In those days TV was shot LIVE ,so there was no room for error .... Audrey Meadows here proved what a wonderful talented actor she was ! Gleason had perfect concentration so he could react like no other to any situation ...magical chemistry between the two legends .
@@andrewgrove1691 But notice I wrote “limousine liberals”. I’m a liberal, too. I’m also not offended, and part of the reason is the realism of this show. I’ve known people like Norton or Alice or Ralph or Trixie, as exaggerated as any of them may be for affect. My point is the limo crowd can’t relate to working people, regardless of politics. THAT’S what offends THOSE folks: that there could be a reality out there which is harsh and can’t be sugarcoated.
Not just the dialogue, its a couple living in a cheap Brooklyn apartment struggling to get by as opposed to a well made family living in the suburbs. This show keeps it real.
@@billgale5568 She was… She really was. Often, actually, I preferred her acting to Jackie’s. She was so vivid and had a certain depth. Sure Jackie had his signature style but that doesn’t really take away from what she brought to the table. In fact one of our daughters was named after the two vintage Audreys. *Hephburn & Meadows* Crazy to think that Meadows almost didn’t get that part if she hadn’t persisted.
They ALL were. The perfect storm. All 4 absolutely perfect. Show wouldn’t have been what it was without any one of these wonderful people- Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph & Art Carney.
That's the beauty of this show... As many confrontations that they went through Gleason and Meadows always made sure the audience knew that Ralph and Alice loved eachother...
There was nobody like Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners we watched the show every week Jackie reminded me of my father in so many ways they even talked alike
She may have been the housewife but you were damn sure she wore the pants in this relationship. she took none of Ralph's crap and even with all his ridiculous plots and schemes and all the screaming and yelling he knew he was lucky to have her.
@@ursulasmith6402 Domestic violence indeed! Another reason for the Gestopo type police of today, to interfere into one's own life and business! American is not FREE! IT IS ALL A LIE!
@@ursulasmith6402 You must be really young. Lol. "Started in the 80s..." is that like with the dinosaurs 🦕... A woman couldn't own a house or have credit back then on her own. Most women didn't work (that I know who were actually there, and this was the 50s) so it would be hard to leave. This, on the other hand is tension on purpose for comedic purposes. Archie Bunker was the same thing. He never touches her, blocks her way from leaving, or calls her any names. It doesn't qualify by definition. Domestic violence is a personality disorder. I don't think it can be cured. They MIGHT stop physically abusing, but they won't stop being jerks whenever they feel like it. I wouldn't hold my breath. It's very tiny % and only with a lot of specific DV help. Anger management is BS, btw. Not the same. It comes from extremely entitled mentality. The partner isn't any more than any other thing that you can do what you want with. There's libraries. Please go find Lundy Bancroft. He's also online. He's an expert. He wrote Why does he DO that? Inside the minds of angry and controlling men. Can women be abusive? Yeah, however, even most women would find an angry woman more funny than actually threatening of your life. You don't often hear about women killing men with their bare hands. Usually a gun or knife is involved, and it's not common. If a woman dies or vanishes, the first person they're going to look at is the partner b/c that's usually who did it. Please go do some reading. The 80s wasn't that long ago. Lol
Wasn't she ! I think there is a lesson here for all - Women don't have to have incredible measurement to be super attractive and a lot of it is personality. Also real beauty is timeless. Here is a woman from 50 years ago who looks as pleasant in clothes long outdated as any woman in the latest trendy fashion and make up. However I don't mean to diss the modern trends. I don't are a lot for tats but love the green or blue hair that gals like to experiemnt with these days.
Yucca nuclear blast in Nevada: April, 1953. Most people don't remember those early days of nuclear armaments. We did nuclear emergency drills in schools in the 50s. Seems like a hundred years ago!
That went on into the 70s. I remember hiding under a desk. I don't know if they told us for nuclear way or for a tornado, which is extremely rare wth we lived! Leave it to Chicago to spend Multi millions on a tornado that kills an average of ONE person a year, vs heat which killed 739 in 1995. There's a doc called "Cooked" on it. Pretty much all poor/black victims.
You can see Jackie trying hard not to laugh. It still is shocking that they did these LIVE. No chance for a take two. If you screwed up, the nation saw it.
I love me some Alice. She's the difference between a real strong woman who doesn't takes no crap and what a lot of modern women thinks what a strong woman is
Perc Kelton was the first Alice when the Calvacade of Stars, precursor to the Jackie Gleason Show, was on the Dumont Network, she was forced off the show when her husband got caught up in the Red Scare crap was going on. A LOT of careers were DESTROYED.
There was a Honeymooners skit done in 1976 with Belushi, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, and Dan Akroyd. John Belushi was a spot-on Ralph Kramden, it was just like watching Gleason!
Jackie Gleason thought so himself and for the same reason, so he didn’t want Alice to play the part initially. But when she audition for it she just blew him away- and the girl who was going to play Alice got blackballed for being a communist.
They cut this off before the killer close, I can't believe it: You want the world of tomorrow ? I'll give you the world of tomorrow . You're goin' to the moon.
When I was a kid I always thought she was so pretty. I watched her in "That Touch of Mink" and her "Alice" personality was right there. I always noticed her makeup seemed a little different and her expressions were unique - She was born in China and when she came to the US only spoke Chinese. Now I think that influenced the way she did her make up and the way she expressed emotion as an actress.
Audrey Meadows is a fascinating woman to study, not just her many acting credits but her business attributes as well. Actually, she was born in NY, the only one out of the four siblings not born in China, but her parents returned to China when she was a few months old. Then she came back to the States when she was 5 and, as you said, only spoke Chinese.
@@m.e.d.7997 - There is some confusion on exactly what year and place she was born now says Wiki. Some say China and others say NY. It sure appears to me there is some Chinese culture in her body language and mannerisms which certainly is not a bad thing.
I like that even though she’s rightfully being a smart ass that she is still being respectful and classy about it all while being a conservative house wife, and making her point, women of today could learn a few things from Alice.
I wish they’d bring back shows like this. No over the top fancy backdrops, scenery, expensive clothes, or costly editing. Just good old fashion funny scripts. They didn’t spend lots of time rehearsing or memorizing. They just went out there and did their thing. Real talent at its best!
Alice was like Barney Fife...she made the program watchable. Jackie Gleason was great...but with Alice it became something that we could watch over and over for years!
I grew up watching it in the late 60s when Sheila MacRae replaced Audrey, who didn't want to move to Miami. She was okay but no one was as good as Audrey Meadows.
Am trying to find the episode where Alice says, 'Yeah. Ralph this place is a regular Disneyland. Take that refrigerator over there, it's as old as the frontier. I call that my Frontierland. And that stove. I never know when it will work. That's my Adventureland, Ralph. And the t.v. there in the corner. Oh, I forgot. There is no t.v that's my Fantasyland. There's only one thing missing from my Disneyland, Ralph. That's my Tomorrowland. We have no future. To which Ralph respnds; 'You want a Tomorrowland? You want a Tomorrowland?. I'll give you a Tomorrowland...Pow! To the moon ! (If someone knows where that classic exchange can be found, please let me know)
MeTV speeds up episodes of this series, and perhaps others. I know "The Honeymooners" Classic 39 so well, I can tell the dialogue is faster, and it bothers me a little, although not enough to change the channel. Whatever the engineers do over at MeTV to achieve this, they do it rather flawlessly. (Some episodes are also edited.)
I can see why The Honeymooners only lasted for one season. This way, Alice forever remained the loyal, loving wife. I think that by the next season the laughs would have dried up as the stark realization of the situation of poverty would have turned us against the lovable loser that was Ralph. As a kid growing up in New York City I saw them as next door neighbors. The magic of the show was similar to that of The Beverly Hillbillies..they seemed like real people not actors.
+BigBingFan - I honestly did not expect this much of a response but I am glad that folks enjoyed this one priceless scene. One other "Honeymooners" episode that is rib splitting funny is one in which Alice is practicing for a play and Ralph overhears her plotting to kill her man in the play. Gleason was at his finest in this series and his body language and facial expressions were unmatched as was Meadows portrayal of a 50's era housewife. Perhaps I will put up a few more scenes from other episodes in the near future but this one stands out as an example of why men should never hope to win an argument when his woman is determined to prevail.
Love her funny sarcasm 🤣 she's great 👍
In those days TV was shot LIVE ,so there was no room for error .... Audrey Meadows here proved what a wonderful talented actor she was ! Gleason had perfect concentration so he could react like no other to any situation ...magical chemistry between the two legends .
This show was way ahead of it's time
2020
Truly was. Very subversive humor now lost on a generation of limousine liberals.
@@spb7883 im a liberal
Im not offended
@@andrewgrove1691 But notice I wrote “limousine liberals”. I’m a liberal, too. I’m also not offended, and part of the reason is the realism of this show. I’ve known people like Norton or Alice or Ralph or Trixie, as exaggerated as any of them may be for affect. My point is the limo crowd can’t relate to working people, regardless of politics. THAT’S what offends THOSE folks: that there could be a reality out there which is harsh and can’t be sugarcoated.
But limousine or no, we're still waiting for 3 D Refrigerators.
This show is refreshing for its realistic conversations as opposed to other shows around this time that depicted idyllic, fake families.
Not just the dialogue, its a couple living in a cheap Brooklyn apartment struggling to get by as opposed to a well made family living in the suburbs. This show keeps it real.
"...this place looks like Yucca Flats after the blast!"
LMAO 😂👌
What a delivery. The strongest most self assured female ever on TV! And beautiful too!♥️🏆
She was beautiful
This was a verbal Chuck Norris Round house kick. 😆😆😆 Love Audrey's delivery on these lines... Such a great actress!! And great writing.
Audrey was as good in her part as Gleason was in his ……both fantastic….never to be seen again.
@@billgale5568 She was… She really was. Often, actually, I preferred her acting to Jackie’s. She was so vivid and had a certain depth. Sure Jackie had his signature style but that doesn’t really take away from what she brought to the table.
In fact one of our daughters was named after the two vintage Audreys. *Hephburn & Meadows*
Crazy to think that Meadows almost didn’t get that part if she hadn’t persisted.
Aaaand scenes like this is why Alice is the best character on this show! ^_^
You make a strong point.
They ALL were. The perfect storm. All 4 absolutely perfect. Show wouldn’t have been what it was without any one of these wonderful people- Jackie Gleason, Audrey Meadows, Joyce Randolph & Art Carney.
Do you know he didn't WANT her? She was too pretty.
She had to ugly it up and go back. He didn't recognize her and hired her.
She was a close second to “Jackie’ and possibly even more important than Norton or at least equal to Norton. Absolutely perfect as “Alice”
she talk to him like that for him to Understand what she goes through,, but she loves him dearly..❤️
That's the beauty of this show... As many confrontations that they went through Gleason and Meadows always made sure the audience knew that Ralph and Alice loved eachother...
This is a seriously abusive relationship
@@prankgirl9112 sure is lol
@@prankgirl9112 you’re pretty horrible if you can’t see that I agreed with you.
@@jordangoat2654
Sorry!!! I thought you were making fun of me. My mistake, take my apology and continue being an awesome husband or boyfriend!!
That Audrey Meadows was an awesome actress!
🥰
And very Beautiful too I might Add!
I love The Honeymooners I grew up watching them.
You can still see them on MeTV, on Sundays. Sometimes they run episodes every night but not for a while now. Google MeTV (memorable television)
@@MrRsgibson WPIX-TV New York still shows these at 11:30pm.
Goddamn old ass nigga you ancient
I loved Alice in this episode she really put Ralph in his place.she stood up to him and didn’t take any of his crap.
Been watching my entire life and after 35 years of watching it still makes me laugh my butt off and makes me feel hood inside.
As fresh today as it was back then. The writing, cast, chemistry, pure genius. Gleason wasn't called the great one for nothing. 💗👍👍😊🍷
There was nobody like Jackie Gleason and the Honeymooners we watched the show every week Jackie reminded me of my father in so many ways they even talked alike
She may have been the housewife but you were damn sure she wore the pants in this relationship. she took none of Ralph's crap and even with all his ridiculous plots and schemes and all the screaming and yelling he knew he was lucky to have her.
Back than, yes, today, no. He would have killed her. Domestic violence started in the 80s. That was the forerunner.
@@ursulasmith6402 Where in tar-nation did you come up with such an inane notion?
@@ursulasmith6402 Domestic violence indeed! Another reason for the Gestopo type police of today, to interfere into one's own life and business! American is not FREE! IT IS ALL A LIE!
And I bet she wasn't too shabby in the bedroom either
@@ursulasmith6402 You must be really young. Lol. "Started in the 80s..." is that like with the dinosaurs 🦕...
A woman couldn't own a house or have credit back then on her own. Most women didn't work (that I know who were actually there, and this was the 50s) so it would be hard to leave.
This, on the other hand is tension on purpose for comedic purposes. Archie Bunker was the same thing.
He never touches her, blocks her way from leaving, or calls her any names. It doesn't qualify by definition.
Domestic violence is a personality disorder. I don't think it can be cured. They MIGHT stop physically abusing, but they won't stop being jerks whenever they feel like it.
I wouldn't hold my breath. It's very tiny % and only with a lot of specific DV help. Anger management is BS, btw. Not the same.
It comes from extremely entitled mentality. The partner isn't any more than any other thing that you can do what you want with.
There's libraries. Please go find Lundy Bancroft. He's also online. He's an expert. He wrote Why does he DO that? Inside the minds of angry and controlling men.
Can women be abusive? Yeah, however, even most women would find an angry woman more funny than actually threatening of your life. You don't often hear about women killing men with their bare hands. Usually a gun or knife is involved, and it's not common.
If a woman dies or vanishes, the first person they're going to look at is the partner b/c that's usually who did it.
Please go do some reading. The 80s wasn't that long ago. Lol
No matter how they tried to dowdy her up, ( house dress, apron,hair pulled back) her beauty just beams out at you !
A dress is dowdy? Honestly I think brings out a girl's beauty
@@imanoldsoul59 better that those ugly cut out pants they wear today
She was gorgeous. The housewife get up just make her even hotter.
Wasn't she ! I think there is a lesson here for all - Women don't have to have incredible measurement to be super attractive and a lot of it is personality. Also real beauty is timeless. Here is a woman from 50 years ago who looks as pleasant in clothes long outdated as any woman in the latest trendy fashion and make up. However I don't mean to diss the modern trends. I don't are a lot for tats but love the green or blue hair that gals like to experiemnt with these days.
@@MrRsgibson 65 years ago. Yes, I agree with you 💯
The Kramdens were married 15 years, which is hard to believe for Alice
Piggish reply is 5...4...3...2...1... alice could sit on my face anytime.
@@guyjohnson259 bruh. 🤣
They were so funny ! Loved every minute !
"Oh you're riot, Alice! A regular riot!" (And she was)
o yes Alice was very beautiful n like Ralph says well not only he was the greatest but she was indeed also the greatest
Yucca nuclear blast in Nevada: April, 1953. Most people don't remember those early days of nuclear armaments. We did nuclear emergency drills in schools in the 50s. Seems like a hundred years ago!
That went on into the 70s. I remember hiding under a desk. I don't know if they told us for nuclear way or for a tornado, which is extremely rare wth we lived!
Leave it to Chicago to spend Multi millions on a tornado that kills an average of ONE person a year, vs heat which killed 739 in 1995. There's a doc called "Cooked" on it. Pretty much all poor/black victims.
LMFAO Ralph got owned BTW Alice Kramden (Audrey Meadows) Was so beautiful. .. R.I.P.
Yes she was. I had a big crush on her as a kid. Her and her sister were very close and the last words she uttered she called out for her sister.
MrRsgibson She was a talented actress who actually was worth watching... #Mybaby
She was a great actress on this show as Alice!!
Her and trixie werw both babes
And great actresses
This show will always be great!
No other shows on tv like these!!!😂❤😂❤😂❤😂❤😂
I never knew Audrey to muff a line or even a word. God bless.
Robert Miller she memorized everyone else’s lines too and would often help them when they for stuck on words.
Yeah, but Ralph did. He hated rehearsing. So he didn't. Ha
You can see Jackie trying hard not to laugh. It still is shocking that they did these LIVE. No chance for a take two. If you screwed up, the nation saw it.
theyres times you can hear him slip up like in the mambo episode when hes yelling at Shelia about dinner
@@Mentallysubnormal Who's Shelia
Ralph's getting pissed off.
I love me some Alice. She's the difference between a real strong woman who doesn't takes no crap and what a lot of modern women thinks what a strong woman is
Alice was one pretty lady.
this is a great monologue
She was awesome!
I love Alice.
Ralph and Alice may have been poor but they were rich in so many ways. They believed in the true meaning of friendship and marriage.
To the Moon Ralph!!
Alice goes to the moon.
Ralph should have thanked God each and every day for Alice!
This was definitely ahead of it's time
Perc Kelton was the first Alice when the Calvacade of Stars, precursor to the Jackie Gleason Show, was on the Dumont Network, she was forced off the show when her husband got caught up in the Red Scare crap was going on. A LOT of careers were DESTROYED.
Tell him Alice!🤗
He may have roared like a lion 🦁 but Alice was the queen 👸 of that castle 🏰 and made sure Ralph knew it!
Alice at her best.
I have to think John Belushi watched this show when he was young and impressionable. I can see John Belushi playing Ralph Kramden.
You know I have wondered the same.
There was a Honeymooners skit done in 1976 with Belushi, Gilda Radner, Jane Curtin, and Dan Akroyd. John Belushi was a spot-on Ralph Kramden, it was just like watching Gleason!
He was 6 when this aired. His parents were probably fans.
As a child watching this show I was amazed that a beautiful woman such as Alice could be married to Ralph.
Jackie Gleason thought so himself and for the same reason, so he didn’t want Alice to play the part initially.
But when she audition for it she just blew him away- and the girl who was going to play Alice got blackballed for being a communist.
It honestly looked like when he said you know that I know he was about to burst out laughing
A Woman's Work is Never Done. Classic episode. Ralph needs "Pow! Right in the Kisser!"
They cut this off before the killer close, I can't believe it:
You want the world of tomorrow ? I'll give you the world of tomorrow . You're goin' to the moon.
When I was a kid I always thought she was so pretty. I watched her in "That Touch of Mink" and her "Alice" personality was right there. I always noticed her makeup seemed a little different and her expressions were unique - She was born in China and when she came to the US only spoke Chinese. Now I think that influenced the way she did her make up and the way she expressed emotion as an actress.
Audrey Meadows is a fascinating woman to study, not just her many acting credits but her business attributes as well. Actually, she was born in NY, the only one out of the four siblings not born in China, but her parents returned to China when she was a few months old. Then she came back to the States when she was 5 and, as you said, only spoke Chinese.
Her parents were American No?? I cannot imagine she spoke no English.
@@m.e.d.7997 - There is some confusion on exactly what year and place she was born now says Wiki. Some say China and others say NY. It sure appears to me there is some Chinese culture in her body language and mannerisms which certainly is not a bad thing.
"This place looks like Yucca Flats after the blast😒"-Alice Kramden, Feminist Icon
Priceless
Loving that vintage apron!
That Alice always been giving it to Ralph good.
Audrey Meadows was so funny in this episode!
Ralph: Did I just get a royal reaming from my wife?
Alice Kramden and Sally Rogers are two of my favourite female characters from classic sitcoms :)
Audrey Meadows was definitely born for this show.
I like that even though she’s rightfully being a smart ass that she is still being respectful and classy about it all while being a conservative house wife, and making her point, women of today could learn a few things from Alice.
Well, to be fair, you picked 'em. Lol
Look at Ralph's face while Alice tells him off for a solid minute and a half. Who else could sustain that? Genius.
I wish they’d bring back shows like this. No over the top fancy backdrops, scenery, expensive clothes, or costly editing. Just good old fashion funny scripts. They didn’t spend lots of time rehearsing or memorizing. They just went out there and did their thing. Real talent at its best!
Alice was like Barney Fife...she made the program watchable. Jackie Gleason was great...but with Alice it became something that we could watch over and over for years!
This is from the 50s. It aged gorgeously. It's 70+ years old!
I grew up watching it in the late 60s when Sheila MacRae replaced Audrey, who didn't want to move to Miami. She was okay but no one was as good as Audrey Meadows.
I’m 75 and still have to go this crap
Bang zoom!!!
This show was so ahead of its time. This scene kind of reminds me of the first season of Roseanne. 😊
I liked the entire cast, but the show had two sparkling stars - Alice and Norton.
Right! Trixie was the weakest link but I still loved her.
How about Lucy?
Anyone else think Audrey Meadows was a knockout?
Gleason might have been the great one, but Alice was pretty great herself... and smokin hot beautiful
"NOWIII know this Maysoundlikeworktoyoo Ralph, butitisnt, its 😀🎈🎊FUN🎊🎈🙃!!"
Her timing was impeccable. YuccaFlats was the nuclear testing location in 1951, interesting that the writers knew about it.
Audrey Meadows was so pretty!!
Our favorite episode
Alice a savage... 😂😂😂 #NEWARK
Ralph’s come back was cut off. “You’re a riot!”
Love honeymooners!!!
I love this one Wow would I be embarresed
4 people got a POW to the moon
Superb!
Am trying to find the episode where Alice says, 'Yeah. Ralph this place is a regular Disneyland. Take that refrigerator over there, it's as old as the frontier. I call that my Frontierland. And that stove. I never know when it will work. That's my Adventureland, Ralph. And the t.v. there in the corner. Oh, I forgot. There is no t.v that's my Fantasyland. There's only one thing missing from my Disneyland, Ralph. That's my Tomorrowland. We have no future. To which Ralph respnds; 'You want a Tomorrowland? You want a Tomorrowland?. I'll give you a Tomorrowland...Pow! To the moon ! (If someone knows where that classic exchange can be found, please let me know)
There's a set of the 39 episides. It must be in there somewhere.
I think it's from the "Better Living Through TV" episode, where Ralph and Norton shoot the commercial. Not positive, now.
She was the perfect foil for Ralph.
Why Alice put up with Ralph is beyond me.
...God Bless Jackie Gleason.!!..+++....
she gorgeous
Aaah…marital bliss😂
I don’t think there was anything left of Ralph if Alice’s mother popped in.
can someone please put the time stamp for where she says why i oughta
One of these days Alice…PANG ZOOOOOOM!!
i bet they had a great night
Does this look STUNNING for being 70 years old???
I think he did something new, like use film over tape...? It looks GORGEOUS. Right?
She washed ALL the windows. There can't be more than 2 windows in that studio apartment. 3 at the most. 😂
MeTV speeds up episodes of this series, and perhaps others. I know "The Honeymooners" Classic 39 so well, I can tell the dialogue is faster, and it bothers me a little, although not enough to change the channel. Whatever the engineers do over at MeTV to achieve this, they do it rather flawlessly. (Some episodes are also edited.)
This aged well
I can see why The Honeymooners only lasted for one season. This way, Alice forever remained the loyal, loving wife. I think that by the next season the laughs would have dried up as the stark realization of the situation of poverty would have turned us against the lovable loser that was Ralph. As a kid growing up in New York City I saw them as next door neighbors. The magic of the show was similar to that of The Beverly Hillbillies..they seemed like real people not actors.
Isn't 39 episodes like 2 years? There's a box set online.
I had an eight-year-old-boy crush on her.
Thank you for posting, BUT GEEEE, sure wish you would have included Ralph's "POW, to the Moon!" Could you include it perhaps? It adds to the fun.
+BigBingFan - I honestly did not expect this much of a response but I am glad that folks enjoyed this one priceless scene. One other "Honeymooners" episode that is rib splitting funny is one in which Alice is practicing for a play and Ralph overhears her plotting to kill her man in the play. Gleason was at his finest in this series and his body language and facial expressions were unmatched as was Meadows portrayal of a 50's era housewife.
Perhaps I will put up a few more scenes from other episodes in the near future but this one stands out as an example of why men should never hope to win an argument when his woman is determined to prevail.
Amen Alice.
every time Alice told off Ralph. Ralph deserved it. senciable Alice and Ralph not senciable at all.
Alice loved Ralph with all her heart but she wasn't going to take crap off him.
Actually its still funny
Alice went off.... Lol....
Alice never took any of Ralph's crap. Good for her.
Zbot - I wanted to watch Liberace!!
"Mamma loves mambo," I think.
Classic !!!
Darn the socks woman!
Audrey Meadows was great.
Jackie Gleason just beat Cancel culture
They're all fulla crap today!
Audrey Meadows was beautiful in the classic 39 episodes.