The Honeymooners (TV Series)

Mama Loves Mambo (1956)

Jackie Gleason: Ralph Kramden

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Quotes 

• Ralph : Hooolllddd it! Wait a minute! WAIT A MINUTE! WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?

  Alice : Nothing, Ralph. Carlos was just teaching us to do the mambo.

  Trixie : Right, Ralph. Carlos was just teaching us to do the mambo.

  Ralph : Ohhhhhhh, Carlos was teaching to do the mambo. Oh ho ho! That puts a different light on everything. For a minute there, when I walked in here, I didn't know what you were doin'. Now I know, Carlos was teaching you the mambo. That makes a world of difference! EVERYBODY OUT! OUT!

  Angelina Manicotti : But, Mr. Kramden, it's fun!

  Ralph : [pointing at her]  And YOU, at YOUR age, should be ASHAMED of yourself!

• Alice : Sometimes I think you guys forget we're women!

  Ralph : How can we forget you're women? You're always yappin'!

• Ralph : [In an agitated mood]  What's for supper?

  Alice : tunafish salad.

  Ralph : Tunafish salad?... What am I?... a cat or somthin'?

• Ralph : [to Alice]  Your mambo days are over! You want to wiggle? Wiggle over to the stove, and get my supper!

• Ralph : [to Carlos Sanchez]  I want to tell you something. You've got some nerve parading around in front of our wives with the fancy manners. We have to eat cold suppers on account of your teaching them the mambo. Let me tell you something. It's easy for you, you know, to play Sir Galahad. You don't do any work. When you go to work, you *dance*! That's no work! When *we* go to work, we work. *Dirty* work!

  [holds up his hands] 

  Ralph : Just notice the difference between my hands and your hands. That'll show you the difference in work.

  [gestures toward Norton] 

  Ralph : The difference between your hands and *my friend's* hands!

  Ed Norton : Now, wait a minute. It's not fair to compare his to mine. I mean, I got mine in the water all day.

  Ralph : Aw, shut up.

• Ralph : You're gonna do the mambo. You're gonna do the mambo, but it's gonna be on the moon!