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(2012) Bang Zoom! “Ralph Kramden” The Honeymooners, AKA Jackie Gleason - Illustration No.56 - Pop Art Illustration Drawn in Graphite - 16 Hours to complete. 8 1/2 x 11 Strathmore 96lb. Sheet Stock Paper. Pencils used (6H, 5H, 4H, 2H, H, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 5B, 6B). Ralph Kramden played by Jackie Gleason - a bus driver for the fictional Gotham Bus Company. He is never seen driving a bus (except in publicity photos), but is often shown at the bus depot. Ralph is frustrated by his lack of success and often develops get-rich-quick schemes. Ralph is very short tempered, frequently resorting to bellowing, insults and hollow threats. Well hidden beneath the many layers of blustering however, is a soft-hearted man who loves his wife and is devoted to his best pal, Ed Norton. Ralph Kramden is the inspiration for the animated Character Fred Flinstone.
The Honeymooners is an American sitcom, based on a recurring 1951-55 sketch of the same name. It originally aired on the DuMont network’s Cavalcade of Stars and subsequently on the CBS network’s The Jackie Gleason Show hosted by Jackie Gleason and filmed before a live audience. It debuted as a half-hour series on October 1, 1955. Although initialy a ratings success-- becoming the #2 show in the United States its first season - it faced still competition from the Perry Como Show and eventually dropped to #19, ending its production after only 39 episodes (now referred to as the “Classic 39”). The Honeymooners was one of the first U.S. television shows to portray working-class married couples in a Grittier non-idyllic manner living in a run down Brooklyn apartment complex. The Final episode of The Honeymooners aired on September 22, 1956.
The Honeymooners is an American sitcom, based on a recurring 1951-55 sketch of the same name. It originally aired on the DuMont network’s Cavalcade of Stars and subsequently on the CBS network’s The Jackie Gleason Show hosted by Jackie Gleason and filmed before a live audience. It debuted as a half-hour series on October 1, 1955. Although initialy a ratings success-- becoming the #2 show in the United States its first season - it faced still competition from the Perry Como Show and eventually dropped to #19, ending its production after only 39 episodes (now referred to as the “Classic 39”). The Honeymooners was one of the first U.S. television shows to portray working-class married couples in a Grittier non-idyllic manner living in a run down Brooklyn apartment complex. The Final episode of The Honeymooners aired on September 22, 1956.
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We also never see Norton in his workplace. We did see him exit through a manhole ladder to speak with Kramden.
Curiously, the expression "Bang ! Zoom!" was an abbreviation
of the full threat of sending Alice to the moon, which was recalled from the pre-39 unsyndicated episodes, but never used in the classic 39. These older episodes varied in length (and one was never finished *). Gleason tried to summarize the rest of that story in his stage monologue on the next show, but bogged down. The early episodes oft contradicted one another as the writers did not foreknow that they'd someday be classics worth referencing.
* Kramden was a dead ringer for a gangland boss, and foes of this man set Kramden up in a nice apartment -to have him bumped off in this boss's place. A startling scene was where just after Kramden left the swanky room, it was blasted up by machine gun fire ! A very narrow escape !