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The ending of New Neighbors bothered me Spoilers

posted 14 days ago by Megan254 (380)
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Lucy hides in the closet, and overhears the new neighbors going over lines for a play, but she thinks they're plotting to blow up the Capital. She tells Ricky, Fred, and Ethel what she heard, but they think she was imagining things. Fred and Ricky end up hearing the neighbors and then think they're plotting something, too, and say Lucy was right.

Okay, here's my beef: How come *only* Lucy gets blamed in the end? Had Lucy not been in the neighbors' apartment, Fred and Ricky would've still heard them running lines, and they would've told the girls what they heard. So, shouldn't Fred and Ricky be just as much to blame as Lucy in this one?

[–] [email protected] (6233) 14 days ago

It might be because Lucy was the original instigator. She got the ball rolling by snooping in the O’Brian’s apartment and eavesdropping.

As usual Lucy went way over the top with her reaction and pulled everyone along for the ride!

I honestly can’t remember the scene where the boys overhear the neighbors. I have not seen the episode in several years. I’ll watch it tonight to see if I can add anything.

But Lucy always gets most of the blame. Like in “Oil wells”. She convinces them that they bought their oil shares from a swindler. Ricky and the Mertzes did not have to go along with her. But they did and when the gusher came in, they blamed Lucy!

[–] Megan254 (380) 14 days ago

Well, Fred and Ricky I think were going to work on something, and they overhear the neighbors through the furnace, I think.

[–] [email protected] (6233) 13 days ago

So I watched it last night. Yes, Fred was doing something with the furnace and Ricky was with him.

They overheard the new neighbors. But the fellas jumped to the same immediate conclusion as Lucy. So they were just as bad.

[–] Megan254 (380) 13 days ago

Yes! Thank you! It always bothered me when shows would blame one character when it was more than one person at fault.

[–] [email protected] (6233) 13 days ago

It was usually Lucy who took the blame. Often she brought it on herself. But sometimes Ethel would go along with Lucy and then turn on her.

Like in “Equal Rights”, Lucy got annoyed at the high handed way Ricky spoke to her and demanded equal rights. Ethel was her champion and went right along with her.

Later when the fellas played that trick on them in the restaurant and wouldn’t pay for their meals, Ethel got angry at Lucy when they had to wash dishes. She was with Lucy until things turned bad.

In the episode when they are leaving for California, Lucy steps in as a peacemaker. Ricky wanted Fred to pay for half the gas and Fred balked. The two men argued.

But it was Lucy who stepped in and said,”We ARE going anyway and the backseat IS empty.”

Lucy gets blamed for being selfish all the time, but sometimes she was the one who saw through the problem and tried to fix it.

The ending of New Neighbors bothered me *Spoilers*

The ending of New Neighbors bothered me Spoilers