The Man from Space

Infobox Television episode
Title =The Man from Space
Series =The Honeymooners


Caption =Alice looks on in shock at Ralph's homemade costume.
Season =1
Episode =14
Airdate =December 31, 1955
Production =n/a
Writer =A.J. Russell and Herbert Finn
Director =Frank Satenstein
Guests =
Episode list =List of The Honeymooners episodes
Prev ='Twas the Night Before Christmas
Next =A Matter of Record

The Man from Space is the 14th episode of the TV series The Honeymooners. Ralph uses junk around the apartment to build a 'Man From Space' costume.

Plot

Ralph wants to borrow $10 so he can buy a costume for the upcoming Raccoon Lodge ball and win the $50 prize for most original costume. However, Norton wants to use the money to buy his own costume - that of "Pierre Francois de la Briosche," who designed and built the sewers in Paris. Naturally, Ralph takes it hard and declares war on Norton and says he wants nothing to do with him from now on. "If you see me coming down the street," Ralph threatens, "get on the other side." Norton replies, "When you come down the street, there AIN'T no other side!"

Ralph is doubly disappointed when Alice will have nothing to do with giving her husband the $10. Undaunted, Ralph decides to build his own costume out of pieces he gets from around the apartment, intending to show Norton up. Ralph uses knobs, pots and other small pieces around the apartment to make a "Man From Space" outfit for the ball (at one point, one of the knobs from his chest falls off. Ralph quickly picks it up, and without missing a beat, says, "Give me that - that's my de-naturizer."). Just before they're going to go to the ball, Norton shows up crestfallen (and saying that Ralph's costume resembles not a man from space but a Sherman tank) - it turns out that his 'hero' didn't invent the modern sewer - he "condemned" them. Norton decides to go out to an emergency call rather than show up at the ball without a costume.

At the ball, Ralph (with a little nudging to the judge) looks like he's about to be declared the winner for his costume of a 'pinball machine', when Norton bursts in still wearing his sewer outfit. The judge immediately declares Norton to be the winner, with his wonderful "Man from Space" costume. Ralph looks angrily at Norton, but then Alice starts dancing with Ralph, and Ralph lets a grin show that he holds no hard feelings and decides to let bygones be bygones.

Trivia

*This episode was featured (and referenced) in the 1985 film "Back to the Future". Interestingly enough, a scene featuring it takes place on November 5, 1955, nearly two months before the episode actually first aired. ("The Honeymooners" episode that actually aired on November 5, 1955 was "The Sleepwalker")
*The name "Pierre Francois de Briosche" is referenced at the end of the Cindi Lauper music video She Bop (where it is referred to as "Francois de la Brioskee").

=Quotes=
*Ralph: "(after Norton asks if he has anything else to say regarding the costume contest)" Just one more thing, Norton. From here on in, we are deadly enemies. I don't want to see you, I don't want to talk to you, I don't want to have nothin' to do with you. When you see me comin' down the street, get on the other side.
Norton: When you come down the street, there AIN'T no other side!