We LOVE Trixie/Joyce Randolph (as much as Jackie, Art and Audrey)!
We cannot understand people's unflattering-to-cruel, unjustified remarks regarding Ed's wife, Trixie (real name "Thelma"), played perfectly by the amazingly talented and beautiful Joyce Randolph. What IMDb members have to realize is that Joyce Randolph was NOT the director/writer: If you don't like her acting/line delivery, blame it on the director. If you don't like her lines as Trixie, blame it on the writers. She said her lines and presented her character to the TV audience EXACTLY as she was directed. We have seen every episode of The Classic 39 -and- all the Lost Episodes many times and many of our very favorite scenes involve Trixie. People do not realize (or remember) how funny she was and how hilarious some of her lines were (we quote her lines a lot in every day life). When Trixie isn't in an episode, we miss her greatly! We think she is just as important to the sit-com as Alice/Audrey Meadows was. Sewer worker Ed Norton was so lucky to have such a gorgeous, glamorous wife! Jackie Gleason was a genius comic actor, "The Great One", an underrated dramatic actor, The Boss (as the actors/staff called him), and he always claimed his success was due to the fact that he surrounded himself with "the best" actors and writers. "The Honeymooners" will always be one of the very, very top funniest sit-coms of all time, thanks to the writers, director, and Fab Four cast: Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph.
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