
The Honeymooners
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Biography
The Honeymooners is an American television sitcom that originally aired from 1955 to 1956, created by and starring Jackie Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch of the same name that had been part of Gleason's variety show. It follows the lives of New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden (Gleason), his wife Alice, Ralph's best friend Ed Norton and Ed's wife Trixie as they get involved with various schemes in their day-to-day living.
"One of these days... One of these days... (He shoots his fist up) POW! Right in the kisser!"
"Hamina-hamina-hamina-hamina."
"(To Alice, gesturing with his fist) Bang, zoom!"
"(To Norton) You... are a mental case."
"(To Alice's mother after she gives away the mystery ending of a play Ralph was planning to go to that evening) YOU...ARE A BLABBERMOUTH!!!!!! A BLAAAAAAAAAAABBERMOUTH!!!!!!! YOU!!! BLABBERMOUTH!!!!!"
"(To Alice) You're gonna get yours!"
"(To Alice at the end of many episodes) Baby, you're the greatest."
"I've got a BIG MOUTH!!"
"BANG, ZOOM! To the moon, Alice!"
"Somewhere, there's a strait jacket waitin' for that man."
"A mere bag of shells."
"Pins and needles, needles and pins. It's a happy man that grins."
"You're a riot, Alice! A regular riot!"
"(about Ralph) Sheesh! What a grouch!"
"(in The Golfer, Norton is teaching Ralph how to play golf) First, you step up and address the ball. (To golf ball) Hello, ball!"
"(in A Matter of Record) In the words of the immortal bard, Shakespeare, "There are three times in a man's life when he wants to be alone: one, when he's communing with his thoughts; two, when he's being tender with his wife; and three, when he's in the isolation booth on The $64,000 Question.""
"Like we say in the sewer: "Time and tide wait for no man.""
"(In response to Ralph being temporarily laid off) I know just how you feel because I went through the same thing two or three years ago when they laid me off from the sewer. I felt just like a fish out of water."
"(Norton has been fired from his job) Ol' Ed Norton, reliable ol' Ed Norton, working 17 years in the sewer. And now everything's down the drain!"
"(in A Matter of Life and Death) Don't touch me, Ralph. I'm sterile."
"(in TV or Not TV) Official space helmet on, Captain Video!"
"I don't possess a mansion, a villa in France, a yacht, or a string of polo ponies."
"Only myself to blame. My mother warned me."
"(To Ralph): Ahhhh, shaddap!"
"(To Ralph): The biggest thing you ever got into was your pants."