The Honeymooners (TV Series)

Brother Ralph (1955)

Art Carney: Ed Norton

Quotes 

• Ralph Kramden : [about the job Alice got]  In order to get it, she had to tell the boss that she wasn't married. And on top of everything, she told him that I was her brother!

  Ed Norton : Well, if that's what she had to say to get the job, then that's what she had to say.

  Ralph Kramden : Don't you understand the implications of a thing like that? If the boss knows she's single, he's liable to try to make a date with her!

  Ed Norton : Now, wait a minute, Ralph, that won't necessarily follow through. Take my cousin, for instance. She works. Her boss knows she's single. He don't try to make no date with her. 'Course, she looks like an orangutan.

• [Ralph has been laid off] 

  Ed Norton : I know just how you feel because I went through the same thing two or three years ago when they laid me off from the sewer. I felt just like a fish out of water.

• Ed Norton : I take back my offer to you of a job in the sewer. Besides, you wouldn't even fit through the manhole.

• Ed Norton : [asking about Ralph's idea to lay off some of the bus drivers]  What's the good word, buddy boy?

  Ralph Kramden : *I* was the first to go.