Episode Reviews: Ralph & Alice Get Ready To Go To A Dance Last Night/Ring Salesman

[Frank Gannucci]

Episode Reviews: "Ralph & Alice Get Ready To Got a Dance Last Night" (aka "The Dance") & "Ring Salesman"JGS version):

Episode #6
This episode is NOT listed in John K’s Book “To The Moon” because it is a skit on the E.S. Show.
DVD: Attached to "Bread", "Razor Blades", "New TV Set", "Ralph Threatens To Leave", "Ring Salesman" (both JGS and ESS versions), "Quiz Show" (both versions), "XMas Party" ('51 version), "Cold", "New Bowling Ball", "The Turkey", "Lost Baby", "Halloween Party", "Pickles", "Jellybeans" & "Six Months To Live."

Alice has a gown on and is calling for Ralph to get ready. Ralph is in the bedroom getting ready. Alice doesn’t want to be late for the dance. Ralph comes out with a long white shirt on and boxers on. He can’t wear his collar. It is too stiff. Alice can’t wetten it and iron it because her nails are wet after the second coat. Ralph says that they are late. Alice will now iron and wetten it. Ralph tries to plug it in but he somehow hurts his foot when the iron lands on it. With the way he is hollering in pain, you think something big landed on him. Ralph (yells): “WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU? CAN’T YOU PLUG IT IN?” Alice (yells): “THAT IS IT! I AM NOT GOING!” Ralph: “Don’t go.” Alice: “I wouldn’t give you the satisfaction.” Alice begrudgingly starts to iron Ralph’s collar.

Ralph wants to know where his socks are. Alice: “You got some nerve asking me that.” Ralph: “Is that a crime to ask that question?” Alice: “Where would your socks be?” Ralph: “In the drawer. That is why I asked you.” Ralph can’t get the drawer out. Ralph (yells): “ARE YOU GOING TO GET THE DRAWER FIXED?” Ralph puts on a sock that has a big hole in it. Ralph: “I have a hole in my sock.” Alice: “Certainly. How else are you going to get your foot in it?” Ralph goes into the bedroom as Alice is putting on her makeup. Ralph comes out and asks where the tuxedo he rented. Alice says that she put it in the closet. The Nortons are going to come down to pick them up at 8pm. Ed told Ralph that yesterday. It is 8pm now. Ralph then helps Alice out by trying to get the powder can open for her because it is stuck. Ralph uses hot water to loosen it. When he opens it again, the powder goes all over his pants. Ha! Ralph: “I can’t go. I look like Halloween.” Alice: “Just go and brush it off.” Alice asks Ralph if he saw her other fake eyelash. He saw it and threw it out because he thought it was a cockroach. Alice: “How am I going to look with one fake eyelash?” Ralph is upset even more. Ralph goes to get his coat. Alice now won’t go. Ralph: “Do whatever you want.”

Alice then mentions on how Ralph was a disgrace last year. One of the things he did was drinking. Ralph comes out with a tuxedo coat that is too small. The powder on Ralph’s pants now looks even more obvious maybe due to brushing. Ralph calls Ed down. Ed comes down in his typical Ed Norton attire except he is wearing a flannel shirt. Ralph asks Trixie to without them to the dance. Ed says that the dance was last night and they went down to pick them up and since the Kramdens weren’t home and Ed thought that they changed their mind about going and they left without them. Ed leaves. Ralph apologizes. Ralph: “I haven’t done one thing right since we were married.” Alice: “Ralph, I pressed your blue suit.” They will go out anyway. They hug and kiss.

Episode #7
TV: This episode is a part of The Honeymooners: The Really Lost Debut Episodes (episodes #1-6.) This special was shown in 1993 on Disney Channel (yes, THAT Disney Channel) and again in 2000 on TV Land.
VHS: Attached to "Bread", "Razor Blades", "New TV Set", "Ralph Threatens To Leave" & "Quiz Show" ('51 version)
DVD: : Attached to "Bread", "Razor Blades", "New TV Set", "Ralph Threatens To Leave", “Ralph and Alice Get Dressed For A Dance Last Night” (aka “The Dance”), "Ring Salesman" (ESS version), "Quiz Show" (both versions), "XMas Party" ('51 version), "Cold", "New Bowling Ball", "The Turkey", "Lost Baby", "Halloween Party", "Pickles", "Jellybeans" & "Six Months To Live."

Trixie comes by. Alice is talking about how Joe is going to help Alice choose a ring to get for Ralph. She leaves. Alice goes into the bedroom. Ed & Ralph are going bowling against the same team. Ralph isn’t worried about the team. Ralph finds a note: Dear Alice, meet me at the same spot this afternoon and I will take you around to a few places. Then I will sneak up to your place tonight after Ralph leaves for bowling. Signed Joe.” Ralph thinks that Alice and Joe are lovers and that Joe is tearing down an “empire” that took him 12 years to build. Ed said that maybe it isn’t Alice’s fault since he knew a married guy whose wife was sitting at a bar one night drinking and some guy came around and picked her up. Ed: “Don’t let this upset you because you will bowl lousy tonight.” Ralph can’t bowl tonight due to this situation. Ed leaves. Alice comes out. Alice asks for Ralph to hurry up and eat so he can go bowl. Ralph says that he might NOT go bowling. Alice: “Ralph, you got to go.” Ralph says that he might have been leaving Alice alone too much. Alice: “Every man needs a night out.” Ralph: “Some guys need an afternoon out.” Alice says that Ralph is acting stupid and Ralph agrees that nobody knows more about him being stupid than Alice does.

Alice asks if something fell on Ralph’s head. Ralph: “Yes, the whole world.” Alice asks what is on Ralph’s mind. Ralph tells Alice to explain the note. Alice explains that she can’t so Ralph says that he will. Ralph: “You have been playing me for a dope for a long time.” Ralph accuses Alice of going to nightclubs while he is out as well as running around with a guy named Joe. Alice: “Ralph, this is all in your head.” Ralph: “There is nothing in my head.” Ralph says that he doesn’t waste his money on expensive things so he takes the little money he has and buys a twin-burial plot.

Joe comes in. Joe has the ring. Ralph challenges Joe to fight. Alice explains that Joe is a jeweler. Alice was going to give Ralph a ring for Christmas. Alice apologizes to Joe. Joe doesn’t mind. He leaves. Ralph doesn’t get the ring at least for now. Cue the Ralph-is-remorseful-for-what-he-did-to-Alice-bit. Ralph says that he is jealous of Alice. Alice not only forgives Ralph but she thanks her because not every wife that has a husband who is still jealous of her after 12 years of married life. They hug and kiss.

Credit for all my reviews goes to Yahoo! Groups You're A Riot as well as tvland.com, the Honeymooners section of sitcomsonline.com & John K's Book To The Moon