Frank Gannucci
01-05-2018, 08:46 AM
Honeymooners Episode Reviews: "Oh My Aching Back" & "The Babysitter":
Episode #125 (Syndicated Episode #16)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Something Fishy." On some tapes, it’s attached to “The Babysitter” & “$99,000 Answer.” On some tapes, it’s attached to “The Golfer”, “TV or Not TV”, “Better Living Through TV” & “Young At Heart.”
Laserdisc: Attached to “A Matter of Record”, “The Babysitter”, “$99,000 Answer”, “Ralph Kramden Inc.”, “The Safety Award”, “Mind Your Own Business” (aka “Ralph’s Big Mouth”), “Alice & The Blonde”, “The Bensonhurst Bomber”, “Dial J For Janitor” & “A Man’s Pride.”
DVD: Attached to episodes #9-16 of the classic 39. Attached to episodes #9-16 of the classic 39. The HD Blu-Ray set has the exact same episodes (including two versions of "Hello Mom." in which one has the original ads) and includes Best Buick Yet presentation
Air Date: Sat. 1/14/56
To see the script for this episode, click here: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co...episode=s04e16
Note: In 2023, this episode was colorized (aka tinted) put on Youtube. Unlike most, it’s still on there.
Alice's mom wants Alice & Ralph to come to her house tonight. Alice tells this to Trixie. She says that Ralph will come in here and say: "In all my 15 years of driving a bus, I never had a harder day." Then after Ralph sits down, he will say: "I can't go to your mother's." Sure enough, Ralph comes in and says the exact same things. Trixie says that she is staying over someone else's house tonight. Trixie leaves. Alice wants Ralph to go to her mother's tonight. Ralph says he can't because he has a bad back and needs to report to a doctor tomorrow. Alice doesn't believe it until he sees the note that Ralph got clarifying the appointment. Ralph needs to get some sleep. Alice says they will only be there for dinner and then they will leave. Ralph: "I'm not the person that eats-and-runs." Alice: "Eats-and runs? With the way you eat, you're lucky if you can walk." Then, Alice says that Ralph can stay home and get to bed. She leaves. Ralph gets up, tells Norton to get ready to go bowling. The Raccoon Bowling Team will win the championship if Ralph bowls them to another win. Ed comes down and Alice comes back up. She demands an explanation. Ed leaves. Ralph explains everything. Alice says that Ralph is taking a big risk bowling tonight with that bad back of his. Ralph calls Ed down to tell him he ain't going. Nor is he going to his mother-in-law's. Alice leaves. Ed comes down and tries to talk some "sense" into Ralph. He says that if they win, Herbert has a nice victory feast for them which contains three kinds of pizza: Pig, Knuckles and Sauerkraut and that Neapolitan Knockworst that Ralph like so much. I never heard of these types of foods ANYWERE. Ralph says that he will go. Ed: "I knew that Neapolitan Knock worst would get ya." They leave.
Ralph, Ed and a friend come back later. Sure enough, Ralph has hurt his back but they won the championship trophy. Ralph is in a lot of pain. The friend leaves. Ed tries to nurse Ralph back to health by first taking his temperature. He does that, but when he reads it, he has a lit match near it and naturally because of the heat, the mercury in the thermometer rises but Ed is too stupid to not know that. When he sees the extremely high temperature, he is nervous. Ed: "What would you say a bad temperature is?" Ralph: "102. 103. What is it Norton?" Ed (starting to cry, yells): "111." When WPIX used to advertise their Honeymooners Marathon, they used this sound clip of Ed yelling the "11" part of "111." Ralph is nervous and when he sees the fact that Ed used a match to read the temperature, he gets mad because of Ed's stupidity. Alice is supposed to come home soon, so they think of a plan. When she comes home, he will say out the window that it looks like rain and Ed will come down "sleepwalking." Ed leaves.
Alice and Uncle Leo come down. Uncle Leo (slapping Ralph on the back): "Ralph, it is GOOD to see ya!" Uncle Leo says that he and Alice should come to Utica, New York where he lives and visit. Uncle Leo wants to leave, so he slaps Ralph on the back and says: "Ralph it was GOOD to see ya!" He leaves. Ralph screams: "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAA!" Alice wants to know what that noise was. She said it sounded like feeding time at the zoo. Ralph goes over to the window. He wants to look at the weather. Ralph (yells): "WHOOOAA! IT CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE RAIN TONIGHT!" Ed comes down "sleepwalking." Ralph and Alice talk about the problems Ed had the last time that he slept walk (in "The Sleepwalker.") Alice says that she will give Ralph the things he needs so he can keep an eye on Ed. She also says that she has some very delicious chicken in the ice box. Sure enough, Ed "sleepwalks" over to the icebox and tries to devour the chicken.
The next morning, Trixie stops by. Alice tries to explain what Ralph tired to do, which is bowling with a bad back. Ralph's bowling team friends stop by too. They want to give Ralph the trophy for helping them win. D'oh! Not something that Alice wanted to hear. Trixie leaves and when Ralph comes home, Alice tries to rehash the events of last night between the two of them. Then, she wants Ralph to explain the trophy. D'oh! Not something that Ralph wanted to hear.
Episode #126
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Mama Loves Mambo." On some tapes, it’s attached to “Oh My Aching Back” & “$99,000 Answer.” On some tapes, it’s attached to “House Beautiful” (aka “Pardon My Glove”), “Mama Loves Mambo”, “Alice & The Blonde” & “A Matter of Record.”
Laserdisc: Attached to “A Matter of Record”, “The Babysitter”, Oh My Aching Back”, “Ralph Kramden Inc.”, “The Safety Award”, “Mind Your Own Business” (aka “Ralph’s Big Mouth”), “Alice & The Blonde”, “The Bensonhurst Bomber”, “Dial J For Janitor” & “A Man’s Pride.”
DVD: Attached to episodes #17-24 of the classic 39. The HD Blu-Ray set has the exact same episodes (including two versions of the following: "The $99,000 Answer", "A Dog's Life" & "Here Comes The Bride" (in which one has the original ads) 60 Minutes Interview & outtakes (in which Jack talks about outtakes).
Air Date: Sat. 1/21/56
To see the script for this episode, click here: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co...episode=s04e17
Alice just got a new phone which is black. She calls Trixie down and explains she just got a new phone. Trixie comes down. They rave about the phone. One problem: Trying to hide the phone from Ralph. Trixie leaves. Alice tries to hide the phone from him. Ralph, of course, doesn't think they can afford a phone. Ralph comes home and when something rings, Ralph hears it's coming from the bureau (where Alice hid it.) Alice (sarcastically): "All right Ralph. Kill me!" Ralph says that the phone is going out the window and they can't afford it. Ralph: "What's the matter with yelling out the window?" Alice: "That's bad manners." Ralph: "My mom did it." Alice: "Yeah, and when she lost her voice, more people listened to her than Amos N' Andy." They argue more and more about the phone. Ralph: "That phone is for you-you-you." Alice picks up the ringing phone. Alice: "It's for-you-you-you." Ralph: "Hello?...Shut up!" That was Ed Norton congratulating Ralph on finally getting a phone. Ralph: "A man's home is like a ship. Where are you going?" Alice: "I'm retiring to the poop deck until this big wind blows over." Ha!
Ed comes down and they talk about the phone. Ed wants to make a very important call. Ralph obliges but gets mad when he finds out that the call is to get the correct time. Ralph: "You're going to pay me for that call." Gee, how nice...NOT! Ed says that Ralph has used his phone a lot of times. Ralph says he will pay for all his calls. Ed gets out a list of EVERY EXACT phone call that Ralph made on his phone. Ralph says that the phone was for Alice so she can talk all day long. Ralph thinks he knows the phone number for their home. He says that he will call and if it's a busy signal, he will come back up and catch Alice in the act. He leaves. A neighbor pops in and she knows of a couple who is in need of a kid who needs babysitting (hence the title of the episode.) She says that her phone number is Bensonhurst 0-7741. (This was a time before all phone numbers were all U.S. phone numbers were all 7 or 10 digit numbers.) Ralph comes back home and thinks he caught her in the act. Ralph: "If I have called Bensonhurst 0-7740 once, I must have called it a hundred times and I got a busy signal each time." Alice: "Our number is..." Audrey Meadows (via a real obvious overdub) "...Bensonhurst 0-7741." Audrey's & Jackie’s voices when they said the phone numbers were dubbed later after this episode was made. Why? According to the original script as printed in Peter Crescenti and Bob Columbia’s The Original Honeymooners Treasury, the wrong number was to be Bensonhurst 4-7741. And yes, because both phone numbers existed, they had to be changed (and likewise, the title to "The Babysitter)." According to Donna McCrohan's book, this episode had the longest history of rescheduling of any Honeymooners. It was originally titled "Bensonhurst 3-7741" and scheduled to air in succession, for October 15, December 17, and December 31, 1955. When the episode finally aired on January 21, 1956, it was retitled "The Baby-Sitter." Anyway, back to the show. Alice says: "I guess I married the wrong number Ralph." Ouch!
It was believed that when this episode aired, it had the original number. In 2021, I got a 16mm film reel of the episode. Well, I sent this tape reel of this to cloggedmind (a former sitcoms online.com poster He posted the video of the 16MM footage on YouTube that has since been taken down. If you listen to it, it doesn’t have the original number. When I asked him if the episode aired like that for the first time, he said this:
“Did the episode air with the revised number? I would say, yes. Further, since the Blu-ray set was created by scanning the original negatives and the overdubs are present there, I would surmise that the phone number was changed before broadcast. Plus, remember how tight CBS (and other television networks') censors were, back in the day. They would never knowingly allow a real number to be broadcast that could cost the network even more than what they were throwing at Gleason”
“For me, this one's case closed. All the facts are in order:
The episode's title was changed from "BEnsonhurst 3-7741" to "The Babysitter" before release, so we know the correction was made before transmission (and, of course, these weren't the "live" shows, so there was plenty of time for changes while they made 2 shows per week on that schedule).
The dubs were done with the original actors' voices (besides Gleason and Meadows), who would, likely, be difficult to rally together long after the production wrapped.
People always swore they heard the original number in tv repeats in the 70's. Well, this film was one of those at one point and, guess what? Still the revised number.
No one has ever produced a copy with "BEnsonhurst 3-7741" spoken in the episode.
And, the surviving negatives used for the remastered, hi-def release contain the altered soundtrack.
Done deal! I's satisfied!”
At the barber shop, a man at the shop is talking to Harvey Walsetter about Alice Kramden being a great babysitter last night. Ralph is remorseful what he did last night as they both get what I'm guessing is facials. Ed helps himself to whatever he can find at the shop too. Gee, isn't that kind of making yourself at home? Ralph overhears the man and Harvey talking in the shop. According to Harvey Walsetter, he wants Alice to come to his house tonight (to babysit his kid.) But Ralph, being Ralph, thinks she is seeing someone. Ralph and Ed leave.
At the Kramden household, Alice just accepted another babysitting job over the phone. It's for tonight and since she has to leave early and tries to rush Ralph (who is supposed to go to a Raccoon Lodge meeting) into eating his dinner. Ralph gets even more suspicious. Alice leaves and when Ed comes down, he says that when he goes to Harvey's house, he will kill Harvey and say to Alice it's over. Ralph: "I don't want to lose her." Ralph leaves. Ed: "I hope he doesn't lose her too. She's such a good cook."
At the Walsetter's place, the couple is celebrating their 10th Anniversary. Alice comes in. Harvey and his wife say their kid, whose name is Harvey Jr., is fast asleep. They leave. Ralph rings the doorbell about 9 times too many and greets Alice at the door. He is ticked off. Ralph goes over to the Harvey Jr.'s bedroom and says: "I came to see Harvey." Ralph (yells): "Come on out of there Harvey." Harvey Jr., because of the yelling comes out. He is supposedly crying a little but doesn't make a sound. Alice: "That's Harvey Jr." She picks little Harvey up and as Harvey is being carried back he takes one look at Ralph is his Raccoon uniform (complete with Raccoon cap) and says: "Gee, I never knew that Davey Crockett was so fat." Ha! He gets sent o bed. Ralph then gets the real message but this mess if actually Alice's fault and not Ralph's. Ralph loves Alice and Alice says that now they have a phone (which would be gone by the next episode) for him to call and tell Alice that. They hug and kiss.
Note: There was speculation that the bonus material on the HD Blu-Ray set may contain all of the original audio of this episode which would include the original phone numbers. Not so.
Credit I think goes to (the original) Bill's 'Mooners Archives, eBay.com, tv.com, Honeymooners Lost Episodes Book, tvguide.com, honeymooners.net, Honeymooners Lost Episodes DVD booklet, Wikipedia.org, Yahoo Groups You're A Riot! & Amazon.com.
Episode #125 (Syndicated Episode #16)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Something Fishy." On some tapes, it’s attached to “The Babysitter” & “$99,000 Answer.” On some tapes, it’s attached to “The Golfer”, “TV or Not TV”, “Better Living Through TV” & “Young At Heart.”
Laserdisc: Attached to “A Matter of Record”, “The Babysitter”, “$99,000 Answer”, “Ralph Kramden Inc.”, “The Safety Award”, “Mind Your Own Business” (aka “Ralph’s Big Mouth”), “Alice & The Blonde”, “The Bensonhurst Bomber”, “Dial J For Janitor” & “A Man’s Pride.”
DVD: Attached to episodes #9-16 of the classic 39. Attached to episodes #9-16 of the classic 39. The HD Blu-Ray set has the exact same episodes (including two versions of "Hello Mom." in which one has the original ads) and includes Best Buick Yet presentation
Air Date: Sat. 1/14/56
To see the script for this episode, click here: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co...episode=s04e16
Note: In 2023, this episode was colorized (aka tinted) put on Youtube. Unlike most, it’s still on there.
Alice's mom wants Alice & Ralph to come to her house tonight. Alice tells this to Trixie. She says that Ralph will come in here and say: "In all my 15 years of driving a bus, I never had a harder day." Then after Ralph sits down, he will say: "I can't go to your mother's." Sure enough, Ralph comes in and says the exact same things. Trixie says that she is staying over someone else's house tonight. Trixie leaves. Alice wants Ralph to go to her mother's tonight. Ralph says he can't because he has a bad back and needs to report to a doctor tomorrow. Alice doesn't believe it until he sees the note that Ralph got clarifying the appointment. Ralph needs to get some sleep. Alice says they will only be there for dinner and then they will leave. Ralph: "I'm not the person that eats-and-runs." Alice: "Eats-and runs? With the way you eat, you're lucky if you can walk." Then, Alice says that Ralph can stay home and get to bed. She leaves. Ralph gets up, tells Norton to get ready to go bowling. The Raccoon Bowling Team will win the championship if Ralph bowls them to another win. Ed comes down and Alice comes back up. She demands an explanation. Ed leaves. Ralph explains everything. Alice says that Ralph is taking a big risk bowling tonight with that bad back of his. Ralph calls Ed down to tell him he ain't going. Nor is he going to his mother-in-law's. Alice leaves. Ed comes down and tries to talk some "sense" into Ralph. He says that if they win, Herbert has a nice victory feast for them which contains three kinds of pizza: Pig, Knuckles and Sauerkraut and that Neapolitan Knockworst that Ralph like so much. I never heard of these types of foods ANYWERE. Ralph says that he will go. Ed: "I knew that Neapolitan Knock worst would get ya." They leave.
Ralph, Ed and a friend come back later. Sure enough, Ralph has hurt his back but they won the championship trophy. Ralph is in a lot of pain. The friend leaves. Ed tries to nurse Ralph back to health by first taking his temperature. He does that, but when he reads it, he has a lit match near it and naturally because of the heat, the mercury in the thermometer rises but Ed is too stupid to not know that. When he sees the extremely high temperature, he is nervous. Ed: "What would you say a bad temperature is?" Ralph: "102. 103. What is it Norton?" Ed (starting to cry, yells): "111." When WPIX used to advertise their Honeymooners Marathon, they used this sound clip of Ed yelling the "11" part of "111." Ralph is nervous and when he sees the fact that Ed used a match to read the temperature, he gets mad because of Ed's stupidity. Alice is supposed to come home soon, so they think of a plan. When she comes home, he will say out the window that it looks like rain and Ed will come down "sleepwalking." Ed leaves.
Alice and Uncle Leo come down. Uncle Leo (slapping Ralph on the back): "Ralph, it is GOOD to see ya!" Uncle Leo says that he and Alice should come to Utica, New York where he lives and visit. Uncle Leo wants to leave, so he slaps Ralph on the back and says: "Ralph it was GOOD to see ya!" He leaves. Ralph screams: "WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOAAAAAAA!" Alice wants to know what that noise was. She said it sounded like feeding time at the zoo. Ralph goes over to the window. He wants to look at the weather. Ralph (yells): "WHOOOAA! IT CERTAINLY LOOKS LIKE RAIN TONIGHT!" Ed comes down "sleepwalking." Ralph and Alice talk about the problems Ed had the last time that he slept walk (in "The Sleepwalker.") Alice says that she will give Ralph the things he needs so he can keep an eye on Ed. She also says that she has some very delicious chicken in the ice box. Sure enough, Ed "sleepwalks" over to the icebox and tries to devour the chicken.
The next morning, Trixie stops by. Alice tries to explain what Ralph tired to do, which is bowling with a bad back. Ralph's bowling team friends stop by too. They want to give Ralph the trophy for helping them win. D'oh! Not something that Alice wanted to hear. Trixie leaves and when Ralph comes home, Alice tries to rehash the events of last night between the two of them. Then, she wants Ralph to explain the trophy. D'oh! Not something that Ralph wanted to hear.
Episode #126
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Mama Loves Mambo." On some tapes, it’s attached to “Oh My Aching Back” & “$99,000 Answer.” On some tapes, it’s attached to “House Beautiful” (aka “Pardon My Glove”), “Mama Loves Mambo”, “Alice & The Blonde” & “A Matter of Record.”
Laserdisc: Attached to “A Matter of Record”, “The Babysitter”, Oh My Aching Back”, “Ralph Kramden Inc.”, “The Safety Award”, “Mind Your Own Business” (aka “Ralph’s Big Mouth”), “Alice & The Blonde”, “The Bensonhurst Bomber”, “Dial J For Janitor” & “A Man’s Pride.”
DVD: Attached to episodes #17-24 of the classic 39. The HD Blu-Ray set has the exact same episodes (including two versions of the following: "The $99,000 Answer", "A Dog's Life" & "Here Comes The Bride" (in which one has the original ads) 60 Minutes Interview & outtakes (in which Jack talks about outtakes).
Air Date: Sat. 1/21/56
To see the script for this episode, click here: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co...episode=s04e17
Alice just got a new phone which is black. She calls Trixie down and explains she just got a new phone. Trixie comes down. They rave about the phone. One problem: Trying to hide the phone from Ralph. Trixie leaves. Alice tries to hide the phone from him. Ralph, of course, doesn't think they can afford a phone. Ralph comes home and when something rings, Ralph hears it's coming from the bureau (where Alice hid it.) Alice (sarcastically): "All right Ralph. Kill me!" Ralph says that the phone is going out the window and they can't afford it. Ralph: "What's the matter with yelling out the window?" Alice: "That's bad manners." Ralph: "My mom did it." Alice: "Yeah, and when she lost her voice, more people listened to her than Amos N' Andy." They argue more and more about the phone. Ralph: "That phone is for you-you-you." Alice picks up the ringing phone. Alice: "It's for-you-you-you." Ralph: "Hello?...Shut up!" That was Ed Norton congratulating Ralph on finally getting a phone. Ralph: "A man's home is like a ship. Where are you going?" Alice: "I'm retiring to the poop deck until this big wind blows over." Ha!
Ed comes down and they talk about the phone. Ed wants to make a very important call. Ralph obliges but gets mad when he finds out that the call is to get the correct time. Ralph: "You're going to pay me for that call." Gee, how nice...NOT! Ed says that Ralph has used his phone a lot of times. Ralph says he will pay for all his calls. Ed gets out a list of EVERY EXACT phone call that Ralph made on his phone. Ralph says that the phone was for Alice so she can talk all day long. Ralph thinks he knows the phone number for their home. He says that he will call and if it's a busy signal, he will come back up and catch Alice in the act. He leaves. A neighbor pops in and she knows of a couple who is in need of a kid who needs babysitting (hence the title of the episode.) She says that her phone number is Bensonhurst 0-7741. (This was a time before all phone numbers were all U.S. phone numbers were all 7 or 10 digit numbers.) Ralph comes back home and thinks he caught her in the act. Ralph: "If I have called Bensonhurst 0-7740 once, I must have called it a hundred times and I got a busy signal each time." Alice: "Our number is..." Audrey Meadows (via a real obvious overdub) "...Bensonhurst 0-7741." Audrey's & Jackie’s voices when they said the phone numbers were dubbed later after this episode was made. Why? According to the original script as printed in Peter Crescenti and Bob Columbia’s The Original Honeymooners Treasury, the wrong number was to be Bensonhurst 4-7741. And yes, because both phone numbers existed, they had to be changed (and likewise, the title to "The Babysitter)." According to Donna McCrohan's book, this episode had the longest history of rescheduling of any Honeymooners. It was originally titled "Bensonhurst 3-7741" and scheduled to air in succession, for October 15, December 17, and December 31, 1955. When the episode finally aired on January 21, 1956, it was retitled "The Baby-Sitter." Anyway, back to the show. Alice says: "I guess I married the wrong number Ralph." Ouch!
It was believed that when this episode aired, it had the original number. In 2021, I got a 16mm film reel of the episode. Well, I sent this tape reel of this to cloggedmind (a former sitcoms online.com poster He posted the video of the 16MM footage on YouTube that has since been taken down. If you listen to it, it doesn’t have the original number. When I asked him if the episode aired like that for the first time, he said this:
“Did the episode air with the revised number? I would say, yes. Further, since the Blu-ray set was created by scanning the original negatives and the overdubs are present there, I would surmise that the phone number was changed before broadcast. Plus, remember how tight CBS (and other television networks') censors were, back in the day. They would never knowingly allow a real number to be broadcast that could cost the network even more than what they were throwing at Gleason”
“For me, this one's case closed. All the facts are in order:
The episode's title was changed from "BEnsonhurst 3-7741" to "The Babysitter" before release, so we know the correction was made before transmission (and, of course, these weren't the "live" shows, so there was plenty of time for changes while they made 2 shows per week on that schedule).
The dubs were done with the original actors' voices (besides Gleason and Meadows), who would, likely, be difficult to rally together long after the production wrapped.
People always swore they heard the original number in tv repeats in the 70's. Well, this film was one of those at one point and, guess what? Still the revised number.
No one has ever produced a copy with "BEnsonhurst 3-7741" spoken in the episode.
And, the surviving negatives used for the remastered, hi-def release contain the altered soundtrack.
Done deal! I's satisfied!”
At the barber shop, a man at the shop is talking to Harvey Walsetter about Alice Kramden being a great babysitter last night. Ralph is remorseful what he did last night as they both get what I'm guessing is facials. Ed helps himself to whatever he can find at the shop too. Gee, isn't that kind of making yourself at home? Ralph overhears the man and Harvey talking in the shop. According to Harvey Walsetter, he wants Alice to come to his house tonight (to babysit his kid.) But Ralph, being Ralph, thinks she is seeing someone. Ralph and Ed leave.
At the Kramden household, Alice just accepted another babysitting job over the phone. It's for tonight and since she has to leave early and tries to rush Ralph (who is supposed to go to a Raccoon Lodge meeting) into eating his dinner. Ralph gets even more suspicious. Alice leaves and when Ed comes down, he says that when he goes to Harvey's house, he will kill Harvey and say to Alice it's over. Ralph: "I don't want to lose her." Ralph leaves. Ed: "I hope he doesn't lose her too. She's such a good cook."
At the Walsetter's place, the couple is celebrating their 10th Anniversary. Alice comes in. Harvey and his wife say their kid, whose name is Harvey Jr., is fast asleep. They leave. Ralph rings the doorbell about 9 times too many and greets Alice at the door. He is ticked off. Ralph goes over to the Harvey Jr.'s bedroom and says: "I came to see Harvey." Ralph (yells): "Come on out of there Harvey." Harvey Jr., because of the yelling comes out. He is supposedly crying a little but doesn't make a sound. Alice: "That's Harvey Jr." She picks little Harvey up and as Harvey is being carried back he takes one look at Ralph is his Raccoon uniform (complete with Raccoon cap) and says: "Gee, I never knew that Davey Crockett was so fat." Ha! He gets sent o bed. Ralph then gets the real message but this mess if actually Alice's fault and not Ralph's. Ralph loves Alice and Alice says that now they have a phone (which would be gone by the next episode) for him to call and tell Alice that. They hug and kiss.
Note: There was speculation that the bonus material on the HD Blu-Ray set may contain all of the original audio of this episode which would include the original phone numbers. Not so.
Credit I think goes to (the original) Bill's 'Mooners Archives, eBay.com, tv.com, Honeymooners Lost Episodes Book, tvguide.com, honeymooners.net, Honeymooners Lost Episodes DVD booklet, Wikipedia.org, Yahoo Groups You're A Riot! & Amazon.com.