A fun episode about Ralph trying to get his sister-in-law to elope so that he can go to Game 5 of the 1954 World Series between the Giants and the Indians the next day instead of having to attend her wedding. Ralph and Alice have one of their best arguments. Ralph meets Norton at a manhole for lunch and we hear all kinds of details about life in the sewer. (They have a 'floating crap game', perhaps the best line in the series.) They visit the fiance at a movie theater where he is the projectionists and Norton takes too much interest in the film- the actual reel of film. Finally, Ralph and Ed have to assist the elopement with the help of a flimsy ladder which caused Gleason to improvise much of the scene, (no doubt remembering that he'd broken his leg on the show the previous spring).
But the kicker comes when Frank Marth, playing still another policeman, informs Ralph that there won't be a game on Sunday October 5th because the Giants wrapped up the sweep of the series that day - October 4th. And that actually happened that day! They must have added that line at the end of the already written show when the Giants won that day's game a few hours before.
One little problem - Game Five would have been played in Cleveland!
But the kicker comes when Frank Marth, playing still another policeman, informs Ralph that there won't be a game on Sunday October 5th because the Giants wrapped up the sweep of the series that day - October 4th. And that actually happened that day! They must have added that line at the end of the already written show when the Giants won that day's game a few hours before.
One little problem - Game Five would have been played in Cleveland!