Something Fishy (The Honeymooners)

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“Something Fishy”
The Honeymooners episode
Episode no.	Season 1 Episode 12
Guest stars	Cliff Hall (Raccoon Lodge President) Dick Bernie (Brother Andrews)
Written by	Leonard Stern and Sydney Zelinka
Directed by	Frank Satenstein
Production no.	n/a
Original airdate	December 17, 1955
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List of The Honeymooners episodes

Something Fishy is the 12th episode of the TV series The Honeymooners. The Raccoon Lodge is holding its annual fishing trip and the members of the lodge will have nothing to do with taking their wives... but Alice and Trixie will have nothing to do with being left behind.

[edit] Plot

Another meeting at the Raccoon Lodge is in progress and this time, after they talk about adding new applicants, the lodge moves onto the topic of the Lodge's annual fishing trip next week. The president explains that there has been a consensus to leave the members' wives at home, but first they take a vote. Sure enough, the members vote unanimously not to take the wives on the trip. Then Ralph announces that they should tell their wives about the trip so they can prove their independence. Everyone loves the idea and the president proposes a poker game as a declaration of their independence. Ralph tells Norton that he can't come because Alice wants him home by 10:30.

The day before the fishing trip, Ralph tells Alice that says she's not going on the trip, but she says she is. Ralph says they voted unanimously that the wives aren't going. Alice counters that Trixie is going, but Ralph says Norton is telling her that she's not going. A clattering sound is heard above them and Alice says that they're still going, at 6:00 tomorrow morning. Norton then comes downstairs and he tells Ralph he had no better luck at talking Trixie out of going than Ralph did. They then decide to leave two hours earlier.

The next morning, Ralph and Norton get into the car parked conveniently outside the apartment. Little do they realize, however, that their wives are hiding in the back seat behind them. They catch on eventually and still remind them that they're not going, repeating the vote was unanimous. Alice tries to explain that they sacrificed beauty parlors temporarily to buy the fishing equipment because they thought their husbands would love to take them along. Ralph tries to explain, but Alice will hear none of it. She and Trixie leave. Ralph and Norton are pleased that they got away with it... until guilt overcome them and they shout up into the apartment that their wives can come if they want.

[edit] Trivia

• Ralph is going to call Norton a nut. He starts off saying, "Brother Kramden," then stops and says "Brother Norton is a nut!"

• The Racoon Lodge President apparently forgets his line when he says "We've got to get more... more... more...". Gleason finishes his sentence with, "Applicants!" The flustered President then says "Oh, yes, I couldn't think of the word."