The Honeymooner (PARADISE BAY SERIES Book 1)

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The success of The Honeymooners in countries outside the United States has led to the production of new shows based entirely on it.

Played by Art Carney; a New York City municipal sewer worker and Ralph's best friend (and upstairs neighbor). He is considerably more good-natured than Ralph, but nonetheless trades insults with him on a regular basis. Ed (typically called "Norton" by Ralph and sometimes by his own wife, Trixie) often gets mixed up in Ralph's schemes. His carefree and rather dimwitted nature usually results in raising Ralph's ire, while Ralph often showers him with verbal abuse and throws him out of the apartment when Ed irritates him. In most episodes, Ed is shown to be better-read, better-liked, more worldly and more even-tempered than Ralph, despite his unassuming manner and the fact that he usually lets Ralph take the lead in their escapades. Ed and Ralph both are members of the fictional Raccoon Lodge. Like Ralph, Ed enjoys and is good at bowling and playing pool. Unlike Ralph, Ed is good at ping-pong. [11] The first adult film parody of the show, Honeymooners, premiered in 1976 and starred John Leslie as the Ralph Kramden character. The cast of characters here is different from the ones we know from the Crown Jewels series so you can read this without reading the first trilogy, but if you did read them first you’ll get a glimpse of our favorite bodyguard/babysitter 😜* Classic TV At Its Best". Archived from the original on January 18, 2013 . Retrieved November 26, 2006. The Honeymooners" debuted on October 5, 1951 as a six-minute sketch. [25] Ensemble cast member Art Carney made a brief appearance as a police officer who is hit with flour that Ralph throws from the window. The tone of these early sketches was much darker than that of the later series, with Ralph exhibiting great bitterness and frustration with his marriage to an equally bitter and argumentative middle-aged woman (Kelton was nine years older than was Gleason). The Kramdens' financial struggles mirrored those of Gleason's early life in Brooklyn, and he took great pains to model the set on his memory of the apartment where he had lived. [25] The Kramdens—and later the Nortons when those characters were added—are childless, an issue only occasionally explored, but a condition upon which Gleason insisted. Ralph and Alice did legally adopt a baby girl whom they named Ralphina. However, the biological mother requested to have her baby returned. A few later sketches had Ralph mistakenly believe that Alice was pregnant.Mrs. Schwartz: The apartment house blabbermouth who reported that the Kramdens had set the all-time lowest gas bill for the building. She also was curious to know if the house phone was able to connect to Jersey when Ralph was the janitor. This book is so cliché yet so good! I found myself yelling at the characters. It was so infuriating with their miscommunication and I couldn't help but yell at my book “JUST SAY I LOVE YOU!!!” Why can’t people just say how they feel?! How many books elicit that kind of reaction that the reader ends up yelling at the book? 😂 who knows what the other cars in traffic next to me were thinking of me as I was screaming to nothing. 🤷🏽‍♀️

In the episode " Spanish Fry" of the same show, Lrrr says, "One of these days, Ndnd, bang! zoom! straight to the third moon of Omicron Persei 8!!" Roxborough, Scott (31 August 2021). " 'Borat' Star Maria Bakalova Cast in Rom-Com 'The Honeymoon' ". The Hollywood Reporter . Retrieved 1 August 2022. French Canada was entertained [ citation needed] for years in the 1960s and '70s by a sitcom titled Cré Basile, with Olivier Guimond, Béatrice Picard, Denis Drouin and Amulette Garneau, which was an uncredited Quebecois version of The Honeymooners. It could, by contemporary standards, qualify as plagiarism [ citation needed].

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Fretts, Bruce; Roush, Matt (December 23, 2013). "The Greatest Shows on Earth". TV Guide Magazine. 61 (3194–3195): 16–19 . Retrieved December 2, 2016. a b c d e f g h i j Simon, Ron. " The Honeymooners". The Museum of Broadcast Communications. Archived from the original on February 23, 2009 . Retrieved November 25, 2006. a b c Jones, Gerard (1993). "Sweet Subversion". Honey I'm Home!: Sitcoms – Selling the American Dream. MacMillan. p.112. ISBN 0-312-08810-8. In 2013, TV Guide ranked The Honeymooners No. 13 on their list of the 60 Greatest Shows of All Time. [44] Another important thing with this novel is the authors writing. She truly transported me to the tropical island of Paradise Bay with her vivid imagination and I could practically feel the sun on my skin as I was reading. I love an author who can write a setting in a way that readers can imagine it being real and that’s exactly what Melanie Summers did with this book.Mr. and Mrs. August Gunther: Former residents of the building. August hit it big with his doughnut business. a b c d e f g h i j k Lewisohn, Mark. "BBC Guide to Comedy – The Honeymooners". BBC. Archived from the original on June 27, 2006 . Retrieved November 25, 2006.

Meils, Cathy (October 26, 1998). " 'Honeymooners' intro'd by Polsat". Variety.com . Retrieved November 26, 2006. The writing and the story seemed similar to works from Sophie Kinsella (whom I love) so for fans of her novels, this one may also be of interest.

‘The Honeymooners’ Inspired ‘The Flintstones’

The Honeymoon is a 2022 romantic comedy film written and directed by Dean Craig. It stars Maria Bakalova and Pico Alexander as a newly married couple whose honeymoon in Venice is derailed by the groom's needy best friend Bav ( Asim Chaudhry). Lucas Bravo also stars as an Italian gangster. The sitcom The King of Queens was partially inspired by The Honeymooners. [49] The Honeymooners, among other shows, was parodied directly in a dream sequence in the episode "Inner Tube". Ralph and Alice hire a maid to ease Alice's housework burden. As Alice sternly tells Ralph, "Man works from sun to sun, but woman's work is never done!" In "Please Leave the Premisis", Ralph decides to play hardball with a greedy landlord, and winds up out in the cold. Ralph says he's being brave and defiant like General George Washington, and that there "will be no deserters is his army",meaning he, Alice and Norton have to remain in the cold without utilities. Unfortunately General Cornwallis wins this round over George Washington, and Martha convinces George to pay the rent increase.