Me and my girlfriend debate this all the time (Seinfeld vs. Honeymooners vs. Everyone loves Raymond). EVERY EPISODE of the Honeymooners was funny. To this day, it’s still relevant.
And some leftist loonies thing Ralph's "threat" to send Alice to the Moon was real, instead of only a way to scare her! He would never hit a woman, especially his adoring wife--even if sometimes she told the truth in a rebuttal to his wealth or other fantasies, in a zinger on how fat he was! Ralph: "I'm finally going to get my pot of gold!" Alice: "Just go for the gold, you've already got the pot!" That one and this from my favorite episode, "The $99,000 Answer" (18:04) Ralph: "$600? Peanuts! Peanuts! What am I going to do with peanuts?" Alice: "Eat 'em! Like any other elephant!"
One of the only funny shows that is on!you can’t compare the absolute garbage they play now as anything but as depressing as the present day is?the present doesn’t compare with anything from that most simple moral family minded day in the slightest way hell Trixy and Ed even slept in single separated beds was about family love for each other,why marriages stayed together for 50 60 years my grandparents together 61 years till they passed loved each other sent giant Christmas cards with sweetheart and all kinds of sappy everything I know I was there more than not ?and when I had to go home I was depressed for days because I had to..Sunday dinner every Sunday with everyone family and friends Christmas with a real tree my grandpa cut down and on and on especially tv the present not a chance in hell I have something that lives inside forever God I miss so much 🌹👏👏👏🙏😀
Seen these all twenty times , and I STILL laugh at them . Kramden and Norton's interactions can't be surpassed . This is the Gold Standard for situation comedies .
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After all these years, it never gets old, I still burst out laughing as i did as a kid watching the re-runs for the first time....God I miss my Grandfather’s hysterical laugh while watching it with him....🙏🏻
Yes she is gorgeous! At casting Jackie said it would never work she’s too pretty to be a bus driver’s wife. Nevertheless she did get the part and her acting was impeccable her timing just great I love Audrey Meadows
Every single line still holds up, and is still hilarious. I watched all of these episodes when they first were on TV, and have watched them many times. They never tire. The 1950's were TV's greatest decade, for both originality and variety. The 1960's were not too far behind. We only had 5 or 6 channels, but we had 10 times as many interesting, fascinating programs to watch as we have today.
Lived in NYC when we emigrated from Cuba 1956. NYC was and is the center of broadcasting in radio and television. For example ch.2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 21, 25. All these in 1956!
@@luislaplume8261 You got 21 and 25. If I got lucky we could watch a bad reception of...who was that Spanish lady who had a variety show and would sing in revealing top?
@@RogueBurn I remember who you are talking about! It was Iris Chacon! It was on channel 41 in NYC. a half century ago. She was hot and has personality. Ola bonita! Oye como va! Des Suavacito de Malo. I am Cuban by birth.
@@luislaplume8261 YES! That was her. My childhood friends around the 'hood were mostly from Cuba. They told me and you never saw so many kids going to bed early. Ha!
I must have watched each episode of "The Honeymooners" a thousand times, and each time I roll on the floor dying laughing, even though I can recite the lines verbatim. Now THAT is true comedy. Thanks for the hilarious compilation.
I remember being in grade 7 or 8 and the teacher put this show on one day. When this joke was told I busted out laughing. Unfortunately I was the only student but the teacher had a big smile on his face. The whole class looked at me like I was nuts but to me it was really funny no matter how old I was.
Great posting and comments...This was in a way like a 50s version of Sanford and Son with all the insults.They said sometimes it was hard working with Gleason because he wouldn't really rehearse and did ALOT of ad libbing..His nickname was perfect...The Great One...And to think.This was all done on live tv.Now THOSE are real actors.The Golden Age.
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@@Patienthost True. Alice was mostly stuck staring at those four walls. I remember one not in this video - they made it to the car for the fishing trip. Another at least outside was when they were kicked out of the apartment.
So full of gems! "He doesn't know any elephants that need a new wardrobe" omg.. classic!! "King of the castle, I got it right in the back of my head. UGHHHH!" Marx, Stern, Russell and all of Jackie's writers were gold back then.
My Dad was a golf addict and I never heard him laugh any harder than he did over "The Golfer" episode. Only time he came close was the Gleason movie, "The Toy" when Richard Pryor walked on water trying to get away from that pond full of Piranhas. Amazingly, Joyce Randolph is still humming along at 95 y/o now.
It's it's incredible it's one of those shows that you can watch over and over and over and over again and I never get tired of watching it the greatest show ever on TV comedy show thank God for The Honeymooners I think one of the funniest scenes is when Norton comes in and put the TV on and you hear the ladies scream and then gunfire and the Ralph comes running out of the bedroom and the Norton is sitting there eating his hero but he starts to crack up I don't know if that was like a blooper when Norton was cracking up and they just left it in oh my God that's so funny
Two comedic geniuses in Gleason and Carney. Also, the skills that Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph had to have as the "straight" persons of the two pairs were very impressive. Same with Bud Abbott playing the straight man for Lou Costello. Not easy to do.
In episode Number 3, titled: "The Golfer," at 3:07, I tend to like this part the most. Ralph wants to try and tell Alice some "good news." Alice: Oh, all right, Ralph. What is it? Ralph: Alice. Well, to begin, uh, with it doesn't look like I'm not going to make be needing this lunchbox much longer. Alice: Ralph! You are going on a diet! Ralph: (seeing the look on Ralph's face) No! I am NOT going on a diet! Alice: But why won't need this lunchbox? Are you get a bigger one?
Great video, I could watch this a hundred times. The cast were great actor's, I believe they were at their peak and could never be better. Just like Don Knotts on the Andy Griffith show, he was the best he could ever be on that show. May they all RIP.
One I'll always remember was this gem: Ralph to Alice: "You're the type who would bend way over to pick up a pocketbook on April Fools Day! I wouldn't." Alice: You COULDN'T!" ROTFL! I remember and can recite these lines before re-hearing them now since I first laughed at them in 1964! From "The Deciding Vote" (Dec. 10, 1955), at 13:15. Ralph: "I'll start losing weight. Then you know what I'll look like?" Alice: Yeah, a human being!" "The Babysitter" (Jan. 21, 1956), at 17:14.
Alice always had the best jokes and come backs when Ralph cut up her responses were hilarious love them The Honeymooners always will be my favorite show 🖤🖤
Alice: "You got it here [one hip]. And you got it here [other hip]. And you got it HERE [stomach]!" It starts from there and only gets funnier! Jackie thought the fat jokes were overdone, but the gag was so funny and so easy to write, the writers couldn't help writing more of them! Thank goodness they didn't listen to Jackie's objections!
I'm sure glad to see this video watching this brings back happy memories when I was a 10 year old kid watching TV at 8 at night oh yes those were the days!
This show was very bold for the era, Violence in the form of assault or fist fight, equally strong wife, televised a family living in poverty, And many other doors that were kicked open by this show! It really is a masterpiece. Not to mention that the jokes do still hold up today!
They missed the one from "the man from space". RALPH: "I CAN WAIT TO EAT" . NORTON: "SURE, YOU CAN WAIT , BUT IT'LL BE TOUGH ON THE FARMERS ".. that line always cracked up my family.
The exact line i think was RALPH: "IT WON"T HURT ME TO WAIT A COUPLE OF HOURS TO EAT". NORTON: "NO, IT WON'T HURT YOU, BUT I"LL TOUGH ON THE FARMERS"...still cracks me up!
I seen an interview with Art Carney once. He really looked up to Jackie Gleason, he was a huge star. He read the script and couldn't bring himself to make fun of Gleason's weight. Gleason told him to do anything for a laugh, including making fun of his weight.
Absolutely one of the greatest TV shows EVER!
Facts! Every Monday-Friday growing up in New York City in the 80's/90's channel 11 at 1130pm!!!!!
@@GildhattieAfter the Odd Couple.
Oh yes it was!
Almost 70 years later and this is still one of the funniest shows on TV......!!!
Me and my girlfriend debate this all the time (Seinfeld vs. Honeymooners vs. Everyone loves Raymond). EVERY EPISODE of the Honeymooners was funny. To this day, it’s still relevant.
And some leftist loonies thing Ralph's "threat" to send Alice to the Moon was real, instead of only a way to scare her! He would never hit a woman, especially his adoring wife--even if sometimes she told the truth in a rebuttal to his wealth or other fantasies, in a zinger on how fat he was! Ralph: "I'm finally going to get my pot of gold!" Alice: "Just go for the gold, you've already got the pot!" That one and this from my favorite episode, "The $99,000 Answer" (18:04)
Ralph: "$600? Peanuts! Peanuts! What am I going to do with peanuts?" Alice: "Eat 'em! Like any other elephant!"
Top 5 married with children Seinfeld the Honey mooners martin and fresiur
One of the only funny shows that is on!you can’t compare the absolute garbage they play now as anything but as depressing as the present day is?the present doesn’t compare with anything from that most simple moral family minded day in the slightest way hell Trixy and Ed even slept in single separated beds was about family love for each other,why marriages stayed together for 50 60 years my grandparents together 61 years till they passed loved each other sent giant Christmas cards with sweetheart and all kinds of sappy everything I know I was there more than not ?and when I had to go home I was depressed for days because I had to..Sunday dinner every Sunday with everyone family and friends Christmas with a real tree my grandpa cut down and on and on especially tv the present not a chance in hell I have something that lives inside forever God I miss so much 🌹👏👏👏🙏😀
Seen these all twenty times , and I STILL laugh at them . Kramden and Norton's interactions can't be surpassed . This is the Gold Standard for situation comedies .
I've seen these episodes hundreds of times. I know the lines that are about to come, and I still laugh like crazy. This show is a classic!
Couldn’t said it any better! The great Gleason and cast always make me laugh 😆
True that !
Still hilarious. Astounding how much influence this show has had on cartoons (Flintstones) and comedy in general. Love them.
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After all these years, it never gets old, I still burst out laughing as i did as a kid watching the re-runs for the first time....God I miss my Grandfather’s hysterical laugh while watching it with him....🙏🏻
my granfater had the same kind of laugh```at times I would laugh harder at him then I would the show!!
@@gregbond3030 yea Sir....🙏🏻
I remember seeing them as the original
@@marshamariner7897 that’s awesome !
That is something great to say and yes I know that movie is awesome too 😂😂
The greatest sitcom in television history to this day...
The Andy Griffith show is great too. More than 60 years and has never gone off the air.
It's hard to believe these are close to 70-years-ago.
Wow... I love this show.
It's the 💣!
Audrey Meadows is one of the most underrated beauties of all time.
Agree 100%. Even as a kid, I always thought she was really beautiful and talanted.
I agree 100%.❤️
Mm
Yes she is gorgeous!
At casting Jackie said it would never work she’s too pretty to be a bus driver’s wife. Nevertheless she did get the part and her acting was impeccable her timing just great I love Audrey Meadows
Agreed
Every single line still holds up, and is still hilarious. I watched all of these episodes when they first were on TV, and have watched them many times. They never tire. The 1950's were TV's greatest decade, for both originality and variety. The 1960's were not too far behind. We only had 5 or 6 channels, but we had 10 times as many interesting, fascinating programs to watch as we have today.
Lived in NYC when we emigrated from Cuba 1956. NYC was and is the center of broadcasting in radio and television.
For example ch.2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 21, 25. All these in 1956!
@@luislaplume8261 You got 21 and 25. If I got lucky we could watch a bad reception of...who was that Spanish lady who had a variety show and would sing in revealing top?
@@RogueBurn I remember who you are talking about! It was Iris Chacon! It was on channel 41 in NYC. a half century ago. She was hot and has personality. Ola bonita! Oye como va! Des Suavacito de Malo. I am Cuban by birth.
@@luislaplume8261 YES! That was her. My childhood friends around the 'hood were mostly from Cuba. They told me and you never saw so many kids going to bed early. Ha!
The greatest comedy series of all time Period!!!!!
Bull@$#% ain't nothin but fat jokes.
jeff powers They are only showing you the jokes dealing with Ralph. Check out the entire shows,
@@janetmccoy2192 ok never mind !
@@jeffpowers1979 no, you're right..or him just yelling and Alice with the punch lines and him wishing he can punch her lights out!..👊🤦♂️😂
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I don’t know what I would do without these great shows there’s no shows today that could top the Honeymooners NONE!
Would me outlawed and condemned the first episode.😅😅
No show in the past or present or future that can be as great as the Honeymooners
Thanks, love Ralph Kramden and the Honey Mooners, saw them as a kid in 1954 but didn't know someday that I would absolutely love them!
Omg this brought tears to my eyes! What great memories these brought back. 😂😂😂
I must have watched each episode of "The Honeymooners" a thousand times, and each time I roll on the floor dying laughing, even though I can recite the lines verbatim. Now THAT is true comedy. Thanks for the hilarious compilation.
I know. I love this show, that and All in the family. I love Archie, he kills me.
Channel 11 WPIX in NY used to have a Honeymooners marathon for New Year's day.
“You were a little cup of butter, now you’re a whole tub of lard!” I swear, Norton is one of the funniest characters ever!! LMAO
Ya...Norton's laugh is hilarious also.😁
I remember being in grade 7 or 8 and the teacher put this show on one day. When this joke was told I busted out laughing. Unfortunately I was the only student but the teacher had a big smile on his face. The whole class looked at me like I was nuts but to me it was really funny no matter how old I was.
Outstanding writers. Outstanding actors. Stellar through & through 🌟
Thanks for uploading this collection. I absolutely love this program. Pure, clean and hilarious fun.
Thoroughly enjoyed this.Thanks
for posting, appreciate the effort
Great job putting this together. Started watching the reruns on WPIX New York as a teenager back in 1977.
John Becker ,,,it’s still on
Norton's facial expressions are so funny that is so unique and funny, that makes you laughing any time you watch it.
by far, the best show ever on tv.....
Best show every day,,
"I'm no losing a daughter, I'm gaining a ton". That's pure gold
What’s that? Your lunchbox?
Hello Ralph. Hi. How did you know it was me? I felt the floor sag.
One of the best shows ever
Homina..Homina.. Homina.. Classic Jackie 😂 great compilation.
Simple, charming and funny. Gleason is truly The Greatest
It always amazes me how so many of the honeymooners bits find their way into modern sitcoms. This show literally changed TV forever.
Great posting and comments...This was in a way like a 50s version of Sanford and Son with all the insults.They said sometimes it was hard working with Gleason because he wouldn't really rehearse and did ALOT of ad libbing..His nickname was perfect...The Great One...And to think.This was all done on live tv.Now THOSE are real actors.The Golden Age.
Audrey is one stunning woman... OMG!
And has all the " chops" as anyone back then...
Brilliant, simply brilliant.. .
Imagine her in Playboy magazine centerfold after the series ended? As Ed Norton would say Va, va, va, va, Vooooom!
AFTER OVER " 60 " YRS. STILL AN " EXCELLENT " COMEDY .
The best comedy in my opinion.
Always will be no matter how many years.
Thank you for putting this together. I grew up watching the Honeymooners, and these jokes are priceless.
"Peanuts...Peanuts...What am I going to do with peanuts? Eat 'em like every other elephant"...Pure Gold!
Thanks so much for this. I'm also a diehard Honeymooners fan and that was so nicely done!
Alice's mother gave Ralph the business all the time. I'm not losing a daughter I'm gaining a ton. Absolute classic!
Best series of all time
This is a brilliant compilation!! Thanks for creating this!!
Excellent compilation. Thank you for sharing
"In 6 months, blimp takes off!" cracked me up.
I remember sitting on my dads lap watching this. Had to of been 1967-68 .
Still a riot after all these years
St John 3:16! 💓
JESUS is coming again SOON! ALLELUIA!
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This is great! Thank You for posting!!
I've seen all of these multiple times and they still make me laugh. Just imagine fat jokes in 2021
The best one episode was Gleason and his mother-in-law when he called her blabber mouth as he finally yelled at her when the timer went off. Classic.
@@austinteutsch That's my favorite also 😄!!
@@austinteutsch Definitely a great episode.
You’d get cancelled for it.
'that set goes over my dead body!'
'I couldn't get it out over your dead body what'd you think I am a mountain climber!!!' LOL gets me every time!
they all were so talented--they never left the apartment
They left plenty of times. It was shown in this video.
@@frankcabanski9409 Not as much as I'd like, but...
Mostly Ralph & Norton. The girls, not so much.
@@Patienthost True. Alice was mostly stuck staring at those four walls.
I remember one not in this video - they made it to the car for the fishing trip. Another at least outside was when they were kicked out of the apartment.
Actually, they did. All the time.
I remember my mother laughing hysterically watching this show, I could hear her from my bedroom.
My Dad was the same way, Carol, and my Mom was a lot like Alice. Dad never stood a chance against her.
That’s a perfect thing a youtuber would say 😁 😁
Very funny! Thanks for putting all this together so well!👏👍
Again i needed a good laugh this afternoon and watched a longer episode of the Honeymooners on fat jokes. It was so funny. What a great show.
That was so much fun thanks for sharing Bravo 👏
So full of gems! "He doesn't know any elephants that need a new wardrobe" omg.. classic!! "King of the castle, I got it right in the back of my head. UGHHHH!" Marx, Stern, Russell and all of Jackie's writers were gold back then.
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable.
Except that I was a child when I saw these programs live.
Believe me, Ralph, they were unbelievable.
You got that right Todd. The best show ever!!
This is the best of the old days dude Your compilation is hilarious ...Thank You
I remember watching these shows 60 years ago, at 11PM on WPIX on channel 9. I enjoy them even more now.
My Dad was a golf addict and I never heard him laugh any harder than he did over "The Golfer" episode. Only time he came close was the Gleason movie, "The Toy" when Richard Pryor walked on water trying to get away from that pond full of Piranhas. Amazingly, Joyce Randolph is still humming along at 95 y/o now.
It's it's incredible it's one of those shows that you can watch over and over and over and over again and I never get tired of watching it the greatest show ever on TV comedy show thank God for The Honeymooners I think one of the funniest scenes is when Norton comes in and put the TV on and you hear the ladies scream and then gunfire and the Ralph comes running out of the bedroom and the Norton is sitting there eating his hero but he starts to crack up I don't know if that was like a blooper when Norton was cracking up and they just left it in oh my God that's so funny
I needed a laugh today 😂😂 😂...This was it.
Two comedic geniuses in Gleason and Carney. Also, the skills that Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph had to have as the "straight" persons of the two pairs were very impressive. Same with Bud Abbott playing the straight man for Lou Costello. Not easy to do.
Can't wait for memorial day and their yearly marathon on Channel 11 here in New York
I think you meant Labor Day. Do they still do those on Labor Day? I know PIX still does the New Year's Day marathon.
GREAT JOB putting this together, and yes, The Honeymooners (Classic 39) is still my favorite TV show of all.
In episode Number 3, titled: "The Golfer," at 3:07, I tend to like this part the most. Ralph wants to try and tell Alice some "good news."
Alice: Oh, all right, Ralph. What is it?
Ralph: Alice. Well, to begin, uh, with it doesn't look like I'm not going to make be needing this lunchbox much longer.
Alice: Ralph! You are going on a diet!
Ralph: (seeing the look on Ralph's face) No! I am NOT going on a diet!
Alice: But why won't need this lunchbox? Are you get a bigger one?
The Honeymooners Show Is Right There With Fans Even Today With Watching Re-Runs !!
The baby pictures joke was too odee lol !
Great video, I could watch this a hundred times. The cast were great actor's, I believe they were at their peak and could never be better. Just like Don Knotts on the Andy Griffith show, he was the best he could ever be on that show. May they all RIP.
"What's that? Your lunch box?"
HEE HEE YOU DIRTY OLD
“Now you’re a whole tub of lard”😂😂😂
this show and all in the family two greatest shows ever
One I'll always remember was this gem: Ralph to Alice: "You're the type who would bend way over to pick up a pocketbook on April Fools Day! I wouldn't." Alice: You COULDN'T!" ROTFL! I remember and can recite these lines before re-hearing them now since I first laughed at them in 1964! From "The Deciding Vote" (Dec. 10, 1955), at 13:15. Ralph: "I'll start losing weight. Then you know what I'll look like?" Alice: Yeah, a human being!" "The Babysitter" (Jan. 21, 1956), at 17:14.
I know every show almost word for word and I still bust out laughing ,,,,,top 3 tv show of all time
"In 6 months, blimp takes off"
Ever see a picture of me when I weighed 165
No Ralph I never have seen any of your baby pictures
Lol laughs at that every time
The baby pictures joke is one of the funniest lines I've ever heard. Outright hilarious!!
That line is hilarious 🤣
Will always enjoy the honeymooners
Good show Kev. "If you're looking for the elephant graveyard it's 3 blocks down."
great show,still watch it on ch 11 wpix New York
The greatest show, thank you. "Thank you Norton. I know it came from your heart." No it didn't, it came from the fat man's shop!"
Alice always had the best jokes and come backs when Ralph cut up her responses were hilarious love them The Honeymooners always will be my favorite show 🖤🖤
She had the best comebackers
and was so straight faced .
She held her ground even
Ralph yelled at her.
Don’t make clean comedy like this any more! The Honeymooners are fantastic! I have seen them so many times and still laugh!!
Alice: "You got it here [one hip]. And you got it here [other hip]. And you got it HERE [stomach]!" It starts from there and only gets funnier! Jackie thought the fat jokes were overdone, but the gag was so funny and so easy to write, the writers couldn't help writing more of them! Thank goodness they didn't listen to Jackie's objections!
I love it all....so funny.....I believe the best Comedy show ever nothing comes close ..
What’s a New Year’s Eve without a Honeymooners marathon.
“It says Hurry-cane! Hurry-cane!” It was funny the way Ralph and Norton pronounced certain words.
Thanks for the upload sonny boy.
It’s great to have the dates included for each episode!
I'm sure glad to see this video watching this brings back happy memories when I was a 10 year old kid watching TV at 8 at night oh yes those were the days!
Fat jokes are always funny when it’s someone else. Classic! 😂
To this day...my absolute favorite TV show. Forever unbeatable.
A Masterpiece!
Thanks for taking the time to post this it is great. RX...
😄 “ OUT!….. GETTTT OUT! “ - Ralph Kramden
You did a GREAT job on this..Kudos to you.
18:45- "how can anyone so round be so square."
I like Alice's line about the peanuts. She refers to him as an elephant TWICE on here.
how i remember this show!! these clips bring back a LOT f fod memories .
This show was very bold for the era, Violence in the form of assault or fist fight, equally strong wife, televised a family living in poverty, And many other doors that were kicked open by this show! It really is a masterpiece. Not to mention that the jokes do still hold up today!
Thanks I really needed this.♥️❤️😂😅😸😄🤣
CLASSIC SHOW R.I.P TOO THE CAST GREAT MEMORIES THANKYOU
Joyce Randolph is still alive and well, even as of April 2021
Yes absolutely I Love the HONEYMOONERS 1951 💕🌷💜💜💙🇺🇸
Great TV shows from then still good today.
They missed the one from "the man from space". RALPH: "I CAN WAIT TO EAT" . NORTON: "SURE, YOU CAN WAIT , BUT IT'LL BE TOUGH ON THE FARMERS ".. that line always cracked up my family.
HAHAHAHAAA,THE BEST ONE!!!!!
Yeah, how did he miss adding that one? Good catch.
The exact line i think was RALPH: "IT WON"T HURT ME TO WAIT A COUPLE OF HOURS TO EAT". NORTON: "NO, IT WON'T HURT YOU, BUT I"LL TOUGH ON THE FARMERS"...still cracks me up!
Richard Perez Absolutely the best one. Of all the ones to miss!
Telling my age . but i miss the honey mooners. What a cast
I seen an interview with Art Carney once. He really looked up to Jackie Gleason, he was a huge star. He read the script and couldn't bring himself to make fun of Gleason's weight. Gleason told him to do anything for a laugh, including making fun of his weight.
The greatest show ever made