The Honeymooners: A bus-company inspector gets on Ralph's bus and tells him he's getting too fat to drive a bus. Ralph goes home and checks a bus company height and weight chart, and discovers that for his height--six feet tall--he's four pounds under the maximum weight for a man his height. Later that night, with a clear mind, he goes to the monthly Raccoon Lodge banquet and eats up a storm. After the feast, one of the Raccoons bets Ralph that he's not six feet tall, and it turns out he's right--Ralph's only 5 feet 11 inches! A five-foot-eleven bus driver is supposed to weight 238 pounds, and Ralph weighed 246--before the banquet. Ralph immediately goes on a diet, and being deprived of food turns him into a monster. Two days before his bus-company physical he's about to go over the edge: even a crossword puzzle in which one of the answers is Supreme Court Justice Frankfurter drives him nuts. The next day, Mrs. Manicotti is having a surprise party for her husband, and she wants to hide the food for the party--a ham, a turkey, and the birthday cake--in the Kramdens' apartment. Alice thinks Ralph is going to spend the night working out at the gym, so she takes the food. Ralph comes home instead, and when he sees the food he thinks he's hallucinating. When he realizes it's real, a battle begins between his willpower and his appetite. Ralph wages a good fight, until he sees the cake. He snaps, and grabs a hunk of cake with his hand. Alice returns, and prevents Ralph from eating himself out of a job. Running time: 48:09 NOTE: This is the longest sketch of all of the "Lost Episodes".

Starring:

Art Carney, Audrey Meadows, Jackie Gleason, Joyce Randolph

Genre:

Comedy, Family