I was 6 or7 when we watched this as a family in Chicago. My Dad worked nights 7 nights a week, and never saw it. We would make a big pot of tea and make our favorite poor persons snack. Saltines with butter or jelly. The 4 of us kids would sit there and laugh until it was time to go to bed. When I hear that theme song, I am back at that table. It doesn't seem 60 years ago. We had one of the only Televisions on the block. About half of the families didn't have cars, including us most times. But no one felt left out. In the afternoon, my friends would come over and we would watch The Mickey Mouse Club. No one had any money, and no one cared. Memories like this are priceless.
Black & white tv with rabit ear antenna? Those were the days when the producers took care not to disgrace the dignity of the homes they were invited into each night.
@@JILOA I remember the snowy screens that got so bad we would give up. And the audio wasn't always there. Sometimes we would turn on our favorite show and it just wouldn't be there. No explanation. And when it rained, forget it. People forget that between 12 and 5 am they went off the air completely. Still, to us it was exiting. Popcorn and
The Honeymooners actually started as a 6 minute sketch on 10/05/1951. During the 1953-54 season, there were more 6 minute episodes, but The Honeymooners was so popular that they made longer episodes. After the Jackie Gleason Show came back on the air in 1966, they started doing Honeymooner sketches again, this time in color. The show ran until 1970.
The great thing about the Honeymooners is that I can remember laughing with my Dad and Grandfather watching these...and now my Children and Grandchildren laugh watching them with me...I don't know of too many shows that can transcend generations like that!!! Thanks for posting!
I remember them 11:00 pm in Pennsylvania with my brother and father. When it was over straight to bed high school in the morning. You felt numb from laughing so hard. At school walking to 1st period I would see a friend who looked like a young Ralph Kramden. He would imitate something from last nights episode. Lol. Funniest Times. Dino Picarelli RIP
My favorite lines, Ralph: "......Tomorrow my picture will be on the front page of every newspaper!" McGaretty: "And so will mine! . . . . for killing you!!" LMAO!
This was my favourite show when I was a young guy growing up in Australia. Loved Ralph, Norton, the girls and all the various predicaments they found themselves in. Am now 71 and whenever I need a laugh I come here to RUclips to watch the Honeymooners. That I can see these episodes for free is just marvellous.
He's like the narcissist that always fools himself he tries harder than them least he's not scared but he just can't succeed, even when he got the drivers award he almost lost that
The honeymooners wil always be remembered as a classic great writhing great chemistry with all of them I personally loved the episodes with Alice's mom God bless Joyce Randolph the woman is still going strong
Gleason also wrote "Melancholy Serenade", which was used as the theme of his long running variety show. That's what Norton is starting to play, as a kind of "in" joke, beginning at 5:47.
I really felt for Ralph on this one despite his bombastic journey. That was the secret of Jackie's talent, a great actor behind the comedic performance.
11:11 is probably the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on TV. It still makes me laugh until it hurts and I have tears running down my cheeks! Jackie’s acting is so incredible, his facial expressions said SO much.
He was also a great roller skater and dancer, according to two other episodes. I didn’t know he served on D day- not surprised. His was the Greatest Generation.👍🏻👍🏻
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When Neil Armstrong stepped out of "The Eagle" and onto the moon on July 20th, 1969 he should've brought a picture of Alice Kramden out with him then announced to Ralph and all of the Honeymooners fans "ALICE MADE IT TO THE MOON!"
In the credits at the end: two writers. TWO! Have you seen the hordes of writers required to crank out modern tv “comedies?” Wonderful acting by the principals (and the game show emcee as well). But you gotta have the material, and it was superb in the Honeymooners.
My God The Honeymooners was so good! I remember being a little kid watching Jackie Gleason American Scene Magazine with Sammy Spear and his orchestra the June Taylor Dancers and above all How Sweet It Is!
Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows...memories of the 50's. Still a great show. So many shows are launched constantly these days. These shows are diluted.
@@antonchigurh7193 Great name, makes me think of the song. Hey, on your way to the $99,000,000 answer. Allison,My Aim is True, by Elvis Costello, 1977!
In the Twilight Zone, Carney is suddenly transformed into a Santa Claus who gave away toys to poor kids. I get tears in my eyes watching his performance.
Awww...poor Ralph. He really worked for this one. Alice should have been proud. Usually his schemes are hairbrained and not based on something he knows about or is good at. But this time he did not overestimate himself.
Makes me laugh and cry a little. A show I watched with my mom and dad on our black and white T.V. . My father loved him and both my mom and dad would pretend to be each person. . Those WERE THE DAYS. I loved growing up in that Era and miss it fondly. Most times us sisters were out PLAYING well into late teens.
A great line was the host of the game show complimenting how bus drivers are so courteous and thoughtful but he mentions one bus driver didn’t stop and went through a puddle and he got all wet Ralph says That was You?!?!! I have a cleaning bill for you Ralph great facial expressions
I remember watching this for the first time with my dad when I was probably 8 years old and laughing hysterically everytime Norton played those same notes on the piano. Just good clean comedy. Doesn't get any better then this.
☀💥☀💥☀💥☀💥☀☀💥☀Did ever Alice let her hair down.???it was always up in the like a pulled back bun with hair on the side pulled upwards in hair combs!!!!Wow!!!!🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀
I’ve often tried to figure out that hairstyle. I’m not criticizing it but it must be some kind of original. I remember seeing women wearing Trixie’s style a lot in those days and the 60’s, but never one exactly like Alice’s. ☺️
I just found out yesterday that he’s actually resting in peace at the same cemetery as my grandparents and my great grandmother - Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery. He’s got a beautiful sarcophagus in an outdoor mausoleum, and was laid to rest alongside his third wife Marilyn. I was pleased to find that out, since I was a big fan of the HM! :-)
"I Love Lucy" also used the title "Swanee River" in the episode, "Bull Fight Dance" just 10 months earlier, but it's true that the published title of the song was and remains "Old Folks at Home." Also the river referred to is actually the Suwanee. The Stephen Foster State Park is situated on it in northern Florida. Cool place to visit.
@@melisameli584 Ralph's character was too proud to stoop so low. This was perfect timing by all the cast- Keep in mind this was in front of a live audience with no rehearsals!!!!!!!!!
He didn't know that that was a song Norton was playing. Norton didn't bother to tell him the title because he figured Ralph knew it. That's what happened. Easy to get.
Alice also made the reference to elephants when Ralph spent counterfeit mob money he found in a briefcase on his bus, and he knew he couldn't return an expensive sports jacket he bought. He asked what he's going to do with it now. Alice said there must be an elephant he can donate it to.
My FAVORITE episode was the one where Alice wanted to go dancing with Ralph. Showed her in a high-cut skirt, just below the pubic area, showing about 95% of her legs. HUBBA-HUBBA!
I remember being a little boy growing up in Jersey in the 70's and sharing a bedroom with my 3 brothers and we had a 19 inch TV and every night at 11:00 PM we watched every Honeymooners rerun a 100 times and never got tiered of watching them...Good clean comedy. And pure talent when you can make someone laugh when the whole show was basically in a small tidy apartment. Nowadays just pure filth with demonic overturns.
I love this show & 4 actors and characters. Ralph's horror when he realized the song Norton played to warm up, over and over again was the song in question, Swanee River and he didn't know the composer and says Ed Norton? Those eyes of his, they very expressive I've always like him. I was just reading about Gleason, he had a tough personal life. Thanks for sharing the shows, they're wonderful. I also looked the composer up, Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 - January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer", and many of his compositions remain popular today"
The reason the payoff works so well is because it's already established Norton's character has many eccentric rituals that the set-up totally flies over our heads. Had it been a generic, underdeveloped character, we would have seen the ending a mile away. Textbook example of great character writing.
I remember watching this as a little girl and thought it was hilarious when Ralph said "Ed Norton" was the composer of Swanee River. 50 years later I still laugh at that.
Wow, this was a huge event in the Kramden household - even the mother-in-law and Mrs. Manicotti made an appearance! I bet it's gone down in Kramden family history and is still talked about fondly to this day with a smile and a shake of the head by Alice and Ralph's descendants.
Living in New Haven, CT we were fortunate to receive WPIX and several other NYC stations. This added viewing diversity to our local TV station. Historical note: Many stations ended their broadcast at approximately 12:00 AM with the playing of the National Anthem.
I was 6 or7 when we watched this as a family in Chicago. My Dad worked nights 7 nights a week, and never saw it. We would make a big pot of tea and make our favorite poor persons snack. Saltines with butter or jelly. The 4 of us kids would sit there and laugh until it was time to go to bed. When I hear that theme song, I am back at that table. It doesn't seem 60 years ago. We had one of the only Televisions on the block. About half of the families didn't have cars, including us most times. But no one felt left out. In the afternoon, my friends would come over and we would watch The Mickey Mouse Club. No one had any money, and no one cared. Memories like this are priceless.
Yes. You've touched my heart. How sweet it is. ❤️
Black & white tv with rabit ear antenna? Those were the days when the producers took care not to disgrace the dignity of the homes they were invited into each night.
Daniel that was a wonderful story. God bless you!!!!
@@JILOA I remember the snowy screens that got so bad we would give up. And the audio wasn't always there. Sometimes we would turn on our favorite show and it just wouldn't be there. No explanation. And when it rained, forget it. People forget that between 12 and 5 am they went off the air completely. Still, to us it was exiting. Popcorn and
cheap soda, cartoons and Saturday serial shows and good friends. What else do you need?
Imagine this fact...The Honeymooners ran only 1 season! 39 episodes...Enough to crack up America for over 60 years, and counting.
Amazing isn't it?
..and people will still be watching them in another 60 years from now.
This was THEE best episode!!!!!!!
Wow only One Season??? Amazing!!!
The Honeymooners actually started as a 6 minute sketch on 10/05/1951. During the 1953-54 season, there were more 6 minute episodes, but The Honeymooners was so popular that they made longer episodes.
After the Jackie Gleason Show came back on the air in 1966, they started doing Honeymooner sketches again, this time in color. The show ran until 1970.
The great thing about the Honeymooners is that I can remember laughing with my Dad and Grandfather watching these...and now my Children and Grandchildren laugh watching them with me...I don't know of too many shows that can transcend generations like that!!!
Thanks for posting!
steve martin
I love your comment
Same here--My ol' man loved him!!!!!!
That is too cool. These shows are timeless. I have all the lost classics and every 3 stooges ever made. Can't get enough of them.
I agree, I can't think of many off the top of my head
For my money, "Ed Norton??" is the single greatest laugh in tv comedy history. 20 minutes of buildup for the ultimate payoff. Never gets old. :)
Who else remembers this show always on New York channel 11 late night a long time ago?
WPIX!
Ah the great memories of WPIX 11....I think sometime in 1981 it would be The Honeymooners / Twilight Zone from 11pm to 12am.
And it is still on the air on Saturday nights on PIX 11. (WPIX)
How about the Honeymooners Marathon on New Years Day?
I remember them 11:00 pm in Pennsylvania with my brother and father. When it was over straight to bed high school in the morning. You felt numb from laughing so hard. At school walking to 1st period I would see a friend who looked like a young Ralph Kramden. He would imitate something from last nights episode. Lol. Funniest Times.
Dino Picarelli RIP
My favorite lines, Ralph: "......Tomorrow my picture will be on the front page of every newspaper!"
McGaretty: "And so will mine! . . . . for killing you!!"
LMAO!
This was my favourite show when I was a young guy growing up in Australia.
Loved Ralph, Norton, the girls and all the various predicaments they found themselves in.
Am now 71 and whenever I need a laugh I come here to RUclips to watch the Honeymooners.
That I can see these episodes for free is just marvellous.
I always felt sorry for Ralph, he always tried so hard to succeed.
He had Alice. He did great.
He's like the narcissist that always fools himself he tries harder than them least he's not scared but he just can't succeed, even when he got the drivers award he almost lost that
I liked Ed Norton waaaaaaaaay much better than Ralph
@@johnprovince5304 Yeah and was civil service had a good friend , a great bowler
Greatest shows ever!
Don’t see good comedy shows like this anymore!
The honeymooners wil always be remembered as a classic great writhing great chemistry with all of them I personally loved the episodes with Alice's mom God bless Joyce Randolph the woman is still going strong
Alice’s mom was indeed excellent
One room and 4 great characters.4 Geniuses interact with each other.What else do you need for one of the greatest comedy ever !!???
Ralph “Peanuts, peanuts... what am i gonna do with peanuts?”
Alice “eat em, like any other elephant”. LMAO
LOL!!!! Alice is hilarious. I love her.
In an earlier draft they had Garrity shout that line down from upstairs.
Just classic timing!!
Originally, they were going to have Garrity shout that answer from upstairs.
I hated when she was mean to him.
The funniest episode of the Honeymooners ever in my book.
The scene with Mrs. Manicotti is one of my all-time favorites!
Interesting fact: Jackie wrote the theme song for The Honeymooners. Great tune.
Tv host: who wrote the theme to The Honeymooners?
Jackie Gleason: hummuna hummuna Um, Ralph Kramden?
Gleason also wrote "Melancholy Serenade", which was used as the theme of his long running variety show. That's what Norton is starting to play, as a kind of "in" joke, beginning at 5:47.
A jazzy version of "Serenade" was also the theme of, no doubt, Jackie's biggest flop---the game show "You're in the Picture."
He also wrote Melancholy Serenade.
Probably the best episode of the best TV sit-com ever produced...Love it when he says..."Ed Norton ?"
Ralph's expression on stark, terrified realization at 11:40 has been making me LOL without fail for 45 years.
*"The Honeymooners!!"*-The ABSOLUTE GREATEST comedy show EVER!!"*
*"EVERYONE of their EPISODES are Phenomenally- terrifically GREAT- but this EPISODE is DEFINITELY at the top of the list!!"*
God bless Jackie Gleason for bringing us this. I love love love this show, even though it was before my time. ❤
I use to have the major HOTS for Alice. She could've sat on my face and ripped a big WET ONE.
I remember this Saturday night episode as a child and feeling crushed for Ralph. I got over it pretty quickly.
I got over it pretty quickly hahahahahahahah
They just don’t make shows like The Honeymooners any more, they were GREAT!!!
I had the HOT'S for Alice. I've spent many nights in bed, going through countless bottles of lotion thinking about her.
I really felt for Ralph on this one despite his bombastic journey. That was the secret of Jackie's talent, a great actor behind the comedic performance.
My favorite Honeymooners episode of all time!
@soup and old clothes - Maybe Swanee River was not popular but Ed Norton was!
Me too Robert, "Ed Norton?" best line of all the shows to me.
Any episode with the mother in law was fantastic!!!!
@@stephenkennedy8767 - I agree for she was the expert "scene stealer!"
My favorite was Young At Heart where Ralph dances to the Hucklebuck...this is a close 2nd for me though..
The Honeymooners tune is so New York.Watched these shows from the Bronx when we had TV antennas on the roof faceing downtown.
Me too, Riverdale 1970s. Do they still have those on the rooves?
"Who is the composer of Swanee River?"
"Ed Norton?"
Jackie Gleason did it all.
Wrote, produced, acted, comedic genius..
Nobody else like him since.
one of the greatest shows ever. we don't need swearing and sex like todays shows. total ignorance
"I totally love his mother-in-law!!"
11:11 is probably the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on TV. It still makes me laugh until it hurts and I have tears running down my cheeks! Jackie’s acting is so incredible, his facial expressions said SO much.
The best show EVER!
“So will mine for killing you!”
“There you are loudmouth now you woke up my wife!”
Best lines in this episode.
And for the next 20 years, he laughed his ass off over Ralph blowing it and teased him about it constantly.
Just go for the gold, you've already got the pot. LOL!!!!
I'm going ON ON ON to the $99,000 answer. Just too Marvelous for Words 1937.
Take me back to Sorrento 1898. I certainly am!
I remember hearing my father cracking up downstairs watching this show...
This is a version of "Don't count your chickens before they're hatched."
"Humina humina Ed Norton?"
Why oh why was I blessed with this musical talent?
This might have been the most hysterical episode of any situation comedy ........ EVER.
I watched this show in the 70's. I lived in the south bronx 146 between willis and brook ave. Loved it and still do 👍👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😉
Awesome 👍 friend
Riverdale, watched in the 80s.
Robert L Stevenson, Norton the pianist! Jackie Gleason show was the next to I Love Lucy, best comedy show on tv in the 50's. The cast was superb.
Art Carney was a great talent RIP Art
Right on
And thank you Art for serving on D Day!
@@stephenkennedy8767 oh man i didnt know that!
MH Art was also a great dramatic actor. He was the star of one of my favorite Twilight Zone episodes.
He was also a great roller skater and dancer, according to two other episodes. I didn’t know he served on D day- not surprised. His was the Greatest Generation.👍🏻👍🏻
The inspiration for Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble.
….AND...Wilma and Betty....(before the children).
This is genius level classic comedy that you don't see anymore.
mcgarrity's line "so will mine, for killing you" cracks me up every time, funny af.
Swanee River was the best episode. Every time I see it I still crack up laughing.
A 1950s King of Queens.
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"The King of Queens"
Diplucts this show in they show..Remember Actor Kevin James played Raphl..and Leah Remini played Alice and Deacon played..
Ed Norton....Great Episode!!!!
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The King of Queens is completely an offshoot of the Honeymooners
@@thomasfoss9963 so was The Flinstones.
King of Brooklyn.
One of my favorite episodes
The funniest punchline in history is not a word or words at all but a few bars of a tune.
5:48 was Melancholy Serenade from The Jackie Gleason Show (1952)
When Neil Armstrong stepped out of "The Eagle" and onto the moon on July 20th, 1969 he should've brought a picture of Alice Kramden out with him then announced to Ralph and all of the Honeymooners fans "ALICE MADE IT TO THE MOON!"
I can’t believe there are so many of us that feel the same best television acting ever !!!!!
Best comedy of all time! To this day in 2019 and will live on........
Gleason's the best especially when he gets wide eyed.
As a matter of fact I can't WAIT to hear you answer that question. I want to see the expression on your face when ya MISS it!!! LMFAOOO!!!
Lyndell Jones She was such a bitch!
@@janetmccoy7945 She certainly was. A funny one. (giggle!!)
@@janetmccoy7945 She sure was, a disagreeable mother in law!
She played the role of the awful mother-in-law perfectly.
I pretty know all these episodes by heart!! Never stop loving the Honeymooners!!
I know the dialogue too! Yet it never gets old and still as funny as day 1.
"Ralph knew ABSOLUTELY every song- songwriter- & producer except "Ed Norton's warm-up song!!"- TOTALLY hilarious!!"
And Ralph never heard of Swanee River. Well, for the rest of his life, he remembered it, I guarantee you that.
sha11235 be busy
Swanee River was the ONLY one I knew. There is no way Ralph would not have known that if he knew all those other songs.
Gary Walters That’s the irony!
sha11235 . you really got that rite . I wish they had showed what Alice and Mother-in-law said to him when he missed $ 100 ?. Thanks for your comment
'Guarantee you' written by Cole Porter in 1939 for the show, Moonlite Wonder.
"What am going to do with peanuts." Eat em. Like any other elephant. Audrey Meadows is so cool.
I love all the oldies comedies
In the credits at the end: two writers. TWO! Have you seen the hordes of writers required to crank out modern tv “comedies?” Wonderful acting by the principals (and the game show emcee as well). But you gotta have the material, and it was superb in the Honeymooners.
My late mom's favorite episode.
..to this day i'm totally convinced that the compser of Swanny River is indeed Ed Norton... smh..
Yup, every time I hear Swanee River I think the same thing.
@@hankaustin7091 Suwannee River
Oh those childhood memories on Sunday night
Sweet time!!!....when people had neighbors that were friendly..and a buddy to hang out with
My God The Honeymooners was so good! I remember being a little kid watching Jackie Gleason American Scene Magazine with Sammy Spear and his orchestra the June Taylor Dancers and above all How Sweet It Is!
this is one of my favorite episodes, when i watch ralph and norton i laugh till i cry!
Jackie Gleason and Audrey Meadows...memories of the 50's. Still a great show. So many shows are launched constantly these days. These shows are diluted.
One of the greatest episodes ever...Still has me in tears. Lmao.
No sense goin over what ya already know lol
matt8863 ahhhh thanks..it’s so basic tho
@@antonchigurh7193 Great name, makes me think of the song. Hey, on your way to the $99,000,000 answer.
Allison,My Aim is True, by Elvis Costello, 1977!
Wayne J Lol you making fun of me?
@@antonchigurh7193 Lol. No, not at all. I like the name and the song. I was just tying it in with the episode.
Jackie Gleason may have been The Great One, but don't forget that Art Carney later won an Academy Award for Best Actor in a leading role.
In the Twilight Zone, Carney is suddenly transformed into a Santa Claus who gave away toys to poor kids. I get tears in my eyes watching his performance.
Awww...poor Ralph. He really worked for this one. Alice should have been proud. Usually his schemes are hairbrained and not based on something he knows about or is good at. But this time he did not overestimate himself.
_No Fear No More finishes_
_next song on the album autoplays_
11:48
A man of culture, I see
Makes me laugh and cry a little. A show I watched with my mom and dad on our black and white T.V. . My father loved him and both my mom and dad would pretend to be each person. . Those WERE THE DAYS. I loved growing up in that Era and miss it fondly. Most times us sisters were out PLAYING well into late teens.
Wow--Your folks playacted their roles?? Too funny!!!!!!!
*"This is the TOTAL ABSOLUTE BEST EPISODE EVER- but I still LOVE them ALL!!"*
My favorite is the Mambo!
Marilyn Barker -"The "Lost Episodes" are phenomenal too!"
My friend Harvey is great.
A great line was the host of the game show complimenting how bus drivers are so courteous and thoughtful but he mentions one bus driver didn’t stop and went through a puddle and he got all wet
Ralph says That was You?!?!!
I have a cleaning bill for you
Ralph great facial expressions
I remember watching this for the first time with my dad when I was probably 8 years old and laughing hysterically everytime Norton played those same notes on the piano. Just good clean comedy. Doesn't get any better then this.
☀💥☀💥☀💥☀💥☀☀💥☀Did ever Alice let her hair down.???it was always up in the like a pulled back bun with hair on the side pulled upwards in hair combs!!!!Wow!!!!🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀🌙☀
I’ve often tried to figure out that hairstyle. I’m not criticizing it but it must be some kind of original. I remember seeing women wearing Trixie’s style a lot in those days and the 60’s, but never one exactly like Alice’s. ☺️
He’s been wearing the same tie for 30 years RIP Jackie
Hey, i thought you were dead?
I just found out yesterday that he’s actually resting in peace at the same cemetery as my grandparents and my great grandmother - Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Cemetery. He’s got a beautiful sarcophagus in an outdoor mausoleum, and was laid to rest alongside his third wife Marilyn. I was pleased to find that out, since I was a big fan of the HM! :-)
All shows without politic in it are the best thing for humans health!
What am I gonna do with peanuts, eat them like any other Elephant. Oh Ralph she got you. Such a great show . miss the Honeymooners.
I lose it at 4:00 every time! "Come on!!!" Lol
Lmao!...No doubt about it.
"I Love Lucy" also used the title "Swanee River" in the episode, "Bull Fight Dance" just 10 months earlier, but it's true that the published title of the song was and remains "Old Folks at Home." Also the river referred to is actually the Suwanee. The Stephen Foster State Park is situated on it in northern Florida. Cool place to visit.
I think Ralph lost the game because he was too proud to ask Norton the name of the piece he was always playing! 😅
Of Course!!!!!!!
@@thomasfoss9963 😅
@@melisameli584 Ralph's character was too proud to stoop so low.
This was perfect timing by all the cast- Keep in mind this was in front of a live audience with no rehearsals!!!!!!!!!
You see now THAT...was the irony!
He didn't know that that was a song Norton was playing. Norton didn't bother to tell him the title because he figured Ralph knew it. That's what happened. Easy to get.
"jealous mcgarity" LOL "so will mine, for killing YOU!
I know he ended up laughing his ass off over Ralph missing the first question and teased Ralph about it for the next 25 years.
Bill Zuckert appeared as "McGarrity".
I like when Norton plays the song Gleason wrote in real life.
Alice also made the reference to elephants when Ralph spent counterfeit mob money he found in a briefcase on his bus, and he knew he couldn't return an expensive sports jacket he bought. He asked what he's going to do with it now. Alice said there must be an elephant he can donate it to.
Quarantine behavior!!! My favorite was the episode where he recorded a commercial for the kitchen gadget 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
My FAVORITE episode was the one where Alice wanted to go dancing with Ralph. Showed her in a high-cut skirt, just below the pubic area, showing about 95% of her legs.
HUBBA-HUBBA!
Why oh why was I blessed with this talent
I remember being a little boy growing up in Jersey in the 70's and sharing a bedroom with my 3 brothers and we had a 19 inch TV and every night at 11:00 PM we watched every Honeymooners rerun a 100 times and never got tiered of watching them...Good clean comedy. And pure talent when you can make someone laugh when the whole show was basically in a small tidy apartment. Nowadays just pure filth with demonic overturns.
I love this show & 4 actors and characters. Ralph's horror when he realized the song Norton
played to warm up, over and over again was the song in question, Swanee River and he didn't know the composer and says Ed Norton? Those eyes of his, they very expressive I've always like him.
I was just reading about Gleason, he had a tough personal life. Thanks for sharing the shows, they're wonderful.
I also looked the composer up, Stephen Collins Foster (July 4, 1826 - January 13, 1864), known as "the father of American music", was an American composer known primarily for his parlour and minstrel music during the Romantic period. He wrote more than 200 songs, including "Oh! Susanna", "Hard Times Come Again No More", "Camptown Races", "Old Folks at Home" ("Swanee River"), "My Old Kentucky Home", "Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair", "Old Black Joe", and "Beautiful Dreamer", and many of his compositions remain popular today"
Alice, eat um ,like any other elephant. Thanks for upload always love this show 40 yrs.
The reason the payoff works so well is because it's already established Norton's character has many eccentric rituals that the set-up totally flies over our heads. Had it been a generic, underdeveloped character, we would have seen the ending a mile away. Textbook example of great character writing.
Who was the composer of Suwannee River ? Ed Norton 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 👍
I love their top dresser drawer. The magic drawer. EVERYTHING they need is in that drawer!
That killed me. Lol.
Stephen Foster.
The most brilliant punchline in sitcom history!
It came on at 11pm every night on WPIX and after that it was bed time because tomorrow was school
Mrs. Manicotti lol 😂. Guess Betty Spaghetti was busy 🤣
Lol!!
Mrs. Manicotti sure could do the mambo!
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She was too busy playing baseball. 😂 we have beverly manicotti.
One of my favorite episodes. 😂
I just love the Jackie Gleason show - always entertaining!
I remember watching this as a little girl and thought it was hilarious when Ralph said "Ed Norton" was the composer of Swanee River. 50 years later I still laugh at that.
Alice was HOT! I know. I've spent MANY nights in bed, going through countless bottles of lotion.
Absolutely brilliant!
Wow, this was a huge event in the Kramden household - even the mother-in-law and Mrs. Manicotti made an appearance! I bet it's gone down in Kramden family history and is still talked about fondly to this day with a smile and a shake of the head by Alice and Ralph's descendants.
Living in New Haven, CT we were fortunate to receive WPIX and several other NYC stations. This added viewing diversity to our local TV station.
Historical note: Many stations ended their broadcast at approximately 12:00 AM with the playing of the National Anthem.
How irony affects all of our lives.
For $100 Who Is The Composer Of Swanee River? Uh, Uh, Uh, Uh, ED NORTON?
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Hilarious.
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The7legacy. Ralph never thought to ask the name of Steven Foster swanee river , first song I learned in grade school. he would have made it to $600 ?
The Honeymooners...the show really interested me because really behind closed doors that's reality in husbands and wife's marriages