query: who played the first alice in the honeymooners

pos: The Honeymooners as a boy, and insists on keeping when Alice suggests it be thrown away. The Ralph character was given honorary membership in the union for real New York City bus drivers (Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union) during the run of the show, and a Brooklyn bus depot was named in Gleason's honor after his death. Ralph Kramden was the inspiration for the animated character Fred Flintstone. Alice (née Alice Gibson), played in the first nine skits, starting in 1951, and ending in January 1952 by Pert Kelton, and by Audrey Meadows for all remaining episodes, is Ralph's patient

pos: The Honeymooners DuMont ensemble that was becoming "The Jackie Gleason Show" embarked on a highly successful five-week promotional tour across the United States, performing a variety of musical numbers and sketches (including the popular "Honeymooners"). However, actress Pert Kelton who played Alice Kramden and other roles, was blacklisted at the time and was replaced on the tour by "Beulah" actress Ginger Jones, who subsequently also was blacklisted (having earlier been named on the "Red Channels" blacklist) by CBS. All this political maneuvering meant yet another new Alice was needed. Jones's replacement was Audrey Meadows, known for her work in the 1951 Broadway

pos: Pert Kelton Pert Kelton Pert L. Kelton (October 14, 1907 – October 30, 1968) was an American stage, movie, radio and television actress. She was the first actress who played Alice Kramden in "The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason and earlier, during the 1930s, was a prominent comedic supporting and leading actress in Hollywood films such as "Bed of Roses" and "The Bowery". She performed in a dozen Broadway productions between 1925 and 1968. However, her career was interrupted in the 1950s as a result of blacklisting, leading to her departure from "The Honeymooners". Pert L. Kelton was born in 1907 in Great

pos: Pert Kelton Short Subjects: Pert Kelton Pert L. Kelton (October 14, 1907 – October 30, 1968) was an American stage, movie, radio and television actress. She was the first actress who played Alice Kramden in "The Honeymooners" with Jackie Gleason and earlier, during the 1930s, was a prominent comedic supporting and leading actress in Hollywood films such as "Bed of Roses" and "The Bowery". She performed in a dozen Broadway productions between 1925 and 1968. However, her career was interrupted in the 1950s as a result of blacklisting, leading to her departure from "The Honeymooners". Pert L. Kelton was born in 1907

pos: Jackie Gleason on to describe that, while the couple had their fights, underneath it all they loved each other. Titles for the sketch were tossed around until someone came up with "The Honeymooners". "The Honeymooners" first was featured on "Cavalcade of Stars" on October 5, 1951, with Carney in a guest appearance as a cop (Norton did not appear until a few episodes later) and character actress Pert Kelton as Alice. Darker and fiercer than the milder later version with Audrey Meadows as Alice, the sketches proved popular with critics and viewers. As Kramden, Gleason played a frustrated bus driver with a

pos: The Honeymooners for six years after getting married before they got their own apartment. In a 1967 revival, Ralph refers to Alice (played by Sheila MacRae 1966–70 and once more in 1973) as being one of 12 children with her father never working. "The Honeymooners" originally appeared as a sketch on the DuMont Network's "Cavalcade of Stars", with the role of Alice played by Pert Kelton (1907–1968). When his contract with DuMont expired, Gleason moved to the CBS network where he had "The Jackie Gleason Show", and the Alice role went to Audrey Meadows because Kelton had been blacklisted during the infamous

pos: The Honeymooners as a boy, and insists on keeping when Alice suggests it be thrown away. The Ralph character was given honorary membership in the union for real New York City bus drivers (Local 100 of the Transport Workers Union) during the run of the show, and a Brooklyn bus depot was named in Gleason's honor after his death. Ralph Kramden was the inspiration for the animated character Fred Flintstone. Alice (née Alice Gibson), played in the first nine skits, starting in 1951, and ending in January 1952 by Pert Kelton, and by Audrey Meadows for all remaining episodes, is Ralph's patient

pos: Joyce Randolph York columnists referred to her as the ""Garbo of Detroit"." ""That's still a mystery ... I was a nobody in Detroit. Why Garbo? Well, she was Scandinavian — and so was I"", responded Randolph. Randolph is the only surviving member of the famous "Honeymooners" quartet, which included Jackie Gleason as Ralph Kramden, Art Carney as Ed Norton, Audrey Meadows as Alice Kramden (after replacing a blacklisted Pert Kelton), and Randolph as Trixie Norton. Randolph was not the first "Trixie Norton"; Elaine Stritch appeared as a burlesque "Trixie" in 1951 in "Cavalcade of Stars", where the premise for "The Honeymooners" first

pos: The Honeymooners "The Bickersons", Gleason wanted a realistic portrayal of life for a poor husband and wife living in Brooklyn, his home borough. The couple would continually argue, but ultimately show their love for each other. After rejecting titles such as "The Beast," "The Lovers," and "The Couple Next Door," Gleason and his staff settled on "The Honeymooners." Gleason took the role of Ralph Kramden, a blustery bus driver, and he chose veteran comedy movie actress Pert Kelton for the role of Alice Kramden, Ralph's and long-suffering wife. "The Honeymooners" made its debut on October 5, 1951, as a six-minute sketch. Ensemble

pos: The Bowery (film) was produced by Twentieth Century Pictures before their 1935 merger with the Fox Film Corporation to become 20th Century Fox. "The Bowery" was one of eleven films in which Wray portrayed the leading lady in 1933, including the original version of "King Kong". Two decades later, Pert Kelton played Alice Kramden, wife of bus driver Ralph Kramden portrayed by Jackie Gleason, in the first season of "The Honeymooners" with Art Carney in the Gleason-hosted "Cavalcade of Stars" on the Dumont Network. Kelton was subsequently blacklisted the same year that Gleason moved the show over to the CBS network and Kelton

pos: The Honeymooners Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph declined to relocate to Miami. Gleason raised no objections to that recasting, but was adamant that the Ed Norton role never be played by anyone other than Art Carney. One notable 1967 segment featured the return of Pert Kelton (in one of her last performances before her death in 1968 of heart disease at the age of 61), but this time she played Alice's mother, Mrs. Gibson. "The Honeymooners" ended again when "The Jackie Gleason Show" was canceled in 1970, the result of a disagreement in direction between Gleason and the network. Gleason wanted to

pos: The Honeymooners denied Ralph's implications that she "worked in burlesque" to which he replied "If the shoe fits, take it off." Trixie is the inspiration for Betty Rubble in "The Flintstones". Elaine Stritch was the first and original Trixie Norton in a "Honeymooners" sketch with Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, and Pert Kelton. The ex-dancer character was rewritten and recast after just one episode with the more wholesome looking Randolph playing the character as a housewife. Some of the actors who appeared multiple times on the show include George O. Petrie and Frank Marth as various characters, Ethel Owen as Alice's mother, Zamah

pos: The Jackie Gleason Show actor in 1957, June Taylor for best choreography in 1956, and best writing and best engineering effects in 1955. The series won Emmys for Meadows as best supporting actress in 1955, Carney as best supporting actor in 1954 and 1955, and Taylor for choreography in 1955. Gleason never received an Emmy. By far the most memorable and popular of Gleason's characters was blowhard Brooklyn bus driver Ralph Kramden, featured originally in a series of "Cavalcade" skits known as "The Honeymooners", with Pert Kelton as his wife Alice, and Art Carney as his upstairs neighbor Ed Norton. These were so popular

pos: Jackie Gleason impersonsations and humor, which aired on CBS in 1985. In April 1974, Gleason revived several of his classic characters (including Ralph Kramden, Joe the Bartender and Reginald Van Gleason III) in a television special with Julie Andrews. In a song-and-dance routine, the two performed "Take Me Along" from Gleason's Broadway musical. In 1985, three decades after the "Classic 39" began filming, Gleason revealed he had carefully preserved kinescopes of his live 1950s programs in a vault for future use (including "Honeymooners" sketches with Pert Kelton as Alice). These "lost episodes" (as they came to be called) were initially previewed at

pos: Sue Ane Langdon actress to play Alice Kramden in Jackie Gleason's "The Honeymooners" sketches and shows. Preceded by Pert Kelton and Audrey Meadows and followed by Sheila MacRae and Meadows again, she shared a "Life" magazine cover with Gleason promoting his 1962 return to weekly variety television. A premature departure from the role following a brief four week run left her mark on the "American Scene Magazine" era of Gleason's career a small one at best. The press reported at the time "incompatible personality differences" between her and "The Great One". Four years later MacRae took over the role for the color, hour-long

neg: The Honeymooners Musacchia created a comic book series based on "The Honeymooners" for Hypergraphics between 1987 and 1989. On June 10, 2005, a feature film remake of "The Honeymooners" was released, featuring a predominantly African American cast. The roles of Ralph, Alice, Ed, and Trixie were played by Cedric the Entertainer, Gabrielle Union, Mike Epps, and Regina Hall, respectively. The movie was a critical and commercial failure, earning slightly more than US$13 million worldwide. The film was released by Paramount Pictures. In 1988, First Row Software released a "Honeymooners" computer game for the Commodore 64 and DOS systems. The game involves the

neg: Jackie Gleason schemes, his ambition, antics with his best friend and neighbor, scatterbrained sewer worker Ed Norton, and clashes with sensible wife Alice, who typically pulled Ralph's head down from the clouds. Gleason developed catchphrases he used on "The Honeymooners," such as threats to Alice: "One of these days, Alice, pow, right in the kisser" or "Bang! Zoom! To the moon Alice, to the moon!" "The Honeymooners" originated from a sketch Gleason was developing with his show's writers. He said he had an idea he wanted to enlarge: a skit with a smart, quiet wife and her very vocal husband. He went

neg: Audrey Meadows the role of Alice. The character of Alice became more associated with Meadows than with the others who played her, and she reprised her role as Alice on other shows as well, both in a man-on-the-street interview for "The Steve Allen Show" (Steve Allen was her brother-in-law) and in a parody sketch on "The Jack Benny Program". Meadows was the only member of the "Honeymooners" cast to earn residuals after the "Classic 39" episodes of the show from 1955 to 1956 started airing in reruns. Her brother Edward, a lawyer, had inserted a clause into her original contract whereby she

neg: The Honeymooners Beach, Florida, returned in 1966, the "Honeymooners" sketches, in color for the first time, incredibly returned as a series of elaborate musicals that, in effect, were the equivalent of a new Broadway musical each time. The sketches, which covered 10 of the first season's thirty-two shows, followed a story arc that had the Kramdens and Nortons traveling across Europe after Ralph won a contest (an updated version of a 1957 story arc, with musical numbers added). "The Color Honeymooners," as it has since become known, featured Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean in, respectively, the roles of Alice and Trixie, because

neg: The Honeymooners show that Gleason used to fill its time slot, Gleason's variety show returned in 1962 under the title "Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine". The "Honeymooners" sketches returned as part of that show whenever Carney was available. However, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph were replaced as Alice and Trixie by Sue Ane Langdon and Patricia Wilson, respectively, for two sketches. In January 1966, Meadows again returned as Alice for a musical special, "The Honeymooners: The Adoption", a re-enactment of a 1955 sketch of the same name. When "The Jackie Gleason Show", by then based in Gleason's home town, Miami

neg: Pert Kelton of Stars" through the final season of the series (1951-1952), and suggests that it may have been because Jackie Gleason had resisted attempts at having her dropped. In the 1960s, Kelton was invited back to Gleason's CBS show to play Alice's mother in an episode of the hour-long musical version of "The Honeymooners" (also known as "The Color Honeymooners"), with Sheila MacRae as a fetching young Alice. By this time, the original age discrepancies were reversed, with Ralph married to a much younger Alice than himself. Gleason had been one of big-name celebrities who sought to end the widespread paranoia

neg: The Honeymooners 1954–55 season most episodes of "The Jackie Gleason Show" consisted entirely of "The Honeymooners". Fan response became overwhelming. Meadows received hundreds of curtains and aprons in the mail from fans who wanted to help Alice lead a fancier life. By January 1955, "The Jackie Gleason Show" was competing with—and sometimes beating—"I Love Lucy" as the most-watched TV show in the United States. Audience members lined up around the block hours in advance to attend the show. The "Classic 39" episodes of "The Honeymooners" are the ones that originally aired as a weekly half-hour sitcom on CBS from October 1955 to

neg: Frank Marth "The Dirty Dozen". He also played Ben Fraser, Jr. in the NBC drama "From These Roots" (1958-1961) and was a regular on "Jackie Gleason and His American Scene Magazine" and "The Jackie Gleason Show". Tall and fair-haired, Marth, often in tandem with the short, dark-haired George O. Petrie, played various recurring and one-time roles on "The Honeymooners", i.e. as one of the brutal hoods who hold the Kramdens and Ed Norton hostage after Ralph witnesses a bank robbery; as Harvey Walstatter, who hires Alice Kramden to babysit his son, Harvey, Jr.; and as the inquiring news photographer who lands Ralph

neg: The Honeymooners Carney, Audrey Meadows returned as Alice. Meanwhile, Jane Kean continued to play Trixie. (Joyce Randolph, the actress most identified as Trixie, never played the part again after the 1950s.) These four specials came at a time when Gleason and Carney each achieved new-found expanded fame, with Gleason's prominent role in the box office smash "Smokey and the Bandit" and Carney winning an Academy Award for his leading role in "Harry and Tonto", which actually brought some more attention to these series of specials. These were the final original "Honeymooners" productions. Art Carney won five Emmy Awards for his portrayal of

neg: The Honeymooners settings used in the show included the Gotham Bus Company depot, the Raccoon Lodge, a neighborhood pool parlor, a park bench where Ralph and Ed occasionally meet for lunch, and on occasion the Nortons' apartment (always noticeably better-furnished than the Kramdens'). Many episodes begin with a shot of Alice in the apartment awaiting Ralph's arrival from work. Most episodes focus on Ralph's and Ed's characters, although Alice played a substantial role. Trixie played a smaller role in the series, and did not appear in every episode as did the other three. Each episode presented a self-contained story, which rarely carried

neg: Audrey Meadows leave the show due to blacklisting, although the official reason given was that Kelton was suffering from a health problem. When "The Honeymooners" became a half-hour situation comedy on CBS, Meadows continued in the role. She then returned to play Alice after a long hiatus, when Gleason produced occasional "Honeymooners" specials in the 1970s. Meadows had auditioned for Gleason and was initially turned down for being too chic and pretty to play Alice. Realizing that she needed to change her appearance, Meadows the next day submitted a photo of herself, one in which she looked much plainer. She then won

neg: The Honeymooners others have pointed out that Alice knew he never would because of their deep love for each other In retaliation, the targets of Ralph's verbal abuse often responded by simply joking about his weight, a common theme throughout the series. Incidentally, Alice never was seen to back down during any of Ralph's tirades. For the "Classic 39" episodes of "The Honeymooners", there was no continuing story arc. Each episode is self-contained. For example, in the series premiere episode "TV Or Not TV," Ralph and Norton buy a television set with the intent to share it. By the next week's show,

neg: The $64,000 Question booth of "The $64,000 Question"." At least three other "Honeymooners" episodes referenced "Question": In "A Woman's Work Is Never Done" Ralph proposes to Alice that he go on the show because he's an expert in the "Aggravation" category. In "Hello, Mom" Norton tells Ralph that his mother-in-law's category on the show would be "Nasty". In "The Worry Wart", Ralph advises Alice to become a contestant because she's an expert in the "Everything" category. Another episode of "The Honeymooners", delivered one of the best known "Question" references – a parody of the show itself, in one of the so-called "Original 39"

neg: Pert Kelton member of "The Henry Morgan Show"; and in the early 1950s, she performed the role of the tart maid in the Monty Woolley vehicle "The Magnificent Montague". Kelton appeared in "Henry Morgan's Great Talent Hunt", first aired January 26, 1951, hosted by Henry Morgan, and with Kaye Ballard, Art Carney, and Arnold Stang. Kelton was the original Alice Kramden in "The Honeymooners" comedy sketches on the DuMont Television Network's "Cavalcade of Stars". These sketches formed the eventual basis for the 1955 CBS Television sitcom "The Honeymooners". Jackie Gleason starred as her husband Ralph Kramden, and Art Carney as their upstairs

neg: The Honeymooners 364 Chauncey Street. In the 1955 episode "A Woman's Work is Never Done," the address is referred to as 728 Chauncey Street. The landlord of the apartment house is Mr. Johnson. In the "Honeymooners" episodes taped from 1967 to 1970, the address of the apartment house changed to 358 Chauncey Street, and the number of the Kramden apartment is 3B. The actual 328 Chauncey Street is located in the Bushwick section of the borough, approximately eight miles northeast of the show's fictional location. Most of "The Honeymooners" takes place in Ralph and Alice Kramden's small, sparsely furnished two-room apartment. Other

neg: Wilma Flintstone Viva Rock Vegas", Wilma was played by Kristen Johnston. Wilma Flintstone Wilma Flintstone is a fictional character in the television animated series "The Flintstones". Wilma is the red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, and mother of Pebbles Flintstone. Her best friend is her next door neighbor, Betty. Wilma's personality is based on that of Alice Kramden, wife of Ralph Kramden on the 1950s television series "The Honeymooners". Much like Alice, Wilma plays the strong-willed, level-headed person in her marriage, often criticizing Fred for pursuing his various ill-fated schemes. Wilma is often the one to bail out

neg: The Honeymooners Ed Norton—two for the original "Jackie Gleason Show", one for "The Honeymooners", and two for the final version of "The Jackie Gleason Show". He was nominated for another two (in 1957 and 1966) but lost. Gleason and Meadows both were nominated in 1956 for their work on "The Honeymooners". Gleason was nominated for Best Actor–Continuing Performance, but lost to Phil Silvers, while Meadows was nominated for Best Actress-Supporting Role but lost to Nanette Fabray. Meadows also was nominated for Emmys for her portrayal of Alice Kramden in 1954 and 1957. The following table summarizes award wins by cast members, both

neg: The Honeymooners also announced as part of the development deal. The Honeymooners The Honeymooners is an American television sitcom created by and starring Jackie Gleason, based on a recurring comedy sketch of the same name that had been part of his variety show. It followed the day to day life of New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden (Gleason), his wife Alice (Audrey Meadows), and his best friend Ed Norton (Art Carney) as they get involved with various scenarios in their day to day living. Most episodes revolved around Ralph's poor choices in absurd dilemmas which frequently showed his quick-to-judge attitude in

neg: The Honeymooners The Honeymooners The Honeymooners is an American television sitcom created by and starring Jackie Gleason, based on a recurring comedy sketch of the same name that had been part of his variety show. It followed the day to day life of New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden (Gleason), his wife Alice (Audrey Meadows), and his best friend Ed Norton (Art Carney) as they get involved with various scenarios in their day to day living. Most episodes revolved around Ralph's poor choices in absurd dilemmas which frequently showed his quick-to-judge attitude in a comedic tone, but have also revolved around

neg: Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons Hitchcock Presents Companion" by Patrik Wikstrom and Martin Grams, Jr. Mr. Keen is also mentioned in the stage version of "Bye Bye Birdie" by the character Mr. Harry MacAfee, who was played by Paul Lynde. In the "Honeymooners" sketch, , appearing on the October 12, 1951 episode of Cavalcade of Stars, Ralph Kramden cannot find his razor blades. When he questions Alice Kramden about it, she responds, "What am I? Mrs. Keen, Tracer of Lost Razor Blades?". Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons was one of radio's longest running shows, airing October 12, 1937

neg: That's My Bush! fictitious personal life of President George W. Bush, played by Timothy Bottoms. Carrie Quinn Dolin played Laura Bush, and Kurt Fuller played Karl Rove. Episodes dealt (with deliberate heavy handedness) with the topics of abortion, gun control, the war on drugs, drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and the death penalty. Every episode ended with George saying "One of these days, Laura, I'm gonna punch you in the face!", a parody of Jackie Gleason's line from "The Honeymooners", "One of these days, Alice... Bang, zoom! Right to the moon!" The show was more of a spoof of the banality

neg: Art Carney played many different characters. Gleason's regular characters included Charlie Bratten, a lunchroom loudmouth who insisted on spoiling a neighboring patron's meal. Carney, established in New York as a reliable actor, played Bratten's mild-mannered victim, Clem Finch. Gleason and Carney developed a good working chemistry, and Gleason recruited Carney to appear in other sketches, including the domestic-comedy skits featuring "The Honeymooners". Carney gained lifelong fame for his portrayal of sewer worker Ed Norton, opposite Jackie Gleason's Ralph Kramden. The success of these skits resulted in the famous filmed situation comedy "The Honeymooners", and the "Honeymooners" revivals that followed. He was nominated

neg: The Honeymooners the moon!"—to which she usually replies, "Ahhh, shaddap!" Alice studied to be a secretary before her marriage and works briefly in that capacity when Ralph is laid off. Wilma Flintstone is based on Alice Kramden. Another foil for Ralph is Alice's mother, who is even sharper-tongued than her daughter. She despises Ralph as a bad provider. Alice's father is occasionally mentioned but never seen. Alice's sister, Agnes, appeared in one episode (Ralph jeopardizes his newlywed sister-in-law's marriage after giving some bad advice to the groom, but it all works out in the end). Ralph and Alice lived with her mother

neg: The Honeymooners musical "Top Banana" and on the Bob and Ray television show. However, before being cast for CBS, Meadows had to overcome Gleason's reservations about her being too attractive to make a credible Alice. To accomplish this, she hired a photographer to come to her apartment early in the morning and take pictures of her wearing no make-up, clad in a torn housecoat, and with her hair undone. When the pictures were delivered to Gleason, he looked at them and said, "That's our Alice." When it was explained who it was, Gleason reportedly said, "Any dame who has a sense of

neg: Ethel Owen career. Most comments focused on the comic timing she displayed in the show's "Honeymooners" sketches as Alice Kramden's insult-dispensing mother who specialized in acid-tinged putdowns of her son-in-law Ralph, especially when referring to his "fat behind". Ethel Owen gradually retired from acting in the mid-1960s, upon reaching her early seventies. She died in the Georgia port city of Savannah, six weeks short of her 104th birthday, outliving by 55 years her first husband, Raymond and, by more than two decades, their daughter, Pamela Britton, who died in 1974 at the age of 51. Four days before Ethel Owen's death, a

neg: Easy Aces first Alice Kramden, in the earliest "Honeymooners" sketches on Jackie Gleason's original "Cavalcade of Stars" variety hour on the old, experimental DuMont network.) The new announcer was Ken Roberts, from their old cast, and he also joined the new cast as a next-door neighbour who just so happened to be . . . a radio announcer. (Jane's asking for an autograph each time they met became a small running gag on the new show.) Ace sketched Roberts in character as full of jibes about radio commercial announcements, a typical such jibe going thus: "Fifty years ago, Blycose began selling the

neg: Audrey Meadows "Honeymooners" co-star Jackie Gleason. Audrey Meadows Audrey Meadows (born Audrey Cotter, February 8, 1922 – February 3, 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy "The Honeymooners". Meadows was born Audrey Cotter in New York City in 1922, the youngest of four siblings. There is considerable debate and confusion concerning her year of birth and place of birth. Some biographies state that she was born in 1922 in New York City. Other biographies place her birth in 1926 in WuChang, China. Her parents, the Rev. Francis

neg: Leslie Kritzer productions. She starred in the Vineyard Theatre's production of "Gigantic", which opened on December 3, 2015. Kritzker then starred as Salome in the 2016 Roundabout Theatre Company production of "The Robber Bridegroom", which opened March 13, 2016. For her performance, she was nominated twice for the 2016 Lortel Award for Outstanding Featured Actress in a Musical. She won the award for her performance in "The Robber Bridegroom". She joined the principal cast of "Something Rotten!" on July 18, 2016. She appeared in the new musical "The Honeymooners" as Alice Kramden. The musical is based on the television show "The Honeymooners"

neg: Laura Bell Bundy benefit concert for Anaheim, California's the Chance Theatre with fellow "Wicked" alum Eden Espinosa and with "Spring Awakening" alum Lea Michele for the Broadway Chance Style: Up Close and Personal concert. She appeared as Trixie Norton in a new musical "The Honeymooners", based on the television comedy "The Honeymooners". The musical premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Milburn, New Jersey on September 28, 2017, running to October 29. Directed by John Rando the musical also starred Michael McGrath as Ralph Kramden, Michael Mastro as Ed Norton and Leslie Kritzer as Alice Kramden. Bell Bundy appeared in the lead role of

neg: John Rando Neil Simon. Rando directed the musical "Urinetown", which opened in 2001 and closed in 2004, and won the 2002 Tony Award for Direction of a Musical. He is directing a new musical "The Honeymooners", based on the television comedy "The Honeymooners", which was created and starred Jackie Gleason. The musical has music by Stephen Weiner, lyrics by Peter Mills and the book by Dusty Kay and Bill Nuss. The musical premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Milburn, New Jersey on September 28, 2017, and stars Michael McGrath as Ralph Kramden, Michael Mastro as Ed Norton, Leslie Kritzer as Alice Kramden,

neg: The Bickersons 39" Christmas episode of "The Honeymooners" involved blustery bus driver Ralph hocking his brand-new bowling ball in a mad dash to get Alice a last-minute Christmas gift... only to learn the hard way that Alice bought him a stylish new bowling ball bag. "The Bickersons" had at least three television runs. The first was as a segment on "Star Time", which ran on Dumont for a half-season, from September 1950 to February 1951. A stand-alone "Bickersons" series ran on CBS for a short time in summer 1951. In both versions, Lew Parker (later familiar as "That Girl"s harried, slightly overbearing

neg: Jackie Gleason Dennehy about an article he had read in the fictitious "American Scene" magazine, holding a copy across the bar. It had two covers: one featured the New York skyline and the other palm trees (after the show moved to Florida). Joe would bring out Frank Fontaine as Crazy Guggenheim, who would regale Joe with the latest adventures of his neighborhood pals and sometimes show Joe his current "Top Cat" comic book. Joe usually asked Crazy to sing—almost always a sentimental ballad in his fine, lilting baritone. Gleason revived "The Honeymooners"—first with Sue Ane Langdon as Alice and Patricia Wilson as

neg: Robert Six 1959. Six, not being satisfied with jet service alone, introduced dramatic service innovations with Continental's 707 operations, which were described as "...nothing short of luxurious" by the "Los Angeles Times", and, "...clearly, the finest in the airline industry" by the "Chicago Tribune". In 1961 in Honolulu, Six married Hollywood star Audrey Meadows of "The Honeymooners" television fame (Meadows played the role of Alice Kramden). The feisty Meadows was a good match for Six's sometimes stubborn nature. She served effectively as an advisory director on Continental's board, offering many of the suggestions that made Continental's inflight and ground services preeminent. The

neg: Jane Russell those years if you were an actress over 30." Russell was referenced in a 1956 episode of the "Honeymooners". Ralph Kramden (played by Jackie Gleason) arrives home "dead" tired, vowing to go straight to bed after dinner, quipping, "If Jane Russell were throwing a party upstairs, I wouldn't go!" Later, Kramden becomes aware that his best friend and neighbor, Ed Norton, is in fact throwing a party upstairs and did not invite him. After being reminded by his wife, Alice, of his reluctance to attend even a party that Jane Russell were throwing, an insulted Kramden rants, "I was talking

neg: The Honeymooners Ed, just as Alice is for Ralph, but derivatively, and almost always off-screen. Due in part to the colorful array of characters Gleason invented (including the cast of "The Honeymooners"), "Cavalcade of Stars" became a huge success for DuMont. It increased its audience share from nine to 25 percent. Gleason's contract with DuMont expired in the summer of 1952, and the financially struggling network (which suffered through ten layoffs from July through October 1953) was unable to re-sign him so he moved on to CBS. CBS president William S. Paley in July 1952 made sure the cast of the former

neg: Michael McGrath (actor) Honeymooners", based on the television comedy "The Honeymooners". The musical premiered at the Paper Mill Playhouse, Milburn, New Jersey on September 28, 2017, and stars McGrath as Ralph Kramden, Michael Mastro as Ed Norton, Leslie Kritzer as Alice Kramden, and Laura Bell Bundy as Trixie Norton. McGrath appeared in a workshop of the musical in 2014. On television, McGrath was the announcer/sidekick on "The Martin Short Show". While working in the Boston production of "Forbidden Broadway", McGrath met his future wife, Toni DiBuono. McGrath is from Worcester, Massachusetts. He is married to actress, Toni DiBuono. Michael McGrath (actor) Michael McGrath

neg: The King of Queens featuring Carter. "The King of Queens" was partly inspired by the classic television sitcom "The Honeymooners", as the characters of Doug and Carrie are based on the Kramden couple, with similar mannerisms and deadpan expressions. In a 2001 episode of the show ("Inner Tube"), the show pays homage to "The Honeymooners", as a distraught Doug dreams that he is Ralph Kramden, his wife Carrie is Alice Kramden, and his friend Deacon is Ed Norton. The sequence was filmed in black-and-white and the audio quality (including the audience) matches a 1950s style. The season one main opening was a simple eight-second

neg: Ken Harrelson played for the Chicago White Sox between 1996 and 2000, Harrelson would add the line "Norton, You're The Greatest" after "You can put it on the board! Yes! Yes!" when Norton hit a home run. This was a mashup of two references from the sitcom The Honeymooners: one character was named Edward "Ed" Lillywhite Norton, and another character, Ralph Kramden, would say to his wife, Alice, "Baby, you're the greatest." An informal study by one baseball columnist, based on the number of home-team "biased" comments throughout the course of a game, concluded that Harrelson was by a wide margin the

neg: The Honeymooners season), but had to pay all production costs out of that amount. Art Carney received $3,500 per week, Audrey Meadows $2,000, and Joyce Randolph (who did not appear in every episode) $500 per week. Production for "The Honeymooners" was handled by Jackie Gleason Enterprises Inc., which also produced the show's lead-in, "Stage Show", which starred The Dorsey Brothers. Reportedly, only Audrey Meadows, who later became a banker, received residuals when the "Classic 39" episodes were rebroadcast in syndicated reruns. Her brother Edward, a lawyer, had inserted language to that effect into her contract. However, Joyce Randolph, who played Trixie Norton,

neg: The Honeymooners got the best of him, leading him to yell at others and to threaten comical physical violence, usually against Alice. Ralph's favorite threats to her were "One of these days ... One of these days ... Pow! right in the kisser!" or to knock her "to the Moon, Alice!" (Sometimes this last threat was simply abbreviated: as "Bang, zoom!") On other occasions, Ralph simply told Alice, "Oh, are you gonna get yours." All of this led to criticism, more than 40 years later, that the show displayed an acceptance of domestic violence. But Ralph never carried out his threats, and

neg: The Honeymooners years after the first "Honeymooners" sketch aired. In June 2006, MPI Home Video released "The Color Honeymooners – Collection 1" (NTSC and PAL), which collects the "Trip to Europe" story arc presented on "The Jackie Gleason Show" in 1966. It has since released an additional three volumes featuring additional episodes from this story arc. AmericanLife TV Network has also aired "The Color Honeymooners" shows under license from Gleason Enterprises and Paul Brownstein Television. Paramount and CBS Home Entertainment released the 39 episodes on Blu-ray Disc in March 2014. Steven Sheehan explains the popularity of "The Honeymooners" as the embodiment of

neg: Barney Rubble and in the movie "Better Off Dead". Barney Rubble Barney Rubble is a fictional character who appears in the television animated series "The Flintstones". He is the diminutive, blond-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and adoptive father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. His best friend is his next door neighbor, Fred. Barney's personality was based on that of Ed Norton on the 1950s television series "The Honeymooners", played by Art Carney. Like Ralph Kramden on "The Honeymooners", Fred was constantly on the lookout for get-rich-quick schemes, while Barney, like Norton, found life satisfactory as it was, but participated in said schemes because

neg: Barney Rubble Barney Rubble Barney Rubble is a fictional character who appears in the television animated series "The Flintstones". He is the diminutive, blond-haired caveman husband of Betty Rubble and adoptive father of Bamm-Bamm Rubble. His best friend is his next door neighbor, Fred. Barney's personality was based on that of Ed Norton on the 1950s television series "The Honeymooners", played by Art Carney. Like Ralph Kramden on "The Honeymooners", Fred was constantly on the lookout for get-rich-quick schemes, while Barney, like Norton, found life satisfactory as it was, but participated in said schemes because Fred was his friend. Usually after Fred

neg: New Horizons Alice's husband on "The Honeymooners", and was designed after Alice. On June 23, 2017, NASA announced that it has renamed the LEISA instrument to the "Lisa Hardaway Infrared Mapping Spectrometer" in honor of Lisa Hardaway, the "Ralph" program manager at Ball Aerospace, who died in January 2017 at age 50. The Venetia Burney Student Dust Counter (VBSDC), built by students at the University of Colorado Boulder, is operating periodically to make dust measurements. It consists of a detector panel, about , mounted on the anti-solar face of the spacecraft (the ram direction), and an electronics box within the spacecraft. The

neg: Carrie Heffernan character of Carrie was created by David Litt and Michael J. Weithorn. The show was originally created around the character of Doug Heffernan after Kevin James' successful guest appearances on popular sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond". "The King of Queens" was partly inspired by the classic television sitcom "The Honeymooners". Carrie Heffernan is based on the character of Alice Kramden, with similar mannerisms and deadpan expressions. The role was almost accepted by Megan Mullally who turned it down at the last minute to take a role in "Will & Grace". When Remini's short lived TV series "Fired Up" was cancelled in

neg: Joyce Randolph began. Stritch played the role only once and then Randolph took over. Randolph had met her future "Honeymooners" co-star Meadows long before they did the television series, working together in a summer stock production of "No, No, Nanette". In a September 2015 interview, Randolph said that she did not portray Trixie Norton in "Honeymooners" revivals due to personal and geographic reasons; in addition, Randolph stated that Gleason considered her to be "the quintessential Trixie." Randolph married Richard Lincoln Charles, a wealthy marketing executive, on October 2, 1955, the day after "The Honeymooners" premiered. Richard Charles died in 1997 at age

neg: The Honeymooners (film) force behind them is their wives, Alice Kramden (Gabrielle Union) and Trixie Norton (Regina Hall); the men are trying to make enough money to afford the homes they think their wives deserve. Meanwhile, Alice and Trixie make ends meet by waitressing at the local diner. The film received mainly negative reviews. On Rotten Tomatoes it has a rating of 13% based on reviews from 111 critics, with the website's consensus reading: "This pointless remake of the classic TV series only offers generic characters and gags." Roger Ebert was one of the few to give it a positive review. 2005 BET

neg: Sitcom for Emmys for her portrayal of Alice Kramden in 1954 and 1957. In 1997, the episodes "The $99,000 Answer" and "TV or Not TV" were respectively ranked #6 and #26 on "TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time" and in 1999, "TV Guide" published a list titled "TV's 100 Greatest Characters Ever!" Ed Norton was #20, and Ralph Kramden was #2. In 2002, "The Honeymooners" was listed at #3 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time and #13 on their list of the "60 Greatest Shows of All Time" in 2013. "The Andy Griffith Show", first

neg: Wilma Flintstone Wilma Flintstone Wilma Flintstone is a fictional character in the television animated series "The Flintstones". Wilma is the red-headed wife of caveman Fred Flintstone, daughter of Pearl Slaghoople, and mother of Pebbles Flintstone. Her best friend is her next door neighbor, Betty. Wilma's personality is based on that of Alice Kramden, wife of Ralph Kramden on the 1950s television series "The Honeymooners". Much like Alice, Wilma plays the strong-willed, level-headed person in her marriage, often criticizing Fred for pursuing his various ill-fated schemes. Wilma is often the one to bail out Fred when one of his schemes lands him in

neg: The Honeymooners a better life for himself and his wife, but who ultimately fails due to his own shortcomings. He, often along with Ed, devises a number of get-rich-quick schemes, none of which succeed. Ralph would be quick to blame others for his misfortune until it was pointed out to him where he had fallen short. Ralph's anger then would be replaced by short-lived remorse, and he would apologize for his actions. Many of these apologies to Alice ended with Ralph saying in a heartfelt manner, "Baby, you're the greatest," followed by a hug and kiss. In most episodes, Ralph's short temper

neg: The Series Has Landed quote "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind". At the "Destination Moon" lunar rover ride, there is a reference to Ralph and Alice Kramden from the sitcom "The Honeymooners". When Fry and Leela are on the surface of the moon and it starts to get dark, it is possible to hear in the background the first chord of the song "Breathe" from Pink Floyd's album "The Dark Side of the Moon". Ken Keeler was nominated for an Annie Award for "Outstanding Individual Achievement for Writing in an Animated Television Production" in 1999 for this episode. For

neg: Jackie Gleason "Honeymooners" roles for different character roles. This was the show's format until its cancellation in 1970. (The exception was the 1968–1969 season, which had no hour-long "Honeymooners" episodes; that season, "The Honeymooners" was presented only in short sketches). The musicals pushed Gleason back into the top five in ratings, but audiences soon began to decline. By its final season, Gleason's show was no longer in the top 25. In the last original "Honeymooners" episode aired on CBS ("Operation Protest"), Ralph encounters the youth-protest movement of the late 1960s, a sign of changing times in both television and society. Gleason (who

neg: Jackie Gleason and his first 10 albums sold over a million copies each. To date his output spans some 20-plus singles, nearly 60 long-playing record albums, and over 40 CDs. John Herbert Gleason was born in 1916 at 364 Chauncey Street in the Stuyvesant Heights, now Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Named Herbert Walton Gleason, Jr., at birth, he was baptized John Herbert Gleason, and grew up at 328 Chauncey (an address he later used for Ralph and Alice Kramden on "The Honeymooners"). His parents were Herbert Walton "Herb" Gleason, an Irish-American insurance auditor, and Mae "Maisie" (née Kelly), originally of Farranree, Cork,

neg: The Flintstones in a separate interview, stating that, "I don't remember mentioning "The Honeymooners" when I sold the show. But if people want to compare "The Flintstones" to "The Honeymooners", then great. It's a total compliment. "The Honeymooners" was one of the greatest shows ever written." Jackie Gleason, creator of "The Honeymooners", considered suing Hanna-Barbera Productions, but decided that he did not want to be known as "the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air". Another influence was noted during Hanna-Barbera's tenure at MGM, where they were in a friendly competition with fellow cartoon director Tex Avery. In 1955, Avery directed

neg: The Jackie Gleason Show which had first been tried on Gleason's variety show during the 1956–1957 season. These were later collected as "The Color Honeymooners", with Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean as Alice and Trixie, respectively. The regular cast included Art Carney; Milton Berle was a frequent guest star. The show was shot in color on videotape at the Miami Beach Auditorium (today called the Fillmore at the Jackie Gleason Theatre), and Gleason never tired of promoting the "sun and fun capital of the world" on camera. Hordes of vacationers took Gleason's advice, boosting Florida's economy. Later specials were taped at the Olympia Theatre's

neg: Sitcom and eventually dropped to #19, ending its production after only 39 episodes (now referred to as the "Classic 39"). The final episode of "The Honeymooners" aired on September 22, 1956. Creator/producer Jackie Gleason revived "The Honeymooners" sporadically until 1978. "The Honeymooners" was one of the first U.S. television shows to portray working-class married couples in a gritty, non-idyllic manner (the show is set mostly in the Kramdens' kitchen, in a neglected Brooklyn apartment building). Steven Sheehan explains the popularity of "The Honeymooners" as the embodiment of working-class masculinity in the character of Ralph Kramden, and postwar ideals in American society

neg: The Honeymooners Show" on NBC. The show eventually dropped to #19, ending its production after only 39 episodes (now referred to as the "Classic 39"). The final episode of "The Honeymooners" aired on September 22, 1956, although Gleason revived the characters sporadically until 1978. "The Honeymooners" was one of the first U.S. television shows to portray working-class married couples in a gritty, non-idyllic manner (the show is set mostly in the Kramdens' kitchen, in a neglected Brooklyn apartment building). The program also is popular internationally, particularly in Canada, Australia, Poland, Norway and Sweden. The majority of "The Honeymooners" episodes focused on its

neg: Night of the Meek a drunken department store Santa (played by "The Honeymooners" Art Carney) who finds a magical sack that can create presents and he becomes a real-life Santa Claus after giving gifts to everyone (including the police officers who arrest him). Night of the Meek "Night of the Meek" is the first segment of the thirteenth episode from the first season (1985–86) from the television series "The Twilight Zone". Henry Corwin (Richard Mulligan) goes to work as a department store Santa Claus drunk. The store owner Mr. Dundee (William Atherton) fires him. Dundee is already upset that the custom-made coat for his

neg: Alice Hohlmayer Alice Hohlmayer Alice Hohlmayer [Naughton] (January 19, 1925 – March 25, 2017) was a first sacker and pitcher who played from through in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Listed at 5' 6" , 160 lb. , she batted and threw left-handed. Born in Springfield, Ohio, Alice Hohlmayer was the daughter of Carl Hohlmayer, a milkman and laundromat owner, and Marguerite (née Waggaman) Hohlmayer, a housewife. Alice played softball at age five with her brothers and later served as a batgirl and player for the Finke and Herne club, which toured across Ohio, being selected at first base for the

neg: The Honeymooners reportedly refused. Gleason later said that he considered suing, but decided that becoming known as "the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air" was not worth the negative publicity. The success of "The Honeymooners" in countries outside the United States has led to the production of new shows based entirely on it. Two series, 26 episodes in all were made for R.C.T.I. in 1996. It was the first sitcom of that style ever attempted in Indonesia. It was entitled "Detak Detik" and starred Mat Sola as the Jackie Gleason character. Art Carney rang the cast prior to production to

neg: The Honeymooners and an outdated icebox. The Kramdens' bedroom never was seen, although in the episode about Ed Norton's sleepwalking the Nortons' bedroom is. One of the few other sitcoms about a blue collar family was "The Life of Riley", whose first season (1949–50) had featured Jackie Gleason in the lead role, although veteran movie actor William Bendix, who had originated the role of Chester A. Riley on the radio show, thereafter took over the role on television. The instrumental theme song for "The Honeymooners", called "You're My Greatest Love," was composed by Gleason and performed by an orchestra led by Ray

neg: Alice (1988 film) Alice (1988 film) Alice is a 1988 dark fantasy film written and directed by Jan Švankmajer. Its original Czech title is Něco z Alenky, which means "Something from Alice". It is a loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll's first Alice book, "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" (1865), about a girl who follows a white rabbit into a bizarre fantasy land. Alice is played by Kristýna Kohoutová. The film combines live action with stop motion animation, and is distinguished by its dark and uncompromising production design. For Švankmajer, a prolific director of short films for more than two decades, "Alice" became his first

neg: The Honeymooners Avery. On September 29, 1956, one week after "The Honeymooners" ended, "The Jackie Gleason Show" returned. The "Honeymooners" sketches soon were brought back as part of the revived variety show. In 1959, "TV Guide" magazine mentioned Gleason's interest in producing new Honeymooners shows. This did not happen for several years, but he did team up with Art Carney to revive an old Honeymooners scene for an October 1960 CBS special called "The Big Sell", poking fun at US salespeople. After the spectacular failure of Gleason's 1961 game show "You're in the Picture", and the relative success of the eight-episode talk

neg: The Honeymooners humor like that deserves the job." With the addition of Meadows the now-iconic "Honeymooners" lineup of Gleason, Carney, Meadows, and Randolph was in place. The rising popularity of "The Honeymooners" was reflected in its increasing prominence of the sketches as part of "The Jackie Gleason Show" variety lineup. During the first season, it appeared on a regular basis (although not weekly) as a series of short sketches ranging in length from seven to thirteen minutes. For the 1953–54 season, the shorter sketches were outnumbered by ones that ran for a half-hour or longer. Playing off its growing popularity, during the

neg: Bus depots of MTA Regional Bus Operations 1988, the depot was renamed after Jackie Gleason, who grew up in Brooklyn and played bus driver Ralph Kramden in "The Honeymooners"; this renaming occurred one year after Gleason's death. The depot later housed a bus built in 1949 similar to that used on the show, part of the New York Transit Museum fleet. The depot facilitated the first testing of compressed natural gas (CNG) buses in 1992, when a dual-fueled CNG/Diesel bus was housed in the facility. The bus was fueled at the Brooklyn Union Gas Company facility in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. In November 1995, the NYCTA installed a fueling

neg: The Honeymooners by CBS. On July 28, 2011, MPI Home Video announced the release of a complete restored set of all existing "Honeymooners Lost Episodes" from 1951 to 1957. The 50-hour, 15 DVD set would contain 107 "Honeymooners" sketches, included the home video debut of the nine existing original DuMont Network sketches, six other sketches never before released on home video and the eight musical "Honeymooners" episodes from 1957, which are collectively known as the "Trip To Europe" shows that have been long sought after by "Honeymooners" fans. The new restored set of "Lost Episodes" was released on Oct. 4, 2011, sixty

neg: The Flintstones Finally, the stone houses of this society are cookie-cutter homes positioned into typical neighborhoods. Over 100 other characters appeared throughout the program. Fred Flintstone physically resembles both the voice actor who played him, Alan Reed, and Jackie Gleason, whose series, "The Honeymooners", inspired "The Flintstones". The voice of Barney Rubble was provided by voice actor Mel Blanc, though five episodes during the second season (the first, second, fifth, sixth, and ninth) employed Hanna-Barbera regular Daws Butler while Blanc was incapacitated by a near-fatal car accident. Blanc was able to return to the series much sooner than expected, by virtue of

neg: The Honeymooners the set is gone although in later episodes a set is shown in the Nortons' apartment. In the installment "The Baby Sitter," the Kramdens get a telephone, but in the next episode it is gone. And, in the episode, "A Dog's Life," Alice gets a dog from the pound which Ralph tries to return. But, in the end, Ralph finds himself growing to love the dog and decides to keep it along with a few other dogs. However, in the next episode, the dogs are nowhere to be seen and are never referred to again. Occasionally, references to earlier episodes

neg: Audrey Meadows Audrey Meadows Audrey Meadows (born Audrey Cotter, February 8, 1922 – February 3, 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy "The Honeymooners". Meadows was born Audrey Cotter in New York City in 1922, the youngest of four siblings. There is considerable debate and confusion concerning her year of birth and place of birth. Some biographies state that she was born in 1922 in New York City. Other biographies place her birth in 1926 in WuChang, China. Her parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows Cotter and

neg: Mary Hatcher but never-realized television series. Hatcher left show business in 1952, partially due to the fact that her marriage to Styles had ended. She declined the offer to play Alice Kramden in "The Honeymooners". On September 23, 1951, she married drummer Alvin Stoller in Westwood, California, and became a housewife. She remained married to Stoller until his death in 1992. Despite retiring from show business, she occasionally appeared on television and composed songs. Hatcher married James Alexander on August 12, 1946, in Seattle. At the time, the two were touring in a production of "Oklahoma!", with Alexander playing Curley and Hatcher

neg: Jackie Gleason the Museum of Television and Radio in New York City, aired on the Showtime cable network in 1985, and later added to the "Honeymooners" syndication package. Some of them include earlier versions of plot lines later used in the 'classic 39' episodes. One (a Christmas episode duplicated several years later with Meadows as Alice) had all Gleason's best-known characters (Ralph Kramden, the Poor Soul, Rudy the Repairman, Reginald Van Gleason, Fenwick Babbitt and Joe the Bartender) featured in and out of the Kramden apartment. The storyline involved a wild Christmas party hosted by Reginald Van Gleason up the block from

neg: Miami Beach, Florida world!" In the Fall 1966 television season, he abandoned the American Scene Magazine format and converted the show into a standard variety hour with guest performers. The show was renamed "The Jackie Gleason Show", lasting from September 17, 1966 – September 12, 1970. He started the 1966–1967 season with new, color episodes of "The Honeymooners", with Sheila MacRae and Jane Kean as Alice Kramden and Trixie Norton, respectively. The regular cast included Art Carney as Ed Norton; Milton Berle was a frequent guest star. The show was shot in color on videotape at the Miami Beach Auditorium (later renamed the

neg: Georgia Aquarium aquarium as a whole was designed around the whale shark exhibit. Their importation from Taiwan (by air, truck and boat) had never been attempted previously. They were taken from Taiwan's annual fishing kill quota, under which they would have been eaten had they not been purchased by the aquarium. The aquarium's most famous specimens were four young whale sharks from Taiwan named Ralph, Norton, Alice, and Trixie, after the primary characters from "The Honeymooners". Ralph and Norton died in 2007 but that same year the aquarium received two more whale sharks ("Taroko", commemorating Taroko Gorge National Park, and "Yushan" after

neg: Harry Crane Joe Bigelow on "Cavalcade of Stars", Gleason asked them to produce a sketch of him as a working class Brooklyn guy with a nagging wife. The two created the characters Ralph and Alice Kramden which became a recurring act in Gleason's show; eventually morphing into its own show entitled "The Honeymooners" on CBS which ran from 1955 to 1956. Crane wrote comedic scripts and jokes for many comedians including Jimmy Durante, Abbott and Costello, the Marx Brothers, Milton Berle, and Jerry Lewis. He also wrote jokes for singers including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Dinah Shore, Perry Como, Alan King, Dean

neg: The Honeymooners visit her and she would have a real-life Santa Claus every Christmas. A few later skits had Ralph mistakenly believe for a while that Alice was pregnant. Early cast additions in later sketches were upstairs neighbors Ed and Trixie Norton. Ed (Carney) was a sewer worker and Ralph's best friend, although his innocent and guileless nature was the source of many arguments between the two. Trixie (maiden name never mentioned), Ed's wife, originally portrayed by Elaine Stritch as a burlesque dancer but was replaced after just one appearance by the more wholesome looking Joyce Randolph. Trixie is a foil to

neg: North by North Quahog in which Dr. Grant gives this warning in reference to a "Tyrannosaurus Rex". Pinocchio appears in a cutaway gag, in which Gepetto bends over and deliberately sets Pinocchio up to tell a lie in an attempt to emulate anal sex. This was based on a joke MacFarlane's mother had told her friends when he was a child. Lois yells out George Clooney's name when she and Peter are having sex. The 1950s sitcom "The Honeymooners" is also referenced when a fictional episode of the sitcom is shown in which Ralph Kramden, the show's main character, hits his wife, Alice, something

neg: Love Is Here to Stay instrumental version of the song is heard in an episode of TV's "The Honeymooners" when Alice turns to Ralph and says: "I loved you ever since the day I walked in your bus and you shortchanged me." The song is also used in the musical "The 1940's Radio Hour"; however, it was not included in the 2015 Broadway musical "An American in Paris". "Love Is Here to Stay" was the last musical composition George Gershwin completed before his death on July 11, 1937. Ira Gershwin wrote the lyrics after George's death as a tribute to his brother. Although George had

neg: Asbury Park, New Jersey the way their cities were depicted. Asbury Park appears at the start of the 1999 film Dogma. The Season 2 finale of "The Sopranos", "Funhouse", originally aired in April 2000, includes several discrete dream sequences dreamed by Tony that take place on the Asbury Park Boardwalk, including Madame Marie's as well as Tony and Pauly playing cards at a table in the empty hall of the Convention Center. The episode's title alludes to the Palace, which is also shown. In a 1955 episode of "The Honeymooners" ("Better Living Though TV"), Alice Kramden ridicules husband Ralph Kramden's seemingly never-ending parade of

neg: Ralph (New Horizons) light stream, and thus analyze two spectrums of light at the same time. Ralph is named after a character in "The Honeymooners" (1950s television show), along with another "New Horizons" instrument, Alice. LEISA's acronym was retitled from "Linear Etalon Imaging Spectral Array" to "Lisa Hardaway Infrared Mapping Spectrometer" by NASA in June 2017, after Ralph's program manager. Lisa Hardaway was an aerospace engineer and New Horizon's Ralph instrument program manager that passed away in January 2017 at the age of 50. Hardaway was honored with Engineer of the Year for 2015-2016 by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Rocky

neg: Cheese It, the Cat! through Ralph's front door, causing the cat to fly on to the ceiling light, leaving him dazed. Cheese It, the Cat! Cheese It, the Cat! is a 1957 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, directed by Robert McKimson. It is the second of three McKimson cartoons parodying television's "The Honeymooners" (the others being "The Honey-Mousers" and "Mice Follies"). Ralph comes home to prepare a surprise birthday for his wife Alice. What prevents Ralph from getting the birthday cake is a cat in the kitchen. Ralph goes to the kitchen sink to ask Ned Morton for help. Ned gets

neg: Cheese It, the Cat! Cheese It, the Cat! Cheese It, the Cat! is a 1957 Warner Bros. cartoon in the Looney Tunes series, directed by Robert McKimson. It is the second of three McKimson cartoons parodying television's "The Honeymooners" (the others being "The Honey-Mousers" and "Mice Follies"). Ralph comes home to prepare a surprise birthday for his wife Alice. What prevents Ralph from getting the birthday cake is a cat in the kitchen. Ralph goes to the kitchen sink to ask Ned Morton for help. Ned gets Ralph to ride a clockwork armored car with a cannon. As Ralph prepares to fire the cannon

neg: The Honeymooners Street). The Kramdens—and later the Nortons when those characters were added—are childless, an issue only occasionally explored, but a condition on which Gleason insisted. Ralph and Alice did legally adopt a baby girl whom they named Ralphina (because he actually wanted a baby boy he could name after himself but fell in love with the baby girl the agency had placed with them). However, the biological mother requested to have her baby returned, and the agency asked whether the Kramdens would be willing to do so even though they were the legal parents. Ralph agreed and stated that they would

neg: Jackie Gleason guest performers. Gleason kicked off the 1966–1967 season with new, color episodes of "The Honeymooners". Carney returned as Ed Norton, with MacRae as Alice and Kean as Trixie. The sketches were remakes of the 1957 world-tour episodes, in which Kramden and Norton win a slogan contest and take their wives to international destinations. Each of the nine episodes was a full-scale musical comedy, with Gleason and company performing original songs by Lyn Duddy and Jerry Bresler. Occasionally Gleason would devote the show to musicals with a single theme, such as college comedy or political satire, with the stars abandoning their

neg: Alice Dovey Alice Dovey Alice Dovey (August 28, 1884 – January 12, 1969) was an American motion picture comedian and actress who first appeared in "The Commanding Officer" (1915). This was a Famous Players Lasky movie which was directed by Alan Dwan. The title role in the film was played by Donald Crisp, with Dovey playing the role of his wife. Dovey was a Plattsmouth, Nebraska native who was educated abroad. She debuted at the Broadway Theatre on January 25, 1909, after making many appearances in non-metropolitan venues, while acquiring performing skills. Among her first stage appearances was her depiction of Goldenrod

neg: Phantom Limb (Alice in Chains song) Phantom Limb (Alice in Chains song) "Phantom Limb" is a song by the American rock band Alice in Chains and the tenth track on their fifth studio album, "The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here" (2013). The lyrics were written by Alice in Chains' co-lead vocalist and rhythm guitarist William DuVall, who also played the guitar solo in the song, the first solo he wrote for Alice in Chains. The song premiered on radio via Seattle station KISW on March 25, 2013. Snippets of "Phantom Limb" were featured on the Alice in Chains mockumentary "", released on April 3, 2013. A music

neg: Alice Hyatt care of them. Alice decides to stay in Phoenix with David, and decides to marry him after making sure it is all right with Tommy. Alice Hyatt Alice Hyatt (born Alice Graham in the movie; Alice Spivak in the television series) is a fictional character in the movie "Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore" and in the subsequent television series "Alice". In the movie, she was played by Ellen Burstyn, who won an Academy Award for the role. In the television series, Alice was played by actress and singer Linda Lavin. Alice was born and raised in New Jersey. While still