The Honeymooners (TV Series)

Young at Heart (1956)

Jackie Gleason: Ralph Kramden

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Quotes 

• Ralph : [after an argument with Alice on being young]  She's right, Norton. She's right. There's nothing wrong with somebody wanting to stay young. It's my fault. Well, I'm telling you right now, Norton, I'm changing.

  Ed Norton : What are you gonna do?

  Ralph : I'm gonna start taking her to dances and roller-skating. I'm gonna learn all the new dances: the Big Apple, Suzie Q, the Continental, Hesitation Waltz, all of that. And I'm gonna learn all the expressions, too, like "Bo-do-dee-oh-do", "23 skidoo", and "I'll kiss you later, I'm eating a potato", all that stuff, I'm gonna learn.

  [Norton laughs] 

  Ralph : What's so funny?

  Ed Norton : Bo-dee-do-do, 23 skidoo, I'll kiss you later, I'm eating a potato!

  [laughs again] 

  Ralph : What's wrong with those expressions?

  Ed Norton : Boy, oh, boy, how can anyone so round be so square?

• Ralph : [to Norton]  Hey, what does "icky" mean?

  Ed Norton : I don't know, why?

  Ralph : Alice just said I was icky.

  Ed Norton : Must mean "fat".

• [Ralph is surprised to learn that Alice wants to go roller-skating and he doesn't exactly like that idea] 

  Ralph : Let's face it, Alice, we've been out of the age range of roller-skating since Alf Landon stopped being presidential timber.

• Ralph : Acting young ain't what keeps you young, but if you have some memories - some good memories - of when you were young, that's what keeps you young.

• Ralph : Do you know how embarrassing it is to fall down right in the middle of a skating rink - and can't get up? Everybody looking at me...

  [as Norton laughs] 

  Ralph : SHUT UP! You didn't look any too good, either, picking me up.