The Honeymooners: The Curse of the Kramdens

Episode aired Oct 29, 1966
TV-G
1h

IMDb RATING

7.3/10

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Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Jane Kean, and Sheila MacRae in The Jackie Gleason Show (1966)

Comedy Musical

While on their all-paid world cruise, the Kramdens and Nortons arrive in Ireland, to see the birth town of Ralph's ancestors. He finds out they are cursed and he tries to break the curse.While on their all-paid world cruise, the Kramdens and Nortons arrive in Ireland, to see the birth town of Ralph's ancestors. He finds out they are cursed and he tries to break the curse.While on their all-paid world cruise, the Kramdens and Nortons arrive in Ireland, to see the birth town of Ralph's ancestors. He finds out they are cursed and he tries to break the curse.

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When Ralph and Norton are chasing two guys who were posing as ghosts in the "haunted" castle, the guys run through a secret panel (after hitting an opening button) and it closes behind them. As Ralph approaches the panel, it starts to open before he presses the button. Jackie Gleason then ad libs, "Ah ha! Taking it up before we're in, aye!"

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7/10

Good entertainment

The Kramdens and Nortons end up in Ireland, where Ralph has to sleep in a haunted castle for a night, in order to break a long curse. Of course, he drags poor Norton with him.

In the castle, it's all various spooky shenanigans and antics as the "ghosts" haunt the boys, who later of course solve the mystery.

This is one of the episodes where they expanded the Honeymooners a bit to include song and dance numbers, and it's all pretty impressive. There are lots of pretty girls and well-choreographed routines, making for a very good time.

The best musical sequence however is just the four main principals of Ralph (singing lead), Norton, Alice and Trixie singing a song about ghosts. This comes across amazingly well, but not ""too" perfect, which keeps it well within the bounds of being quite enjoyable without feeling sterile.

The only downer in this episode is at the beginning, where we see two guys in the Irish town discuss the curse and why Ralph has to stay in the castle. Of course this is to get the plot across for the audience, but it comes across as a drag and goes on too long.

Other than that, this is a fine episode, and we even see the curtain call.