Recently updated
The New York Times won’t be correcting a January 14 that I alerted the paper to on January 14.
Zippy and Trixie
Zippy speaks to the ghost of Joyce Randolph.
A Honeymooners correction, still needed
Still a mistake in the NYT.
Kranmar’s Vision Pro
From the maker of Kranmar’s Delicious Mystery Appetizer comes an AR device for the rest of us.
Joyce Randolph (1924–2024)
The last Honeymooner.
On Chauncey Street
Jackie Gleason and The Honeymooners.
Recently updated
The Honeymooners: Van Dyke Parks played Tommy Borden, not Tommy Manicotti.
Our tube
Seen while flipping channels: Tom Fitzsimmons and George Petrie, as doctors, young and old, in the One Day at a Time episode “Julie’s Operation” (February 8, 1977). Familiar faces in new arrangements: one of the pleasures of television.
Ralph Kramden’s list
Ralph Kramden’s bad points and good points, by Ralph Kramden.
Zippy Meadows
Audrey Meadows appears in today’s Zippy.
The Honeymooners and Zippy
And The Flintstones and Seinfeld.
Recently updated
The Honeymooners episode with VDP as Tommy Manicotti is back online.
Recently updated
A mystery actor identified.
Mystery actor
You may have seen her on television — dozens and dozens of times.
At Fred’s Landing
There’s no forgetting.
“He’s in the library”
From The Honeymooners.
Honeymooners notebook sightings
“The Babysitter” (January 21, 1956) must be the most stationery-rich episode of the (endlessly syndicated) 1955–1956 season, with four — or is it just two? — pocket notebooks playing parts.
Sheila MacRae (1921–2014)
The second Alice Kramden.
Jane Kean (1923–2013)
The second Trixie Norton, and the voice of Belle in Mister Magoo’s Christmas Carol.
Dear House Republicans
A pox on you and all your ancestors.
Space cadet
Ralph, in exasperation: “Look. Look, you . . . space cadet.”
Leonard Stern (1922–2011)
Honeymooners writer and creator of Mad Libs
Van Dyke Parks in The Honeymooners
Van Dyke Parks WAS Tommy Manicotti
Of time and The Honeymooners
Analog and digital time
Bagatelle, bag of shells
More on "a mere bagatelle" and "a mere bag of shells"
A mere bag of poloponies
A mere bagatelle, a mere bag of shells
Christmas Eve reprise
Ralph Kramden on Christmas (from The Honeymooners)