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The Honeymooners

TheOldMole Feb 08 2006 04:28 PM

What's your favorite "Honeymooners" episode?

cooby Feb 08 2006 04:29 PM

The toothpick hairpin box one.

Johnny Dickshot Feb 08 2006 04:30 PM

64000 Question

Lundy Feb 08 2006 04:37 PM

The one where Ralph and Ed go on TV and core a apple.

Edgy DC Feb 08 2006 04:39 PM

When Ralph masquerades as a transportation executive to show up Alice's old flame. It's hard to pick.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 08 2006 04:49 PM

When Alice takes mambo lessons.

KC Feb 08 2006 05:29 PM

I could never chose one. Here's my top ten in no particular order ... Funny Money - Ralph finds a suitcase full of counterfeit dough Better Living Through TV - the core a apple episode The Sleepwalker - Lu Looooo Pardon My Glove - Ralph blows a chance at free apartment make-over Young Man With A Horn - The story of my life - I could never hit the high note The Man From Space - Norton wins contest dressed in his work clothes The $99,000 Answer - I brive a dus A Dog's Life - Ralph rescues a couple of dogs from the pound at the end Mama Loves Mambo - Carlos turns the apartment house upside down Dial J For Janitor - Ralph takes over running the building as a second job

Lundy Feb 08 2006 07:32 PM

The one where Ralph and Ed end up handcuffed en route to the Racoon convention "There ain't no key, ya gotta boomph your way out!" is another good one.

Rockin' Doc Feb 08 2006 08:42 PM

The Honeymooners was great television. I can't possibly pick just one episode from all the great shows.

TheOldMole Feb 08 2006 10:23 PM

I'm wih Lundy. I have a peculiar fondness for the Chef of the Past and the Raccoon convention episodes. And the one where Ralph goes on "Name That Tune."

cooby Feb 09 2006 07:50 AM

Chef of the Future was a good one. "Can it core a apple?...." When I was little and watched this show, I never appreciated Norton as a sidekick because I didn't think he was funny. When I grew up and watched it I realized his humor was what set up the whole act. Same thing happened with the Monkees and Mike.

TheOldMole Feb 09 2006 07:51 AM

Didn't think Norton was funny?

cooby Feb 09 2006 07:54 AM

I do now, I think he's hilarious. Also, now that I think of it, when I was little I had a huge crush on Jackie Gleason (go figure) and that may have been part of it. Nobody else could get my attention, l guess

Yancy Street Gang Feb 09 2006 09:20 AM

I remember a year or two ago, in Answer/Ask, I asked who was the most talented cast member of The Honeymooners. I figured that there were three valid answers. To my surprise, however, cooby answered with... Trixie! The one answer that didn't make any sense at all. I assumed that she had never seen the show, but now I discover that she has. I'm even more perplexed than ever! I'll re-ask the question now, for the group at large: Who was the most talented Honeymooner cast member? Jackie Gleason (Ralph) Art Carney (Norton) Audrey Meadows (Alice) Joyce Randolph (Trixie)

Edgy DC Feb 09 2006 09:25 AM

Mike Nesmith was my reason for tuning in.

cooby Feb 09 2006 09:27 AM

I'll say Art Carney. Joyce Randolph was cute, but probably couldn't carry a show. Audrey Meadows had Phylicia Rashad syndrome. And I hate that. Jackie Gleason had obvious stage fright, now that I'm old enough to notice it.

KC Feb 09 2006 09:30 AM

Joyce Randolph was just a terrible actress - lovable nonetheless. The show is just off-the-chart genius. It’s funny, as sophisticated and modern as we’d like to think of ourselves some fifty years later - those skits about pride, jealousy, struggle of the little guy, love be- tween man and wife (and friends) - set in B&W in a broken down dingy apartment - is still so amusing and dead-on. I watch them all the time and I just never grow tired of it. Gleason, Carney, Meadows, and then Randolph on the talent scale.

TheOldMole Feb 09 2006 01:21 PM

Carney, Gleason. And Gleason was smart enough to know it, and use it.

soupcan Feb 09 2006 01:44 PM

Never a big fan. Tried to watch it as much as I could as a kid but it was always on at 11:00 on WPIX in the City so I rarely was able to stay up. As I got older PIX replaced the Honeymooners with The Odd Couple and I did become a huge fan of the original 'OC'. I met Jackie Gleason once when I was about 7. Big man.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 09 2006 02:16 PM

I think I'd have to go with Carney over Gleason too, but it's not an easy call. Audrey Meadows would be third, but I wouldn't rank her too far behind the two men. Joyce Randolph was a non-factor. Anybody could have played her part. They could have made Trixie an offscreen character (like Maris Crane or Vera Peterson) and the show wouldn't have suffered a bit. As for Audrey Meadows, I've sometimes wondered if she was any kind of influence (conscious or otherwise) on Patricia Heaton in Everybody Loves Raymond. Their characters were similar (long-suffering wife of a boob) and they seemed to take the same approach.

cooby Feb 09 2006 02:18 PM

Or Jill or Home Improvement. Or Claire on Cosby. How can a wife be like that?