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A newspaper reporter stops Ralph and Ed on the street, asking each of them who is the "head" of their respective households. Demonstrating anew that he has a BIG MOUTH, Ralph expansively insists that he is the king of his castle, while Ed demurs, worried that his words will backfire when his wife Trixie reads them in the paper. Ed's worries prove to be well-founded when Alice reads Ralph's interview; at first willing to forgive Ralph for his grandiose statements, Alice is driven to rage when Ralph tries, rather too loudly, to assert his superiority. Things promise to get worse when Ralph's fellow bus driver Joe Fensterblau (Dick Bernie) expresses his doubts over Ralph's king-of-the-castle status -- whereupon Ralph, forgetting Alice's anger of the previous night, invites Joe to a "command supper" at the Kramden household. The episode's best scene finds Ralph and Ed getting "drunk" on grape juice -- a wish-fulfillment gag affectionately lifted from the 1930 Laurel and Hardy comedy Blotto. First broadcast on March 31, 1956, "Head of the House" was written by Leonard Stern and Sydney Zelinka.