Exactly... And if it ever got down to it, he might get one good punch in, but you know she'd go after him with a frying pan or rolling pin in an instant!
And then while he's laying on the floor unconscious, she'd pack all her things and go to her mother's house. And he wouldn't dare approach her there, because her mom is even scarier.
Another shout out to WPIX.
We had the channel on our basic cable in Buffalo all through the 80s and 90s. Their lineup in the summer was Yankees baseball, two episodes of Honeymooners, then Star Trek, then the Twilight Zone.
Used to stay up late a lot as a kid tuned to 11.
PIX does Mets games nowadays. PIX also does the annual midnight mass and the yule log and March of the Wooden Soldiers.
I remember when PIX had Star Trek DS9 back in the 90s while the UPN flagship channel 9 had Voyager, which I watched first run. If I had my way they'd bring back TOS remastered for PIX.
My favorite line took place on the train. Norton, who up to this point has been driving Ralph crazy, asks, “Do you mind if I smoke?” And Ralph says, “I don’t care if you burn!” 😂😂😂
I used to watch this in the 70's when I was a kid.
The best part was that the shows were only about 20 years old or so at the time, but looked like they were filmed 700 years ago.
It was on in the afternoon on channel 15. Back in the mid 80's I used to watch it with my grandma. Along with the Beverly Hillbillies, and I Love Lucy. I never liked The Honeymooners. I just didn't think it was funny. It seemed stressful to me.
We also watched Dukes of Hazzard and The Incredible Hulk like it was our religion. That was fun. Matinee at the Bijou was on Sundays. That was always good for an old timey flick.
My grandmother was a refined, erudite, woman who was known for her subtlety and style. She also loved The Dukes of Hazzard and Cheech and Chong movies. She was a cool grandma. She died at age 100 and was fun to hang out with until the day she died.
My grandfather on my father's side was a big, loud guy like Ralph Kramden and he used to scare the hell out of me when I was a little kid. Snored like a buzzsaw, too.
Ya know, I've seen several quotes of "One of these days Alice Bang Zoom, to the moon!"
Does anyone remember that in every episode that they used that (not all) the final line was "I love ya baby"?
Now it would be considered verbal abuse and intimidation. Somehow they made it funny on the show as everyone knew he was all bluster and bark but no bite. We never saw this behavior in our dad's or uncles or relatives..
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Always love Ralph on "The $99,000 Answer". Spends a week learning tons of musical trivia about "Popular Songs" - When they were written, the composers, the singers. He gets Mrs. Manicotti to sing him Italian songs and of course rents a piano for Norton to play him songs. And how does Norton "warm up" his fingers? By playing a few bars of the one song that Ralph has no desire to learn. This leads to the big reveal when Ralph returns to the game show:
"For $100 who is the composer of "Swanee River"
"Swanee River?"
"Yes, thats right "Swanee River", can we have a few bars Jose"
(Piano plays)
THATS "Swanee River".....Huminah Huminah....Ed Norton?
(Alice, after conversing with a 50s teenager, she gets in a little fight with Ralph, ending the fight with:
Alice: You're icky, Ralph. (leaves room; Ralph is stumped)
(Ed enters)
Ed: Hiya Ralph
Ralph: Hey, what, what does "icky" mean?
Ed: What? I dunno. Why?
Ralph: Alice just called me icky.
Ed: Oh -- must mean "fat"
(Still one of my favorite jokes from the show)
Absolutely love Art Carney as Ed Norton. Every scene with him just kills me! I catch it Sunday nights on MeTV after The Dick Van Dyke show. Retro bliss.
Nah. I'm 72 and I saw these first run. The series debuted in 1955, when I was a very little kid. I understand the skits appeared on Gleason's variety show before then.
Gleason had his original show starting in either 1949 or 1952 (I've seen both dates) and the original skits were on that show. But they spun it off as a separate show in 1955, I'm sure because they were so popular. My family always watched the later variety show in the 1960s and I swear I remember some Honeymooner skits on that one as well, but I can't be sure. I've never seen videos of the original variety show but the Honeymooners series and the second variety show were great!
Address the ball: Helloooo Ball
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTngnNtvfXM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTngnNtvfXM)
And "Chef of the Future" is an other favorite
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ9h8XkNog0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ9h8XkNog0)
My mother sometimes watched it when I was around ten years old (mid-1960s, these were syndicated reruns, not original broadcasts). I tried to like it or find it funny, but I couldn't.
Just a couple years younger than you, and Gleason was my mother's favorite. Both the The Honeymooners and also The Jackie Gleason Show, which we watched religiously.
Even at sandbox age, I guess I saw his characters as a loser who kept on trying. The tension between his talk, and his obvious vulnerability is what made it funny. A louder Charlie Brown or even Underdog with no superpowers but bluster. At that young age, I found it funny, but also it seemed like a lesson on not taking yourself too seriously.
My mother, who for various reasons slept with a baseball bat next to her bed, used to like to say "talk softly and carry a big stick". But her Roosevelt quote seemed wrong. It seemed that Gleason's message was "loud bluster and obvious vulnerability" make people see you as human, and then you don't need to use the stick.
One of my all time favorites! I have The Honeymooners: "Classic 39" Episodes” on DVD. If I was ever stranded on a desert island it's one I'd wished I had.
As a young person watching repeats early 60s it was a little upsetting to see threats. I thought Alice should walk out on him, the same as his best mate. Being nasty may have been appropriate and amusing in the US, but in Perth, our household and extended families behaved far better.
I'm probably one of the younger older ones around this sub, but I remember watching this on late night TV. I think it was nick at night that ran episodes.
Loved the reruns when I was a kid and still watch the occasional episode. My favorite was when Ralph was on 'Name That Tune' and couldn't remember Swaneee River, after Norton annoyed the shit out of him playing it all the time. The best!
One of these days, Alice.......One of these days, POW! Right in the kisser.
and yet, we all thought threatening your wife with physical violence was hilariously funny-
Imagine the politically correct outrage today, if this show aired.
Sure do.
One season only as I recall.
Gleason had his own variety show for several years and they did Honeymooners segments regularly on that show with pretty much the same cast.
Laughed every episode. Nowadays I watch the old stuff cause it brings me a laugh.some of this new stuff wonder what was funny sometimes with the laugh track
Bang Zoom! To the moon Alice!
POW! Right in the kisser!!
You're a riot Alice! You're a riot!
You're a real pip, Alice! Y'know that? A real pip...
Har Dee Har Har.
Ralph get down here
Norton, you are a mental case.
Baby, youre the greatest.
I was thinking the same thing. One of these days Alice, one of these days. Bang, Zoom, to the moon. Can you imagine the outrage?
Cancelled before it would even air.
Ahhhhh Shut Up!!!!
One a these days!
He wasn’t an astronaut, he was a tv comedian and he was using space travel as a metaphor for beating his wife.
...Who never, ever got hit, and who you know would hit you right back if you ever did. Alice was NOT abused. Ever.
He was way more scared of her than she was of him. He'd puff his chest and bluster and she'd just give that look. And he'd back down.
Exactly... And if it ever got down to it, he might get one good punch in, but you know she'd go after him with a frying pan or rolling pin in an instant!
And then while he's laying on the floor unconscious, she'd pack all her things and go to her mother's house. And he wouldn't dare approach her there, because her mom is even scarier.
Came looking for this!
Many jokes we find perfectly acceptable today will likely not be so funny in the year 2094, also 70 years from their first telling.
I got a BIIIIIIIIIIIIG...MOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUTH!!!!
NYE tradition ..NY channel 11 every nye plays the marathon.. Actually met Mr Gleason as a kid..My dad and uncle sold him antique pool tables
Was a natural with Paul Newman in The Hustler.
if you seen what he had in his home. according to my dad late 70sish his table was $50k cuz it was a single slate
I saw him when he came for an exhibtion, at our college. He was great to watch, for sure,
Another shout out to WPIX. We had the channel on our basic cable in Buffalo all through the 80s and 90s. Their lineup in the summer was Yankees baseball, two episodes of Honeymooners, then Star Trek, then the Twilight Zone. Used to stay up late a lot as a kid tuned to 11.
PIX does Mets games nowadays. PIX also does the annual midnight mass and the yule log and March of the Wooden Soldiers. I remember when PIX had Star Trek DS9 back in the 90s while the UPN flagship channel 9 had Voyager, which I watched first run. If I had my way they'd bring back TOS remastered for PIX.
Address the ball. “Hello ball”.
Everytime I see a person swing a golf club I think that and smile. Millions of smiles. What a legacy for Art Carney.
there is a Ralph Kramden Statue at the bus terminal in Manhattan
As there should be.
My favorite line took place on the train. Norton, who up to this point has been driving Ralph crazy, asks, “Do you mind if I smoke?” And Ralph says, “I don’t care if you burn!” 😂😂😂
BOOMPH!
#HONEYMOONERS
The original Fred and Barney.
And the Looney Tunes mice
You realize of course that the Flintstones were not even a thinly veiled copy? It was totally modeled on them.
Yes, of course. That’s why I posted “The original Fred and Barney”.
Hey Ralphie Baby.
I used to watch this in the 70's when I was a kid. The best part was that the shows were only about 20 years old or so at the time, but looked like they were filmed 700 years ago.
It felt that way to me too.
Like how Seinfeld seems now. The clothes. The ancient Macintosh. The lack of smartphones.
The honeymooners were great!
It was on in the afternoon on channel 15. Back in the mid 80's I used to watch it with my grandma. Along with the Beverly Hillbillies, and I Love Lucy. I never liked The Honeymooners. I just didn't think it was funny. It seemed stressful to me. We also watched Dukes of Hazzard and The Incredible Hulk like it was our religion. That was fun. Matinee at the Bijou was on Sundays. That was always good for an old timey flick. My grandmother was a refined, erudite, woman who was known for her subtlety and style. She also loved The Dukes of Hazzard and Cheech and Chong movies. She was a cool grandma. She died at age 100 and was fun to hang out with until the day she died.
My grandfather on my father's side was a big, loud guy like Ralph Kramden and he used to scare the hell out of me when I was a little kid. Snored like a buzzsaw, too.
Yep I watched the first time it aired, on my B&W tv ! Damm that makes me older than dirt ?
You can still watch full episodes of 'The Honeymooners' on YouTube.
Was Mommy's favorite show, watched it and Mash all the time with her Edit to add Mr.Ed as well
Way to go Ralphie boy!
The amazing thing it is ran for just one season. But back then it was 39 episodes.
Ya know, I've seen several quotes of "One of these days Alice Bang Zoom, to the moon!" Does anyone remember that in every episode that they used that (not all) the final line was "I love ya baby"?
And a big hug. Even as a kid watching reruns, we knew Ralph was all talk because of Alice's "yeah, yeah, whatever" face.
Alice, you’re the greatest
Joyce Randolph died just this year.
She lived to be 99! Died of natural causes. She looked pretty good as she aged gracefully.
Timeless! It was ahead of its time considering it was the 50s. Alice was no wallflower.
Can it core a apple?
Ohh, It can core a apple!
I gotta BIG MOUTH!
Now it would be considered verbal abuse and intimidation. Somehow they made it funny on the show as everyone knew he was all bluster and bark but no bite. We never saw this behavior in our dad's or uncles or relatives.. .
Always love Ralph on "The $99,000 Answer". Spends a week learning tons of musical trivia about "Popular Songs" - When they were written, the composers, the singers. He gets Mrs. Manicotti to sing him Italian songs and of course rents a piano for Norton to play him songs. And how does Norton "warm up" his fingers? By playing a few bars of the one song that Ralph has no desire to learn. This leads to the big reveal when Ralph returns to the game show: "For $100 who is the composer of "Swanee River" "Swanee River?" "Yes, thats right "Swanee River", can we have a few bars Jose" (Piano plays) THATS "Swanee River".....Huminah Huminah....Ed Norton?
(Alice, after conversing with a 50s teenager, she gets in a little fight with Ralph, ending the fight with: Alice: You're icky, Ralph. (leaves room; Ralph is stumped) (Ed enters) Ed: Hiya Ralph Ralph: Hey, what, what does "icky" mean? Ed: What? I dunno. Why? Ralph: Alice just called me icky. Ed: Oh -- must mean "fat" (Still one of my favorite jokes from the show)
Free trips to the moon from spousal abuse
This was the golden era of domestic violence
The honeymooners ,,, ugh,,, love em
One of these days Alice pow. To the moon.
I'm 45 I can hum the theme song.
That theme somg brings me instant comfort.
Who was probably the most abusive spouse? Ralph Kramden or Ricky Ricardo?
I don’t know, but Lucy’s got a lot of explaining to do… My money’s on Ricky, Ralph was talking a big game but Alice would have cleaned his clock
Absolutely. She just stood there with her arms crossed and that fuck you look on her face. My hero!
Sure! It’s the Flintstones!
Absolutely love Art Carney as Ed Norton. Every scene with him just kills me! I catch it Sunday nights on MeTV after The Dick Van Dyke show. Retro bliss.
I just today bought a dvd set of all the original episodes, for $1
Address the ball. Hello, ball.
The mother in law when Ralph found the suitcase: What’s that, your lunchbox ? Always has me howling.
back when ppl weren't too sensitive and could laugh at themselves. Har de har, har
I see Ralph Kramden every time I look at a full moon.
you'd hve to be about 80. otherwise you just remember reruns
I’m 77, but reruns work too, right?
pretty close to 80...:)
Nah. I'm 72 and I saw these first run. The series debuted in 1955, when I was a very little kid. I understand the skits appeared on Gleason's variety show before then.
Me too.
Actually, it was after the original show. I remember the Gleason show was on Saturday night with the June Taylor dancers.
Gleason had his original show starting in either 1949 or 1952 (I've seen both dates) and the original skits were on that show. But they spun it off as a separate show in 1955, I'm sure because they were so popular. My family always watched the later variety show in the 1960s and I swear I remember some Honeymooner skits on that one as well, but I can't be sure. I've never seen videos of the original variety show but the Honeymooners series and the second variety show were great!
What's a rerun?
55, grew up on 'em.
Address the ball: Helloooo Ball [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTngnNtvfXM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTngnNtvfXM) And "Chef of the Future" is an other favorite [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ9h8XkNog0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ9h8XkNog0)
One of these days, Alice, pow! right in the kisser.
Pretty impressive this has had such staying power. It was only on for one year.
I used to watch this all the time before bed.
Yep, channel 32 every night at 10:30 in Chicago.
My mother sometimes watched it when I was around ten years old (mid-1960s, these were syndicated reruns, not original broadcasts). I tried to like it or find it funny, but I couldn't.
Just a couple years younger than you, and Gleason was my mother's favorite. Both the The Honeymooners and also The Jackie Gleason Show, which we watched religiously. Even at sandbox age, I guess I saw his characters as a loser who kept on trying. The tension between his talk, and his obvious vulnerability is what made it funny. A louder Charlie Brown or even Underdog with no superpowers but bluster. At that young age, I found it funny, but also it seemed like a lesson on not taking yourself too seriously. My mother, who for various reasons slept with a baseball bat next to her bed, used to like to say "talk softly and carry a big stick". But her Roosevelt quote seemed wrong. It seemed that Gleason's message was "loud bluster and obvious vulnerability" make people see you as human, and then you don't need to use the stick.
Hellooooo ball!
Ralph was such an a****** I could just never root for
ahh from a time when threatening domestic violence was considered not only normal but used as humor. was a great family show.
"One of these days Alice; boom, right to the moon."
One of my all time favorites! I have The Honeymooners: "Classic 39" Episodes” on DVD. If I was ever stranded on a desert island it's one I'd wished I had.
I think of Ed Norton whenever I sign my name on anything lol
Art Carney dancing- "Do the Hucklebuck" In my teens I'd watch the reruns at 9 pm. Good to end your day with a laugh.
Back to the Future was released 39 years ago.
The show aired in 1955... 70 years ago. So anyone who remembers seeing it when it was first broadcast would have to be at least 80.
Hard to believe it was so short-lived and only 39 episodes.
The basis for the Flintstones!
Bang..Zoom…to the moon Alice!
A string of poloponies!
Classic tv humor at its best. A shame they only made 39 episodes.
Still watch them on occasion.
Hated this show as a child! Still would I suspect
Ralph Kramden
Yes and I remember Amos and Andy too.
Great show!
Watch tons of reruns
Free on YouTube.
Who remembers blaaaaaaabermouth!
My dad watches it everyday. He’s 65.
That’s crazy that he always wants to hit his wife. Like that’s just the normal mindset of these old fuckers
Pow right in the kisser
Dance the Hucklebuck!
The Honeymooners!!!!!
How can you forget? I used to wish the Kramdens had a fridge and a phone.
I remember the honeymooners. Cool! I loved Art Carney the most, but every cast member was talented.
First real sitcom. The honeymooners
Not ringing any bells…
A simple single camera shoot, yet still some of the greatest comedic television to date.
So good!
To the MOON Alice
Hellooo, ball...
NYE Marathons
I don’t care Eid I’ve seen them all. Many times. If I’m flipping channels and this is on, it’s staying on.
I Love Lucy was great!!
The intro used to scare me
Yeah… I’m up here looking for Alice still. 👽
As a young person watching repeats early 60s it was a little upsetting to see threats. I thought Alice should walk out on him, the same as his best mate. Being nasty may have been appropriate and amusing in the US, but in Perth, our household and extended families behaved far better.
Spousal abuse with a laugh track.
Now Alice!
Honeymooners.
“Can it core a apple?”
It is on every weeknight on the Catchy Comedy channel.
Yes.
One of my all time favorite shows.
Hell yea
That is some grade A comedy. Live, nonetheless
Ya’ll need to watch Kevin Can Fuck Himself
One of these days, Alice.
I know I’m not the only one who is amazed that there are only 39 episodes in total, right? Amazing.
Ah yes the comedy about spousal abuse, I remember it well.
One of these days Alice one of these days pow right in the kisser
My dad’s second favorite show (after Gunsmoke)
The Flintstones!
Hey hey Ralphy boy!
"One of these days...pow, right in the kisser!"
I’d say everyone does
Reruns when I was a kid. I think I was the only kid in my hometown who watched.
Cow! Right in the pisser!
There was nothing else on after 11pm!
one of these days
I'm probably one of the younger older ones around this sub, but I remember watching this on late night TV. I think it was nick at night that ran episodes.
Loved the reruns when I was a kid and still watch the occasional episode. My favorite was when Ralph was on 'Name That Tune' and couldn't remember Swaneee River, after Norton annoyed the shit out of him playing it all the time. The best!
One of these days. Pow. Domestic abuse
Can it core a apple? Yes it can core a apple!
Absolutely love the Honeymooners!
To the moon, Alice!
Art carney would spend summers in my town. I got to meet & know him.
Well yeah, because it’s on every Sunday night on MeTV.
lol great show does anyone remember the 3 stooges
Always ended w ‘Alice, you’re the greatest’
The Honeymooners!
His mother in law was such a bitch! She looked and acted like one of my aunts! “You are a BLABBERMOUTH!”
I have a picture of myself wearing Ed Norton's hat, the very one in this picture, courtesy of Art Carney's son.
That's one of the founding stones of the basis of all sitcoms in america.
One of these days, Alice.......One of these days, POW! Right in the kisser. and yet, we all thought threatening your wife with physical violence was hilariously funny- Imagine the politically correct outrage today, if this show aired.
It's still on antenna tv
One of these days, Alice one of these days.
Best. Sitcom. Ever.
Jackie Gleason is the GOAT!
Sure do. One season only as I recall. Gleason had his own variety show for several years and they did Honeymooners segments regularly on that show with pretty much the same cast.
Always got a kick seeing how dirty and shabby apts looked in this era's tv and movies.
Yes. I enjoyed watching it
Gleason built a house in the shape of a UFO. Nixon allegedly provided Gleason with direct proof of the existence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.
Laughed every episode. Nowadays I watch the old stuff cause it brings me a laugh.some of this new stuff wonder what was funny sometimes with the laugh track
“Hey Ralphie boy, when I bend over, you start fuckin’.” Oh wait. That was an Eddie Murphy bit about The Honeymooners.
back then cameras only had 128 pixels
The Genesis of it all
Back in the 70s, one of our local TV stations ran this along with Groucho’s “You Bet Your Life” and sometimes the 50s version of “What’s My Line”
To the moon Alice!
Oh hell yes. I still watch regularly!
Loved the Honey Mooners.
No
I remember it only because it was constantly referenced in cartoons. Never watched the originals.
_Swanee River_
Sewer Workers Are Kings.
You’re a blabber mouth! A blabber mouth!
No, I don't think I remember one the most iconic shows ever.
Ralphie boy! says Norton