“To the moon, Alice!”

Last Friday, Bill Maher semi-jokingly stated that the statue outside Manhattan's midtown Port Authority Bus Terminal of the Ralph Kramden character played by Jackie Gleason in “The Honeymooners” should be removed due to Kramden’s frequent threats of violence against his wife by way of clenching his fist and yelling “To the moon, Alice!” The fallacy here is twofold. For one, what made it so funny was that we knew in our hearts Ralph would never lay a hand on Alice. Moreover, we sensed as well that he would pummel to death anyone who would harm a hair on her head.

BILL