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This is the one with Ralph and Ed handcuffed together!,
Volume 9 in this series offers up a pair of "Classic 39" episodes of "The Honeymooners" dealing with the Loyal Order of Raccoons. First up, in "Unconventional Behavior" (Episode #33, May 12, 1956), Ralph (Jackie Gleason) and Ed (Art Carney) are riding on the train together to the Raccoon convention in Minneapolis. If that does not sound like enough fun, then you will love it when Ed accidentally handcuffs himself to Ralph. This classic episode was written by Marvin Marx and Walter Stone but the famous handcuff routine was really a last-minute improvisation after another gag was cut at the last minute. So when you watch this hysterical bit as they try to sleep in upper and lower berths with their hands locked together in those handcuffs, this was unrehearsed. They are just making it up as they go along for five glorious minutes of classic TV comedy. Then in "The Deciding Vote" (Episode #11, December 10, 1955), Ralph blows up at Norton. Which does not sound like much, until Ralph learns that Norton holds the deciding vote in an important election at the Raccoon Lodge. Not too many things in this world are funnier than Ralph trying to be nice, as in this episode written by A. J. Russell and Herbert Finn, but being handcuffed to Ed on a train is certainly one of them! Volume 9 is one of the best sets in this series.