what re we gonna live on until this layoff is over. suppose it does last a month? ralph: well, we just gotta face it. we gotta cutdown and cut out this high living. dan levy: the honeymooners is an example of the idea of class and struggle and what it was like to be a family who didn t have a lot. ralph: you don t know how to handle money. alice: of course, i don t, i never had any practice. peter scolari: these were people born with blue collars. drew carey: lower middle-class people that could do regular things but didn t have a lot of money. patrick gomez: in the 1950s, you had a major push to move out to suburbia. lorraine ali: and consumerism. you have all these perfect family sitcoms with these housewives in it. and new nice gadgets in the kitchen, [explosion] jimmie walker: but the honeymooners lived in a two room little cold water flat. loni: people were so worried that they couldn t afford curtains, they kept sending curtains to the soundstage
struggle and what it was like to be a family who didn t have a lot. ralph: you don t know how to handle money. alice: of course, i don t, i never had any practice. peter scolari: these were people born with blue collars. drew carey: lower middle-class people that could do regular things but didn t have a lot of money. patrick gomez: in the 1950s, you had a major push to move out to suburbia. lorraine ali: and consumerism. you have all these perfect family sitcoms with these housewives in it. and new nice gadgets in the kitchen, [explosion] jimmie walker: but the honeymooners lived in a two room little cold water flat. loni: people were so worried that they couldn t afford curtains, they kept sending curtains to the soundstage mark lb: jackie gleason was always hoping to, you know, have the get rich quick scheme. ralph: c mon orton, i only have two days to learn how to play golf. diana depasquale: when ralph kramden is learning how to golf,