartments were bigger in the 50s than today. Ralph Kramden was average. Average apartments had three rooms. Kitchen and living room were separate. They were advertised as "three-room apartments." They morphed into "one-bedroom apartments" as kitchens became galley-kitchens.

The one thing that's consistently unrealistic in TV apartment sets is that, no matter what the financial status of the occupants, the living room is always big enough so that the sofa can be placed away from the walls. This is done too create varied camera angles, and easily place characters.

In The Honeymooners, this was done with the kitchen table.

[nTDsD0aU]

The Handy Housewife Helper

"Can it core A apple?"

"Oh, it can core A apple."

[cafeviahe]

Norton is accidentally handcuffed to Ralph and trying to share a bunkbed with him on the way to a Racoon convention via train. From the top bed, with his arm dangling out attached to Ralph's extended arm from the bottom bed, Norton asks:

Norton : Hey Ralph, you mind if I smoke?

Ralph (grumbling): I dont care if you burn.

[vipluka]

maybe, possibly the second best show of all time right behind lucy.

if i had to pick one, the golf episode is a favorite.



definately the most famous show to display a real life sized typical nyc apt!

[appabessy]

Helloooo, ball!