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I've often thought of this too, and I get the feeling that a crossover eventually [i]would[/i] have taken place if The Honeymooners had stuck around a little longer.
We'll never know, but I wonder how the two shows would have meshed. I feel like tonally, they had a very distinct difference; I Love Lucy was a very upbeat show while The Honeymooners could get rather drearily and downright depressing at times.
Also, comparing Lucy to Ralph is interesting. Maybe I'm over thinking this, but I feel like Lucy's schemes were usually better thought out and made a little more sense than some of the stuff that Ralph came up with.
Well he wouldn't have been; Ralph drove the Madison Ave. bus after all.
Well I thought Lucy's interaction with the kids in Lucy Gets Homesick in Italy was her at her most likable.
Well she was almost unfathomably selfish in the screen test episode.
Oh yeah, Ricky Sells the Car is definitely in my top 10. But I think that one had a slightly different dynamic which I found more appealing. In that case, Ethel actually sided [i]with[/i] the Ricardos after the whole business with the motorcycle. I must say though, that scene where Fred and Ethel are profoundly offended by Ricky forgetting to buy them tickets was hilarious.
Macy's Arbogast could have pulled through if he'd had a bit more time.
I've always kinda wondered whether or not Arbogast realized exactly [i]who[/i] and why he was getting killed. I feel like he would have had a better look at his assailant than Marion did, but just imagine what was going through his mind. I mean, if he recognized the killer as the young man he had just been speaking to, no doubt he would have thought that it was strange that he was dressed as an old lady, and also he likely would have concluded in that brief period of time that this had something to do with the $40,000, even though it did not.
[quote]When William H. Macy reenacted Arbogast's death for Van Sant, he did a lot more "vocal acting." Standing at the top of the stairs and receiving more face slashes than Balsam did, Macy first reacts to those slashes("Uh...uh") and then, upon falling down the stairs, lets out a horrific but kinda-funny "yodel" to accompany the fall ("Ayeeeeeeeeeeeh!") When Arbogast falls to the foyer floor, and he is below the frame and mother's knife comes down, Van Sant is allowed in 1998 to show many more plunges of the knife and Macy's recorded vocals are no longer a guttural scream of terror, but rather the quite realistic grunts of a man receiving multiple stabs -- it sounds to me as if Macy is getting punched multiple times in the stomach("Uh...uh...uh")...but of course, he is getting stabbed. And it makes you FEEL that stabbing -- physically -- in a way that Balsam's 1960 scream did not.[/quote]
I just watched this version again and I thought it was surprisingly good, however I did not like those random images Van Sant just stuck in there for God knows what reason. Also, perhaps I'm reading too much into this, but I couldn't help but feel that Macy's tumble down the stairs seemed less…"severe" for lack of a better word than Balsam's. In fact, it almost appears that Macy's gonna just get up and be fine before Bates comes at him with the knife. It's like, Balsam would have been screwed either way, but I almost feel like
[quote]Whoops! The episode is called "Housewarming."[/quote]
Oh yeah, that's the one where Ethel and Betty hit it off and Lucy feels left out. Yeah that was a good one.
[quote]Also, I came across a bit nasty, which I apologize for. There's no law that says everyone has to like every character.[/quote]
That's all right. I've known you for a while on here, I know you're a decent guy. :)
[quote]Your last two posts involve you being "rubbed the wrong way." [/quote]
Yeah I guess so. I probably should have used a different turn-of-phrase.
The Monte Carlo one always bothered me a bit. Ethel being absolutely aghast at Lucy's behavior always rubbed me the wrong way, why was [i]that[/i] the last straw for her? Lucy had done way worse stuff throughout the course of the series than merely using Ethel's name in some dumb excuse.