The Honeymooners

"I saw it on a rerun." "What's a rerun?"

The Honeymooners is a television show humans (and some Cybertronians) watch.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Events from the US portion of the Marvel Comics continuity are in italics.

While watching various television programmes to learn more about the humans on Earth, Shockwave observed a scene from The Honeymooners in which Ralphie-Boy had to hide his spending habits from Alice. Shockwave considered the programmes "illuminating" and "primitive". The New Order

In a later scene, Ralphie-Boy defiantly declared himself both master of the household and king of the castle. The New Order

The Transformers cartoon

The Honeymooners seemed to be watched on Junkion; when Nancy was blown up in a battle and instantly re-assembled herself, Wreck-Gar cheered "Baby, you're the greatest!" The Big Broadcast of 2006

Notes

• The Honeymooners was an incredibly influential 1950s sitcom; pictured are the characters Ed Norton (Art Carney), Ralphie Kramden (Jackie Gleason), and his wife Alice (Audrey Meadows).
• The show's distinctive characters have provided vocal inspiration throughout animation history, and we're not just talking The Flintstones:
  • The Transformers voice actor Michael Chain based his voice for Powerglide on Jackie Gleason; resultantly, Powerglide gets to paraphrase Ralph's catchphrases in dialogue, including "And awaaaay we go!" in "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide" and "Bang, zoom, to the Moon!" in "Blaster Blues".
  • For the Beast Wars script reading "Visitations", voice actors Garry Chalk and Scott McNeil colluded to pattern their characters Onyx Primal and Packrat after Ralph and Ed respectively.
  • In the Robots in Disguise cartoon, Drag Strip's portrayal owes something to Ralph—frequently uttering his threatening catchphrase "One of these days..."—while Drag Strip's Stunticon partner-in-crime Wildbreak completes the double act by being inspired by Ed.
• This wouldn't be the last time a television program gave Transformers a low opinion of humans, as shown in "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2".
• In the British comic, Shockwave instead watches a scene from V.