9.1/10431 votesLoading...#1 - The $99,000 Answer
Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 1/28/1956
Ralph's out to prove himself to Alice, his neighborhood, and the world when he becomes a contestant on a hit television game show with the category of popular songs. He practices all week, spending a lot of money, only to miss on the first question!
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9.0/10452 votesLoading...#2 - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 12/24/1955
Ralph hocks his bowling ball to get Alice a present when someone else gets her the same thing he did.
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8.9/10368 votesLoading...#3 - Better Living Through TV
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 11/12/1955
Ralph's newest get-rich-quick scheme is to sell an all-purpose kitchen gadget. With Norton's assistance, Ralph plans to demonstrate it during a live TV commercial, in order to reach more potential buyers. But Ralph's last-minute stage fright may ruin the commercial.
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8.8/10340 votesLoading...#4 - The Golfer
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/15/1955
Ralph wants to be named the new Assistant Traffic Manager at the bus terminal. This is a promotion he feels he has worked hard for and he deserves. In order to ensure it he needs to get in good with Mr. Harper, the man in charge. Harper and Ralph strike up a conversation and with Norton's help he finds himself with a date to play golf...of course Ralph knows nothing about the game of golf.
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8.7/10313 votesLoading...#5 - The Man from Space
Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 12/31/1955
Ralph is determined to win a prize of $50 at the Raccoon Lodge costume. When he competes with Norton in the contest and Alice will have nothing to do with loaning her husband any money to rent a costume, Ralph is forced to make a homemade costume.
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8.7/10312 votesLoading...#6 - A Dog's Life
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/18/1956
Ralph and Norton discover a mysterious food product that Ralph thinks Alice has made that they decide to dub Krammar's Delicious Mystery Appetizer. Ralph calls it Krammar's because he is considering naming the product not only after himself, but also after his boss at the bus depot, J.J. Marshall. The next day, Ralph takes the mystery snack to Mr. Marshall to get him to taste it. But when he does, the mystery is solved - the snack he had just tried is dog food! Naturally, Ralph is not at all happy.
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8.7/10363 votesLoading...#7 - The Bensonhurst Bomber
Season 1 Episode 37 - Aired 9/8/1956
While Ralph and Norton are playing a game at the pool hall, Ralph gets into an argument with a mousy little guy who threatens to "tell my friend Harvey on you". Ralph, figuring anybody named Harvey who's a friend of this guy must be as wimpy as him, tells the guy to "bring on Harvey" and brags that he'll beat up the both of them. Harvey turns out to be a tough, hulking bruiser, and challenges Ralph to a fight at the local gym. Ralph frantically looks for a way to get out of it.
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8.6/10459 votesLoading...#8 - TV or Not TV
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/1/1955
Trixie tells Alice that she and Ed are getting a new TV set to replace their old one. Alice is envious and Trixie tells her to give Ralph the 'pipe and slipper' routine to butter him up. Alice's behavior is so unusual for her that Ralph is immediately suspicious. When Ralph finds out the reason behind this he refuses to buy a TV set. It soon becomes apparent that Alice will not let the issue drop and Ralph is forced to deal with it. Ralph and Norton concoct a scheme to pool their money together and buy one set and share it.
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8.6/10290 votesLoading...#9 - A Matter of Life and Death
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 10/29/1955
When Ralph thinks he's dying and sells the story to a magazine, he discovers it was a dog who was sick instead.
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8.6/10289 votesLoading...#10 - Head of the House
Season 1 Episode 27 - Aired 3/31/1956
Ralph tells a newspaper that he's head of the house and then has to prove it to a co-worker.
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8.6/10305 votesLoading...#11 - Trapped
Season 1 Episode 29 - Aired 4/14/1956
Ralph happens to be standing outside a bank when a pair of bank robbers run out and, seeing him, fire a shot at him, knocking his hat off. Afraid that the robbers might find out where he lives, he refuses to tell the police what he saw. The robbers, however, find out anyway and plan a visit to make sure he never tells.
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8.6/10281 votesLoading...#12 - Unconventional Behavior
Season 1 Episode 33 - Aired 5/12/1956
Ralph and Norton head off to the Raccoon convention in Minneapolis. They lose their wives in the train station and think that they are now traveling alone. Norton has brought along a number of joke items including trick handcuffs, which he promptly puts on himself and Ralph. Not surprisingly, once on they can't get them off which leads to no end of problems, especially when it comes to the sleeping arrangements. In the end, they find out they're on the wrong train and heading in the wrong direction.
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8.6/10357 votesLoading...#13 - Alice and the Blonde
Season 1 Episode 36 - Aired 6/2/1956
Alice and Trixie feel that their husbands don't notice them any longer. And it doesn't help when they see Ralph and Norton being attentive to the glamorous new wife of Ralph's boss. Alice then decides to imitate her in order to regain Ralph's attention.
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8.5/10301 votesLoading...#14 - A Woman's Work is Never Done
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 10/22/1955
Alice is so tired of Ralph's complaining about the housework not getting done that she decides to hire themselves a maid while she goes off to get a job herself.
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8.5/10370 votesLoading...#15 - The Sleepwalker
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/5/1955
When Norton's sleepwalking through Ralph's apartment disturbs Ralph one time too many, Ralph decides to get to the root of Norton's trouble.
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8.5/10314 votesLoading...#16 - Brother Ralph
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1955
Because of a suggestion he made, Ralph gets laid off. While they're trying to figure out how to cope with the bills, Alice decides to go back to work over Ralph's objections. The real trouble starts when Ralph finds out who has to do the house work, and when Alice's boss comes to the apartment to pick her up.
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8.5/10329 votesLoading...#17 - Young at Heart
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/11/1956
After a visit from some teenagers, Alice feels that she and Ralph are starting to get old. She wants Ralph to take her out for some youthful activities, starting with roller-skating. But Ralph thinks the idea is ridiculous, and at first, resists it.
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8.5/10358 votesLoading...#18 - Mama Loves Mambo
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1956
A new neighbor moves next door to the Kramdens. This neighbor is a dance instructor and teaches the wives to do the mambo, at their husbands' collective expense.
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8.5/10285 votesLoading...#19 - Dial J for Janitor
Season 1 Episode 38 - Aired 9/15/1956
After several janitors have quit working in his building, Ralph decides to take on the job himself. But he finds it a lot tougher and more complicated than he thought it would be.
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8.5/10282 votesLoading...#20 - A Man's Pride
Season 1 Episode 39 - Aired 9/22/1956
Ralph meets an old boyfriend of Alice's, who tells Ralph what a great success he now is. Ralph doesn't want to admit that he's only a bus driver, so he pretends he's the head of the bus company. But his pretense may backfire, when Alice's former boyfriend and his wife invite Ralph and Alice to dinner at an expensive restaurant -- a place Ralph cannot afford.
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8.4/10306 votesLoading...#21 - Funny Money
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/8/1955
Counterfeiters have lost a suitcase of 'funny money' and have to wait 30 days to retrieve it. Once 30 days have elapsed it becomes the property of the person who found it...Ralph Kramden. When he discovers the contents of the case he goes on a wild spending spree despite Alice's warnings that this doesn't seem right. It isn't long before the gangsters come calling for their loot.
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8.4/10311 votesLoading...#22 - A Matter of Record
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/7/1956
Ralph throws Alice's mother out of the apartment, but Alice soon walks out on him, too. In a last ditch effort to save their marriage, Ralph cuts a record to apologize to Alice - and also, reluctantly, to her mother.
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8.4/10291 votesLoading...#23 - Oh My Aching Back
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/14/1956
Ralph injures his back after a bowling tournament a day before his physical examination.
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8.3/10284 votesLoading...#24 - Pal O'Mine
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 11/19/1955
A ring that was intended for Norton's new supervisor in the sewer, but that instead gets stuck on Ralph's finger accidentally, is all it takes to jeopardize Ralph's friendship with Norton - until an explosion in the sewer brings Ralph to his senses.
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8.3/10265 votesLoading...#25 - The Deciding Vote
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/10/1955
Ralph buys Alice a vacuum while there is a Raccoon election going on for convention manager, and it's up to Norton to be the deciding vote.
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The Best Episodes of The Honeymooners
Every episode of The Honeymooners ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of The Honeymooners!
A bus driver and his sewer worker friend struggle to strike it rich while their wives look on with weary patience. One of the most...
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Best Episodes Summary
"The $99,000 Answer" is the best rated episode of "The Honeymooners". It scored 9.1/10 based on 431 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/28/1956. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "'Twas the Night Before Christmas".