Well, that's a harsh way of putting it. Maybe Alice really doesn't think she can be an actress and maybe, more importantly, she doesn't want to be. Either way her and Ralph have a nice moment at the end of the story.
What stands out in "On Stage" is the hilarious way Ed pronounces "polo ponies" as one word when he is reading lines for Master Thespian Ralph before the latter stars in the fundraiser the Raccoons are staging. It gets into Ralph's head, of course, and he can't say the word any other way, and I bet you can't, either, after seeing this.
An interesting note is that according to The Official Honeymooners Treasury, writers Leonard Stern and Sydney Zelinka built the entire teleplay around that word. Stern tells the authors:
That one word came first, and we built a whole sketch around it. When the word 'poloponies' came up, we started to devise a character who would be rich enough to have polo ponies. Then we came up with the play, and who he would rehearse with. The whole thing was worked backwards, just to justify having 'poloponies' in a speech.
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| A string of poloponies?
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| Ralph says it himself. |
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| Now he's got ME doing it! |
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| Ralph's face when he has to tell famed producer Herbert Whiteside, "I made a little mistake. It should have been polo ponies." |
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There was a second season episode of The Flintstones, "Flintstone of Prinstone", where the "polopony" gag was rehashed by Kramden's animated counterpart.
Ooh, nice call! I remembered that episode--Fred goes to college and Slate gets him to join the football team--but never would have remembered they used the gag in that one. I watched it last night. Kind of a shame they didn't milk it like The Honeymooners did!
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