Frank Gannucci
08-10-2018, 07:50 AM
Honeymooners Episode Reviews: "Flushing Ho" & "Sees All, Knows All":
Episode #188 (Syndicated episode #18)
TV: One hour long musical.
VHS: In 2015 on Ebay, someone was selling a VHS tape of a B&W 16mm print of this episode and it is attached to a 16mm print of the JGS that includes "Stars Over Flatbush." I don't know what company made it (and for all I know, the tape may be a bootleg.)
DVD: Attached to "Hair To A Fortune" & "The People's Choice." On the Best of Color Honeymooners DVD, it is attached to “Sun & Raccoon Capital”, “Two Faces of Ralph Kramden” & “Double Trouble.”
Color Honeymooners Episode Title: "Flushing Ho"
Lost Episode Title: "One Big Happy Family"
Air Date: 4/22/67
"Flushing Ho":
The June Taylor Dancers come out and sing a song about the streets of Brooklyn I believe. After that, they leave. Ralph is demanding complete silence while doing his taxes, so when he hears noise on the streets like hollering and yelling on Chauncey Street, he yells at all the people on the street to get away from his building. The Ice Cream man comes pushing an ice cream cart and says to Ralph, he has a peddler's license. Ralph: "Get on your bicycle and start peddling." The Ice Cream says that all men are equal. Ralph still says for him to get away from his building. He gets Callaghan, the cop and asks him if there is a city ordinance against loud and unnecessary noise on the streets. Callaghan says there is and tells Ralph to stop yelling or he would be put in jail. Ha! The Ice Cream man leaves. The Roasted Peanuts man comes by and Ralph yells at him to get away. Then, the Pizza Man comes by. Ralph yells at the pizza man but then tells him to make him to pizzas with anchovies and send them up to 2B. We finally know Ralph's apartment number.
Ralph is now in his apartment looking for his paper that had his social security number on it. Alice tells Ralph that is in the top bureau drawer. Ralph thinks that he found it. Ralph: "56-68-73." Alice: "Those are the measurements for that new suit you bought." Ralph is getting more upset. He finally finds the paper. Alice offers to help Ralph with his taxes. Ralph is having a hard time understanding one of the questions. Ralph says that it is too hard and doesn't care if he gets sent off to jail. Alice asks Ralph why he doesn't fill out the short form and Ralph says it's because he needs to put down his business deductions like getting his uniform cleaned last year. It costs him $3 every time he got it done once last year. Alice suggests taking a straight 10%. Ralph says that all Alice does is spend, spend, spend. He complains about the time that Alice spent money for a 100 watt bulb for the bathroom. Ralph: "'Ralph, I want the ice box painted.' 'I want a curtain for the bedroom window.' Why do we need a curtain for the bedroom window? All you see is a brick wall. You are not married to Nelson Rockefeller." Alice: "I got news for you Ralph. You are not married to Happy either." She goes into the bedroom. Ed Norton comes in. He is having a tough time doing his taxes too. He puts his glasses on for the first time in the four months he had them. Ed talks about deductions that he has like getting his rubber boots vulcanized, taking a course on becoming a lifeguard and candles. Ed: "When the candle goes out, that means that there is no air and it's safe to breathe." They talk about their business losses like the $125 they spent on that uranium field in Asbury Park and the $200 they sunk on that fund to make Hoboken, New Jersey a Honeymooners paradise. They also talk about the lawyer's fees when they went into bankruptcy. Ed: "We didn't pay them yet." Ralph: "We'll put it down as a bad debt." There's no way you can do that in real life. After doing a little math, Ralph figures that he has $3,165.12. Ralph thinks that he made a mistake because he doesn't even have the 12 cents. Ed: "The 12 cents is living expenses." When Ralph realizes that he and Norton between them are paying $65 a month in rent, he proposes that they pool their money and share an apartment in a swell neighborhood, like Flushing. Ralph says that he knows Ed's faults and if he himself had any, Ed would know it. Gee, Ralph is 100% perfect? Something about that doesn't make sense. They sing: "Let's Consolidate."
The Kramdens and Nortons take a look at an apartment in 23 Mockingbird Lane in Flushing, Queens, New York. Ralph: "We are used to much better." Ed: "We lost a lot of money in the Mentalated Dental Floss Crash." Ralph says that the kitchen is in a room all by itself. Ed asks for the bedroom with the North light so it will help him with the painting as far as seeing the numbers go. Huh? (The apartment did need painting.) Ralph has plans as far as putting Ed's furniture in the apartment in the living room and not his. Alice: "We can't mesh two periods: early modern and early depression." Ralph was going to donate his furniture. One of the benefits of the move is immediately obvious: at Chauncey Street the view from Ralph's window was the back of a Chinese restaurant; from the new apartment he can see the front of a Chinese restaurant. They take the apartment, but they don't know who should get the bigger bedroom. Ralph: "That is it. One big happy family." They sing: "One Big Happy Family."
The euphoria of new surroundings wears off quickly though, when Norton spends all morning in the bathtub washing a toy boat while Ralph's waiting to bathe before going to work. When Ralph finally gets into the bathroom, Ed says: "I think the people on bus #802 are going to get theirs today." Ralph takes a tumble on the soap Norton dropped on the floor and then can't get any hot water. Ralph accidentally sits down on Ed's boat. Ralph tries to salvage his morning with a few waffles but Norton gets to them first, causing more friction. Ralph complains that Norton is only caring for himself and that last night there was two potatoes and that Ed grabbed the big one. Ralph: "If I were you, I would have grabbed the little one." Ed: "What are you complaining about? You got the little one." Ralph is late and tells Norton to get ready for work. Today is Ed's day off. Ralph yells about the fact that Ed kept him waiting for a bath and he didn't have to go to work so he challenges Ed to a fight which ends when Ralph realizes that Ed has his glasses on and he can't punch him with glasses on. You can actually see the camera zoom out a little too much and see part of the real stage. Ed: "It's too bad Ralph isn't on color TV. When his face gets red like that, it's sensational."
Ralph gets home after a day's work. Things are no better that night; Ralph not seeing the bathroom since he moved in. Norton comes in with painting attire. Everything Norton does--whistling, singing, tapping on the table, folding the paper, cleaning his eyeglasses—drives Ralph crazy. Ralph complains about Ed being selfish as far as food goes. Ed also ate a whole pie much to Ralph's chagrin as well as having four pork chops compared to Ralph's six. Alice asks Ralph to look at a broken toaster. Ed says that the electro curl is not connected to this screw here. Translation: A screw is loose. Ed asks Ralph to hold the knife on the loose screw while Ed plugs in the toaster. Alice is actually not smart enough to stop Ed and Ralph. Ralph is getting "electrocuted." Ralph throws Norton out which causes the man upstairs earlier to complain. Ralph turns on the radio. Ed comes back in and kicks Ralph out since it's his apartment. Ed turns on the TV much to Ralph's chagrin. Ralph yells at Ed to turn off the TV. Ed & Ralph yell some more. Ed turns on the TV with the volume turned up and Ralph turns up the volume on the radio. Alice turns both electronics off. The guy from upstairs complains. Ralph (yells to the guy): "SHUT UP BEFORE I REPORT YOU TO THE SUPERINTENDENT!" Man (yells): "I AM THE SUPERINTENDENT." Ralph warns Ed not to turn on the set or he will throw it out the window. Ed says to Trixie that Ralph warned him not to turn on the TV. Trixie & Ed sing: "Why Do You Act So Defenseless and Weak?" Ed says that if he put the TV plug back in, he would get hit by Ralph. Trixie does it. Ralph comes out. Ed says: "Trixie turned it on. Hit her." Ralph and Ed yell at each other. Soon Ralph and Norton, Trixie and Ralph, and Alice and Trixie are squabbling. You can see part of the real stage again. The superintendent of the building comes down and kicks the blabbermouths from Bensonhurst out of the apartment house. Alice scolds Ralph for ruining the one good idea he ever had. Ralph is upset that it was his and Ed's fault. They all agree to move back into their old apartments. All four of them sing: "Two Big Happy Families."
At the curtain call, Jackie has a cup of coffee and introduces the cast.
Episode #189 (Syndicated episode #18)
TV: One hour long musical.
DVD: Attached to "Ralph Kramden Presents" & "Flushing Ho."
Air Date: 4/29/67
Color Episode Title: "Sees All, Knows All"
Lost Episode TItle: "Fortune Teller"
"Sees All, Knows All":
During Nick Clooney's intro, he talks about Shelia MacRae being an unlikely choice as Alice, having two children (one of them named Meredith) going on to become actresses and going through a divorce with her husband, Gordon, at the time this episode was made.
The June Taylor Dancers come out and sing and dance to a song that has to deal with a carnival. After that, they leave. I The Kramdens & Nortons are at a fair in Coney Island, New York. They go through the House of Horrors. Alice doesn't want to because it reminds her of the apartment. Ralph claims that he isn't scared. They all go in. While all of this is going on, an "evil" woman fortune teller (whom the audience claps) and her accomplice scheme up a way to fool people into telling people fake fortunes. They look for a dumb sucker. The girls come out. Trixie wasn't scared. Every year, she attends Norton's family reunion. Ralph was scared. According to Ed, when a skeleton came out, Ralph jumped through a wall. the fortune teller's accomplice comes out and talks about Madam Zelda, the fortune teller. Ralph says that all fortune tellers tell fake fortunes. Alice gets her palm read. Ralph then gets his palm read. Madam Zelda says that Ralph's future is so bad that she won't unveil it to Ralph. Ralph is nervous.
That night, Ralph has kept Alice awake. Ralph is so nervous that he won't be able to sleep. Alice tries to remind Ralph of what he said about fortune teller's giving "fake" fortunes. Ralph: "When they don't tell you anything that means something." Alice says that Zelda said that Alice was going to get a fortune. Ralph: "Ah ha! My insurance money!" Ralph is still nervous. Ralph now says that she isn't a phony and he will die soon. Ralph talks to Alice about if something happened to him, would she get married again. Alice says she might if she got lonely. Ralph is still upset. Ralph says that Alice's future husband will remind her of him and come back to the apartment to live. Ha! Ralph orders Alice that when he dies to bury him in his new overcoat. Alice goes to bed. Alice: "Goodbye! I mean goodnight." Ed comes down. Ed couldn't sleep not because of what happened to Ralph but because that he ate too many hot dogs. Ralph says that Zelda meant that Ralph will die soon. Ralph then says that if he doesn't die, he would have to put up with Ed for another 40 years. Ed then read Ralph's palm. He says that the lines (veins) in his hand are his success line, heart line and his clothesline. He joked about the last one much to Ralph's chagrin. He then says that it his lifeline. He closes Ralph's hand. He also reads knuckles. Ralph & Ed then sing: "Drive You Out of Your Mind."
The next day, Ed comes to Ralph's apartment. Ralph comes out and we finally see the wallpaper that leads to the bedroom. It is red and has a lot of unique designs on it. Ralph says that he is inviting Madam Zelda to come over and tell him what his fortune is. She comes by and Ralph pays her to tell him his fortune. She says that he will not die. Ralph is relieved. She then says that he will commit a murder within a week. Ralph is now upset. Ralph: "I couldn't harm a mosquito." Ed: "You have quite a temper." Ralph (yells): "I HAVE NOT!" Ralph asks her who he will murder and agrees to pay her $10 more. She looks into her crystal ball. Madam Zelda: "In my crystal ball, it's cloudy. Cloudy." Ed: "Ralph, who do you know with the name Cloudy?" Zelda: "The image will not come through." Zelda asks Ralph to be careful. She leaves. Ralph: "I'm a murderer." Ed: "Look at the bright side. If you do commit a murder, the worst thing you will get is life in prison." Apparently Ed forgot that the worst thing that will happen is that God won't forgive you and you will go to Hell when you die. Ed says to Ralph to think of pleasant thoughts like Longfellow saying that it's a pleasure to dip your feet in the Mississippi muck. Ralph kicks Ed out. Alice comes home. She asks for a neck rub. Ralph's hands act all crazy. He actually ends up choking her. He stops. Ralph (stamping his feet): "It's a pleasure to dip your feet in the Mississippi muck." Trixie comes down and asks them to go to the movies and see "Jack The Ripper in 'How To Murder Your Wife.'" Ralph kicks Trixie out. Alice then asks Ralph to cut bread and just like in "Trapped", his hands are to shaky to do it. Ralph then tells Alice to mover in with mother for a week. Alice: "Why are you trying to get rid of me?" Ralph: "I'm not. That is why I am." Alice then asks if she can bring her over here. Ralph: "DON'T do THAT Alice! DON'T do THAT Alice!" Ralph threatens to throw her out. Alice goes into the bedroom. Ed comes down and offers to go to Norton's apartment for a week. He will send Trixie to her sister's. They sing: "What Is A Friend?"
The studio audience laughs as we see the Norton's apartment's bedroom, they are ready to go to bed. The bedroom looks different then it did in "Pal O' Mine." Ralph then asks why that Ed can take showers in his tub and he can't in his apartment. Didn't he say that he could take showers in his apartment in "Goodbye Aunt Ethel"? Ed says that the reason is because the builders put all the showers in the penthouse apartments. They get ready to go to sleep. Ed brushes his teeth but he talks at the same time which causes toothpaste to fall out of his mouth. Ralph wonders what would happen if he start to sleepwalk. Ralph then asks Ed to put rope around each other's wrists to prevent Ralph from sleepwalking. He should of thought of that in "Pal O' Mine." They put the rope on. They go to sleep but with the rope is causing trouble. I thought it would be even funnier if they did some sort of reenactment of "Unconventional Behavior" when they had handcuffs on. Ralph then says that one should be awake while the other one sleeps. Ralph goes to sleep first. Ed makes a lot of hacking noises. Ed: "I think I swallowed my toothbrush." If he did, he would be dead. Ed accidentally falls asleep and snores. Ed puts on the radio but he puts it on too loud. Ralph gets up and he is mad. Ed then says he will get earphones and put them in his ears and listen to the radio while Ralph goes to sleep. This works until the station signs off and they play "The Star-Spangled Banner." Ed gets Ralph up so they could salute. Ralph is even more upset.
At the Coney Island carnival, Madam Zelda and her accomplice have set up their place. Alice & the Nortons come by with policemen and tell them what Madam Zelda. Alice reveals that Ed said that Madam Zelda said that Ralph was going to commit a murder within a week and because of that, she was a phony. The policemen arrest Madam Zelda and her accomplice. Ed: "A pox on you and your whole tribe." Trixie: "Ralph is locked in our bedroom and is afraid to face us." The crooks and the policeman take off. Ed: "Ralph is just as sane as I am." Trixie: "Saner." Alice will call Ralph. The Nortons & Alice leave the scene. Ralph looks for Madam Zelda. Ralph finds a policeman and asks him to arrest him. He says that he will commit a murder within a week. The cop doesn't believe him. Cop: "You haven't broken the law." Ralph rips part of the policemen's uniform and takes his cap and stomps on it. Now Ralph will go to jail for ten days. Ralph: "I am the beast of Bensonhurst." Ralph & the cop run into the Nortons and Ed. Ralph gets told of the whole story about Madam Zelda. Ralph is all happy but he forgets his 10 day jail term. The cop takes him to jail much to Ralph's friends' chagrin.
At the curtain call, Jackie introduces the cast. The accomplice was played by Chet London. The part of Madam Zelda was played by Audrey Christy. The usual cast introductions follow.
Credit I think goes to (the original) Bill's 'Mooners Archives, eBay.com, tv.com, Honeymooners Lost Episodes Book, tvguide.com, honeymooners.net, Honeymooners Box Set booklet Honeymooners Lost Episodes DVD booklet, Wikipedia.org, Yahoo Group You're A Riot! & Amazon.com.
Episode #188 (Syndicated episode #18)
TV: One hour long musical.
VHS: In 2015 on Ebay, someone was selling a VHS tape of a B&W 16mm print of this episode and it is attached to a 16mm print of the JGS that includes "Stars Over Flatbush." I don't know what company made it (and for all I know, the tape may be a bootleg.)
DVD: Attached to "Hair To A Fortune" & "The People's Choice." On the Best of Color Honeymooners DVD, it is attached to “Sun & Raccoon Capital”, “Two Faces of Ralph Kramden” & “Double Trouble.”
Color Honeymooners Episode Title: "Flushing Ho"
Lost Episode Title: "One Big Happy Family"
Air Date: 4/22/67
"Flushing Ho":
The June Taylor Dancers come out and sing a song about the streets of Brooklyn I believe. After that, they leave. Ralph is demanding complete silence while doing his taxes, so when he hears noise on the streets like hollering and yelling on Chauncey Street, he yells at all the people on the street to get away from his building. The Ice Cream man comes pushing an ice cream cart and says to Ralph, he has a peddler's license. Ralph: "Get on your bicycle and start peddling." The Ice Cream says that all men are equal. Ralph still says for him to get away from his building. He gets Callaghan, the cop and asks him if there is a city ordinance against loud and unnecessary noise on the streets. Callaghan says there is and tells Ralph to stop yelling or he would be put in jail. Ha! The Ice Cream man leaves. The Roasted Peanuts man comes by and Ralph yells at him to get away. Then, the Pizza Man comes by. Ralph yells at the pizza man but then tells him to make him to pizzas with anchovies and send them up to 2B. We finally know Ralph's apartment number.
Ralph is now in his apartment looking for his paper that had his social security number on it. Alice tells Ralph that is in the top bureau drawer. Ralph thinks that he found it. Ralph: "56-68-73." Alice: "Those are the measurements for that new suit you bought." Ralph is getting more upset. He finally finds the paper. Alice offers to help Ralph with his taxes. Ralph is having a hard time understanding one of the questions. Ralph says that it is too hard and doesn't care if he gets sent off to jail. Alice asks Ralph why he doesn't fill out the short form and Ralph says it's because he needs to put down his business deductions like getting his uniform cleaned last year. It costs him $3 every time he got it done once last year. Alice suggests taking a straight 10%. Ralph says that all Alice does is spend, spend, spend. He complains about the time that Alice spent money for a 100 watt bulb for the bathroom. Ralph: "'Ralph, I want the ice box painted.' 'I want a curtain for the bedroom window.' Why do we need a curtain for the bedroom window? All you see is a brick wall. You are not married to Nelson Rockefeller." Alice: "I got news for you Ralph. You are not married to Happy either." She goes into the bedroom. Ed Norton comes in. He is having a tough time doing his taxes too. He puts his glasses on for the first time in the four months he had them. Ed talks about deductions that he has like getting his rubber boots vulcanized, taking a course on becoming a lifeguard and candles. Ed: "When the candle goes out, that means that there is no air and it's safe to breathe." They talk about their business losses like the $125 they spent on that uranium field in Asbury Park and the $200 they sunk on that fund to make Hoboken, New Jersey a Honeymooners paradise. They also talk about the lawyer's fees when they went into bankruptcy. Ed: "We didn't pay them yet." Ralph: "We'll put it down as a bad debt." There's no way you can do that in real life. After doing a little math, Ralph figures that he has $3,165.12. Ralph thinks that he made a mistake because he doesn't even have the 12 cents. Ed: "The 12 cents is living expenses." When Ralph realizes that he and Norton between them are paying $65 a month in rent, he proposes that they pool their money and share an apartment in a swell neighborhood, like Flushing. Ralph says that he knows Ed's faults and if he himself had any, Ed would know it. Gee, Ralph is 100% perfect? Something about that doesn't make sense. They sing: "Let's Consolidate."
The Kramdens and Nortons take a look at an apartment in 23 Mockingbird Lane in Flushing, Queens, New York. Ralph: "We are used to much better." Ed: "We lost a lot of money in the Mentalated Dental Floss Crash." Ralph says that the kitchen is in a room all by itself. Ed asks for the bedroom with the North light so it will help him with the painting as far as seeing the numbers go. Huh? (The apartment did need painting.) Ralph has plans as far as putting Ed's furniture in the apartment in the living room and not his. Alice: "We can't mesh two periods: early modern and early depression." Ralph was going to donate his furniture. One of the benefits of the move is immediately obvious: at Chauncey Street the view from Ralph's window was the back of a Chinese restaurant; from the new apartment he can see the front of a Chinese restaurant. They take the apartment, but they don't know who should get the bigger bedroom. Ralph: "That is it. One big happy family." They sing: "One Big Happy Family."
The euphoria of new surroundings wears off quickly though, when Norton spends all morning in the bathtub washing a toy boat while Ralph's waiting to bathe before going to work. When Ralph finally gets into the bathroom, Ed says: "I think the people on bus #802 are going to get theirs today." Ralph takes a tumble on the soap Norton dropped on the floor and then can't get any hot water. Ralph accidentally sits down on Ed's boat. Ralph tries to salvage his morning with a few waffles but Norton gets to them first, causing more friction. Ralph complains that Norton is only caring for himself and that last night there was two potatoes and that Ed grabbed the big one. Ralph: "If I were you, I would have grabbed the little one." Ed: "What are you complaining about? You got the little one." Ralph is late and tells Norton to get ready for work. Today is Ed's day off. Ralph yells about the fact that Ed kept him waiting for a bath and he didn't have to go to work so he challenges Ed to a fight which ends when Ralph realizes that Ed has his glasses on and he can't punch him with glasses on. You can actually see the camera zoom out a little too much and see part of the real stage. Ed: "It's too bad Ralph isn't on color TV. When his face gets red like that, it's sensational."
Ralph gets home after a day's work. Things are no better that night; Ralph not seeing the bathroom since he moved in. Norton comes in with painting attire. Everything Norton does--whistling, singing, tapping on the table, folding the paper, cleaning his eyeglasses—drives Ralph crazy. Ralph complains about Ed being selfish as far as food goes. Ed also ate a whole pie much to Ralph's chagrin as well as having four pork chops compared to Ralph's six. Alice asks Ralph to look at a broken toaster. Ed says that the electro curl is not connected to this screw here. Translation: A screw is loose. Ed asks Ralph to hold the knife on the loose screw while Ed plugs in the toaster. Alice is actually not smart enough to stop Ed and Ralph. Ralph is getting "electrocuted." Ralph throws Norton out which causes the man upstairs earlier to complain. Ralph turns on the radio. Ed comes back in and kicks Ralph out since it's his apartment. Ed turns on the TV much to Ralph's chagrin. Ralph yells at Ed to turn off the TV. Ed & Ralph yell some more. Ed turns on the TV with the volume turned up and Ralph turns up the volume on the radio. Alice turns both electronics off. The guy from upstairs complains. Ralph (yells to the guy): "SHUT UP BEFORE I REPORT YOU TO THE SUPERINTENDENT!" Man (yells): "I AM THE SUPERINTENDENT." Ralph warns Ed not to turn on the set or he will throw it out the window. Ed says to Trixie that Ralph warned him not to turn on the TV. Trixie & Ed sing: "Why Do You Act So Defenseless and Weak?" Ed says that if he put the TV plug back in, he would get hit by Ralph. Trixie does it. Ralph comes out. Ed says: "Trixie turned it on. Hit her." Ralph and Ed yell at each other. Soon Ralph and Norton, Trixie and Ralph, and Alice and Trixie are squabbling. You can see part of the real stage again. The superintendent of the building comes down and kicks the blabbermouths from Bensonhurst out of the apartment house. Alice scolds Ralph for ruining the one good idea he ever had. Ralph is upset that it was his and Ed's fault. They all agree to move back into their old apartments. All four of them sing: "Two Big Happy Families."
At the curtain call, Jackie has a cup of coffee and introduces the cast.
Episode #189 (Syndicated episode #18)
TV: One hour long musical.
DVD: Attached to "Ralph Kramden Presents" & "Flushing Ho."
Air Date: 4/29/67
Color Episode Title: "Sees All, Knows All"
Lost Episode TItle: "Fortune Teller"
"Sees All, Knows All":
During Nick Clooney's intro, he talks about Shelia MacRae being an unlikely choice as Alice, having two children (one of them named Meredith) going on to become actresses and going through a divorce with her husband, Gordon, at the time this episode was made.
The June Taylor Dancers come out and sing and dance to a song that has to deal with a carnival. After that, they leave. I The Kramdens & Nortons are at a fair in Coney Island, New York. They go through the House of Horrors. Alice doesn't want to because it reminds her of the apartment. Ralph claims that he isn't scared. They all go in. While all of this is going on, an "evil" woman fortune teller (whom the audience claps) and her accomplice scheme up a way to fool people into telling people fake fortunes. They look for a dumb sucker. The girls come out. Trixie wasn't scared. Every year, she attends Norton's family reunion. Ralph was scared. According to Ed, when a skeleton came out, Ralph jumped through a wall. the fortune teller's accomplice comes out and talks about Madam Zelda, the fortune teller. Ralph says that all fortune tellers tell fake fortunes. Alice gets her palm read. Ralph then gets his palm read. Madam Zelda says that Ralph's future is so bad that she won't unveil it to Ralph. Ralph is nervous.
That night, Ralph has kept Alice awake. Ralph is so nervous that he won't be able to sleep. Alice tries to remind Ralph of what he said about fortune teller's giving "fake" fortunes. Ralph: "When they don't tell you anything that means something." Alice says that Zelda said that Alice was going to get a fortune. Ralph: "Ah ha! My insurance money!" Ralph is still nervous. Ralph now says that she isn't a phony and he will die soon. Ralph talks to Alice about if something happened to him, would she get married again. Alice says she might if she got lonely. Ralph is still upset. Ralph says that Alice's future husband will remind her of him and come back to the apartment to live. Ha! Ralph orders Alice that when he dies to bury him in his new overcoat. Alice goes to bed. Alice: "Goodbye! I mean goodnight." Ed comes down. Ed couldn't sleep not because of what happened to Ralph but because that he ate too many hot dogs. Ralph says that Zelda meant that Ralph will die soon. Ralph then says that if he doesn't die, he would have to put up with Ed for another 40 years. Ed then read Ralph's palm. He says that the lines (veins) in his hand are his success line, heart line and his clothesline. He joked about the last one much to Ralph's chagrin. He then says that it his lifeline. He closes Ralph's hand. He also reads knuckles. Ralph & Ed then sing: "Drive You Out of Your Mind."
The next day, Ed comes to Ralph's apartment. Ralph comes out and we finally see the wallpaper that leads to the bedroom. It is red and has a lot of unique designs on it. Ralph says that he is inviting Madam Zelda to come over and tell him what his fortune is. She comes by and Ralph pays her to tell him his fortune. She says that he will not die. Ralph is relieved. She then says that he will commit a murder within a week. Ralph is now upset. Ralph: "I couldn't harm a mosquito." Ed: "You have quite a temper." Ralph (yells): "I HAVE NOT!" Ralph asks her who he will murder and agrees to pay her $10 more. She looks into her crystal ball. Madam Zelda: "In my crystal ball, it's cloudy. Cloudy." Ed: "Ralph, who do you know with the name Cloudy?" Zelda: "The image will not come through." Zelda asks Ralph to be careful. She leaves. Ralph: "I'm a murderer." Ed: "Look at the bright side. If you do commit a murder, the worst thing you will get is life in prison." Apparently Ed forgot that the worst thing that will happen is that God won't forgive you and you will go to Hell when you die. Ed says to Ralph to think of pleasant thoughts like Longfellow saying that it's a pleasure to dip your feet in the Mississippi muck. Ralph kicks Ed out. Alice comes home. She asks for a neck rub. Ralph's hands act all crazy. He actually ends up choking her. He stops. Ralph (stamping his feet): "It's a pleasure to dip your feet in the Mississippi muck." Trixie comes down and asks them to go to the movies and see "Jack The Ripper in 'How To Murder Your Wife.'" Ralph kicks Trixie out. Alice then asks Ralph to cut bread and just like in "Trapped", his hands are to shaky to do it. Ralph then tells Alice to mover in with mother for a week. Alice: "Why are you trying to get rid of me?" Ralph: "I'm not. That is why I am." Alice then asks if she can bring her over here. Ralph: "DON'T do THAT Alice! DON'T do THAT Alice!" Ralph threatens to throw her out. Alice goes into the bedroom. Ed comes down and offers to go to Norton's apartment for a week. He will send Trixie to her sister's. They sing: "What Is A Friend?"
The studio audience laughs as we see the Norton's apartment's bedroom, they are ready to go to bed. The bedroom looks different then it did in "Pal O' Mine." Ralph then asks why that Ed can take showers in his tub and he can't in his apartment. Didn't he say that he could take showers in his apartment in "Goodbye Aunt Ethel"? Ed says that the reason is because the builders put all the showers in the penthouse apartments. They get ready to go to sleep. Ed brushes his teeth but he talks at the same time which causes toothpaste to fall out of his mouth. Ralph wonders what would happen if he start to sleepwalk. Ralph then asks Ed to put rope around each other's wrists to prevent Ralph from sleepwalking. He should of thought of that in "Pal O' Mine." They put the rope on. They go to sleep but with the rope is causing trouble. I thought it would be even funnier if they did some sort of reenactment of "Unconventional Behavior" when they had handcuffs on. Ralph then says that one should be awake while the other one sleeps. Ralph goes to sleep first. Ed makes a lot of hacking noises. Ed: "I think I swallowed my toothbrush." If he did, he would be dead. Ed accidentally falls asleep and snores. Ed puts on the radio but he puts it on too loud. Ralph gets up and he is mad. Ed then says he will get earphones and put them in his ears and listen to the radio while Ralph goes to sleep. This works until the station signs off and they play "The Star-Spangled Banner." Ed gets Ralph up so they could salute. Ralph is even more upset.
At the Coney Island carnival, Madam Zelda and her accomplice have set up their place. Alice & the Nortons come by with policemen and tell them what Madam Zelda. Alice reveals that Ed said that Madam Zelda said that Ralph was going to commit a murder within a week and because of that, she was a phony. The policemen arrest Madam Zelda and her accomplice. Ed: "A pox on you and your whole tribe." Trixie: "Ralph is locked in our bedroom and is afraid to face us." The crooks and the policeman take off. Ed: "Ralph is just as sane as I am." Trixie: "Saner." Alice will call Ralph. The Nortons & Alice leave the scene. Ralph looks for Madam Zelda. Ralph finds a policeman and asks him to arrest him. He says that he will commit a murder within a week. The cop doesn't believe him. Cop: "You haven't broken the law." Ralph rips part of the policemen's uniform and takes his cap and stomps on it. Now Ralph will go to jail for ten days. Ralph: "I am the beast of Bensonhurst." Ralph & the cop run into the Nortons and Ed. Ralph gets told of the whole story about Madam Zelda. Ralph is all happy but he forgets his 10 day jail term. The cop takes him to jail much to Ralph's friends' chagrin.
At the curtain call, Jackie introduces the cast. The accomplice was played by Chet London. The part of Madam Zelda was played by Audrey Christy. The usual cast introductions follow.
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