I was re-watching an American Masters show on PBS about Sammy Davis Jr. - When Sammy is doing imitations of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney - they actually put the names of the people he was imitating as a subtitle ... Worse, was that when they showed Jerry Lewis' interview for his bona fides...
It was meant to be a satire/homage to Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners. And Ralph Kramden (Fred Flintstone nee Flagstone) and Ed Norton (Barney Rubble) were extremely sexist on the show. Just as in The Honeymooners, the wives usually bail the two guys out.