--- description: Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news. title: The Honeymooners image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00ad446a08e834e6/69869f1cf983e774ac04f2fb/t100_tv_honeymooners1.jpg?branch=production&width=2400&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 11, 2014 # _The Honeymooners_ by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Everett The story of bus driver Ralph Kramden and wife Alice was an unfancy celebration of unfancy people. The episodes—most of them sketches within _The Jackie Gleason Show_—were limited to sparse sets, usually the Kramdens’ bare bones Brooklyn walkup. But the dynamics between rubber-faced Gleason, Audrey Meadows and swivel-hipped jack-in-the-box Art Carney as sewer guy Ed Norton made the setting seem expansive. OK, so it was TV’s most famous example of spouse-abuse-threats-as-comedy. But knowing that there was no way Alice was ever actually going to go to the moon only added to Ralph’s blobby comic ineffectuality. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101691/the-honeymooners/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101691/the-honeymooners/"},"headline":"The Honeymooners","datePublished":"2014-08-11T21:56:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-02T23:01:22.658Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101691/the-honeymooners/","keywords":["Sitcom"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00ad446a08e834e6/69869f1cf983e774ac04f2fb/t100_tv_honeymooners1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt00ad446a08e834e6/69869f1cf983e774ac04f2fb/t100_tv_honeymooners1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101691/the-honeymooners/","name":"The Honeymooners"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"The Honeymooners","description":"The story of bus driver Ralph Kramden and wife Alice was an unfancy celebration of unfancy people.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/9SDFTnVu/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2007-09-05T15:21:44.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/9SDFTnVu.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101691/the-honeymooners/","duration":"PT33S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/collections/all-time-100-tv-shows/3101691/the-honeymooners/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```