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Saul Austerlitz | 406 pages | 01 Mar 2014 | Review Press | 9781613743843 | English | I Love Lucy (TV Series –) - IMDb

Episodes Seasons. Won 4 Primetime Emmys. Edit Cast Complete series cast summary: Lucy Ricardo episodes, Ricky Ricardo episodes, episodes, Edit Did You Know? Trivia William Frawley , aka "Fred Mertz", had a well known and longtime issue with alcoholism. He was advised in the beginning of the series to stay sober, or be terminated. So, if you look closely, a majority of his scenes display his character having his hands deep in his pockets. This would therefore not show his hands trembling, due to his alcoholic withdrawals. Goofs The Ricardos are said to live in an apartment at East 68th Street, which in real life would be located in the East River. This is not actually a 'goof' because it was done deliberately to avoid legal issues with an actual address. Quotes Lucy Ricardo : How much do you want to bet? Fred Mertz : Ten dollars. Ethel Mertz : Well what's the matter with twenty dollars? Ricky Ricardo : What's the matter with thirty dollars? Lucy Ricardo : What's the matter with fifty dollars? Fred Mertz : What was the matter with ten dollars? Crazy Credits In some of the episodes, the guest-star's name s are voiced over, by conductor, Wilbur Hatch , in the Opening Credits or Closing Credits. Alternate Versions The famous opening credit sequence, where the names appear over a heart, was not a part of the original series run. Originally, various cartoons related to the show and the show's sponsor were used. The version everyone knows today was created for syndication. TV Land "restored" the original opening for its broadcasts. However, the references to the sponsor were replaced with a TV Land logo; as such these openings have only been seen on telecasts on said network, and by the earlys, TV Land started reinstating the "heart" credits on its . Was this review helpful to you? Yes No Report this. Add the first question. Language: English Spanish. Runtime: 30 min episodes. Sound Mix: Mono. Color: Black and White. : I remember this show vaguely being on the air originally and I remember reruns on many stations, as well. I would like to take the opportunity the inclusion of this show affords to talk about something I've noticed but I can't seem to find anyone else on the internet has noticed. There are a lot of so-called family-friendly television shows whose messages are actually more destructive than shows where characters are swearing their heads off, chopping each other's heads off or jumping in and out of bed with each other. Parents and children are at war? I thought being a family was supposed to be about loving one another and being subject one to another as the Bible says in Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Apparently, however, Mr. Bill TNB Cosby seems to think it's about figuratively wrestling with your kids over time, money and resources. Cosby as Cliff Huxtable is apparently as manipulative a father as he was as an alleged rapist. I would not, if I caught my kid drinking, force her to play a drinking game with me. In fact, I would probably approach alcohol in a totally different way, allowing my teenager to consume small amounts on my property under my supervision. That way, they would be less likely to drink behind my back or to go to parties or bars with their where they could have something slipped in their drinks, probably by someone who works for or someone like him. To return to the episode in question for a further example of what I'm talking about, what's wrong with being "regular people. On the other hand, if they don't go to university there's less of a chance young female fans of the Cosby show will be allegedly raped by you so there's actually a distinct advantage there to being "regular people. In real life, kids, people are not going to put their lives on hold to move in with you for eight years. If they have a number one hit in Japan, they aren't likely to cut the tour short because they miss you three brats so goshdarn much. And, kids, their spouses really aren't going to be inclined to move in with you and live in your attic, to say nothing of raising their children up there as if your relatives live in a V. Andrews novel or something. I would also like to take "The Cosby Show" as an opportunity to give my opinion about black people in . Blackness versus whiteness never came up, and the characters were except for Kingfish of course decent, hardworking people who lived in nice neighbourhoods and didn't expect the white man, aka the welfare system, to take care of them for the rest of their lives. However, every other black has, to some degree or another, been the black man against the white man, meaning, in this case, simply the white man and not the welfare system. From what I've heard, "What's Happenin" is just some black teenagers getting into trouble all the time and begging the sister of one of them "Don't tell Mama. In real life, Will's friends would have referred to the Banks' as Uncle Tom's or houseniggers. It is worth noting that, on a Christmas episode of "The Cosby Show", Cliff Huxtable got into a discussion with a child about whether or not Santa Clause is white. Hence, take note, TV producers. All you have to do to get truly equal representation of minorities especially blacks on television is to catch up to a program that was doing it on the radio probably as early as Roseanne Terms of Estrangement, Part 1 : "Roseanne" was also in it's original run and re-run a lot on many different stations so I saw the majority of episodes, including this one, when I was a kid. I definitely agree with the book that the show went off the rails in the last two seasons. I also agree with the book that it was the best of the sitcoms of its kind at the time. With Children" had lots of funny lines and hilarious situations, but, as Austerlitz says, it had no nuance. Al was the most down-trodden, pathetic blue collar worker in the world. Peg was the laziest housewife in the world. Bud was the most borderline juvenile delinquent and later most sexually frustrated teenager in the world. Kelly was the biggest teen slut in the world. As well, if the writers meant some of the jokes about Peg's poor home economist skills and Al's lack of earning power to be true, then literally how did the family survive? I do disagree, however, with the book where "Home Improvement" is concerned. The Taylors are not blue collar. Tim hosted a TV show and in the first episode told Jill "I make enough money for both of us. Not exactly the same socioeconomic strata as throwing steel. As with the star of the previous show, Roseanne would also meet her downfall, albeit after a one season revival of her eponymous program. Unlike her country's president, her undoing would come about because of a single tweet. The neighbour's children first introduced me to "The Simpsons. I would watch it with them, but since I didn't hang around a lot of other kids as a child, I bought into what the adults were saying that it was a horrible, immoral show and would be a bad influence on me. My sister continued to enjoy the show, however, and one day, while visiting my grandmother, I decided to watch a of it with her on CBC. From then on, I was hooked. It's like my uncle said: "People don't get the point of The Simpsons. It's a lampoon. Our cable company didn't provide the Canadian channel on which it was broadcast. It's a good show. Would I watch the episode under discussion again? No, but I'm glad I watched. Bryan appears as Ricky's new boss. Lucy tells Ethel that she has been experiencing strange health problems lately, including weight gain and low energy. Ethel suspects that she is actually pregnant, and a visit to the doctor confirms her theory. Lucy tries to prepare the "perfect" moment to tell Ricky, but his business at the club keeps him away. Ricky gets quite a surprise when he finds out who requested the song. With the baby coming, Ricky decides that Lucy should stay in bed while he does the chores. Lucy thinks it is just because of the baby. Even with motherhood fast approaching, Lucy still wants to be in Ricky's "Gay 90's Revue. Lucy wants her baby to be raised in the "proper vocal environment," so she hires a tutor Hans Conried to teach Ricky proper English diction. The tutor turns out to be a struggling actor, and hopes that Ricky will give him a break. Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel all sing a ridiculous song composed by the tutor. When Lucy's pregnancy cravings and preoccupation with a baby shower leave Ricky frustrated and overwhelmed, he begins to develop psychosomatic pregnancy symptoms of his own. A doctor advises Lucy and Ethel to give Ricky some special attention as a cure, so the women ask Fred to organize a men-only "daddy shower" for him. But curiosity gets the best of Lucy, and she and Ethel disguise themselves as male reporters to sneak into the party. Lucy feels that her child should grow up with artistic influence, so she takes up sculpting. When Ricky arranges for an art critic to arrive and judge her work, she ends up disguising herself as a bust to fool the critic. With the baby due at any moment, Ricky and the Mertzes carefully rehearse the trip to the hospital. But when the fateful moment actually comes, things do not go quite so smoothly. When they eventually get there, Lucy stays in labor for quite a while, so Ricky goes to do his new show at the club. He is in full tribal face makeup when the call comes from the hospital, and he rushes over still in costume. For five episodes after this one, any scene featuring Lucy was filmed in advance to accommodate Ball's leave, with bookending scenes featuring only the other cast members filmed closer to the actual airdate. When Lucy buys yet another new kitchen gadget, Ricky complains that she has no sales resistance. Sheldon Leonard guest stars as the salesman. A handsome psychiatrist might be the cure for Lucy's "inferiority complex. Molin" aka "Chuck Stewart". Lucy and Ricky are both engrossed in a thrilling novel, and decide to read it aloud to enjoy it at the same time. When Ricky tosses the book across the room and accidentally hits Lucy in the face with it, Lucy gets a black eye. Trouble begins with Ethel overhears their apparently heated conversation and, seeing the black eye, fears the worst. When she will not accept the truth, Lucy concocts a "real juicy story" about her falling in love with another man, which only leads to further trouble. Whether it is getting dressed or ordering dinner at a restaurant, Lucy seems unable to finish anything without changing her mind. Ricky loses his temper, so Lucy tries to play a trick with an old, unfinished love letter to a beau from high school. Fred warns Ricky of Lucy's plot, and Lucy is soon in over her head. The Ricardos' lease says no children allowed, and their crying new baby does not help matters. This episode marked the beginning of a recurring character- Mrs. Trumbull Elizabeth Patterson. Ricky allows Lucy to hire a maid because she keeps falling asleep during the day from staying up nights with the new baby. guest stars as the maid. Ricky is planning an Indian number for his nightclub act, and assumes that motherhood has ended Lucy's show business ambitions. No such luck, as Lucy persuades the girl singer in the number to switch places with her. When it seems that everyone has forgotten Lucy's birthday, she becomes depressed and wanders around town. She meets the "Friends of the Friendless" in the park, and joins the ranks of the unhappy mob. They all march to Ricky's club to protest-where a surprise party is waiting for the birthday girl. This episode features Ricky singing "I Love Lucy", a version of the show's theme song with lyrics. Lucy thinks they need a bigger apartment since the baby's arrival, but Ricky says they cannot afford it. When Lucy learns that neighbor Mrs. Benson has an extra room now that her daughter has married, plans are made to swap furnishings between the two apartments. Note: This is the last episode to feature the Ricardos' 4A apartment. Their new apartment number is 3D. Lucy tries to fix up her girlfriend with a bachelor friend of Fred's, but ends up as an unwitting third party in a love triangle. Hal March guest stars. When Lucy buys a new sofa and coffee table without Ricky's permission, he says she will have to pay for it out of her allowance. To save money, Lucy attempts to make her own clothes and gives herself a home perm. Lucy develops an attachment to Ricky. She finally goes too far when she decides to join him on a camping trip. Ricky take Lucy into the wilderness for a practice camping trip to make her hate camping, but Lucy and Ethel team up to thwart his plan. Ricky and Fred are excited about watching a big fight on TV. While Ricky and Fred stay glued to the set, Lucy and Ethel are mistaken for thieves. Frank Nelson and Allen Jenkins guest star. A beautiful friendship is almost ruined when the Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes, who find that it needs repairs and demand their money back, but then change their mind again. In the ensuing argument over who owns the machine, the couples push the washer off the balcony. Herb Vigran guest stars. Life magazine does a picture story on Ricky, but Lucy is not in it. Lucy decides to upstage Ricky during his "Lady in Spain" number at the club. Lucy and Ethel buy a dress shop behind their husbands' backs, and soon find that it will not be as easy to manage as they anticipated. The girls are going to appear on TV with their club, having chosen to sing 's "Friendship" in celebration of their bond. Everybody is pleased, until the two women buy the same dress for the occasion. Tired of Ricky and Fred's attitude towards them, the girls demand equal rights. Ricky and Fred turn the tables on them when, out to dinner, they call for separate checks, and Ethel and Lucy, lacking any money in their purses, must wash dishes to pay for their meals. The Ricardos have decided they are not going to brag about their new baby. That changes when Carolyn and Charlie Appleby start to brag about their own new baby. Ricky bets Lucy that she cannot go twenty-four hours without telling a fib. Problems begin when Lucy starts being brutally frank with everyone. Ricky is going to stage a French Revue at his club and Lucy bets him fifty dollars that she can get into the act no matter what he does to stop her. The Ricardos help the Mertzes redecorate their apartment. They paint the walls and reupholster the furniture, with disastrous results. The police are looking for "Madame X," the mysterious burglar. Due to mutual misunderstandings, Lucy is suspected by Ethel, and Ethel is suspected by Lucy. Ricky and Fred infuriate the girls by wearing their old clothes in public. So Lucy and Ethel secretly sell their husbands' clothes to a second-hand clothes dealer. Ricky sings the song "Granada". A visit to the eye doctor leaves Lucy's vision hopelessly blurred for the rest of the day. But that does not stop her from auditioning a jitterbug number at the club. Lucy wants to know about Ricky's old girlfriends, so he invents one named Carlotta Romero. Then a singer with that name shows up in town. Lucy has a delicious salad dressing recipe, and Fred tells her she ought to sell it. Marketing the product as "Aunt Martha's Old Fashioned Salad Dressing," the girls manage to receive hundreds of orders. The problem: they have priced the product so cheaply that it will cost them rather than make them money. Ricky has a week off from the club, so he decides to take care of Little Ricky, who wanders into the Mertzes' apartment while he is distracted. After seeing the boys give pretty girl Eve Whitney the eye, Lucy and Ethel decide to go to charm school. Natalie Schafer appears as the charm school instructor. It is the Ricardos' wedding anniversary, and they plan to spend it alone. The Mertzes however, have other plans. The Ricardos prepare for an interview with a reporter from a fan magazine by putting on their best clothes and manners. Lucy and Ethel learn that their new neighbors own stock in a Texas oil well. They decide to invest, until Lucy suspects he is a swindler. Lucy has a scheme that is sure to net her a new hat. All she has to do is get Ricky to lose his temper. Ricky's TV pilot film that he plans to show for a television producer inspires Lucy and the Mertzes to make their own, with disastrous results when Ricky's TV pilot is shown with Lucy's footage spliced in. Lucy has the winning dollar bill in the newspaper's "Bonus Buck" contest, but thanks to Ricky, it slips through her fingers. Now she, Ricky, and the Mertzes have only a few hours left to get it back. Ricky's band gets an offer to play in Honolulu. Lucy disguises herself as her mother and goes on a TV game show to try to win a trip to Honolulu for her and the Mertzes. After Lucy inadvertently pledges a five-hundred dollar donation to the charity run by her rich high-school pal, she and Ethel pose as "women from Mars" to earn the money as part of a publicity stunt. Lucy reads about a housewife who makes a fortune writing a novel in her spare time, so she takes a crack at it by writing her first novel, "Real Gone with the Wind. The girls decide to raise money for their Wednesday Afternoon Fine Arts League by sponsoring a dance. Lucy dons a black wig, believing it changes her appearance enough to test Ricky's marital fidelity. Eve McVeagh guest stars. Ricky decides to quit show business, and the Ricardos and the Mertzes decide to open up a diner. The Mertzes struggle with all the difficult cooking, while Ricky and Lucy only have to be the greeters. Tennessee Ernie Ford shows up in the big city and stays with the Ricardos. Ernie is still boarding at the Ricardos', to their annoyance. They try to get resources to pay for his travel home. Ricky and Fred take up golf; Lucy and Ethel want to join them. To scare them off, the men invent complicated and bizarre rules for the game. Professional golfer Jimmy Demaret , appearing as himself, sets the women straight and helps them turn the tables by playing a hole with Ricky and Fred, following their ridiculous system. The Ricardos are taking a summer trip to Maine after Ricky's band is booked there, so they sublet their apartment for the summer. But after the booking is canceled, the Ricardos need their apartment back. Since the new tenant was a witness in a murder trial, Lucy and Ethel decide to stage a murder in front of him to frighten him away. Ricky hires a business manager , and Lucy finds him tighter with money than Ricky. To find out how much Ricky really loves her, Lucy calls him during a rehearsal and says there is a burglar in the apartment. After two attempts, Lucy finds herself tied and gagged by two crooks. Matchmaker Lucy invites girlfriend Dorothy and her beau Sam to a cozy dinner at the Ricardos' apartment, hoping to present an example of marital bliss. It eventually aired on Monday, April 11, A Hollywood talent scout Frank Nelson wants Ricky to audition for a movie about the life of Don Juan , and everyone wants to get into the act. Lucy appears with Ricky in his screen test, with the hope that she will get discovered by a Hollywood executive. When Lucy's Cuban mother-in-law visits, Lucy desperately tries to perfect her Spanish-speaking skills. Fred asks Lucy to choose something special for him to give Ethel for her birthday. Ethel opens the gift, then laughs at it, leaving Lucy feeling insulted. This episode was, according to a CBS press release of August 14, , to be broadcast in color, but ultimately plans to film it in color were abandoned. The Ricardos prepare for their trip to and invite the Mertzes to come along. However, problems arise when Fred ends up buying an antique car for the trip. Ricky makes the mistake of teaching Lucy to drive their brand new car. Afterwards, Lucy attempts to show Ethel how the car works and they end up crashing into the antique car. Lucy and Ricky are all ready to start their trip to with the Mertzes when complications develop: Lucy's mother decides to join them. Kathryn Card appears as Lucy's mother Mrs. After a long day of non-stop driving, the Ricardos and the Mertzes pull into "One Oak Cabins and Cafe" a run-down establishment near Cincinnati that has nothing to eat but stale cheese sandwiches. The proprietor played by Olin Howland offers the foursome accommodation in a single-room cabin with bathroom. Lucy and Ricky's bed has a sagging mattress that scoots back and forth across the floor every time a noisy train passes. While on the way to California, Ricky's rush through Bent Fork, Tennessee the home town of their favorite "peapicker", Tennessee Ernie Ford , lands the Ricardos and the Mertzes in jail. has a bit role as a gas station attendant. Lucy, Ricky, and Fred are shocked when the town-folk give Ethel a big welcome since Ethel told her father she was the aspiring star. Arriving in Hollywood , Lucy goes star hunting at the Brown Derby restaurant, and finds and , annoying Holden by staring at him from behind a potted plant and then getting him hit in the face with a pie. Later she disguises herself with a putty nose and glasses when Ricky brings Holden to their hotel room to meet her. Ricky leaves Lucy at home and goes out for an evening of publicity with four gorgeous starlets. He then lands in hot water with Lucy when she thinks he was out all night. Lucy finally gets her chance - she lands a part as a murdered showgirl in a major MGM musical , but the costume headdress is more than she can handle. Lucy is determined to have a beautiful Don Loper gown for her very own and winds up being part of a "Hollywood Wives" fashion show, wearing a scratchy tweed suit while having a bad sunburn. Ricky's agent concocts a publicity stunt designed to land Ricky in Hedda Hopper 's celebrity gossip column. They plan for Ricky to "save" Lucy from drowning in the hotel pool. Vivian Vance 's then-husband, Philip Ober , appears as Schary. But Ricky has something altogether different in mind. | Save Money. Live Better. This led to an unexpected benefit for Desilu during the series second season when it was discovered that Lucy was pregnant. Not being able to fulfill the show's episode commitment, both Desi and decided to rebroadcast popular episodes of the series first season to help give Lucy the necessary rest she needed after she gave birth, effectively allowing fewer episodes to be filmed that season. Unexpectedly the rebroadcasts proved to be ratings winners, effectively giving birth to the rerun , which would later lead to the profitable development of the rerun syndication market. The show's original opening and commercial bumpers were animated caricatures of Lucy and Desi. They were designed and animated by MGM character designer and future "Flintstones" , Gene Hazelton — and were produced under a contract producer had secured privately. However Gene Hazelton's original animation survives, and can be seen in the DVD boxed set as originally presented. , jointly owned by Ball and Arnaz, would gradually expand to produce and lease studio space for many other shows. After , it became known as Desilu-Cahuenga Studios to avoid confusion with other acquired Desilu locations. The sale was achieved by the duo selling their ownership of the once-thought-worthless I Love Lucy films back to CBS for over four million dollars. In , two years after their marriage dissolved, Lucy bought out Desi's shares of Desilu, becoming the studio's sole owner. As with , Lucy writers decided that the Ricardos needed an older couple to play off of. While performing in Husband , veteran character actors and had played Rudolph and Iris Atterbury, an older, more financially stable couple as Mr. Atterbury had been George Cooper's boss. Ball had initially wanted both actors to reprise their roles on television; however, both were unavailable at the time the show went into production as Benaderet was already playing Blanche Morton on The Show , and Gordon was under contract by CBS to play Mr. Conklin on both the radio and television versions of . Casting the Mertzes, as they were now called the surname taken from a doctor that Lucy scriptwriter knew as a child in Indianapolis , proved to be a challenge. Sixty-four-year-old William Frawley , a seasoned vaudevillian and movie character actor with nearly film credits to his name, was a long shot to play Fred Mertz and only came into consideration after he telephoned Ball personally to ask if there was a role for him on her new show. The network objected to the idea of casting Frawley, fearing that his excessive drinking—which was well known in Hollywood [47] —would interfere with a commitment to a live show. Arnaz nonetheless liked Frawley and lobbied hard for him to have the role, even to the point of having Lucy scribes re-tailor the role of Fred Mertz to be a less financially successful and more curmudgeonly in contrast to Gale Gordon's Mr. Atterbury character to fit Frawley's persona. CBS relented only after Arnaz contractually bound Frawley to complete sobriety during the production of the show, and reportedly told the veteran actor that if he ever appeared on-set more than once in an intoxicated state he would be fired. The Ethel Mertz character also took quite some time to pin down an actress suitable for the role. Since Lucy's Husband co-star Bea Benaderet was not available, , a longtime friend was offered the role, but declined because she didn't want to strain her friendship with Lucy. Actress , who was a close friend of Ball, was also considered for the role. The two had a long history together, as Pepper had been one of the Goldwyn Girls who came to Hollywood with Lucy in Pepper was ruled out by Lucy and Desi because she too had a drinking problem like Frawley. Vivian Vance became a consideration on the recommendation of Lucy director . Daniels had worked with Vance in New York on Broadway in the early s. Vance had already been a successful stage star performing on Broadway for nearly 20 years in a variety of plays, and in addition, after relocating to Hollywood in the late s, had two film roles to her credit. Nonetheless, by , she was still a relatively unknown actress in Hollywood. Arnaz and Jess Oppenheimer went to see her in the play and hired her on the spot. Ball, however, had many misgivings about hiring Vance, who was younger and far more attractive than the concept of Ethel as an older, somewhat homely woman. Ball was also a believer in the Hollywood adage at the time that there should be only one pretty woman on the set and Ball, being the star of the show, was it. Arnaz, however, was impressed by Vance's work and hired her. The decision was then made to dress Vance in frumpier clothing to tone down her attractiveness. Ball and Vance's relationship during the series' early beginnings was lukewarm at best. Eventually realizing that Vance was no threat and was very professional, Ball began to warm to her. Vance and Ball would develop a lifelong close friendship. Vance and Frawley's off-screen relationship was less successful. In spite of this, they were always professional and exhibited exceptional chemistry while performing on the show. In fact, their acrimonious personal relationship may have helped their onscreen marriage be that much funnier. Frawley derisively described Vance's appearance as "a sack of doorknobs. Vance also complained that Frawley's song-and-dance skills were not what they once were. Frawley and Vance would have an adversarial relationship during the entire run of the show. The hour-long Lucy-Desi show was to alternate on a monthly basis with other hour long Playhouse shows. The new series put a much heavier emphasis on big name guest stars as being part of the plot and although the Mertz characters continued into the new series, their roles became somewhat diminished. Although a lighter workload was welcomed by Frawley, Vance came to somewhat resent the change. Arnaz, in an effort to please Vance, for whom he had much respect, proposed doing a spin-off from I Love Lucy called The Mertzes. Seeing a lucrative opportunity and the chance to star in his own show, Frawley was enthused. Vance, however, declined for a number of reasons, the biggest factor being that she felt she and Frawley could barely work together on the ensemble show they were doing at the time, so it would be much less likely the two could work together on their own series. Vance also felt that the Mertz characters would not be as successful without the Ricardos to play off of, and despite being her biggest success, she was becoming interested in playing more glamorous roles rather than Ethel. In fact, during the thirteen-episode run of the Lucy-Desi hour-long shows, Vance was given a lot more latitude to look more attractive as Ethel Mertz, something she was denied during the run of the I Love Lucy episodes. Frawley's resentment of Vance intensified after she declined to do the spin-off show and the two rarely talked to each other outside of their characters' dialogue with one another. Just before filming the show, Lucy and Desi learned that Lucy was once again pregnant after multiple miscarriages earlier in their marriage with their first child, . They filmed the original pilot while Lucy was "showing", but did not include any references to the pregnancy in the episode. This was because CBS thought that talk of pregnancy might be in bad taste and because an ad agency told Desi not to show a pregnant woman. Later, during the second season, Lucy was pregnant again with second child Desi Arnaz Jr. Contrary to popular belief, Lucy's pregnancy was not television's first on-screen pregnancy, a distinction belonging to Mary Kay Stearns on the late s sitcom Mary Kay and Johnny. One week later, on December 15, , the episode titled "Pregnant Women Are Unpredictable" was aired although the show never displayed episode titles on the air. The episode in which Lucy gives birth, " Lucy Goes to the Hospital ", first aired on January 19, , which was the day before the inauguration of Dwight Eisenhower as President of the United States. To increase the publicity of this episode, the original air date was chosen to coincide with Lucille Ball's real-life delivery of Desi Jr. Unlike some programs that advance the age of a newborn over a short period , I Love Lucy at first allowed the Little Ricky character to grow up in real time. America saw Little Ricky as an infant in the —53 season and a toddler from to However, for the —57 season, Little Ricky suddenly aged by two years, becoming a young school-age boy from to Five actors played the role, two sets of twins and later Keith Thibodeaux, whose stage name when playing Ricky Ricardo Jr. In the episode, Little Ricky is mentioned as being five years old but it had been less than four years since the birth-of-Little-Ricky episode. Jess Oppenheimer stated in his memoir, Laughs, Luck When logistical difficulties convinced Oppenheimer to abandon this plan, he advised Desi that as head writer, he would have Lucy Ricardo give birth to a boy. Desi agreed, telling Oppenheimer that Lucy had already given him one girl, and might give him another—this might be his only chance to get a son. When the baby boy was born, Desi immediately called Oppenheimer and told him, "Lucy followed your script. Ain't she something? That makes me the greatest writer in the world! The opening familiar to most viewers, featuring the credits superimposed over a "heart on satin" image, was created specifically for the —67 CBS daytime network rebroadcasts, and subsequent syndication. As originally broadcast, the episodes opened with animated matchstick figures of Arnaz and Ball making reference to whoever the particular episode's sponsor was. These sequences were created by the animation team of William Hanna and Joseph Barbera , who declined screen credit because they were technically under exclusive contract to MGM at the time. The original sponsor was cigarette maker Philip Morris , so the program opened with a cartoon of Lucy and Ricky climbing down a pack of Philip Morris cigarettes. In the early episodes, Lucy and Ricky, as well as Ethel and Fred on occasion, were shown smoking Philip Morris cigarettes. Since the original sponsor references were no longer appropriate when the shows went into syndication, a new opening was needed, which resulted in the classic "heart on satin" opening. The original openings, with the sponsor names edited out, were revived on TV Land showings, with a TV Land logo superimposed to obscure the original sponsor's logo. However, this has led some people to believe that the restored introduction was created specifically for TV Land as an example of kitsch. The animated openings, along with the middle commercial introductory animations, are included, fully restored, in the DVDs. However, the openings are listed as special features within the disks with the "heart on satin" image opening the actual episodes. The complete original broadcast versions of Seasons 1 and 2, as seen in — with intros, closings, and all commercials, are included on their respective Ultimate Season Blu-ray editions. I love Lucy and she loves me. We're as happy as two can be. Sometimes we quarrel but then How we love making up again. Lucy kisses like no one can. Each year during its summer hiatus its timeslot was occupied by various summer replacement series. Beginning in April CBS added reruns from the show's early years to its early evening weekend schedule. This would be the first of several occasions when I Love Lucy reruns would become part of CBS's evening, prime time , and later on daytime schedules. In fall , CBS began offering the series in off-network syndication; As of August [update] , the reruns air on the Hallmark Channel and MeTV networks, and scores of television stations in the U. In addition, CBS has run numerous specials, including a succession of annual specials which feature episodes which have been newly colorized. The episode "Lucy Goes to the Hospital", which first aired on Monday, January 19, , garnered a record There was some thought about creating an I Love Lucy radio show to run in conjunction with the television series as was being done at the time with the CBS hit show Our Miss Brooks. On February 27, , a sample I Love Lucy radio show was produced, but it never aired. This was a pilot episode, created by editing the soundtrack of the television episode "Breaking the Lease", with added Arnaz narration in character as Ricky Ricardo. It included commercials for Philip Morris , which sponsored the television series. While it never aired on radio at the time in the s Philip Morris eventually sponsored a radio edition of instead , copies of this radio pilot episode have been circulating among "old time radio" collectors for years, and this radio pilot episode has aired in more recent on numerous local radio stations that air some "old time radio" programming. Ball and Arnaz authorized various types of I Love Lucy merchandise. Adult-size I Love Lucy pajamas and a bedroom set were also produced; all of these items appeared on the show. Dell Comics published 35 issues of an I Love Lucy between and including two try-out Four Color issues and King Features syndicated a written by Lawrence Nadel and drawn by Bob Oksner , jointly credited as "Bob Lawrence" from to After the conclusion of the sixth season of I Love Lucy , the Arnazes decided to cut down on the number of episodes that were filmed. Instead, they extended I Love Lucy to 60 minutes, with a guest star each episode. Thirteen hour-long episodes aired from to On March 2, Desi's birthday, , the day after the last hour-long episode was filmed, Lucille Ball filed for divorce from Desi Arnaz. It made that playful, yet passionate kiss at the end of the final episode, which aired April 1, "Lucy Meets the Moustache", all the more poignant, as the world already knew that this storied Hollywood marriage was all but over, and also lent extra meaning to the use of the song "That's All" performed by guest star Edie Adams in that episode. As previously mentioned, Vance and Frawley were offered a chance to take their characters to their own spin-off series. Frawley was willing, but Vance refused to ever work with Frawley again since the two did not get along. Frawley did appear once more with Lucille Ball — in an episode of in , which did not include Vance who by then had ceased to be a regular on that show. However, this was his last screen appearance with his longtime friend. He died in Hollywood on March 3, , of a heart attack at age In , Ball began a six-year run with The Lucy Show , followed immediately in by six more years on a third sitcom, Here's Lucy , finally ending her regular appearances on CBS in Vance was a regular during the first three seasons of The Lucy Show but continued to make guest appearances through the years on The Lucy Show , and on Here's Lucy. In , Vance and Ball were reunited one last time in the CBS special, Lucy Calls the President , [72] which co-starred Gale Gordon whom Ball had known for very many years by and who had appeared as a regular on her television shows since ; becoming even more prominent once Vivian Vance left The Lucy Show in In , Ball tried another sitcom, . Its ratings quickly declined, however, and resulted in a cancellation after eight episodes. In , the never-seen pilot episode was discovered and revealed in a CBS television special, hosted by Lucie Arnaz, becoming the highest rated program of the season. Club wrote retrospectively: [73]. I Love Lucy continues to be held in high esteem by television critics, and remains perennially popular. For instance, it was one of the first American programs seen on British television — which became more open to commerce with the September launch of ITV , a commercial network that aired the series; in , the launch of a second terrestrial TV station devoted to advertising funded broadcasting Channel 4 saw the show introduced to a new generation of fans in the UK, with the Channel 4 network repeating the program several times between and As of January , meanwhile, it remains the longest-running program to air continuously in the Los Angeles area, almost 60 years after production ended. TV Land ended its run of the series by giving viewers the opportunity to vote on the show's top 25 greatest episodes on December 31, through the network's website. This is particularly notable because, unlike some shows to which a cable channel is given exclusive rights to maximize ratings, Lucy has been consistently — and successfully — broadcast on multiple channels simultaneously. Hallmark Channel is now the home for I Love Lucy in the United States, with the show having moved to the network on January 2, , while the national version of 's MeTV digital subchannel network has carried the program since its debut in December 15, , depending on the market in markets where another station holds the rights, The Lucy Show is substituted. The show is seen on in Australia. Near the end of the movie, a selection of TV Guide covers is seen in a hallway, showing I Love Lucy franchises on their covers. Staged and directed by Rick Sparks, the show featured the performance of two I Love Lucy episodes — "The Benefit" and "Lucy Has Her Eyes Examined", presented to the theatre audience as though they were attending a filming at the Desilu Playhouse in the s. In , the show began a national tour which lasted until Theatre Works. Several classic episodes of I Love Lucy have been colorized. Star and producer Desi Arnaz had expressed interest in airing the show in color as early as , but the cost of such a presentation was prohibitive at the time. The first episode to be colorized was the Christmas special , which had been feared to be lost for many years, as it was not included in the regular syndication package with the rest of the series. A copy was discovered in in the CBS vaults [91] and was aired by CBS during December of that year in its original black-and-white format. In , this episode was again aired in the days prior to Christmas, but this time the framing sequence was in color, while the clips from earlier episodes remained in black and white. The special performed surprisingly well in the ratings during both years, and aired on CBS each December through In , as the "Complete Series" DVD set was being prepared for release, DVD producer Gregg Oppenheimer decided to have the episode " Lucy Goes to Scotland " digitally colorized referencing color publicity stills and color "home movies" taken on the set during production , making it the first I Love Lucy episode to be fully colorized. On December 20, , CBS revived an annual holiday tradition when it reaired the Christmas special for the first time in nearly two decades. The Christmas special's framing sequence was colorized anew. The network paired this special with the color version of "Lucy's Italian Movie" episode. On August 6, , Ball's would-be th birthday, a one-night-only event took place in movie theaters around the United States, I Love Lucy: A Colorized Celebration , a feature film consisting of five colorized episodes, three of which contain never-before-seen content. A short documentary on the colorization process of the episodes was also included. They began that summer with the pilot and the first three episodes on a single DVD. Every six weeks, another volume of four episodes would be released on DVD in chronological order. They continued to release the series very slowly and would not even begin to release any season 2 episodes until the middle of By the spring of , the third season on DVD began to be released with about six episodes released every six weeks to mail order subscribers. By the fall of , season four episodes began to be offered by mail. By the spring of season five DVDs with about six episodes each began to be released gradually. They began releasing complete season sets in the Summer of every few months. They stated that Columbia House Subscribers would get these episodes through mail before releasing any box sets with the same episodes. They finally ended gradual subscriptions in , several months before season 5 became available in retail. Columbia House then began to make season box sets available instead of these single volumes. These DVDs offered identical features and identical content to the mail order single sets formerly available until In December , the first high-definition release of I Love Lucy was announced, with the Blu-ray edition of the first season, scheduled for May 5, The DVD releases feature the syndicated heart opening, and offer the original broadcast openings as bonus features. Season 6 allows viewers to choose whether to watch the episodes with the original opening or the syndicated opening. Initially, the first season was offered in volumes, with four episodes per disc. After the success of releasing seasons 2, 3, and 4 in slimpacks, the first season was re-released as a seven disc set, requiring new discs to be mastered and printed to include more episodes per disc so there would be fewer discs in the set. For the complete series box set, the first season would be redone again, this time to six DVDs, retaining all bonus features. The individual volume discs for the first season are still in print, but are rare for lack of shelf space and because the slimpacks are more popular. In , all season sets were reissued in slipcovered clear standard-sized amaray DVD cases, with season 1 being the 6-disc version as opposed to the 7-disc version. Season 1 includes the pilot and all 35 Season 1 episodes in a 7-disc set. Season 2 includes all 31 Season 2 episodes in a 5-disc set. Season 3 includes all 31 Season 3 episodes in a 5-disc set. Season 2 and 3 are in a slimline pack. All three seasons have been restored and digitally remastered. All episodes appear in order of their original air dates, although it states that some episodes may be edited from their original network versions. It is unknown if the remaining seasons will be released individually. It contains every colorized episode of I Love Lucy aired to date of the set's release date. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. American television sitcom. Eliot Daniel music Harold Adamson lyrics. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Main article: List of I Love Lucy episodes. Television portal United States portal Comedy portal s portal. April 16, Retrieved May 18, August 5, Retrieved July 26, The Durango Herald. September 14, Retrieved November 22, The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved December 23, Retrieved March 7, ABC News. September 18, Retrieved July 16, Time magazine. January 26, Retrieved January 16, Cinema Journal. Retrieved October 18, New York Post. Retrieved October 20, August 6, Radio Classics. The Saturday Evening Post. We were filming Too Many Girls, the stage show in which Desi made his first big hit. He asked me for a date that very night, and pretty soon we were married. The American family on television: a chronology of shows, — Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Our State. December 3, Retrieved October 21, Hampton Press. If you are going to give criticisms or talk over other shows, make that part of your story. Covering up your ideas with poor writing: This books is rife with run-on sentences and needlessly complicated writing. It is one pretentious and over-wrought sentence. I grew up watching it. I counted 3 factual inaccuracies in his chapter on this book. He had a factual error about The Office, a show I have memorized. He had another fact incorrect about the episode of Community, another of my favorite shows. I think that this was the case of either someone who was over-confident and didn't check or a weak editor. I ended up being so frustrated with this book I only read those chapters, the introduction, and the chapters on I Love Lucy and Friends, two shows I know somewhat well. I couldn't take anymore. There are better books about TV history out there, and many better criticism books. Don't bother with this one. Aug 31, Douglas rated it really liked it. Imagine you had time to binge watch every episode of every great situation comedy. Well, this author did it for you. The more I read this book, the more I liked, then loved it. I'm thinking of quitting my day job and watching reruns all day. A really fun book, makes you think and enjoy the unique American art of sitcoms. Would have given 5 stars, but sometimes the author stretches a bit with his own attempts at comedy or fl Imagine you had time to binge watch every episode of every great situation comedy. Would have given 5 stars, but sometimes the author stretches a bit with his own attempts at comedy or flowery prose. Jul 08, Steve rated it it was ok. Author needed to check quotes and episode plot points and scenes before putting them to paper. Mar 15, Jessica Jeffers rated it did not like it Shelves: nonfiction. Look, if anyone should love a book of essays about classic sitcom episodes, it should be me. If I could make a living doing so, I'd spend my life writing blog entries about the books I've liked and the sitcom episodes I love. I don't get super into movies and there's only a handful of television dramas that I attach myself to, but there are few things in the world of entertainment that make me happier than a well-done sitcom. I picked this one up because it seemed kind of promising. I enjoyed Wa Look, if anyone should love a book of essays about classic sitcom episodes, it should be me. I enjoyed Warren Littlefield's oral history of NBC's Must-See years but found myself wishing that it had provided more context and more critical analysis to enrich the nostalgia and facts that it so happily offered up. Austerlitz's effort seemed like it could offer that, but manages to flop spectacularly. I didn't read all of the essays, but I learned almost nothing new from the ones I did read on the shows that I love. The tone is overly academic, but the analysis that it's reaching for is not particularly deep or thoughtful. It ends up reading like plot summaries with a ten-dollar vocabulary. Or, as my boyfriend so aptly put it, "It's like a college student writing a term paper that's due the next day, but didn't do the research and is covering it up with language he thinks sounds smarter than it really is. The chapter is supposedly about the episode "The Pitch. I mean, I understand that you have to provide context and offer specific examples but that's just not what's going on here. It's just Also, I resent the dismissive tone he takes with Friends. I know dudes tend to shrug it off and I know the show grew kind of tired and formulaic in its latter seasons, but the first few years were pretty fucking brilliant and I will argue to the death with anyone who says otherwise. I'm fairly sure he gets a small but significant fact wrong about a piece of dialogue in "The One With the Embryos," so I'm not entirely convinced that he actually watched the episode with any thoughtful intent. If you're going to include the show in your book, at least give it the benefit of the doubt. The chapter felt like he resented the fact that he had to include the show in the first place because it was so beneath him. I don't read enough Alan Sepinwall or James Poniewozik, but I always find that they're fairly incisive. And it's hard to go wrong with Linda Holmes. Each of these outlets have proven that thoughtful critiques can be written about silly sitcom episodes. Read that instead of Austerlitz's chapter if you want some thoughtful, engaging sitcom analysis. Feb 28, Barbara Williams rated it liked it Shelves: hipster-lovin , why-do-you-let-me-down , saw-it-on-npr , for-realies. I must confess I read this book because there was a section on one of my favorite shows of all time, Community , and I thought the author must be a classy individual due to his love of the show as well. I have no idea what I shall do with all my free time now that Community is out of my life. Maybe go outside and enjoy nature…. The chapter dedicated to Community felt very rushed, to the point where unless you had seen the show yourself, summaries included about Community episodes would seem disjointed and unclear. It is definitely worth a read if you are as big of a fan of sitcoms as myself. I have a feeling I will be waiting for a while. I almost had to find a new show May 10, Garrett rated it really liked it. Written as an exhaustive essay on the nature, tools and evolution of the sitcom on television, the reader will need both a tolerance for research-style academic writing and to have logged hours watching television to fully appreciate this book. I very much enjoyed it, but there are whole shows , Community, Scrubs that I have never seen, so I missed out on some of the material. Further, once the tropes and ploys are completely deconstructed, one loses the magic; I'm not sure Written as an exhaustive essay on the nature, tools and evolution of the sitcom on television, the reader will need both a tolerance for research-style academic writing and to have logged hours watching television to fully appreciate this book. Further, once the tropes and ploys are completely deconstructed, one loses the magic; I'm not sure I will ever enjoy sitcoms the same way again. I may have broken my ability to watch TV. Finally, you will be tired of the somewhat evasive adjective "well-scrubbed" by the time you finish this book - someone needs to get Austerlitz a thesaurus. Or perhaps this is simply evidence: too much TV rots your brains. May 15, Leann rated it really liked it Shelves: nonfiction , essays , television. I enjoyed this a lot more than I expected, and only skimmed a few pages here and there I expected to skim entire chapters. Dec 11, Danielle rated it really liked it Shelves: netgalley-arc , non-fiction , criticism-critique. Actual score 3. Sitcom takes 24 snapshots of television through history, via some of the most famous or poignant episodes, and uses them to break down not just the represented shows, b Actual score 3. Sitcom takes 24 snapshots of television through history, via some of the most famous or poignant episodes, and uses them to break down not just the represented shows, but the genre. Austerlitz has chosen episodes that mostly revolve around television, giving the whole thing a very meta quality. He also uses each episode as a jumping off point for a larger look at first the featured show, then the era as a whole. This allows us to segue into a look at other husband-and wife shows of the time, like Mama and The Goldbergs. In the end, he brings it back to Lucy and Ricky through the use of The Goldbergs to launch a very thought provoking section on race in early television. Television is cyclical and not just a bit incestuous. The first two thirds of the book are the most successful as the author deftly weaves together the best known sitcoms of the s - s, along with a few lesser known, but important stepping stones like The Show and The Larry Sanders Show. I particularly enjoyed the looks at feminism on tv as an indicator of the greater cultural changes in The Mary Tyler Moore Show and . In trying to address race and tv, it goes a bit more poorly. For one, there are slurs. While a particular Bill Cosby quote does use the n-word in a powerful and appropriate way, the author uses it again, outside of the context of the quote, and also uses an anti-gay slur whilst discussing Louie. Unfortunately, the later years are where I found the book to struggle. Extremely big shows, like , which repopularized domestic sitcoms after the Friends-like ensembles of the early 90s, and The Big Bang Theory, which is currently doing unprecedented numbers, are completely glossed over. There is some discussion of gay characters, mostly in the chapter, but I wish more time had been devoted to the normalization of homosexuality through television. It feels very superficial in comparison to earlier themes. There also seems to be some confusion as to what constitutes a sitcom and where the line exists as genres have become increasingly blurred. It seems like a personal favorite that the author believes was canceled too soon, again, and, again, wanted an excuse to talk about. Despite some reservations, Sitcom is a fantastic jumping off point. It is a book that requires a fair understanding of the subject matter. In reading it, I watched many of the episodes to re familiarize myself with the characters and plots and to better follow along. Oct 20, Sharon Falduto rated it it was ok. First of all, what a great idea for a book. And the research must have been so much fun. I imagine this guy sitting in the Museum of Broadcast Communications, just enjoying show after show of classic TV. The tone of the book, though, sounded like a freshman rhetoric student with a thesaurus. For instance, in just one paragraph--maybe even the same sentence--he described "Seinfeld" as "pointillistic" and "dada-esque" yadda yadda yadda. I mean, come on. He also clearly favors some tv shows over o First of all, what a great idea for a book. He also clearly favors some tv shows over others. And yet he's written another book that I want to read, "Money for Nothing," about music videos. Why do eggheads get to write these great books? Apr 24, Michael Paynter rated it it was amazing. As a subgenre of literary work, I particularly enjoy social histories; those works that examine American history and social psychology through objects, sitcoms, and other cultural elements. This work expertly illustrates the evolution of society through the evolution of the sitcom A must-read for TV fans and social critics alike! Aug 14, Rory rated it it was ok Shelves: hollywood , ventura-county-library-picks. An industry historical perspective, an actor historical perspective, a writer historical perspective, a showrunner historical perspective would have helped enliven what is essentially a mishmash tumble of perceived seminal episodes, attempted trenchant analysis, and highlights of dialogue that are often more entertaining than the entirety of this book. View 1 comment. Mar 01, Alvin rated it liked it. It's ok. It does build on its themes as you get through the book, but it also feels a bit too academic at times. Actually, this book would be perfect if it had a companion clip library to show you everything they're talking about. Jul 01, Erinn Maine rated it liked it. This was just what I wanted it to be. I enjoyed every chapter of the series I had seen. Just reading the finale monologue from the Mary Tyler Moore show made me cry. I think it was the first time I cried at a finale and I haven't stopped since. Jul 11, Todd rated it liked it. I only read chapters pertaining to the sitcoms I have watched. So that means that I skipped over at least six chapters of the book. It was a fun quick read and I found it informative and entertaining. Mar 04, C rated it really liked it Shelves: tv-movies. As a self described tv junkie I absolutely loved this book. It was interesting to read and see the history of sitcoms from the s to the early s. TV sitcoms have come a long way. Mar 13, Pat Lampe rated it liked it. This was a detailed story of the evolution of tv sitcoms pointing out what they all had in common even as they reflected their own times. Nov 08, Jenn Morgans rated it really liked it Shelves: american , non-fiction , netgalley. Sitcoms are very possibly my favourite kind of TV programme - one I find myself retreating to whenever I need a mood lift or a safe haven. So a book on the history of the US sitcom was very welcome to me; particularly because, as a Brit, I'm pretty good at vintage UK sitcoms, but often get lost amongst references to US ones. The US has had literally hundreds of sitcoms since the arrival of mainstream television, so anyone hoping to write an even vaguely methodical account of this medium will need Sitcoms are very possibly my favourite kind of TV programme - one I find myself retreating to whenever I need a mood lift or a safe haven. The US has had literally hundreds of sitcoms since the arrival of mainstream television, so anyone hoping to write an even vaguely methodical account of this medium will need a plan of attack! Saul Austerlitz has chosen one episode of 24 different sitcoms and then centred each of the 24 chapters around what makes this particular episode - and this particular sitcom - important, funny, or a great example of the genre. This makes the somewhat unwieldy history of the sitcom far more manageable, and it's an interesting approach, though it does of course have a number of limitations and drawbacks too. Now that the drawbacks are out of the way, I can say how thoroughly enjoyable Sitcom is; a whirlwind tour through 60 years of sitcoms and, to a lesser extent, American cultural history. Austerlitz not only describes the sitcom he's chosen in each chapter - in a thorough but light fashion that still had me laughing out loud at some punchlines - but its contemporaries, its inspirations, its influences, its stars, and its social and political historical context. This is more than just a thematic guide through 24 sitcoms; it's also one through America's psyche. The bite-sized chapters are linked together, as themes, actors, writers and the sitcoms themselves intertwine, crossover and reference one another, creating a fascinating journey. I read this over the course of a week, but the chapters are also the perfect size to dip in and out of; Austerlitz's writing doesn't get too bogged down in detail, it's bright, witty and full of anecdotes. This might not be the most thorough exploration of the sitcom - is one even possible in a single volume - but it's a brilliantly enjoyable and absolutely fascinating one. Feb 28, Jenni V. I would like to thank NetGalley, the author, and Chicago Review Press for the opportunity to read and honestly review this book. Assuming the reader has a basic knowledge of the shows mentioned and an interest in the subject, this was an informative and entertaining read. Being able to picture the shows and characters as I read added to my enjoyment. Bilko, as it is apparently re I would like to thank NetGalley, the author, and Chicago Review Press for the opportunity to read and honestly review this book. Bilko, as it is apparently referred to sometimes. The information about the early sitcoms was especially interesting. I didn't realize commericals were generally presented live, making goofs a la Lucy's "Vitameatavegimin" commerical a distinct possibility. Also, I didn't realize how quickly TV caught on; according to the book, the number of television sets in operation jumped from twenty thousand in to forty million just ten years later. To quote the author, "the television set displaced the piano and fireplace as the focal point and conversation piece of American living rooms". I also found the information about Gilligan's Island and its theme song fascinating. Apparently, CBS liked the premise but didn't think it would work because it would require too much time to explain why they were on the island every single week before VCRs and DVRs and Netflix bingewatching marathons, each episode pretty much had to stand alone because you had one shot to watch it and if you missed it, you missed it. 's solution? Write a catchy theme song admit it, it's now in your head that quickly introduces the audience to the characters and the premise before going on with the show. Gilligan's Island was the first to use a theme song for this purpose, and it was very effective. Schwartz also used the same technique on and now that song's in your head One more fun fact that was unbelievable to me: Bill Cosby has 3 'best actor' Emmys but they were all for the drama series I Spy. He was never even nominated for The Cosby Show. I Love Lucy - Wikipedia

This hobby almost destroys Ricky's career, as Lucy tells an important talent agent, Mr. Merriweather, that Ricky cannot appear in a show because of his horoscope. That problem is resolved when Mr. Merriweather reveals that he is also interested in the occult. But when both Lucy and Fred pretend to be a spirit, things quickly get confusing. Tired of Ricky's messy habits, Lucy divides the apartment in half—-he can be a slob in his half, but not hers. Lucy gets the door and kitchen, while Ricky gets the bathroom and bedrooms. Unfortunately, Ricky--and his apartment--are going to appear in a magazine spread, and the photographer comes to the apartment. Ricky borrows a mink coat for an act at the club, but Lucy thinks it's for her, and won't take it off. He arranges for Fred to pose as a burglar and "steal", it, but when a real thief comes in, Lucy manages to hang on to it. Lucy intercepts a letter for Ricky that asks him to appear at a local Army station. She becomes convinced that he has been drafted although the station just wants Ricky to "appear" in a nightclub act. When Ricky asks Fred to join him, Ethel thinks the same, and they begin knitting their husbands going away presents. Ricky and Fred, however, think the girls are pregnant and decide to organize a baby shower. Lucy hears that Ricky needs a dancer for the Parisian Apache dance number at the club, and thinks she can fill the bill. But her Parisian dance teacher has more than dancing in mind. Note: This episode was edited together with the episodes "Breaking the Lease" and "The Ballet", along with twenty minutes of new footage to create the unreleased I Love Lucy movie in Lucy fears that if Ricky keeps refusing to hire her as part of his night club act, she may just have a nervous breakdown. She suffers from the "three stages" of one--amnesia, delusions of being Tallulah Bankhead and regression to childish behavior. Ricky learns of the trick and quickly turns the tables by inviting a "doctor" to the house to examine Lucy. Hal March appears as "himself". Playwright Lucy pens a drama with a Cuban locale. She figures Ricky for the star. The hitch: he refuses the part. So she changes her play from Cuba to England and has Fred take Ricky's spot. However, Ricky has decided to surprise Lucy and appear in the play, but he has the wrong script. Lucy can't resist snooping in the apartment of the building's newest renters. When she hides herself to avoid discovery, she overhears the couple talking about murdering her and Ricky; stealing their identities; and then blowing up the Capitol. Little does Lucy realize that the new tenants are actors and are rehearsing a scene. Lucy sneaks out of the apartment and puts the apartment on lock-down as the Ricardos and Mertzes prepare to defend themselves. Hayden Rorke and K. Stevens guest star as the new tenants. The Mertzes have a row, and Lucy makes an attempt to patch up their marriage. In the end, it isn't their marriage that's in trouble; it is her own. When Ricky grows a moustache, Lucy decides to fight fire with fire—she acquires a long white beard. Things go bad when the beard will not come off and a movie agent decides to visit Ricky at the apartment. Ricky and Fred make a bet with the girls to see who can go longer without gossiping, but they make it hard for them by planting a phony story too juicy to pass up. The Mertzes and the Ricardos bet they can live the same pioneer existence as their ancestors. This episode contains the classic moment when Lucy's long loaf of bread emerges from the oven. After taking another look at her marriage license, Lucy is not sure if she and Ricky are legally married. Ricky finds some extra money and silverware in the apartment and jumps to the conclusion that Lucy is a kleptomaniac. What he does not know is that they are just donations for a charity and when Lucy finds out what Ricky thinks, she decides to teach him a lesson. guest stars. A visiting Cuban dance troupe asks Ricky to do a number with "Little Renita Perez"—a little girl he used to dance with in Havana. Lucy is all for it—until she finds out that "Little Renita" is not so "little" anymore. She takes Renita's place at the club--but Ricky switches numbers, and Lucy is chased by a man in full voodoo garb. Lucy and Ethel have a meat freezer installed in the basement and celebrate by buying two sides of beef, unaware of how much a side is. Now they must try to get rid of the excess before Ricky and Fred find out. They first try by peddling it to customers waiting in line at a butcher shop, but this fails when the butcher notices. Their next attempt involves hiding the beef in the apartment's furnace--but when Lucy tries to start moving the meat, she learns the hard way how cold the freezer is when she gets locked inside it and is frozen stiff. Feeling that Ricky's publicity has fallen off, Lucy dreams up a stunt which involves her posing as the "Maharincess of Franistan. Lucy is so impressed at Ricky's correct answers to a radio quiz show that she gets him on the show as a contestant. What she did not know is that the show was a delayed broadcast and Ricky was at the radio station when the questions were being asked. She schemes to get the answers from the radio station before the program airs. Note: Gordon was one of the early choices to play Fred Mertz but was unavailable. He later starred with Lucille Ball in each of her later series. Ricky's receding hairline is giving him much concern, so Lucy decides to give him painful scalp treatments. At Lucy's insistence, Ricky tries to pressure his boss Gale Gordon 's second and final appearance as "Mr. Littlefield" into giving him a raise, only to get Ricky fired. Determined to make things right, Lucy, with the Mertzes' help, decides to book up every table at the Tropicana to make Ricky appear popular. Fred and Ethel then point out that they need to make it clear that it is Ricky the customers want to see. With the help of Fred's old vaudeville friend and his quick-change cabinet, Lucy, Ethel, and Fred don various disguises and pose as clubgoers who become irate and storm out when they hear Ricky has been let go. Lucy plots to join Ricky's band for a series of one-night engagements by trying to play a saxophone. However, she can only play one song. Undeterred, she disguises herself as a "hep cat" jazz musician and tries to con her way into the orchestra, much to their delight and Ricky's frustration. Ricky asks a neighbor, Grace Foster Gloria Blondell , to help him surprise Lucy with an anniversary present, but Lucy gets the wrong idea. One of Lucy's practical jokes backfires when she and Ricky are locked without a key in a pair of antique handcuffs. Lucy decides to write an operetta , and pays for the costumes and scenery with a post-dated check. Meanwhile, Ethel and Ricky persuade the chorus to join in whenever Lucy, playing "Camille, Queen of the Gypsies," starts to sing. Bored with married life, Lucy and Ethel decide that a few days away from their husbands would be a welcome change-- but the girls quickly grow tired of staying together, and attempt to make Ricky and Fred jealous by pretending that they have dates. The Ricardos buy the Mertzes a new TV set for their wedding anniversary. When Ricky tries hooking it up, the picture tube explodes. In retaliation, Fred marches up to the Ricardo apartment and kicks in their own picture tube. The whole issue ends up with both couples in court. Ricky decides to fool Lucy into thinking she has won a new home furnishings contest. But the joke backfires when Lucy sells all their furniture. Ricky catches gets sick and loses his voice during rehearsals for a new show, prompting Lucy to secretly stage the show herself. Arthur Q. Bryan appears as Ricky's new boss. Lucy tells Ethel that she has been experiencing strange health problems lately, including weight gain and low energy. Ethel suspects that she is actually pregnant, and a visit to the doctor confirms her theory. Lucy tries to prepare the "perfect" moment to tell Ricky, but his business at the club keeps him away. Ricky gets quite a surprise when he finds out who requested the song. With the baby coming, Ricky decides that Lucy should stay in bed while he does the chores. Lucy thinks it is just because of the baby. Even with motherhood fast approaching, Lucy still wants to be in Ricky's "Gay 90's Revue. Lucy wants her baby to be raised in the "proper vocal environment," so she hires a tutor Hans Conried to teach Ricky proper English diction. The tutor turns out to be a struggling actor, and hopes that Ricky will give him a break. Lucy, Ricky, Fred, and Ethel all sing a ridiculous song composed by the tutor. When Lucy's pregnancy cravings and preoccupation with a baby shower leave Ricky frustrated and overwhelmed, he begins to develop psychosomatic pregnancy symptoms of his own. A doctor advises Lucy and Ethel to give Ricky some special attention as a cure, so the women ask Fred to organize a men-only "daddy shower" for him. But curiosity gets the best of Lucy, and she and Ethel disguise themselves as male reporters to sneak into the party. Lucy feels that her child should grow up with artistic influence, so she takes up sculpting. When Ricky arranges for an art critic to arrive and judge her work, she ends up disguising herself as a bust to fool the critic. With the baby due at any moment, Ricky and the Mertzes carefully rehearse the trip to the hospital. But when the fateful moment actually comes, things do not go quite so smoothly. When they eventually get there, Lucy stays in labor for quite a while, so Ricky goes to do his new show at the club. He is in full tribal face makeup when the call comes from the hospital, and he rushes over still in costume. For five episodes after this one, any scene featuring Lucy was filmed in advance to accommodate Ball's leave, with bookending scenes featuring only the other cast members filmed closer to the actual airdate. When Lucy buys yet another new kitchen gadget, Ricky complains that she has no sales resistance. Sheldon Leonard guest stars as the salesman. A handsome psychiatrist might be the cure for Lucy's "inferiority complex. Molin" aka "Chuck Stewart". Lucy and Ricky are both engrossed in a thrilling novel, and decide to read it aloud to enjoy it at the same time. When Ricky tosses the book across the room and accidentally hits Lucy in the face with it, Lucy gets a black eye. Trouble begins with Ethel overhears their apparently heated conversation and, seeing the black eye, fears the worst. When she will not accept the truth, Lucy concocts a "real juicy story" about her falling in love with another man, which only leads to further trouble. Whether it is getting dressed or ordering dinner at a restaurant, Lucy seems unable to finish anything without changing her mind. Ricky loses his temper, so Lucy tries to play a trick with an old, unfinished love letter to a beau from high school. Fred warns Ricky of Lucy's plot, and Lucy is soon in over her head. The Ricardos' lease says no children allowed, and their crying new baby does not help matters. This episode marked the beginning of a recurring character- Mrs. Trumbull Elizabeth Patterson. Ricky allows Lucy to hire a maid because she keeps falling asleep during the day from staying up nights with the new baby. Verna Felton guest stars as the maid. Ricky is planning an Indian number for his nightclub act, and assumes that motherhood has ended Lucy's show business ambitions. No such luck, as Lucy persuades the girl singer in the number to switch places with her. When it seems that everyone has forgotten Lucy's birthday, she becomes depressed and wanders around town. She meets the "Friends of the Friendless" in the park, and joins the ranks of the unhappy mob. They all march to Ricky's club to protest-where a surprise party is waiting for the birthday girl. This episode features Ricky singing "I Love Lucy", a version of the show's theme song with lyrics. Lucy thinks they need a bigger apartment since the baby's arrival, but Ricky says they cannot afford it. When Lucy learns that neighbor Mrs. Benson has an extra room now that her daughter has married, plans are made to swap furnishings between the two apartments. Note: This is the last episode to feature the Ricardos' 4A apartment. Their new apartment number is 3D. Lucy tries to fix up her girlfriend with a bachelor friend of Fred's, but ends up as an unwitting third party in a love triangle. Hal March guest stars. When Lucy buys a new sofa and coffee table without Ricky's permission, he says she will have to pay for it out of her allowance. To save money, Lucy attempts to make her own clothes and gives herself a home perm. Lucy develops an attachment to Ricky. She finally goes too far when she decides to join him on a camping trip. Ricky take Lucy into the wilderness for a practice camping trip to make her hate camping, but Lucy and Ethel team up to thwart his plan. Ricky and Fred are excited about watching a big fight on TV. While Ricky and Fred stay glued to the set, Lucy and Ethel are mistaken for thieves. Frank Nelson and Allen Jenkins guest star. A beautiful friendship is almost ruined when the Ricardos sell their old washing machine to the Mertzes, who find that it needs repairs and demand their money back, but then change their mind again. In the ensuing argument over who owns the machine, the couples push the washer off the balcony. Herb Vigran guest stars. Life magazine does a picture story on Ricky, but Lucy is not in it. Lucy decides to upstage Ricky during his "Lady in Spain" number at the club. Lucy and Ethel buy a dress shop behind their husbands' backs, and soon find that it will not be as easy to manage as they anticipated. The girls are going to appear on TV with their club, having chosen to sing Cole Porter 's "Friendship" in celebration of their bond. Everybody is pleased, until the two women buy the same dress for the occasion. Tired of Ricky and Fred's attitude towards them, the girls demand equal rights. Ricky and Fred turn the tables on them when, out to dinner, they call for separate checks, and Ethel and Lucy, lacking any money in their purses, must wash dishes to pay for their meals. The Ricardos have decided they are not going to brag about their new baby. That changes when Carolyn and Charlie Appleby start to brag about their own new baby. Ricky bets Lucy that she cannot go twenty-four hours without telling a fib. Problems begin when Lucy starts being brutally frank with everyone. Ricky is going to stage a French Revue at his club and Lucy bets him fifty dollars that she can get into the act no matter what he does to stop her. He soon returns with another tree and is overjoyed, because due to the time of day, he got the tree at half price. The gang then recalls the night Lucy announced the baby was ready to come and everybody frantically races off to the hospital--forgetting Lucy. Suddenly, in comes a 5th Santa. It was Fred! He disappears as the Christmastime with the Ricardos, the Mertzes and Little Ricky. Little Ricky wants to see Santa. Naturally Lucy dresses as him to surprise the little boy. Basically this isn't a new episode--it contains plenty of flashbacks to previous seasons. I heard this was considered lost and was found under Desi Arnazs' bed after his death. It was restored and aired just once on CBS in It's not great but just seeing the old gang in a somewhat "new" episode was plenty of fun. This is probably still out of syndication because of the flashbacks but worth catching if you're a Lucy fan. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. I also agree with the book that it was the best of the sitcoms of its kind at the time. With Children" had lots of funny lines and hilarious situations, but, as Austerlitz says, it had no nuance. Al was the most down-trodden, pathetic blue collar worker in the world. Peg was the laziest housewife in the world. Bud was the most borderline juvenile delinquent and later most sexually frustrated teenager in the world. Kelly was the biggest teen slut in the world. As well, if the writers meant some of the jokes about Peg's poor home economist skills and Al's lack of earning power to be true, then literally how did the family survive? I do disagree, however, with the book where "Home Improvement" is concerned. The Taylors are not blue collar. Tim hosted a TV show and in the first episode told Jill "I make enough money for both of us. Not exactly the same socioeconomic strata as throwing steel. As with the star of the previous show, Roseanne would also meet her downfall, albeit after a one season revival of her eponymous program. Unlike her country's president, her undoing would come about because of a single tweet. The neighbour's children first introduced me to "The Simpsons. I would watch it with them, but since I didn't hang around a lot of other kids as a child, I bought into what the adults were saying that it was a horrible, immoral show and would be a bad influence on me. My sister continued to enjoy the show, however, and one day, while visiting my grandmother, I decided to watch a rerun of it with her on CBC. From then on, I was hooked. It's like my uncle said: "People don't get the point of The Simpsons. It's a lampoon. Our cable company didn't provide the Canadian channel on which it was broadcast. It's a good show. Would I watch the episode under discussion again? No, but I'm glad I watched. Larry Sanders is a well-drawn character. I don't know if the word depth is appropriate when talking about Larry Sanders, but the fictional talk show host possesses just the right amounts of self-absorption and insecurity that make him so watchable. Of course, the idea of a TV show about a fictional talk show host featuring bits of the show either being taped or broadcast on the actual show is inventive, and the other characters are well thought out, too. Jewish Hollywood telling us how self-centred, amoral and scheming the place where so many people get their values actually is. I watched it a bit in its first couple seasons, and was forced to watch reruns at the W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind where I went from grades I remember the show being extended by ten minutes in order to compete with the newly-launched "Survivor" on CBS. I also remember NBC's countdown to the finale in , which I tuned into. Wasn't actually a big fan of the show, though. My biggest take away from the episode is boy, those six people liked to flash their money and possessions around. Also, I remember once on "Degrassi High" the class was having a debate about abortion and in response to a pro-life comment, a pro-abortion girl responded, "So women are just baby factories? As well, what realistic apartment building would have a West Village apartment across the hall from a suite that looks like a dorm room? Units in apartment buildings generally tend to be uniform. Also, I'm pretty sure you can't just trade apartments. You'd probably have to clear it with the landlord or something, and even back then, it probably involved a lot of paperwork. Freaks and Geeks Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers : I remember the promos for this show, which featured a laugh track, by the way. I never tuned into it at the time. I saw "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers" this morning on Vimeo and will join the chorus of everyone asking, "Why the heck did they cancel this? It also has great pop culture references appropriate to the era in which it is set, as well as sneaking in a pop culture reference for the time in which the show aired, namely "The Magic School Bus. The Who vs. Seals and Crofts. On another level, though, the obsession this show and the other show from its creators, "Undeclared has with cliques is kind of disturbing. Why not be an individual? Why can't Bill like sports as well as sketch comedy and "Dallas? Being a British comedy fan, I eagerly anticipated the American version of this show. I watched it with my college roommate at first, then at home after I moved back their. My roommate, his friends and I were all pulling for this show because we thought for sure it was going to be one of those American sitcoms that's cerebral, well-done and gets cancelled after a few episodes because the audience doesn't get it.

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It's not great but just seeing the old gang in a somewhat "new" episode was plenty of fun. This is probably still out of syndication because of the flashbacks but worth catching if you're a Lucy fan. Looking for something to watch? Choose an adventure below and discover your next favorite movie or TV show. Visit our What to Watch page. Sign In. Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. Release Dates. Official Sites. Company Credits. Technical Specs. Plot Summary. Plot Keywords. Parents Guide. External Sites. User Reviews. User Ratings. External Reviews. Metacritic Reviews. Photo Gallery. Trailers and Videos. Crazy Credits. Alternate Versions. I Love Lucy — Rate This. Season 6 Episode All Episodes On Christmas Eve, the Ricardos and the Mertzes recall past events in their lives, as seen in clips from past episodes. Directors: James V. Kern , uncredited. Writers: Bob Carroll Jr. Available on Amazon. Added to Watchlist. Halloween Movies for the Whole Family. Essential Christmas Titles. Christmas TV episodes. My Favorite Christmas Episodes or Movies. Christmas To Watch. Use the HTML below. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Edit Cast Episode cast overview: Lucille Ball Lucy Ricardo Desi Arnaz I would like to take the opportunity the inclusion of this show affords to talk about something I've noticed but I can't seem to find anyone else on the internet has noticed. There are a lot of so-called family-friendly television shows whose messages are actually more destructive than shows where characters are swearing their heads off, chopping each other's heads off or jumping in and out of bed with each other. Parents and children are at war? I thought being a family was supposed to be about loving one another and being subject one to another as the Bible says in Paul's letter to the Ephesians. Apparently, however, Mr. Bill TNB Cosby seems to think it's about figuratively wrestling with your kids over time, money and resources. Cosby as Cliff Huxtable is apparently as manipulative a father as he was as an alleged rapist. I would not, if I caught my kid drinking, force her to play a drinking game with me. In fact, I would probably approach alcohol in a totally different way, allowing my teenager to consume small amounts on my property under my supervision. That way, they would be less likely to drink behind my back or to go to parties or bars with their friends where they could have something slipped in their drinks, probably by someone who works for Bill Cosby or someone like him. To return to the episode in question for a further example of what I'm talking about, what's wrong with being "regular people. On the other hand, if they don't go to university there's less of a chance young female fans of the Cosby show will be allegedly raped by you so there's actually a distinct advantage there to being "regular people. In real life, kids, people are not going to put their lives on hold to move in with you for eight years. If they have a number one hit in Japan, they aren't likely to cut the tour short because they miss you three brats so goshdarn much. And, kids, their spouses really aren't going to be inclined to move in with you and live in your attic, to say nothing of raising their children up there as if your relatives live in a V. Andrews novel or something. I would also like to take "The Cosby Show" as an opportunity to give my opinion about black people in sitcoms. Blackness versus whiteness never came up, and the characters were except for Kingfish of course decent, hardworking people who lived in nice neighbourhoods and didn't expect the white man, aka the welfare system, to take care of them for the rest of their lives. However, every other black sitcom has, to some degree or another, been the black man against the white man, meaning, in this case, simply the white man and not the welfare system. From what I've heard, "What's Happenin" is just some black teenagers getting into trouble all the time and begging the sister of one of them "Don't tell Mama. In real life, Will's friends would have referred to the Banks' as Uncle Tom's or houseniggers. It is worth noting that, on a Christmas episode of "The Cosby Show", Cliff Huxtable got into a discussion with a child about whether or not Santa Clause is white. Hence, take note, TV producers. All you have to do to get truly equal representation of minorities especially blacks on television is to catch up to a program that was doing it on the radio probably as early as Roseanne Terms of Estrangement, Part 1 : "Roseanne" was also in it's original run and re-run a lot on many different stations so I saw the majority of episodes, including this one, when I was a kid. I definitely agree with the book that the show went off the rails in the last two seasons. I also agree with the book that it was the best of the sitcoms of its kind at the time. With Children" had lots of funny lines and hilarious situations, but, as Austerlitz says, it had no nuance. Al was the most down-trodden, pathetic blue collar worker in the world. Peg was the laziest housewife in the world. Bud was the most borderline juvenile delinquent and later most sexually frustrated teenager in the world. Kelly was the biggest teen slut in the world. As well, if the writers meant some of the jokes about Peg's poor home economist skills and Al's lack of earning power to be true, then literally how did the family survive? I do disagree, however, with the book where "Home Improvement" is concerned. The Taylors are not blue collar. Tim hosted a TV show and in the first episode told Jill "I make enough money for both of us. Not exactly the same socioeconomic strata as throwing steel. As with the star of the previous show, Roseanne would also meet her downfall, albeit after a one season revival of her eponymous program. Unlike her country's president, her undoing would come about because of a single tweet. The neighbour's children first introduced me to "The Simpsons. I would watch it with them, but since I didn't hang around a lot of other kids as a child, I bought into what the adults were saying that it was a horrible, immoral show and would be a bad influence on me. My sister continued to enjoy the show, however, and one day, while visiting my grandmother, I decided to watch a rerun of it with her on CBC. From then on, I was hooked. It's like my uncle said: "People don't get the point of The Simpsons. It's a lampoon. Our cable company didn't provide the Canadian channel on which it was broadcast. It's a good show. Would I watch the episode under discussion again? No, but I'm glad I watched. Larry Sanders is a well-drawn character. I don't know if the word depth is appropriate when talking about Larry Sanders, but the fictional talk show host possesses just the right amounts of self-absorption and insecurity that make him so watchable. Of course, the idea of a TV show about a fictional talk show host featuring bits of the show either being taped or broadcast on the actual show is inventive, and the other characters are well thought out, too. Jewish Hollywood telling us how self-centred, amoral and scheming the place where so many people get their values actually is. I watched it a bit in its first couple seasons, and was forced to watch reruns at the W. Ross Macdonald School for the Blind where I went from grades I remember the show being extended by ten minutes in order to compete with the newly-launched "Survivor" on CBS. I also remember NBC's countdown to the finale in , which I tuned into. Wasn't actually a big fan of the show, though. My biggest take away from the episode is boy, those six people liked to flash their money and possessions around. Also, I remember once on "Degrassi High" the class was having a debate about abortion and in response to a pro-life comment, a pro-abortion girl responded, "So women are just baby factories? As well, what realistic apartment building would have a West Village apartment across the hall from a suite that looks like a dorm room? Units in apartment buildings generally tend to be uniform. Also, I'm pretty sure you can't just trade apartments. You'd probably have to clear it with the landlord or something, and even back then, it probably involved a lot of paperwork. Freaks and Geeks Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers : I remember the promos for this show, which featured a laugh track, by the way. I never tuned into it at the time. I saw "Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers" this morning on Vimeo and will join the chorus of everyone asking, "Why the heck did they cancel this? It also has great pop culture references appropriate to the era in which it is set, as well as sneaking in a pop culture reference for the time in which the show aired, namely "The Magic School Bus. The Who vs. Seals and Crofts. On another level, though, the obsession this show and the other show from its creators, "Undeclared has with cliques is kind of disturbing. Why not be an individual? Why can't Bill like sports as well as sketch comedy and "Dallas? Being a British comedy fan, I eagerly anticipated the American version of this show. I watched it with my college roommate at first, then at home after I moved back their. My roommate, his friends and I were all pulling for this show because we thought for sure it was going to be one of those American sitcoms that's cerebral, well-done and gets cancelled after a few episodes because the audience doesn't get it.

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