[Jeffhs]

There was one hilarious slip of the tongue in the dialogue of "The Honeymooners", which was filmed presumably before a live audience, using the DuMont "Electronicam" television film system and ran on CBS in the mid-1950s. Ralph Kramden was trying to figure out where he had goofed on his income tax return; while listing his deductions, he said to his friend Ed Norton (in paraphrase), "...the horse with the stomach in its clock -- er, the clock in its stomach", describing a prize he had won in a poker game, IIRC. Since the program was being filmed, no part of it could be redone if an error was made in the dialogue or in the acting itself. I have this episode on VHS (taped in the early '80s from a Cleveland TV station, WCLQ-TV (now WQHS) which has since affiliated with Univision) and I laugh out loud every time I hear it.