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Comic #8 (aka Comic #26): “The Phantom Of The Sewer”:

Note: The title is a parody of “The Phantom of The Opera.”

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Honeymooners Comic #9a (aka Comic #27) “My Coney Island Baby”:

Note: There is another comic in this book. Hence why I said 9a. Some versions of this issue only have the first comic.

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The Honeymooners Comic Images: Comic 9b (aka Comic #28) "A Little Man Who Wasn't There" (comic version of lost episode):

Note: The previous comic is also in this issue hence why I wrote 9b. Some issues of this comic however just have the previous comic.

Here is my episode review of the lost episode:

Episode #97 (Syndicated Episode No.: #104/105)
TV: In two parts.
VCR: Attached to "Goodnight Sweet Prince." On the rarely seen Readers Digest tapes, it is attached to “Songs & Witty Sayings” & “Suspense.”
DVD: Attached to "Goodnight Sweet Prince," "Ralph's Diet" & Gleason's Honeybloopers 1. On the Best of Lost Episodes Collection Volume 1, t is attached to “Stand-In For Murder”, “Principle of The Thing”, “A Weighty Problem” & “Songwriters.” On the Restored Lost Episodes DVD Box Set, it is attached to “Cupid”, “The Hypnotist”, “Hero” & “The Great Jewel Robbery.”
Lost Episode Title: "A Little Man Who Wasn't There."
Color Episode Title: "Out of Sight, Out of Mind."
Air Date: Sat. 2/12/55

"A Little Man Who Wasn't There":

According to John K’s book “To The Moon”, this episode’s title is: “The Little Man Who Wasn’t There.”

In 1988, the Honeymooners comic books did this episode in comic book form (complete with black & white images). Not all the dialogue from the episode made the comic though. This was the only episode that got this treatment.

In 2020, this episode was colorized and put on YouTube.

MPI Video says that this episode goes down as one of the funniest Honeymooners episodes ever made. I disagree with that because although this episode is funny, it isn't one that will make you laugh until your eyes water (because of laughter.)

Ed comes into the unlocked empty Kramden apartment. Ralph comes home all steamed up. Some passengers on Ralph's bus who have been offended by him have complained to the bus company, so Ralph's boss orders him to see the company psychiatrist. Ralph thinks that the boss thinks he's crazy, and that this is the end of his career as a bus driver. So Ed decides to give Ralph a knee test (i.e. letting one person hitting your knee to see if it will go up.) Ed hits Ralph in the knee with a small hammer but his knee didn't go up. Both Ed and Ralph say that it should and that Ed should hit it harder. He does it, but it doesn't work. So he tries to hit his knee unexpectedly. He does and Ralph groans in pain and walks around in pain. Jackie's facial expressions and hollering in fake pain is funny if you know what I mean. Ed leaves. Alice enters and sings: "Crazy people" much to Ralph's chagrin. Today, she might have sung: "You Drive Me Crazy" by Brittney Spears. Ralph: "I hit my leg with a hammer but it won't go up." Alice: "If you keep talking like that, you will be taken away." Ralph explains what happened to him today and that Alice says that Ralph isn't crazy just because he is going to see a psychiatrist. Ralph calms down.

Ralph takes Norton with him to the psychiatrist's office and within minutes they're fighting (because Ed said that there would be no way that Ralph would be taken away in a straitjacket because there is no one straitjacket big enough. The doctor enters the room and finds Norton standing on a desk and Ralph threatening to beat him up. The doctor thinks that Ed is Ralph, but Ralph says that he is Ralph and that Ed is his friend. The doctor sits down and notices Ralph walks with a slight limp. Ralph says that it isn't because he let Ed hit his knee with a hammer today to see if his knee would go up. Yeah, the doctor doesn't think that Ralph is crazy at all. The doctor brings out a game for Ralph to play. He has to put shapes into their appropriate holes on a board. Ed: "Can three people play?" Ed also says: "You can't put a square box into a round hole?" Ralph: "No, then how did you get your head in your hat?" Ralph is getting frustrated with the game and when Ed leaves the room (after saying that Ralph is a sick boy), Ralph is able to concentrate. Ralph says that he has known Ed since childhood (despite the fact that in "Kramden vs. Norton" that they have known each other since the Kramdens moved in.) The doctor says that Ed is his problem and that if he hung around him any loner, he would get a nervous breakdown. Ralph leaves the place (without telling Ed what the doctor told him.)

At home, Ralph is thinking about how he should get rid of Ed. Writing a letter and slipping it under Ed's door is his only good option (or so he thinks). When Ralph is in the other room, Ed comes in with a friend to pick him up to go bowling. Ed sees the letter and thinks that Ralph will commit suicide. He decides to stick to Ralph like glue, to prevent him from killing himself. The friend leaves, saying that he can't bowl at a time like this, so he will play pool. In "Pardon My Glove" something similar happened. In that episode, when Ralph thinks that Alice is seeing a man behind his back, Ed asks Ralph to bowl and Ralph says he can't bowl at a time like this. So Ed asks for a game of pool. Ralph tries putting things together and when Ed comes down to go bowling, Ralph tries to get him mad so their friendship would be dissolved but to no avail. So when Ed leaves, Ralph is even more upset.

At a pool hall, the next day, Ralph is talking to a friend of his and explains that even though he hasn't been seeing him, he has been seeing him. Ralph: "I see him but I know that he is at work." The friend explains something similar that happened to a friend of his and his dog when the dog got sick. He kept on seeing the dog, even though he was at home, so the friend ended up being put away. Ralph tries to play pool and when he sees Ed, he is convinced (or so he thinks) that he is crazy.

Ralph races home and explains the whole situation of him seeing Ed but he knows that he is at work. Alice is convinced that Ralph needs medicine to calm him down and when Ed comes in, Ralph thinks it is her. Ed leaves. Alice comes in and Ralph said that she looked like Norton. The doctor comes in and gets told of the whole situation, so he thinks that Ralph is crazy. Ed comes in and explains that he has stuck to Ralph like glue because he didn't want to commit suicide like he said in the letter. Ralph explains that the letter was to tell him not to see him (Ralph) again because the doctor said that was made him (Ralph) crazy. After hearing this, the doctor says that Ralph and Ed need to remain friends so that Ralph can keep an eye on Ed at all times. The doctor leaves and Alice lies down. A man comes by dressed as Norton. Ralph sees the man and perhaps feels that maybe he is crazy after all.

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

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Honeymooners Comic Images: Comic #10 (aka Comic #29): "Minneapolis, Here We Come" (continuation of "Unconventional Behavior)":

In 1988, Triad Publishing rereleased this comic in magazine style. There were a few minor differences but the comic is the same.

Considering this is like a continuation of "Unconventional Behavior", here is the episode review:

Episode #143 (Syndicated episode #33)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "The Deciding Vote." On some tapes, it is attached to "Opportunity Knocks, But." On some tapes, it is attached to episodes #33-36 of the Classic 39. On some tapes, it is attached to "The Loudspeaker", "The Deciding Vote", "Something Fishy" & "The Man From Space."
Laserdisc: Attached to “Young At Heart”, “Here Comes The Bride”, “A Dog’s Life”, “Please Leave The Premises”, “Young Man With A Horn”, “Mama Loves Mambo”, “House Beautiful” (aka “Pardon My Glove”), “The Worry Wart”, “Ralph’s Big Mouth” (aka “Head of The House”), “The Loudspeaker”, “Ralph Kramden, Hero At Large”, “Opportunity Knocks, But” & “On Stage.”
DVD: Attached to episodes #24 - #32 of the classic 39 on disc 4. On the HD Blu Ray set it is attached to episodes #25-#33 of the Classic 39 (including two versions of "Pardon My Glove" [one of which has the original sponsor ads], two versions of "Young Man With A Horn" [one of which has the original sponsor ads], two versions of "Trapped" [one of which has the original sponsor ads], two versions of "On Stage" [one of which has the original sponsor ads] & two versions of "Opportunity Knocks, But" [one of which has the original sponsor ads] on disc 4.

"Unconventional Behavior":

To see the finished script, click here: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co...episode=s04e33

On my 16th birthday on June 23, 1996, I got this tape. I told everyone that I wanted the tape that has the episode where Ed & Ralph are handcuffed (I didn't know the title of the episode yet.) It was the first of a WHOLE LOT of Honeymooners things that I would collect.

In the same episode, particularly the first half, there is someone in the audience with a real noticeable and obnoxious laugh. Trixie comes in and she talks to Alice. They talk over the upcoming Raccoon convention in Minneapolis. Ed saved a lot of money where Ralph saved about 50 cents and that Ralph is going to ask Alice for the money. But, she will give it to him. Trixie brings up the fact that she was at the butcher's and how the people running the place are not nice. (One of them called her "sweetie-pie" and the other one called her "honey.") Ed comes down and Trixie explained what happened to her at the butcher's. Ed is upset, but not because of the name-calling but because of the prices they offer for meat. The girls go upstairs as Ed tires to set his watch. Ralph comes in. Ed just set his watch by the nearby Chinese restaurant which opens at 5pm every day. Ed: "I can prove it to you. They start cooking the egg foo young at 5:26. The first whiff reaches my apartment at 5:28. The first whiff reaches your apartment at 5:26:56." Ed's watch malfunctions a lot so he sets his watch by the Chinese restaurant a lot. Ralph: "Would it be easier to get a new watch?" Ed says that there is nothing works with his watch except it needs a new something and he will write a letter to Walt Disney tonight. Ralph shows Ed all the toys he's going to bring to the convention. Ralph & Ed plan on using a lot of gags at the convention. Everything from false faces (masks) to bags for filling up with water so they can throw them out of the hotel window. Ed: "Remember last year at the convention when the police were cracking down on the people who were throwing water bags out of the hotel window? That didn't stop me, I kept on throwing." Ralph: "What happened?" Ed: "I almost drowned the window was closed." Ralph: "That figures, with you doing it." Ed said an almost exact same story in "The Hypnotist." Ralph says that he doesn’t have the money for the convention, so he will ask Alice for it by asking her to come along. Ed doesn't like that at all because Trixie come. Alice comes down and Ralph asks her to come along and for the money. Alice says yes to both and says that she was going to offer to give him the money anyway. Ralph is angry because now she is coming and he didn't have to ask her. Alice: "We are going to have so much fun." Alice goes into the bedroom. Ed says that they will have a lot of fun with the wives along. Ed: "How do you get us into these fixes?" Ralph: "Very simple." (yells): "I HAVE GOT A BIIIIIG MOUTH!"

On the train that they think is going to Minneapolis and near the births (bunks) that Ralph & Ed will use, Ed wears a mask and scares Ralph. Ralph: "What is the matter with you?" Ralph goes over how much fun this convention will be. The boys are concerned that the girls haven't arrived yet. They think it is terrible that if they miss the train because they will now have more fun. They laugh at the terribleness of the girls missing the train. The conductor yells: "ALL ABOARD!" Some train noise is heard. Ed shows Ralph some of the other toys he brought, like trick handcuffs. He puts them on himself and Ralph and when he says: "Boomph!” they will fall off. He says the word a few times, but it doesn't work. Uh oh! They try to get out of the handcuffs. Ed tries to break them by stepping on them, but it doesn't work. Ralph is upset. They will go to sleep now and tomorrow they will get a hacksaw and get out of the cuffs. They will now have to sleep on the bottom bunk. For some reason, no train noise indicating that it is moving is heard. You think that there would be. Ed says that it's hot sleeping with the jacket on and they both try to take the jackets off but they can't because of the cuffs. Oh God! They put on the coats. I guess they didn't want them to get wrinkled. Then Ed wants to sleep on the other side of the bed because he is getting claustrophobic. He moves to the other side and accidentally knees Jackie in the groin causing Jackie to say: "You're breaking my arm!" That wasn't supposed to happen. He then asks Ralph if he can sleep on the top bunk because he can't sleep on his back. Ralph is now more upset. But orders Ed to go up there and sleep on his stomach. Ralph's handcuffed arm is now in pain due to the blood running. Ralph: "Reach down a little!" Ed: "Reach up a little!" Ed then says: "I wonder where the girls are because if they missed it, I'm glad because they would have been nothing but trouble. They would be huh? More trouble then him and Ralph being handcuffed? Ed asks Ralph if he can smoke. Ralph: "I don't care if you burn!" Ed says they are some cigarettes underneath his bunk. Ralph orders Ed to get down and get the cigarette and asks Ed if he's hungry, thirsty and if everything is fine. Everything is. Ed goes back up and asks Ralph if he has a match. A studio audience member says: “Ha ha! A match.” Ralph is now angry. He gets Norton down and the conductor asks what the trouble is. Ralph explains what happened. Ralph (yells): "I HAVE TO BE HANDCUFFED TO THIS IDIOT ALL THE WAY TO MINNEAPOLIS." Conductor: "Gentlemen, we are going in the other direction to Norfolk, Virginia." D'oh! Not something that Ralph & Ed wanted to hear. They sit down on Ralph's bunk as the episode ends.

In a 1988 issue of The Honeymooners comics series, the writers wrote a continuation of this storyline. Ralph & Ed, while still being handcuffed, get on the right train to Minneapolis with Ed annoying Ralph all the while. The girls get to Minneapolis and see a whole lot of Raccoon members in the hotel acting crazy and yelling: "WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Funny hi-jinks are that Trixie gets doused with water from a flower on one of the Raccoon jackets and the girls deciding to have some fun by dropping bags of water out the hotel window (with the window open of course) and the bag landing on Ralph.

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.

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Comic #12b (aka Comic #32) “Madison Avenue Madness”:

(Note: The previous comic is also in this issue hence why I wrote 12b.)

(Also, despite the fact that this issue also says that the next issues will deal with The Lost Episodes and that there was supposed to be 24 issues, only 12 were printed and the rest were cancelled.)

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Honeymooners “Comic Images”: Comic #12c (aka Comic #33) “Boys & Girls Together”:

(Note: The previous two comics is also in this issue hence why I wrote 12c.)

(Despite the fact that this issue also says that the next issues will deal with The Lost Episodes and that there was supposed to be 24 issues, only 12 were printed and the rest were cancelled. In said ad, by looking at it, I think I can tell that one of the storylines planed was "Boys & Girls Together". That is why I have the words "Comic Images" in quotes in the subject title. I am posting my episode review below.)

Episode #105 (Syndicated Episode #70)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Anniversary Gift."
DVD: Attached to "Anniversary Gift", "Pickles" & "This Is Your Life." On the Restored Lost Episodes DVD Box Set, it is attached to “Principal of The Thing”, “Songs & Witty Sayings”, “Letter To The Boss” (‘’55 version), “Stand-In For Murder” (’55 version), “Double Anniversary Party”, “The Check-Up” & “Forgot To Register.”
Color Episode Title: "Follow The Boys."
Lost Episode Title: "Boys & Girls Together."
Air Date: Sat. 4/23/55

"Boys & Girls Together":

When I recorded this episode in 1997, I really thought it was a two-parter, but I was proved wrong. Also, you want to talk about edits, nearly half this episode is cut when it is shown on TV.

Alice is planning to go out to dinner with Ralph. Ralph has other plans. He and Ed are bowling for The Hurricanes. If they win this "very important" game, the team will tie another team for eighth place. Alice is upset. Another family (the Fallons) move in. Ralph welcomes Mr. Fallon by inviting him to join him and Norton for pool, bowling, and lodge meetings, but Fallon is busy all the nights Ralph and Norton go out together--he spends all those nights with his wife. Later, Trixie tells Alice that she read in a magazine that the reason men spend so much time apart from their wives is because the wives let themselves go and allow their marriages to become dull and predictable. The girls make a pact to bring romance back to Chauncey Street.

This is the first scene that you will see on TV. The next day, Alice is all dressed up and turns of the lights, lights a candle and welcomes Ralph. Ralph: "So you forgot to pay the electric bill, huh?" That is funny. Alice says that with the lights off and a candle lit, it is romantic. Ralph: "Who do you think we are, Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds?" Alice tries to do more romantic things for Ralph like hugs and kisses, a bushel of compliments, a roast-beef dinner, and romantic music, but Ralph doesn't change. Alice dances and offers Ralph to dance with her. He doesn't and says to Alice a line that would be repeated in "Mama Loves Mambo": "You want to wiggle? Wiggle over to the stove and get my supper." Soon each is pouring out fourteen years of frustration. Alice is complaining about him playing Skee-Ball tournaments. Gee, a Skee-Ball tournament. I didn't know that they EVER existed. Ralph: "It's the money that I won in the Skee-Ball tournaments that practically furnished this whole apartment. It's the prizes that I won in the pie-eating contest that got you that dress. What do I have to show for it?" (yells): "DON'T YOU DARE SAY IT!"

Then Alice lays down the law: Ralph will be allowed out alone one night a week; any other night he goes out he has to take her with him. Alice: "From now on, you are going to act like Mr. Fallon." Ralph: "So that's the bum that's behind all this." Since this is the first scene that you will see on TV, the viewer will say: "Who's Mr. Fallon?" Ralph objects but it falls on death ears.

Ralph talks to Ed the next day. After four nights out with Alice, Ralph is invoking the Constitution and his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Ed: "But the marriage license is an amendment to the Constitution." Ed has an idea: They will walk faster than the girls and eventually the girls will lose them." Ralph thinks that that idea is stupid. Alice and Trixie have said they want to spend time with their husbands but not spoil their fun, so Ralph figures the way for him and Norton to win back their freedom is to keep the girls out so late that they ask to go home, thus "spoiling" their husbands' night out and disqualifying themselves from participating in the boys' activities. When I watched this episode with a friend of mine, he said that Ed's idea was better.

Hours later--after pool, rowing boats, visiting Roseland and Coney Island, and bowling--the girls are invigorated and the boys are walking zombies. They stop in a restaurant and Ralph and Norton can't even stay awake. Ralph: "We are going to stay out and enjoy ourselves." Half asleep, Ralph and Ed wind up dancing together (which gets an ovation from the crowd), and then fall asleep standing up. The girls give up trying to keep them awake. Alice: "All right Bellows and Yolanda." They ask to go home. Ralph and Norton drag themselves home, victorious, but not before Ralph has trouble going through the revolving door because of lack of sleep.

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.

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