This just cracks me up. One of those TV moments I may never get sick of...Just the expression on Ralph's face when he enters the apartment and sees his mother in law there is priceless!!!
The funniest line in this episode is when he and Norton think the police are banging on the door and Ralph throws the money in the oven, and says I'll be out in a minute my wife is taking a bath in the sink !!!!!LOL !!!!!!!
I was looking for a comment blog to quote that line. That was a perverse hilarious line. Another funny line answer scene, was when the Mother-in-law barged in behind the cops before emerging from behind them to say, ' Officer, arrest that big fat one ! He's the one that gave me the counterfeit bill!' Then, Ralph says, ' Momma, I'm Sonny boy ' Then she says, ' Don't you call me Momma, you crook ! --- And these other ones are probably members of his gang !!' .The way she followed them out, after getting snapped at by Norton and Ralph, was hilarious
Jackie was a genius at comedy as Lucille Ball was. One felt sorry for Ralph and loved him with all his faults! Audrey was great as Alice too and the show itself was pure artistry!!
Yeah, can you imagine what it would have been like if Jackie Gleason & Lucille Ball would've worked together on some kind of comedy? That really would have been a riot , huh?
The great character actress Ethel Owen played Alice's mother. Her real life daughter was actress Pamela Britton, who played ditzy Mrs. Brown in "My Favorite Martian" in the early 1960's. Ethel Owen Lived to be 103 years old, dying 1 1/2 months before her 104th. birthday.
Thanks,, glad she lived a long life. Great actress--her daughter, Pamela Britton, also very good, died at only 51 years old of a brain tumor--very sad.
She insulted him 3 times in his own home before he blew a gasket and threw her out, the Blabbermouth episode she insulted him 8 times before he finally lost it and despite Alice's stern warnings called her Mother a Blabbermouth.
Yes! I remember the latter episode, where Alice's mother insulted him around eight times. The episode is titled: "A MATTER OF RECORD." * I also like the part in this episode where Ralph is given two movie 🎥 tickets from his boss, so to see "Murder Strikes Out" and, Alice is unable to go and see this movie with him because she is expecting her mother to show up. So, Ralph goes and offers a ticket to his good friend, Ed Norton, so to go see it instead. Ralph: "C'mon, Norton! Are you going or not? I can't use two seats!" Ed: (as he looks down at Ralph's waistline) "Uhh, that's a matter of opinion! But, I'll manage to squeeze in somehow!"
You have to give Alice's mother credit. She wasn't one bit intimidated or scared of Ralph's authoritative looks or mouth! Even when Ralph was throwing her out of the apartment, she still managed to get the last word in! The queen of the battle axes!
Favorite part of this episode is when the police are getting ready to take Ralph and the counterfeiters to jail. The mother in law comes in and yells, "Officer! Arrest that big fat one! These others are probably members of his gang!"
The actress (Ethel Owen) that played Alice's mother was fantastic! When you are in a scene with Jackie Gleason and he is in your face, and you can hold your own; when you come across as the genuine article, that says a lot about your performance. I would not doubt for a moment that she was Ralph's mother-in-law, and that they honestly had a hostile relationship. Also, with the magic of youtube, DVRs, etc, we can easily replay a scene and focus on the side characters. For example, while Ralph is arguing with his mother-in-law... watch Alice. She stays in character, and makes just the right facial expressions to convey her displeasure with the arguing and her feeling of helplessness. Everyone's performance was superb!
So very true. I have been doing that, especially Art Carney with his facial expressions while Jackie was doing his thing has and always will be amazing to analyze. Each and everyone on the show. Pure brilliance, can never be matched in any lifetime.
The old, ugly, mother of Daisy Mae, if I recall correctly, thanks to the 1959 movie based on the Al Capp comic strip Li'l Abner, that ran for decades in the newspapers.
I saw a documentary on the Honeymooners once. The lady that played Ralph's mother in law just loved him in real life, she called him a " deer sweet man."
This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. God bless. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoiczcams.com/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/video.html
James Hooper - Crap? You mean to say you don't appreciate today's inclusive politically correct gender neutral situation comedies? They're so non-offensive. How could anyone not like them? People of all 56 genders, all ethnicities, all races, and all sexual orientations can now fully participate and feel free to join in the new sitcoms' woke sense of humor. Isn't that what society today needs?
Poverty stricken blue collar worker who is a loser at life who verbally abuses his wife and bullies everyone else. 60 years ago it was funny. Legally and psychologically it's NOT funny any more.
"The only thing that can push you is a bulldozer!" --Mother-in-law to Ralph. Jackie frequently complained to his writers, "no more fat jokes," but they found it too easy to write-in fat jokes that were so funny, they couldn't be left out!
Alice mom think was Ralph biggest Lunch box. One funny film tv show. Wish put full show. Two thumbs up. Kind funny don’t do much great comedy show like this. Why lots Fans love classic hits tv show.
The episode of the Honeymooners you are seeking here is titled: "Funny Money 💰," one of the 39 shows aired. It begins with a couple of corrupt men involved with counterfeit money. That "lunchbox" of Ralph's is filled with it, but, it got left behind on Ralph's bus and they are hesitant about getting it back for fear of being arrested. That's why the 30 day hold.
LMAO.....that long "stare" has never not made me laugh my ass off!! No warming up in the bull pen....LMAO. This show has been my fav since the 60's and still is today. I cant believe nobody shows this in reruns yet there are tons of reruns of the "Golden Shower Girls". And pfffttt to I Love Lucy....it wishes it was better than this how! Jackie sir....you were a genius!!!
@@daisynieves1644 how the hell did i miss this reply?! Sorry! Wish i saw it then as i used to get that station. I ended up buying the dvd collection. 😊
RALPH: "ALL RIGHT GET THE FUCK OUT!!! *OUT!!! OUT!!! OUT!!! FUCK OFF!!!* AND DON'T COME HERE AGAIN , YOUR FUCKIN BATALAX!!!" Mother In-Law: "Well, If that's the way you feel, you can fuckin kiss my ass, you..." RALPH: *OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*"
This is 2:31 minutes of comedic genius! The so-called comedies out recently are so pale in comparison; their actors are not comedians, the lines are lame and the laugh-track is full of fluff and so phony sounding. The Honeymooners were the real thing!
"Anyone knows it wasn't the XXX that did it, it was the XXX!" --mother-in-law, spilling the secret, on who was the murderer in the movie Ralph was going to go see! And then Ralph yelled at her, "YOU ARE A BLABBERMOUTH! Blabbermouth! OUT!"
Audrey Meadows almost didn't get the role of Alice. Everyone thought she was too attractive. She dressed herself up as a frumpy middle aged woman and went down for a second audition. She won the role when she tricked them into believing she was the frumpy actress, not the pretty red head.
@@Deutschie I saw what must have been a TV sketch of the Honeymooners before Audrey played Alice and the character was not attractive at all. That is what they wanted but Audrey convinced them she could do the role very well and definitely must have made herself as unattractive as possible and she got the role.
@@susanb2015 One of my favorite actress' idea to make herself more UNattractive to get the part, after Jackie initially turned her down saying she was too pretty! So, Audrey purposefully dressed down, no makeup on, and got a photographer to shoot some pics of her, so frumpy and unattractive, and then gave them to Jackie. He saw her, loved how she looked as his "Alice" and asked her to come in for the part--and then learned it was the same actress he initially rejected, saying she was too pretty. I also loved Gleason's response: "Any dame that would make herself more unattractive to get the part, deserves to get it!" --paraphrasing Jackie's line.
Something else I noticed that boosts Jackie Gleason's comedic style: his big, animated gestures. As Ralph Kramden or as Sheriff Buford T. Justice, his gestures are big and appropriate to their context, and they make him even funnier.
You know it wasn't always Ralph's fault she was always cracking on him about his weight when he walked in and just stared at her for a couple of seconds Jackie Gleason doesn't even have to say a word he'll just walk in the room and make you laugh hysterically my favorite show of all time The Honeymooners I've been watching them over 45 years never gets old
"Can't be of any value or you wouldn't have found it"... she certainly love rubbing in that he's a loser. No wonder Ralph couldn't stand his mother in law.
The very fact that female characters were able to and speak and express independent opinions the way these two did wax epic and groundbreaking. That being said I love Ralph Cramden.
I’m going to speak very plainly. If your opinion of equality is that a woman gets to be so rude and brusque, then you need a new dictionary. Throwing her out was harsh, but Ralph did not start this argument, nor had he done anything to deserve the treatment.
'oh you're startin' right i huh, startin' right in with the insults, no warmin' up in the bulll-penn or nothing, huh, startin' right in I remember when you use to come over you used to start out slow with a couple of hello stupids' and stuff like that..." 🤣 never gets old!
Just because you married to a horse doesn't mean you have to live in stable. Only thing push you is bulldozer .cant be nothing worth anything or you wouldn't have found it. LOL. My show for life
Ralph and Norton best comedy team ever!! Jackie would ad lib his lines to allow the other actors to deliver hilarious punch lines. The man was a comic genius and could also play dramatic roles, such as " THE HUSTLER and REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT. My dad would laugh so hard, he would start coughing, now 40 years later, I am doing the same thing.
Alice was a TV housewife way ahead of the time. She wasn't afraid to tell Ralph where to go, and how to get there if he gets in her face. She was exactly what the show needed. Classic.
SOMEONE in that family had to be grounded in reality, instead of pie-in-the-sky, and that person was Alice. It was an old tv plot device with one family member always trying to get-rich-quick, and Ralph Kramden (a mere, underpaid, long-suffering bus driver) was perfectly suited to be in that funny group!
That's why Ralph and Alice are perfect for each other. Two very strong willed people that can hold their own with each other. Alice was the perfect foil for Ralph. Al and Peg Bundy are the same.
kendallrivers: Eventually "Archie" and "Edith" grew into that dynamic on "All In The Family" as "Mrs. (or "Ms.") Bunker" joyously discovered to the ongoing chagrin of "Mr. Bunker." One truly poignant moment in Television History is when "Edith" is aghast at something Her Husband says or does and vanishes from the premises for a night. Which prompts this heartrending comment from "A. Bunker" over The Phone to his Daughter: "I don't know. I think it's Your Mother. I think She's ran away from home."😔🤱💔📺B.W.
One of the best shows ever. I like that it portrays the average American at work trying to make ends meet, be it as a bus driver or sewer maintenance (Ed Norton/Art Carney).
The woman that played Alice's mother has so much patience what a great actress to put up with that loudmouth in front of her great acting on all of their parts
Alice's mother: " what's that you're lunch box"? best line
if I were Ralph i would have threw her ass out for that , you don't come to my home disrespecting me like that
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I agree that line gets me every time 😁
I laugh out loud every time I watch this. Never gets old.
YES!!! Lunch box!!!🤣🤣🤣🤣
Just because you're married to a horse doesn't mean you have to live in a stable!!! LOL!!
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"They could have NEVER cast this phenomenal comedy show better!!"
"The only thing that can push you is a bulldozer." LOL. This show was pure GENIUS!!!!
Gleason was the best!
Many more recent sitcoms ripped off that line.
Absolute comic brilliance!!! And timeless
Ethel Owen. What a gem. Her timing impeccable. And she and Gleason wow!!!
I believe she lived to 103.
@@meltzerboy 1893-1997
Whenever i saw her appear i knew it would be a riot!! 😂😂 She played this part perfectly!! Loved every scene she was in!!
This just cracks me up. One of those TV moments I may never get sick of...Just the expression on Ralph's face when he enters the apartment and sees his mother in law there is priceless!!!
David Cullen. Whats great is the expressions are so life like , it could look exactly like that in real life. He was the best of the best.
Totally priceless
And he pauses for like 10 seconds...like Seinfeld and Newman when they first see each other in the episodes.
Myself as well! I just love 💘 "Mammy Yokum's" wise comments used against her daughter's poor husband, Ralph Kramden.
"What is SHE doing here" 😆
"what's that, your lunch box?" LMAO 🤣
"And to think that you gave up a good job at the laundry for this!" Timeless classic comedy!
The lunch box was the best line.
Gleason's timing and control of expression in this role is fantastic, very well performed and vocalised!
The funniest line in this episode is when he and Norton think the police are banging on the door and Ralph throws the money in the oven, and says I'll be out in a minute my wife is taking a bath in the sink !!!!!LOL !!!!!!!
Also when Norton says THERES NOBODY HOME!!!
I was looking for a comment blog to quote that line.
That was a perverse hilarious line.
Another funny line answer scene, was when the Mother-in-law barged in behind the cops before emerging from behind them to say, ' Officer, arrest that big fat one ! He's the one that gave me the counterfeit bill!'
Then, Ralph says, ' Momma, I'm Sonny boy ' Then she says, ' Don't you call me Momma, you crook ! --- And these other ones are probably members of his gang !!' .The way she followed them out, after getting snapped at by Norton and Ralph, was hilarious
Jackie was a genius at comedy as Lucille Ball was. One felt sorry for Ralph and loved him with all his faults! Audrey was great as Alice too and the show itself was pure artistry!!
Yeah, can you imagine what it would have been like if Jackie Gleason & Lucille Ball would've worked together on some kind of comedy? That really would have been a riot , huh?
@@brianpetrick7512 Yes!! I've been sharing the same thoght with others for a while now!
I never cared for Lucy or the show, this is 100× better!
Never found Lucy funny. The Honeymooners were far funnier.
@@m42037 I couldn't agree more.
I love the part where Ralph comes home and him and his mother in law just stare at each other
I like how Ralph mutters under his breath "Ya dirty old dog"
Or "she ain't such a bad crow at that" later in the episode.
The best and still funny after 60 years!!!!!
Whoever played the mother-in-law, did a great job!
It’s my mother in law and she is so well because she’s not acting
Ethel Owen b.1893 d.1997
@@blacjackdaniels200lol😅😅😅😅
@@JC-el1zu1893 is crazy
The great character actress Ethel Owen played Alice's mother. Her real life daughter was actress Pamela Britton, who played ditzy Mrs. Brown in "My Favorite Martian" in the early 1960's. Ethel Owen Lived to be 103 years old, dying 1 1/2 months before her 104th. birthday.
She was easily the best Alice’s mother. I watched the reunion 70’s shows and the actress who played Alice mother was nothing compared to Ethel Owen.
Thanks,, glad she lived a long life. Great actress--her daughter, Pamela Britton, also very good, died at only 51 years old of a brain tumor--very sad.
Ralph's mother-in-law was the most hideous old battle-axe in television history.
That's for damn sure
The old blaaaabermouth sure did have some great comebacks though!
There's a line when he enters and her back is to him. She says, "Hello Ralph." "How did you know it was me?" She says, "I felt the floor sag."
@@davy1972 Don't remember that line, which episode was it in??
@@donk499 Sorry, I don't know.
I believe you are confused with another show
@@jerryvan-hees7130 It was probably from the lost episodes.
“To think you gave up a good job at the laundry for this!” LMAO 🤣🤣
She insulted him 3 times in his own home before he blew a gasket and threw her out, the Blabbermouth episode she insulted him 8 times before he finally lost it and despite Alice's stern warnings called her Mother a Blabbermouth.
Yes! I remember the latter episode, where Alice's mother insulted him around eight times. The episode is titled: "A MATTER OF RECORD."
* I also like the part in this episode where Ralph is given two movie 🎥 tickets from his boss, so to see "Murder Strikes Out" and, Alice is unable to go and see this movie with him because she is expecting her mother to show up. So, Ralph goes and offers a ticket to his good friend, Ed Norton, so to go see it instead.
Ralph: "C'mon, Norton! Are you going or not? I can't use two seats!"
Ed: (as he looks down at Ralph's waistline) "Uhh, that's a matter of opinion! But, I'll manage to squeeze in somehow!"
Alice was kind of a bitch for not standing up for Ralph. She was a TV sitcom hard-ass wife, but afraid of her mother.
Such a favorite classic...nothing like the Honeymooners and Ralph Kramden!
Whoever played Alice's mom was a real professional
Ethel Owen, she lived to almost 104 years of age!
The "bulldozer" remark still gets me every time! LOLOLOL!!! :)
Or better yet, "Even a bulldozer couldn't push you!"
Can't you just feel the love between those two?
"No warming up in the bullpen"
".....usually she starts with a couple of hello stupids......"
@@fleetwin1 Now I don't even get that!..LOL
"You have to be going anyway, whether, your going anyway or any other way, I'm throwing you out anyway" 😆
@@bartonpercival3216 I have to admit the mother in law played the role well!
@@tommyt9761 Yes, always played that part perfectly
One if not the best comedy sitcoms ever!🤣🤣🤣🤣
You have to give Alice's mother credit. She wasn't one bit intimidated or scared of Ralph's authoritative looks or mouth! Even when Ralph was throwing her out of the apartment, she still managed to get the last word in! The queen of the battle axes!
To me that was the point of the whole show. Alice was the brains and the one in charge.
One of these days Ralph is going to hit her with the kitchen sink
cause it was wrote in the script , but in real life , if I was Ralph I would have knocked the hell out of her & made her afraid of me
+Crackzeen u beat me to it. funniest line😄😃
It wouldn't be funny AT ALL if Alice was the slightest bit intimidated by Ralph's blustering. That's the whole point of the show.
There isn't room in this place for you and me. There isn't room in this place for you and ANYBODY!! LOL!!!
OUT!!!!
One of the greatest sitcoms of all time... from a time when they didn't even call them sitcoms. Absolute gold.
She really got him with that lunchbox line. That was funny!
I like how mother changes her tune after Ralph opens that suitcase "SUNNYBOY!!!" LMFAO
Then rats him out later when it's counterfeit.
SONNY BOY! The son, not the SUN (that shines in the sky).
@@freeguy77 WELL DUH!
@@bigwillietheb I was referring and fixing the O.P.'s comment spelling it SUNNY instead of SONNY!
@@freeguy77 OIC
What's that your lunch box? Lmao
It couldn't be worth anything or you wouldn't have found it!
@@mahesh7069 This is no joke. This is the folks talked to each other back then
@@floatsting20 Yep right to the point, if you were wrong and deserved to be straighened out you got it, now nobody gives a damn!
4th
Episode is call "Funny Money". Watch the whole episode, really funny.
Favorite part of this episode is when the police are getting ready to take Ralph and the counterfeiters to jail. The mother in law comes in and yells, "Officer! Arrest that big fat one! These others are probably members of his gang!"
Sheriff Burford T. Justice. I like the line.. Full it up with gas and pointed towards Mexico. Priceless.
This women is so funny,a hoot! Always liked her funny sassy lines like mother Jefferson
Or Aunt Esther or even Florence Johnston.
LOL, "What's That...Your Lunch Box?"
''What's that? Your lunch box?''
''The only thing that can push you is a bulldozer''
Lmao
"There isn't room in this place for you and anybody".
The actress (Ethel Owen) that played Alice's mother was fantastic!
When you are in a scene with Jackie Gleason and he is in your face, and you can hold your own; when you come across as the genuine article, that says a lot about your performance. I would not doubt for a moment that she was Ralph's mother-in-law, and that they honestly had a hostile relationship.
Also, with the magic of youtube, DVRs, etc, we can easily replay a scene and focus on the side characters.
For example, while Ralph is arguing with his mother-in-law... watch Alice. She stays in character, and makes just the right facial expressions to convey her displeasure with the arguing and her feeling of helplessness.
Everyone's performance was superb!
So very true. I have been doing that, especially Art Carney with his facial expressions while Jackie was doing his thing has and always will be amazing to analyze. Each and everyone on the show. Pure brilliance, can never be matched in any lifetime.
She lived to be nearly 104.
@@georgevincent1834 She outlived her Honeymooner's daughter by one year.
i agree
@@nycbuzz22 I agree 100%. Nobody can match them.
"Couldn't be of any value or you wouldn't have found it." What great writing and acting...
"What's that you lunch box" 🤣 lmao!!
Gleason, an absolute treasure.
Ralph "I didn`t start this Mammy Yokum did"
Mammy Yokum was a character in the Al Capp comic strip, Lil Abner!
In case anyone is interested. Mammy Yokum who Ralph referenced was a character in the Lil' Abner comic strip.
The old, ugly, mother of Daisy Mae, if I recall correctly, thanks to the 1959 movie based on the Al Capp comic strip Li'l Abner, that ran for decades in the newspapers.
I know who that is I bought my mom the movie Lil Abner
I saw a documentary on the Honeymooners once. The lady that played Ralph's mother in law just loved him in real life, she called him a " deer sweet man."
Before there were internet trolls, there was Ralph's mother-in-law!
THIS IS THE FUNNEST, UNLIKE TODAY'S CRAP.
This song is dedicated to everyone who lost a loved one. God bless. "I'm calling out your name tonight" by Richie Levoiczcams.com/video/JSbGGiSe3S8/video.html
Well honestly most of the comedy that we have today is just plain vulgar and all of these films are just about sex jokes and filthy other things
James Hooper - Crap? You mean to say you don't appreciate today's inclusive politically correct gender neutral situation comedies? They're so non-offensive. How could anyone not like them? People of all 56 genders, all ethnicities, all races, and all sexual orientations can now fully participate and feel free to join in the new sitcoms' woke sense of humor. Isn't that what society today needs?
Poverty stricken blue collar worker who is a loser at life who verbally abuses his wife and bullies everyone else.
60 years ago it was funny. Legally and psychologically it's NOT funny any more.
@@mircat28 Well if you think that and you got such a problem with it, why are you even on this video in the first place?
Lmao from beginning to end. The Original 39 is epic.
Only a tremendous talent can make someone laugh without saying a word! Jakie Gleason had it!
Whats that your Lunchbox. Lol
Nonody can throw a person out like jackie
Especially when he just used his hands and didn't say a word.
Whether you were leaving or not, I'm throwing out. Classic. They don't make them that way anymore.
They don't make ANYTHING the way they used to.
I don't care what anybody says, the classic 39 episodes of The Honeymooners is the funniest fucking show ever to Grace the TV screen. Ever!
Ralph must REALLY hate his Mother-In-Law! Classic comedy.
Can you blame him?
"The only thing that can push you is a bulldozer!" --Mother-in-law to Ralph. Jackie frequently complained to his writers, "no more fat jokes," but they found it too easy to write-in fat jokes that were so funny, they couldn't be left out!
Very interesting information. Thanks!☺
Alice mom think was Ralph biggest Lunch box. One funny film tv show. Wish put full show. Two thumbs up. Kind funny don’t do much great comedy show like this. Why lots Fans love classic hits tv show.
The episode of the Honeymooners you are seeking here is titled: "Funny Money 💰," one of the 39 shows aired. It begins with a couple of corrupt men involved with counterfeit money. That "lunchbox" of Ralph's is filled with it, but, it got left behind on Ralph's bus and they are hesitant about getting it back for fear of being arrested. That's why the 30 day hold.
honeymooners is the best classic show
The honeymooners maybe from 1955 & 1956 but the dialogue was different back then because there was no cursing it was just regular conversation.
LMAO.....that long "stare" has never not made me laugh my ass off!! No warming up in the bull pen....LMAO. This show has been my fav since the 60's and still is today. I cant believe nobody shows this in reruns yet there are tons of reruns of the "Golden Shower Girls". And pfffttt to I Love Lucy....it wishes it was better than this how! Jackie sir....you were a genius!!!
J 61 Hi! Just to let you know, The Honeymooners are broadcast on wpix channel 11, every Saturday at 11p.m. They always show 2 episodes.
Paramount + has them, too.
@@daisynieves1644 how the hell did i miss this reply?! Sorry! Wish i saw it then as i used to get that station. I ended up buying the dvd collection. 😊
Gleason and that show will never have equals.
She tells alice not to give him the money. Biiiiiitch thats HIS OWN money!!!
ha ha ha yeah rite!
ha ha ha..
im the chef of the future
RALPH: "One of these days you're going to push me too far!!!" Mother In-Law : "The only thing that could push you is a bulldozer!!!
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RALPH: "ALL RIGHT GET THE FUCK OUT!!! *OUT!!! OUT!!! OUT!!! FUCK OFF!!!* AND DON'T COME HERE AGAIN , YOUR FUCKIN BATALAX!!!" Mother In-Law: "Well, If that's the way you feel, you can fuckin kiss my ass, you..." RALPH: *OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!*"
This is 2:31 minutes of comedic genius! The so-called comedies out recently are so pale in comparison; their actors are not comedians, the lines are lame and the laugh-track is full of fluff and so phony sounding. The Honeymooners were the real thing!
Yeah, but that one second sucked though.
yep!
Jackie did not believe in rehearsing, also great because it was filmed with a live audience, no dumb laugh track.
@@osamabad3597 LMAO. I was just about to say something but you already did.
Love Ralph lol 😄
As a matter of record "A Matter of Record" is my fave😂 I love how he keeps looking at the clock a holding up three fingers while remaining silent😜😆✌🏾😂
"Anyone knows it wasn't the XXX that did it, it was the XXX!" --mother-in-law, spilling the secret, on who was the murderer in the movie Ralph was going to go see! And then Ralph yelled at her, "YOU ARE A BLABBERMOUTH! Blabbermouth! OUT!"
Yes, and when he hits the timer to stop it and it keeps ringing
The fact that Audrey Meadows can have such a straight face is also impressive!
This was when comedians had poise
This was the greatest sitcome of the first 40 years of television. And Audrey was a very pretty woman.
Audrey Meadows almost didn't get the role of Alice. Everyone thought she was too attractive. She dressed herself up as a frumpy middle aged woman and went down for a second audition. She won the role when she tricked them into believing she was the frumpy actress, not the pretty red head.
@@Deutschie I saw what must have been a TV sketch of the Honeymooners before Audrey played Alice and the character was not attractive at all. That is what they wanted but Audrey convinced them she could do the role very well and definitely must have made herself as unattractive as possible and she got the role.
@@susanb2015 One of my favorite actress' idea to make herself more UNattractive to get the part, after Jackie initially turned her down saying she was too pretty! So, Audrey purposefully dressed down, no makeup on, and got a photographer to shoot some pics of her, so frumpy and unattractive, and then gave them to Jackie. He saw her, loved how she looked as his "Alice" and asked her to come in for the part--and then learned it was the same actress he initially rejected, saying she was too pretty. I also loved Gleason's response: "Any dame that would make herself more unattractive to get the part, deserves to get it!" --paraphrasing Jackie's line.
Audrey was terrific in the role.
Something else I noticed that boosts Jackie Gleason's comedic style: his big, animated gestures. As Ralph Kramden or as Sheriff Buford T. Justice, his gestures are big and appropriate to their context, and they make him even funnier.
Ralph should have sent that old battleax to the moon!
I would have threw that bitch out the window
Yeah buddy, and my mother in law along with her. All of 'em, a bunch of idiots...
I don't know what I like more, to the moon or 15 stories down. I'm having a hard time figuring out what's better, both good I guess. 😁
Lol
You guys on here are hilarious great comments I shoulve thrown my in laws out of the empire state building window.
What a awesome show i can't get enough of it!!
My father through and through! He loved this show! And it’s crazy how he and my dad were sooooo much alike! Miss u daddy i think of u everyday
You know it wasn't always Ralph's fault she was always cracking on him about his weight when he walked in and just stared at her for a couple of seconds Jackie Gleason doesn't even have to say a word he'll just walk in the room and make you laugh hysterically my favorite show of all time The Honeymooners I've been watching them over 45 years never gets old
Yep
Still best sitcom ever. Seinfeld and All In The Family in its wake.
You left out I Love Lucy.
Lucy, also a timeless original, forget Seinfeld and All In The Family.
Also Sanford and Son and Frasier.
I think All in the Family has aged, but Seinfeld is still wonderful. I would still rank The Honeymooners as the best, with Seinfeld the runner-up.
@@roslyndecanio81 I never cared for Lucy or her several shows.
"Can't be of any value or you wouldn't have found it"... she certainly love rubbing in that he's a loser. No wonder Ralph couldn't stand his mother in law.
the name of this episode is "funny money"
“Be right there… my wife’s taking a bath in the sink !!” 🤣🤣
"What's that, your lunchbox"?😅😅😅
Funny money is one of the best episodes of any sitcom.
What's that, your lunchbox? LOL....
she not such a bad old crow, at dat...😃😃😃
wonderful television! i love jackie gleason hes a familiar face for me i search for familiar constantly!
The very fact that female characters were able to and speak and express independent opinions the way these two did wax epic and groundbreaking. That being said I love Ralph Cramden.
Yup he played a real man right there
He didn't let that lady walk all over him
I’m going to speak very plainly. If your opinion of equality is that a woman gets to be so rude and brusque, then you need a new dictionary. Throwing her out was harsh, but Ralph did not start this argument, nor had he done anything to deserve the treatment.
"Kramden"
OOOOOUUUUUTTTTT!
They didn't call him the Great One for nothing, that's for damn sure.
so true
BooNube got that right I miss him
Buford T. Justice.
Dubbed The Great One by Orson Welles!
The also called Wayne Gretzky the Great One!!!
'oh you're startin' right i huh, startin' right in with the insults, no warmin' up in the bulll-penn or nothing, huh, startin' right in I remember when you use to come over you used to start out slow with a couple of hello stupids' and stuff like that..." 🤣
never gets old!
Sonny boy knows what he's doing 😂
Thanks to the genius of Jackie Gleason the Honeymooners is the best sitcom ever. Hands down!
There isn't room in this place for you and anybody..lol...so great..
The actress Ethel Owen's who played Mother Kramden lived to be 103
Just because you married to a horse doesn't mean you have to live in stable. Only thing push you is bulldozer .cant be nothing worth anything or you wouldn't have found it. LOL. My show for life
Ralph and Norton best comedy team ever!! Jackie would ad lib his lines to allow the other actors to deliver hilarious punch lines. The man was a comic genius and could also play dramatic roles, such as " THE HUSTLER and REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT. My dad would laugh so hard, he would start coughing, now 40 years later, I am doing the same thing.
Remember this is my home,and when you come here,you treat me with respect,,,,,,,, awwwww why dont you shut up, ha ha ha ha I love it🤣🤣
I always wondered about the good job in the laundromat that Alice turned down.
My dad & I still laugh at when Jackie Gleason says "What is SHE doin', here?...".
Alice was a TV housewife way ahead of the time. She wasn't afraid to tell Ralph where to go, and how to get there if he gets in her face. She was exactly what the show needed. Classic.
SOMEONE in that family had to be grounded in reality, instead of pie-in-the-sky, and that person was Alice. It was an old tv plot device with one family member always trying to get-rich-quick, and Ralph Kramden (a mere, underpaid, long-suffering bus driver) was perfectly suited to be in that funny group!
@Jim Stark rofl> Good point, Jim. I never thought of that.
That's why Ralph and Alice are perfect for each other. Two very strong willed people that can hold their own with each other. Alice was the perfect foil for Ralph. Al and Peg Bundy are the same.
WHATS YOUR PROBLEM NOTHING HAS CHANGED
kendallrivers: Eventually "Archie" and "Edith" grew into that dynamic on "All In The Family" as "Mrs. (or "Ms.") Bunker" joyously discovered to the ongoing chagrin of "Mr. Bunker." One truly poignant moment in Television History is when "Edith" is aghast at something Her Husband says or does and vanishes from the premises for a night. Which prompts this heartrending comment from "A. Bunker" over The Phone to his Daughter: "I don't know. I think it's Your Mother. I think She's ran away from home."😔🤱💔📺B.W.
The greatest comedians evoke laughter by expressions alone.
One of the best shows ever. I like that it portrays the average American at work trying to make ends meet, be it as a bus driver or sewer maintenance (Ed Norton/Art Carney).
Jackie Gleason portrays Ralph Kramdem, a bus driver for the Gotham Bus Company. Art Carney portrays Ed Norton, the NYC sewer maintenance worker.
Ha ha you dirty ol 😂
Ralph to his mother-in-law: " You're a blabbermouth!!!❤
My dad through and through he loved this show
Brings Back My Younger Days
The woman that played Alice's mother has so much patience what a great actress to put up with that loudmouth in front of her great acting on all of their parts