Inner Tube

Doug lies to Carrie so that he can play mud football with his buddies and ends up sick in bed, plagued by guilt, watching reruns and old movies. While sleeping, he projects himself into the role of Ralph Kramden of The Honeymooners and his problems with Carrie are easily wrapped up in 22 minutes not so in real life. The production staff and cast spent hours watching and rewatching episodes of the classic television series The Honeymooners and the movie Brian's Song . Yes, they are fans, but more importantly, they had to recreate the set and costumes of both for an episode that has Doug Heffernan dreaming of himself in the roles of Ralph Kramden and Brian Piccalo. Kevin James wrote the episode, along with his partner Rock Reuben, which has him projecting himself, via a dream, into both roles. Leah Remini had fun recreating the Audrey Meadows role of Alice and Victor Williams not only had fun doing an impression of Ed Norton, but also nailed his recreation of Billy Dee Williams as Gail Sayers in one take.