Frank Gannucci
12-18-2009, 07:28 AM
Episode #120 (Syndicated episode #29)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Funny Money."
DVD: Attached to episodes #24 - #32 of the classic 39.
This episode has been re-titled "Ralph Kramden, Hero At Large."
Ralph is in the poolroom. He is having one of the best pool games that he ever had. He has tied the pool room's record for sinking balls. Ralph credits that to not having Ed around. He says Ed would have driven him nuts. Sure enough, Ed comes in. Ralph explains that he doesn't want to hear a sound out of him when he tries to break the house record for sinking balls in a game of pool. Ed (accidentally making Ralph miss his shot): "You wouldn't even know I'm here." Ralph orders the owner of the pool room to kick Ed out but to no avail. Ed aggravates Ralph some more, so Ralph leaves. Upon leaving, Ralph says: "You are the only man that can turn my stomach upside-down." Ed: "There isn't a man in this city that is strong enough to do that." Ralph leaves. Gun shots are heard. Ralph comes back. He is very nervous. He just witnessed a bank robbery and the crooks shot at Ralph and almost killed him. There is a button hole in Ralph's hat. Ralph is extremely nervous, so he decides to call the police and help them apprehend the thieves. Ralph changes his mind because if he helps the police, then his address and photo will be in the papers and Ralph thinks that will put him at an even greater risk. Question: If he helped nab the thieves and got his picture in the paper, couldn't he just ask the paper not to print his address? Ed says that Trixie is away tonight and that Ralph should go to his place tonight and watch Humphrey Bogart in "Dead Men Tell No Tales.” Ralph walks home with Ed.
At home, Alice is preparing dinner. Tommy Manicotti walks in. His mom wants to know if they have any water running through the pipes, since they aren't getting any water. Alice turns on the faucet and loud shots that are like gun shots are heard, but no water. Tommy: "What a break. That means I won't have to take a bath tonight." Tommy leaves but forgets his water pistol. Ralph comes home. He is all nervous and acts like it too. When he turns on the faucet to get the water, he hears the noise and thinks that he's been shot. He also looks out the window and sees a TV repairman and gets scared thinking that he's a thief and when Alice asks him to cut the food, he's to nervous. Alice demands an explanation. Ralph gives it to her. Alice believes him and says to Ralph that he should go down to the police and that she will go with him. Ralph says no and offers his reasons which are the same as in the earlier scene. Alice says that his reasons are crazy because Ralph will get scared over the slightest noise and be afraid to walk at some certain places at night for the rest of his life. She gets ready to go with him to the police office by going into the bedroom. Concerned over her safety, Ralph locks Alice into the bedroom and tries to go down to the police office by himself. Sure enough, the crooks come by Ralph's apartment. They order Ralph to open the door and let his wife come into the kitchen with them or there will be consequences for probably the both of them. Ralph gets Alice out and Alice is scared. A knock on the door is heard and the crooks think it's a cop. They take Alice into the bedroom and say to Ralph that if they hear him spill the beans to the cop that the crooks are in the bedroom, Alice will get killed. They go into the bedroom. Ralph opens the door and tries not to spill the beans that the crooks are in the bedroom. The cop doesn't believe him but he leaves and stations one of his fellow cops in the building all night. Cop: "Thanks for NOTHING!" Question: Couldn't Ralph whisper to the cop to follow him into the hallway and whisper to him that the crooks are in the bedroom and the situation or just whisper to him in the kitchen that the crooks are in the bedroom and the situation? Just a thought. The crooks come out with Alice. Ralph grabs the water pistol and demands that the crooks to stick them up. Looks like Ralph got the crooks...or did he? Tommy knocks on the door and asks for his water pistol back. Ralph is back in trouble. Tommy is given his pistol back. Ed knocks on the door and the crooks demand Ralph to take care of him just like he did to the copper and say to Ralph, if they hear that he spills the beans, Alice will get killed. Ed comes in. Ralph asks him to get out. Ed offers to fix the pipes in the place. Ralph says that there are two pipes (meaning the crooks) that need to be fixed in the bedroom and they can be fixed tomorrow. Ed leaves. Question: Couldn't Ralph whisper to Ed to follow him into the hallway and whisper to him that the crooks are in the bedroom and the situation or just whisper to him in the kitchen that the crooks are in the bedroom and the situation? Just a thought. The crooks come out with Alice. Ed comes back in and says to Ralph that there are no pipes in the bedroom. Ed realizes the situation and now has a PRICELESS look on his face.
Alice and Ed are getting tied up. One of the crooks ties up Alice to tight, so Ralph takes exception. He says that all of us are in trouble. He insults one of them, so one of the crooks takes him into the bedroom to kill him. They go into the bedroom and some loud banging is heard. Alice (thinking that Alice is about to get killed, yells frantically): "STOP IT! STOP IT!" Ed yells something too that I don't understand. The door opens up and now Ralph has the crooks gun. He orders him to get up. He gets the other crook's gun. He unties Alice & Ed as they are relieved that Ralph didn't get harmed. Ralph (to the person who tried to kill him): "I suppose that this is the first time that you ever run into a bus driver." Ed takes the crooks with the gun that Ralph had down to the police. They leave as Alice is relieved that Ralph saved them. Alice: "Sweetie, how did you beat him up?" Ralph responds with how he did it. He goes downstairs to see the police because he's afraid that Ed is going to take credit for this thing.
On honeymooners.net & the Honeymooners Companion Book, here's the synopsis for this episode: "Ralph vs. Ed, Ralph vs. World, Ralph . . . wins?"
Wikipedia.org said that this is the most violent episode and shouldn't be viewed by the whole family. Yeah, whatever. I am one of the million honeymooners fans who disagree with that joke of an encyclopedia website.
Episode #121 (Syndicated episode #30)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "The Sleepwalker."
DVD: Attached to episodes #24 - #32 of the classic 39.
Ralph comes home to tell Ed some great news. While he was working, he got a call from "The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler." (Ed refers to him as "The Emperor of All Racoondom.") He doesn't believe it. Ralph: "Sure, you don't believe it because he has never called you." Ed: "He doesn't have to. He works right beside me in the sewer." Ralph continues with his news. He said the ruler asked him to make a speech tomorrow night at the Raccoon banquet when they announce who the Raccoon of The Year is and he was never told to whom the speech is for. Ralph thinks he knows who the Raccoon of The Year is and he is standing right in this room. Ed thinks that it is him but Ralph says that it is Ralph. Ralph plans on taking the award and making a speech. Alice comes in and Ralph says: "Something has happened to me today that is without a shadow of a doubt, one of the finest things that has ever happened to me in my life. If you guessed for a million years- for a million years, you won't be able to guess what happened to me today." Alice: "You have been elected Raccoon of The Year in that silly lodge of yours." Ralph: "What's so silly about them?" Ed says that The Raccoons do a lot of good things like the charity to collect old clothes. Ed: "Where do you think I got this cashmere vest?" Gee, with the way Ed is talking about the Raccoons, you think the Raccoons would give old clothes to non-Raccoon members and not vice-versa. Ralph mentions all the benefits of being Raccoon of The Year, which are: The honor of opening the first clam at the annual Clam Bake, navigating the boat on their boat ride up the Hudson River as they pass Raccoon Point, an undisclosed honor at the annual Raccoon Convention and free burial in the Raccoon National Cemetery in Bismark, North Dakota.
Alice's response to the third benefit is: "I always dreamed about going out west and with a chance to go to Bismark, North Dakota, I can't make up my mind wherever I want to live or die." She leaves. In real life, in N.Y.C. there is a place called The Raccoon Lodge but according to Yahoo! Yellow Pages, there isn't a Raccoon National Cemetery in Bismark. Ralph wonders if he is worthy of the honor of being the Raccoon of The Year. Ed thinks that he is and hopes that he won't get conceded and stuck up. Ralph: "If there is anything you should know now Norton is that I can accept an award gracefully." He can? Ralph: "When I am elected, Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler, the very first duty that I will use my influence on is to get you buried in Bismark, North Dakota." Ed is all happy.
In the next scene, Ralph is rehearsing the speech "that he didn't have time to prepare." Ralph (reading his speech): "What do I have that stands out?" Alice points to her stomach as if to say that is what Ralph has that stands out. Alice is knitting some of Ralph's clothes. Ralph goes into the bedroom. Ed comes in and knows what Ralph is doing. Alice: "I don't think it matters what you say tonight Ralph. Those lodge buddies are going to be so full of beer tonight, they won't hear a word your saying." Alice brings up a story on Ralph coming home and being drunk, opening up the window and yelling: "Hey Mrs., Gallagher, what's your cat doing in this apartment?" Ralph: "What was the cat doing in this apartment?" Alice: "It wasn't her cat. You had your Raccoon hat on backwards." This whole exchange was also shown in "Guest Speaker." Ralph tires to rehearse his speech but every time, he gets interrupted by Alice & Trixie who just came in. When he reads his speech, he tires to memorize it and when he gets interrupted, he has to stop and start from the beginning. Finally, he asks the girls to shut up. He gets so aggravated, that he gets the hic-cups. He walks into the bedroom. Ed puts down some Rock Candy, so Ralph will get so scared that his hic-cups will be gone. Ralph slips and falls on the Rock Candy. He knows Ed did it and kicks him out.
A few hours before the speech, Alice is ironing his cap. Ralph added a joke to the speech and reads it to Alice. The joke is very LONG and I heard that Jackie forgot his lines when he said this "joke" when they taped this episode live, but it culminates with: "King Arthur says: That won't be necessary Sir Lonchlit. I wouldn't send a night out on a dog like this." Ralph thinks it's funny, but Alice doesn't and if he switched the words 'dog' and 'night', then it might be funny. Ralph goes over to Nortons to shine his shoes. He leaves and then the G.H.E.M.R. comes in. G.H.E.M.R. (to Alice): "I am Morris Fink. The G.H.E.M.R. of the International Order of The Friendly Raccoons." His outfit is probably laughable considering the studio audience laughs when they see him. He gives Ralph's speech to Alice which says: "It gives me great pleasure to introduce the Raccoon of The Year award to Brother Edward Norton." D'oh! Not something that Ralph wants to hear. He leaves. Ralph comes in and reads the speech that Morris sent him. He reads it and is upset. Alice says in a VERY calm voice that Ralph will always be Raccoon of The Year in this house. Ralph leaves to go upstairs to Ed. He wants him to read the joke tonight in his respective speech.
I was watching this episode with a friend of mine and he said that Jackie's hair looks like there is five pounds of gel in it. Just thought I would bring that up. This episode is very similar to the lost episode sketch of "Guest Speaker" which was done a few years earlier.
Credit goes To The Moon
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Funny Money."
DVD: Attached to episodes #24 - #32 of the classic 39.
This episode has been re-titled "Ralph Kramden, Hero At Large."
Ralph is in the poolroom. He is having one of the best pool games that he ever had. He has tied the pool room's record for sinking balls. Ralph credits that to not having Ed around. He says Ed would have driven him nuts. Sure enough, Ed comes in. Ralph explains that he doesn't want to hear a sound out of him when he tries to break the house record for sinking balls in a game of pool. Ed (accidentally making Ralph miss his shot): "You wouldn't even know I'm here." Ralph orders the owner of the pool room to kick Ed out but to no avail. Ed aggravates Ralph some more, so Ralph leaves. Upon leaving, Ralph says: "You are the only man that can turn my stomach upside-down." Ed: "There isn't a man in this city that is strong enough to do that." Ralph leaves. Gun shots are heard. Ralph comes back. He is very nervous. He just witnessed a bank robbery and the crooks shot at Ralph and almost killed him. There is a button hole in Ralph's hat. Ralph is extremely nervous, so he decides to call the police and help them apprehend the thieves. Ralph changes his mind because if he helps the police, then his address and photo will be in the papers and Ralph thinks that will put him at an even greater risk. Question: If he helped nab the thieves and got his picture in the paper, couldn't he just ask the paper not to print his address? Ed says that Trixie is away tonight and that Ralph should go to his place tonight and watch Humphrey Bogart in "Dead Men Tell No Tales.” Ralph walks home with Ed.
At home, Alice is preparing dinner. Tommy Manicotti walks in. His mom wants to know if they have any water running through the pipes, since they aren't getting any water. Alice turns on the faucet and loud shots that are like gun shots are heard, but no water. Tommy: "What a break. That means I won't have to take a bath tonight." Tommy leaves but forgets his water pistol. Ralph comes home. He is all nervous and acts like it too. When he turns on the faucet to get the water, he hears the noise and thinks that he's been shot. He also looks out the window and sees a TV repairman and gets scared thinking that he's a thief and when Alice asks him to cut the food, he's to nervous. Alice demands an explanation. Ralph gives it to her. Alice believes him and says to Ralph that he should go down to the police and that she will go with him. Ralph says no and offers his reasons which are the same as in the earlier scene. Alice says that his reasons are crazy because Ralph will get scared over the slightest noise and be afraid to walk at some certain places at night for the rest of his life. She gets ready to go with him to the police office by going into the bedroom. Concerned over her safety, Ralph locks Alice into the bedroom and tries to go down to the police office by himself. Sure enough, the crooks come by Ralph's apartment. They order Ralph to open the door and let his wife come into the kitchen with them or there will be consequences for probably the both of them. Ralph gets Alice out and Alice is scared. A knock on the door is heard and the crooks think it's a cop. They take Alice into the bedroom and say to Ralph that if they hear him spill the beans to the cop that the crooks are in the bedroom, Alice will get killed. They go into the bedroom. Ralph opens the door and tries not to spill the beans that the crooks are in the bedroom. The cop doesn't believe him but he leaves and stations one of his fellow cops in the building all night. Cop: "Thanks for NOTHING!" Question: Couldn't Ralph whisper to the cop to follow him into the hallway and whisper to him that the crooks are in the bedroom and the situation or just whisper to him in the kitchen that the crooks are in the bedroom and the situation? Just a thought. The crooks come out with Alice. Ralph grabs the water pistol and demands that the crooks to stick them up. Looks like Ralph got the crooks...or did he? Tommy knocks on the door and asks for his water pistol back. Ralph is back in trouble. Tommy is given his pistol back. Ed knocks on the door and the crooks demand Ralph to take care of him just like he did to the copper and say to Ralph, if they hear that he spills the beans, Alice will get killed. Ed comes in. Ralph asks him to get out. Ed offers to fix the pipes in the place. Ralph says that there are two pipes (meaning the crooks) that need to be fixed in the bedroom and they can be fixed tomorrow. Ed leaves. Question: Couldn't Ralph whisper to Ed to follow him into the hallway and whisper to him that the crooks are in the bedroom and the situation or just whisper to him in the kitchen that the crooks are in the bedroom and the situation? Just a thought. The crooks come out with Alice. Ed comes back in and says to Ralph that there are no pipes in the bedroom. Ed realizes the situation and now has a PRICELESS look on his face.
Alice and Ed are getting tied up. One of the crooks ties up Alice to tight, so Ralph takes exception. He says that all of us are in trouble. He insults one of them, so one of the crooks takes him into the bedroom to kill him. They go into the bedroom and some loud banging is heard. Alice (thinking that Alice is about to get killed, yells frantically): "STOP IT! STOP IT!" Ed yells something too that I don't understand. The door opens up and now Ralph has the crooks gun. He orders him to get up. He gets the other crook's gun. He unties Alice & Ed as they are relieved that Ralph didn't get harmed. Ralph (to the person who tried to kill him): "I suppose that this is the first time that you ever run into a bus driver." Ed takes the crooks with the gun that Ralph had down to the police. They leave as Alice is relieved that Ralph saved them. Alice: "Sweetie, how did you beat him up?" Ralph responds with how he did it. He goes downstairs to see the police because he's afraid that Ed is going to take credit for this thing.
On honeymooners.net & the Honeymooners Companion Book, here's the synopsis for this episode: "Ralph vs. Ed, Ralph vs. World, Ralph . . . wins?"
Wikipedia.org said that this is the most violent episode and shouldn't be viewed by the whole family. Yeah, whatever. I am one of the million honeymooners fans who disagree with that joke of an encyclopedia website.
Episode #121 (Syndicated episode #30)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "The Sleepwalker."
DVD: Attached to episodes #24 - #32 of the classic 39.
Ralph comes home to tell Ed some great news. While he was working, he got a call from "The Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler." (Ed refers to him as "The Emperor of All Racoondom.") He doesn't believe it. Ralph: "Sure, you don't believe it because he has never called you." Ed: "He doesn't have to. He works right beside me in the sewer." Ralph continues with his news. He said the ruler asked him to make a speech tomorrow night at the Raccoon banquet when they announce who the Raccoon of The Year is and he was never told to whom the speech is for. Ralph thinks he knows who the Raccoon of The Year is and he is standing right in this room. Ed thinks that it is him but Ralph says that it is Ralph. Ralph plans on taking the award and making a speech. Alice comes in and Ralph says: "Something has happened to me today that is without a shadow of a doubt, one of the finest things that has ever happened to me in my life. If you guessed for a million years- for a million years, you won't be able to guess what happened to me today." Alice: "You have been elected Raccoon of The Year in that silly lodge of yours." Ralph: "What's so silly about them?" Ed says that The Raccoons do a lot of good things like the charity to collect old clothes. Ed: "Where do you think I got this cashmere vest?" Gee, with the way Ed is talking about the Raccoons, you think the Raccoons would give old clothes to non-Raccoon members and not vice-versa. Ralph mentions all the benefits of being Raccoon of The Year, which are: The honor of opening the first clam at the annual Clam Bake, navigating the boat on their boat ride up the Hudson River as they pass Raccoon Point, an undisclosed honor at the annual Raccoon Convention and free burial in the Raccoon National Cemetery in Bismark, North Dakota.
Alice's response to the third benefit is: "I always dreamed about going out west and with a chance to go to Bismark, North Dakota, I can't make up my mind wherever I want to live or die." She leaves. In real life, in N.Y.C. there is a place called The Raccoon Lodge but according to Yahoo! Yellow Pages, there isn't a Raccoon National Cemetery in Bismark. Ralph wonders if he is worthy of the honor of being the Raccoon of The Year. Ed thinks that he is and hopes that he won't get conceded and stuck up. Ralph: "If there is anything you should know now Norton is that I can accept an award gracefully." He can? Ralph: "When I am elected, Grand High Exalted Mystic Ruler, the very first duty that I will use my influence on is to get you buried in Bismark, North Dakota." Ed is all happy.
In the next scene, Ralph is rehearsing the speech "that he didn't have time to prepare." Ralph (reading his speech): "What do I have that stands out?" Alice points to her stomach as if to say that is what Ralph has that stands out. Alice is knitting some of Ralph's clothes. Ralph goes into the bedroom. Ed comes in and knows what Ralph is doing. Alice: "I don't think it matters what you say tonight Ralph. Those lodge buddies are going to be so full of beer tonight, they won't hear a word your saying." Alice brings up a story on Ralph coming home and being drunk, opening up the window and yelling: "Hey Mrs., Gallagher, what's your cat doing in this apartment?" Ralph: "What was the cat doing in this apartment?" Alice: "It wasn't her cat. You had your Raccoon hat on backwards." This whole exchange was also shown in "Guest Speaker." Ralph tires to rehearse his speech but every time, he gets interrupted by Alice & Trixie who just came in. When he reads his speech, he tires to memorize it and when he gets interrupted, he has to stop and start from the beginning. Finally, he asks the girls to shut up. He gets so aggravated, that he gets the hic-cups. He walks into the bedroom. Ed puts down some Rock Candy, so Ralph will get so scared that his hic-cups will be gone. Ralph slips and falls on the Rock Candy. He knows Ed did it and kicks him out.
A few hours before the speech, Alice is ironing his cap. Ralph added a joke to the speech and reads it to Alice. The joke is very LONG and I heard that Jackie forgot his lines when he said this "joke" when they taped this episode live, but it culminates with: "King Arthur says: That won't be necessary Sir Lonchlit. I wouldn't send a night out on a dog like this." Ralph thinks it's funny, but Alice doesn't and if he switched the words 'dog' and 'night', then it might be funny. Ralph goes over to Nortons to shine his shoes. He leaves and then the G.H.E.M.R. comes in. G.H.E.M.R. (to Alice): "I am Morris Fink. The G.H.E.M.R. of the International Order of The Friendly Raccoons." His outfit is probably laughable considering the studio audience laughs when they see him. He gives Ralph's speech to Alice which says: "It gives me great pleasure to introduce the Raccoon of The Year award to Brother Edward Norton." D'oh! Not something that Ralph wants to hear. He leaves. Ralph comes in and reads the speech that Morris sent him. He reads it and is upset. Alice says in a VERY calm voice that Ralph will always be Raccoon of The Year in this house. Ralph leaves to go upstairs to Ed. He wants him to read the joke tonight in his respective speech.
I was watching this episode with a friend of mine and he said that Jackie's hair looks like there is five pounds of gel in it. Just thought I would bring that up. This episode is very similar to the lost episode sketch of "Guest Speaker" which was done a few years earlier.
Credit goes To The Moon