Jackie Gleason's entire legacy should be tainted.

ESPN Radio in Chicago touched on this.

It is hard to understand what you are saying with such an outdated reference.

Different era dude ... you can't overlay today's political correctness onto past events, that's called revisionist history.

Viewers knew Ralph was never gonna hit Alice.

You try and defend Sterling by invoking Gleason, OP? You have no sense whatsoever.

OMG ttc, get real. It was a fictional show. While we are at it, why not throw in jail any teacher/principal who ever strapped/caned, etc. a student.

GET OVER YOURSELF.

This was 50 years ago.

Why don't you join ISIS or Al-Qaeda if you hate American icons so much?

Why doesn't the OP move to Nebraska (where they want to call kids "purple penguins" to help kids avoid gender issues...

Or to Boulder where they don't want Patriotism in the curriculum?

Look both the stories up OP. I won't do you research for you.

Whew! I thought someone just discovered he used EPO. It would be a shame to see him stripped of all his comedy records.

I kinda thought Ricky was rude and constantly intimidated Lucy too (although truthfully she was conniving sneak).And a bit further back, George was a bit condescending to Gracie now wasn't he?

ttc wrote:

The Honeymooners- produced by Jackie Gleason Productions- repeatedly joked of Ralph punching Alice to the moon. Likely, your parents laughed with this, as well as some of you.

**Point-being**- society today makes useless issue with verbal non-action. So no, I don't think Gleason should be tainted. Just like I don't think Sterling & most others who just say something should either. Honeymooners was comedy, while Sterling spoke sincerely, as someone's argument?? Honeymooners joked of punching a woman to the moon.

Conundrum wrote:

I kinda thought Ricky was rude and constantly intimidated Lucy too (although truthfully she was conniving sneak).

And a bit further back, George was a bit condescending to Gracie now wasn't he?

ttc wrote:

The Honeymooners- produced by Jackie Gleason Productions- repeatedly joked of Ralph punching Alice to the moon. Likely, your parents laughed with this, as well as some of you.

**Point-being**- society today makes useless issue with verbal non-action. So no, I don't think Gleason should be tainted. Just like I don't think Sterling & most others who just say something should either. Honeymooners was comedy, while Sterling spoke sincerely, as someone's argument?? Honeymooners joked of punching a woman to the moon.

Not to mention how Archie treated Edith.

Pepé Le Pew used to force himself upon females. Shameful.

Voter wrote:

GET OVER YOURSELF.

This was 50 years ago.

Why don't you join ISIS or Al-Qaeda if you hate American icons so much?

Or stay in America and work for the interests of Israel.

Flawed premise. No one thinks that Jackie Gleason was funny. People watched him because there was nothing else on television, not because they admired the brutish and unpleasant character.

What a strange example to use. TV is full of violence and threats of violence. You could probably find an example from the past week instead of trotting out a show that predates most of the people reading the thread.

Brutus would be arrested now for his physical aggression toward Olive Oil. He would have received more than a beat down from popeye but would have been behind bars.

(Popeye always represented the speech impaired segment of our population with dignity and class.)

Conundrum wrote:

Brutus would be arrested now for his physical aggression toward Olive Oil. He would have received more than a beat down from popeye but would have been behind bars.

(Popeye always represented the speech impaired segment of our population with dignity and class.)

What about the physically disabled segment? He was missing an eye, I think, which is why everyone taunted him with that nickname.

photofinish wrote:

Different era dude ... you can't overlay today's political correctness onto past events, that's called revisionist history.

You're exactly right. It's political correctness cr.ap. It actually hurt no one, just like an ill-advised comment or tweet, that many cry about today. Political incorrectness is mostly a waste of time. It usually hurts no one.

Was Never Going To wrote:

Viewers knew Ralph was never gonna hit Alice.

You try and defend Sterling by invoking Gleason, OP? You have no sense whatsoever.

People know Danny Green won't commit harm. But he was bashed for his recent tweet.

goodbye yellowbrick road wrote:

OMG ttc, get real. It was a fictional show. While we are at it, why not throw in jail any teacher/principal who ever strapped/caned, etc. a student.

The fictional show made fun of punching a woman. That was fine. But a harmless tweet today is top news.