The Honeymooners Goofs and Fun Facts

Check out these hilarious goofs, ad-libs, and bloopers and enjoy some amazing fun trivia facts for the Honeymooners classic television series from the 1950s starring Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden, Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden, Art Carney as Ed Norton, and Joyce Randolph as Trixie Norton.
The Honeymooners cast were able to turn bloopers and goofs into pure gold. Even when they forgot a line or a prop malfunctioned they were able to ad-lib with it and make the show even better.
For decades the Honeymooners classic television series from the fifties has been a huge part of popular culture appearing on movies like Back to the Future and getting their own rap song by Joe Piscopo and Eddie Murphy.
See the one time Art Carney looks uncomfortable during a blooper where he came on stage too soon. See how Jackie Gleason handles props and even forgetting his line. The series also had a lot of great memorable lines and catchphrases.
#honeymooners #jackiegleason #artcarney
0:00 Intro
0:20 Art Carney laughs at Jackie Gleason
0:36 Captain Video
2:30 Line bloopers
3:53 Man from Space episode and Back to the Future
4:46 Props
5:56 Art Carny comes on stage too soon
6:18 Honeymooners catchphrases
7:23 Honeymooners rap
7:37 Joyce Randolph last cast member to pass away
7:48 Gleason almost sued the Flintstones

[@Pratman]

It's the goofs that make these programs a classic 😀

[@tvcrazyman]

Yeah, Gleason and Carney knew how to turn goofs into jokes right on the spot.

[@Pratman]

They did that's what made them great programs 😀

[@sharonw2475]

"Man from Space" episode - Ralph and Norton arguing ---Ralph: "When you see me coming down the street get on the other side"....Norton: "When you come down the street there ain't no other side."

[@Victor-gi3dy]

About 20 yrs ago i wrote to Art Carney for an autograph i sent him a SASE with a 4x6 index card & he sent it back with a little drawing signed it. Apparently he did a lot of these over the yrs for fans & from what i understand it was REALLY HIM doing it. !!!!!!!! 😊😊😊

[@tvcrazyman]

That's awesome

[@sameoldsonganddance]

Unrelated, I got Dom Delouse Autograph the same way, but he included a long note about food too, ( I think he had a cookbook coming out at the time lol)

[@tvcrazyman]

@@sameoldsonganddance I remember seeing him talking about cooking on some show once. 😀

[@sameoldsonganddance]

@@tvcrazyman did you get to see the Danny Thomas show with Andy Griffith on it last weekend? I was surprised that all of the characters that were different. Aunt Bee. 🐝 wasjust some lady on the street There was a maid watching Opie. Otis was a different drunk. I’m glad they got it straightened out!! lol

[@sameoldsonganddance]

@@tvcrazyman Yep, He got a little Large in his last years. He loved his food!

[@jamesrusso4968]

The last 10 minutes of "Unconventional Behavior" is the funniest 10 minutes in tv history!

[@stevenj9970]

The Honeymooners, one of the top FIVE T.V. shows EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@wb3381]

I love the way Ralph stood up to his mother in law

[@Marcuswelby-nx2te]

Get out get out get out lmao!!

[@Rockhound6165]

Fun Fact: In early episodes of the Honeymooners when it was a skit on the Gleason Show, Ethel Owen who plays Alice's mother actually played Alice.

[@user-jd2pl8tu4v]

Honeymooners and Odd Couple, two of the best sitcoms ever! We've all seen them so many times, yet...we always laugh again. The best!

[@smittyinwootown5640]

All in the Family is rite next to The Honeymooners at the top of the list for Me. 🤔

[@user-jd2pl8tu4v]

@@smittyinwootown5640 Sorry, no offense but it does not come close, but that is why we all laugh at different thigs. Keep smiling

[@smittyinwootown5640]

@@user-jd2pl8tu4v That’s My opinion. Sorry.

[@user-jd2pl8tu4v]

@@smittyinwootown5640 Hey, I'd be sitting right next to you laughing with you. It was a great show. My girl Lisa is a deadhead.

[@smittyinwootown5640]

@@user-jd2pl8tu4v All good. I got on the Bus around 1980. Saw Jerry Plenty of Times in the Old Boston Gahden.

[@timothyweers8054]

I love the Honeymooners, all those one liners crack me up. I love how Ralph was learning how to play golf using the pin cushion, reading the phrase address the ball and not knowing what that meant. Norton steps up and says "hello ball" gets me everytime. Followed by eventually hitting the ball until he gets mad enough to break the club.

[@beence4917]

What's more ridiculous, saying tally ho to a fox or hello to a golf ball?

[@stillaboveground2470]

The crazy look on Audrey Meadows's face in the "Pins and Needles" speech is nightmare fuel!

[@garymiller7087]

Yeah that always creeped me out

[@rufust.firefly4890]

Didn't like that episode.

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

Love the Honeymooners. My favorite episode was when Ralph was selected to appear on the game show, "The $99,000 Answer," a parody of the $64,000 Question and Name that Tune. "I brive a dus." Love that line. And of course Ralph not knowing who wrote Suwanee River so he answers "Ed Norton" because Norton would warm up with that tune when he was helping prep Ralph for the show, driving Ralph crazy in the process. Then there was the episode where Norton talks about how if he had a son he would send him to the best schools and then get him a job working in the sewer right next to his old man. The Honeymooners and I Love Lucy were two shows I was too young to watch in real time but they were among my favorite syndicated shows. At least I got to experience the Beverly Hillbillies and Green Acres in real-time. Back when TV was funny. I gave up on it when they cancelled Taxi and Barney Miller. I feel for kids today, I truly do.

[@tvcrazyman]

I think fewer and fewer people are watching new prime time shows these days. I never dreamed that I would not be able to even tell you what is on at night on the major networks. Everything I watch is re-runs. I guess, there's going to be a whole generation that doesn't even watch TV, at least not as much.

[@robby062]

If you’ve ever seen Billy Joel in concert, he does the Ed Norton bit where he plays Swanee River between songs. Took a song or two for us to realize he was doing it. Hilarious tribute.

[@itinerantpatriot1196]

@@robby062 I like Billy Joel, one of the few artists I like I've never seen perform live. That's awesome! Well played Billy, well played indeed!

[@luisreyes1963]

Even with its flaws, The Honeymooners was a gem of a show. 😁

[@chetthebee1322]

Still my favorite show of all time.

[@Marcuswelby-nx2te]

Same

[@batouttahell454]

Us Too!!!

[@user-he8rm8ml4q]

Don't forget the great ad lib line from Burt and Rita's apartment, 'The cat'l get it' after almost tripping over the coffee table.

[@oldgoat50]

Gleason shot his own shots in the Hustler as he was a player in the day.😊

[@joesinkovits6591]

I have the series on DVD and run an episode once a week. And you’re right- the dialog flubs just made it seem more natural. Thanks for this fun video!

[@tvcrazyman]

I hope everyone enjoys this look at the Honeymooners. Nothing ever seemed to get them down. They turned every goof into another joke except maybe that one time Art Carney walked onto the scene too soon. I think he got mad that time.

[@briangriffin4937]

I’ve always wondered about the scene in Episode 36, “Alice and the Blonde” Alice blows cigarette smoke in Ralph’s face while he’s delivering his line - Jackie recoils as if he wasn’t expecting that ad-lib. It’s a “regular riot!” 😂

[@Agent_86_]

Still watch this series and it never gets old! Ralph's "bang zoom" line gets quoted often but I actually prefer the original "one'a these days, one'a these days... POW, right in the kisser!" version, especially Alice's deadpan reaction to it! 😆

[@Downecker]

I loved the episode when Ralph turned in a suitcase to lost and found. After 30 days it was his. A suitcase full if counterfeit money !😂 You gotta show that episode 😂😂😂

[@rty1955]

And the mother in law said "Whats that? Your lunch?"

[@Rockhound6165]

Merrill, Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, & Ziggy.

[@georgepapadimas3523]

this was great ! Fun fact : on the Joe Piscopo parody of Ralph Kramden , it was Eddie Murphy who parodied Ed Norton !

[@beence4917]

I attended the RALPH (Royal Association for the Longevity and Preservation of the Honeymooners) conventions. The actress who played Mrs. Weidemeyer was there and she said that her dress was so tight that they had to sew her into it. In that episode: Alice: (sexy voice) I call you killer, because you slay me! Ralph: And I'm calling Bellevue 'cause you're nuts!!

[@DaddyOfTheSugarVariety]

I love The Honeymooners & The Flintstones!

[@tvcrazyman]

Me too 😀

[@gamernorcal]

I use 'ODD AND EVEN BUSES' daily at work in meetings LOL

[@rufust.firefly4890]

Now I have to pull out my boxed dvd set and watch some eps.

[@michaelbingham6907]

Favorite all-time show!

[@rty1955]

Hope most of you are aware that this was a LIVE show! Since there was no such thing as video tape back then, it was captured on the Dumont Electronicam system which was a 35mm film camera attached to a TV camera. They used Kinescopes to edit the 35mm film to match the live show. The "lost episodes" were the kinescopes that were used for editing as the master 35mm prints were lost. Later on Jerry Lewis would claim he invented the video assist for film production, but in reality it was a rip off of the Dumont system when video cameras were small enough to be attached to the eyepiece of film cameras

[@Rockhound6165]

I did not know Joyce Randolph recently passed. I knew she was still alive but didn't know she had passed this year. RIP Trixie. I hope Heaven has more than a rose to cover yourself with.

[@Rockhound6165]

I remember watching the Honeymooners on old channel 48 in Philadelphia but never watched it regularly. I didn't become a regular watcher until my freshman year of college in 1983 and since then I was hooked. I just recently found out that my local library has the entire box set of the classic 39 which I'm going to borrow soon. Also, there's a Lost Episode that was really, really deep. Ralph and Alice wanted to adopt a baby and they ended up with a baby girl(first to the chagrin of Ralph as he wanted a boy then he fell in love with her). In the end they lost the baby because the birth mother changed her mind. I always felt that Alice's(Audrey Meadows) tears were genuine as it was a really sad scene and Ralph's anger really hits home as my wife and I were foster parents and this is how we felt when our first foster baby, who should be a teenager now, was given back to the family.

[@michaelpohas2608]

"I bus a drive!" 🤣

[@roscoearbuckle2]

You missed one where Ralph hits Norton right in the family jewels. I think it was that Plumber's helper, Alice's old beau.😂

[@Rockhound6165]

Or in the episode where they were handcuffed together Norton knees Ralph in his junk.

[@danekaye6406]

In "The Bensonhurst Bombmer" when Norton says,"a slip of a ship can sink a lip"🎉😂

[@Rockhound6165]

Or in the tax episode when Ralph wanted to claim the horse with a stomach in it's clock...erm...clock in it's stomach.

[@garymiller7087]

Ralph messed up a lot when telling Alice the joke he was going to say when receiving the raccoon of the year award

[@fuqui035]

This show was and still is funny

[@FormulaJRay]

Ralph still reminds me of Fred Flintstone when I see him. Ed somewhat in how he speaks reminds me of Barney, but not so much in appearance.

[@cadeevans4623]

Love this show one of my favorites man these goofs are priceless love them lol😂😂😂

[@tvcrazyman]

yeah, it's one of those shows you can watch over and over again. 😀

[@cadeevans4623]

Oh yes absolutely buddy that's for sure love the classics man😀

[@ralphjohnson340]

Say I just love the Honey mooners show I still watch it too day really funny Goof and fact really great video.

[@tvcrazyman]

Thanks

[@haweater1555]

As videotape wasnt invented yet, the Honeymooners was produced live as broadcast. But each of three video cameras had a half-silvered angled mirror in front of the lens, to which the image was re-directed to a 35mm film camera atop the video, to simultaneously preserve the scene. Reruns over the decades are from these film copies, now in HD. Much higher quality then the typical "kinescope" recording of the time, where a 16mm film camera was pointed at a CRT monitor screen in the studio. Kinescopes were made primarily to "timeshift" east-coast produced live shows to west-coast broadcasts the same day. Although the films were an important archival tool to preserve shows that otherwise would be lost forever, they were inherently low quality, and in later decades there were few 1950s shows that were commercially viable for continuing reruns. "The Honeymooners" , being produced live but captured on film, were. Higher budget shows like "I Love Lucy" were not broadcast live but filmed and edited exclusively in 35mm just like a feature movie.

[@marcacosta7594]

Thanks for this! You skipped my most favorite, the Bensonhurst Bomer, where "hey get a load of fatso there" was said several times in the show, but was never said the same way twice. "Hey fatso, get out of the way there". Too funny😂😂

[@lincolnparc8897]

I've Loved this hows since childhood....I automatically thought of "the denaturizer"

[@theinvisibleman2194]

Still my all-time favorite show.

[@paulakpacente]

I LOVED this show! Thanks for sharing.

[@tvcrazyman]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@roscoearbuckle2]

FOUND IT! A MAN'S PRIDE. 3.25 😂😂😂😂😂

[@williamlangan5902]

“Pins and needles, needles and pins It’s a happy man who grins!” Alice, wanting to kill Ralph, tries it out at the end of the episode and produces an artificial grin! I nearly lost it!

[@Rockhound6165]

When the tides of life have turned against you, and the current had knocked over your boat. Don't waste those tears on what might have been, just lie on your back and float.

[@walkergillette3918]

When Norton is preparing the rice, Ralph says to him you better put in the whole box, case if it's not enough, I won't eat any

[@batouttahell454]

I really enjoyed the video,I would love to watch anything you have about the Honeymooners.

[@davealessi8520]

Love the honeymooners. Keep it up. Thanks.

[@tvcrazyman]

Appreciate it.

[@mrcydonia]

"I wish I could think of something to say to her" is probably a much better line than anything they had written.

[@edited7382]

In the first clip when Ralph comes out angry and Norton laughs at him, I always thought was just naturally his character laughing at Ralph never thought it wasn't rehersed. Also that spear fishing line could very well have been in the script. It was a very funny line and it was indicating it was a cheap piece of crap they were selling. All Gleason had to do was let go of the piece at the correct time.

[@jamesrusso4968]

I read a book years ago called "Honeymooners Companion", I think, it had the original airing dates, the "Man from space" was not the episode that aired the night that Marty McFly went back in time. "The Sleepwalker" aired on 11/5/55😂😂😂

[@tvcrazyman]

I wonder if Marty's time travel adventures somehow changed the order they were broadcast. So many alternate timelines could have been created by that movie.😀

[@edzebrowski4445]

The slip of a ship can slip a lip. Ed Carney stated

[@lindaebert789]

That was awesome 😂 thank you. Everything was great 😇💜

[@tvcrazyman]

Glad you enjoyed it. 😀

[@frenchmarky]

I seriously doubt that Jackie knocking over the wall with the pans hanging on it was a goof, looked totally planned to me at every level.

[@tvcrazyman]

I think he did it on purpose but it was ad-libbed on the spot. That's what I read at least. It's interesting to speculate about these classic moments.

[@frenchmarky]

@@tvcrazyman I'd buy that as possible although Gleason would normally only ad lib when something went awry, like the piece flying off the kitchen tool, or the 'denaturizer' falling off his pinball machine outfit, that sort of thing. :)

[@Victor-gi3dy]

There also an episode in Ralph's apartment where the WALL near the window & sink is NOT pushed together & there's a Space/Gap in the Set & you can see crew members walking behind it. But i Can't remember if it's in one of the Classic 39 episodes or the Lost Episodes ?? 😮😮

[@hatednyc]

The best goof comes from the “lost episodes” from the Gleason show - the back corner of the kitchen separates and 2-3 crew can be seen before it’s fixed. They’re free to view on Pluto TV.

[@paulsarnik8506]

Or the one where some passerby is seen looking thru the crack and some crew member says something or yanks him back 🤓😎✌🏼

[@valentingomezcuello6491]

It is curious and great that Hanna-Barbera characters, like Fred Flintstone (Jackie Gleason) and Yogi Bear (Art Carney), emerged from here as inspiration to create the two of them. 😃

[@tvcrazyman]

Yeah, Yogi definitely stole Norton's voice. He's another fun one to watch.

[@ernestcruz6316]

Don't forget the classic Warner Brothers parody cartoon "The Honey-Mousers", with Ralph, Ed and Alice depicted as mice. June Foray voiced Alice, and Daws Butler was the voice of both Ralph and Ed.

[@valentingomezcuello6491]

@@ernestcruz6316 I don't think I've ever heard of that parody cartoon...

[@valentingomezcuello6491]

@@tvcrazyman That's right.

[@wb3381]

I wondered who the was better husband Ralph or Fred after watching both shows in Reruns. I believe Fred lied more than Ralph to Wilma

[@MariofromNY]

@Tvcrazyman If you only knew how many times I have watched the whole Honeymooner's series while working a night shift years ago, I never noticed any of these. I mean I was not looking for them but so glad to come home on a Friday and catch your video. So many good bloopers, I enjoyed the no glass in the window. Heads I win tails you lose is a classic.

[@tvcrazyman]

Glad you enjoyed it.

[@brian56]

In the one where the bank robbers came to the apartment, I think there really was water in Tommy's water pistol and Ralph was really getting squirted.

[@oreally8605]

Please MORE!! ❤

[@aviatortrucker6285]

Honeymoon is definitely a classic, but another one of those TV shows that would never hit the air these days because of all the insults against people of size. Don’t forget there was also the stereotypes of the mother-in-law. Favorite episode is “The Worry Wart.” that was the one when Jackie Gleeson gets a letter from the IRS and he’s freaking out over it. I can’t stop laughing at that episode even after 40 years.

[@rty1955]

Norton: "He"s Kramden, I'm clean"

[@tvcrazyman]

I think it's really hard to make something funny today, but hopefully we will all one day be able to laugh at ourselves again no matter what are issues in life might be. I don't know if it is true, but my mom used to always tell me she heard that Jackie Gleason was actually told he should stay heavy for the show or it wouldn't be as funny.

[@beence4917]

Ralph forgot to put on his tax return a horse with a clock in its stomach winnings from the three-leg race and a skinny chicken.

[@mikeguy]

I love this show!! Jackie was the best!!

[@nicolepowell5470]

Never knew Marty was watching this. We did not have this show in the UK, looked very funny though.

[@aerorider04]

There are several “goofs” mentioned here that were not mistakes, but part of the script. When Alice says “How could HE” instead of Norton, she had been told by Ralph not to mention Norton’s name anymore, because the boys had just had a fight. In the scene when Norton is “yelling at the door” he’s actually making the noises at Trixie, upstairs, because she had just had a fight with him about her taking Mambo lessens. There are other places that were NOT mistakes. I have seen EVERY Honeymooners episode at least 100 times and know every line by heart.

[@jackieellenbarnes1268]

Love this 😅

[@beence4917]

Joyce Randolph made the most money off the Honeymooners. When she negotiated her contract, her brother, a lawyer, insisted that she be paid if they ever broadcast the show again after the original airing. At the time, no one thought of re-runs or how classic the show would become. She received residuals for the rest of her life. None of the others did.

[@tvcrazyman]

That was smart thinking.

[@pel1155cdVc0p]

That was Audrey Meadows.

[@ernestcruz6316]

You forgot one other Ralph Kramden catchphrase, although it is a bit un-PC: "Norton, you are a mental case!"

[@susanb2015]

Bellevue is calling!

[@bdere5530]

Very good job with compilation. Consider myself an expert on the show. Possibly...my wife's taking a bath in the sink!! For ad lib. Genius script writing....no, no, this one looks like she installed the tub!!

[@mistervacation23]

How about the episode where Ralph went bowling when he wasn't supposed to and hurt his back. They were talking about putting a heating pad on but later Ralph said he was going to put the sleeping pad on

[@raymondhopwood9393]

Here's a trivia fact: Pert Kelton, who played Alice on DuMont's "Cavalcade of Stars" was blacklisted and kicked off the show. Audrey Meadows took over the role when Gleason moved to CBS.

[@hughjazz5175]

Good vid, ty

[@MARKLAR51]

The time Gleason is smoking a cigar , has a coughing fit, finally clears his throat and ad libs “ it pays to buy the best ! “

[@mohamad-ms2pb]

I thought that was part of the script because it was funny.

[@gamernorcal]

the cast HAD TO GO WITH IT because it was live!

[@drfalcon4102]

Captian Video, was on the old Du Mont Network, that also made Gleason a start on TV belive it or not

[@rty1955]

Yes my Dad worked with him on the "Cavalcade of Stars" on the Dumont network (the 4th network) then CBS stole him away by offering more money

[@walkergillette3918]

Gleason thought the Flintstones were ripping off the Honeymooners, meanwhile the Honeymooners were ripping off Laurel and Hardy

[@CoolHand971]

I believe I have seen another little blooper by Art Carney. The episode in which Ralph thought he inherited 40 million dollars. It was quite at the end when Ralph asked Norton to "Get The Bag". Right after that scene, I could have sworn to see Art Carney had a smirk on his face, I'm sure of him knowing what the next scene was going to transpire.

[@charleskadletc2431]

I was wondering is there lyrics to the theme song. And the closing theme

[@clydegoodrich6720]

Help! There was an episode, not in the so-called Lost Episodes (like the set I have) where the Kramdens adopt a child. I somehow recorded it and subsequently showed it to a student assembly at a small charter school where I was teaching in El Paso years ago. I chose to show it because a fair number of our students were either adopted or were being raised by guardians. The video was well-received and while there were tears, my students knew that the real takeaway was the message of the value of love, even if not in the context of biological parents. "Ralph" gave a stunning performance. For those who don't know of it, check it out. It's out there somewhere. I wish I had it on DVD ... ❤

[@tvcrazyman]

I'm pretty sure that's one of the classic 39 episodes not considered a part of the lost collection. I have the regular set and the lost set.

[@wb3381]

The 1st Fred Flintstone

[@Fibonacci84]

Wow . A blooper on a show about bloopers. "Dorton's wife?" Maybe Tvcrazyman it should be "Norton's wife." Great clips. Thanks,

[@tvcrazyman]

😀🤔

[@arnoldarnoldr5114]

It only had one season.

[@alievalente7749]

I string of poloponies

[@MARYLOUBANDO]

I have one for you....... WHO was the singer that did the song The Do The Hucklebuck? Sounds to me like Teresa Brewer?

[@rumrstv]

As best as I could find someone named Kay Starr sang it. But yeah it does sound like Teresa Brewer.

[@tvcrazyman]

I think it must have been Kay Starr. When I first tried looking it up I found one version from Chuck Berry. The Honeymooners version is best I think.

[@theinvisibleman2194]

In the episode "The Golfer," they fade the end of the scene now where Ralph askes Alice if she'd like to go "sailing over the clubhouse." I guess him waiving the club at her is too violent of a scene for today's PC audience.

[@Buzz-McCool]

😎

[@RonsSRT]

There is an episode, I forgot which one, but if you listen carefully you can hear Ralph fart.

[@b.k.ontheair]

👍🏼👍🏼⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@PlasticPellets]

Lou Arlotta

[@williamshepherd1531]

NO. He didn't Sue the flintstones because. His lawyer said. The only thing he be known for. Is the guy Who Got. the flintstones kicked off the air. William s

[@francistorchio]

Has the audience ever noticed this about the Kramden's apartment door? The door to any apartment opens inward. Why does the door to the Kramden apartment open outward?

[@DaisyPusher]

Such a good compilation! This is them at their best 😂❤

[@danielrochford9183]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ it

[@dennisjoseph6567]