Unanswered Question about a Scene...

Lucy playing matchmaker with Eddie Grant is one of my favorite episodes. But there's one scene that always makes me think that the writers overlooked something.

I agree with gb that we don't see everything that the characters do. So we can't always claim that there are inconsistencies.

But in the Eddie Grant timeline, Lucy finds out at the last minute that they would be entertaining a bachelor. She immediately sets out to fix him up with Sylvia Collins. We see their entire conversation. Ricky is angry with her and tells her that she "made us look ridiculous." So it's unlikely that Lucy ever got on the phone that night to trade notes with Ethel.

The next morning Ethel says that she went to work on him right away but Fred kept kicking her under the table!

Lucy calls Sylvia to set up a date and she tells her that Eddie is staying at the Sherry Plaza. HOW did Lucy know where he was staying?

With her matchmaking on overdrive, I think it's highly unlikely that Ricky told her where Eddie was staying.

A tiny bit of dialogue would have helped the scene make sense. Lucy could have covered the phone with her hand while she was setting up the date with Sylvia and asked, "Ethel, where is Eddie staying?"

I just don't see how Lucy could have known the name of Eddie's hotel otherwise...unless she waited until Ricky was asleep and called Ethel.