Why don't you do like a friend of mine did? He had the hiccups for three weeks, and he sold his story to a magazine, you know, The American Weekly. Got $5000 for it!

8 seconds sound clip from The Honeymooners (1955) - A Matter of Life and Death sitcom.

You can hear this line at 00:08:52.582 in the Blu-ray version of the TV Series.

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[...]

- I'm going in six months and I've nothing to leave her. Not a cent. I gotta leave her something.

- Hey, wait a minute. I just got an idea. Look, as long as you're going anyway, why don't you sell your body to science? If they pay by the pound, she'll be left a millionaire!

- Why don't you shut up?

- Hey, I just thought of something else.

- You know, you got a very interesting story there. A story of a man doomed to six months to live.

- Why don't you do like a friend of mine did? He had the hiccups for three weeks, and he sold his story to a magazine, you know, The American Weekly. Got $5000 for it!

- $5000 for a story about hiccups? Yeah. I ought to be a cinch to get $10000 dying!

- This is a real human interest story. People want to read about this! Everybody'll read it.

- I can see it now, the first installment. The title of it: 'Doomed Man Has Only Six Months to Go.'

- I think that's a little lengthy for the title. They'll probably chop it down, make it shorter, like: 'In Six Months, Blimp Takes Off.'

- There's a man outside and I can't get rid of him.

[...]

The Honeymooners (1955) Sound Clip

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The funniest lines and quotes from The Honeymooners (1955) TV Series, with sound clips.

Actors: Jackie Gleason (Ralph Kramden), Audrey Meadows (Alice Kramden), Art Carney (Ed Norton)

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