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Profound Debate…

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Are Fred & Barney from “The Flintstones” more like Lucy & Ethel from “I Love Lucy” or like Ralph and Ed from “The Honeymooners”?

Backstory to follow – I don’t want to influence your opinions.

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23 replies on “Profound Debate…”

ethel + lucy = fred + barney 4eva… yeah.
Fred and barney get into a lot of stupid situations just like lucy and ethel did. and barney is definitely on the ethel gullibility level. the only way they’re like ralph and ed from the honeymooners is that one is loud and bossy and the other isn’t. the antics prove the point.
i hope i proved mine. not the most eloquent and 1 in the morning.

Ralph and Ed, definitely. Mannerisms are key. (And I don’t remember Fred andBarney plotting weekly to get on Lucy’s show at the club.) 🙂

Ralph and Ed, deffinately.. and of course Fred = Ralph Cramdon

It was designed as a Honeymooners clone, and certainly started there. I don’t think it really ever escaped that, but it did lose brain cells when the alien pal (the ‘cousin Oliver’ of Bedrock) came on.

Ralph and Ed without a doubt.

Yep,Ralph & Ed….

Ralph and Ed without question.

Ralph & Ed, no question.

I have to go with Ralph & Ed as well. Right down to the threatening way Fred used to say, “Baaarney!”

I was going to say what Michael did – I was under the impression that the Flintstones was a cartoonized Honeymooners.

Definitely more like the Honeymooners. I always thought that cartoon was a take-off of the show.

Totally Ralph and Ed

absolutely Ralph and Ed.

honeymooners

to the moon Alice!
duh
wilma even looks like Ralph’s wife on the honeymooners. This is a no-brainer.

I say Honeymooners…I always thought that.

I say Ralph and Ed as well. Fred does stupid things, as Ralph did, and Wilma always forgives him (as Alice did).

Lucy and Ethel for sure!

So, what’s the debate? Vox Populi seems to have spoken, 89% accurately.

Dude! They’re SOOOO Ralph and Ed… I think the flintstones were based off the honeymooners or something like that … I’m so curious to know the “backstory”.

I would have to go with Lucy & Ethel with Fred being Lucy. I mean for real theres always a crazy plan and everyones happy at the end.

All such comedies are derivitives of the Honeymooners. This is more or less gospel among television historians.

Lucy is credited with breaking new ground, however most of the situations she was found in have their origins with Ralph and Ed.

Ask Leonard Maltin if you don’t believe.

Ralph and Ed, more clueless than coniving. Oh yeah, and they’re guys.

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