Something Fishy (The Honeymooners)

Infobox Television episode
Title =Something Fishy
Series =The Honeymooners


Caption =
Season =1
Episode =12
Airdate =December 17, 1955
Production =n/a
Writer =Leonard Stern and
Sydney Zelinka
Director =Frank Satenstein
Guests =Cliff Hall (Raccoon Lodge President)
Dick Bernie (Brother Andrews)
Episode list =List of The Honeymooners episodes
Prev =The Deciding Vote
Next ='Twas the Night Before Christmas

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.

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. (To quote Ralph: "The only place you're goin' is to the moon!") 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, at 4:00, 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 overcomes them and they shout up into the apartment that their wives can come if they want.

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 Raccoon 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."

Quotes

* Ralph: (making speeches to Alice regarding the Raccoon Lodge fishing trip) Look, Alice. You might as well get this into your head. A fishing trip is just like a Turkish bath. It's for men only. I catch the fish, you cook the fish. The only time we're together is when we eat the fish. So it's final, it's settled, and it's over and done with. You are not going on the fishing trip.
* Norton: Copies of your speech are being mimeographed and placed in every pool hall in Bensonhurst.
* Norton: I was going to tell Trixie but she was standing too close to the pots and pans.