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Honeymooners Episode Reviews: "Young Man With A Horn" & "Head of The House":
Honeymooners Episode Reviews: "Young Man With A Horn" & "Ralph's Big Mouth" (aka "Head of The House):
Episode #135 (Syndicated episode #26)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Ralph Kramden Inc." On some tapes, its attached to House Beautiful (aka Pardon My Glove) & Ralphs Big Mouth (aka Head of The House.) On some tapes, its attached to Dial J For Janitor, The Bensonhurst Bomber, Please Leave The Premises & Ralphs Big Mouth (aka Head of The House.)
Laserdisc: Attached to Young At Heart, Here Comes The Bride, A Dogs Life, Please Leave The Premises, House Beautiful (aka Pardon My Glove), Mama Loves Mambo, Head of The House (aka Ralphs Big Mouth), The Worry Wart, Ralph Kramden, Hero At Large (aka Trapped), The Loudspeaker, On Stage, Opportunity Knocks, But & Unconventional Behavior.
DVD: Attached to episodes #24 - #32 of the classic 39. 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 "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.]
Air Date: Sat. 3/24/56
To see the script for this episode, click here: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co...episode=s04e26
Alice is getting the laundry out to put on the clothesline. Ralph comes home, sees what Alice is doing and says that he will do it. Ed Norton comes down with some news. He's applying for another job. Ralph: "You already got a job." Ed: "Yeah, I know. Everyone thinks that working in the sewer is all glamorous." Ralph: "What job are you applying for?" Ed: "Sewer inspector." Alice comes out with Ralph's old Cornett. Ralph hasn't touched it in years and she wants to throw it away. Ralph: "I want to keep it." Alice: "All right Ralph, you haven't touched it in years." Ed: "He's got a point Alice. He hasn't touched his toes in years and he still wants to keep them." Ha! Ralph says that he has a lot of tender memories attached to the Cornett. The song in music notes is still with the Cornett. When he tries to play it, no sound comes out. Alice: "Not so loud Ralph, you might disturb the neighbors." Ralph pulls out a sock in the Cornett. Ralph: "What is a sock doing in my Cornett?" Alice: "It must be one of the tender memories that are attached to it." Ralph now tries to play the Cornett and he plays it so badly that Alice liked it better WITH the sock in it. Ralph wants to practice some more, so he asks Ed to bring the clothes on the clothesline. Ed leaves. Ralph says that he made a big mistake not practicing more with the Cornett. He might have become a big musician. A knock on the door is heard and it's an elderly couple by the name of Mr. & Mrs. Gunther. It's their 40th wedding anniversary and they used to live in this apartment. They are ecstatic to find out that the place hasn't changed a bit. They also ask if they can take a look around the place. Mr. Gunther's first name is August and Ralph realizes he's the man who makes the donuts that Ralph eats. Mr. Gunther then says a story that in this very room, he said he was going to be a success and nothing was going to stand in his way. He wrote down all his bad points and his strong points. He tried to eliminate all the bad points and strengthen the strong points and because of that, his life has been successful. Mr. & Mrs. Gunther leave. Ralph paces around the room. Alice: "Is this a private parade or can anybody march in it?" Ralph says that Mr. Gunther opened his eyes. He blames himself for not being a success. He is going to write down his bad points and build up strong points. He also says that the application that Norton gave him, he's applying for that job that the application is for. The scene ends with Ralph badly playing his Cornett.
The next day, Ralph is trying to write down his bad points and strong points with the Cornett on the table to remind him that he needs to do so. Alice helps out a little and Ed Norton comes down. Alice leaves. Ralph: "I'm writing down all my bad points." Ed: "Is that all the paper you're going to use?" Ralph says that the "old Ralph" would have gotten mad at that remark and threw Ed out, but not the "new Ralph." Ed helps Ralph by first writing his bad points which include: rotten pool player, rotten bowler, doesn't pay his dues and can't speak French. Ralph is not amused. Ralph: "You are not supposed to put something stupid down like 'can't speak French.'" Ed then asks Ralph if he can write down Ralph's good points since Ralph is having so much trouble. (According to Ralph, he has so many good points, that he doesn't know where to start.) It takes Ed 5 seconds to write down Ralph's good points which include: sweetest guy in the world. Ralph appreciates the comment. Ralph and Ed continue to write down the good and bad points.
The paper with Ralph's good and bad points are posted on the kitchen wall and Ralph has TONS more bad points then good ones. Alice talks to Trixie over how many more good things Ralph has done lately. He hasn't treated her like a work horse by doing the shopping and has insisted on making the beds. Alice: "What's wonderful is that he got me up very early so he could make them." Ralph comes home and compliments Trixie. Trixie is not used to the compliments. She leaves. Ralph has also corrected another fault which is argues too much. One of his co-workers said there are 9 million people in New York. Ralph thought the number is less. So he went up to him and said: "Oh yeah?" Alice says that there are 9 million people in New York (I'll bet that number has increased by now.) Ralph says: "Oh yeah?" Alice kisses Ralph for all the hard work he's been doing. Ralph filed that application that Ed gave him and says that both he and Norton took a test in order to get the job that they wanted on their respective applications. Ralph isn't sure that Ed passed after Ed gave a dumb answer to a question that said something like: "'If the gas and electricity went up by a certain amount, what would you do?' What do you think Norton put down: 'Pack up and move to Florida.'" Ralph goes into the bedroom. Ed comes in with some bad news. He didn't get the job as sewer inspector. He flushed out. Ralph didn't get the job he wanted. Ralph is informed of the news and says he failed again. Ed leaves. Ralph reviews what he went threw about changing his life. He said that it was a laugh. Alice disagrees. He says that the "new Ralph" has been doing a lot of good things. Alice: "If the 'old Ralph' comes back, I will hit him." Ralph is convinced. Ralph: "I did hit that high note once. The day I married you." They kiss as the episode ends. The "old Ralph" will never be seen again, or will he? In the next episodes, Ralph is back to his "old self."
When I first saw this episode, because of the way it ended, I thought that this was the final episode. It turns out that I was wrong.
During the curtain call, Jack plugs Buick.
Episode #136 (Syndicated episode #27)
TV: Half-hour.
VCR: Attached to "Here Comes The Bride." On some tapes, its attached to House Beautiful (aka Pardon My Glove) & Young Man With A Horn. On some tapes, its attached to Dial J For Janitor, The Bensonhurst Bomber, Please Leave The Premises & Young Man With A Horn.
DVD: Attached to episodes #24 - #32 of the classic 39. 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.]
Laserdisc: Attached to Young At Heart, Here Comes The Bride, A Dogs Life, Please Leave The Premises, Young Man With A Horn, Mama Loves Mambo, House Beautiful (aka Pardon My Glove), The Worry Wart, Ralph Kramden, Hero At Large (aka Trapped), The Loudspeaker, On Stage, Opportunity Knocks, But & Unconventional Behavior.
Air Date: Sat. 3/31/56
This episode is one of two episodes that for some reason have been re-titled "Ralph's Big Mouth."
To see the script for this episode, click here: http://www.springfieldspringfield.co...episode=s04e27
Ralph and Ed are walking to their jobs. They walk into a questioning photographer from a newspaper. He interviews Ed. Q.P.: "Where do you live?" Ed: "I live in the Garden Spot of the World. Brooklyn, USA." Since this episode was taped in front of a New York crowd, the crowd applauds. He asks him who's the boss of the household and he says that he is and that any man who is afraid of his wife, isn't a man. Ed: "Now, don't quote me because if my wife reads that, she'll kill me." Ralph is convinced that he is afraid of Trixie and is not afraid to admit that in his house, he thinks that he is the boss of the household. He goes on and on about how he's the boss of the household. The Q.P. records Ralph's answers. He says that will type his answers in the evening paper tonight and takes a picture of Ralph. Ralph is still not afraid. The Q.P. leaves the scene. Ralph: "I'm a horse and you are a mouse Norton." Ed: "I rather be a live mouse than a dead horse." They leave.
At home, Ralph is trying his best to not let Alice read the evening paper because he doesn't like their editorial policy and because they cut out Little Orphan Annie. Ed comes down with the evening paper and shows it to Alice and abruptly gets kicked out by Ralph. Alice is mad. Alice: "Out of all the men that were given these questions, you were the only one to make a stupid comment like that." Ralph: "I was the only one stupid enough to make a stupid comment like that." Trixie comes down. She is upset that he kicked Ed out. Ralph is going upstairs to apologize and he will bring Ed down to celebrate the emancipation. He leaves. Since Ralph is planning to drink beer out of the container and if he does that, Ralph will get drunk out of his mind, Alice takes the beer out and replaces it with grape juice. The wives are convinced that their husbands won't know the difference. The husbands come down and start to drink the grape juice and think that they are drinking beer. The wives leave. As the scene goes on, Jackie and Art completely go against the script and decide to ad-lib the whole dialogue. They ad-libbed greatly and the people (except the audience) knew it and apparently were laughing hysterically because what Jackie and Art were ad-libbing was so funny. This was mentioned on The Honeymooners 50th Anniversary Celebration. One of the things that Jackie and Art ad-lib was a song entitled: "We have a dream" that is purposely sung badly since they knew that their characters were "drunk." Ralph & Ed fall asleep. The girls come back in. Trixie: "Alice, a toast to our husbands." Alice: "A toast, you can have them." The scene ends.
The next day in the bus depot locker room, every one of Ralph's co-workers are marveling at what Ralph said about being the head of the house. One of them says that he doesn't believe it. Ralph comes in and knows what's going on. Ed comes in. He & Ralph are going to have lunch together. One of the co-workers says that he doesn't believe what Ralph did and he will when he sees it. He makes a bet with Ralph saying that he can't prove that he's the boss of the household by ordering Alice too cook dinner for them and for having it ready when he walks in the Kramden's home. Ralph accepts the bet and tries to call Alice (who is at her mother's) on the pay phone. I think you can tell that even though the phone is attached to the wall, the bottom of it is not. Ralph gets Alice and abruptly orders her to come home and cook dinner. She hangs up. Ralph tells Norton of what just happened and they cook up a scheme. They will cook dinner for Ralph and his co-worker.
At home, the boys are cooking dinner. They are not doing a good job. Ralph puts the chicken in the oven and says, "I'll put it on full and it will cook in twice the time." He should have said "Half the time". That was a blooper. Another two things that go wrong is that the chicken ends up getting stunk onto Ralph's clothes and Ed puts in WAY to much rice in the pot and in the process the rice in the pot overflows and goes all over the stove and floor. Alice comes in and sees what the damage that Ralph and Ed did. Ralph explains the bet he made with his co-worker. Alice says that if he just asked her instead of ordering her to cook for him and his co-worker, this would have never happened. Ed leaves as Alice goes into the bedroom. The co-worker comes and sees that dinner isn't ready. He is ready to win the bet when Alice comes in and saves Ralph by lying to his co-worker about she was cooking the dinner when the stove went kabloey and if he came back tomorrow, when he comes in, she will give him the greatest dinner. He leaves. Ralph is appreciative of what Alice has done. He apologizes. They kiss and hug.
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.
