This is a black and white drawing of the 1960s moon landing. We see Earth in the background. We see the moon lander over to the side in the background. There is woman laying on the ground with two astronauts standing over her.
The caption on the pictures says,
"...it's Alice Kramden."
It took me a moment to remember who Alice Kramden was. I looked at the picture and thought about that they were on the moon and she was in a fifties dress. I then remembered that she was Ralph Kramden's wife on the TV show, from the fifties, The Honeymooners. Ralph Kramden would often get frustrated with his wife Alice Kramden and threaten to send her to the moon.
Alice and Ralph Kramden had a neighbor couple, Ed and Trixie Norton, that they did things with. The two couples were a lot like the Flintstones and the Rubbles.
Ralph Kramden was played by Jackie Gleason. Ed Norton was played by Art Carney. Alice Kramden was played by Audrey Meadows. Trixie Norton was played by Joyce Randolph.
This is the same show that Marty McFly's mother's family was watching at the dinner table in 1955 when Marty went to the past. His mother was a teenager and she had a crush on him. His grandfather had just hooked up their first TV. It was a black and white television. Marty comments that he has seen that episode before. His young uncle comments that it is brand new, so there is no way he has seen it before. Marty comments that he saw it on a rerun and is at a loss to explain to the young man what a rerun is.
Twenty years or so after the Honeymooners Jackie Gleason stared as the smokey in Smokey and the Bandit.
This is a good explanation except for when you say that the Honeymooners were like the Flinstones and the Rubbles. It was the other way around. The Honeymooners first aired in 1955, five years before Fred and Wilma appeared.
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