The Honeymooners (TV Series)

A Woman's Work Is Never Done (1955)

Betty Garde: Thelma - Maid

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• Ralph Kramden : [Thelma the maid has been introduced to the Kramdens, and her appearance is not what Ralph expected]  *This* is a maid? I thought maids had short skirts with white hats and black silk stockings.

  Alice : Ralph!

  Thelma : [speaking to the agency manager, indicating Ralph]  The chubby one's gonna be trouble.

• Thelma : Okay.

  Ralph : [screaming]  I told you to stop saying "Okay"! It's "Very good, sir"!

  [pointing to Norton and himself] 

  Ralph : This happens to be my guest, and I am your employer!

  Thelma : Hmm, some guest and some employer.

  [pointing to Norton and Ralph in succession] 

  Thelma : The simp and the blimp!

  Ralph : How dare you say that to me!

  Thelma : I quit!

• Alice : Thelma, what my husband meant was he just wants to explain your duties to you.

  Thelma : Oh, yeah, what I gotta do. And I might as well tell you right now: I can't do no heavy work. I'm sickly.

  Ralph : Sickly? Well, first of all, you'll have to go to the market. Then you'll have to cook, scrub the floors...

  Thelma : I don't scrub no floors!

  Alice : You're so right, Thelma. My husband will be glad to scrub the floors.

  Ralph : Now wait a minute!

  Thelma : You'll scrub the floor!. That's a man's work.

  Ralph : Just a minute. Who's doing the hiring here? All right, Alice, it's all off!

  Alice : Oh, no, Ralph, I'm not giving up my career. So it's either Thelma or you.

  Thelma : And I might as well tell you somethin' else, right now: I get Thursdays and Sundays off, see? My work is through the minute the supper dishes are done. I don't work in no house where they got no pets, so you might as well get rid of one if you got one. If you're gonna have a party, I get time-and-a-half over and the next day off. And, uh, if you're planning on having any late snacks, I don't do no cleaning up the next morning. And this boy looks like he has plenty of late snacks.