just have to cut down, cut out this high living. >> "the honeymooners" was an example of the idea of class and struggle and what it was like to be a family who didn't have a lot. >> you don't know how to handle money! >> of course i don't, i never had any practice. >> these were people born with blue collars. >> lower middle-class people that could do regular things but didn't have a lot of money. >> in the 1950s, you had a major push to move out to suburbia. >> and consumerism -- you have all these perfect family sitcoms with these housewives in it and new nice gadgets in the kitchen. >> now -- >> oh! >> but "the honeymooners" lived in a two-room little, cold-water flat. >> people were so worried that they couldn't afford curtains. they kept sending curtains to the soundstage. >> jackie gleason was always hoping to have the get-rich-quick scheme.