'Mooners Monday: One final life lesson from "On Stage"

Sometimes we learn valuable life lessons from Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton. Take the sage advice Ralph gives us when he contemplates movie stardom after appearing in the Raccoon's fundraiser show. If there's one thing he's learned, he tells his pal...



 "Be kind to the people you meet on the way up..."

 

"...because you're gonna see them on the way down."

Jackie Gleason's delivery of this is great, with the little head nods really giving you the essence of one of the original "humblebraggers" and how funny this is. As Ed repeats it, he does similar but not identical little head movements.

 

 

Of course, Art Carney gets the punchline to close the scene, saying how true that adage is: "Happpens to me all the time in the sewer!"

But it's Gleason's moment, and a great one it is for the Great One. Really, though, isn't it fantastic advice for all of us?