The Honeymooners
Game Called on Account of Marriage
TV Flash files “Game Called on Account of Marriage” as hour 59 of 225 in the TV Flash guide — The Honeymooners (1955–1956) on CBS, season 3, episode 2, aired 1954-10-02, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E02: listed hour 59 of 225 in the The Honeymooners guide, hour 2 of 27 in season 3. It aired 1954-10-02 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “Ralph's Sweet Tooth” (S03E01). Next is “Love Letter” (S03E03).
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Ralph is fighting with Alice about her sisters up coming wedding. It seems Ralph has world series tickets for the day of the wedding. He and Ed cook up a plan to get the bride and groom to elope. The only way the groom to be will go through with it is if Ralph and Ed help with the event. They show up with the ladder and help the bride with all her baggage, and there's a lot. After the bride is outside and all the bags are down stairs, the bride and groom get in a fight and call off the elopement, and stomp off in a huff. Ralph and Ed throw all the bag back inside just in time for the bridge and groom to show back up to say they've made up and need the bags back. Ralph refuses and sends them on their way with what they have. Just as he's taking down the ladder a beat cop shows up and listens to their tale about the tickets and wedding. He proceeds to tell Ralph the Giants won the game earlier in the day (the 4th in a row) and had already won the Pennant. He also doesn't believe their ...
Viewer FAQ
Where does Game Called on Account of Marriage sit in the The Honeymooners guide?
S03E02 is listed hour 59 of 225 — hour 2 of 27 in season 3, season 3 episode 2.
When did The Honeymooners S03E02 air?
Game Called on Account of Marriage aired 1954-10-02 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Start with the Classic 39 — season four in this pack, beginning with TV or Not TV. The earlier sketches show the characters forming; the 1955–56 half-hours are the form at full voltage.
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Why this series still plays
Thirty-nine half-hours in a kitchen the size of a conscience: Gleason’s volume, Meadows’s spine, Carney’s devotion. Watch working-class pride as sitcom architecture — then notice how little furniture a great comedy needs, and how quickly later revivals became souvenirs.
Before the Classic 39 had a Saturday all to themselves, Ralph Kramden was already yelling in a kitchen the size of a conscience. The Honeymooners begins, in this catalog, as 1952 sketch voltage on Gleason’s variety empire: a bus driver’s pride, a wife with the only working bullshit detector in Bensonhurst, a sewer worker as best friend and chaos engine. Television did not invent working-class marriage as comedy. It did, for one tight season of half-hours, freeze it in a set so spare it still looks like a dare. No…
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- Joyce Randolph as Trixie Norton
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