Ralph Kramden is a Vandy fan

[Vollifer1949]

 

[Carl Pickens]

The wardrobe employee found that sweater in a garbage bin

 

[508mikey]

Kramden

 

[Tin Man]

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The “V” is for “Varsity.”

 

[Orange.]

He barfed on Frank Sinatra's shoes in Underworld. iykyk

 

[Tin Man]

Gleason took a train to Miami. iykyk

 

[Volador]

 

[Ratvol]

“I’m gonna send you to the moon, Alice. Bang. Zoom….”
Great tv show back in the day.

Go VOLS

 

[VAVol85]

Nice that they have one this year.

 

[vols 30]

Obviously, the age group of posters in this thread are also getting senior coffee at McDonald's

 

[WBO]

Great show in its time.

You might be able to find on YouTube an interview with Gleason explaining why he drank when doing stand-up. It has to do with his first big break doing stand-up at Toots Shores restaurant. That was a legendary place in NYC where a lot of celebrities hung out, especially sports stars. Short version is; He bombs his first show, it's total crickets. Figures this will toast his career so he goes to the bar and gets blasted. Goes out blind drunk for his second show and as he comes off the stage Shore runs up to him and says, "don't know what you did between the shows but don't ever stop doing it." Gleason said he didn't even remember that second show but after that he drank before and during his stand-up routines. At least until later in life.

Remember him playing Minnesota Fats in The Hustler. Evidently Gleason was quite the pool shark.

 

[WBO]

Obvuiosly, the age group of posters in this thread are also getting senior coffee at McDonald's

Don't drink coffee. But yeah, I'm freaking old. And someday you will be as well, unless along the way you insult the wrong old man who practices concealed carry and has decided the only way he can get his cancer drugs is to go to prison.

 

[vols 30]

Don't drink coffee. But yeah, I'm freaking old. And someday you will be as well, unless along the way you insult the wrong old man who practices concealed carry and has decided the only way he can get his cancer drugs is to go to prison.

I'm old too. I can get senior coffee

I was just Imagining younger posters opening this thread

 

[VOLINVONORE]

The wardrobe employee found that sweater in a garbage bin

That is an appropriate place to find a Vandy shirt.

 

[orangebloodgmc]

Vandy fan? This might explain why Ralph Kramden was so angry

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Harvey Korman is a Vols fan.

 

[BigBadVol]

I got to meet Mr. Gleason in Miami when I was around 8 years old at his studio. I barely remember it. We didn’t get to watch the taping of the show and I cried all day lol.

 

[JohnWardForever]

Don't drink coffee. But yeah, I'm freaking old. And someday you will be as well, unless along the way you insult the wrong old man who practices concealed carry and has decided the only way he can get his cancer drugs is to go to prison.

Yeah that and once you get Old enough to not give a damn.

 

[wmcovol]

At some point, life in prison isn’t such a big deterrent

 

[BruisedOrange]

For us older VFLs who remember Jackie Gleason's other career as a composer and band conductor, his sumptuous taste and style are of a short but memorable era, savored by those who survived the war and returned to realize lives unimagined during the Great Depression...




This is music that would never invade your space from a passing, thumping, rattling car. Music that gently, without words, asked your wife, "Do you think your mom would enjoy having the kids tonight?" Music that reminded you how rich life could be, however humble your surroundings, if shared with someone you love 'til death do us part.

I wonder if this music would evoke any of those feelings from younger adults, or is it just our memories it solicits?

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

For us older VFLs who remember Jackie Gleason's other career as a composer and band conductor, his sumptuous taste and style are of a short but memorable era, savored by those who survived the war and returned to realize lives unimagined during the Great Depression...




This is music that would never invade your space from a passing, thumping, rattling car. Music that gently, without words, asked your wife, "Do you think your mom would enjoy having the kids tonight?" Music that reminded you how rich life could be, however humble your surroundings, if shared with someone you love 'til death do us part.

I wonder if this music would evoke any of those feelings from younger adults, or is it just our memories it solicits?

For me. It's memories. Like when I would lay down at night in bed and hear the theme from "Perry Mason" from the living room and knowing exactly where my Mom and Dad were.

 

[BruisedOrange]

For me. It's memories. Like when I would lay down at night in bed and hear the theme from "Perry Mason" from the living room and knowing exactly where my Mom and Dad were.

Yeah, that's a sweet memory. Same in my house. My parents would put the TV on Perry Mason
....and then sneak out to the Dairy Gold drive in.

 

[TennesseeTarheel]

Yeah, that's a sweet memory. Same in my house. My parents would put the TV on Perry Mason
....and then sneak out to the Dairy Gold drive in.

That's so cool. Gets me thinking!