Frank Gannucci
12-30-2016, 09:24 AM
Honeymooners Episode Reviews: Script of "Easter Hats" ('52 version) & "Manager of The Baseball Team" ('52 version):
Episode #16
TV. VHS, DVD: Still lost.
Thanks to ChrisTV of sitcomsonline.com for posting the script of the later version of this episode. I am assuming that it isn't one and the same as far as lines go but here it is.
"THE HONEYMOONERS"
"EASTER HATS"
Announcer
And now it's time for another visit with two of your favorite characters, Ralph and Alice Kramden, better known to you as "The Honeymooners".. You know there's an old saying goes "In the spring a young mans fancy turns to thoughts of love"… However a woman's fancy turns to thoughts of spring cleaning… So let’s look in on the Kramden household as Alice is in the midst of her spring cleaning.
[As travelers part camera holds on an establishing shot of the "Kramden Kitchen". The stage is dark for a split then Alice emerges from bedroom. She is wearing a kerchief around her head, and is carrying a broom in one hand and carrying curtains in the other. She sets broom against wall and crosses to stove where a large pot of water is boiling. Trixie enters.]
Alice
Hello Trixie.
Trixie
H'ya Alice. You almost done with your cleaning?
Alice
Yeah, and am I dead. I cleaned the whole house to-day, everything. And just my luck, some vacuum cleaner salesman will come around tomorrow to demonstrate….. Will you lift the lid off that pot, Trixie?
[She lifts lid.]
Trixie
Sure, what are you doing?
Alice
I'm going to boil these bedroom curtains, they're filthy.
[Alice sticks curtains in pot.]
Are you done with your cleaning Trix?
Trixie
Yeah, and was my place dirty. When I finished cleaning I found two new rooms!... I'm so tired I'm going to sleep right after dinner.
Alice
I wish I could do that but when Ralph gets home we're going to color some eggs. I'm going to give them out to the kids in the building for Easter.
Trixie
Gee, that's real thoughtful, Alice.
Alice
Say, Trix will you help me get the mattress back on the bed?
Trixie
Sure.
[As Trixie and Alice enter bedroom. Ralph and Norton enter from street.]
Ralph
Anybody home?
Alice [From bedroom]
Be with you in a minute.
Ralph [Sniffing]
Something smells good.
[Norton sniffs too.]
Norton
Yeah.
[As Ralph crosses to the stove Norton follows him. Ralph lifts lid.]
Ralph
Looks like we're having soup to-night.
[He tastes spoonful and registers satisfaction.]
Pretty good for a girl who couldn't cook when we first got married… Norton, just taste this.
[He gives Norton a spoonful. Norton reacts indifferently.]
Norton
I think it needs a little salt.
Ralph
Yeah, a little salt and pepper wouldn't hurt it.
[As Ralph takes salt and pepper shaker from stove and starts to season contents of pot, Alice and Trixie enter from bedroom.]
Alice
Ralph, what are you doing to my curtains?
Ralph
Norton, I just added a little salt and… (Take) CUUURRTTTTAAIINNNSSS! What are you trying to do, poison me?
Norton
I'm telling you, Ralph a little more pepper and it'll be fine.
Ralph
Norton, You are a mental case.
Trixie
C'mon Ed, I'll give you your dinner.
[As Trixie and Norton exit]
Norton
See you later folks.
Alice
Sit down and I'll fix you something to eat.
Ralph
I'm not hungry now. I had too much for lunch. Besides I'm aggravated.
Alice
What's wrong, Ralph?
Ralph [Walking joke]
Everything happens to me. Alice, I'm the unluckiest bus driver in New York. Look, in New York there are three million private cars… Twenty five thousand taxis… Fifteen thousand trucks and fifteen thousand busses. Now I've been driving a bus for twelve years with a clean record, and today I had my first accident…. Did I run into a private car? A bus? A taxi? A truck? No! I had to run into a police car!
Alice
Was anybody hurt?
Ralph
No, nobody was hurt, but twenty seven passengers are suing the bus company, including three guys who didn't get on till the next stop!
[Ralph reaches into his pocket, extracts packets of coloring.]
Oh, here's the coloring I got for the Easter eggs.
Alice
Did you get different colors?
Ralph
Yeah lets see I got red, green, blue, yellow and white.
[He hands packets to Alice.]
Alice [Quizzically]
White?? What can we use white for?
Ralph
I don't know, uh… maybe we can use it to color the brown eggs!
Alice
Did you stop at the store to get the decals?
[Ralph searching in his pocket.]
Ralph
Yeah.
Alice
Good. After we eat we can transfer the pictures on the eggs… Did you get the Mother Goose characters like I asked you?
Ralph
They were all out of those so I got some assorted cockamamies.
Alice
What do you mean assorted?
Ralph
Assorted that's what I mean… Give me your hand I'll show you.
Alice
What are you going to do, Ralph?
Ralph
Give me your hand.
[Ralph takes single decal, wets it on his tongue and slaps it on the back of Alice’s palm. He rubs it with the forefinger of his hand. Then lifts transfer... And exclaims as he points at picture on Alice’s hand.]
There you are… Arthur Tracey The Street Singer.
Alice
who’s the street singer?
Ralph
I don't know… but he must be somebody important if they put his picture on a cockamamie….. Did you get enough eggs, Alice?
Alice
I got six dozen. There they are.
[She points to table. Ralph picks up bill, glances at it.]
Ralph
Ninety five cents a dozen for eggs?????
Alice
That's what they cost, Ralph. A week ago these same eggs cost seventy cents a dozen.
Ralph
I can't understand it. A week ago these eggs sold for seventy cents… Now they're ninety five cents a dozen? What does the farmer do? Go into the hen house where the chickens are sitting, and say "hold it" till the prices go up?
Alice
You can't blame the farmer.
Ralph
Oh, I can't blame the farmer. I suppose it’s the chickens fault. I can see it now… The hens walking up and down in front of the farmhouse carrying picket signs reading… "We want more money… We're tired of working for chicken feed!"
Alice
What are you getting excited about?
Ralph
You could have gotten eggs for fifty cents a dozen. We're just going to color em. Not eat em.
Alice
I'm sorry, I just didn't think.
Ralph
That’s just it. You don't think. If you thought a little, a dollar bill would go a lot further around this house.
Alice
Look, Ralph, don't act like I fritter your salary away. I make every penny reach as far as possible. I couldn't even save enough out of your earnings to buy me a new hat for Easter.
Ralph
A new hat? What about the hat I bought you for your birthday?
Alice
You mean the one with all the ostrich feathers on it?
Ralph
That’s the one.
Alice
Some hat. Every time I put it on I feel like burying my head in the ground.
Ralph [Steamed]
What, are you complaining?
Alice
No. I'm not complaining. But my sister’s husband doesn't make anymore than you do, and my sisters always buying dresses, hats and shoes.
Ralph
Yeah, but your sister's husband doesn't have the expenses I do. He lives in a low rent district! And besides what are you always talking about buying clothes. What are you trying to do? Get on the list of the ten best dressed women?
Alice [Holding broom]
Yeah. I almost made it this year, but the Duchess of Windsor nosed me out!
Ralph
What are you yapping about? The last time I bought a suit it had two pair of pants and one of them was knickers!… And another thing, you know I've never owned a hat. Is that asking too much out of life to have a hat to call my own? Why even horses that pull junk wagons have hats. How do you think I feel when I walk into a restaurant and I walk by the hat check girl and I've got nothing to check? I got feelings, Alice; I'm not made out of iron.
[Alice crosses into bedroom. Ralph doesn't notice this and continues his lament.]
In the summer my heads exposed to the sun's rays. In the winter it's exposed to the cold and the snow. In the spring the rain beats on it. It's a wonder all this hasn't affected my brain… I must have a very thick skull!…
[Alice returns, places hat box on kitchen table, she strikes a pose and Ralph continues to rave.]
You know one of these nights I'm going to be coming home from work with my pay envelope in my hand and I'm going to see a hat store. I'm gonna walk right in and try on the first hat I see and buy it… And that ain't all… I'll buy myself a cap too… For my evening wear!
[He discovers Alice.]
That's what I'll do, Alice. That's what I'll do.
[He notices hat box. Opens it and extract hat.]
For me?
Alice
Yes for you. Happy Easter, Ralph.
Ralph
Gee! It's beautiful.
[He tries on hat.]
Alice
It's a little big… But I can exchange it.
Ralph
You'll do nothing of the kind. I love this hat… I'll put some newspaper in the hat and it'll fit fine. Oh, Alice, just go in the bedroom and look on top of the closet.
Alice
You don't mean you bought me a hat too.
Ralph
Just go in the bedroom and look.
[As Alice exits, Ralph completes putting newspapers into hat and puts it on. Alice enters wearing hat with hat box in hand.]
Alice
Oh, Ralph, it's gorgeous.
[Music sneaks in.]
Ralph
You look beautiful in that hat… Baby, we'll be a riot in that Easter parade…. I'm sorry about the way I hollered before… But I felt a little bad knowin' that I bought you a hat… And the price of eggs got in… I thought you were wastin' money… But it ain't your fault, Alice, I had a rough day today…..
Alice
That's okay, Ralph, I love you.
Ralph
Baby, You're the greatest.
[Blackout]
Episode #17
TV: Hasn’t been seen on TV since its original airdate.
DVD: Hasn’t been released.
Air Date: 5/16/52
Nobody knows for sure if this episode ever aired on TV or not. In the early 2010s, it was revealed that this as long as some other sketches were rumored to have been shown on TV. I am going to assume that the script for this one and this one are on and the same.
Before I start this review, let me say this. MPI has received a lot of complaints about accidently attaching the 1953 version to "Hero" (where on the box, it advertises the 1957 version). They also have gotten a lot of complaints when they accidently attached the 1953 episode to the DVD release that has "Teamwork Beats The Clock", "Quiz Show" & "The Wit & Wisdom of Ed Norton" (where once again on the box, it advertises the 1957 version.) MPI probably did it by mistake since the both versions of this episode are very much alike. In 2002, I managed to get the MPI cassette Vol. 28 that has the 1957 version of this episode (even though some versions of Vol. 28 have the '53 version on it.)
The episode opens up with Alice worrying about where Ralph is. Ed and Trixie come down. Alice says that she is worried about Ralph. He was supposed to come home a while ago. So, Trixie asks Ed to go outside and come back when he comes home. Ed says no because what's going to happen if he is in the hospital, he would have stayed out for nothing. Ed also says that because Ralph is married, he probably ran away. Ha! That's a very nice thing to say. Ed brings up a story about what happened to a person he knew. That person ran away and when the cops asked him questions, he didn't know anything. He was 3 years old. Ha!
Ralph comes home and has champagne for everyone. In fact, in the 1953 version of this episode, Ralph tires to open the bottle, but has a hard time doing so. That wasn't supposed to happen, so to cover it up, he says: "We will be drinking champagne if I can ever get this bottle open." He does. Ralph says that he is now the new manager of the Gotham Bus Depot. He always knew that he had the right qualifications. Yeah, sure he did. When Alice asks Ralph, how he found out, Ralph says he heard it while walking by the president of the bus company's office. He later hears that a telegram will come tonight to confirm the whole thing. Ralph mentions that with him becoming the manager, he might even become the president. When he does become president, he's going to make some changes like having pretty stewardess on each bus and to make sure that those people who happened to miss the bus by one minute; he's going to make sure every bus starts a minute late. Question: Wouldn't that rule make some people a little angry that they might be one minute late to go to whatever they are going to? Just a thought. Ralph says that the salary he gets for being a manager is big. He says that with the money, he and Alice are going to go on a second honeymoon with Ed and Trixie and that Alice is going to get that bunion removed off her foot. Ralph also says that now that he's in the money, should he and Alice move out of this joint. He later says no. That place has been awful lucky to them. Yeah, sure it has.
After Ralph leaves, the telegram arrives saying that Ralph has become the manager all right. The manager of the Gotham City Baseball Team. Alice, Ed, and Trixie are all upset thinking that Ralph was becoming manager of the company and that all the plans that Ralph had for becoming president were not going to come to fruition for a while.
Ralph comes home and mentions about the respect Alice will get when she goes down to the store Ralph was just at. Ralph says with the money he's going to get, since it gets hot in the summertime, he's going to buy a mattress for this place. Yeah, Jackie made a blooper when he said that. Alice presents Ralph with the telegram and when Ralph reads it he's disappointed and apologizes to Alice. Alice says that Ralph is the most important thing in her life. They hug and kiss.
When I rented the video entitled: "Cupid/Manager of The Baseball Team (1953 version)" in 1996, I originally thought I was going to get a thirty-minute episode of Ralph being the baseball manager. (Imagine how funny that would be.) You can imagine my disappointment when I found out that the episode was less than fifteen minutes long.
Credit I believe goes to tv.com, Honeymooners Lost Episodes Book, tvguide.com, honeymooners.net, Honeymooners Box Set booklet, tvshowsondvd.com, Honeymooners Lost Episodes DVD booklet, Wikipedia.org, Yahoo! Groups You’re A Riot! & Amazon.com.
Episode #16
TV. VHS, DVD: Still lost.
Thanks to ChrisTV of sitcomsonline.com for posting the script of the later version of this episode. I am assuming that it isn't one and the same as far as lines go but here it is.
"THE HONEYMOONERS"
"EASTER HATS"
Announcer
And now it's time for another visit with two of your favorite characters, Ralph and Alice Kramden, better known to you as "The Honeymooners".. You know there's an old saying goes "In the spring a young mans fancy turns to thoughts of love"… However a woman's fancy turns to thoughts of spring cleaning… So let’s look in on the Kramden household as Alice is in the midst of her spring cleaning.
[As travelers part camera holds on an establishing shot of the "Kramden Kitchen". The stage is dark for a split then Alice emerges from bedroom. She is wearing a kerchief around her head, and is carrying a broom in one hand and carrying curtains in the other. She sets broom against wall and crosses to stove where a large pot of water is boiling. Trixie enters.]
Alice
Hello Trixie.
Trixie
H'ya Alice. You almost done with your cleaning?
Alice
Yeah, and am I dead. I cleaned the whole house to-day, everything. And just my luck, some vacuum cleaner salesman will come around tomorrow to demonstrate….. Will you lift the lid off that pot, Trixie?
[She lifts lid.]
Trixie
Sure, what are you doing?
Alice
I'm going to boil these bedroom curtains, they're filthy.
[Alice sticks curtains in pot.]
Are you done with your cleaning Trix?
Trixie
Yeah, and was my place dirty. When I finished cleaning I found two new rooms!... I'm so tired I'm going to sleep right after dinner.
Alice
I wish I could do that but when Ralph gets home we're going to color some eggs. I'm going to give them out to the kids in the building for Easter.
Trixie
Gee, that's real thoughtful, Alice.
Alice
Say, Trix will you help me get the mattress back on the bed?
Trixie
Sure.
[As Trixie and Alice enter bedroom. Ralph and Norton enter from street.]
Ralph
Anybody home?
Alice [From bedroom]
Be with you in a minute.
Ralph [Sniffing]
Something smells good.
[Norton sniffs too.]
Norton
Yeah.
[As Ralph crosses to the stove Norton follows him. Ralph lifts lid.]
Ralph
Looks like we're having soup to-night.
[He tastes spoonful and registers satisfaction.]
Pretty good for a girl who couldn't cook when we first got married… Norton, just taste this.
[He gives Norton a spoonful. Norton reacts indifferently.]
Norton
I think it needs a little salt.
Ralph
Yeah, a little salt and pepper wouldn't hurt it.
[As Ralph takes salt and pepper shaker from stove and starts to season contents of pot, Alice and Trixie enter from bedroom.]
Alice
Ralph, what are you doing to my curtains?
Ralph
Norton, I just added a little salt and… (Take) CUUURRTTTTAAIINNNSSS! What are you trying to do, poison me?
Norton
I'm telling you, Ralph a little more pepper and it'll be fine.
Ralph
Norton, You are a mental case.
Trixie
C'mon Ed, I'll give you your dinner.
[As Trixie and Norton exit]
Norton
See you later folks.
Alice
Sit down and I'll fix you something to eat.
Ralph
I'm not hungry now. I had too much for lunch. Besides I'm aggravated.
Alice
What's wrong, Ralph?
Ralph [Walking joke]
Everything happens to me. Alice, I'm the unluckiest bus driver in New York. Look, in New York there are three million private cars… Twenty five thousand taxis… Fifteen thousand trucks and fifteen thousand busses. Now I've been driving a bus for twelve years with a clean record, and today I had my first accident…. Did I run into a private car? A bus? A taxi? A truck? No! I had to run into a police car!
Alice
Was anybody hurt?
Ralph
No, nobody was hurt, but twenty seven passengers are suing the bus company, including three guys who didn't get on till the next stop!
[Ralph reaches into his pocket, extracts packets of coloring.]
Oh, here's the coloring I got for the Easter eggs.
Alice
Did you get different colors?
Ralph
Yeah lets see I got red, green, blue, yellow and white.
[He hands packets to Alice.]
Alice [Quizzically]
White?? What can we use white for?
Ralph
I don't know, uh… maybe we can use it to color the brown eggs!
Alice
Did you stop at the store to get the decals?
[Ralph searching in his pocket.]
Ralph
Yeah.
Alice
Good. After we eat we can transfer the pictures on the eggs… Did you get the Mother Goose characters like I asked you?
Ralph
They were all out of those so I got some assorted cockamamies.
Alice
What do you mean assorted?
Ralph
Assorted that's what I mean… Give me your hand I'll show you.
Alice
What are you going to do, Ralph?
Ralph
Give me your hand.
[Ralph takes single decal, wets it on his tongue and slaps it on the back of Alice’s palm. He rubs it with the forefinger of his hand. Then lifts transfer... And exclaims as he points at picture on Alice’s hand.]
There you are… Arthur Tracey The Street Singer.
Alice
who’s the street singer?
Ralph
I don't know… but he must be somebody important if they put his picture on a cockamamie….. Did you get enough eggs, Alice?
Alice
I got six dozen. There they are.
[She points to table. Ralph picks up bill, glances at it.]
Ralph
Ninety five cents a dozen for eggs?????
Alice
That's what they cost, Ralph. A week ago these same eggs cost seventy cents a dozen.
Ralph
I can't understand it. A week ago these eggs sold for seventy cents… Now they're ninety five cents a dozen? What does the farmer do? Go into the hen house where the chickens are sitting, and say "hold it" till the prices go up?
Alice
You can't blame the farmer.
Ralph
Oh, I can't blame the farmer. I suppose it’s the chickens fault. I can see it now… The hens walking up and down in front of the farmhouse carrying picket signs reading… "We want more money… We're tired of working for chicken feed!"
Alice
What are you getting excited about?
Ralph
You could have gotten eggs for fifty cents a dozen. We're just going to color em. Not eat em.
Alice
I'm sorry, I just didn't think.
Ralph
That’s just it. You don't think. If you thought a little, a dollar bill would go a lot further around this house.
Alice
Look, Ralph, don't act like I fritter your salary away. I make every penny reach as far as possible. I couldn't even save enough out of your earnings to buy me a new hat for Easter.
Ralph
A new hat? What about the hat I bought you for your birthday?
Alice
You mean the one with all the ostrich feathers on it?
Ralph
That’s the one.
Alice
Some hat. Every time I put it on I feel like burying my head in the ground.
Ralph [Steamed]
What, are you complaining?
Alice
No. I'm not complaining. But my sister’s husband doesn't make anymore than you do, and my sisters always buying dresses, hats and shoes.
Ralph
Yeah, but your sister's husband doesn't have the expenses I do. He lives in a low rent district! And besides what are you always talking about buying clothes. What are you trying to do? Get on the list of the ten best dressed women?
Alice [Holding broom]
Yeah. I almost made it this year, but the Duchess of Windsor nosed me out!
Ralph
What are you yapping about? The last time I bought a suit it had two pair of pants and one of them was knickers!… And another thing, you know I've never owned a hat. Is that asking too much out of life to have a hat to call my own? Why even horses that pull junk wagons have hats. How do you think I feel when I walk into a restaurant and I walk by the hat check girl and I've got nothing to check? I got feelings, Alice; I'm not made out of iron.
[Alice crosses into bedroom. Ralph doesn't notice this and continues his lament.]
In the summer my heads exposed to the sun's rays. In the winter it's exposed to the cold and the snow. In the spring the rain beats on it. It's a wonder all this hasn't affected my brain… I must have a very thick skull!…
[Alice returns, places hat box on kitchen table, she strikes a pose and Ralph continues to rave.]
You know one of these nights I'm going to be coming home from work with my pay envelope in my hand and I'm going to see a hat store. I'm gonna walk right in and try on the first hat I see and buy it… And that ain't all… I'll buy myself a cap too… For my evening wear!
[He discovers Alice.]
That's what I'll do, Alice. That's what I'll do.
[He notices hat box. Opens it and extract hat.]
For me?
Alice
Yes for you. Happy Easter, Ralph.
Ralph
Gee! It's beautiful.
[He tries on hat.]
Alice
It's a little big… But I can exchange it.
Ralph
You'll do nothing of the kind. I love this hat… I'll put some newspaper in the hat and it'll fit fine. Oh, Alice, just go in the bedroom and look on top of the closet.
Alice
You don't mean you bought me a hat too.
Ralph
Just go in the bedroom and look.
[As Alice exits, Ralph completes putting newspapers into hat and puts it on. Alice enters wearing hat with hat box in hand.]
Alice
Oh, Ralph, it's gorgeous.
[Music sneaks in.]
Ralph
You look beautiful in that hat… Baby, we'll be a riot in that Easter parade…. I'm sorry about the way I hollered before… But I felt a little bad knowin' that I bought you a hat… And the price of eggs got in… I thought you were wastin' money… But it ain't your fault, Alice, I had a rough day today…..
Alice
That's okay, Ralph, I love you.
Ralph
Baby, You're the greatest.
[Blackout]
Episode #17
TV: Hasn’t been seen on TV since its original airdate.
DVD: Hasn’t been released.
Air Date: 5/16/52
Nobody knows for sure if this episode ever aired on TV or not. In the early 2010s, it was revealed that this as long as some other sketches were rumored to have been shown on TV. I am going to assume that the script for this one and this one are on and the same.
Before I start this review, let me say this. MPI has received a lot of complaints about accidently attaching the 1953 version to "Hero" (where on the box, it advertises the 1957 version). They also have gotten a lot of complaints when they accidently attached the 1953 episode to the DVD release that has "Teamwork Beats The Clock", "Quiz Show" & "The Wit & Wisdom of Ed Norton" (where once again on the box, it advertises the 1957 version.) MPI probably did it by mistake since the both versions of this episode are very much alike. In 2002, I managed to get the MPI cassette Vol. 28 that has the 1957 version of this episode (even though some versions of Vol. 28 have the '53 version on it.)
The episode opens up with Alice worrying about where Ralph is. Ed and Trixie come down. Alice says that she is worried about Ralph. He was supposed to come home a while ago. So, Trixie asks Ed to go outside and come back when he comes home. Ed says no because what's going to happen if he is in the hospital, he would have stayed out for nothing. Ed also says that because Ralph is married, he probably ran away. Ha! That's a very nice thing to say. Ed brings up a story about what happened to a person he knew. That person ran away and when the cops asked him questions, he didn't know anything. He was 3 years old. Ha!
Ralph comes home and has champagne for everyone. In fact, in the 1953 version of this episode, Ralph tires to open the bottle, but has a hard time doing so. That wasn't supposed to happen, so to cover it up, he says: "We will be drinking champagne if I can ever get this bottle open." He does. Ralph says that he is now the new manager of the Gotham Bus Depot. He always knew that he had the right qualifications. Yeah, sure he did. When Alice asks Ralph, how he found out, Ralph says he heard it while walking by the president of the bus company's office. He later hears that a telegram will come tonight to confirm the whole thing. Ralph mentions that with him becoming the manager, he might even become the president. When he does become president, he's going to make some changes like having pretty stewardess on each bus and to make sure that those people who happened to miss the bus by one minute; he's going to make sure every bus starts a minute late. Question: Wouldn't that rule make some people a little angry that they might be one minute late to go to whatever they are going to? Just a thought. Ralph says that the salary he gets for being a manager is big. He says that with the money, he and Alice are going to go on a second honeymoon with Ed and Trixie and that Alice is going to get that bunion removed off her foot. Ralph also says that now that he's in the money, should he and Alice move out of this joint. He later says no. That place has been awful lucky to them. Yeah, sure it has.
After Ralph leaves, the telegram arrives saying that Ralph has become the manager all right. The manager of the Gotham City Baseball Team. Alice, Ed, and Trixie are all upset thinking that Ralph was becoming manager of the company and that all the plans that Ralph had for becoming president were not going to come to fruition for a while.
Ralph comes home and mentions about the respect Alice will get when she goes down to the store Ralph was just at. Ralph says with the money he's going to get, since it gets hot in the summertime, he's going to buy a mattress for this place. Yeah, Jackie made a blooper when he said that. Alice presents Ralph with the telegram and when Ralph reads it he's disappointed and apologizes to Alice. Alice says that Ralph is the most important thing in her life. They hug and kiss.
When I rented the video entitled: "Cupid/Manager of The Baseball Team (1953 version)" in 1996, I originally thought I was going to get a thirty-minute episode of Ralph being the baseball manager. (Imagine how funny that would be.) You can imagine my disappointment when I found out that the episode was less than fifteen minutes long.
Credit I believe goes to tv.com, Honeymooners Lost Episodes Book, tvguide.com, honeymooners.net, Honeymooners Box Set booklet, tvshowsondvd.com, Honeymooners Lost Episodes DVD booklet, Wikipedia.org, Yahoo! Groups You’re A Riot! & Amazon.com.