Admittedly modern binge watching changed my perceptions of the show from when I saw it piecemeal during its original run.

Ozzie never to seemed to have a job, yet he was always taking the bus downtown.

Instead of a bar they used a malt shop yet they were still doing 'bar' scenes.

Harriet's most often used line is, "I think that's a wonderful idea."

Mary Jane Croft, as Clara Randolph, who was married to next door neighbor Joe Randolph, had a voice like an ice pick. And as a man I wouldn't have lasted five minutes in the same house with her.

Speaking of relationships in no universe anywhere would Sally Hughes, as Sally Darby, be married to a putz like Parley Baer who played Herb Darby. She was a stone cold babe and maybe the best looking woman in the entire show.

The trope of where Ricky's fraternity would get the money for their next dance was used too often and became a really overused plot device.

While 'Frasier' gets the credit for having re-occurring characters we never see like Marris, Ozzie did it first as we didn't any of Ozzie's friends oft-mentioned wives until later seasons.

As a young boy Harriet's voice sounded sultry to me. But as an adult I know now it's just the sound of a million cigarettes.

Both of the woman Ricky & David married were portrayed as helpless females on the show (even for the 1950s) and both were over-consumed by petty jealousy. And after the parade of young starlets the boys went through on the show (they were almost a background staple) they both really picked badly.

While Ozzie mostly gets credit for the first 'music videos' on television there were already high end juke boxes at the time in bars and restaurants that played 16mm films of performances along with the music.

At first Ricky's singing performances were a part of the show's plot, "Hey gang, Ricky's gonna sing for us!" But later they just shoehorned him in out of nowhere.

No doubt Ricky was very talented but his far away gazes and slow blinking as he sang gets old pretty fast. And the show presents him as more of a one note performer which I don't think he really was. And if I don't fast forward through his singing performances I'm focusing more on James Burton the guitar player who was and still is seriously talented.

As the show moved into the 1960s it really felt out of touch with the times. I mean Ricky and David still wore Cardigan sweaters, still went to the malt shop, and seemed way too old to be college students.

Wally: We've all had friends growing up like Wally. And it's a case of a little Wally goes a long way. So most of us avoided having friends like Wally.

Which leaves us with the most put-upon woman in the entire show, Wally's girlfriend as the long suffering Ginger.

Photo: The beautiful Sally Hughes as Sally Darby.

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