The Honeymooners

Trixie tells Alice that she and Ed are getting a new TV set to replace their old one. Alice is envious and Trixie tells her to give Ralph the pipe and slipper routine to butter him up. Alices behavior is so unusual for her that Ralph is immediately suspicious. When Ralph finds out the reason behind this he refuses to buy a TV set. It soon becomes apparent that Alice will not let the issue drop and Ralph is forced to deal with it. Ralph and Norton concoct a scheme to pool their money together and buy one set and share it.

Ralph wants to be named the new Assistant Traffic Manager at the bus terminal. This is a promotion he feels he has worked hard for and he deserves. In order to ensure it he needs to get in good with Mr. Harper, the man in charge. Harper and Ralph strike up a conversation and with Nortons help he finds himself with a date to play golf...of course Ralph knows nothing about the game of golf.

When Ralph thinks hes dying and sells the story to a magazine, he discovers it was a dog who was sick instead.

Ralphs newest get-rich-quick scheme is to sell an all-purpose kitchen gadget. With Nortons assistance, Ralph plans to demonstrate it during a live TV commercial, in order to reach more potential buyers. But Ralphs last-minute stage fright may ruin the commercial.

Because of a suggestion he made, Ralph gets laid off. While theyre trying to figure out how to cope with the bills, Alice decides to go back to work over Ralphs objections. The real trouble starts when Ralph finds out who has to do the house work, and when Alices boss comes to the apartment to pick her up.

Ralph buys Alice a vacuum while there is a Raccoon election going on for convention manager, and its up to Norton to be the deciding vote.

Ralph hocks his bowling ball to get Alice a present when someone else gets her the same thing he did.

Ralph throws Alices mother out of the apartment, but Alice soon walks out on him, too. In a last ditch effort to save their marriage, Ralph cuts a record to apologize to Alice - and also, reluctantly, to her mother.

When Alice has a telephone installed, Ralph feels threatened both by her newfound freedom and the prospect of another bill to pay. Alice is baby-sitting to pay for the phone but Ralph thinks shes two-timing him.

Norton invests in Ralphs stock when Ralph wants twenty dollars. When Ralph thinks he is named in a millionaires will, arguments arise. It turns out Ralph was simply left a pet bird named Fortune, and much of the money was left to the butler and maid.

Ralph and Norton discover a mysterious food product that Ralph thinks Alice has made that they decide to dub Krammars Delicious Mystery Appetizer. Ralph calls it Krammars because he is considering naming the product not only after himself, but also after his boss at the bus depot, J.J. Marshall. The next day, Ralph takes the mystery snack to Mr. Marshall to get him to taste it. But when he does, the mystery is solved - the snack he had just tried is dog food! Naturally, Ralph is not at all happy.

A new neighbor moves next door to the Kramdens. This neighbor is a dance instructor and teaches the wives to do the mambo, at their husbands collective expense.

Ralphs birthday is coming up, and he finds out that Alice is planning a surprise party for him. On that day, however, no party materializes and Ralph is, to say the least, disappointed. Hes even more disappointed when he finds a mans glove thats not his hidden in a dresser drawer and gets suspicious when Alice seems in a hurry to get him out of the house that night.

Ralph tells a newspaper that hes head of the house and then has to prove it to a co-worker.

Ralph happens to be standing outside a bank when a pair of bank robbers run out and, seeing him, fire a shot at him, knocking his hat off. Afraid that the robbers might find out where he lives, he refuses to tell the police what he saw. The robbers, however, find out anyway and plan a visit to make sure he never tells.

In order to raise money for the Raccoon Lodge, the lodge members decide to put on a play, and hire a professional director, Mr. Faversham, to direct it. Ralph is given the lead and Alice is given the female lead. Ralph starts "seeing stars" when he learns that Favershams friend, Hollywood producer Herbert J. Whiteside, is in town looking to cast his new picture and will be attending the plays opening night.

Ralph and Norton head off to the Raccoon convention in Minneapolis. They lose their wives in the train station and think that they are now traveling alone. Norton has brought along a number of joke items including trick handcuffs, which he promptly puts on himself and Ralph. Not surprisingly, once on they cant get them off which leads to no end of problems, especially when it comes to the sleeping arrangements. In the end, they find out theyre on the wrong train and heading in the wrong direction.

Norton loses his job after following Ralphs advice and starts selling steam ironsn door to door. When Ed lies about how much money hes making so that the Kramdens dont feel bad, Ralph himself considers selling steam irons door to door.

While Ralph and Norton are playing a game at the pool hall, Ralph gets into an argument with a mousy little guy who threatens to "tell my friend Harvey on you". Ralph, figuring anybody named Harvey whos a friend of this guy must be as wimpy as him, tells the guy to "bring on Harvey" and brags that hell beat up the both of them. Harvey turns out to be a tough, hulking bruiser, and challenges Ralph to a fight at the local gym. Ralph frantically looks for a way to get out of it.

Ralph meets an old boyfriend of Alices, who tells Ralph what a great success he now is. Ralph doesnt want to admit that hes only a bus driver, so he pretends hes the head of the bus company. But his pretense may backfire, when Alices former boyfriend and his wife invite Ralph and Alice to dinner at an expensive restaurant -- a place Ralph cannot afford.